Pawle suddenly turned on
them with another.
"Did your client mention to you that he knew Carless and Driver as the
family solicitors?" he asked.
"No, I can't say that he did," admitted Methley. "After all, thirty-five
years' absence, you know--"
"You said just now that his memory was surprisingly fresh," interrupted
Mr. Pawle.
"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."
Woodlesford glanced at his partner, and repossessing himself of the
documents, began to arrange them in the envelope from which he had
drawn them.
"We cannot, of course, say positively who our client is or who he is
not," he said. "All we can say is that he came to us with an introduction
from an old client of ours whom we knew very well, and that his story
seems to us to be quite credible. No doubt he can bring further proof.
That he did not come here in the first instance--"
"I'll tell you why I, personally, am very much surprised that he didn't,"
interrupted Mr.
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