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"Called this term quite recently at Gray's Inn," replied Eldrick, as he sat down. "Very promising, clever young man. Look here! we'd better send two wires, one to his private address, and one to his chambers. They're both in that book. It's six o'clock, isn't it? he might be at his chambers yet, but he may have gone home.
And what concern is it of yours, Mr. Eldrick? What right have you?" "You are quite right, Mrs. Mallathorpe," said Eldrick. "It is no concern of mine. And so " He turned to the door and as he turned the door opened, to admit the old butler who looked apologetically but earnestly at Nesta as he stepped forward. "A Mrs. Gaukrodger wishes to see you on very particular business," he murmured.
"Let them let everybody do what they like!" she exclaimed. "It's burnt! I threw it in that fire as soon as I got it! And now " Nesta interrupted her mother. "Does any one know the terms of that will?" she asked, looking at Eldrick. "Tell me! if you know. Hush!" she went on, as Mrs. Mallathorpe tried to speak again. "I will know!" "Yes!" answered Eldrick. "Esther Mawson knows them.
"Did you say no?" he asked. "I said no!" replied Pratt. "I'm not going to take five thousand pounds for a chance that's worth fifty thousand. Hang you! if you hadn't been a black sneak-thief, as you are, I'd have had the whole thing to myself! And I don't know that I will give way to you. If it comes to it, my word's as good as yours and I don't believe Eldrick would believe you before me.
His first suspicions of Pratt were formed at the time of which Eldrick spoke, and any reference to events contemporary excited his interest. "Who was or is this man you're talking of?" he asked. "Bad lot very!" answered Eldrick, shaking his head. "He and I were articled together, at the same time, to the same people: we saw a lot of each other as fellow articled clerks.
"Oh, of course! He's your clerk!" retorted Robson, a little sneeringly. "Naturally, you've a big idea of his abilities. But " "He's not our clerk any longer," said Eldrick. "He left us about a week ago. I heard this morning that he's set up an office in Market Street in the Atlas Building and I wondered for what purpose." "Purpose of fleecing Mrs. Mallathorpe, I should say!" grumbled Robson.
He's their family solicitor, you know, Pratt, while you're a young man with no claim on Mrs. Mallathorpe." Pratt smiled a queer, knowing smile and reached out his hand to some papers which lay on his desk. "You're wrong there, Mr. Eldrick," he said. "But of course, you don't know. I didn't know myself, nor did Mrs. Mallathorpe, until lately.
We'll do it quiet and comfortable and we'll do it reight." "Odd character!" remarked Byner, when he and Prydale went away. "Useful man for a job of that sort," said the detective laconically. "Now then are we going to let anybody else know what we're after Mr. Eldrick or Mr. Collingwood, for instance? Do you want them, or either of them, to be present?"
Finally he set him down as a detective from London and was all the more afraid of him. "What do you want to know?" he asked, when the three men were alone. "I don't think there's anything that I didn't tell Mr. Eldrick." "Oh, there's a great deal that Mr. Eldrick didn't ask," said Prydale. "Mr. Eldrick sort of just skirted round things, like. We want to know a bit more.
Once he was tempted to make an excuse for going round to Eldrick & Pascoe's with the idea of fishing for information but he refrained. Let things develop that was a safer plan. Still, he was anxious and disturbed all day.
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