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"Do you know where Till meets Tweed?" he asked. "As well as I know my own mother's door!" I answered. "You know where that old what do they call it? chapel, cell, something of that nature, is?" he asked again. "Aye! well enough, Mr. Gilverthwaite," I answered him. "Ever since I was in breeches!" "Well," said he, "if I was my own man, I ought to meet another man near there this very night.
James Gilverthwaite, that's a mysterious sort of man, and he's at present in his bed with a chill or something that's like to keep him there; and tonight he got me to ride out here to meet a man whom he ought to have met himself and that's why I'm here and all that I have to do with it."
Lindsey's office, Hugh, and when she found you weren't there, she came down to our house, and I had to tell her that you'd come out this way on an errand for Mr. Gilverthwaite.
"This is the last will and testament of me, James Gilverthwaite, a British subject, born at Liverpool, and formerly of Garston, in Lancashire, England, now residing temporarily at Colon, in the Republic of Panama.
There was a man, a neighbour of ours, came home from Central America, maybe five years ago, and he told us he'd seen our James out there, and that he was working as a sub-contractor, or something of that sort, on that Panama Canal there was so much talk about in them days." Mr. Lindsey and I looked at each other. Panama! that was the password which James Gilverthwaite had given me.
But there'll be a searching inquiry in this murder affair, and as Gilverthwaite sent you to meet the man that's been murdered " "Wait a bit!" said I. "You don't know, and I don't, that the man who's been murdered is the man I was sent to meet. The man I was to meet may have been the murderer; you don't know who the murdered man is.
"So that you'd no idea whatever as to who it was that you were to meet, nor for what purpose he was coming to meet Gilverthwaite, if Gilverthwaite had been able to meet him?" "I'd no idea," said I. "I knew nothing but that I was to meet a man and give him a message." He seemed to consider matters a little, keeping silence, and then he went off on another tack.
The three of 'em'll have been working in connection with the Panama Canal. But God bless us! there's some queer facts coming out, my lad! Michael Carstairs knows Gilverthwaite and Phillips in yon corner of the world Phillips and Gilverthwaite, when Michael Carstairs is dead, come home to the corner of the world that Michael Carstairs sprang from.
Was this the man Mr. Gilverthwaite meant me to meet? Would Mr. Gilverthwaite have been murdered, too, if he had come there in person? And had the man been murdered for the sake of robbery?
Lindsey was quick to point out, fitted in with what Gilverthwaite had told my mother and myself about his age. "Well," he said, turning to Mrs. Hanson, "you can answer some questions, no doubt, about your brother, and about matters in relation to him. First of all, do you know if any of your folks hailed from this part?" "Not that I ever heard of, sir," she replied. "No, I'm sure they wouldn't.
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