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"Without any explanation whatever," added Grimby. "He left a few lines for me," defended Miss Alicia. "We have not seen them." Mr. Palford was still as well as cold. Poor little Miss Alicia took them out of her pocket with an unsteady hand. They were always with her, and she could not on such a challenge seem afraid to allow them to be read. Mr.
"Do you think he will return?" said Mr. Grimby, amazedly. "Oh!" the gentle creature ejaculated. "Can you possibly think he will not? Why? Why?" Mr. Palford had shared his partner's amazement. It was obvious that she was as ignorant as a babe of the details of Palliser's extraordinary story.
You will hear all about it later, probably from Palford & Grimby." When he had left the room Miss Alicia stood upon the hearth- rug as the dog-cart drove away, and she was pale. Her simple and easily disturbed brain was in a whirl.
It was perhaps the moderate and precautionary attitude of Palford & Grimby, during their first somewhat startled though reserved interview with Captain Palliser, which had prevented the vaguely wild rumors from being regarded as more than villagers' exaggerated talk among themselves.
"If you please," she exclaimed, "I must ask you to make things a little clear to me. What dreadful thing has happened? I will regard any communication as a most sacred confidence." "I think we may as well, Palford?" Mr. Grimby suggested to his partner. "Yes," Palford acquiesced. He felt the difficulty of a blank explanation. "We are involved in a most trying position," he said.
Whatsoever happened in days to come, Palford & Grimby had done their most trying and awkward duty by the latest Temple Barholm. Bradford, who was the steward of the estate, would now take him over, and could be trusted to furnish practical information of any ordinary order. It did not appear to Mr.
"What kind of questions?" suggested Grimby. "Only about what was known of the time and place, and how the sad story reached England. It used to touch me to think that the only person who seemed to care was the one who might have been expected to be almost glad the tragic thing had happened. But he was not." Mr. Palford watched Mr. Grimby, and Mr.
Tembarom took the card and read that Palford & Grimby were "solicitors," and he was not sure that he knew exactly what "solicitors" were. "Lincoln's Inn?" he hesitated. "That's not in New York, is it?" "No, Mr. Tembarom; in London. I come from England." "You must have had bad weather crossing," said Tembarom, with amiable intent. Somehow Mr.
As for the fears of Messrs. Palford & Grimby, he had put himself on record with Burrill by commanding him to hold his tongue and stating clearly that proof was both necessary and lacking. No man could be regarded as taking risks whose attitude was so wholly conservative and non-accusing. Servants will gossip. A superior who reproves such gossip holds an unattackable position.
In the private room of Palford & Grimby, however, he could confidently express his opinions without risk. "The recognition of a man lost sight of for years, and seen only for a moment through a window, is not substantial evidence," Mr. Grimby had proceeded. "The incident was startling, but not greatly to be relied upon." "I knew him." Palliser was slightly grim in his air of finality.
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