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I determined to make the most of the chance which was now offered to me, and to gain as much information as I could. "Did you say that Mrs. Catherick lived anywhere in this neighbourhood?" I asked. "Oh dear, no," said the housekeeper. "She lives at Welmingham, quite at the other end of the county five-and-twenty miles off, at least." "I suppose you have known Mrs. Catherick for some years?"
There no such danger existed, the former clergyman at our church having been dead for some years. Old Welmingham suited his purpose as well as Knowlesbury. His father had removed his mother from Knowlesbury, and had lived with her at a cottage on the river, a little distance from our village.
I could go and come as I pleased at Welmingham, and if I chanced to fail in observing any necessary precautions, the immediate results, at least, would affect no one but myself. When I left the station the winter evening was beginning to close in. There was little hope of continuing my inquiries after dark to any useful purpose in a neighbourhood that was strange to me.
In the surprise of discovering the evidence of the marriage, I had forgotten the inference I had drawn on first perceiving the men in the neighbourhood of the vestry. Their reappearance reminded me that Sir Percival had anticipated my visit to Old Welmingham church as the next result of my interview with Mrs. Catherick otherwise he would never have placed his spies there to wait for me.
The man in black went away by himself towards Welmingham the other two remained together, evidently waiting to follow me as soon as I walked on. I proceeded on my way without letting the fellows see that I took any special notice of them. They caused me no conscious irritation of feeling at that moment on the contrary, they rather revived my sinking hopes.
To my own relief, my examination was not a long one. I had not known the deceased I had never seen him I was not aware of his presence at Old Welmingham and I had not been in the vestry at the finding of the body.
"You shall hear. There are certain events in Sir Percival's past life which it is necessary for my purpose to be fully acquainted with. YOU know them and for that reason I come to YOU." "What events do you mean?" "Events that occurred at Old Welmingham when your husband was parish-clerk at that place, and before the time when your daughter was born."
Catherick's address at Welmingham." My request so startled Mrs. Clements, that, for the moment, even the tidings of Anne's death seemed to be driven from her mind. Her tears suddenly ceased to flow, and she sat looking at me in blank amazement. "For the Lord's sake, sir!" she said, "what do you want with Mrs. Catherick!" "I want this, Mrs.
I returned to Welmingham with my mind composed, feeling more sure of myself and my resolution than I had felt yet. On my way to the hotel I passed the end of the square in which Mrs. Catherick lived. Should I go back to the house, and make another attempt to see her. No. That news of Sir Percival's death, which was the last news she ever expected to hear, must have reached her hours since.
One was a certificate of his birth, and the other was a certificate of his parents' marriage. The certificate of his birth was easily got he was born abroad, and the certificate was there in due form. The other matter was a difficulty, and that difficulty brought him to Old Welmingham. But for one consideration he might have gone to Knowlesbury instead.
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