Blake rode up and gave his horse to the horse-boy. "Put him in
the stable for a while," he said. "I may want him again." Then he
went round to the front door and asked for Mrs. Gordon.
"I have come to see Miss Grant on very important business," he
said when the old lady came in. "Would you ask her if she would
see me?"
The old lady was in a quandary. She had heard all the rumours that
were going about, but she knew that they had been kept from Mary
Grant, and she thought that if Blake meant to talk business he
might shock or startle the girl terribly.
"Mr. Pinnock the lawyer is here," she said. "Perhaps you had better
see him. Miss Grant does not know--"
"I am come as a friend of Miss Grant's, Mrs. Gordon," he said.
"But, if Mr. Pinnock is here, perhaps it would be better for me to
see him first. Shall I wait for him here?"
"If you will go into the office I will send him in there," and the
old lady withdrew to talk of commonplace matters with Mary, all
the time feeling that a great crisis was at hand.
Soon the two lawyers faced one another over the office table, and
Blake got to business at once.
"Mr. Pinnock," he said, "I am asked to act for Margaret Donohoe,
or Margaret Grant as she claims to be; and I want you to believe
that I am seriously telling you what I believe to be the truth,
when I say that Miss Grant had better settle this case.
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