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To be absolutely free to do what he liked with himself, during the whole of a spring day, was a sensation so novel that he was holding closely to it, half-fearful that it might all be a dream from which it would be a terrible thing to awake to see one of Chestermarke's ledgers under his nose.
"'At the conclusion of Livesey's evidence, the Coroner announced to the jury that, having had the gist of the witness's testimony communicated to him earlier in the day, he had sent his officer to request Mr. Gabriel Chestermarke's attendance. The officer, however, had returned to say that Mr. Chestermarke was away on business, and that it was not known when he would be back at the bank.
"Whom might he have gone to meet, then?" demanded Betty. "You listen to me a bit," said Neale. "I've been thinking it over. Hollis comes to the Station Hotel and uses their telephone. Mrs. Pratt overhears him call up Chestermarke's Bank that's certain. Then she goes away, about her business. An interval elapses.
He led his companion out of the town by way of Scarnham Bridge, pointing out Joseph Chestermarke's gloomy house to her as they passed it. "I'd give a lot," he remarked, as they turned on to the open moor which led towards Ellersdeane Hollow, "to know if either of the Chestermarkes really did know anything about that chap Hollis coming to the town on Saturday.
Knowing that an old schoolmate of his was manager at Chestermarke's Bank in Scarnham, he called in to see me. He and I lunched together at the Scarnham Arms. I showed him round the town a bit, after bank hours. And as we were standing in the upper-room window of the Arms, Gabriel Chestermarke came out of the bank and stood talking to some person in the Market-Place for awhile.
Neale had never heard the name of Hollis mentioned by Horbury. And he added that he was absolutely sure that during the last five years no person of that name had ever had dealings with Chestermarke's Bank open dealings, at any rate. Secret dealings with the partners, severally or collectively, or with Horbury, for that matter, Mr.
"You think all that would be in the London papers this evening?" asked Polke. "Sure to be," replied Starmidge. "I'm hoping we'll hear something from London tomorrow. I say I've been taking a bit of a look round one or two places tonight, quietly, you know. What's that curious building in Joseph Chestermarke's garden?" Polke put down his paper and looked unusually interested.
Horbury. Why? 'Cause he'd rung up Chestermarke's Bank and who should he want at Chestermarke's Bank at six o'clock of a Saturday evening but Mr. Horbury? There wouldn't be nobody else there as Mr. Neale'll agree." "You never heard of this gentleman being in the town on Sunday or today?" asked Polke. "Not a word!" replied Mrs. Pratt. "And never saw him go to the station, neither, to leave the town.
"If your lordship really wants to know," answered Neale, "I don't! I'm truly thankful. It's only what would have happened in another way. I meant to leave Chestermarke's. If it hadn't been for Mr. Horbury, I should have left ages ago. I hate banking! I hated the life. And I dislike Chestermarke's! Immensely!
And he was surprised to find that the detective's presentation of the case was not that which he himself would have made. Starmidge did no more than refer to the fact that Lady Ellersdeane's jewels were missing: he said nothing whatever about the rumours that some of Chestermarke's securities were said to have disappeared.
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