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Was he in here last night?" Pratt pointed to a document which lay on Eldrick's desk. "He came in here to leave that for your perusal," he answered. "He was in here alone a minute or two before he left." All these lies came readily and naturally and Eldrick swallowed each. He shook his head. "My fault all my fault!" he said. "Look here keep it quiet.
Bartle," he said. "There's a nice easy chair there come and sit down in it. Those stairs are a bit trying, aren't they? I often wish we were on the ground floor." He lighted the gas in the senior partner's room, and turning back, took hold of the visitor's arm, and helped him to the easy chair. Then, having closed the doors, he sat down at Eldrick's desk, put his fingers together and waited.
After all, there was much to be said for the old proverb. The only question was was the bird in hand worth the two; or the money, which he believed he would net in the bush? Pratt's doubts on this point were settled in a curious fashion. He had reached the centre of the town in his return to Eldrick's, and there, in the fashionable shopping street, he ran up against an acquaintance.
As Byner stipulated for large type, and a prominent position, in the personal column of each, it was scarcely within the bounds of probability that a townsman like Pratt would miss seeing the advertisement. Most likely he would see it in all three newspapers. And if he had also seen Eldrick's similar advertisement, he would begin to think, and then
And when Eldrick came back she looked at him and nodded. "I should like to talk to you and Mr. Collingwood," she said quietly. Collingwood came across to Eldrick's office at once.
Tell him his wire to Halstead & Byner in London has been communicated to you here. Ask him for further particulars and then drop in on me at my hotel and tell me what you've learnt. I'll be found in the smoking-room there any time after two-thirty onward." Eldrick's intense curiosity in what was rapidly becoming a fascinating mystery to him, led him to accept this embassy.
Unfortunately, she, too, was out for the afternoon. I came back to find my mother ill and much upset -and there's no use denying it she'd all the symptoms of having been well, frightened. I can't think of any other term than that frightened. And then I learned that, in my absence, Mr. Eldrick's clerk, Mr. Pratt you know him had been here, and had been with her for quite an hour.
"Now then!" he said, when they had walked well into the wilderness. "What is it? And no nonsense!" "You'll get no nonsense from me," sneered Parrawhite. "I'm not that sort. This is what I want to say. I was in Eldrick's office last night all the time you were there with old Bartle." This swift answer went straight through Pratt's defences.
Shutting himself into Eldrick's private room, and making sure that he was alone that time, he immediately opened the drawer in the senior partner's desk, wherein Eldrick, culpably enough, as Parrawhite had sneeringly remarked, was accustomed to put loose money. Eldrick was strangely careless in that way: he would throw money into that drawer in presence of his clerks notes, gold, silver.
He was altogether undesirable. It was plain to the clerks that Pascoe disliked him. But he was evidently under Eldrick's protection, and he did his work and did it well, and there was no doubt that he knew more law than either of the partners, and was better up in practice than Pratt himself. But he was not desirable ... and Pratt never desired him less than on this occasion.
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