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James Allerdyke, and certainly murdered Lydenberg, Lisette Beaurepaire, and Ebers. Van Koon is an American crook, whose real name is Vankin; Merrifield, as you know, is Mr. Delkin's secretary; the other man is one Otto Schmall, a German chemist, and a most remarkably clever person, who has a shop and a chemical manufactory in Whitechapel.
"I'll let Allerdyke say why we came here," he said. "It was his idea and Van Koon's not mine. Your turn, Allerdyke." "I shan't be slow to take it," responded Allerdyke, stirring himself. "I'm one business man Mr. Delkin's another. I only want to ask you, Mr. Delkin, if you ever talked of this jewel transaction to anybody beyond your own secretary?
"There you are!" he said. "The secretary knew Delkin's secretary! How do we know that Delkin's secretary ?" "Oh, that's all rot, Van Koon!" exclaimed Fullaway testily. "Delkin's secretary, Merrifield, has been with him for years to my knowledge, and " But Allerdyke had suddenly risen and was picking up his hat from a side table. He turned to Fullaway as he put it on. "I quite agree with Mr.
Further, he had twice come away from it, after lengthy visits, in company with a man whom the agent's employees had tracked to the Hotel Cecil, and whom I knew, from their description, to be Mr. Merrifield, Mr. Delkin's private secretary. "Naturally, having discovered this, we gave instructions for a keener watch than ever to be kept on both these men.
Anyway, Merrifield whose chief object is, I must also remind you, the clearing of himself from any charge of murder he doesn't mind the other charge, but he does object to the graver one! says that though he's been playing it straight for some time, ever since he went into Delkin's service, in fact he'd had negotiations of a questionable sort with both Schmall and Van Koon before years ago, in this city and in New York.
Now Merrifield you see what a clean breast he's made admitted to me that he was an expert forger so he calmly forged a cheque of Delkin's, drew sixty thousand in notes and they had them on them at least Merrifield had when we took all three a few hours ago. Nice people, eh!" There was a silence of much significance for a few minutes; then Allerdyke got up from his chair with a growl.
So also, evidently, was Merrifield. Now, Merrifield, as Delkin's secretary, knew of the proposed deal. "Obviously, then, Schmall, Van Koon, and Merrifield were in league whether Ebers was also in league, or was a catspaw, we did not trouble to decide.
James Allerdyke from Russia." "True true!" exclaimed Fullaway, clapping a hand to his forehead. "So I had! I'd forgotten that. But, after all, it was purely a private letter from Delkin, and " "No," interrupted Mrs. Marlow. "It was written and signed by Mr. Delkin's secretary. So that the secretary knew of the transaction." Van Koon shook his head and glanced at Allerdyke.
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