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But he wasn't a Rosenthall, Bunny; he had a treble-seamed, hand-sewn head, and could have drunk me under the table ten times over. "'All right, I thought, 'you may go to bed sober, but you'll sleep like a timber-yard! And I threw half he gave me through the open window, when he wasn't looking. "But he was a good chap, Ewbank, and don't you imagine he was at all intemperate.
"You'll have to bear Ewbank and anybody I like to call, my good sir," retorted Petherton quietly. "I am better acquainted with the law than you are." He turned to the coroner's officer. "I warned you this morning to produce Ewbank," he said. "Now, where is he?" Out of a deep silence a shrill voice came from the rear of the crowd. "Knows better than to be here, does Dan'l Ewbank, mister! He's off!"
Denry explained the vacuum-cleaner to the housewives, who had got no further than a Ewbank. And they again called down blessings on themselves. "What price this supper?" Denry exclaimed. "We ought to eat it. I'm sure he'd like us to eat it. Do sit down, all of you. I'll take the consequences." Mrs Machin hesitated even more than the other ladies. "It's really very strange, him not being here."
As I did so I heard a handle turn overhead, and thanked my gods that I had shut every single door behind me. You see, old chap, one's caution doesn't always let one in! "'Who's that knocking? said Ewbank up above. "I could not make out the answer, but it sounded to me like the irrelevant supplication of a spent man.
"'Thank you ... I said bushrangers; of course, there are no such things nowadays. "'What were they, then? "'Bank-thieves; the one that had the pot shots was the very brute I drove out of the bank at Coburg, with a bullet in him!" "I knew it!" "Of course you did, Bunny; so did I, down in that strong-room; but old Ewbank didn't, and I thought he was never going to speak again.
After he had engaged him and the other people about him in Gujrati conversation, he wanted me to speak to the people. Owing to the suspicious looks of the man who was first spoken to, I naturally pressed home the moralities of co-operation. I fancy that Mr. Ewbank rather liked the manner in which I handled the subject.
He was already sure that the agent was there with a purpose, and he wanted to know its precise nature. "Is he concerned about this?" "I have seen Mr. Greyle, mister, and he is concerned about what yon man, Ewbank, related," replied Chatfield. "Mr. Greyle, sir, came straight to me I reside in a residence within the park. Mr.
"Sir Cresswell Oliver said as much to me but no more. Have they said more to you?" "The suspicion seemed to have originated with Petherton. Petherton, in spite of his meek old-fashioned manners, is as sharp an old bird as you'll find in London! He fastened at once on what Bassett Oliver said to that fisherman, Ewbank. A keen nose for a scent, Petherton's!
In the meantime, we 'll call one or two witnesses, Daniel Ewbank! to begin with." There was a brief and evidently anxious consultation between Greyle's solicitor and the coroner; there were dark looks at Petherton and his companions. Then the foreman of the jury spoke, sullenly. "We don't want to hear no Ewbanks!" he said. "We're quite satisfied, us as sits here. Our verdict is "
The constable told me, and of course yon there man, Ewbank, he'll have told it all round since he had that bit of talk with you and your friend. He'll have been in to every public there is in Scarhaven, repeating of it. And a very, very serious complexion, of course, could be put on them words, sir." "How?" asked Copplestone. "Put it to yourself, sir," replied Chatfield.
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