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Eldrick all I know," muttered Murgatroyd. "Very likely," replied Prydale, "but there's a few questions this gentleman and myself would like to ask. Can we come in?" Murgatroyd fetched his wife to mind the shop, and took the callers into the parlour which she had unwillingly vacated. He knew Prydale by sight and reputation; about Byner he wondered.
"Well if things do turn out as you expect, we'll lose no time in seeking him there!" observed Prydale dryly. "We'd better arrange to get the job done first thing." "This Mr. Shepherd'll make no objection, I suppose?" asked Byner. "Objection! Lor' bless you he'll love it!" exclaimed Prydale. "It'll be a bit of welcome diversion to a man like him that's naught to do. He'll object none, not he!"
"No!" answered Byner, after a moment's reflection. "Let us see what results. We can let them know, soon enough, if we've anything to tell. But what about Pratt?" "Keeping an eye on him you mean?" said Prydale. "You said just now that in your opinion we should find him at his desk." "Just so but that's no reason why he shouldn't be looked after tomorrow morning," answered Byner.
"A dead man i' that old shaft i' one o' my worked out quarries!" he exclaimed. "Ye don't mean to say so! An' how long d'yer think he might ha' been there, now, Prydale?" "Some months, Mr. Shepherd," replied the detective. "Why, then it's high time he were taken out," said Shepherd. "When might you be thinkin' o' doin' t' job, like?" "As soon as possible," said Prydale.
Prydale pushed himself forward unceremoniously and insistently. "Keep that woman locked up!" he said. "First of all where's Pratt?" "Mrs. Mallathorpe said he would be found in a room in the old part of the house," answered the butler, shaking his head as if he were thoroughly mystified. "She said you would find him fast asleep Mawson had drugged him!"
"As near as I can recollect," replied Murgatroyd, "it 'ud be just about half-past eight. I was thinking of closing." "Ah!" said Prydale, with a glance at Byner, who had already told him of Parrawhite's presence at the Green Man on the other side of the town, a good two miles away, at the hour which Murgatroyd mentioned.
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