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It's a most unfortunate thing that Albert Gaffney was stopped from following that cab, last night I've no opinion, Mr. Allerdyke, of your amateur detective as a rule, but from Mr. Appleyard's account of him, this one seems to have done very well. If we only knew where those two went " Appleyard presently came back from the telephone with a face alive with fresh news.
Appleyard, who was always knocking about the heart of the City, who was for ever in its business streets, who knew all the City clubs, all the best City restaurants, and was familiar with all sorts and shades of life in the City, never saw Rayner in any of his own purlieus. Accordingly, he came to the conclusion that Rayner's business, whatever it was, did not take him to the City.
What's more, they'd time to intercept their bearer Mr. James." Allerdyke rubbed his chin and knitted his brows in obvious bewilderment. "There must ha' been more than them in at it," he said musingly. "A regular gang of 'em, judging by results." "Every gang has its ganger," replied Appleyard, with a knowing smile.
"If I say if, of course if these folks I mean the lot that's behind this woman, for I can't believe that she's worked it all herself have got those jewels, won't they want to clear out with them? Isn't delay dangerous?" "Not such delay as I'm thinking of," answered Appleyard firmly.
Allerdyke, from long training in business habits, was a good teller of a plain and straightforward tale: Appleyard, for the same reason, was a good listener.
Now, then, can you trust this friend of yours?" asked Appleyard. "Is he a chap of common sense?" "It's my own brother," replied Gaffney. "Some people say I'm the sharper of the two, some say he is. There's a pair of us, anyhow." "That'll do," said Appleyard. "Now, wherever you see this Mr.
Appleyard opened the note there and then. It was a mere hurried scrawl, saying that Allerdyke was just setting off for Hull, in obedience to a call from the police; as Gaffney had nothing to do, would Appleyard make use of him during Allerdyke's absence?
And so the two Gaffneys went off on their respective missions, and Allerdyke looked at his manager and made a grimace. "It's like a lot of blind men seeking for something they couldn't see if it was shoved under their very noses, Ambler!" he said cynically. "Is it any good?" "Maybe," replied Appleyard. "That Albert Gaffney's a smart chap he'll not lose sight of Rayner once he begins to track him.
"Used to drive for an old gent who lived in Porchester Terrace." "Oh!" replied Appleyard. "Then I daresay you know the Pompadour Private Hotel?" "As well as I know my own fingers," responded Gaffney. "Driven to and from it many a hundred times." "Just the man I want, then," continued Appleyard.
"All about the Hull affair and the Lennard affair, I took that to mean from your account," remarked Appleyard. "If she's his confidential secretary, with access to his papers and business, she'd know all about the Princess transaction. Now, of course, an inquiry or two of the usual sort would satisfy you about Fullaway I mean as a business man. An inquiry or two would tell you all about Delkin.
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