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Ralston, though she lived within ten miles of her father, was not on good terms with him. It was said that the old gentleman was queer and eccentric, and hard to please or manage; however that may be, it is certain that he lived a lonely life till he was well over eighty years of age. And he had died suddenly, not so very long before James Gilverthwaite came to lodge with us; and Mr.
Gilverthwaite's bidding, I had ridden out from Berwick to find in that lonely spot. But I knew, of course, that James Gilverthwaite himself had not foreseen this affair, nor thought that I should find a murdered man. And as I at last drew breath, and lifted myself up a little from staring at the corpse, a great many thoughts rushed into my head, and began to tumble about over each other.
And Phillips is murdered as soon as he gets here and Gilverthwaite dies that suddenly that he can't tell us a word of what it's all about! What is it all about and who's going to piece it all together? Man! there's more than murder at the bottom of all this!" It's a wonder that I didn't let out everything that I knew at that minute.
Gilverthwaite having so much money that ten pounds was no more to him than ten pence to me was, of course, all nonsense, said just to quieten her fears and suspicions I knew well enough, having seen a bit of the world in a solicitor's office for the past six years, that even millionaires don't throw their money about as if pounds were empty peascods. No! Mr.
And as for the word get you to the place and wait about a bit, and if you see nobody there, say out loud, 'From James Gilverthwaite as is sick and can't come himself'; and when the man appears, as he will, say aye! say 'Panama, my lad, and he'll understand in a jiffy!" "Eleven o'clock Panama," said I. "And the message?" "Aye!" he answered, "the message.
Gilverthwaite has more money than he knows what to do with. He carries sovereigns in his pockets like they were sixpenny pieces! Ten pounds is no more to him that ten pennies to us. And we've had the man in our house seven weeks now, and there's nobody could say an ill word of him." "It's not so much him," she answered. "It's what you may meet there! For you've got to meet somebody.
"And I was then a youngster of no more than twelve years or so. But as to who and what I am name of James Gilverthwaite. Late master of as good a ship as ever a man sailed. A quiet, respectable man. No swearer. No drinker saving in reason and sobriety. And as I say money no object, and cash down whenever it's wanted. Look here!"
Lindsey sat in silence for a time, tapping the point of his stick on the floor and staring at the carpet. "I wish we knew what that man Gilverthwaite was wanting at Berwick and in the district!" he said at last. "But isn't that evident?" suggested Smeaton. "He was looking in the parish registers. I've a good mind to have a search made in those quarters for particulars of my father." Mr.
"And it'll be a nice job to find out all the meaning of it, and if the man that's been murdered was the man Gilverthwaite sent you to meet, or if he's some other that got there before you, and was got rid of for some extraordinary reason that we know nothing about. But one thing's certain: we've got to get some light on your late lodger. That's step number one and a most important one."
"There was naturally a good deal of talk in the neighbourhood after that inquest on Phillips people began wondering what that man Gilverthwaite wanted to find in the parish registers, of which, I now know, he examined a good many, on both sides the Tweed.
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