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"My guardian, Mr. Elphick, and I met them in Switzerland," answered Breton. "We kept up the acquaintance after our return." "Mr. Elphick still interesting himself in the Marbury case?" asked Spargo. "Very much so. And so is old Cardlestone, at the foot of whose stairs the thing came off. I dined with them last night and they talked of little else," said Breton. "And their theory "
"What should we hear that was suspicious in the Temple, sir?" demanded Mr. Cardlestone, angrily. "I hope the Temple is free from that sort of thing, young Mr. Breton. Your respected guardian and myself had a quiet evening on our usual peaceful pursuits, and when he went away all was as quiet as the grave, sir. What may have gone on in the chambers above and around me I know not!
Elphick is the man who ought to have married your mother. When things turned out as they did, Elphick took you and brought you up as he has done, so that you should never know of your father's disgrace. Elphick never knew until last night that Cardlestone is Chamberlayne. Even the biggest scoundrels have friends Elphick's very fond of Cardlestone. He " Spargo turned sharply on Myerst.
"What does he know of the murder of Marbury and of you in connection with it?" demanded Breton. "Come tell me the truth now." "He's been investigating so he says," answered Elphick. "He lives in that house in Middle Temple Lane, you know, in the top-floor rooms above Cardlestone's. And and he says he's the fullest evidence against Cardlestone and against me as an accessory after the fact."
"Just so, but that feeling's a lot more to do with this mystery than you think, my young friend," said Myerst. "What did they say, you ask? Why, they strenuously denied it, Cardlestone swore solemnly to me that he had no part or lot in the murder of Maitland. So did Elphick. But they know something about the murder.
Cardlestone, white and shaking, was lying back in his chair; Elphick, scarcely less alarmed, had risen, and was coming forward with trembling limbs. "Wait a moment," said Breton, soothingly. "Don't alarm yourself. We'll deal with Mr. Myerst here first. Now, Myerst, my man, sit down in that chair it's the heaviest the place affords. Into it, now! Spargo, you see that coil of rope there.
"Because they're afraid of something coming out. And being afraid, their first instinct is to run. They've run at the first alarm. Foolish but instinctive." Breton, who had flung himself into the elbow-chair at his desk, jumped to his feet and thumped his blotting-pad. "Spargo!" he exclaimed. "Are you telling me that you accuse my guardian and his friend, Mr. Cardlestone. of being murderers?"
That's all." "All! It's enough. Where, then, in heaven's name?" "Elphick has a queer little place where he and Cardlestone sometimes go fishing right away up in one of the wildest parts of the Yorkshire moors. I expect they've gone there. Nobody knows even their names there they could go and lie quiet there for ages." "Do you know the way to it?" "I do I've been there."
Cardlestone went to the door: we heard a man's voice enquire for him by name; then the voice added that Criedir, the stamp dealer, had advised him to call on Mr. Cardlestone to show him some rare Australian stamps, and that seeing a light under his door he had knocked. Cardlestone asked him in he came in. That was the man we saw next day at the mortuary.
The man said Criedir had given him Cardlestone's address, and that he'd been with a friend at some rooms in Fountain Court, and as he was passing our building he'd just looked to make sure where Cardlestone lived, and as he'd noticed a light he'd made bold to knock. He and Cardlestone began to examine the stamps. Jane Baylis said good-night, and she and I left Cardlestone and the man together."
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