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Cave referred this morning as having been written by the Countess of Ellingham to Lord Marketstoke when a boy at school, was found by Mr. Viner and myself in Ashton's house, and that the locket which he also mentioned is in existence facts which Mr. Cave will doubtless be glad to know of. But," added the old lawyer, shaking his head, "what does all this imply?
"And Lord Ellingham believed that Methley and Woodlesford were genuinely convinced by him." "Seemed so, anyway, both of 'em," agreed Lord Ellingham. "However," continued Mr. Carless, "Methley and Woodlesford, like you and I, Pawle, are limbs of the law. They asked two very pertinent questions. First why had he come forward after this long interval?
Look here! if Wickham was really Lord Marketstoke, and that girl across the hall is his daughter, she's probably I say probably, for I don't know if the succession in this case goes with the female line Countess of Ellingham, in her own right!" Viner looked his surprise. "Is that really so would it be so?" he asked. "It may be I'm not sure," replied Mr. Pawle.
That's the plain English of it and upon my honour," concluded Mr. Carless, "it's one of the most extraordinary things I ever heard of. This other affair is nothing to it!" Lord Ellingham again inspected the legal countenances. "I see nothing at all improbable about it," he said. "We may as well face that fact at once. I will be here at three o'clock, Mr. Carless.
"Will you take that off, and let me look at it?" he asked. "Thank you," he said, as she somewhat surprisedly obeyed. "I believe," he continued, as he quietly passed the ornament to Lord Ellingham, "that Mr. Ashton gave you this and told you it had belonged to your father? Just so! Well," he concluded, handing the ornament back, "I think that's all. Much obliged to you, Miss Wickham.
There is a schedule or memorandum of certain personal effects which he left in his rooms at Ellingham Hall: there is also a receipt from his bankers for a quantity of plate and jewellery which he had deposited with them before leaving these things had been left him by his mother.
The two men whom you saw coming away from Ellingham House were Methley and Woodlesford, two solicitors who are in partnership in Edgware Road I know of them: I think we've had conveyancing business with them once or twice. Quite a respectable firm in a smallish way, you know, but all right so far as I know anything of them.
"His Lordship is just going out," he said, glancing over his shoulder. "I don't know " Mr. Pawle pointed to the name of his firm at the corner of his card. "I think Lord Ellingham will see me," he said. "Tell his lordship I shall not detain him many minutes if he will be kind enough to give me an interview."
There she heard some one, possibly Ellingham, on the back stairs, and in her haste, she fell, hurting her knee, and she must have dropped the handbag at that time. They knew now that Hawkins had found it later on. But for a few days they didn't know, and hence the advertisement. "I think we would better explain Hawkins," Sperry said.
Pawle made no reference during dinner to the matter which had brought Viner and himself to the Ellingham Arms. He devoted all his attention and energies to the pleasures of the table; he praised the grilled soles and roast mutton and grew enthusiastic over some old Burgundy which Mrs. Summers strongly recommended.
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