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I told him at least he could undo a wrong, if he would only authorize us to use what he said to clear Douglas; and then, as Sister Margaret had come across, I wrote as well as I could: "George Gadley authorizes what he said to the Rev. Julius Charnock to be used as evidence;" and I suppose he saw us sign it, if he could see at all, for his sight was nearly gone." Julius drew a long breath.
Old Gadley sat down with it at the dead man's own desk, and snuffing the two shaded candles, unlocked and opened it. I was standing opposite, so that the book to me was upside down, but the date on the first page, "1841," caught my eye, as also the small neat writing now brown with age.
"And now, what was it?" said Herbert. "Well, the trio Moy, young Proudfoot, and Tom Vivian detained a letter of my mother's, with a cheque in it, and threw the blame of it on Archie Douglas. They thought no one was in the office but themselves; but Gadley was a clerk there, and was in the outer room, where he heard all.
"Did you see it, Brown?" asked Julius, going towards the coachman. "Our baby and nurse, I mean." "I can't tell about Miss Charnock, sir," said the coachman, "but I did think I remarked two young females with young Gadley in a tax- cart. I would not be alarmed, sir, nor my lady," he added, with the freedom of a confidential servant, who, like all the household, adored Lady Rosamond.
"Thirty years I have kept these books for him," said old Gadley, as we laid by the last of them, "thirty years come Christmas next, he and I together. No other hands but ours have ever touched them, and now people to whom they mean nothing but so much business will fling them about, drop greasy crumbs upon them I know their ways, the brutes! scribble all over them.
"Perhaps you have heard that your tenant, Gadley, is dead?" "Yes, I did hear it. A very melancholy thing the whole family swept-away," said Mr. Moy, his eye again betraying some uneasiness, which Julius increased by saying "We thought it right that you should hear that he made a disclosure on his death-bed." "Indeed!" Mr. Moy sat erect the hard, keen, watchful lawyer.
The man Gadley was meantime driving an active trade at the 'Three Pigeons, whither the poor, possessed with the notion that spirits kept out the infection, were resorting more than ever, and he set at defiance all the preventives which doctors, overseer, and relieving officer were trying to enforce, with sullen oaths against interference.
"I can't bear the girl," said Cecil; "I am sure she comes only for the sake of the horses." "I'm afraid so; but she amuses Bob, and there's always a hope of moving her father through her, though she declares that the Three Pigeons is his tenderest point, and that he had as soon meddle with it as with the apple of his eye. I suppose he gets a great rent from that Gadley."
James Gadley had entered the firm as office boy in the days of its pride, and had never awakened to the fact that it was not still the most important legal firm within the half mile radius from Lombard Street. Nothing delighted him more than to discuss over and over again the many strange affairs in which Stillwood, Waterhead and Royal had been concerned, all of which he had at his tongue's tip.
One thing worth note Archie says, that when it was too late, he remembered that the under-clerk, Gadley, might not have gone home, and might have heard him explain that the letter had turned up." "Gadley? Why that's the landlord of the 'Three Pigeons!" exclaimed Rosamond. "It is Mr. Moy's house, and he supports him through thick and thin."
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