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Updated: June 21, 2025
And this gentleman Lord Ellersdeane tells us that six weeks ago he entrusted jewels worth a hundred thousand pounds to your uncle's keeping they, too, are missing. What can we think?" The girl's face had flushed, and her brows had drawn together in an angry frown by the time Gabriel had finished, and Neale, silently watching her from the background, saw her fingers clench themselves.
It seemed a long time before his firmly set lips relaxed. "A man?" he said quietly. "What man?" "We don't know," answered Neale. "All we know is, there's a man's body lying at the bottom of one of the old shafts up there near Ellersdeane Tower. The tinker who camps out there has just seen it he's been partly down the shaft." "And did not recognize it?" asked Gabriel.
So I assented to Hollis's proposal, and offered to accompany him to the Warren I don't mind admitting that I was a little perhaps a good deal eager to see how Gabriel would behave when he discovered that his double dealing was found out and known to me. We therefore set off across Ellersdeane Hollow.
"Neighbours at a distance of a mile and who do no more than nod to each other," answered Neale. "Lord Ellersdeane and Mr. Horbury were what you might call friends, but I don't believe his lordship ever spoke ten words with either of the Chestermarkes until this morning. I tell you the Chestermarkes are regular hermits! when they're at home or about Scarnham, anyhow.
"I never tell chaps of that sort anything, mister," he said, giving Neale a sly wink. "Them of my turn of life look on all gamekeepers and policemen as their natural enemies. They'd both of 'em turn me out o' this if they could! only they know they can't. For some reason or other Ellersdeane Hollow is No Man's Land and therefore mine. And so I wasn't going to say anything to them not me!"
"This is just about the time that he went out on Saturday night, and under very similar conditions. Now we'll take the precise path that he'd have taken if he was on his way to Ellersdeane." He led his companion to a corner of the Market-Place, and down a narrow alley which terminated on an expanse of open ground at the side of the river. There he made her pause and look round.
Of course, you can't see it all the way in either direction, but you can take my word for it it does. It comes out at Ellersdeane by the duck-pond, at Scarnham by the bridge at the foot of Cornmarket. People who know it would follow it if they wanted a short cut across the moor from the town to the village or the opposite, as you might say. Now then, look here a bit this way."
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."
"What is he after now?" Starmidge came out of the door of the bank-house alone. He caught sight of Polke and Lord Ellersdeane, smiled, and hurried towards them. He carried something loosely wrapped in brown paper in his hand; as he stepped into the doorway of the club-house, he took the wrapping off, and showed a small morocco-covered box on which was a coronet in gold.
"He was used to walking at night he knew every yard of this neighbourhood. Besides, he'd know very well that nobody would know what he had on him. What I'd like to know is supposing my theory's right, and that he was taking these jewels to Ellersdeane, how did anybody get to know that he had them? For the Chestermarkes didn't know they'd been given to him, and I didn't nobody at the bank knew."
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