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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Then came the evidence of Arthur Chipps, John Ashley's valet. It proved of a very sensational character. "He deposed that on the night in question his master came home at about ten minutes to two. Chipps had then not yet gone to bed. Five minutes later Mr. Ashley went out again, telling the valet not to sit up for him. Chipps could not say at what time either of the young gentlemen had come home.
You see, there was not a particle of evidence to show that the accused had met and spoken to the deceased after the latter's visit at the front door of 'The Elms. He told Chipps that he wouldn't see the visitor, and Chipps went into the hall directly and showed Lavender out the way he came.
After a little hesitation Chipps identified it as the property of his master, Lord Arthur Skelmerton. "Can you wonder, then, that the jury absolutely refused to bring in a verdict against George Higgins?
He was an old sailor, and his seamed face was expressive when launching into a favorite subject. Here was Jim's chance, and he spoke out. "Whatever became of Jameson, what was took off by Andrews?" he asked Chipps. "Was he doped?" I asked. "Didn't ye niver hear tell from O'Toole an' Garnett?
Someone who, unknown perhaps to Lord Arthur, had overheard the same conversation which George Higgins related to the police and the magistrate, someone who, whilst Chipps was taking Lavender's card in to his master, had a few minutes' time wherein to make an assignation with Lavender, promising him money, no doubt, in exchange for the compromising bills." "Surely you don't mean " gasped Polly.
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