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Miss Fosdyke acts independently. If they call you in as they seem to have done very thoroughly it's their look out. We haven't! When we want your assistance, we'll let you know. At present we don't." He waved one of the white hands towards the door as he spoke, as if to command withdrawal. But Polke lingered. "You don't propose to give the police any information, then, Mr.
Neale," he began, "Miss Fosdyke thinks you ought to know that " A sudden searching flash, as of lightning, glared across the open space in front, lighting up the tower of the old church, the high roofs of the ancient houses, and the drifting clouds above them.
"It's all the more surprising," remarked the housekeeper, "because of his going off for his holiday tomorrow. And Miss Fosdyke's coming down from London today to go with him." Neale pricked his ears. Miss Fosdyke was the manager's niece a young lady whom Neale remembered as a mere slip of a girl that he had met years before and never seen since. "I didn't know that," he remarked. "Neither did Mr.
Fosdyke looked at her watch, and remembered her domestic duties. To my relief, our interview came to an end. "I have a dinner-party to-day," she said, "and I have not seen the housekeeper yet. Make yourself beautiful, Miss Morris, and join us in the drawing-room after dinner." I WORE my best dress; and, in all my life before, I never took such pains with my hair.
"Certainly not!" answered Gabriel. "It is not our policy." Miss Fosdyke made one step to the door and flung it open. "Then I shall!" she exclaimed. "Policy, indeed! High time I came down here, I think! Thank you, Lord Ellersdeane and the other gentleman for the suggestion. Now I'll go and act on it. And when I act, Mr. Chestermarke, I do it thoroughly!"
I forgot every consideration which a woman, in my position, ought to have remembered. Out came the desperate words, before I could stop them. "You won't take my gift by itself?" I said. "No." "Will you take Me with it?" That evening, Mrs. Fosdyke indulged her sly sense of humor in a new way. She handed me an almanac.
And she's got a clear start, too." Starmidge turned sharply on the superintendent. "Got any clue to where she's gone?" he demanded. "She's gone amongst five hundred thousand other men and women," replied Polke ruefully. "I've found out that much. Drove off in a taxi-cab to Ecclesborough, as soon as Miss Fosdyke had been here this morning.
As for the partners, food was being sent over for them from the hotel: they would be obliged to remain at the bank for some time yet. But there was no need for Neale to stay; he could go when the day's balancing was done. "You heard what instructions this Miss Fosdyke had given the police, I suppose?" asked Gabriel, as Neale was leaving the parlour. "Raising the whole town, no doubt?"
The letter ended with an apology for delay in writing to me, caused by difficulty in discovering my address. And what did I do? Write to the rector, or to Mrs. Fosdyke, for advice? Not I! At first I was too indignant to be able to think of what I ought to do. Our post-time was late, and my head ached as if it would burst into pieces. I had plenty of leisure to rest and compose myself.
Pellworthy, an elderly man, looked at Gabriel with as much disapproval as Gabriel had bestowed on him. "Mr. Chestermarke," he said quietly, "Miss Fosdyke, as next-of-kin to Mr. John Horbury my client desires to see and examine her uncle's effects. As you know very well, she is quite within her rights. I must ask you to give her access to Mr. Horbury's belongings." "And what do you want, Mr.
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