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Gilverthwaite was giving me that money because he thought that I, as a lawyer's clerk, would see the thing in its right light as a secret and an important business, and hold my tongue about it.
And the coroner, nodding at him as if there was some understanding between them, turned to the jury. "It may seem without the scope of this inquiry, gentlemen," he said, "but the presence of this man Gilverthwaite in the neighbourhood has evidently so much to do with the death of the other man, whom we know as John Phillips, that we must not neglect any pertinent evidence.
Is there money at the back of it property something of that sort, dependent on this Gilverthwaite unearthing some facts or other out of those old books?
So you'd better put it this way: since Gilverthwaite sent me to meet some man at the place where this murder's been committed well?" "That'll be one of your lawyer's quibbles," said he calmly. "My meaning's plain enough we'll want to find out, if we can, who it was that Gilverthwaite sent you to meet. And for what reason? And where it was that the man was to wait for him?
"You don't mean to say that that!" he exclaimed, jerking his thumb at the dead man; "that that's the man you were to meet?" "Who else?" said I. "Can you think of any other that it would be? And I'm wondering if whoever killed this fellow, whoever he may be, wouldn't have killed Mr. Gilverthwaite, too, if he'd come? This is no by-chance murder, Chisholm, as you'll be finding out."
Michael Carstairs went abroad as a young man, Mr. Lindsey, and never came home again," I remarked. "Likely he foregathered with Gilverthwaite out yonder." "Just that," he agreed. "That would be the way of it, no doubt. To be sure! He's set down in this attestation clause as Michael Carstairs, engineer, American Quarter, Colon; and John Phillips is described as sub-contractor, of the same address.
Something occurs we don't know what, yet to make him insecure in his position; without doubt, it's mixed up with Phillips and Gilverthwaite, and no doubt, afterwards, with Crone. This lad here accidentally knows something which might be fatal Carstairs tries, having, as I believe, murdered Crone, to drown Moneylaws! And what then?
"What do you know of the movements of this man Gilverthwaite while he was lodging with your mother?" he asked. "Next to nothing," I replied. "But how much?" he inquired. "You'd know something." "Of my own knowledge, next to nothing," I repeated.
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