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Updated: June 21, 2025
But Collingwood found something else than love to talk about when he presented himself at Normandale Grange on the morning after his arrival from his three weeks' absence in town. As soon as he met her, he saw that Nesta was not only upset and troubled, but angry. "I am glad you have come," she said, when they were alone. "I want some advice.
The room into which Pratt had been taken was a small apartment opening out of the library John Mallathorpe, when he bought Normandale Grange, had it altered and fitted to suit his own tastes, and Pratt, as soon as he entered it, saw that it was a place in which privacy and silence could be ensured. He noticed that it had double doors, and that there were heavy curtains before the window.
"Have you any idea, any suspicion of why Pratt wanted to see your mother?" "Not unless it was about that stewardship," replied Nesta. "But how could that frighten her? Besides, all that's over. Normandale is mine! and if I have a steward, or an estate agent, I shall see to the appointment myself. No! I do not know why he should have come here! But there's some mystery. The curious thing is "
In the next he knew that heavy trouble had fallen on Normandale Grange, the very day after he had left it. This is what Collingwood read as he sat, coffee-cup in one hand, newspaper in the other staring at the lines of unleaded type: TRAGIC FATE OF YOUNG YORKSHIRE SQUIRE "A fatal accident, of a particularly sad and disturbing nature, occurred near Barford, Yorkshire, on Saturday.
While Byner was pursuing his investigations in the neighbourhood of the Green Man, Collingwood was out at Normandale Grange, discussing certain matters with Nesta Mallathorpe.
And Collingwood drew out one of old Bartle's memorandum forms, and saw a couple of lines in the familiar crabbed handwriting: "MRS. MALLATHORPE, Normandale Grange. "Madam, If you should drive into town tomorrow, will you kindly give me a call? I want to see you particularly. "Respectfully, A. BARTLE." Collingwood handed back the letter. "Have you any idea to what that refers?" he asked.
This is all some of Esther Mawson's work! And we shall have to wait nearly an hour before we know what is going on! it's all uphill work to Normandale, and the horses can't do it in the time." "Eldrick!" said Collingwood, as the carriage came abreast of the Central Station and a long line of motorcars. "Stop the coachman! Let's get one of those cars we shall get to Normandale twice as quickly.
And now you know why I went to Normandale Grange that Saturday you know, now, the real reason. I told a deliberate lie at the inquest, for your mother's sake for your sake, if you know it. I did not go there to hand in my application for the stewardship I went in response to the letter I've just read. Is all this clear to you?" Nesta could only move her head in silent acquiescence.
It was all ready for him on his arrival, and he presently mounted it and rode away through the outskirts of the town, carefully choosing the less frequented streets and roads. He rode on until he was clear of Barford: until, in fact, he was some miles from it, and had reached a village which was certainly not on the way to Normandale.
Cobcroft raised no objection, and when Collingwood had been to his chambers and seen his letters, he chartered a car and rode out to Normandale where he told Nesta of what he had learned and of his own conclusions. And Nesta, having listened carefully to all he had to tell, put a direct question to him. "You think this document which Pratt told me he holds is my late uncle's will?" she said.
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