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"You mean the strange disappearance of my uncle this Lord Marketstoke?" interrupted Lord Ellingham with a smile. "Oh, of course, I know all about that." "Very well, my lord," continued Mr. Pawle. "Then your lordship is aware that Lord Marketstoke was believed to have gone to the Colonies Australia or New Zealand and was lost there. His death was presumed.
He replied to the second by producing certain papers and documents." "Ah!" exclaimed Mr. Pawle, nudging Viner. "Now we're warming to it!" "And according to what Methley and Woodlesford told Lord Ellingham," continued Mr. Carless, "these papers and documents are of a very convincing nature. They said to His Lordship frankly that they were greatly surprised by them.
"I'll bring Miss Wickham to you at once," he said. Then, with a glance at the two lawyers, which went round again to Lord Ellingham, he added quietly, "When you have told her, you'll let us know what she says?" "Aye, aye!" muttered Mr. Pawle. "Good we must know that!" Viner went away to the drawing-room and presently brought Miss Wickham back with him.
I am right in supposing," he continued, suddenly interrupting himself, "that the Ellingham title runs in the female as in the male line?" "Quite right, Mr. Viner," said Mr. Carless. "Quite right. It does! I believe I mentioned the other day that there has already been one Countess of Ellingham in her own right.
I confess I should like to meet my cousin if she really is that!" "Your Lordship takes it admirably!" exclaimed Mr. Carless. "But really well, I don't know. However, we shall see. But, 'pon my honour, it's most odd! One claimant disposed of, another, a more formidable one, comes on!" "But we have not disposed of the first, have we?" suggested Lord Ellingham.
"The Ellingham Chapel!" whispered the old solicitor as they passed a fine old stone screen which Viner mentally registered as fifteenth-century. "No end of Cave-Grays laid here. What a profusion of monuments!" Viner began to examine those monuments as well as the gloom of the November morning and the dark-painted glass of the windows would permit.
You won't understand all this, but you will, later. Now, one of my clerks will get you a car, and we'll escort you down to it." "No," said Lord Ellingham, promptly jumping to his feet. "Allow me I'm youngest. If Miss Wickham will let me " The two young people went out of the room together, and the three men left behind looked at each other. There was a brief and significant silence.
"Yesterday," he said, "in your character of claimant to the Ellingham title and estates you showed to Messrs. Carless & Driver, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and to the present holder of the title, certain documents, letters, papers, which would go some way toward establishing your claim to be what you profess to be.
The landlady smoothed her silk apron and shook her head. "It's a long story, sir," she answered. "I think you must have heard something of it though to be sure, it was not talked of much at the time, and didn't become public until legal proceedings became necessary, some years ago. You're aware, of course, that just outside the town here is Ellingham Park, the seat of the Earl of Ellingham.
"Whom Mr. Viner knows for a fact," continued Mr. Pawle, "to have been in Ashton's company only an hour or so before Ashton's murder!" Lord Ellingham looked at Viner in obvious surprise. "But you do not know who he is?" he exclaimed. "No," replied Viner, "I don't. But there is no doubt of the truth of what Mr. Pawle has just said. This man was certainly with Mr.
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