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There's good reason to believe that he had securities, bank notes, loose diamonds, and other things on him to the value of a large amount. He'd several thousand pounds when he left Coolumbidgee, in New South Wales, where he'd lived quietly for some years." Miss Baylis smiled sourly. "What's all this to me?" she asked. "Possibly nothing. But you see, that money, those securities, may be recovered.
"'John Marbury, Coolumbidgee, New South Wales," said Rathbury. "Ah now I was wondering if that writing would be the same as that on the scrap of paper, Mr. Breton. But, you see, it isn't it's quite different." "Quite different," said Breton. He, too, was regarding the handwriting with great interest. And Rathbury noticed his keen inspection of it, and asked another question.
The first is from our office. I told you we sent over to Australia for a full report about Marbury at the place he said he hailed from Coolumbidgee. That report's just reached the Watchman, and they've wired it on to me. It's from the chief of police at Coolumbidgee to the editor of the Watchman, London: "John Marbury came to Coolumbidgee in the winter of 1898-9. He was unaccompanied.
Robertson bought it from him for three thousand pounds, and Marbury shortly afterwards left for Melbourne. From what we could gather, Robertson thinks Marbury was probably in command of five or six thousand when he left Coolumbidgee. He told Robertson that he had met a man in Melbourne who had given him news that surprised him, but did not say what news.
He had in his possession when he left Robertson exactly the luggage he brought with him when he came a stout portmanteau and a small, square leather box. There are no effects of his left behind at Coolumbidgee." "That's all," said Spargo, laying the first of the telegrams on the table. "And it seems to me to signify a good deal. But now here's more startling news.
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