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Arden. He, of course, wanted to know if we were going to see his uncle.
I told him that my companion, Mr. Frederick Hollis,
a London solicitor, had come specially from town to see Mr. Gabriel
Chestermarke, and that, being an old friend of mine, he had first come
to see me. Joseph therefore said that we were too late to find his uncle
at home: Gabriel, he went on, had been suffering terribly from insomnia,
and, by his doctor's advice, he was trying the effect of a long solitary
walk every night before going to
bed, and he had just started out over the moor at the back
of his house. Turning to Hollis, he asked if he could do anything--was
his visit about banking business? "Now I determined to settle at once
the question as to Joseph's participation in the affairs of the Conduit
Street concern. Before Hollis could reply, I spoke. I said, 'Mr. Hollis
wishes to see your uncle o