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Updated: June 9, 2025
Miles Handford and Fayre-Michell followed the church party in the rear, and relieved their minds by criticizing Mr. Travers. "Officious ass!" said the stout man. "A typical touch that black tie! A decent-minded person would have felt this appalling tragedy far too much to think of such a trifle. I hope I shall never see the brute again."
However, the great subject of the happiness of Mr and Mrs Lammle must not be allowed to vanish with the other vanishments with the vanishing of the murderer, the vanishing of Julius Handford, the vanishing of Lizzie Hexam, and therefore Veneering must recall the present sheep to the pen from which they have strayed.
The Inquest declared me dead, the Government proclaimed me dead; I could not listen at my fireside for five minutes to the outer noises, but it was borne into my ears that I was dead. 'So John Harmon died, and Julius Handford disappeared, and John Rokesmith was born.
From a distant stile between two fields Mr. Travers, some hundred yards ahead, was waving directions and pointing to the left. "Go to Jericho!" snapped Mr. Handford, but not loud enough for Ernest Travers to hear him. A little ring of bells throbbed thin music.
Julius Handford having given his right address, had no summons to appear. Upon the evidence before them, the jury found that Mr. John Harmon had come by his death under suspicious circumstances, though by whose act there was no evidence to show.
'My professional duty, said Lightwood hesitating, with another glance towards Bella, 'is greatly at variance with my personal inclination; but I doubt, Mr Handford, or Mr Rokesmith, whether I am justified in taking leave of you here, with your whole course unexplained. Bella caught her husband by the hand. 'Don't be alarmed, my darling.
Well, then, ain't it reasonable to ask, who was it?" Thus Mr. Inspector. "At least, you won't object to write down your name and address?" The stranger took the pen and wrote down, "Mr. Julius Handford, Exchequer Coffee House, Palace Yard, Westminster." At the coroner's inquest next day, Mr. Mortimer Lightwood watched the proceedings on behalf of the representatives of the deceased; and Mr.
'You favoured me, Mr Handford, said Mr Inspector, 'by writing down your name and address, and I produce the piece of paper on which you wrote it. Comparing the same with the writing on the fly-leaf of this book on the table and a sweet pretty volume it is I find the writing of the entry, "Mrs John Rokesmith.
It interested him, and he would like to have the means of knowing more as, for instance, that she received the exonerating paper, and that it satisfied her by opening some channel altogether independent of Lightwood: who likewise had seen Julius Handford, who had publicly advertised for Julius Handford, and whom of all men he, the Secretary, most avoided.
Julius Handford, he must needs pay Mr. Rokesmith a visit. And then it turned out that John Rokesmith was not only Julius Handford, but John Harmon himself, much to Mr. Inspector's astonishment. More surprises were to follow, for when John came home next day he told Bella that he had left the China house, and was better off.
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