There are also two documents which he seems to have
considered it worth while to preserve all these years," concluded
Woodlesford with a smile. "One is a letter informing him that he had been
elected a member of the M.C.C.; the other is his commission as a justice
of the peace for the county of Buckinghamshire."
As he detailed these things, Woodlesford laid each specified paper before
Mr. Carless, and then they all gathered round, and examined each exhibit.
The various documents were somewhat faded with age, and the edges of some
were worn as if from long folding and keeping in a pocketbook. Mr.
Carless hastily ran his eye over them.
"Very interesting, gentlemen," he remarked. "But you know, as well as I
do, that these things don't prove your client to be the missing Lord
Marketstoke. A judge and jury would want a lot more evidence than that.
The mere fact that your man is in possession of all these documents
proves nothing whatever. He may have stolen them!"
"From what we have seen of our client, Mr. Carless," observed Methley,
with some stiffness of manner, "there is no need for such a suggestion.
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