"I have."
"Will you permit his honor, the judge, to see that telegram?"
"Assuredly." He draws forth a morocco letter case, and taking therefrom a slip of paper hands it to O'Meara. That astute gentleman passes it carelessly on to the clerk, saying: "Read it please."
Rising to receive the paper, the clerk reads:
Honorable George Heathercliffe, Cliffe Towers, etc., etc.,
Come at once to W——, R—— County.——Sir Clifford is in deep trouble.
Bathurst.
"Bathurst!" the name falls involuntarily from the lips of Mr. Rand; he knows the expert by reputation, and this is the first intimation he has received, that so shrewd a man is at work in the interest of Clifford Heath.
"Is this the only message you received?"
"No, later in the day this came."