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"Might just as well go away," muttered Shirley, stepping into the hall. "If Horbury's got to come back by train from wherever he's gone to, he can't get here till the 10.45, and then he's got to walk up. Might as well go home for an hour." "The partners'll be here before an hour's over," said Neale. "One of them's always here by ten."
He made his answer tersely and definitely, having an idea that the senior partner looked at him as if he thought that something was being kept back. And Gabriel, after a moment's pause, shifted some of the papers on his desk, with an impatient movement. "Ask Mr. Horbury's housekeeper to step in here for a few minutes," he said. Neale went out by the private door, and presently returned with Mrs.
Chestermarke?" he asked quietly. "At present we don't propose to give any information to anybody whom it doesn't concern," replied Gabriel. "As regards the mere surface facts of Mr. John Horbury's disappearance, you know as much as we do." "You don't propose to join in any search for him or any attempt to discover his whereabouts, sir?" inquired Starmidge, speaking for the first time.
Neither the police-superintendent nor the detective had the slightest doubt after hearing Simmons' story that the man who presented himself at the Station Hotel at Scarnham on the evening of John Horbury's disappearance was Mr. Frederick Hollis, solicitor, of Gray's Inn. If they had still retained any doubt it would have disappeared next morning when they took the clerk down to see Mrs. Pratt.
"Of course, you know it's been put in our hands." "Not by us!" snapped Gabriel. "Quite so, sir, by Lord Ellersdeane, and by Mr. Horbury's niece, Miss Fosdyke," assented Polke. "The young lady, of course, is naturally anxious about her uncle's safety, and Lord Ellersdeane is anxious about the Countess's jewels. And we hear that securities of yours are missing."
I don't say they went together I don't say they went to Ecclesborough I don't say they caught a train: I only say what, it must be obvious, they easily could do without attracting attention." "The fact of Horbury's disappearance is unchallengeable," remarked Gabriel quietly. "We know why he disappeared." "I should think," said Joseph, still more quietly, "that Lord Ellersdeane also knows by now."
Carswell, who had left the gentlemen to themselves after opening the plate-chest, followed the new-comer into the room and looked appealingly at the senior partner. "This is Miss Fosdyke, sir," she said, as if accounting for the unceremonious entrance. "Mr. Horbury's " But Miss Fosdyke, having looked round her, entered the arena of discussion as abruptly as she had entered the room. "You're Mr.
We don't know any such person from the description. But we have no doubt he did meet Horbury and that his visit had something probably everything to do with Horbury's disappearance." "But how could he disappear?" asked the Earl. "I mean to say how could such a well-known man disappear so completely, without anybody knowing of it? It seems impossible!"
Horbury, on the other hand, had declared that the prisoner showed nothing symptomatic of epilepsy while awaiting remand. In Dr. Horbury's opinion, he was not an epileptic. Therefore the case resolved itself into a direct conflict of medical testimony, and it was for the jury to decide, and form a conclusion as to the man's state of mind in conjunction with the other evidence.
But it's in consequence of what I did hear, and of what Tolson, the town-crier, has been shouting down our way tonight, that I come up here to see you." "Much obliged to you, Mrs. Pratt," said Polke. "Very glad to hear anything that may have to do with Mr. Horbury's disappearance. Now, what did you hear?" "What I heard," replied the landlady, "was this here disjointed, as you would term it.
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