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But no hand opened any door, and at last he came to the end of the corridor and found himself confronting a small board on which was painted in white letters on a black ground, Mr. Elphick's Chambers. Having satisfied himself as to his exact whereabouts, Spargo drew back as quietly as he had come.
It was just on the stroke of eleven as he walked up the stairs to Mr. Elphick's chambers; precisely eleven as he knocked at the outer door. It is seldom that outer doors are closed in the Temple at that hour, but Elphick's door was closed fast enough. The night before it had been promptly opened, but there was no response to Spargo's first knock, nor to his second, nor to his third.
"The police must come," answered Breton firmly. "Go ahead with your wire, Spargo, while I write this note." Three quarters of an hour later, when Breton came back from the farm, he sat down at Elphick's side and laid his hand on the old man's. "Now, guardian," he said, quietly, "you've got to tell us the truth."
Elphick is the man who ought to have married your mother. When things turned out as they did, Elphick took you and brought you up as he has done, so that you should never know of your father's disgrace. Elphick never knew until last night that Cardlestone is Chamberlayne. Even the biggest scoundrels have friends Elphick's very fond of Cardlestone. He " Spargo turned sharply on Myerst.
Then, as half-past nine struck from all the neighbouring clocks, Spargo flung away a second cigarette, marched straight down the corridor and knocked boldly at Mr. Elphick's door. Greatly to Spargo's surprise, the door was opened before there was any necessity to knock again.
He had never thought of it before, for he had been busily engaged since the departure of Mother Gutch; but, naturally, Miss Baylis and Mr. Elphick would keep in communication with each other. At any rate, here she was, and her destination was, surely, Elphick's chambers. And the question for him, Spargo, was what to do?
Elphick's evidently gone away in a hurry, and you mustn't touch anything here until he comes back. I'm going to lock up the chambers: if you've a key of them give it to me." The charwoman handed over a key, gave another astonished look at the rooms, and vanished, muttering, and Breton turned to Spargo. "What do you say?" he demanded. "I must hear a good deal!
"There's a step out of Jane Elphick's bedroom," she went on "and his first step in the world ought to be up. I shouldn't wonder if those people hadn't put it there on purpose. George, will it make any odds to you if he's a girl?" He answered, as he had many times before, that his interest was his wife, not the child. "Then you're the only person who thinks so." She laughed. "Don't be silly, dear.
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