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"He did," replied Pickard. "Near Pratt's lodgin' place." "Did or does Pratt live near you, then?" "Closish by happen ten minutes' walk. There's few o' houses a sort o' terrace, like, on t' edge o' what they call Whitcliffe Moor. Pratt lodged lodges now for all I know to t' contrary i' one o' them." "Did Parrawhite give you any idea that he was going to the house in which Pratt lodged?" "No!
Byner, in taking his firm's advertisement for Parrawhite to the three Barford newspaper offices, had done so with a special design he wanted Pratt to see that a serious wish to discover Parrawhite was alive in more quarters than one.
In the circumstances as far as Byner could reckon them up from what he had gathered it would not have paid Parrawhite to do otherwise. Byner put the situation to himself in this fashion Pratt had got hold of some secret which was being, or could be made to be, highly profitable to him. Parrawhite had discovered this, and was in a position to blackmail Pratt.
This man Parrawhite out of the way, Pratt has a clear field. He's got the will. He's already acquainted Mrs. Mallathorpe with that fact, and with the terms of the will whatever they may be.
Pratt was ready for this had been ready ever since Eldrick walked in. He affected a fine surprise. "Parrawhite!" he exclaimed. "Why who's advertising for him?" "Don't you see the newspapers?" asked Eldrick, pointing to some which lay about the room. "It's in there there's an advertisement of mine, and one of Halstead & Byner's, of London."
"When I've a job of this sort," replied Byner, "I don't let anybody know my name except people like you. When I register at one of your hotels presently, I shall be Mr. Black of London. But if this Pratt wanted to give any information about Parrawhite, he'd give it to you, surely, now that you've advertised." "No, he wouldn't!" asserted Eldrick. "Why?
Parrawhite appeared to have nothing to do with the affairs in which he was interested.
"Why, then," mused Byner, ruminating on his design, "then we will see what he will do!" Meanwhile, there was something he himself wanted to do, and on the morning following his arrival in the town, he set out to do it. Byner had been much struck by Pickard's account of his dealings with James Parrawhite on the evening which appeared to be the very last wherein Parrawhite was ever seen.
At any rate, he must see to himself. One thing was certain no search for Parrawhite must be permitted in Barford. That evening, instead of going home to dinner, Pratt remained in town, and dined at a quiet restaurant.
His first proceeding was to visit, one after another, the Barford newspaper offices, and to order the insertion in large type, and immediately, of the Halstead-Byner advertisement for news of Parrawhite. His second was to seek the General Post Office, where he wrote out and dispatched a message to his partner in London. That message was in cypher translated into English, it read as follows:
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