She received her
visitors in the parlour where old Daniel had been found dead: after a
moment's inspection of her, and the exchange of a few remarks about
Lauriston, Purdie suggested that they should all sit down and talk matters
over.
"Half-a-mo!" said Melky. "If we're going to have a cabinet council,
mister, there's a lady that I want to bring into it--Mrs. Goldmark. I know
something that Mrs. Goldmark can speak to--I've just been considering
matters while I was waiting for you, Mr. Purdie, and I'm going to tell you
and Zillah, and Mrs. Goldmark, of a curious fact that I know of. I'll
fetch her--and while I'm away Zillah'll show you that there book what was
found there."
Purdie looked with interest at the Spanish manuscript which seemed to be a
factor of such importance.
"I suppose you never saw this before?" he asked, as Zillah laid it on the
table before him. "And you're certain it wasn't in the place when you went
out that afternoon, leaving your grandfather alone?"
"That I'm positive of," answered Zillah. "I never saw it in my life until
my attention was drawn to it after he was dead.
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