The day after my return from Battersby I called on my solicitor, and
was told that he had written to Pryer, requiring him to refund the
monies for which he had given his I.O.U.'s. Pryer replied that he
had given orders to his broker to close his operations, which
unfortunately had resulted so far in heavy loss, and that the
balance should be paid to my solicitor on the following settling
day, then about a week distant. When the time came, we heard nothing
from Pryer, and going to his lodgings, found that he had left with his
few effects on the very day after he had heard from us, and had not
been seen since.
I had heard from Ernest the name of the broker who had been
employed, and went at once to see him. He told me Pryer had closed all
his accounts for cash on the day that Ernest had been sentenced, and
had received L2315, which was all that remained of Ernest's original
L5000. With this he had decamped, nor had we enough clue as to his
whereabouts to be able to take any steps to recover the money. There
was in fact nothing to be done but to consider the whole as lost. I
may say here that neither I nor Ernest ever heard of Pryer again,
nor have any idea what became of him.
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