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Updated: May 1, 2025
About two hours later the scapegoat tramped, footsore and weary, into the Melchester railway station; and at nearly the same moment, Raymond Fosberton, on his way home, took from his pocket the letters which had been entrusted to his care, tore them to fragments, and dropped them over the low wall of a bridge into the canal. "Now we're about quits!" he said.
Whereupon his cousin blushes, and puts her fingers in her ears, and says, "I can't hear," but listens all the time. Of Raymond Fosberton, perhaps the less said the better. His name has come very near being mentioned in a court of law, for forging his father's signature to a cheque, and is therefore seldom mentioned among his friends.
"D'you remember that time when the watch was stolen out of Miss Fenleigh's cupboard?" "Yes; and that Fosberton said it might 'a been me as took it, and Master Valentine told me afterwards that you said that though I'd stolen some pears once, you knew I was honest. Ay, but I thought of that the morning I seen you come into the barrack-room. And then he told them as it was you 'ad done it.
"It must have been that summer when Raymond " She stopped short, but the last word instantly brought to Jack's mind the recollection of that evening when Fosberton had charged him with being a thief. "By-the-bye," he exclaimed, "I forgot to tell you I've found the watch." "Yes, I know," answered Queen Mab quietly. "Valentine gave a full account of it in his letter."
Fosberton to Valentine, "that I find his family are related to one of the minor branches of my own; I've no doubt he will be pleased to hear it. His father's sister married a Pitsbury, a second cousin of the husband of one of the Fosbertons of Cranklen. You'll remember, won't you?" Valentine said he would, and looked scared.
He wasn't sure which of you done it, but he had a word with Master Fosberton as you was comin' 'ome, and he told him it was you two had been smokin', but that you were his cousins, and he didn't want to get you into a row; so he said he'd give Hanks five shillings to hold his tongue, and promised he'd speak to you, and between you you'd make it up to something more, and that's why Hanks was always botherin' of you for money."
Jack glanced at the timepiece, and very nearly let it drop from his fingers to the ground; he knew it in a moment the lost treasure which years ago had been stolen from Queen Mab's cupboard. This then was the thing which Raymond Fosberton had parted with for five pounds. The square moved on a short distance to ground less encumbered with the slain, and then halted.
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