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"I have another word to say before I close my note a word about the discovery in Mr. Loscombe's office. "It is no surprise to me to hear that Mr. Noel Vanstone has made his will since his marriage, and I am at no loss to guess in whose favor the will is made. If I succeed in finding my master, let that person get the money if that person can.
"Dark's Buildings, October 28th. "DEAR MADAM One of Mr. Loscombe's clerks has proved amenable to a small pecuniary consideration, and has mentioned a circumstance which it may be of some importance to you to know.
The one apparent compensation under the disaster in other words, the discovery that the Trust actually existed, and that George Bartram's marriage within a given time was one of the objects contained in it was a compensation which could only be estimated at its true value by placing it under the light of Mr. Loscombe's experience.
"Nearly a month since, accident gave the clerk in question an opportunity of looking into one of the documents on his master's table, which had attracted his attention from a slight peculiar ity in the form and color of the paper. He had only time, during Mr. Loscombe's momentary absence, to satisfy his curiosity by looking at the beginning of the document and at the end.
Loscombe's office. The lawyer himself is probably altogether beyond our reach. But if any one of his clerks can be advantageously treated with on such terms as may not overtax your pecuniary resources, accept my assurance that the opportunity shall be made the most of by, dear madam, your faithful servant, From Mr. Pendril to Norah Vanstone. "Serle Street, October 27th. 1847.
"Yes, ma'am; I think I let her in the second time she came. An elderly person named Mrs. Attwood?" "That is the person I mean. Mrs. Attwood is Mr. Loscombe's housekeeper; not the housekeeper at his private residence, but the housekeeper at his offices in Lincoln's Inn. I promised to go and drink tea with her some evening this week, and I have been to-night.
I have all these latter particulars from Mr. Loscombe's correspondent the nephew of the gentleman who owns this house, and whose charity has given me an asylum, during the heavy affliction of my sickness, under his own roof. "I believe the reasons which have induced Mr. Noel Vanstone to keep himself and his wife in hiding are reasons which relate entirely to myself.
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