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He had said that he had not shown the will, nor mentioned the will, to a soul but he might; old men were so fussy about things he might have set down in his diary that he had found it on such a day, and under such-and-such circumstances. However, there was one person who could definitely inform him of the reason of Collingwood's visit to Normandale Grange Mrs. Mallathorpe.
Collingwood and Mr. Robson to want to injure me in a matter which is no business of theirs. I shall do my duty by Mrs. Mallathorpe you yourself know I'm fully competent to do it and I shall fully earn the percentage that she'll pay me. What right have these people what right has her daughter to come between me and my living?" "Oh, well, well!" said Eldrick, as he handed back the papers and rose.
Bartle gave orders when I first came here that a register of every letter sent out was to be kept I've always entered them in this book." "And this letter you're talking about to whom was it addressed?" "Miss Mallathorpe, Normandale Grange, sir." "You went and posted it at once?" "That very minute, sir." "Was it soon afterwards that Mr. Bartle went out?" "He went out as soon as I came back, sir."
Write this down, if you please, Mrs. Mallathorpe." He dictated an advertisement, setting forth the requirements of which he had spoken, and Mrs. Mallathorpe obeyed him and wrote. She hated Pratt more than ever at that moment there was a quiet, steadfast implacability about him that made her feel helpless.
I didn't even tell your mother what I'd found out. I wasn't going to show her my hand all at once though I've shown you a good deal of it." "Not all?" she asked quickly. "Not all," answered Pratt with a meaning glance. "To use more metaphors I've several cards up my sleeve, Miss Mallathorpe. But you're utterly wrong about the threats.
She was half-way across the hall beneath, where the butler and one of the footmen were idly talking, when a sharp cry from above made her then look up. Mrs. Mallathorpe, suddenly restored to life and energy, was leaning over the balustrade. "Stop that woman, you men!" she said. "Seize her! Fasten her up! lock the door wherever you put her! She's stolen my rings, and a lot of money out of my desk!
And according to his shop-boy, Jabey Naylor, the last thing he did was to write a letter to you. Now I have reason for asking would you mind telling me, Mrs. Mallathorpe, what that letter was about?" Mrs. Mallathorpe moved over to the hearth, and took an envelope from the rack. She handed it to Collingwood, indicating that he could open it.
She read the will carefully. She told Prydale just now what they were. With the exception of three legacies of ten thousand pounds each to your mother, your brother, and yourself, John Mallathorpe left everything he possessed to the town of Barford for an educational trust."
Byner laid the message before Eldrick and Collingwood without further comment. On the evening of the day whereon Nesta Mallathorpe had paid him the visit which had resulted in so much plain speech on both sides, Pratt employed his leisure in a calm review of the situation. He was by no means dissatisfied, it seemed to him that everything was going very well for his purposes.
Collingwood at once realized that he was in the presence of one of the two fortunate young people who had succeeded so suddenly and, according to popular opinion, so unexpectedly to John Mallathorpe's wealth. This was evidently Miss Nesta Mallathorpe, of whom he had heard, but whom he had never seen.
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