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"So, I suppose, are you, Cardlestone? Has anything more been discovered, young man?" Spargo tried a chance shot at what he did not know. "The man's name was Marbury," he said. "He was from Australia." He was keeping a keen eye on Mr. Elphick, but he failed to see that Mr. Elphick showed any of the surprise which Mr. Cardlestone had exhibited. Rather, he seemed indifferent. "Oh?" he said "Marbury?
"Very well," replied Spargo. "Mr. Elphick, then, is in some way connected with this affair." "You mean the murder?" "I mean the murder. So is Cardlestone. Of that I'm now dead certain. And that's why they're off. I startled Elphick last night. It's evident that he immediately communicated with Cardlestone, and that they made a rapid exit. Why?" "Why? That's what I'm asking you! Why? Why? Why?"
Spargo picked up his hat. "Good-night, Mr. Elphick," he said. But before he could reach the door the old barrister had leapt from his chair and seized him with trembling hands. Spargo turned and looked at him. He knew then that for some reason or other he had given Mr. Septimus Elphick a thoroughly bad fright. "Well?" he growled. "My dear young gentleman!" implored Mr. Elphick. "Don't go!
Elphick said they were going to Paris, and they'd breakfast at Charing Cross before the train left." "Say when they'd be back?" asked Breton, with an assumption of entire carelessness. "No, sir, Mr. Elphick didn't," answered the porter. "But I should say they wouldn't be long because they'd only got small suit-cases with them such as they'd put a day or two's things in, sir."
But what are you doing here, Spargo?" Spargo leant against the head of the stairs and folded his hands. "I came here," he said, "to keep an appointment with Mr. Elphick an appointment which he made when I called on him, as you suggested, at nine o'clock. The appointment a most important one was for eleven o'clock." Breton glanced at his watch. "Come on, then," he said.
"Just so, but that feeling's a lot more to do with this mystery than you think, my young friend," said Myerst. "What did they say, you ask? Why, they strenuously denied it, Cardlestone swore solemnly to me that he had no part or lot in the murder of Maitland. So did Elphick. But they know something about the murder.
It was as if he had buried something deep, deep down in the lowest depths, and was as astounded as he was frightened to find that it had been at last flung up to the broad light of day. "I shall wait," suddenly said Spargo, "until you are composed, Mr. Elphick. I have no wish to distress you.
"My guardian, Mr. Elphick, and I met them in Switzerland," answered Breton. "We kept up the acquaintance after our return." "Mr. Elphick still interesting himself in the Marbury case?" asked Spargo. "Very much so. And so is old Cardlestone, at the foot of whose stairs the thing came off. I dined with them last night and they talked of little else," said Breton. "And their theory "
If those two old men can't tell you definitely who actually struck John Maitland down, I'm certain that they have a very clear idea in their minds as to who really did! They " A sudden sharp cry from the inner room interrupted Myerst. Breton and Spargo started to their feet and made for the door. But before they could reach it Elphick came out, white and shaking.
"What? by going up to every man who answers the description, and saying 'Sir, are you the man who accompanied John Marbury to the Aglo " Spargo suddenly interrupted him. "Look here!" he said. "Didn't you say that you knew a man who lives in that block in the entry of which Marbury was found?" "No, I didn't," answered Breton. "It was Mr. Elphick who said that.
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