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Updated: June 28, 2025
The Chestermarkes have locked up his rooms and they ordered me out showed me the door!" "How very extraordinary!" exclaimed the Earl. "Really! in so many words?" "I think Joseph had the grace to say I had better go away," said Betty.
"He was used to walking at night he knew every yard of this neighbourhood. Besides, he'd know very well that nobody would know what he had on him. What I'd like to know is supposing my theory's right, and that he was taking these jewels to Ellersdeane, how did anybody get to know that he had them? For the Chestermarkes didn't know they'd been given to him, and I didn't nobody at the bank knew."
Miss Betty Fosdyke, attired in her smartest, was just entering the portals of Chestermarke's Bank. Mrs. Carswell herself opened the door of the bank-house in response to Miss Fosdyke's ring. She started a little at sight of the visitor, and her eyes glanced involuntarily and, as it seemed to Betty, with something of uneasiness, at the side-door which led into the Chestermarkes' private parlour.
He was a man of simple mind and ideas, and he supposed the Chestermarkes knew what they were talking about. "Then you think that this sudden disappearance " he said. "In the history of banking unwritten, possibly," remarked Joseph, "there are many similar instances. No end of them, most likely. Bank managers enjoy vast opportunities of stealing, my lord!
"So if you have anything to say, Uncle John, you must get it said within that." "One can say a lot within three-quarters of an hour, my dear," answered the invalid. "There is something I wanted to say," he went on, glancing at Neale. "I suppose there has been an inquest on the two Chestermarkes?" "Adjourned until you're all right," replied Neale.
His landlady says he never returned home last night. Do you think anything can have happened " "If anything's happened to Mr. Neale," interrupted Starmidge, "it's all of a piece with the rest of it. Now, superintendent!" he went on, turning to Polke, "never mind what news I've brought we've got to find these two Chestermarkes at once! We must go, some of us, to the Warren, some to the Cornmarket.
"But I think I'm inclined to put breweries in the same line with banks. Don't you be too rash, Betty I'm not exactly cut out for commercialism. Not," he added reflectively, "not that I haven't been a very good servant to Chestermarke's. I have! But Chestermarkes are what they are!"
"Hollis and I walked about the paths in the wood for some time, discussing this affair. I asked at last what he proposed to do. He inquired if I thought the Chestermarkes would be keen about preserving their secret.
"What is the meaning of all this reserve on the Chestermarkes' part? Why didn't they tell the police what securities are missing? Why don't they let you, his niece, examine Horbury's effects? What right have they to fasten up his house?" "Their house so Mrs. Carswell says," remarked Betty.
I want to know about those two the Chestermarkes. For I've an uneasy feeling that there's more in this affair than's on the surface, and I want to know all about the people I'm dealing with. Just remember beyond the mere fact of their existence and having seen them once or twice, years ago, I don't know anything about them. What sort of men are they as individuals?" "Queer!" replied Neale.
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