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Herapath," answered Davidge, cheerfully and in business-like fashion. "I'll charge both you and Mr. Burchill formally when we've got you to the station. You're both under arrest, you know. And I may as well warn you " "Nonsense!" exclaimed Barthorpe. "Arrest! on what charge?" "Charge will be the same for both," answered Davidge coolly. "The murder of Jacob Herapath."
The result was a magnificent mass of buildings which possessed every advantage and convenience to live in a Herapath flat was to live in luxury. Incidentally, no one could live in one who was not prepared to pay a rental of anything from five to fifteen hundred a year. The gross rental of the Herapath Flats was enormous the net profits were enough to make even a wealthy man's mouth water.
He wound it up with an artfully concocted paragraph in which he threw out many thinly veiled hints and innuendoes to the effect that the police were in possession of strange and sensational information and that ere long such a dramatic turn would be given to this Herapath Mystery that the whole town would seethe with excitement.
Barthorpe Herapath?" he continued, turning to the other side of the table. "Very well since I suggested that you should come here, you shall certainly have the opportunity. But just allow me to ask Mr. Tertius a question Tertius, you have heard what Mr. Frank Burchill has just said?" "I have!" replied Mr. Tertius. "And I am amazed!" "You stand by what you said yourself?
Halfpenny's private room was an apartment of considerable size, having in it two large recessed windows. Into one of these Mr. Tertius led Peggie, and there he spoke a few quiet words to her. Barthorpe Herapath affected to take no notice, but the other men, watching them closely, saw the girl start at something which Mr. Tertius said.
Jacob Herapath, gentlemen," he added, turning to his astonished listeners, "was shot dead and robbed by his office manager, James Frankton, and if James Frankton's eating his Sunday supper in peace and quietness, it's in one of our cells, for I arrested him at seven o'clock this very evening and with no help from you, Mr. Burchill!
At the end of that half-hour he rose, went into his bedroom, made an elaborate toilet, went out, found a taxi-cab, and drove off to Portman Square. When Barthorpe Herapath left his cousin, Mr.
"Still, I don't see that there's anything to be alarmed about, Kitteridge," he said. "Mr. Herapath may have wanted to go somewhere by a very early morning train " "No, sir, excuse me, that won't do," broke in the butler. "I thought of that myself. But if he'd wanted to catch a night train, he'd have taken a travelling coat, and a rug, and a bag of some sort he's taken nothing at all in that way.
"I know he had several fads, which one might call peculiarities." "He had a business peculiarity," replied Mr. Halfpenny, "and it was well known to people in his line of business. You know that Jacob Herapath had extensive, unusually extensive, dealings in real property land and houses. Quite apart from the Herapath Flats, he dealt on wide lines with real estate; he was always buying and selling.
At present I don't want Mr. Barthorpe Herapath to know what he told us. Be careful, my dear not a word! I'll tell you why later on but at present, silence strict silence!" Barthorpe Herapath came bustling into the room, followed by Selwood, who, as it seemed to Peggie, looked utterly unwilling for whatever task might lay before him. At sight of Mr.
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