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Stormy interviews, with violent threats of instant dismissal of the whole outdoor staff, petulant abuse of people who had nothing whatever to do with the neglect of the park, and a display of energy and mental activity surprising in one of such advanced age. He was in the middle of an altercation with his steward who resigned his position about once a month when the bank-manager was announced.
And once more he began to go over the sum of evidence which had accrued. The question of the scrap of paper found in Braden's purse, and of the exact whereabouts of Richard Jenkins's grave in Paradise, he left for the time being. What was now interesting him chiefly was the advertisement in the Times to which the bank-manager from London had drawn attention.
Dear me why, nobody knows who the man was!" "Except his bank-manager," remarked Bryce, "who says he's holding ten thousand pounds of his." "That," admitted Mrs. Folliot gravely, "is certainly a consideration. But then, who knows? the money may have been stolen. Now, really, did you ever hear of a quite respectable man who hadn't even a visiting-card or a letter upon him?
But, all this time, I had never ceased my investigations about Wraye and Flood, and when the bank-manager on whom Brake had called in London was here at the inquest, I privately told him the whole story and invited his co-operation in a certain line which I was then following. That line suddenly ran up against the man Flood otherwise Fladgate.
He sat brooding in his office, when the business letters were written to the Bank-manager; to Captain Halliwell, the Police-magistrate at Leuraville; to the Manager of the Eastern and Australian Steam Navigation Depot, Leuraville, enclosing a draft to pay the passage; to the Captain of the boat advertised for that trip, who happened to be an acquaintance of his all recommending Lady Bridget to the different people's care all anticipating and arranging against every possible drawback to her comfort on the voyage all carefully stating the object of her trip to England business connected with the death of a near relative.
In discussing the Batchgrews no bank-manager and no lawyer had ever by an intonation or a movement of the eyelid hinted that earthquakes had occurred before in the history of the world and might occur again. And yet old Batchgrew admittedly the cleverest of the lot, save possibly the Valparaiso soaker could not be said to attend assiduously to business.
He won't be long. Will you step into the library? Mr. Barnby is there." The mention of that name caused her another fright. She was inclined to avoid the bank-manager. Curiosity, however, conquered, and she resolved to face him, in the hope of hearing why he had come to her father. On her entrance, Mr. Barnby bowed with frigid politeness. "You have seen my father, Mr. Barnby.
The quiet, urbane bank-manager had never before interviewed this terrible personage.
"You say Harborough saw Kitely take his money?" "Couldn't fail," replied the bank-manager. "He was standing by him. The old man put it notes and gold in a pocket that he had inside his waistcoat." Mallalieu lingered, as if in thought, rubbing his chin and staring at the carpet. "Well, that's a sort of additional clue," he remarked at last. "It looks very black against Harborough."
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