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Hyde told you the truth he never had anything but that ring." "Good!" muttered Felpham. "Good, Viner! That's one in the eye for you, Drillford." "Another thing that you're forgetting, Inspector," continued Viner: "I suppose you attach some value to probabilities?
Felpham doesn't think that way?" replied Drillford with a shrewd glance at the solicitor. "Mr. Felpham knows the value of evidence, I believe!" "What is it that's been found, exactly?" asked Felpham. Drillford opened a locked drawer, lifted aside a sheet of cardboard, and revealed a fine gold watch and chain and a diamond ring.
Keep quiet, there's a good girl, the fact is, Mr. Ashton's had an accident, and I want to see that lady." "Mrs. Killenhall," answered the parlour-maid. "And the young lady her name?" asked the Inspector. "Miss Wickham." The Inspector walked inside the house. "Just ask Mrs. Killenhall and Miss Wickham if they'll be good enough to see Inspector Drillford for a few minutes," he said.
These lay on two or three sheets of much crumpled paper of a peculiar quality. "There you are!" said Drillford. "Those belonged to Mr. Ashton; there's his name on the watch, and a mark of his inside the ring.
This man he saw?" Drillford shook his head. "Mr. Viner," he answered, "you don't understand police methods. We've got very strong evidence against Hyde. We know nothing about a tall man in a white muffler. If you want to clear Hyde, you'd better do what he suggested find that man! I wish you may if he ever existed!" "You don't believe Hyde?" asked Viner.
Viner, there's no need for me to say anything," remarked Drillford. "It may be the plain truth. But as I am what I am, all I know is the first-hand evidence against this young fellow. So he really was a schoolmate of yours?" "Certainly!" said Viner. "His people live, or did live, in the north. I shall have to get into communication with them. But now what about the information he gave you?
I wish the fellow would tell us who he is." "And I wish I could remember where and when I have seen him before!" exclaimed Viner. "Ah, that's still your impression?" remarked Drillford. "You're still convinced of it?" "More than ever since seeing him just now," affirmed Viner. "I know his face, but that's all I can say.
Drillford, discovered alone in his office, smiled as the two men walked in there was an irritating I-told-you-so air about him. "Ah!" he said. "I see you gentlemen have been reading the afternoon papers! What do you think about your friend now, Mr. Viner?" "Precisely what I thought before and shall continue to think," retorted Viner. "I've seen no reason to alter my opinion." "Oh but I guess Mr.
Cortelyon!" she exclaimed. "Ah I remember now. Mr. Ashton once told me, in quite a casual way as we were passing through the square, that he had known Dr. Cortelyon in Australia, years and years ago!" Drillford glanced at Viner and smiled. "I wish you'd remembered that little matter before, Miss Wickham!" he said. "It might have saved a lot of trouble. Well Cortelyon's the man!
Ashton was a very wealthy man." Drillford pulled out a pocketbook and entered the names which Mrs. Killenhall had just mentioned. "The solicitors will be able to tell something," he murmured as he put the book back. "We'll communicate with them first thing in the morning. But just two questions before I go. Can you tell me anything about Mr. Ashton's usual habits? Had he any business?
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