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During the next few days I remained idle in the hotel, not daring to go out while it was light, and leaving the surveillance upon De Gex and his friend to my old friend Hambledon. Each night we met at one café or another as we appointed, when he would report to me what he had witnessed during the day.

"You have often spoken to me of Sir Gilbert Hambledon-" "And this be he!" interrupted Wallace. Edwin recounted the manner of the earl discovering himself, and how he came to bear that title. Wallace listened in silence and when his young friend ended, sighed heavily, "I will thank him," was all he said; and rising, he proceeded to the chamber of Montgomery.

I smiled within myself as I read of all the great man's doings, of his vast financial interests, of his estates in England and in Italy, and his assistance to the Ministry of Finance of Spain. Often indeed when at home I discussed the situation with Hambledon, yet without the evidence of Gabrielle Tennison we could not act.

A note lay upon the dining-room table. Hambledon was away in Cardiff, and he had left word in case I should return unexpectedly. The place was cold and fireless, and I was glad to go over to the Claredon to have my dinner. My one thought was of Gabrielle Tennison, who lived with her mother in a maisonette at Earl's Court.

The spring morning was grey and rather threatening as I left the Hôtel de la Paix in Madrid and walked from the Puerta del Sol past the smart shops in the Carrera de San Jeronimo and across the broad handsome Plaza de Canovas, in order to meet Hambledon at a point which he had indicated in the Retiro Park.

"I daresay he was very different in those days," she said. "Before the Beauleys property came to him, he was quite poor, and he was very much in love with the dearest woman Pauline Hambledon. It was impossible for them to marry her people wouldn't hear of it so he went abroad, and she married Sir Walter Marrabel! Such a pig! Everyone hated him. Then old Mr.

"Then why should he have told it to you if he did not suspect that you had been watching?" my friend queried. I had not considered that point. It was certainly strange, to say the least, that he should thus have endeavoured to mislead me. Next morning Hambledon was up early and went to Charing Cross, where he watched the banker's departure.

I shared a small flat in Rivermead Mansions, just over Hammersmith Bridge, with another bachelor, a young solicitor a dark-haired, clean-shaven, alert fellow named Henry Hambledon, who had created quite a good practice, with only small fees of course, at the Hammersmith Police Court and its vicinity.

But as the dead count was a great financier, Oswald De Gex may be working in the interests of the widow or to the contrary." "To the contrary," said my friend without hesitation. Next morning Hambledon told me that De Gex and Suzor did not return to the Ritz until nearly one o'clock. Apparently they had dined and spent the evening in Segovia.

It was irksome to be compelled to remain in the hotel during the daytime for fear of recognition by the man Suzor. Why had he held that secret meeting with the widow of the wealthy Count Chamartin? Hambledon had certainly acted with discretion and promptitude in following the lady in black to her home in Segovia.