They died on the 18th;
this is the 22d. We spent three days in trying to find out your address.
They will be at Crown Anstey, I should say, to-morrow. You should be
there to receive them and to officiate as head mourner. Mr. Paine and
myself will both be there, as a matter of course."
"Then I must ask Mr. Lawson's permission," I said, doubtfully.
Mr. Moreland laughed.
"He will soon give you that. You will find the master of Crown Anstey a
powerful personage."
"There is another thing," I said, with a crimson flush burning my face;
"I have but five shillings and sixpence in all the world."
He laughed aloud at this.
"I can advance you whatever you like, then--five hundred pounds or
more."
The very mention of such a sum positively frightened me. Mr. Moreland
looked very much amused.
"It will be some time," he said, "before you grow accustomed to ten
thousand a year."
At that moment we were interrupted by the arrival of another client. I
rose to take my leave, with a check for three hundred pounds in my hand.
"You will go down to Crown Anstey to-night?" said Mr. Moreland, as he
shook hands with me.
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