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Bunfit, said he, 'there's that roguery about, that a plain man like me can't touch it. There's them as'd pick my eyes out while I was sleeping, and then swear it against my very self. Them were his words, and I knew as how Benjamin hadn't been on the square with him." "You didn't let on anything, Mr. Bunfit?"
And now they're in New York. That's what has come of the diamonds." "Benjamin, in course," said Bunfit, in a low whisper, just taking the pipe from between his lips. "Well; yes. No doubt it was Benjamin. But how did Benjamin get 'em?" "Lord George, in course," said Bunfit. "And how did he get 'em?" "Well; that's where it is; isn't it?"
He had the cheek to tell me he was going down to the Newmarket Spring to look after a horse he's got a share in." "I was talking to Billy only yesterday," added Bunfit. "I've got it on my mind that they didn't treat Billy quite on the square. He didn't let on anything about Benjamin; but he told me out plain, as how he was very much disgusted. 'Mr.
Lizzie didn't speak, but still hung on to Mrs. Carbuncle's arm, and Lucinda, having seen how it was, was also supporting her. A policeman stepped forward and touched his hat. He was not Bunfit; neither was he Gager. Indeed, though the ladies had not perceived the difference, he was not at all like Bunfit or Gager.
She heard daily from Barrington Erle that Major Mackintosh and Bunfit and Gager were as active as ever in their inquiries, that all Scotland Yard was determined to unravel the mystery, and that there were emissaries at work tracking the diamonds at Hamburg, Paris, Vienna, and New York. It had been whispered to Mr.
But it was known that Lord George had been at the house of Messrs. Harter and Benjamin early on the morning after his return to town, and the ingenuous Mr. Bunfit, who, by reason of his situation, never believed anything and only suspected, had expressed a very strong opinion to Major Mackintosh that the necklace had in truth been transferred to the Jews on that morning.
Smiler and Billy Cann had both been at work at the hotel, then, so argued they who opposed the Bunfit theory, it was hardly conceivable that the robbery should have been arranged by Lord George.
Then there was a pause, during which Bunfit continued to smoke. "As sure as your name's Gager, he got 'em at Carlisle." "And what took Smiler down to Carlisle?" "Just to put a face on it," said Bunfit. "And who cut the door?" "Billy Cann did," said Bunfit. "And who forced the box?" "Them two did," said Bunfit. "And all to put a face on it?" "Yes; just that.
There ain't nothing so bad when anything's up against one as letting on that one wants to bolt. He knows all that. He'll stand his ground. He won't bolt." "I don't suppose as he will, Gager. It's a rum go; ain't it? the rummest as I ever see." This remark had been made so often by Mr. Bunfit, that Gager had become almost weary of hearing it. "Oh, rum; rum be b What's the use of all that?
"Unfortunately, they hold acceptances of mine," said Lord George, "and I am often there." "We know as they have your lordship's name to paper," said Mr. Bunfit, thanking Lord George, however, for his courtesy. It may be understood that all this would be unpleasant to Lord George, and that he should be indignant almost to madness. But Mr.
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