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"And the fourth John Barcombe, Manchester you didn't know him?" asked the chief, pointing to the last entry. "I see you gave him Number 29 two doors from Herman." "Yes," said the landlady. "No I didn't know him. He came in about nine o'clock and had some supper before he went up. He'd his breakfast at eight o'clock this morning, and went away at once.
He'd no luggage, and he paid me for supper, bed, and breakfast when he booked his room," replied the landlady. "Quite a quiet, respectable man he said something about being unexpectedly obliged to stop for the night, but I didn't pay any great attention." The chief looked attentively at the open page of the register. Then he drew the attention of those around him to the signature of John Barcombe.
The landlord opened his heavy lips and gasped: the landlady sighed with a gradually awakening interest. Amidst a dead silence the chief went on with his critical inspection of the handwriting. "But now look at the signature of the man who called himself John Barcombe, of Manchester.
There's not a doubt, to my mind, that the card found on Herman's door was written, and put on that door, by the man who registered as John Barcombe. And," he added in an undertone to Allerdyke, "I've no doubt, either, that he's the man of the Eastbourne Terrace affair." The landlord had risen to his feet, and was scowling gloomily at everybody.
We looked westward over Crag Lough, its usually dark waters flashing in the afternoon sun; the three Loughs were all within view; away to the southward, beyond Barcombe Hill, and the site of Vindolana, Langley Castle could be seen, "standing four-square to all the winds that blew"; and further away again, beyond the valley of the South Tyne, to the southwest the faint outlines of Crossfell and Skiddaw.
But there is one remarkable and striking similarity. In the entry in the register there are two a's the a in Barcombe, the a in Manchester. On the one line on the card found pinned to the door there are also two a's the a in please; the a in call.
Lots of our customers do that they're just in for bed and breakfast, and we scarcely notice them." "Did you notice this man Barcombe?" asked the chief. "Well, not particularly. But I've a fair recollection of him. A rather pale, stiffish-built man, lightish brown hair and moustache, dressed in a dark suit.
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