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The attorney, although he was bound to be staunch to his own client, and to his own house in opposition to Mr Squercu doubtful in his own enuineness of the letter which Dolly was so persistent in declaring that he had not signed Mr Longestaffe hiiven it as his opinion that Dolly had not signed the letter His son had certainly refused to sign it once, and as far as he knew could have had no opportunity of signing it since He was all but sure that he had left the letter under lock and key in his own drawer in the room which had latterly beco the roo already ceased,--he found that his draas open This same Mr Bideawhile ith him at the time 'Do you mean to say that I have opened your drawer?' said Mr Melestaffe had beco that he certainly made no such accusation, but as certainly he had not left the drawer unlocked He knew his own habits and was sure that he had never left that drawer open in his life 'Then you ed the habits of your life on this occasion,' said Mr Melestaffe would trust himself to no other ithin the house, but, when they were out in the street together, he assured the lawyer that certainly that drawer had been left locked, and that to the best of his belief the letter unsigned had been left within the drawer Mr Bideawhile could only remark that it was the most unfortunate circue with Nidderdale would upon the whole be the best thing, if it could only be accoh Mr Melmotte had allowed himself considerable poetical licence in that statereat as the price which he ought to have paid for Pickering, still there was property The reat and so wide that he did not really knohat he owned, or what he owed But he did know that at the present e sums His chief trust for immediate money was in Cohenlupe, in whose hands had really been the manipulation of the shares of the Mexican railway He had trusted much to Cohenlupe,--more than it had been customary with hi could be done with the railway shares at the presentNow in the tireat railway, but just because he wantedCohenlupe told him that he must tide over the evil hour,--or rather over an evil ation that he had offered the two bills to Mr Bideawhile 'Offer 'eain,' said Cohenlupe 'He must take the bills sooner or later'