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I do not want to figure actively in your business." Then he was gone and the rest of them were so deeply taken with the news which he had communicated that no one noticed that just before Yada fastened his last glove-button, Melky Rubinstein slipped from his corner and glided quietly out of the room.
Flitwick turned to Melky with an air of relief. "Perhaps you can tell this gentleman where Mr. Lauriston is, Mr. Rubinstein?" she said. "I ain't seen him since he went out first thing this morning." Melky looked the stranger over narrowly. Then he silently beckoned him outside the house, and walked him out of earshot. "You ain't the friend from Scotland?" asked Melky.
Oh, I think you've the beautifullest mind, Mrs. Goldmark!" With this compliment Melky left Mrs. Goldmark and Zillah, and went away to his lodgings. He was aware of a taxi-cab drawn up at Mrs. Flitwick's door as he went up the street; inside Mrs. Flitwick's shabby hall he found that good woman talking to a stranger a well-dressed young gentleman, who was obviously asking questions. Mrs.
We ain't never had one moment's suspicion of him from the first, knowing the young fellow as we do. So we're with you in that matter, ain't we, Zillah?" "Mr. Purdie feels sure of that," agreed Zillah, with a glance at Lauriston's old schoolmate. "There's no need to answer him, Melky." "I am sure!" said Purdie.
Zillah, who had listened abstractedly to these compliments suddenly turned on her cousin. "What are you going to do then, Melky?" she demanded. "What's all this business about that book? And what steps are you thinking of taking?" But Melky rose and, shaking his head, buttoned up his overcoat as if he were buttoning in a multitude of profound secrets.
And you'll notice," he added, turning to the other official, "that this Mr. Levendale only lost this book about four o'clock yesterday afternoon: therefore, it must have been taken to Multenius's shop between then and when we saw it there." "The old man may have found it in the 'bus," suggested a third police officer who had come up. "Looks as if he had." "No, mister," said Melky firmly. "Mr.
That's positively certain. And what is also certain is that in some of those dealings he was, in some way or another, intimately associated with the man whose name has already come up a good deal since Monday Mr. Spencer Levendale!" "S'elp me!" muttered Melky. "I heard Levendale, with my own two ears, say that he didn't know the poor old fellow!" "Very likely," said Mr. Penniket, drily.
They had now come to the lower part of Maida Vale, where many detached houses stand in walled-in gardens, isolated and detached from each other Melky pointed to one of the smaller ones a stucco villa, whose white walls shone in the November moonlight.
Here! there's a telephone box right there you go in now, and call those fellows up and tell 'em to come right along, quick!" He and Lauriston waited while Zillah went into the telephone box: she felt sure that Melky and Purdie would have returned to Praed Street by that time, and she rang up Mrs. Goldmark at the Pawnshop to enquire.
Does that satisfy you?" Melky rose and glanced at the detective before turning to the doctor. "Mister," he said, "that's precisely what I should ha' said myself. Only I wanted to know what a big man like you thought. Now, I know! Much obliged to you, mister. If there's ever anything I can do for you, doctor if you want a bit of real good stuff jewellery, you know at dead cost price "
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