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"My pleasure, or rather my business, is with Mr. Jellicorse, the lawyer." "Then, sir, you have come to the right man for it. My name is Jellicorse, and greatly at your service. Allow me the honor of inviting you within." "My name is Yordas Sir Duncan Yordas," said the stranger, when seated in the lawyer's private room.
Jellicorse spread the document, which was of moderate compass, and soon convinced himself that his work of the morning had been wholly thrown away. No title could be shown to Whitestone Farm, nor even to Scargate Hall itself, on the part of the present owners. The appointment was by deed-poll, and strictly in accordance with the powers of the settlement.
Wonder never ceased among them, when they thought how things came round. Things came round not only thus, but also even better afterward. Mordacks had a very beautiful revenge of laughter at old Jellicorse, by outstripping him vastly in the family affairs. But Mr.
Jellicorse, he seems to me to have proved himself considerably more active in his way however objectionable that may be than you, as our agent, have shown yourself." The cheerful, expressive, and innocent face of Mr. Jellicorse protested now.
Jellicorse did not care, so long as he still had eleven boxes left of title-deeds to Scargate Hall, no liability about the twelfth, and a very fair prospect of a lawsuit yet for the multiplication of the legal race. And meeting Mr.
She sat down, in fear of hysteria, but with her mind made up to stop it; while the gallant Jellicorse was swept away by her eloquence, mixed with professional views. But it came home to him, from experience with his wife, that the less he said the wiser.
On my part no neglect can be shown, and indeed for your knowledge of the present state of things, if humbly I may say so, you are wholly indebted to my zeal." "Sir, I heartily wish," Mrs. Carnaby replied, "that your zeal had been exhausted on your own affairs." "Eliza, Mr. Jellicorse has acted well, and we can not feel too much obliged to him."
There had been no treason whatever in the office; neither had anything come out through the proctorial firm in York, or Sir Walter Carnaby's solicitors; but a note among longheaded Duncombe's papers had got into the hands of Mordacks. Of that, however, Mr. Jellicorse had no idea.
Jellicorse grew into the clear conviction that "righteous and wise" were the words to be used whenever this will was spoken of. With pleasant remembrance of the starveling fees wherewith he used to charge the public, ere ever his golden spurs were won, the prosperous lawyer now began to run his eye through a duplicate of an abstract furnished upon some little sale about forty years before.
So Jordas only answered that he had promised to return, and a trifle of snow improved the travelling. "A willful man must have his way," said Mr. Jellicorse at last. "We can not put him in the pound, Diana; but the least we can do is to provide him for a coarse, cold journey. If I know anything of our country, he will never see Scargate Hall to-night, but his blanket will be a snowdrift.
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