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Maitland probably threatened to expose Cardlestone, or, rather, Chamberlayne nobody, of course, could know what happened, but my theory was that Chamberlayne killed him. There, at any rate, was the fact that Maitland was found murdered at Chamberlayne's very threshold.
"When we want you to speak we'll tell you." But Myerst laughed again. "All very high and mighty, Mr. Spargo of the Watchman!" he sneered. "You're another of the cock-sure lot. And you're very clever, but not clever enough. Now, look here! Supposing " Spargo turned his back on him. He went over to old Cardlestone and felt his hands. And he turned to Breton with a look of concern.
Then, without waiting for further talk with any one, Spargo hurried Breton out of the cemetery. At the gate, he seized him by the arm. "Now, then, Breton!" he commanded. "Out with it!" "With what?" "You promised to tell me something a great deal, you said if we found that coffin empty. It is empty. Come on quick!" "All right. I believe I know where Elphick and Cardlestone can be found.
"And it's a lie?" asked Breton. "A lie!" answered Elphick. "Of course, it's a lie. But he's so clever that that " "That you don't know how you could prove it otherwise," said Breton. "Ah! And so this fellow lives over Mr. Cardlestone there, does he? That may account for a good many things. Now we must have the police here." He sat down at the table and drew the writing materials to him.
"I want to see him if he is in." The charwoman entered the chambers and immediately screamed. "Quite so," remarked Spargo. "That's what I expected to hear. Cardlestone, you see, Breton, is also off!" Breton made no reply. He rushed after the charwoman, with Spargo in close attendance. "Good God another!" groaned Breton.
They knew what Myerst did not know that the stamps of which he spoke were lying in Spargo's breast pocket, where they had lain since he had picked them up from the litter and confusion of Chamberlayne's floor. "Why," asked Breton, after a pause, "why did you never accuse Cardlestone, or Chamberlayne, of the murder?" "I did!
"In the meantime, I want to find out if the lodge porter saw Mr. Elphick or Mr. Cardlestone leave. I must know where they've gone if I can only find out. I don't suppose they went on foot." "All right," responded Breton, gloomily. "We'll go and ask. But this is all beyond me. You don't mean to say " "Wait a while," answered Spargo.
That night I came home very late it was well past one o'clock. There was nobody about as a matter of fact, no one has residential chambers in that building but Cardlestone and myself. I found the body of a man lying in the entry. I struck a match and immediately recognized my visitor of the afternoon John Marbury.
Breton looked helplessly at Spargo: it was plain that he did not understand the turn that things were taking. But Spargo was quick to seize an opportunity. In another minute he was conducting Mr. Cardlestone through the ins and outs of the Temple towards Blackfriars. And as they turned into Tudor Street they encountered Mr. Elphick. "I am going to the mortuary," he remarked.
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