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Eldrick & Pascoe, Solicitors, Barford, and who is believed to have left the town on the evening of November 23. Apply to Mr. CHARLES ELDRICK, of the above firm." "Worth risking ten pounds on anyway," muttered Eldrick. "Whether these London people will cover it or not. Here!" he went on, turning to a clerk who had just entered the room.
Eldrick turned to Collingwood, and Collingwood to Eldrick and then both turned to Robson. The Mallathorpe family solicitor shook his head impatiently under those questioning glances. "It's not a bit of use appealing to me to know what it means!" he exclaimed. "I know no more than what I've told you.
Then, without as much as a glance at the dead man, he left the room, and again visited the telephone box. He was engaged in it for a few minutes. When he came out he heard steps coming up the staircase, and looking over the banisters he saw the senior partner, Eldrick, a middle-aged man. Eldrick looked up, and saw Pratt. "I hear you've been ringing me up at the club, Pratt," he said. "What is it?"
It was as if he were the occupant of a strong position, only fortified, who suddenly finds a shell dropped into his outworks from a totally unexpected quarter. Parrawhite! Advertised for by Eldrick! Why? For what reason? For what purpose? With what idea? Parrawhite! of all men in the world Parrawhite, of whom he had never wanted to hear again!
That chap walked into my office as bold as brass, half an hour ago, and exhibited to me a power of attorney, all duly drawn up and stamped, executed in his favour by Mrs. Mallathorpe yesterday. And as Mrs. Mallathorpe is, as far as I know, in her senses, why there you are!" "What is it?" asked Eldrick. "A general power? Or a special?" "General!" answered Robson, with an air of disgust.
Then I must try to find out what he did with himself in his spare time. But, from all you tell me, it's my impression he's dead unless, as you say, he's got into prison again possibly under another name. It seems impossible that he should not have seen our advertisements." "You never advertised in any Yorkshire newspapers?" asked Eldrick. "No," said Byner.
"What's all this?" asked Eldrick, taking the situation into his own hands. "What's the matter? Why did you send for the police?" "Mrs. Mallathorpe's orders, sir," answered the butler, with an apologetic glance at his young mistress. "Really, sir, I don't know exactly what is the matter! We are all so confused!
Pratt continued his round of duties at Eldrick & Pascoe's; no more was heard by outsiders, at any rate of the stewardship at Normandale. As for Collingwood, he settled down in chambers and lodgings and, as Eldrick had predicted, found plenty of work.
He had travelled down from London by the earliest morning train, and leaving his portmanteau at the hotel of the Barford terminus, had gone straight to Eldrick & Pascoe's office; accordingly this was his first visit to the shop in Quagg Alley. But he knew the shop and its surroundings well enough, though he had not been in Barford for some time; he also knew Antony Bartle's old housekeeper, Mrs.
"I've always said, sir, that it was a great mistake to leave loose money lying about," he remarked mournfully. "If there'd only been a practice of letting me lock anything of that sort up in the safe every night and this chequebook, too, sir then " "I know I know!" said Eldrick. "Very reprehensible on my part I'm afraid I am careless no doubt of it. But "
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