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This explanation was not quite satisfactory , though it was plausible , to her . It was about nine o'clock in the morning when she found the papers . Leo had gone to school , and her father would not return till night . She was so impatient to know whether the documents were of any value or not , that she was unwilling to wait till noon . At first she thought she would take them up to Mr. Checkynshaw himself , and ask him if they were good for anything ; but she did not exactly like to do that . Then it occurred to her that Fitz Wittleworth , who had been a clerk for the banker , could tell her just as well as his late employer , and he lived only a short distance from Phillimore Court . Mrs. Wittleworth , with a portion of the money received from the banker , had purchased a small house near her former residence .