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As we entered the room, the stranger rose, and, glancing in an embarrassed way from one of us to the other, suddenly broke out into an undeniable snigger. I looked at him sternly, and Thorndyke, quite unmoved by his indecorous behaviour, said in a grave voice: "Let me introduce you, Jervis; though I think you have met this gentleman before." "I think not," I said stiffly.
I am just going to write to Marchmont advising him to enter a caveat." "Do you mean to say that you have discovered a flaw in the will, after all?" "A flaw!" he exclaimed. "My dear Jervis, that second will is a forgery." I stared at him in amazement; for his assertion sounded like nothing more or less than arrant nonsense. "But the thing is impossible, Thorndyke," I said.
Gibbons muttered, and then, seizing his cap, said to the Lascar, "Come along with me; it aint likely that we shall be in time, but we will try, anyhow." He ran to Ingleston's. "Come along, Ingleston," he exclaimed, "and all of you. You all know Mr. Thorndyke. This man says he has been attacked by a gang down at Westminster, and will be murdered.
It was a standing joke in the royal family for a long time, and he heard so much about it that he tried to deny what he had said!" Johnston glanced at the speaker non-plussed, but the captain was looking at Thorndyke. "Your climate is delightful here now," said the Englishman; "is it so long at a time?" "Perpetually; it is regulated every moment, and every year we perfect it in some way."
On it were two flat china candlesticks, in one of which I had happened to notice, as we came in, a short end of candle lying in the tray, and I now looked to see if that was what Thorndyke had annexed; but it was still there. I followed my colleague out into the street, and for some time we walked on without speaking.
"Rather a forbidding exterior," remarked Thorndyke, as he inserted the latchkey, "but it is homely enough inside." The heavy door swung outwards and disclosed a baize-covered inner door, which Thorndyke pushed open and held for me to pass in. "You will find my chambers an odd mixture," said Thorndyke, "for they combine the attractions of an office, a museum, a laboratory and a workshop."
"This is a dreadful affair," he said, in an agitated manner. "I see you have the paper. A most shocking affair. I am immensely relieved to find you here. Nearly missed the train, and feared I should miss you." "There appears to have been an arrest," Thorndyke began. "Yes my brother. Terrible business. Let us walk up the platform; our train won't start for a quarter of an hour yet."
"I desire to express my admiration at the manner in which that defence was conducted, and I desire especially to observe that not you alone, but the public at large, are deeply indebted to Dr. Thorndyke, who, by his insight, his knowledge and his ingenuity, has probably averted a very serious miscarriage of justice. The Court will now adjourn until half-past two."
He took down from a shelf a large volume of newspaper-cuttings and laid it on the table. "You see," said he, as he ran his finger down the index, "Thorndyke files all the cases that are likely to come to something, and I know he had expectations respecting this one. I fancy he had some ghoulish hope that the missing gentleman's head might turn up in somebody's dust-bin.
The girl, looked grave for a moment, and then turning in her best manner to her escort "Mr. Thorndyke, I think I had better tell you the little story of my horse. If we ride slow, I will have time before we reach the gate." With a little increase of color, "It is not much of a story, but you may see a little moral in it." "Certainly, I shall be glad to hear it. No doubt it will interest me."
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