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And I wondered, as there is so much mystery about him, and as he won't give any account of himself, if this man Aylmore was really Chamberlayne. Yes, I wondered that! But Aylmore's a tall, finely-built man, quite six feet in height, and his beard, though it's now getting grizzled, has been very dark, and Chamberlayne, you say, was a medium-sized, fair man, with blue eyes."
Aylmore," he said, "there is no wish to trouble you with unnecessary questions. But we are here to get at the truth of this matter of John Marbury's death, and as you are the only witness we have had who knew him personally " Aylmore turned impatiently to the Coroner. "I have every wish to respect your authority, sir!" he exclaimed.
"For my own reasons. I told you as much as I considered necessary for the purpose of this enquiry. I have virtually altered nothing now. I asked to be allowed to make a statement, to give an explanation, as soon as Mr. Lyell had left this box: I was not allowed to do so. I am willing to make it now." "Make it then." "It is simply this," said Aylmore, turning to the Coroner.
This morning they found a loose diamond on the floor of Number 20, and after it was found the waiter who took the drinks up to Marbury and his guest that night remembered that when he entered the room the two gentlemen were looking at a paper full of similar objects. So then I went on to see Mr. Aylmore. You know young Breton, the barrister? you met him with me, you remember?"
When a man won't tell you where he lived twenty years ago, what he was exactly doing, what his precise relationship with another man was why, then, you've just got to find out, eh? Oh, some of our fellows are at work on the life history of Stephen Aylmore, Esq., M.P., already you bet! Well, now, Spargo, here's the famous box."
The court, the public, Spargo, everybody there, knew all this already. It had been in print, under a big headline, in the Watchman. Aylmore had now told it again; having told it, he seemed to consider that his next step was to leave the box and the court, and after a perfunctory question or two from the Coroner and the foreman of the jury he made a motion as if to step down.
Heard half a dozen of 'em say it, in more or less elegant fashion as I came out of that court. Of course, they'll say it. Why, what else could they say?" For a moment Jessie Aylmore sat looking silently into her tea-cup. Then she turned her eyes on Spargo, who immediately manifested a new interest in what remained of the tea-cakes.
Aylmore, when you met him, was accompanied by the man who, according to the photographs, was John Marbury?" "It is, sir!" "Very well. Now, having seen Mr. Aylmore and his companion, what did you do?" "Oh, I just turned and walked after them." "You walked after them? They were going eastward, then?" "They were walking by the way I'd come." "You followed them eastward?"
Stephen Aylmore, the member for Brookminster." Rathbury expressed his feelings in a sharp whistle. "I know him!" he said. "Of course I remember Mrs. Walters's description now. But his is a familiar type tall, grey-bearded, well-dressed. Um! well, we'll have to see Mr. Aylmore at once." "I've seen him," said Spargo. "Naturally! For you see, Mrs. Walters gave me a bit more evidence.
A sewer man found it yesterday evening, and it was quickly recognized by the woman who cleans up for Aylmore as having been in his rooms ever since she knew them." "What does Aylmore say about it?" asked Spargo. "I suppose he's said something?"
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