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"If you could furnish me with his address " "Methley and Woodlesford know it," said Mr. Carless. "Um yes, that might be very useful. Ring Methley's up, Portlethwaite, and ask if they would oblige us with the name of Mr. Cave's hotel some residential hotel in Lancaster Gate, I believe." Mr.
The two visitors rose, and Methley looked at Mr. Carless in a questioning fashion. "Am I to go away with the impression that you believe our client to be an impostor?" he said quietly. "Frankly I do!" answered Mr. Carless. "So do I!" exclaimed Mr. Pawle. "Emphatically so!" "In that case," said Methley, "I see no advantage in bringing him here."
Now, a first question do you, as his legal advisers, believe in his claim?" "Judging by the proofs with which he has furnished us, yes," answered Methley. "There seems to be no doubt of it." "We'll ask for these proofs presently," remarked Mr. Carless.
"Of course, Methley and Woodlesford didn't quite put it in that light. They put it that their client had no wish to disturb his nephew, but suggested, kindly, that his nephew should make him a proper payment out of his abundance." Mr. Pawle turned to Lord Ellingham. "Did they mention a sum to Your Lordship?" he asked. "Yes," replied Lord Ellingham, with a smile at Carless. "They did tentatively."
Cave's appearance, and assured himself that his man had gone peacefully to rest at his hotel, and he had seen him again before breakfast next morning and had been in quiet and unobtrusive attendance upon him when, later, he visited Methley's office and subsequently walked away with Methley to the police-court.
"I am evidently to be treated as an impostor. In that case," he bowed ceremoniously to the men gathered around Mr. Carless' desk "I think it best to withdraw." Therewith he walked out of the room; and Methley, after a quiet word with Carless, followed to be stopped in the corridor, for a second time that day, by Viner, who had hurried after him.
"Well although he was passing under the name of Cave, he was, in strict reality, the Lord Marketstoke who disappeared from England many years ago, who was never heard of again, and whose death had been presumed. He was, therefore, the rightful Earl of Ellingham, and as such entitled to the estates. He proceeded to tell Methley and Woodlesford his adventures.
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