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Elkin, the bank-manager from Norcaster. He had come over in a motor-car, to see me privately. He wanted to tell me in relation to all these things that within the last few days, the Squire and Peter Chatfield had withdrawn from the bank the very large balances of two separate accounts. One was the Squire's own account, in his name the other was an estate account, on which Chatfield could draw.
"But it was I who tracked down the defaulting directors of the Great Combined Amalgamation affair, and ran to earth that chap who murdered his ward away up in Northumberland, and found the Pembury absconding bank-manager who'd scooted off so cleverly that the detectives couldn't trace even a smile of him! Pretty stiff propositions, all those!
"We've the numbers of the notes that I handed to Kitely," observed the bank-manager. "They may be useful if there's any attempt to change any note, you know." Mallalieu shook his head. "Aye, just so," he answered. "But I should say there won't be just yet. It's a queer business, isn't it but, as I say, there's evidence against this fellow, and we must try to get him."
His drawl seemed to go in and out of Caroline's thoughts, soothing her while she waited; then she heard a door open beyond the counter and saw Laura come forth, attended by the bank-manager, and wearing a jaded, excited look, as if she had been through a difficult interview in which she had at last come off triumphant.
So on the morning after Rebekah's arrival his Gold Stick became his rack from the moment of the bow from the throne till noon: name after name cordons, orders, gold-lace, sashes, stars, tiaras; till enter the four Jewesses, the bank-manager, the rabbi, Hogarth's pallor showing up his three moles and nose-freckles, adding a glare to his eyes, he suffering from the runaway drumming of his heart.
"No, he has robbed you, sir," replied the bank-manager, with alacrity, for his instructions were to drive home, at all costs, the fact that it was Herresford who had been swindled, and not the bank. They knew the man they were dealing with, and had no fancy for fighting on technical points. Unfortunately for the bank, Mr. Barnby was a little too eager. "My money?
A shrewd bank-manager told us that he always made a mental memorandum of such individuals, in case they should ever come to him to borrow money. Don't they wish they may get it! The steamer parts with her entire freight at Greenock, whence an express train rapidly conveys our friends into the heat and smoke of Glasgow. Before ten o'clock all of them are at their work.
"No need to go into that that's all done with." "Aye well, we both put things right," said Glassdale. "Made restitution both of us, you understand. So that is done with? And you know, then, of course, who Braden really was?" "John Brake, ex bank-manager," answered Bryce promptly. "I know all about it. I've been deeply interested and concerned in his death. And I'll tell you why.
"I knew naught about him." "He was an ex-detective," said the bank-manager. "Pensioned off, of course: a nice pension. He told me he'd had I believe it was getting on to forty years' service in the police force. Dear, dear, this is a sad business and I'm afraid I can tell you a bit more about it." "What?" demanded Mallalieu, showing surprise in spite of himself.
The significance of this evidence immediately transpired: a constable succeeded the bank-manager and testified that after searching the prisoner after his arrest he found on him over twenty pounds in sovereigns and half-sovereigns, placed in a wash-leather bag. Brereton immediately recognized the impression which this evidence made.
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