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He passed the door of a solicitor's office, where a small sum of money, the proceeds of a legacy, had been paid him the day before, and he finally made his way into the free library of Winnipeg, and took down a file of the Winnipeg Chronicle. He turned some pages laboriously, yet not vaguely. His eyes were dim and his hands palsied, but he knew what he was looking for.
Prosper of Buston Hall, with centuries of Prospers for his ancestors; whereas Soames was the son of a tax-gatherer, and Simpson had come down from London as a clerk from a solicitor's office in the City. And yet it was true that people would talk of him as did Miss Thoroughbung! His cruelty would be in every lady's mouth.
Sheldon meant to hold his ground in that house until the issue of events was determined. Valentine Hawkehurst and George Sheldon met at the solicitor's offices, and there was a long and serious consultation between them. "One thing seems pretty clear," said George, conclusively, "and that is, that my brother Phil isn't to be got off the premises except by some very deep move.
The winter had shaken him slightly for even a solicitor's body is vulnerable; and well for the clerk of the weather it is that no action lies against him and his good wife told him to be very careful, although he looked as young as ever. She had no great opinion of the people he was going to, and was sure that they would be too high and mighty even to see that his bed was aired.
Felpham wants you at the telephone, sir," she said. Events had crowded so thick and fast upon Viner during the last day or two, that he went to the telephone fully expecting to hear of some new development. But he was scarcely prepared for his solicitor's first words. "Viner!" said Felpham, whose voice betrayed his excitement. "Is that man Cave still with you?" "No!" answered Viner. "Why?"
With no recollection of having traversed the intervening streets, he found himself walking under the archway leading to the court in which his chambers were situated; in the far corner, shadowed by the tall plane tree, where the worn iron railings of the steps and the small panes of glass in the solicitor's window on the ground floor called up memories of Charles Dickens, he paused, filled with a sort of wonderment.
"Did you?" she asked, looking at me with an expression that rather alarmed me. "Well, not exactly," I replied, mighty hot and uncomfortable, and wishing Thorndyke at the devil with his confidences. "I merely mentioned that the the solicitor's costs, you know, and that sort of thing but you needn't jump on me, Miss Bellingham; Doctor Thorndyke did all that was necessary in that way."
He showed a sudden interest at that, and he regarded me with a slight smile. "You aren't a detective?" he inquired. "No I'm a solicitor's clerk," I replied. "From Berwick my principal, Mr. Lindsey, has to do with that case." He nodded at a pile of newspapers, which stood, with a heavy book on top of it, on a side table near his desk. "So I see from these papers," he remarked.
He had seen others, almost his equal in rank, swept relentlessly back to their old uninspiring avocations. A Bayard of a Colonel of a glorious battalion of a famous regiment, a fellow with decorations barred two or three times over, was now cooped up in his solicitor's office in Lothbury, E.C., breaking his heart over the pettifoggery of conveyances.
I don't want to know anything that happened before you two parted. But I've a right to know what Mrs. Crosby has done since, haven't I? You don't care to marry her, do you, boy?" "Marry her! I'd rather cut my throat." "You needn't do that. Just tell me whether all this is mere talk, or whether she has really been to the solicitor's.
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