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WADE went straight back to Elk's room in Scotland Yard, where they had arranged to meet, and briefly told him of the lawyer's experience. He added his own private views, and Elk made a little face. "Your romantical notions I can't stand, and anyway, the long-lost heiress is one of those comic figures that belong to the movies. Who was the woman again--the mad grandmother?"
"She wasn't mad," said Wade, annoyed by his colleague's scepticism. "Lady Pattison."