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Updated: June 5, 2025
"I see that you ought to do well in your special line of business. Now are you going to pursue inquiries for Parrawhite here in Barford, after what I've told you?" "Certainly!" said Byner. "I came down prepared to stop awhile. It's highly important that this man should be found highly important," he added smiling, "to other people than Parrawhite himself." "In what way?" asked Eldrick.
Immediately afterwards Mr. Bartle goes to your office. Nobody is there but Pratt as far as Pratt knows. Bartle dies suddenly after telling Pratt that the paper is John Mallathorpe's will. Pratt steals the will. And the probability is that Parrawhite, unknown to Pratt, was in that office, and saw him steal it. Why is that probable? Because
"Never mind," continued Parrawhite. "He had some suspicion or he wouldn't have gone out there almost as soon as he reached Barford after his grandfather's death. And even if suspicion is put to sleep for awhile, it can easily be reawakened, so cash! We must profit at once before any future risk arises. But what terms were you thinking of?"
Own up! you've found out that the will leaves the property away from the present holders, and you've been to Normandale to bargain? Come, now!" "What then!" demanded Pratt. "Then, of course, I come in at the bargaining," answered Parrawhite. "I'm going to have my share. That's a certainty. You'd better take my advice. Because you're absolutely in my power.
An, he says, 'I see'd that theer feller 'at I think I've heerd you call Parrawhite, come out o' Stubbs' Lane wi' that lawyer chap 'at lives i' t' Terrace Pratt. I know Pratt, he says, ''cause them 'at he works for Eldricks once did a bit o' law business for me. 'Where did you see 'em go to, then? says I. 'I see'd 'em cross t' road into t' owd quarry ground, he says.
And yet there was something in what that devil Parrawhite had urged. For there was a risk however small of discovery, and if discovery were made, there would be a nice penalty to pay. It might, after all, be better to sell the will outright for as much ready money as ever he could get, and to take his gains far away, and start out on a career elsewhere.
"Has Parrawhite come?" he asked. "No," replied Pratt, "Not yet, Mr. Eldrick." "Is is he usually late?" inquired Eldrick. "Usually quite punctual half-past nine," said Pratt. Eldrick glanced at his watch; then at his clerk. "Didn't you give me some cash last night?" he asked. "Forty-three pounds nine," answered Pratt. "Thompson's bill of costs he paid it yesterday afternoon."
"Because we'd no knowledge of his having come so far North. We advertised in the Midland papers. But then, all the London papers, daily and weekly, that we used come down to Yorkshire." "Parrawhite," said Eldrick reflectively, "was a big newspaper reader. He used to go to the Free Library reading-room a great deal. I begin to think he must certainly be dead or locked up.
"This morning, a man named Murgatroyd, in Peel Row, who does a bit of shipping agency, wired to Halstead & Byner to say that he booked Parrawhite to New York last November. Of course, they at once communicated with me, and I've just been to see Murgatroyd. He's that man watchmaker we had some proceedings against last year." "Oh, that man!" said Pratt. "Thought the name was familiar.
"It's the quickest thing to do if my theory's correct," observed Byner, as they drove along, "Of course, it is all theory mere theory! But I've grounds for it. The place the time mere lonely situation that scrap iron lying about, which would be so useful in weighting a dead body! I tell you, I shall be surprised if we don't find Parrawhite at the bottom of that water!"
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