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Elphick middling clever to make it sound as if it wur playing two different tunes at the same time." "Was that how it sounded?" asked Mrs. Tolhurst wistfully, "maybe they'll have it for the carols to-night." "Surelye," said old Stuppeny, "you'd never have carols wudout a harmonister. I'd lik myself to go and hear it, but doubt if I ull git so far wud so much good victual inside me."
"I was a fool ever to let him out of my sight." Breton turned on his companion and gasped. "Out of your sight!" he exclaimed. "Why why you don't mean to say that Mr. Elphick has anything to do with this Marbury affair? For God's sake, Spargo " Spargo laid a hand on the young barrister's shoulder. "I'm afraid you'll have to hear a good deal, Breton," he said.
"What does he know of the murder of Marbury and of you in connection with it?" demanded Breton. "Come tell me the truth now." "He's been investigating so he says," answered Elphick. "He lives in that house in Middle Temple Lane, you know, in the top-floor rooms above Cardlestone's. And and he says he's the fullest evidence against Cardlestone and against me as an accessory after the fact."
Elphick is the man who ought to have married your mother. When things turned out as they did, Elphick took you and brought you up as he has done, so that you should never know of your father's disgrace. Elphick never knew until last night that Cardlestone is Chamberlayne. Even the biggest scoundrels have friends Elphick's very fond of Cardlestone. He " Spargo turned sharply on Myerst.
They had been walking round the farms as usual before tea. "No wonder they loved it. Think of the sacrifices they made for it. Jane Elphick married the younger Torrell to keep it in the family. The octagonal room with the moulded ceiling next to the big bedroom was hers. Now what did he tell you while he was feeding the pigs?" said Sophie.
There was a certain temper in him which, when once roused, led him to straight hitting, and it was roused now. He looked the old barrister full in the face. "Mr. Elphick," he said, "you are evidently unaware of all that I know. So I will tell you what I will do.
He had opened the door of the room in which Spargo had met Elphick and Miss Baylis the night before, and was walking in when he pulled himself up on the threshold with a sharp exclamation. "Good God!" he cried. "What what's all this?" Spargo quietly looked over Breton's shoulder.
There was a quantity of loose gold; a number of bank-notes of the more easily negotiated denominations; various foreign securities, realizable in Paris. And there was an open cheque, signed by Cardlestone for ten thousand pounds, and another, with Elphick's name at the foot, also open, for half that amount. Breton examined all these matters as Spargo handed them out. He turned to old Elphick.
"Elderly he will be now," replied the informant; "but when he took the boy away he was a middle-aged man. About his age," she added, pointing to the editor in a fashion which made that worthy man wince and the proprietor desire to laugh unconsumedly; "and not so very unlike him neither, being one as had no hair on his face." "Ah!" said Spargo. "And where did this Mr. Elphick take the boy, Mrs.
He pointed a finger at Spargo as the latter came up with the girls: Spargo gathered that Breton was speaking of the murder and of his, Spargo's, connection with it. And directly they approached, he spoke. "This is Mr. Spargo, sub-editor of the Watchman." Breton said. "Mr. Elphick Mr. Spargo. I was just telling Mr. Elphick, Spargo, that you saw this poor man soon after he was found."
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