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"Now if we're going to do the thing properly," he said, "just attend, and take notice of what I point out. The town, as you see, stands on this ridge above us. Here we are at the foot of the gardens and orchards which slope down from the backs of the houses on this side of the Market-Place. There is the gate of the bank-house orchard. According to Mrs. Carswell, Mr.
"Come! you're no longer in their employ you can speak freely now. What do you think?" "Well," said Neale, after a pause, and speaking with unusual gravity, "I think the police ought to make a thorough examination of the bank-house I'm surprised it hasn't been thought of before." The Earl picked up his hat. "I've been thinking of it all the morning!" he said. "Come let us all go round to Polke."
We read the story of our yesterdays as it unfolds itself in the current chronicle; the ascent to the bank-house, the descent to the mad-house, and, over the glittering paraphernalia that follows to the tomb, we reflect upon the money-zealot's progress; the dizzy height, the dazzling array, the craze for more and more and more; then the temptation and fall, millions gone, honor gone, reason gone the innocent and the gentle, with the guilty, dragged through the mire of the prison, and the court and we draw back aghast.
And if he hasn't come by that, there's no other train till the 10.45." Neale made no answer. He, too, glanced towards Finkleway, and then at the church clock. It was just going to strike nine and the station was only eight minutes away at the most. He passed the two junior clerks, went down the hall to the door of the bank-house, and entered.
"What is he after now?" Starmidge came out of the door of the bank-house alone. He caught sight of Polke and Lord Ellersdeane, smiled, and hurried towards them. He carried something loosely wrapped in brown paper in his hand; as he stepped into the doorway of the club-house, he took the wrapping off, and showed a small morocco-covered box on which was a coronet in gold.
Miss Fosdyke's cheeks flushed a little and she held out her hand. "Is it is it Wallie Neale?" she asked. "But I saw you in the bank-house and you didn't speak to me!" "You didn't speak to me," retorted Neale, smiling. "Didn't know you," she answered. "Heavens! how you've grown! But come upstairs. Mrs. Depledge dinner for two, mind. Mr. Neale will dine with me."
Miss Betty Fosdyke, attired in her smartest, was just entering the portals of Chestermarke's Bank. Mrs. Carswell herself opened the door of the bank-house in response to Miss Fosdyke's ring. She started a little at sight of the visitor, and her eyes glanced involuntarily and, as it seemed to Betty, with something of uneasiness, at the side-door which led into the Chestermarkes' private parlour.
At the old bank-house in the town where the Nicholases lived, the marriage was openly denounced; and even the Daniels, though they were pledged to be present, were in doubt. 'I suppose it is all right, said Mrs. Robert to her husband. 'Of course it is all right. Why not? 'It seems sad that such an event as a marriage should give rise to so much ill-feeling.
He hurried out again and went rapidly down the High Street to the old-fashioned building near the Town Hall in which the one bank of the little town did its business, and in which the bank manager lived. There was not a soul about in the street, and the ringing of the bell at the bank-house door, and the loud knock which Mallalieu gave in supplement to it, seemed to wake innumerable echoes.
If that presumption is correct, then, in all probability, there'd been previous correspondence between them as to the man's visit." "If that man came to see Mr. Horbury," remarked the solicitor, "why didn't he come straight here to the bank-house?" "That's just where the mystery lies, sir," replied Starmidge. "All the mystery of the affair lies in that man's coming at all!
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