Were it otherwise she would leave no stone unturned to recover the value
of her property--not on account of its value, but because she had been so
ill-treated by Mr. Camperdown and the police. Then she added a postscript
to say that it was quite out of the question that she should take any
journey for the next six months.
The reader need hardly be told that Greystock did not believe a word of
what she said. He felt sure that she was not ill. There was an energy in
the letter hardly compatible with illness. But he could not make her come.
He certainly did not intend to go down again to Scotland to fetch her; and
even had he done so he could not have forced her to accompany him. He
could only go to the attorneys concerned, and read to them so much of the
letter as he thought fit to communicate to them.
"That won't do at all," said an old gentleman at the head of the firm.
"She has been very leniently treated, and she must come."
"You must manage it, then," said Frank.
"I hope she won't give us trouble, because if she does we must expose
her," said the second member.
"She has not even sent a medical certificate," said the tyro of the firm,
who was not quite so sharp as he will probably become when he has been a
member of it for ten or twelve years.
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