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Eldrick pricked up his ears at that. He remembered that he had sent Pratt to make inquiry at Parrawhite's lodgings on the morning whereon the money was missing. "What time of the day on the twenty-fourth was that, Mr. Pickard?" he asked. "Evenin', sir," replied the landlord. "They'd nivver seen naught of him since he went out the day before. Oh, he did me, did Parrawhite!
Suppose all these things have a common origin? Suppose the hold which Parrawhite had or has on Pratt is part and parcel of the hold which Pratt has on Mrs. Mallathorpe? In that case or cases what is the best thing to do?" "Will you gentlemen allow me to suggest something?" said Byner. "Very well find Parrawhite! Of all the people concerned in this, Parrawhite, from your account of him, anyway, Mr.
And those eyes turned to the unconscious Pratt with a flash of contempt she, at any rate, would not follow his foolish example, and play for too high a stake no, she would make hay while the sun shone its hottest! She was of the Parrawhite persuasion better, far better one good bird in the hand than a score of possible birds in the bush.
"Quite right," agreed Parrawhite, "They don't. What matter is our terms. Now let me suggest no, insist on what they must be. Cash! Do you know why I insist on that? No? Then I'll tell you. Because this young barrister chap, Collingwood, has evidently got some suspicion of something." "I can't see it," said Pratt uneasily. "He was only curious to know what that letter was about."
No everything was working most admirably Parrawhite's previous bad record, Eldrick's carelessness and his desire to shut things up: it was all good. From that day forward, Parrawhite would be as if he had never been.
"Only Pratt and I know about the money," replied Eldrick. "We kept it secret I didn't want Pascoe to know I'd been so careless. Pascoe didn't like Parrawhite and he doesn't know his record. I only told him that Parrawhite was a chap I'd known in better circumstances and wanted to give a hand to." "You said it was about the time of my grandfather's death?" asked Collingwood.
Eldrick looked up at his partner with a sharp, confirmatory glance. "That's our Parrawhite, of course!" he said. "Who's after him, now?" And he went on to read the rest of the advertisement, murmuring its phraseology half-aloud: "'in practice as a solicitor at Nottingham and who left that town six years ago.
Was that silly, unfortunate affair with Parrawhite being slowly brought to light to wreck him on the very beginning of what he meant to be a brilliant career? He cursed Parrawhite again and again as he left Peel Row behind him. The events of the day had made Pratt cautious as well as anxious.
Pratt, however, was essentially parochial in his newspaper tastes he never read anything but the Barford papers. And when he picked up the Barford morning journal and saw Eldrick's advertisement for Parrawhite in a prominent place, he literally started from sheer surprise not unmingled with alarm.
He had watched the landlord of the Green Man closely as he told his story, and had set him down for an honest, if somewhat sly and lumpish soul, who was telling a plain tale to the best of his ability. Byner believed all the details of that story he even believed that when Parrawhite told Pickard that he would find him fifty pounds that evening, or early next day, he meant to keep his word.
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