"This is a young man--not long come of age," he said. "He'll be quite
well acquainted, however, with the family history, and if anything's
happened lately, I dare say I can get him to talk. He--What is it?"
Viner had suddenly gripped his companion's arm and pulled him to a halt.
He was looking ahead--at the house at which they were about to call. And
there, just being shown out by a footman, was the man whom he had seen at
the old-fashioned tavern in Notting Hill, and with him a tall,
good-looking man whom he had never seen before.
CHAPTER XV
THE PRESENT HOLDER
Mr. Pawle turned sharply on his companion as Viner pulled him up. He saw
the direction of Viner's suddenly arrested gaze and looked from him to
the two men who had now walked down the steps of the house and were
advancing towards them.
"What is it?" he asked. "Those fellows are coming away from Lord
Ellingham's house. You seem to know them?"
"One of them," murmured Viner. "The clean-shaven man. Look at him!"
The two men came on in close, evidently absorbed conversation, passed Mr.
Pawle and Viner without as much as a glance at them, and went along in
the direction of Park Lane.
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