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"She spoke of her wealth," remarked the Earl. "Yes," said Neale. "She must be wealthy, too. She's the sole proprietor of Fosdyke's Brewery." "Ho-ho!" laughed the Earl. "That's it, eh? Fosdyke's Entire! Of course I've seen the name on no end of public-houses in London. Sole proprietor? Dear me! why, I have some recollection that Fosdyke, of that brewery, was at one time a member of Parliament."
"Miss Fosdyke's just as concerned about her uncle as you are about your brother. She declares she'll spend a fortune on finding him or finding out what's happened to him. It was Miss Fosdyke insisted on having Detective-Sergeant Starmidge down at once." Hollis quietly scrutinized the detective. "Well?" he asked. "And what do you make of it?"
I could not see them; she was obliged to read them for me. "I leave my money to the one person living who has been more than worthy of the little I have done for her, and whose simple unselfish nature I know that I can trust." I pressed Mrs. Fosdyke's hand; I was not able to speak. She took up the legal paper next. "Do justice to yourself, and be above contemptible scruples," she said.
These pages contain a true confession. Let me own that I hoped Mr. Sax would understand my refusal, and ask Mrs. Fosdyke's leave to accompany us. Lingering a little as we went downstairs, I heard him in the hall actually speaking to Mrs. Fosdyke! What was he saying? That darling boy, Freddy, got into a difficulty with one of his boot-laces exactly at the right moment.
Miss Fosdyke's very anxious indeed about her uncle: she'd give anything or do anything to get news of him. It's all rot, you know, to say he's run away it's my impression he's never gone out of Scarnham or the neighbourhood. But where he is, and whether dead or alive, is beyond my comprehension," he concluded, shaking his head. "If he's alive, why don't we hear something, or find out something?"
"There's no doubt he came down here to see one or other of them Horbury, most likely." "And who's to tell us anything?" asked Polke. "Miss Fosdyke's a relation of Horbury's," replied Starmidge. "She may know Hollis by name. Mr. Neale's always been in touch with Horbury he may have heard of Hollis. And so may the bankers." "The difficulty is to make them say anything," said Polke.
Was he being kept a prisoner or was he hiding? In spite of his own knowledge of Horbury, and of Betty Fosdyke's assertions of her uncle's absolute innocence, Neale had all along been conscious of a vague, uneasy feeling that, after all, there might be something of an unexplained nature in which the manager had been, or was concerned.
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