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"'Just a common, vulgar murder, and he'll swing!" softly repeated Cox-Raythwaite, as he and Selwood walked up the steps of the house in Portman Square half an hour later. "Well, that's solved, anyway. As for the other two " "I suppose there's no doubt of their guilt with respect to their conspiring to upset the will?" said Selwood. "And that's a serious offence, isn't it?"
"Now, then!" he said. "In my deliberate, coldly reasoned opinion, that statement is true! If they hang Barthorpe, they'll hang an innocent man. But " Mr. Tertius broke the significant silence which followed. He shook his head sadly, and sighed deeply. "Ah, those buts!" he said. "As you remarked just now, Cox-Raythwaite, there is always a but. Now, this particular one what is it?"
Triffitt gaped with astonishment as he saw Professor Cox-Raythwaite and Selwood descend from the taxi-cab, pass up the steps, and disappear. "Talk of mysteries!" he said. "This " Davidge pulled out an old-fashioned watch. "Nine o'clock," he remarked. "Come on we'll go in. Now, then, Mr. Triffitt," he continued, pressing his companion's arm, "let me give you a tip.
And there's such a thing as being accessory after the crime of course. Leave it at that, Mr. Burchill, leave it at that!" Cox-Raythwaite, who had been eyeing Burchill with ill-concealed disgust, spoke sharply. "And the rest?" he asked. "I'm going along in order," answered Burchill coolly.
It was a small bundle of news that he had brought back and two of his hearers showed by their faces that they attached little importance to it. But Professor Cox-Raythwaite caught eagerly at the mere scrap of suggestion. "Tertius! Halfpenny!" he exclaimed. "That must be followed up we must follow it up at once. That bank-note may be a most valuable and effective clue." Mr.
"Want me and these things?" asked the Professor. "For the time being, no," answered Mr. Halfpenny. "Nor, at present, the taxi-cab driver that Tertius has told us of. We'll merely tell what we know. But take care of these these exhibits, as if they were the apples of your eyes, Cox-Raythwaite. They yes, they may hang somebody!" Half an hour later saw Mr. Halfpenny and Mr.
Calengrove Mansions, Maida Vale," he said. "Um quarter of an hour's drive. Tertius you and I will go and see this young fellow at once." Mr. Tertius turned to Professor Cox-Raythwaite. "What do you think of this, Cox-Raythwaite?" he asked, almost piteously. "I mean what do you think's best to be done?"
"First, that Jacob Herapath drew five thousand pounds in hundred pound notes at three o'clock on the day of his death. Second, that at some hour of that day he drew a cheque in favour of one Luigi Dimambro, which cheque was cashed as soon as the bank opened next morning." "Frankly," observed Mr. Halfpenny, "frankly, candidly, Cox-Raythwaite, I do not see what these things facts prove."
As well look for one snowflake in a drift as for one man in those crowded streets! all the same, he spent half an hour in wandering round the neighbourhood, looking eagerly at every tall figure he met or passed. And at the end of that time he went off to Endsleigh Gardens and reported progress to Professor Cox-Raythwaite.
To both, the entrance of Cox-Raythwaite came as a positive relief. Cox-Raythwaite, shown into the presence of these three, closed the door in a fashion which showed that he did not wish to be disturbed, came silently across the room, and drew a chair into the midst of the disconsolate group. His glance round commanded attention.
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