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But it was near three o'clock now, and instead of indulging in further surmise, he went off to meet her. Hathelsborough Castle, once one of the most notable fortresses of the North, still remained in an excellent state of preservation.
Brent heard Tansley smother an exclamation of surprise; a murmur that was not smothered ran round the crowded benches behind him. There was something dramatic in the sudden calling of the pretty young widow, whose personality was still more or less of a mystery to Hathelsborough folk, and something curiosity-raising in the mere fact that she was called.
"Some queer, odd nooks and corners in Hathelsborough, Mr. Brent!" he said knowingly. "It would take a stranger a long time to find out all the twists and turns in this old town. But everybody knows the way to Bull's Snug and here we are!"
Matthew James Nettleton, Member of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors. Borough Accountant of Hathelsborough during the last seven years. During that period in close touch with all the persons concerned in the present matter. "Mr. Nettleton," said Meeking, "you are Borough Accountant of Hathelsborough?" The witness folded his hands on the ledge of the box and shook his head.
The bill-posting people had pasted a copy of it on a blank wall opposite; the three men, open-mouthed and wide-eyed, gathered round and read. Crood grew purple with anger. "Impudence!" he exclaimed at last. "Sheer brazen impudence! Him a stranger! Take up his cousin's work, will he? And what's he mean by saying that he's now a Hathelsborough man?"
"Somewhat doubtful whether any outsider could obtain the apparently very accurate knowledge of Hathelsborough Moot Hall which the murderer of my cousin evidently possessed, isn't it?" suggested Brent. "I should say the guilty person is some one who knows the place extremely well!"
Brent mornings preferable I'll give you the benefit of my experience: Hathelsborough folk, sir, are, in my opinion, the queerest lot in all England. But you want to see Alderman Crood now, go to the end of the market-place, turn down Barley Market, and drop a hundred yards or so down the hill at the end then you'll smell Crood's tan-yard, even if you don't see it.
"Mallett acted as chief spokesman, in putting matters plainly before me. He said that Wallingford, since his election as Mayor of Hathelsborough, had found out a lot a great deal more than they wished him to know. He had accumulated facts, figures, statistics; he had contrived to possess himself of a vast amount of information, and he was steadily and persistently accumulating more.
Brent, is one of the Hathelsborough abuses that your poor cousin meant to rid the ratepayers of fact, sir!" "How?" asked Brent. "Well," continued Peppermore, "I said that Simon and some others cooked things for him. Instead of dismissing Krevin for incompetence and inattention to his duties, they retired him with a pension.
Councillor John Wallingford, at that time Mayor of Hathelsborough. He knew something else too that Wallingford, in spite of his careless attire and very ordinary appearance, was a remarkable man.
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