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"Just so," laughed Drillford, "and so, being, as I say, a smart woman, she went round to Bigglesforth, got him to herself, and made some inquiries. And it's very queer, Mr. Viner, how some of these apparently intricate cases are easily solved by one chance discovery! she hadn't been talking to Bigglesforth ten minutes before she was on the right track.
It's an American bowie-knife!" He opened a drawer and exhibited a weapon which, lying on a pile of paper, looked singularly suggestive and fearsome. "I don't care!" said Viner with a certain amount of stubbornness. "I'm convinced that the man didn't kill Ashton. And I want to help him. I'm a man of considerable means; and in this case well, that's how I feel about it." Drillford made no answer.
Carless," answered Drillford laconically. "We'll see to that!" Mr. Carless again cast an eye on the passage he had just read, and then, touching Lord Ellingham's arm, drew his attention to it again, whispering something in his ear at which the young man's cheek reddened. Then he gathered up the papers, carefully replaced them in their linen-lined envelope, and handed them to Drillford.
"Has he told it to you?" demanded Viner. "Well just a little," answered the official with another smile. "But I won't rob him of the pleasure of telling you himself. You ought to be disappointed. However, I'll just tell you enough to whet your appetite for more Drillford is confident that he's just arrested the real man! No no more!" he added, with a laugh. "You'll run up there in twenty minutes."
"I'm sorry to say he is," he replied. "And still more to be obliged to tell you that he came to his death by violence. The truth is " He paused, looking from one to the other, as if to gauge the effect of his words. And again it was the girl who spoke. "What is the truth?" she asked. "Murder!" said Drillford. "Just that!" Mrs.
Drillford was again glancing at Miss Wickham, but Viner contrived to stop any further revelations and got to his feet. "Extraordinary!" he said. "But my aunt? Where is she?" "She remained here until we'd safely caged the birds," answered Drillford. "Then she said she'd go home. And I suppose you'll find her there." Viner took his companion away from the police-station in silence.
And no rings but it's very plain from his fingers that he wore two rings one on each hand, third finger in each case." "There you are!" said Drillford with a glance at Viner. "Murdered and robbed clear case! Now, Mr. Viner, give us as accurate a description as possible of the fellow who ran out of that passage." Viner did his best.
"Just so," assented Miss Wickham. "But when I say we don't know much, I mean what I say. Mrs. Killenhall has only known Mr. Ashton a few weeks, and until two months ago I had not seen Mr. Ashton for twelve years. Therefore, neither of us can know much about him." "Would you mind telling me what you do know?" asked Drillford. "We've got to know something who he is, and so on."
Miss Wickham?" began Drillford, looking sharply from one to the other. "Sorry to break in on you like this, ladies, but the fact is, there has been an accident to Mr. Ashton, and I'm obliged to come and tell you about it." Viner, who had remained a little in the background, was watching the faces of the two to whom this initial breaking of news was made.
Drillford, obviously ill-pleased, put the strongly-smelling paper and the valuables which had been wrapped in it, back in the drawer and turned the key. "All very well talking and theorizing, Mr. Viner," he said sullenly. "We know from his own lips that Hyde did spend the night in that shed. If he didn't put these things there, who did?" Viner gave him a steady look.
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