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"No," answered Fullaway. He nodded his head towards the door of a room through which they had just passed on their way into the agent's private apartments. "All the staff I have is the young lady you just saw Mrs. Marlow. Invaluable!" "Married woman?" inquired Allerdyke laconically. "Young widow," answered Fullaway just as tersely.
"Did she ever have the chance of getting hold of a quarter of a million's worth of jewels before?" asked Delkin with a shrewd glance at Allerdyke. "Come, now! Even the most trusted people fall before a very big temptation. All business folk know that. What's Mr. Allerdyke think?" Allerdyke was not going to say what he thought. He was wondering if Fullaway knew what he knew that Mrs.
Fullaway, I don't know if you know this gentleman his name's well enough known, anyway. This gentleman is Mr. Chilverton, the famous New York detective. Chilverton Mr. Fullaway, Mr. Allerdyke." Fullaway and Allerdyke both looked at the man in the Homburg hat with great interest as they shook hands with him.
Fullaway and myself haven't the least doubt that he was robbed. So your theory eh?" Dr. Orwin had listened to this with deep attention, and he now put two quick questions. "The value of these things was great?" "Relatively, very great," answered Allerdyke. "Enough to engage, the attention of a clever gang of thieves?" "Quite!"
When Allerdyke went back into the hotel he found Blindway waiting for him at the door of a ground-floor room in which the chief, Fullaway, a City police-inspector and a detective were already closeted with the landlord and landlady.
But you can't get to know all about Mrs. Marlow from any inquiry. And you can't find out all about Fullaway from any inquiry. He may be the straightest business man in all London and yet have a finger in this pie, and his secretary with him. Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds' worth of jewels, Mr. Allerdyke, is a temptation! And these folks knew the jewels were on the way.
"Which of 'em is Delkin, then?" asked Allerdyke as the automobile swept into the courtyard. "Big or little?" "The little fellow with the spectacles," replied Fullaway. "Quiet, unobtrusive man, Delkin but cute as they're made. Know the other man, Van Koon?" Van Koon had twisted round and was staring back in the direction from which they had come, he shook his head, a little absent-mindedly.
Here was another surprise: Allerdyke had never in his life heard James mention the name Franklin Fullaway. Yet here Mr. Franklin Fullaway, whoever he might be, was wiring to James as only a business acquaintance of some standing would wire. And here again was the mention of a Princess presumably, nay, evidently, the Princess to whom reference was made in the diary.
The thing's done every day by train or post every day valuable parcels of diamonds, for instance, are sent between London and Paris. The chances of that parcel being lost between Hull and this hotel were infinitesimal! I honestly believe, sir, that those jewels were in that parcel sent to be safe." "In that case you'd have thought he'd have wired Fullaway of their dispatch," said Allerdyke.
"This is it, no doubt," said Allerdyke, producing the message of the date mentioned. "That is it," assented Fullaway, glancing across the table. "Very well, you see what I said. He replied to that at once here is his reply. It is, you see, very brief.
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