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"Nice little fortune, too a fine thing for a young fellow who's just been called to the Bar. As a matter of fact, he'll be fairly well independent, even if he never sees a brief in his life." "He has been called, has he, sir?" asked Pratt, laying a telegram form on Eldrick's writing pad and handing him a pen. "I wasn't aware of that."
"It is that letter that I have come to see you about," said Collingwood. "I only got down here from London at half-past eight this morning, and of course, I have made some inquiries about the circumstances of my grandfather's sudden death. He died very suddenly indeed at Mr. Eldrick's office. He had gone there on some business about which nobody knows nothing he died before he could mention it.
No everything was working most admirably Parrawhite's previous bad record, Eldrick's carelessness and his desire to shut things up: it was all good. From that day forward, Parrawhite would be as if he had never been.
He must make some plausible excuse: then he must settle down in Barford, according to Eldrick's suggestion. He would then be near at hand and if the trouble, whatever it might be, took tangible form, he would be able to help. But he was still utterly in the dark as to what that possible trouble might be yet, of one thing he felt convinced it would have some connection with Pratt.
Within five minutes he had taken from his safe a sealed packet, which he placed in an inside pocket of his coat, and had left his office for the last time, as he knew very well. That part of the game was up and it was necessary to be smart in entering on another phase of it. Since Eldrick's visit of the previous day, Pratt had been prepared for all eventuality. He had made ready for flight.
He went out by a private door to the telephone box, which stood in a lobby used by various occupants of the building. And when he had rung up Eldrick's private house and was waiting for the answer, he asked himself what this discovery would mean to the present holders of the Mallathorpe property, and his curiosity a strongly developed quality in him became more and more excited.
"Take him into the study," commanded Mrs. Mallathorpe. "I'll come to him presently." She was utterly at a loss to understand Pratt's presence there. Eldrick & Pascoe were not her solicitors, and she had no business of a legal nature in which they could be in any way concerned. But it suddenly struck her that that was the second time she had heard Eldrick's name mentioned that day young Mr.
But in the meantime, I'm going away for four months to India." "To India four months!" she exclaimed. "That sounds nice." "Legal business," said Collingwood. "I shall be back about the end of April and then I shall probably come down here again, and seriously consider Eldrick's suggestion. I'm very much inclined to take it." "Then you'd leave London?" she asked.
Pratt drew his chair still nearer to the desk. His voice dropped to a whisper and his eyes were full of meaning. "I'll tell you what he wanted!" he said speaking very slowly. "It's what I've come for. Listen! Antony Bartle came to our office soon after five yesterday afternoon. I was alone everybody else had gone. I took him into Eldrick's room.
As I say, he's a smart chap." Collingwood offered no comment. But he was conscious that it would not be at all pleasing to him to know that Linford Pratt held any official position at Normandale. Foolish as it might be, mere inspiration though it probably was, he could not get over his impression that Eldrick's clerk was not precisely trustworthy.
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