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John Mallathorpe's private office, ye'll understand, sir, opened out of our counting-house as it does still the present manager, Mr. Horsfall, has it, just as it was. Well, now, on one occasion, when I went in there, to take a ledger back to the safe, Mr. Mallathorpe had his manager and cashier, Gaukrodger and Marshall in with him. Mr.
What is this hold on Mrs. Mallathorpe? What is this document to which he refers? In other words, we must work back to some point which at present we can't see. At least, I can't see it. But we may discover it. What do you say, Collingwood?" "I agree entirely," answered Collingwood. "Let Pratt rest in his fancied security. The thing is, certainly, to go back. But to what point?"
The third document was the power of attorney which Ann Mallathorpe had given to Linford Pratt: the fourth, the letter which she had written to him on the evening before the fatal accident to Harper. And the fifth was John Mallathorpe's will. At last she held in her hand the half-sheet of foolscap paper of which Mrs.
As quietly and composedly as if he were discharging the most ordinary of his daily duties, Pratt unfolded the document, and went close to the solitary gas jet above Eldrick's desk. What he held in his hand was a half-sheet of ruled foolscap paper, closely covered with writing, which he at once recognized as that of the late John Mallathorpe. He was familiar with that writing he had often seen it.
And it was a good job," concluded Cobcroft, reflectively, "that it fell straight collapsed in itself, as you might say for if it had fallen slanting either way, it 'ud ha' smashed right through some of the sheds, and there'd ha' been a terrible loss of life." "Mr. John Mallathorpe was killed on the spot, I believe?" suggested Collingwood.
If you were calmer, you wouldn't say such things you wouldn't use such a term as blackmailing. It's dear me, I dare say you don't know it! it's actionable. If I were that sort of man, Miss Mallathorpe, and you said that of me before witnesses ah! I don't know what mightn't happen. However I'm not that sort of man. But don't say it again, if you please!"
And, of course, she'd never, never calculated that your brother would return sooner than he was expected, or that, on his return, he'd go where he did. And so but I'll spare you any reference to what happened. Only you know now how it was that Mrs. Mallathorpe was found by her son's body. She'd been waiting about for me! But the fate she'd meant for me was dealt out to him!"
Mallathorpe my old master, Mr. John Mallathorpe, I'm talking of he got an idea from two or three little things, d'ye see, that it wasn't as safe as it ought to be. And he got a couple of these professional steeplejacks to examine it. They made a thorough examination, too so far as one could tell by what they did. They'd been at the job several days when the accident happened.
All day long she sat brooding and only Esther Mawson, now for some time in her full confidence, knew that her brooding was rapidly developing into a monomania. Mrs. Mallathorpe, indeed, had but one thought in her mind the eventual circumventing of Pratt, and the destruction of John Mallathorpe's will.
As he went back to the centre of the town, he occupied himself in considering his attitude to Mrs. Mallathorpe when she called on him that evening. In spite of his own previous notion, and of his carefully-worked-out scheme about the stewardship, he had been impressed by what Parrawhite has said as to the wisdom of selling the will for cash.
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