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Lucius went to Messrs. Pullman and Everill's office the day after Ferdinand Sivewright's death. Mr. Pullman, an active-looking elderly man, received him with that stock-in-trade kind of politeness which thriving solicitors keep for unknown clients, heard his story, smiled somewhat incredulously at some of its details, but reserved his opinion until he should have mastered the case.
‘Isn't it rather strange that we should never have heard of this youthful marriage of Mr. Henry Glenlyne's,' he said, with his sceptical smile, when the story was finished, ‘if there had been such a marriage?'