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"You and I, of course, are the two important witnesses. You principally. You know everything I only came in at the end." "I suppose there are and have been all sorts of rumours?" said Horbury. "I don't see how anybody but myself could know all that happened in this horrible business. Hollis, for instance? have they come to any conclusion about his death?" "None!" replied Neale.
"The true position of the case is that your lordship handed your property to Horbury as a friend, not as manager of Chestermarke's Bank." "Then let me ask you, what are you going to do?" said the Earl. "I mean, not about my affair, but about finding your manager?" Gabriel looked at his nephew: Joseph shook his head. "So far," said Joseph, "we have not quite considered that.
Leonard Hollis, of Birmingham, has come. He's identified the body." "And what does he think, or suggest?" asked Joseph, glancing out of the corners of his eyes at Starmidge. "Has he any suggestions or ideas?" "He thinks his brother came here to meet Mr. Horbury," answered Starmidge. "That's so evident that it's no news," remarked Joseph. "Perhaps he can suggest where Horbury's to be found."
In this connexion it is proper to recall the devoted services which he rendered to the House of Mercy at Horbury, near Wakefield; and those who know what religious prejudice was in rural districts forty years ago will realize the value of the support accorded to an institution struggling against calumny and misrepresentation by the most popular and promising young man in the West Riding.
It might have something to do with the missing jewels; it might be mixed up with Frederick Hollis's death; it might be that Horbury and Joseph Chestermarke were jointly concerned in but there he was at a loss, not knowing or being able to speculate on what they could be concerned in.
As it was highly important that the jury should know at once if Mr. Horbury and Mr. Hollis called at the Warren on Saturday evening last, he, the Coroner, had sent for Mr. Chestermarke's butler, who would doubtless be able to give information on that point. They would adjourn for an hour until the witness attended." "That's the end of it in that paper," remarked Starmidge.
"Gabriel'll want to know the whys and wherefores, you bet. But Neale won't tell us anything he's too thick with Horbury." Neale, entering the partners' room, found them in characteristic attitudes.
"There is nothing of that sort there beyond what I and my nephew know of. I am sure your lordship's jewels are not there." "But Horbury?" exclaimed the Earl. "Where is he? He would tell you!" "We don't know where Mr. Horbury is," answered Gabriel "The truth may as well be told he's missing. And so are some of our most valuable securities." The Earl slowly looked from one partner to another.
"There's no doubt he came down here to see one or other of them Horbury, most likely." "And who's to tell us anything?" asked Polke. "Miss Fosdyke's a relation of Horbury's," replied Starmidge. "She may know Hollis by name. Mr. Neale's always been in touch with Horbury he may have heard of Hollis. And so may the bankers." "The difficulty is to make them say anything," said Polke.
All the same, Mr. Horbury was the man who did all the business with customers in the ordinary way. So far as I know banking," concluded Neale, "I should say he was trusted and confided in more than most bank managers are." "Did they seem very much astonished when they found he'd gone?" asked Betty. "Did it seem a great shock, a real surprise?"
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