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I've known men murdered for less than that." Again Starmidge reflected in silence. "There's only one thing puzzles me on that point," he said eventually. "It's not a puzzle, either it's a doubt. Do you think the Chestermarkes or, we'll say Gabriel, as we're certain about him do you think Gabriel would be so keen about keeping his secret as to go to that length?
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.
Batterley suggests, we'll have to examine that bank-house. It's all nonsense allowing the Chestermarkes to have their own way about everything! It's time we examined Horbury's effects." Starmidge turned to Betty. "Did you succeed in getting in there, Miss Fosdyke?" he asked. "No!" replied Betty. "Mr. Joseph Chestermarke absolutely refused me admittance, and his uncle told me to go to a solicitor."
Chestermarkes," suggested Starmidge. "To tell them, of course, of that," he added, pointing to the empty casket. "Your lordship will get some attention I suppose. They won't give any attention to Polke or myself. If your lordship would just tell them that your casket emptied of its valuable contents had been found hidden in Mrs.
Does that help us to finding out what's become of my uncle?" "I suppose one thing's sure to lead to another," said Neale. "That seems to be the detective's notion, anyhow. If Starmidge is so certain that Gabriel Chestermarke knew Hollis, he'll work that for all it's worth. It's my opinion whatever that's worth! that Hollis came down here to see the Chestermarkes. Did he see them?
Starmidge, who, like the rest of them, had been listening eagerly to Batterley's talk, turned sharply to him. "Did you say murdered, sir?" he said. "A well-known story!" answered the old man half-impatiently, as he rose from his chair. "An ancestor of these Chestermarkes he killed a man in that very room. Well that's what I suggest, Mr. Polke. And for another reason.
Polke jerked his thumb at the poster in the bank window. "Of course!" he said, "so long as they can satisfy their customers that all's right so far as they're concerned, we can't get at what is missing that belongs to the Chestermarkes." "There are ways of finding that out," replied Starmidge quietly. "What ways, now?" asked Polke. "We can't make 'em tell us their private affairs.
And he may have wanted new funds for it, and he may have collared those securities which the Chestermarkes say are missing, and he may have appropriated Lord Ellersdeane's jewels d'ye see? You never can tell in any of these cases. You see, my lad, you've been going, all along, on the basis, the supposition, that Horbury's an innocent man, and the victim of foul play. But he may be a guilty man!
"It all seems such slow work," she concluded, "but I suppose the police can't move any faster." "You heard nothing at the bank itself from the Chestermarkes?" asked the Earl. "I heard sufficient to make me as as absent-minded as I was when you met me just now! I went there, as my uncle's nearest relation, with a simple request to see his papers and things a very natural desire, surely.
"Neighbours at a distance of a mile and who do no more than nod to each other," answered Neale. "Lord Ellersdeane and Mr. Horbury were what you might call friends, but I don't believe his lordship ever spoke ten words with either of the Chestermarkes until this morning. I tell you the Chestermarkes are regular hermits! when they're at home or about Scarnham, anyhow.
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