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Later that night Mr. Johnson had gone to Elliott's. She had lied about the message. She had really telephoned to a number which the pharmacy clerk had already discovered was that of the Ellingham house. The message was that Mr. Ellingham was not to come, as Mr. and Mrs. Wells were going out. It was not the first time she had telephoned to that number. There was a stir in the room.
"How much?" asked Mr. Pawle. "One hundred thousand pounds!" "On receipt of which, I suppose," observed Mr. Pawle dryly, "nothing would ever be heard again of your lordship's long-lost uncle, the rightful owner of all that Your Lordship possesses?" Lord Ellingham laughed. "So I gathered!" he answered.
The two lawyers and Viner looked from one another to Lord Ellingham but Lord Ellingham was already eager and responsive. "Gentlemen," he said quickly, "I claim that right! If I am to abdicate in favour of another, let me have at any rate the privilege of first greeting the new sovereign! Besides, as I have already said to you " Mr.
He was in and around the church a great deal the vicar and the parish clerk can tell you more about his visits there than I can and he was at the old moot-hall several times, looking over certain old things they keep there, and he visited Ellingham Park twice, and was shown over the house.
The puzzled expression which Viner had noted in Lord Ellingham's boyish face when they entered the room grew more and more marked as Mr. Pawle proceeded, and he turned on the old lawyer at the end with a stare of amazement. "You really think that!" he exclaimed. "I shall be very much surprised if I'm not right!" declared Mr. Pawle. "But what papers?" asked Lord Ellingham.
Carless, "if you are paid a certain considerable sum of money, you will vanish again into the obscurity from whence you came? Am I right in that supposition?" "I don't like your terminology, Mr. Carless," answered the visitor with a slight frown. "I have not lived in obscurity, and " "If you are what you claim to be, sir, you are Earl of Ellingham," said Mr.
"Viner!" he said, "here is indeed a find! These are letters written by the Countess of Ellingham to her son, Lord Marketstoke, when he was a schoolboy at Eton!" Viner looked over Mr. Pawle's shoulder at the letters there were numbers of them, all neatly folded and arranged; a faint scent of dried flowers rose from them as the old lawyer spread them out on the desk.
Carless, Lord Ellingham and two men in plain-clothes, at the sight of whom Perkwite heaved a huge sigh of intense relief. Viner was so sure that the sound which he had heard on Mrs. Killenhall's retirement was that caused by the turning of a key or slipping of a lock in the door by which he had entered, that before speaking to Miss Wickham he instantly stepped back and tried it.
Clara turned towards her with terrified eyes. "I I do owe Major Bristow a little still," she admitted. "I seem to have been so unlucky. He told me that any time would do, that I should win it back again, and I had no idea what stakes we were playing. I don't touch a card now at all, but this was at Ellingham House. They insisted on my making a fourth at bridge."
Lord Ellingham looked from one solicitor to the other. "Then," he said, with something of a smile, "if Wickham was really my uncle, Lord Marketstoke, and this young lady you tell me of is his daughter what, definitely, is my position?" Mr. Pawle looked at Mr. Carless, and Mr. Carless shook his head. "If Mr. Pawle's theory is correct," he said, "and mind you, Pawle, it will take a lot of proving.
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