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Hollis had something to do with them. Why did he go there?" "That, ma'am, is precisely what we want to find out from you!" replied Starmidge, with a side glance at his fellow-detective. "It's just what we've come for!" He was watching Mrs. Lester very closely as he spoke, and he saw that up to that moment she had certainly no explanation in her own mind as to the reason of this police visit.
His father always refused he was a strict and, in some ways, a very hard man about money. And so my son had recourse to a money-lender." Starmidge, who was sitting close by his fellow-detective, pressed his elbow against Easleby's sleeve at last they were getting at something. "Just so, ma'am," he said encouragingly. "Nothing remarkable in all this so far quite an everyday matter, I assure you!
'Stop singing, added the agent, hastily. 'You go away and have a nice cup of hot tea, said the agent, soothingly, 'and you'll be as right as anything in the morning. Henry went away. A few days later, at the Bureau, his fellow-detective Simmonds hailed him. 'Here, you! The boss wants you. Buck up! Mr Stafford was talking into the telephone. He replaced the receiver as Henry entered.
The man in charge carefully wrapped up and put away the jeweller's box; then, with a significant glance at his fellow-detective, he slipped a couple of fingers into his waistcoat pocket and drew out what looked like a bit of crumpled paper. "Aye!" he answered. "This! Found it just there! Lying on the floor, at the end of this table."
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