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One night after dinner your lordship was here an hour or so." Gabriel Chestermarke opened the door of the dining-room an old-fashioned apartment which looked out on a garden and orchard at the rear of the house. "Mrs. Carswell," he said, as they all went in, "has Mr. Horbury a safe in this room, or in any other room? You know what I mean." But the housekeeper shook her head.
Ere the door could open, he was safely hidden and in that second he heard the thumping repeated and knew that it came from the inner room. The electric light blazed up as Joseph Chestermarke strode in. He put the door to behind him without quite closing it, and walked into the middle of the laboratory, feeling in his waistcoat pocket for something as he advanced.
I drew Hollis's attention to him, and asked, jocularly, if he had ever seen a more remarkable and striking countenance? He answered that it was one which, once seen, would not readily be forgotten. And he had not forgotten it once he saw the portrait at Markham's office he knew very well that it was extremely unlikely that so noticeable a man as Gabriel Chestermarke could have a double.
Horbury is not at home," he answered. "He has the keys." Mr. Chestermarke made no reply. His hand went to his waistcoat pocket, his feet moved lower down the hall to a side-door sacred to the partners. He produced a key, opened the door, and motioned the clerks to enter. Once within, he turned into the partners' room. Five minutes passed before his voice was heard. "Neale!"
It isn't my business to interfere with Gabriel Chestermarke or Godwin Markham in his money-lending affairs nor to trace Lord Ellersdeane's missing jewels. My job is to find John Horbury, or to get to know what happened to him." "And all this helps," answered Easleby. "Haven't you got anything?" "Don't know that I have," admitted Starmidge. "Just now, anyway.
Chestermarke?" he asked quietly. "At present we don't propose to give any information to anybody whom it doesn't concern," replied Gabriel. "As regards the mere surface facts of Mr. John Horbury's disappearance, you know as much as we do." "You don't propose to join in any search for him or any attempt to discover his whereabouts, sir?" inquired Starmidge, speaking for the first time.
Gabriel Chestermarke!" he said. "Entered my stage-door eleven-thirty last night? Here! describe him!" Easleby glanced at Starmidge. And Starmidge, as if he were describing a picture, gave a full and accurate account of Mr. Gabriel Chestermarke's appearance from head to foot. The lessee suddenly jumped from his chair, walked over to a door, opened it, and looked into an inner room.
You and I must be fools if, inside ten minutes, we can't find out if Stipp knows that Godwin Markham is Gabriel Chestermarke! We will find out! And if we find out that Stipp doesn't know that, if we find that Stipp is utterly unaware that there is such a person as Gabriel Chestermarke, or, at any rate, that he doesn't connect Gabriel Chestermarke with Godwin Markham why, then "
"No I'm absolutely sure of it," said the clerk. "Horbury, perhaps, I might not remember, but I should have remembered Chestermarke it's an uncommon name, that to me, anyway." "Well," said Starmidge, after a pause, during which all three looked at each other as men look who have come to a dead stop in the progress of things, "there's one thing very certain, Mr. Simmons.
Case of a strange disappearance bank manager isn't it?" "It's more than that, sir," replied Easleby. "It's a case of all sorts of things. Now you're wondering, Mr. Castlemayne, why we come to you? I'll explain. You'll see there, sir, the name blue-pencilled Gabriel Chestermarke. Mr. Gabriel Chestermarke is a banker at Scarnham. You don't happen to know him, Mr. Castlemayne?"
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