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Yes we saw her go through the hall door. Of course we thought she'd just slipped out into the town for something." Polke hesitated and meditated. What use was it, at that juncture, to ask for more particular details of this evident flight? Mrs. Carswell was probably well away from Ecclesborough by that time. He turned back to the hall and then looked at the women again.
"If your lordship will think for a moment," said Joseph, "you will see that it is not merely not impossible, but very easy. Horbury was a great pedestrian he used to boast of his thirty and forty mile walks. Now we are well within twenty miles of Ecclesborough. Ecclesborough is a very big town. What was there to prevent Horbury, during Saturday night, from walking across country to Ecclesborough?
And Starmidge thanked them profusely and in his best manner after which he turned them politely out and locked the door. Meanwhile Polke went to the police-station and rang up the Ecclesborough police on the telephone. He gave them a full, accurate, and precise description of Mrs.
She'd put that behind the back of the grate a favourite hiding-place. I say she but, of course, some one else may have put it there. Still we must find her. You telephoned to the police at Ecclesborough, superintendent?" "Ay, and got small comfort!" answered Polke. "It's a stiff job looking for one woman amongst half a million people." "She wouldn't stop in Ecclesborough," said Starmidge.
Nothing! If, after interviewing that strange man, he decided to clear out at once, he'd nothing to do but set off over a very lonely stretch of country, every inch of which he knew to Ecclesborough: he would be in Ecclesborough by an early hour in the morning. Now in Ecclesborough there are three stations big stations.
And so, when I read that description in the papers this evening, I caught the first express I could get down here at least to Ecclesborough I had to motor from there." "That description describes Mr. Hollis, then?" asked Starmidge. "Exactly! I'm sure it's Mr. Hollis it's him to a T!" answered the clerk. "I recognized it at once."
That evening, Starmidge, who had driven quietly across the country from Scarnham to Ecclesborough, joined a London express at the Midland Station in the big town. The carriages were unusually full, and he had some difficulty in finding the corner seat that he particularly desired.
"I don't know!" he answered. "How did you see it? I've never seen inside his garden." "Climbed a tree on the river-bank and looked over the wall," replied Starmidge. "Well," said Polke, "I did hear, some few years ago, that he was building something in that garden, but the work was done by Ecclesborough contractors, and nobody ever knew much about it here.
I don't say they went together I don't say they went to Ecclesborough I don't say they caught a train: I only say what, it must be obvious, they easily could do without attracting attention." "The fact of Horbury's disappearance is unchallengeable," remarked Gabriel quietly. "We know why he disappeared." "I should think," said Joseph, still more quietly, "that Lord Ellersdeane also knows by now."
"Well?" demanded Polke eagerly. "And what is it?" "Young Mitchell, who has a taxi-cab of his own, you know," said Jones. "He told me heard I was inquiring. He says that at half-past ten, just as he was coming out of his shed in River Street, Mrs. Carswell came up and asked him to drive her into Ecclesborough. He did they got there at half-past eleven: he set her down at the Exchange Station.
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