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Myatt strode off into the dark night, and Hewitt, noiselessly lifting the board he had himself placed in position, hastened back to the study. He swung up the board, all sticky and shiny with Brunswick black, and laid it across a spread newspaper, on the table. There on the top, in the midst of the black varnish, were the prints of all five finger-tips of a hand, where Mr.
'There is a short codicil, Dain added, 'which revokes the legacy of two hundred and fifty pounds to Mr. Ryley in case Mr. Myatt should survive the testatrix. It is dated some six months ago. 'Kindly read it, said Stanway coldly. 'With pleasure, the lawyer agreed, and he read it.
But the good rector's slip of the tongue was fatal, and Myatt was not yet to meet the fate that fitted him. The house was not far less than a mile away. It was a detached house, but quite a small one smaller than Mason's. Plummer blocked every exit with a man, but his caution was wasted. Myatt was gone.
You were not trained to the cunning that we must use in my profession. And there will be more than Myatt to take he was not alone! It is plain that Mason was found to be wavering in whatever horrible allegiance he had bound himself, and he was watched. No, Myatt was not alone!" "No, I fear not," replied the clergyman. "I fear not: there is horrible mystery still.
Myatt is out of danger. He smiled warmly, just as he had smiled when he predicted that Meshach would probably not recover. 'But, doctor, Leonora protested. 'Instantly, he said, forcing her gently on to the sofa at the foot of the two beds. 'But some one ought to go down to Church Street to look after things, she began. 'Church Street can wait. There's no hurry at Church Street now.
And we've lost him again! What could we do? We shouted and ran downstairs, and that was all. He'd gone, of course. And when we asked the hall porter he told us that Mr. Catherton Hunt had just come down the lift and hurried out!" Everard Myatt or Catherton Hunt was lost again. Martin Hewitt had been wholly successful, for he had recovered Mr.
"This is the last will and testament of me, Hannah Margaret Myatt," the lawyer began to read quickly in his thick voice, "of Church Street, Bursley, in the county of Stafford, spinster. I commit my body to the grave and my soul to God in the sure hope of a blessed resurrection through my Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ.
There were hurried steps in the hall, a question or two, and the study door was pushed open. Two servants they would not venture from the kitchen singly this dreadful night made a confused announcement of "Mr. Myatt," and were instantly pushed aside by Mr. Myatt himself, anxious and agitated. The late Mr.
Myatt had felt for the obstruction in the porch. Hewitt opened the drawer he had shut a little while back, and took therefrom a sheet of writing-paper. And when, with the lens from his pocket, he began to examine that paper in comparison with the finger-marks on the board, Plummer and the rector could see that there were also two distinct finger-marks on the paper and one faint one all red.
Jos Myatt pushed roughly past him in the narrow space behind the bar, and came into the parlour. Nodding to me curtly, he unlocked the bookcase and took two crown pieces from a leathern purse which lay next to the bag. Then he returned to the bar and banged the coins on the counter with fury. "Take thy brass!" he shouted angrily. "Take thy brass!
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