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"He is fully conversant with his family history," said Woodlesford. "He can give a perfectly full and so far as we can judge accurate account of his early life and of his subsequent doings. He evidently knows all about Ellingham Hall, Marketstoke and the surroundings. I think if you were to examine him on these points, you would find that his memory is surprisingly fresh."
After inspecting them, Methley and Woodlesford came to the conclusion that their caller really was what he claimed to be the missing man!" "What were the papers?" demanded Mr. Pawle. "Oh!" replied Mr. Carless, looking at his client. "Letters, certificates, and the like, all, according to Methley and Woodlesford, excellent proofs of identity." "Did they show them to Your Lordship?" asked Mr. Pawle.
Pawle glanced at Viner, and Viner knew what he was thinking of. The two documents just described by Mr. Perkwite had not been among the papers which Methley and Woodlesford had exhibited at Carless & Driver's office. "A moment," said Mr. Pawle, lifting an arresting finger. "Did you happen to notice where this marriage took place?" "It was not in Melbourne," replied Mr. Perkwite.
"Surely," replied Woodlesford, "surely you can't expect a man who has been away from England all that time to remember everything!" "I should have expected Lord Marketstoke to have gone straight to the family solicitors, anyway," retorted Mr. Pawle. "Obvious thing to do if his story is a true one."
The two men whom you saw coming away from Ellingham House were Methley and Woodlesford, two solicitors who are in partnership in Edgware Road I know of them: I think we've had conveyancing business with them once or twice. Quite a respectable firm in a smallish way, you know, but all right so far as I know anything of them.
He was aware that legal proceedings were taken as regards the presumption of his death and the administration of the estates; he was also aware of the death of his younger brother and that title and estates were now in possession of his nephew His Lordship there. In fact, he was very well up in the whole story, according to Methley and Woodlesford," said Mr. Carless, with a smile.
If you will bring your client here, there are three of us in this office who, as my old clerk has just reminded me, can positively identify him on the instant if he is the man he claims to be. Positively, I say, and at once! There!" "May one ask how?" said Woodlesford. "No!" exclaimed Mr. Carless. "Bring him!
He told these people Methley and Woodlesford, that he had at one time or another lived and traded in South Africa, India, China, Japan and the Malay Settlement finally he had settled down in Australia. He had kept himself familiar with events at home knew of his father's death, and he saw no end of advertisements for himself.
Methley and Woodlesford, having informed His Lordship of all this when they called on him yesterday afternoon then proceeded to tell him precisely what their client, the claimant, as we will now call him, really wanted, for he had been at some pains, considerable pains, to make himself clear on that point to them, and he desired them to make themselves clear to Lord Ellingham, whom he throughout referred to as his nephew.
Now, we, Carless and Driver, sent out those advertisements our name was appended to every one of them, wherever they appeared. Why, then, when this man if he is the real man returned home, did he not come to us? For there are three persons in this office who but wait!" He touched a bell; the clerk who had announced Methley and Woodlesford put his head in at the door. "Ask Mr.
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