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Wilson said he'd take it I didn't say anything to her." "Then she thought that on the day before the New Year you were at the office as usual?" "Yes," snuffled Master Benker, "she did. Oh, Lor'!" as the cab stopped before a tidy house in a quiet street, "here we are." "And there is your mother," said the detective cheerfully, as a severe face appeared at the white-curtained window.
He had traded on his resemblance to me to get money and do all manner of scoundrelly actions. That was why I went to Italy. It seems that I did wisely, for if I could not prove that I have been abroad these ten years, you would swear that I was Walter." "Oh, no, sir really." Mrs. Benker rose also. "Nonsense. You swore that I was Walter when we first met.
And thus laughing and joking, he sent his visitor away in the best of spirits. Delighted that he had some one to help him, Giles lost no time in performing his part of the business. He sent a letter to Mrs. Benker, asking her to come down for a couple of days.
He must have intended to murder him, for since he had slain Daisy with so little compunction, he certainly would not stick at a second crime. However, thus Giles argued, the first step to secure the money was for him to feign death and thus get rid of Anne. Then he came to London, and as Wilson stopped with Mrs. Benker in order to spy on the Ashers through Alexander.
Take a good look at me now, so that you may be sure that I am not he. I don't want to have his rascalities placed on my shoulders." Mrs. Benker took a good look and sighed. "You're not him, but you're very like. May I ask if you are twins, sir?" "No. Our eyes are the only things that we have in common. We got those from our mother, who was an Italian.
"You have no idea how that man has cheated me, Steel," and then Giles related the eavesdropping of himself and Morley. "I don't know how Denham got to know," he continued, "but the tale he told about the invented brother was his own history, and quite deceived me and Morley. Also that soliloquy after Mrs. Benker departed was a masterly conception. It would have cheated any one, let alone me.
"Lord!" cried Mrs. Benker, astounded, "was he that dangerous?" "He is so dangerous that he ought to be shut up. And if I could lay hands on him I'd get the police to shut him up. He's done no end of mischief. Now I daresay he had a red cross dangling from his watch-chain." "Yes, he had. What does it mean?" "I can't tell you; but I'd give a good deal to know.
When Giles ended he walked the room in a state of subdued irritation. "What have I done to be so troubled with such a relative as Walter?" he said aloud. "I believe you are right, Mr. Ware. He may attempt my life to get the money; and as we are rather like one another in appearance he may be able to pass himself off as me. Why, there was a woman here who called herself Mrs. Benker.
Benker had reason to believe that the so-called Wilson was wanted by the police. All that Mrs. Benker had to do was to see if Franklin was really her former lodger. After much talk and many objections, she consented to do what was wanted. This was to wander in the park of the Priory and meet Franklin accidentally near a ruined summer-house, near what was known as the fish-ponds.
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