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"It was not a note of explanation, exactly. He went away too suddenly to have time to explain." The two men looked at each other disturbedly. "He had not mentioned to you his intention of going?" asked Mr. Grimby. "I feel sure he did not know he was going when he said good-night. He remained with Captain Palliser talking for some time."
But being, as before remarked, a timid man, and recalling the interview between himself and his employer held outside the dining-room door, and having also a disturbing memory of the sharp, cool, boyish eye and the tone of the casual remark that he had "a head on his shoulders" and that it was "up to him to make the others understand," it seemed as well to restrain his inclinations until the proof Palford & Grimby required was forthcoming.
"I thought the same myself when my first suspicions were aroused. I was, in fact, inclined to laugh at my own idea until one link connected itself with another." Neither Mr. Grimby nor Mr. Palford was inclined to laugh. On the contrary, they were extremely grave, and continued to find it necessary to restrain their united tendency to indicate facially that the thing must be nonsense.
Keep near me while I talk to these people." She made her sit down by her. "I know every detail of your letters." She addressed Palliser as well as Palford & Grimby, sweeping all details aside. "What is it you want to ask me?" "This is our position, your ladyship," Mr. Palford fumbled a little with his papers in speaking. "Mr. Temple Temple Barholm and the person known as Mr.
In private conference, Palford and Grimby frankly admitted to each other that they would almost have preferred that Captain Palliser should have kept his remarkable suspicions to himself, for the time being at least. Yet when they had admitted this they were confronted by the disturbing possibility suggested by Palliser that actual crime had been or might be committed.
Grimby broke out. "Isn't that going rather far? You surely don't think " "Mr. Tembarom's chief characteristic was that he was a practical and direct person. He would do what he had to do in exactly that businesslike manner. The inquiries I have been making have been as to the whereabouts of places in which a superfluous relative might be placed without attracting attention."
Miss Alicia who had been weeping on Little Ann's shoulder almost on her lap lifted her head to listen. Hutchinson set his jaw and grunted, and Mr. Palford cleared his throat mechanically. "He said," and no one better than herself realized how ominously "cumulative" the words sounded, "that a man would know a face like that again wherever he saw it." "Wherever he saw it!" ejaculated Mr. Grimby.
"I don't mind telling you that." "And what do you think he will do?" "I've got to wait till I find out. I'm doing it. That was what I told you. What are you going to do?" he added casually. "I'm going to Lincoln's Inn Fields to have an interview with Palford & Grimby." "That's a good enough move," commented Tembarom, "if you think you can prove what you say. You've got to prove things, you know.
Grimby knew him as I know him as as you know him " she added with a faint hopefulness. "Yes, if they knew him as we know him that would make a different matter of it," admitted the duke, amiably.
Bowse's boarding-house and the objects of interest to the up-town page, so he brought no one with him; for Strangeways seemed to have been mysteriously disposed of after their arrival in London. Never had Palford & Grimby on their hands a client who seemed so entirely alone. What, Mr.
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