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"He's a lucky chap to have found such a friend!" "He's as innocent as I am," answered Viner. "Look here; if you police want to do justice, why don't you try to track the man whom Hyde has told of?" "What clue have we?" exclaimed Drillford almost contemptuously. "A tall man in black clothes, muffled to his eyes! But I'll tell you what, Mr.
Killenhall to look after me. Here we've all been ever since and beyond that I know scarcely anything." Drillford looked at the elder lady. "I know, practically, no more than Miss Wickham has told you," said Mrs. Killenhall. "Mr. Ashton and I got in touch with each other through his advertisement in the Morning Post. We exchanged references, and I came here." "Ah!" said Drillford.
I don't know whether Drillford will give them up until his prisoners have been brought before the magistrate, but he said he would give them to the proper persons eventually, and in any case he will show them to you three gentlemen." "Good!" said Mr. Pawle. "Let us go at once it is only a few minutes' walk." "And in the meantime," suggested Mr.
Killenhall and Miss Wickham saw him take it out just before he left to give some cash to the parlourmaid, and they saw him replace it in his trousers pocket; I also know for another fact where he spent money that evening in short, I know now a good deal about his movements for some hours before his death." "Then you ought to tell us, Mr. Viner," said Drillford a little sulkily.
Well, ladies, I shall telephone to Crawle's first thing in the morning, and they'll send somebody along at once, of course. I'm sorry to have brought you such bad news, but " He turned toward the door; Miss Wickham stopped him. "Will Mr. Ashton's body be brought here tonight?" she asked. "No," replied Drillford. "It will be taken to the mortuary.
"Still there may be a good deal that's what shall I say? behind all this." "It's for him to speak," observed Drillford, nodding in the direction of the cells. "He's got a bell within reach of his fingers; he's only got to ring it and to ask for me or any solicitor he likes to name. But we shall see!"
"There's no doubt whatever that the ring in question was Ashton's; there's also no doubt that this man did offer it to Pelver this morning. Either the fellow is a fool or singularly ignorant, to do such a mad thing! But he did it! And I know why." "Why, then?" demanded Viner. "Because he was just starving," answered Drillford.
'But I can see that I've placed myself in a very strange position. And after that he would say no more he hasn't even asked to see a solicitor." "What will be done next?" asked Viner. "He'll be brought before the magistrate in an hour or two," said Drillford. "Formal proceedings for a remand, you know. I shall want you there, Mr. Viner; it won't take long.
"Just folded in the papers that you handed to the police?" suggested Viner. "Well, there was more paper about 'em than what I gave to Inspector Drillford," said the greengrocer. "A well-wrapped-up bit of parcel it was there's the rest of the paper there, where I threw it down."
"That's a lot to go by." "I'm trying to think," said Viner. "Yes I should say he looked to be pretty hard-up. There was a sort of desperate gleam in his eye. And " "Take your time," remarked Drillford. "Anything you can suggest, you know " "Well," replied Viner. "I'd an idea at the moment, and I've had it since, that I'd seen this man before. Something in his face was familiar.
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