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Betty Fosdyke unconsciously clutched at Lord Ellersdeane's arm: Lord Ellersdeane spoke, wonderingly. "Thunder?" he exclaimed. "Strange!" Easleby turned sharply from Starmidge, who, holding by one of the pillars, was staring towards the quarter of the Market-Place, from whence the scream of dire fear had come. "That's no thunder, my lord!" he said. "That's an explosion! and a terrible one, too!
"Does your lordship also think or suggest that Horbury also carried our missing securities in his pocket?" asked Joseph quietly. "Because we, at any rate, know they're gone!" "Oh, well!" said the Earl, "I I merely suggest it, you know. The country between here and Ellersdeane is a bit rough and wild there's Ellersdeane Hollow, you know a queer place on a dark night.
Horbury, knowing Lord Ellersdeane had got home on Saturday, thought he'd hand back those jewels as soon as possible, and set off in the evening with that intention possibly to be robbed and murdered on the way. Sounds horrible but honestly I can't think of any other theory."
Polke, superintendent of the Scarnham police force, a little, round, cheery-faced man, whose mutton-chop whiskers suggested much business-like capacity and an equal amount of common sense, rose from his desk and bowed as the Earl of Ellersdeane entered his office. "I know what your lordship's come for!" he said, with a twinkle of the eye which betokened infinite comprehension.
"From Scarnham Bridge corner to Ellersdeane Tower yonder is in Scarnham parish: this side the Hollow is in Ellersdeane; everything beyond the Tower is in Middlethorpe." "Then we're in Scarnham," said Polke. "He'll have to be taken down to the town mortuary. We'd better see to it at once. What are you going to do, Starmidge?" he asked, as the detective turned away with Neale.
"I mean it should be done by us," said the Earl. "Very well," said Gabriel suddenly, "it shall be done, then. No doubt your lordship would like to give the police your own story. Mr. Neale, will you go with Lord Ellersdeane to Superintendent Polke? Your duty will be to give him the mere information that Mr.
I just explained to him that I wanted those jewels taken care of, and handed them over. That's all!" "And their precise nature?" asked Gabriel. "And their value?" added Joseph. "As to their nature," replied the Earl, "there was my wife's coronet, her diamond necklace, and the Ellersdeane butterfly, of which I suppose all the world's heard heirloom, you know.
He set off running towards the end of the Market-Place, followed by Easleby, and at a slower pace by Lord Ellersdeane and Betty. Crowds were beginning to run in the same direction: very soon the two detectives found it difficult to thread a way through them.
See here! Easleby and I will go on to the Cornmarket now you get some of your men and follow. If we hear nothing there then, the Warren. But quick!" The two detectives hurried out of the police-station; Lord Ellersdeane and Betty, after a word or two with Polke, followed. Outside, Starmidge and Easleby paused a moment, consulting; the Earl stepped forward to speak to them. "As regards Mr.
"Neither surprise nor anything else," said Neale. "Absolutely unaffected!" Polke, hearing the news, immediately bustled into activity, sending for a cab in which to drive along the road to a point near Ellersdeane Tower, from which they could reach the lead mine. But he shook his head when he saw that Betty meant to return. "Don't, miss!" he urged. "Stay here in town you'd far better.
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