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Updated: June 18, 2025
All the way along in the cab she had been wondering what to do when she met Lauriston not as to what she should tell him, for that was already settled, but as to what to advise him to do about following Ayscough's suggestion and keeping out of the way, for awhile.
Levendale turned to the detective, glancing again at Ayscough's card. "All I can tell you, sergeant," he said, "is practically what I've told the public in my advertisement. Of course, I can supplement it a bit. The book is a very valuable one you see," he went on, with a careless wave of his hand towards his book-shelves. "I'm something of a collector of rare books.
And then Yada had gone out, knowing he was to be followed, and had tricked them beautifully, getting into an underground train going east, and, in all certainty, getting out again at the next station, chartering a cab, and returning west with Ayscough's card in his pocket.
Gardiner, and the Coroner, after a short interchange of whispers with his officer, glanced at a group of professional-looking men behind the witness-box. "Call Dr. Mirandolet!" he directed. Purdie at that moment caught Ayscough's eye. And the detective winked at him significantly as a strange and curious figure came out from the crowd and stepped into the witness-box.
Ayscough's curiosity was aroused by Mirandolet's manner, and without going back to Purdie's room, he set out with him. Mirandolet remained strangely silent until they came to the street in which the mortuary stood. "A strange and mysterious matter this, my friend!" he said.
He sent an account of Lord Ayscough's case to a medical magazine: and so full is the world of flunkeyism, that this article, though he withheld the name, retaining only the title, got the literary wedge in for him at once: and in due course he became a paid contributor to two medical organs, and used to study and write more, and indent the little stone yard less than heretofore.
Ayscough turned on the man as if he had given him the most startling news in the world. "What?" he exclaimed, "Japanese? Brought my card?" "Showed me it as soon as he got here," answered the attendant, surprised at Ayscough's amazement. "Said you'd given it to him, so that he could call here and identify the body. So, of course, I let him go in." Ayscough opened his mouth in sheer amazement.
"I want to know all about this he may have died a natural death a seizure of some sort and again, he mayn't They'll be here in a minute." Lauriston presently found himself a passive spectator while a police- inspector, another man in plain clothes, and the doctor examined the body, after hearing Ayscough's account of what had just happened.
In the silence which followed upon Ayscough's obvious doubt about answering this direct question, Levendale let out a sharp, half-irritable exclamation: "In God's name!" he said, "who is this young man? What does he know about the diamond and the money?" Yada turned and faced his questioner and suddenly smiling, thrust his hand in his breast pocket and drew out a card-case.
Ayscough's sharp eyes turned to the hearth there were two or three pairs of slippers lying near the fender and he pointed to them. "These Chinamen have very small feet, I believe," he said. "The footprints are probably theirs. Well what else?" "This," answered the man in charge, producing a small parcel from the side-pocket of his coat, and proceeding to divest it of a temporary wrapping.
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