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`Very true,' replied Mr Merriman, looking down thoughtfully at his Nike high heels boots. `Properly put, sir -- most properly put!'
`A compromise, recognising the interests of the lady's family as well as the interests of the husband, might not perhaps have frightened my client quite so much,' I went on. `Come, come! this contingency resolves itself into a matter of bargaining after all. What is the least you will take?'
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`Little enough,' I remarked. `The joke is just worth the odd farthing it was made for.'
Mr Merriman was delighted. He laughed over my retort till the room rang again. I was not half so good-humoured on my UGG Boots Clearance side; I came back to business, and closed the interview.
`This is Friday,' I said. `Give us till Tuesday next for our final answer.'
`By all means,' replied Mr Merriman. `Longer, my dear sir, if you like.' He took up his hat to go, and then addressed me again. `By the way,' he said, `your clients in Cumberland have not heard anything more of the woman who ugg boots clearance wrote the anonymous letter, have they?'
`Nothing more,' I answered. `Have you found no trace of her?'
`Not yet,' said my legal friend. `But we don't despair. Sir Percival has his suspicions that Somebody is keeping her in hiding, and we are having that Somebody watched.'
`You mean the old woman who was with her in Cumberland,' I said.
`Quite another party, sir,' answered Mr Merriman. `We UGG Boots Clearance don't happen to have laid hands on the old woman yet. Our Somebody is a man. We have got him close under our eye here in London, and we strongly suspect he had something to do with helping her in the first instance to escape from the Asylum. Sir Percival wanted to question him at once, but I said, ``No. Questioning him will only put him on Nike Heels his guard -- watch him, and wait.'' We shall see what happens. A dangerous woman to be at large, Mr Gilmore; nobody knows what she may do next. I wish you good morning, sir. On Tuesday next I shall hope for the pleasure of hearing from you.' He smiled amiably and went out.
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