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Updated: June 18, 2025
"But in the meantime, why not put the Ecclesborough police on to keeping their eyes open for her? Can you give them a good description?" "Know her as well as I know my own wife by sight," answered Polke. "And her style of dressing, too. All right I'll go and do it, now. Well, there'll be Mr. Batterley coming along in a few minutes Jones has gone for him.
Starmidge hastily pulled some garments about him, and flinging a travelling-coat over his shoulders, hurried downstairs, to find a sleepy-looking policeman in the hall. "How did this man get here at this time of night?" he asked, as they set off towards the police-station. "Came in a taxi-cab from Ecclesborough," answered the policeman. "I haven't heard any particulars, Mr.
Then he came back alone. So she's got two hours' good start, sir if she really is off!" Polke took a step or two on the pavement outside the bank, meditating on this latest development of a matter that was hourly growing in mystery. Why had this woman suddenly disappeared? Had she merely gone to Ecclesborough for the day? or had she made it her first stage in a further journey?
"I know one thing!" exclaimed Starmidge determinedly. "We'll confront Gabriel Chestermarke tonight with what we know. That's positive!" "If we can find him," said Easleby. "You don't know! The coming down to Ecclesborough may have been all a blind. You can reach a lot of places from Ecclesborough and you can leave a train at more than one place between Ecclesborough and London."
Starmidge turned up Cordmaker's Alley, regained the Market-Place, and strolled on to Polke's private house. The superintendent was taking his ease after his day's labours and reading the Ecclesborough evening newspapers: he tossed one of them over to his visitor. "All there!" he said, pointing to some big headlines. "Got it all in, just as you told it to Parkinson.
And she's got a clear start, too." Starmidge turned sharply on the superintendent. "Got any clue to where she's gone?" he demanded. "She's gone amongst five hundred thousand other men and women," replied Polke ruefully. "I've found out that much. Drove off in a taxi-cab to Ecclesborough, as soon as Miss Fosdyke had been here this morning.
Gabriel Chestermarke. Last night Gabriel Chestermarke travelled up to town from Ecclesborough Mr. Starmidge arranged for him to be shadowed when he arrived at St. Pancras. A man of ours not quite as experienced as he might be, you understand, sir did shadow him and lost him. He lost him here at your theatre, Mr. Castlemayne." "Ah!" said the lessee, half indifferently.
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