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Eldrick, one of the tribe which Murgatroyd dreaded, having had various dealings with solicitors, in the way of writs and summonses, and began to ask questions. Murgatroyd emerged from that ordeal very satisfactorily. Eldrick's questions were few, elementary, and easily answered. There were no signs of suspicion about him, and Murgatroyd breathed more freely when he was gone.
"Well, when you return, don't forget what I've said. Come back! you'll not regret it. Come and settle down. Bye-the-bye, you're not engaged, are you?" "Engaged?" said Collingwood. "To what to whom what do you mean?" "Engaged to be married," answered Eldrick coolly. "You're not? Good! If you want a wife, there's Miss Mallathorpe. Nice, clever girl, my boy and no end of what Barford folk call brass.
"I see that you ought to do well in your special line of business. Now are you going to pursue inquiries for Parrawhite here in Barford, after what I've told you?" "Certainly!" said Byner. "I came down prepared to stop awhile. It's highly important that this man should be found highly important," he added smiling, "to other people than Parrawhite himself." "In what way?" asked Eldrick.
"Let me see from the Green Man, at Whitcliffe, I believe?" "Landlord, sir had that house a many years," answered Pickard, as he took a seat near the wall. "Seven year come next Michaelmas, any road." "Just so and you want to see me about the advertisement in this morning's paper?" continued Eldrick. "What about it now?" The landlord looked at Eldrick and then at Eldrick's companion.
For a few minutes she walked in the direction of Robson's offices, but when she had nearly reached them, she turned, and went deliberately to those of Eldrick & Pascoe. By the time she had been admitted to Eldrick's private room, Nesta had regained her composure; she had also had time to think, and her present action was the result of at any rate a part of her thoughts.
"I say, Pratt, do you think an inquest will be necessary?" Pratt had not thought of that he began to think. And while he was thinking, the doctor whom he had summoned came in. He looked at the dead man, asked the clerk a few questions, and was apparently satisfied. "I don't think there's any need for an inquest," he said in reply to Eldrick.
And instead of taking the easy chair which Eldrick had found so comfortable, she went to one which stood against the wall opposite Pratt's desk and seated herself in it in as upright a position as the wall behind her. "I wish to speak to you plainly!" she said, as Pratt, who now regarded her somewhat doubtfully, realizing that he was in for business of a serious nature, sat down at his desk.
Pratt coming here!" she exclaimed. "He shall not see my mother under my roof, at any rate. I don't believe she sent for him." "Mr. Eldrick saw her letter!" interrupted Collingwood quietly. "Then that man made her write it while he was here!" exclaimed Nesta. "As to the relationship it may be so. I never heard of it.
And this was one you see, it's in a plain envelope it was sealed, but there's no writing on it. I cut the envelope open, and drew the paper out, and I saw at once it was Mr. John Mallathorpe's will so I came straight to you with it." She handed the envelope over to Nesta, who at once gave it to Eldrick.
He would be a fool if he did not take it, and use it to his own best and lasting advantage. And so he locked up the will in a safe place, and went to bed, resolved to take a bold step towards fortune on the morrow. When Pratt arrived at Eldrick & Pascoe's office at his usual hour of nine next morning, he found the senior partner already there.
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