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And what on earth could Eldrick want with him, or with news of him? It would be or might be an uncommonly awkward thing for him, Pratt, if a really exhaustive search were made for Parrawhite. For nobody knew better than himself that one little thing leads to another, and but he forbore to follow out what might have been his train of thought.
Isn't that a request from her that I should call on her yesterday afternoon? Very well then!" Eldrick looked at the letter with some surprise. He had a good memory, and he remembered that Collingwood had told him that Nesta had said that Pratt had gone to Normandale Grange, seen Esther Mawson, and told her that it was absolutely necessary for him to see Mrs. Mallathorpe.
And telephone instantly to Barford, and tell them to send the police here at once!" Nesta Mallathorpe, who had just arrived in Barford when Eldrick caught sight of her, was seriously startled as he and Collingwood came running up to her carriage.
"This may be what you ask about," he said at last. "Here, under date November 23, are some letters and figures which obviously refer to bank-notes. You can copy them if you like." "Another question, Mr. Eldrick," remarked Byner as he made a note of the entries. "You say some cheque forms were abstracted from a book of yours at the same time.
"Go again before you leave," counselled Eldrick. "You're just the right man. Listen to the counsels of the wise! And while you're in India, think well over my other advice. I tell you there's a career for you, here in the North, that you'd never get in town."
Eldrick, is the likeliest person to extract the truth from." "There's a great deal in that suggestion," said Eldrick. "Do you know what I think?" he went on, turning to Collingwood, "Mr. Byner tells me he means to stay here until he has come across some satisfactory news of Parrawhite or solved the mystery of his disappearance.
Byner moved his head in Collingwood's direction and Eldrick turned and looked anxiously at Collingwood, who, finding the eyes of both men on him, opened his hitherto tight-shut lips. "I think it quite likely!" he said. Byner laughed softly and looked at the solicitor. "Just listen to me a minute or two, Mr. Eldrick," he said.
Melrose he'll be here in a minute or two and the Town Hall the police as well. Will you look at him, sir?" Eldrick silently motioned his clerk to open the door; together they walked into the room. And Eldrick looked at his quiet figure and wan face, and knew that Pratt was right. "Poor old chap!" he murmured, touching one of the thin hands. "He was a fine man in his time, Pratt; clever man!
"There is no evidence worth twopence against your mother!" replied Eldrick soothingly. "Put everything that Pratt has said against her clear out of your mind. Put all recent events out of your mind! Don't interfere with Pratt just now. The thing to be done about Pratt is this and it's the only thing. We must find out exactly, as secretly as possible what this secret is of which he speaks.
Byner laid the message before Eldrick and Collingwood without further comment. On the evening of the day whereon Nesta Mallathorpe had paid him the visit which had resulted in so much plain speech on both sides, Pratt employed his leisure in a calm review of the situation. He was by no means dissatisfied, it seemed to him that everything was going very well for his purposes.
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