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We must wait and see if anybody comes forward to say that he, she, or it saw Mr. Horbury after he left his house on Saturday night. That's all." "Somebody must have seen him," said the Earl. "Well, you'd think so, my lord," replied Polke, "but he could get away from the back of his orchard into the open country without being seen.
The senior partner sat at his desk, stern, upright, his eyes burning a little more fiercely than usual: the junior, his slouch hat still on his head, his hands thrust in his pockets, lounged against the mantelpiece, staring at his uncle. "Now, Neale," said Gabriel Chestermarke. "What do you know about this? Have you any idea where Mr. Horbury is?" "None," replied Neale. "None whatever!"
Horbury speak of his school-days at Selburgh!" he said. "And now I come to think of it he had some books with the school coat-of-arms on the sides prizes." "Just so!" remarked Hollis. "I remember Jack Horbury very well indeed, though I never saw him after I left school, nor heard of him either, until I saw all this news about him in the papers.
Neale," replied the housekeeper. "She wouldn't stay here, though her room was all ready for her. Said she wouldn't stop two seconds in a house that belonged to men who suspected her uncle! So she's gone across there to take rooms. Do do the partners suspect Mr. Horbury of something, Mr. Neale?" Neale shook his head and turned away. "I can't tell you anything, Mrs. Carswell," he answered.
If that was your governor who came down to the Station Hotel here on Saturday evening last, he certainly telephoned from there to Chestermarke's Bank as soon as he arrived. And he got a reply from there, and he evidently went out to meet whoever sent it that sender seeming to be Mr. Horbury, the manager.
It wouldn't a bit surprise me, you know, if it comes out in the end that Mr. Horbury, after all, did fall down one of these old shafts. I couldn't believe it possible at first, knowing that he knew every in and out of the place, but I'm beginning to think he may have done. There's only one thing against that theory." "What?" asked Betty. "Where's the other gentleman?" answered the tinker.
That lane led nowhere else than to the Warren it was locally called the lane, but it was really a sort of carriage-drive to Mr. Chestermarke's front door, and there was a gate at the high-road entrance to it. He saw Mr. Horbury and his companion enter that gate; he heard it clash behind them. "'Questioned by Mr.
And the man who is best trusted has more opportunities than the man who's watched. We never suspected and so we never watched." "You have heard of the stranger who came to the town on Saturday night, and is believed to have telephoned from the Station Hotel to Horbury?" asked the Earl. "What of him?" "We have heard," answered Gabriel. "We don't know any more.
"All right I'll meet you." And after that, concludes Mrs. Pratt, 'he rings off. Now, why shouldn't it be Joseph Chestermarke that he was going to meet? remember, again, the river-side path leads straight to Joseph's house. Come! Mrs. Pratt's story doesn't point conclusively to Horbury at all.
Horbury left his house at a quarter to eight on Saturday evening and has not been heard of since. No more, Neale. And now," he concluded, with a bow to the Earl, "your lordship will excuse my partner and myself if we return to a singularly unpleasant task." Lord Ellersdeane and Neale left the bank-house and walked towards the police-station.
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