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Updated: June 19, 2025
'What could ye tell? says I just like that theer. 'Why, he says, 'this much one night t' last back-end " "Stop a bit, Mr. Pickard," interrupted Byner. "What does that mean that term 'back-end'?" "Why, it means t' end o' t' year!" answered the landlord. "What some folks call autumn, d'ye understand?
Cobcroft, a mild-mannered, quiet man who disappeared early in the morning, and was sometimes seen by Collingwood returning home in the evening. Lately, with the advancing spring, this unobtrusive individual was seen about the garden at the end of the day: Collingwood had so seen him on the evening before the talk with Eldrick and Byner, busied in setting seeds in the flower-beds.
"As near as I can recollect," replied Murgatroyd, "it 'ud be just about half-past eight. I was thinking of closing." "Ah!" said Prydale, with a glance at Byner, who had already told him of Parrawhite's presence at the Green Man on the other side of the town, a good two miles away, at the hour which Murgatroyd mentioned.
Byner, in taking his firm's advertisement for Parrawhite to the three Barford newspaper offices, had done so with a special design he wanted Pratt to see that a serious wish to discover Parrawhite was alive in more quarters than one.
Eldrick," he said, leaning close to the solicitor, "between ourselves, do you know what I'm going to do next which means at once?" "No," replied Eldrick. "The police!" whispered Byner. "That's my next move. Just now! Within a few minutes.
"There's been no murder! The man left the town. Probably, Pratt helped him off. Couldn't have better proof than that wire!" "What do you take that wire to prove, then, Mr. Eldrick?" asked Byner. "Take it to prove!" answered Eldrick. "Why, that Parrawhite booked a passage to America with this man Murgatroyd, last November. Clear enough, that!" "What do you take it to prove, Mr.
He closed the door and gave the two men an informing glance. "Parrawhite's body has been found," he said quietly. Eldrick started in his chair, and Collingwood looked a sharp inquiry. "Little doubt about his having been murdered, just as I conjectured," continued Byner.
Collingwood?" continued the inquiry agent, as he turned to the barrister with a smile. "Before I take it for anything," replied Collingwood, "I want to know who Murgatroyd is." Byner looked at Eldrick and laughed. "Precisely!" he said. "Who is Murgatroyd? Perhaps Mr. Eldrick knows."
And it wor at t' top o' t' lane 'at Bill Thomson see'd Pratt and Parrawhite cross into what Bill called t' owd quarry ground." "Can we go into that?" asked Byner. "Nowt easier!" said Pickard. "It's a sort of open space where t' childer goes and plays about: they hev'n't worked no stone theer for many a long year all t' stone's exhausted, like."
A moment later, he and Collingwood had joined Nesta in her carriage, and the horses' heads were turned in the direction towards which Byner and Prydale were already hastening. Esther Mawson, leaving Pratt to enjoy his sherry and sandwiches at his leisure, went away through the house, out into the gardens, and across the shrubbery to the stables.
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