Master Gridley saw all this process, thinking what a fool he was all the time to be watching such a simple proceeding.
Presently he noticed a more sudden movement: the young man had found something which arrested his attention, and turned his head to see if he was observed.

The senior partner and his client were both apparently deep in their own affairs.

In his hand Mr.Bradshaw held a paper folded like the others, the back of which he read, holding it in such a way that Master Gridley saw very distinctly three large spots of ink upon it, and noticed their position.

Murray Bradshaw took another hurried glance at the two gentlemen, and then quickly opened the paper.

He ran it over with a flash of his eye, folded it again, and laid it by itself.
With another quick turn of his head, as if to see whether he were observed or like to be, he reached his hand out and took a volume down from the shelves.