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He presently followed the footman from the room, and Peggie, for the first time since Jacob Herapath's death, suddenly let her face relax and burst into a hearty laugh. That evening Triffitt got Burchill's address from Carver, and next day he drew a hundred pounds from the cashier of the Argus and went off to Calengrove Mansions. In his mind there was a clear and definite notion.
My late uncle, Jacob Herapath, was the eldest of the three children of his father, Matthew Herapath, who was a medical practitioner at Granchester in Yorkshire a small town on the Yorkshire and Lancashire border. The three children were Jacob, Richard, and Susan. With the main outlines of Jacob Herapath's career I believe we are all fairly well acquainted.
"You left Portland in April, 1897; you came to London when you were discharged; in June of that year you'd taken up your residence under Jacob Herapath's roof. And it's no use your trying to bluff me I've traced your movements!" "With the aid, no doubt, of Mr. Burchill there," observed Mr. Tertius, dryly. "But " Burchill drew himself up. "Sir!" he exclaimed.
So he armed himself with a ruler in one hand and the parcel in the other, and walked over to Herapath's study. The proprietors were at home, and had apparently expected the visit, for an elaborate barricade had been drawn across the door by means of the table, bedstead, and other furniture, so that Felgate, when he looked in, could barely see more than the heads of his young friends.
This was a Saturday morning during the whole of that afternoon and evening the Professor and Selwood examined every drawer and receptacle in which Jacob Herapath's papers lay, both at Portman Square and at Kensington. And, exactly as Selwood had said, there was next to nothing of a private nature.
And finding himself in as satisfactory a state of privacy as he could desire, with none to overlook or spy on him, he drew from an inner pocket a letter-case which he had taken from Jacob Herapath's private safe at the estate office and into which he had cast a hurried glance before leaving Kensington for Portman Square.
He knew her as Herapath's niece, the daughter of a dead sister of whom Herapath had been very fond; he knew, too, that Herapath had brought her up from infancy and treated her as a daughter.
I want to get a full list. Who are the two elderly gentlemen with Mr. Barthorpe Herapath relatives, eh?" "No old personal friends," answered Selwood, good-naturedly turning aside with the little reporter. "One is Mr. Tertius Mr. J. C. Tertius a very old friend of the late Mr. Herapath's; the other is Mr. Benjamin Halfpenny, the solicitor, also an old friend."
I knew so much of Jacob Herapath's methods and doings that it was quite a reasonable thing for this man to be coming out of the estate offices just before midnight." "Exactly, sir I follow you," said Davidge. "Ah! and what might this Mr. X. do then, Mr. Burchill?"
I want you we all want you to tell us what you remember about the making of Jacob Herapath's will. Tell us in your own way, in whatever terms you like. Then we shall hear what your fellow-witness has to say." "Perhaps you'll let me suggest something," broke in Barthorpe, who had obviously been thinking matters over. "Lay the alleged will on the table before you, Mr.
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