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Before the watchmaker could collect himself sufficiently to say or ask more, Prydale and his companion had walked out of the shop and gone away. And then Murgatroyd realized that he was in for but he did not know what he was in for. What he did know was that if Prydale went or sent over to Liverpool the whole thing would burst like a bubble.
"You've had Prydale here and you'd Eldrick this morning. Of course, you knew what to say to both?" "I wish we'd never had you here last night, young man!" exclaimed Mrs. Murgatroyd fiercely. "What right have you to come here, making trouble for folk that's got plenty already? But at any rate, ours was honest trouble. Yours is like to land my husband in dishonesty if it hasn't done so already!
And it unfortunately turns out that Pratt saw Prydale and me go to Murgatroyd's shop last night, and afterwards went in there himself, and of course pumped Murgatroyd dry as to why we'd been." "Why unfortunately?" asked Collingwood. "Because that would warn Pratt that something was afoot," said Byner. "And he may have disappeared during the night. He "
She read the will carefully. She told Prydale just now what they were. With the exception of three legacies of ten thousand pounds each to your mother, your brother, and yourself, John Mallathorpe left everything he possessed to the town of Barford for an educational trust."
Do what he would he could not conceal some agitation, and Detective-Sergeant Prydale, a shrewdly observant man, noticed it and affected not to. "Evening, Mr. Murgatroyd," he said cheerily. "We've come to see if you can give us a bit of information. You've had Mr. Eldrick, the lawyer, here today on the same business. You know this affair of an old clerk of his Parrawhite?" "I told Mr.
"What did he pay for it in?" continued Prydale. "He gave me a ten-pound note and I gave him thirty shillings change," answered Murgatroyd. "Just so," assented Prydale. "Now what line might that be by?" Murgatroyd was becoming uneasy under all these questions, and his uneasiness was deepened by the way in which both his visitors watched him.
Eldrick and Collingwood, returning to the hall from the room in which they and the detectives had found Pratt's dead body, stood a little later in earnest conversation with Prydale, who had just come there from an interview with Esther Mawson. Nesta Mallathorpe suddenly called to them from the stairs, at the same time beckoning them to go up to her.
But Pratt, after all, was only one man, one brain, one body, and could not be in two places, nor go in two ways, at the same time. He took his own way ignorant of his destruction. Byner also took a way of his own. As soon as he and Prydale left Murgatroyd's shop, they chartered the first cab they met with, and ordered its driver to go to Whitcliffe Moor.
For Pratt was sharp-witted enough when it came to a question of putting one and two together, and if he had tracked Prydale and the unknown man who was with him to a certain house whereto they repaired as soon as they quitted Murgatroyd's shop, he would have drawn an inference from the mere fact of their visit which would have thrown him into a cold sweat of fear.
Of course, he'll find out that I didn't." "Lies!" said Mrs. Murgatroyd, vindictively. "And they didn't start wi' us neither!" "Who was that other man with Prydale?" asked Pratt. "London detective, I should say," answered the watchmaker. "And judging by the way he watched me, a sharp 'un, too!" "What impression did you get altogether?" demanded Pratt.
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