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After these few words Penton led the way outside and a few moments later the two were seated at a table in a restaurant on the other side of the road. Penton asked but few questions, but the replies he received were quite sufficient for his purpose. Presently they parted, and Cheriton turned his steps in the direction of Lincoln's Inn Fields, where, at Mrs. Marchand's request, he was going to see one of the partners in the famous legal firm of Prendergast, who had been for generations the family solicitors to the Seagranes.
They were a firm of such distinction that in signing their letters they simply used the word 'Prendergasts,' just as if they had been connected with the nobility, and, indeed, they were not far apart from such distinction. In the gloomy offices Cheriton waited for some time until at length he was admitted to the presence of a tall man of aristocratic appearance who gave the name of Arthur Prendergast and asked his business. When Cheriton had stated this, Mr. Prendergast frowned.