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"Guardian," he said, "why have you or Mr. Cardlestone given this man these cheques and securities? What hold has he on you?" Old Cardlestone began to whimper afresh; Elphick turned a troubled face on his ward. "He he threatened to accuse us of the murder of Marbury!" he faltered. "We we didn't see that we had a chance."
The old man in that room, whom you know as Nicholas Cardlestone, is in reality Chamberlayne, the stockbroker, of Market Milcaster, whose name was so freely mentioned when your father was tried there. That's another fact!" "How," asked Breton, sternly, "can you prove it? How do you know it?"
"But my dear sir!" he said. "Why?" Mr. Cardlestone picked up his umbrella again. "I feel a proper curiosity about a mystery which occurs at my very door," he said. "Also, I have known more than one man who went to Australia. This might I say might, young gentlemen might be a man I had once known. Show me where this body is."
Cardlestone," he continued, making his way up to the old gentleman who was now retreating up the stone steps, brandishing an umbrella as ancient as himself. "I was just coming to see you, sir. This is Mr. Spargo, a journalist, who is much interested in this murder. He " "I know nothing about the murder, my dear sir!" exclaimed Mr. Cardlestone.
"Have I? How do you know they didn't entrust me with these cheques as their agent?" exclaimed Myerst. "Answer me that! Or, rather, let them answer if they dare. Here you, Cardlestone, you Elphick didn't you give me these cheques as your agent? Speak up now, and quick!"
And I found out that those stamps were in the hands of Cardlestone!" Myerst paused, to take a pull at his glass, and to look at the two amazed listeners with a smile of conscious triumph. "In the hands of Cardlestone," he repeated. "Now, what did I argue from that? Why, of course, that Maitland had been to Cardlestone's rooms that night.
There was a quantity of loose gold; a number of bank-notes of the more easily negotiated denominations; various foreign securities, realizable in Paris. And there was an open cheque, signed by Cardlestone for ten thousand pounds, and another, with Elphick's name at the foot, also open, for half that amount. Breton examined all these matters as Spargo handed them out. He turned to old Elphick.
There's nothing to be afraid of, just yet, whatever there may be later on. It seems to me that Mr. Spargo and I came just in time. Now, guardian, what was this fellow after?" Old Elphick lifted his head and shook it; he was plainly on the verge of tears; as for Cardlestone, it was evident that his nerve was completely gone. And Breton pointed Spargo to an old corner cupboard.
All the same, I do know that man he's Mr. Cardlestone, another barrister. He and Mr. Elphick are friends they're both enthusiastic philatelists stamp collectors, you know and I dare say Mr. Elphick was round there last night examining something new Cardlestone's got hold of. Why?" "I'd like to go round there and make some enquiries," replied Spargo. "If you'd be kind enough to "
"Immediately after he was found. You know all that, Breton. Why do you ask now?" Breton, who was still staring at the place on which he had fixed his eyes on walking into the entry, shook his head. "Don't know," he answered. "I but come on let's see if old Cardlestone can tell us anything."
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