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Therefore Parrawhite would not wish to leave Pratt's neighbourhood so long as there was money to be got out of Pratt, Parrawhite would stick to him like a leech. But if Parrawhite was to abide peaceably in Barford, he must pay Pickard that little matter of between fifty and sixty pounds.
"You do a bit now and then as agent for some of these shipping lines. You book passages for emigrants and for other people, going to New Zealand or Canada or Timbuctoo never mind where. Now then couldn't you remember I'm sure you could that you booked a passage for Parrawhite to America last November? Come! It's an easy matter to remember is that for a hundred pounds."
"What the devil do we care whether any such passenger went or not? All that you're concerned about is to prove that you issued a ticket to Parrawhite, under the name of Parsons. What's it matter to you where Parrawhite, alias Parsons, went, when he'd once left your shop? You naturally thought he'd go straight to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Station, on his way to Liverpool and New York!
What do you suggest?" he continued, turning to Byner. "You have some idea, of course?" "First of all," answered Byner, "we mustn't arouse any suspicion on Pratt's part. Let us work behind the screen. But I have an idea as to how he disposed of Parrawhite, and I'm going to follow it up this very day my first duty, you know, is towards the people who want Parrawhite, or proof of his death.
Pratt's office is only a few minutes away. Can you drop in there, making some excuse, and while there, mention, more or less casually, that Parrawhite, or information about him, is wanted; that you and a certain Halstead & Byner are advertising for him; that you've just seen Murgatroyd in respect of a communication which he wired to Halstead's this morning, and that most important of all a fortune of twenty thousand pounds is awaiting Parrawhite!
Byner would travel to Barford by the first express next morning, and would call upon him at eleven o'clock. "Then they have some important news for Parrawhite," mused Eldrick, as he put the message in his pocket and went off to his club. "Inquiry agents don't set off on long journeys at a moment's notice for a matter of a trifling agency. But where is Parrawhite?" He awaited the arrival of Mr.
"He was exact about dates, then, was he?" interrupted Byner. "He mentioned them readily enough," replied the solicitor. "But to go on Parrawhite mentioned to him, November 23rd last, that he wanted to go to America at once, Murgatroyd told him about bookings. Parrawhite called very early next morning, paid for his passage under the name of Parsons, and went off en route for Liverpool, of course.
He opened the telegram, looked it over, and waiting until the clerk had gone, turned to his companions. "Here's a message from my partner, Mr. Halstead," he continued. "Listen to what he wires: "'Wire just received from Murgatroyd, shipping agent, Peel Row, Barford. He says Parrawhite left that town for America on November 24th last and offers further information. Let me know what to reply!"
And once again he was struck by the fact that all these various happenings in connection with Pratt, and now with Parrawhite, took place at the time of Antony Bartle's death, and he said so. "True enough!" agreed Eldrick. "And once more," pointed out Collingwood. "We're hearing of a hold! Pratt claims to have a hold on Mrs. Mallathorpe now it turns out that Parrawhite boasted of a hold on Pratt.
And, in Byner's further and very seriously considered opinion, the whole problem for solution possibly involving the solution of other and more important problems was this: Did Parrawhite meet Pratt that night, and if he did what took place between them which prevented Parrawhite from returning to Pickard?
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