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"What she suggests I believe to be true. An impostor!" Mr. Portlethorpe flushed and began to look very uneasy. "Really!" he repeated. "Really, Lindsey! you forget that I examined into the whole thing! I saw all the papers letters, documents Oh, the suggestion is you'll pardon me, Mrs. Ralston ridiculous!
And that's really all I know." Mr. Lindsey got in his word before Mr. Portlethorpe could speak again. "There are just two questions I should like to ask to which nobody can take exception, I think," he said. "One is I gather that you've invested all the money which Sir Gilbert placed in your hands?" "Yes about all," replied Mr. Paley. "I have a balance a small balance."
"What of it?" he said. "It conveys nothing to me!" "Take your time, Portlethorpe," remonstrated Mr. Lindsey, who was unlocking a drawer in his desk. "It'll perhaps convey something to you when you compare that writing with a certain signature which I shall now show you.
Ralston shared the personalty which, by-the-by, was considerable: they both got nearly a hundred thousand each, in cash. And there you are!" "That all?" asked Mr. Lindsey. Mr. Portlethorpe hesitated a moment then he glanced at me. "Moneylaws is safe at a secret," said Mr. Lindsey. "If it is a secret." "Well, then," answered Mr. Portlethorpe, "it's not quite all.
"Then he's paid out in the way you state what?" demanded Mr. Portlethorpe. "Quite two hundred thousand pounds! And," concluded our informant, with another knowing look, "now that I'm in possession of the facts you've just put before me, I should advise you to go and find out if Sir Gilbert Carstairs and John Paley are not one and the same person!"
"Approaching to something of that nature, sir," replied the butler. "Of course, you will bear in mind that I am, as it were, a stranger I have only been in Sir Gilbert's Carstairs' employ nine months. But I have eyes. And ears. And the long and short of it is, gentlemen, I believe Sir Gilbert and Lady Carstairs have gone!" "Absolutely gone?" exclaimed Mr. Portlethorpe.
"Well it'll have to be proved," muttered Mr. Portlethorpe. He had been staring hard at Mr. Gavin Smeaton ever since he came in, and suddenly he let out a frank exclamation. "There's no denying you've a strong Carstairs look on you!" said he. "Bless and save me! this is the strangest affair!" Smeaton put his hand into his pocket, and drew out a little package which he began to unwrap.
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