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"Don't let us hesitate about money, please." "But I don't know whether she can draw a cheque," continued Selwood. "At least, for such an amount as that. Perhaps Professor Cox-Raythwaite can tell us. Let me ask you a question or two, if you please, Mrs. Engledew," he went on. "You say you only know one of these men. Do you know his name?" "No I don't," confessed Mrs. Engledew.
Selwood carried this further news to Professor Cox-Raythwaite, who roused himself from his microscope to consider it. "Could that tall, dark, nicely-dressed gentleman have been Burchill?" he muttered. "Sounds like him. But you've got a description of Dimambro, at any rate. Now we know of one man who saw the caller at the House of Commons Mountain, the coachman.
He's confessed crumpled up like a bit of tissue paper when we took him confessed everything to me just before I came along here. Of course we didn't get him through anything we've heard tonight; quite different line altogether, and a simple one." "We should like to know about it," said Cox-Raythwaite. "Can't you give us a mere outline?" "I was going to," answered Davidge. "No secret about it.
He took a slip of paper from the clerk who just then entered, and read it aloud. "Here you are," he said. "'Mr. Herapath cashed cheque for £5,000 himself, at three o'clock; the money in fifty notes of £100 each, numbered as follows' you can take this slip, if you like," he continued, handing the paper to Professor Cox-Raythwaite, as the obviously most interested man of his party.
"Just so, just so!" observed Mr. Tertius mildly. "Jacob was a very wealthy man the money evidence was everywhere." But Professor Cox-Raythwaite only laughed and smote the table with his big fist. "My dear Halfpenny!" he exclaimed. "Why, you've just given us the very best proof of what I've been saying! You're not looking deeply enough into things.
Papers relating to Parliamentary matters, to building schemes, to business affairs, there were in plenty, duly filed, docketed, and arranged, but there was nothing of the sort that Cox-Raythwaite hoped to find, and when they parted, late at night, they were no wiser than when they began their investigations. "Go home to bed," counselled the Professor.
"Very good suggestion," said Professor Cox-Raythwaite. "He may have bought something extremely valuable from this Dimambro that day, or that night, and he may have had it on him when he was murdered. Clearly, we must see this Luigi Dimambro!" "If he's the man who called at the House, you forget that he's been advertised for no end," said Selwood. "No, I don't," responded the Professor.
Tertius, who sat, composed and impassive, listening, and in them was a gleam which could not be mistaken the gleam of bitter, personal dislike. Mr. Halfpenny and Professor Cox-Raythwaite both saw that look and drew their own conclusions, and when Barthorpe spat out his last words, the man of science turned to the man of law and muttered a sharp sentence in Latin which no one else caught. And Mr.
On one side of the big table sat Professor Cox-Raythwaite and Selwood both looking a little mystified; at the further end sat a shortish, rather fat man, obviously a foreigner, who betrayed anxiety in every line of his rather oily countenance.
Professor Cox-Raythwaite, who appeared to have fallen into a brown study for a moment, suddenly looked up. "Now I wonder if we might be permitted to see that cheque as a curiosity?" he said. "Can we be favoured so far?" "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Playbourne. "No trouble. I'll ah, here's your information about the other cheque the self cheque for five thousand."
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