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I was a bit alarmed when I heard that young Collingwood had been to you, for I thought that the old man, though he didn't tell me of any such thing, might have dropped you a line saying what he'd found. But as he didn't well, not one living soul knows that the will's in existence, except me and you!" Mrs. Mallathorpe was regaining her self-possession.
"Yes?" said Pratt inquiringly. "And what may it be?" He was expecting the visitor to produce something, but the old man again leaned forward, and dug his finger once more into the clerk's sleeve. "I say!" he whispered. "You remember John Mallathorpe and the affair of how long is it since?" "Two years," answered Pratt promptly. "Of course I do. Couldn't very well forget it, or him."
What did he come for?" "He came to ask what there was in a letter which his grandfather wrote to me yesterday afternoon." "Antony Bartle had written to you, had he? And what did he say, Mrs. Mallathorpe? For that is important!" "No more than that he wanted me to call on him today, if I happened to be in Barford." "Nothing more?" "Nothing more not a word." "Nothing as to why he wanted to see you?"
"That's a bigger mistake than the other, Miss Mallathorpe! The police! Oh, not the police, I think, Miss Mallathorpe. You see other people than you might go to the police about something else." Nesta's anger cooled down under that scarcely veiled threat.
"Take him into the study," commanded Mrs. Mallathorpe. "I'll come to him presently." She was utterly at a loss to understand Pratt's presence there. Eldrick & Pascoe were not her solicitors, and she had no business of a legal nature in which they could be in any way concerned. But it suddenly struck her that that was the second time she had heard Eldrick's name mentioned that day young Mr.
Mallathorpe drew a small bunch of keys from her gown, and went over to the desk which Esther had pointed to. Within a minute she was back again at the table, a roll of bank notes in one hand, half a dozen magnificent rings in the other. She put both hands halfway across and unclasped them.
The main thing is to relieve Miss Mallathorpe of anxiety. Now!" he went on, as they hastily left the carriage and transferred themselves to a car quickly scented by Eldrick as the most promising of the lot. "Tell the driver to go as fast as he can the other car's not very far in front tell him to catch it up." Eldrick leaned over and gave his orders.
And even now, I don't know if I've done right to tell you all this. But I don't think I could have faced it alone!" "My dear Miss Mallathorpe!" said Eldrick earnestly. "You've done the wisest thing you probably ever did in your life! Now," he went on, looking at Collingwood, "just let us all three realize what is to me a more important fact.
Mallathorpe, lyin' i' a dead faint close by! And they say 'at she's nivver done nowt but go out o' one faint into another, ivver since. So, of course, she's nivver been able to tell if she saw owt or knew owt! And what I say is," he concluded, with a heavy thump of the table, "that theer crowner's quest owt to ha' been what they term adjourned, until Mrs.
But there is a right of way across that part of the park, and these two men as I'm speaking of they made use of it on Friday getting towards dark. I know 'em well they'd both of 'em weigh four times as much together as young Squire Mallathorpe, and yet it didn't give way under them. And then only a few hours later, as you might say, down it goes with him!"
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