Now leave me , minion . There is that which I would do . '' Murray grinned and went . I wrote a letter , took it down to the office , and mailed it . For a week there was nothing more to do . There is just one trait of Uncle Abimelech 's disposition more marked than his fondness for having his own way and that one thing is family pride . The Melvilles are a very old family . The name dates back to the Norman conquest when a certain Roger de Melville , who was an ancestor of ours , went over to England with William the Conqueror . I do n't think the Melvilles ever did anything worth recording in history since . To be sure , as far back as we can trace , none of them has ever done anything bad either . They have been honest , respectable folks and I think that is something worth being proud of . But Uncle Abimelech pinned his family pride to Roger de Melville . He had the Melville coat of arms and our family tree , made out by an eminent genealogist , framed and hung up in his library , and he would not have done anything that would not have chimed in with that coat of arms and a conquering ancestor for the world . At the end of a week I got an answer to my letter . It was what I wanted . I wrote again and sent a parcel . In three weeks ' time the storm burst . One day I saw Uncle Abimelech striding up the lane . He had a big newspaper clutched in his hand . I turned to Murray , who was poring over a book of anatomy in the corner .
`` XXXXX , Uncle Abimelech is coming .
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