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Updated: June 22, 2025
"What's all this?" asked Eldrick, taking the situation into his own hands. "What's the matter? Why did you send for the police?" "Mrs. Mallathorpe's orders, sir," answered the butler, with an apologetic glance at his young mistress. "Really, sir, I don't know exactly what is the matter! We are all so confused!
Ten thousand apiece and their mother a like sum. Thirty thousand pounds in all in comparison with hundreds of thousands. But they would have no choice in the matter. Nothing could upset that will. He began to think of the three people whom the production of this will would dispossess. He knew little of them beyond what common gossip had related at the time of John Mallathorpe's sudden death.
Mallathorpe's own express desire, made in her own handwriting. And it's quite certain that what he says about the relationship is true -I examined the proof myself. It's not unnatural that Mrs. Mallathorpe should desire to do something for her own cousin's son." "To that extent?" sneered Robson.
"And after that?" asked Esther. "Then I want to get a train at Scaleby," replied Pratt, mentioning a railway junction which lay ten miles across country in another direction. "So make it as soon after two-thirty as you can." "You can see her as soon as Miss Mallathorpe's gone," said Esther.
Collingwood says that you went there and told her maid that it was absolutely necessary for you to see her mistress sort of forced yourself in, you see, Pratt." "Nothing of the sort!" retorted Pratt. He flourished the letter in his hand. "Doesn't it say there, in Mrs. Mallathorpe's own handwriting, that she particularly desires to see me at three o'clock? It does!
And a stray sovereign or half-sovereign is useful to a man who only gets two quid a week. Understand?" "So you're a thief?" said Pratt bitterly. "I'm precisely what you are a thief!" retorted Parrawhite. "You stole John Mallathorpe's will last night. I heard everything, I tell you! and saw everything. I heard the whole business what the old man said what you, later, said to Eldrick.
"Authorizes him to act for her in all business matters. It means, of course, that that fellow now has full control over why, a tremendous amount of money! The estate, of course, is Miss Mallathorpe's he can't interfere with that. But Mrs.
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