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Portlethorpe had listened so it seemed to me with a good deal of irritation and impatience; he was clearly one of those people who do not like interference with what they regard as an established order of things, and it evidently irked him to have any questions raised as to the Carstairs affairs which, of course, he himself had done much to settle when Sir Gilbert succeeded to the title.
I had Murray out of his bed before half-past five that morning, and I laid it on him heavily about the Glasgow affair, which, as we came to know later, was the biggest mistake we made, and one that involved us in no end of sore trouble; and at a quarter-past six Mr. Lindsey and Mr. Portlethorpe and I were drinking our coffee and blinking at each other over the rims of the cups. But Mr.
But there was one box, lighter than the rest, in which, instead of gold, we found the valuable things of which Hollins had told Mr. Lindsey and Mr. Portlethorpe and myself when he came to us on his lying mission, only the previous midnight. There they all were the presents that had been given to various of the Carstairs baronets by royal donors carefully packed and bestowed.
Lindsey, as spokesman, had to tell; he also heard my story of the yacht affair. He was an astute, elderly man, evidently quick at sizing things up, and I knew by the way he turned to Mr. Portlethorpe and by the glance he gave him, after hearing everything, that his conclusions were those of Mr. Lindsey and Mrs. Ralston. "I'm afraid there's something wrong, Portlethorpe," he remarked quietly.
"And what I say, Portlethorpe," retorted Mr. Lindsey, "is that I'm going to be convinced that it is his own property! I'm going to see Paley whether you do or not and you'll be a fool if you don't come." Mr. Portlethorpe protested but he accompanied us. And we were very soon in Mr.
"Now," he went on, turning to the butler. "What is it? You can speak freely we are all three Mr. Portlethorpe, Mr. Moneylaws, and myself pretty well acquainted with all that is going on, by this time. And I'm perhaps not far wrong when I suggest that you know something?" The butler, who had taken the chair which Mr.
Portlethorpe, and speaking in soft, oily, suggestive accents, I felt that I disliked him even more than when he had addressed me in such supercilious accents at the doors of Hathercleugh. "Well er not precisely news, gentlemen," he replied. "The fact is, I wanted to see you privately, Mr. Lindsey, sir but, of course, I've no objections to speaking before Mr.
But at the present moment we hold very little that is, comparatively little money of his." "What?" said Mr. Portlethorpe. "What? You don't mean that?" "During the past three or four months," said the bank manager, "Sir Gilbert has regularly drawn very large cheques in favour of a Mr. John Paley. They have been presented to us through the Scottish-American Bank at Edinburgh.
Portlethorpe remarked that we were going too fast, and were working up all the elements of a fine scandal, she tartly remarked that if more care had been taken at the beginning, all this would not have happened. We found the bank manager at his private house, outside Newcastle, that evening. He knew both my companions personally, and he listened with great attention to all that Mr.
Ralston rightly says, by the sale of these properties a vast amount of ready money must have been accumulated, and at this man's disposal, Portlethorpe! we must know if it's true!" "How can I tell you that?" demanded Mr. Portlethorpe, who was growing more and more nervous and peevish. "I've nothing to do with Sir Gilbert Carstairs' private banking account.
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