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And Betty immediately interpreted the meaning of that glance. "No, Mrs. Carswell," she said, before the housekeeper could speak, "I haven't come to call on either Mr. Gabriel or Mr. Joseph Chestermarke I came to see you. Mayn't I come in?" Mrs. Carswell stepped back into the hall, and Betty followed. For a moment the two looked at each other.
And as I said just now, we only got home the night before last, and we're going up to town tomorrow, and the Countess wants them to take with her. Of course, you've got 'em all right?" Gabriel Chestermarke spread out his hands. "I know nothing whatever about them!" he said. "I never heard of them being here." "Nor I," affirmed Joseph. "Not a word!"
Neale bent over the big, bold letters, and silently read the announcement: "Messrs. Chestermarke, in view of certain unauthorized rumours, now circulating in the town and neighbourhood, respecting the disappearance of their late manager, Mr.
Gabriel Chestermarke, and that, being an old friend of mine, he had first come to see me.
He recognized that the Chestermarke observations and suggestions were rather more than plausible, and much as he fought against the idea of the missing manager's dishonesty, he could not deny that the circumstances as set forth by the bankers were suspicious. "Your lordship will, of course, follow up this woman?" said Gabriel, after a brief silence. "I suppose the police will," replied the Earl.
"The question is so it seems to me what is to be done," replied the Earl, whose face had been gradually growing graver. "What, for instance, are you going to do, Mr. Chestermarke? Let us be plain with each other. You disclaim all liability in connection with my affair?" "Most certainly!" exclaimed Gabriel. "We know nothing of that transaction.
"Nobody's going into it without our permission." "We'll see about that, Mr. Joseph Chestermarke!" replied Betty. "If supposing my uncle is dead, I've the right to examine anything he's left. I insist upon it! I insist on seeing his papers, looking through his desk. And at once!" "No!" said Joseph. "Nothing of the sort. We don't know that you've any right. We don't know that you're his next-of-kin.
"Odd!" remarked Gabriel, when the story had come to an end. "Most strange! Very well thank you, Mrs. Carswell. Neale," he added, when the housekeeper had gone away, "Mr. Horbury always carried the more important keys on him, didn't he?" "Always," responded Neale. "Very good! Let things go on," said Gabriel. "But don't come bothering me or Mr. Joseph Chestermarke unless you're obliged to.
Chestermarke at the Warren, said that so far as he knew, Mr. Horbury did not call on his master on Saturday evening last, nor did any gentleman call who answered the description of Mr. Hollis. It was impossible for anybody to call at the Warren, in the ordinary way, without his, the butler's, knowledge. As a matter of fact, the witness continued, Mr.
Now, honour bright, which of these men do you take Godwin Markham to be?" "Gabriel Chestermarke!" answered Starmidge promptly. "It's established that he's constantly in London as much in London as in Scarnham. Gabriel Chestermarke certainly with, no doubt, Joseph in collusion. The probability is that they run that money-lending office in Conduit Street under the name of Godwin Markham.
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