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The will gave the five thousand a year to 'my daughter, and Sylvia is the only daughter and only child the legitimate child, mark you of Lemuel Krill." "Lies lies lies!" raged Mrs. Krill, as she may still be called, though rightfully Jessop, "I'll defend the case on my daughter's behalf." "Your daughter, certainly," said Hurd, "but not Krill's." "I say yes." "And I say no.
Krill at this dinner, and if she does chance to drop a few words about her past, you might let me know." "Oh, I don't mind doing that," said Beecot, with relief. "I am as anxious to find out the truth about this murder as you are, if not more so. The truth, I take it, is to be found in Krill's past, before he took the name of Norman. Mrs.
This cheating to-night is only one thing. I know you are 'a man on the market, Mr. Hay." "What do you wish to hear?" asked Hay, collapsing. "All about Mrs. Krill's connection with this murder." "She has nothing to do with it. Really, she hasn't. Aaron Norman was her husband right enough " "And he ran away from her over twenty years ago. But who told Mrs. Krill about him?"
Krill's face in spite of her care showed a sense of relief at his ignorance. "But I must get back to my story," she said, in a hard tone, "we have to leave soon. I ran away with Lemuel who was then travelling with jewellery. He knew a good deal about jewellery, you know, which he turned to account in his pawnbroking." "Yes, and amassed a fortune, thereby."
However, I've asked my sister to look up Mrs. Krill's past life in Stowley, where she comes from." "But she wasn't married to Krill at Stowley?" "No. But she lived there as Anne Tyler. From the certificate she was married to Krill at a small parish church twenty miles from Stowley, so Aurora will go there. But I want her to stop at Stowley first and learn all she can about Anne Tyler."
Paul detailed what Sylvia and Deborah had said. "So if she is over thirty," said Beecot, "she can't be Krill's child, or else she must have been born before Krill married his wife. In either case, she has no right to the money." "It's strange," said Hurd, musingly. "I'll have to look into that. Meanwhile, I've got plenty to do." "There's another thing I have to say." "You'll confuse me, Beecot.
Krill says is true I can't dispute the facts," he said irritably, "and I am unwilling to give up the business. Prove to me, ma'am, that you are the lawful widow of my late client, and that this is my late esteemed client's lawful daughter, and I will act for you." Mrs. Krill's ample bosom rose and fell and her eyes glittered triumphantly. She cast a victorious glance at Beecot.
When Hay told me that Krill was hiding as Norman in Gwynne Street I determined to punish him for his cruelty to me. I did not say this, but I made Hay promise to get me the brooch from Beecot on no other condition would I marry him. I wanted the brooch to pin Krill's lips together as he had pinned mine, when I was a helpless child. But your fool of a lover would not part with the brooch.
"He may marry Maud," said Hurd, emphatically, "but he certainly won't get the five thousand a year. Miss Norman will." "Hold on," cried Aurora, shrewdly. "Maud may not be Lemuel Krill's child, or she may have been born before Krill married the mother, but in any case, Sylvia Norman isn't the child of a legal marriage. Krill certainly committed bigamy, so his daughter Sylvia can't inherit."
And this Matilda is just like Deborah in looks a large Dutch doll with beady eyes and a badly painted face." "Well, that's a point," said Hurd, making a note. "What did she say about the photograph?" "Oh, that it was one of Mr. Hay who was Miss Krill's young man, and that they had been engaged for two years " "Matilda seems to be a chatterbox." "She is. I got a lot out of her."
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