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"We felt at once that you had given the jewels to Horbury." The Earl set the casket down on Gabriel's desk and looked a little uncertain and uncomfortable. Gabriel indicated the chair which he had politely moved forward on his visitor's entrance. "Won't your lordship sit down?" he said. The Earl accepted the invitation and looked from one man to the other.
The idea of a man being fastened up in a sound-proof chamber and fed on dry bread suggested possibilities which he did not and could not contemplate without a certain horror. And if there really was such a prisoner in that room, or cell, or whatever the place was, who could it be but John Horbury?
According to Starmidge's ideas, the bankers, if they really believed Horbury to have absconded, if certain securities of theirs really were missing, if they really thought that Horbury had carried them off, and the Countess of Ellersdeane's jewels with him, ought to have placed every information in their power at the disposal of the police: it was suspicious, and strange, and not at all proper, that they didn't.
But one thing is certain, my lad, after what we've just learned Hollis went down to Scarnham to offer that cheque to one of these three men. And whichever it was, that man's Godwin Markham! It's a double-life business, Jack the man's Godwin Markham here in London, and he's somebody else in somewhere else. Dead certainty, my lad!" "It's not Horbury," said Starmidge, after some reflection.
"Lying amongst this rubbish stones and dry wood, you see I just caught the gleam of the silver band. Now what should Mr. Horbury be doing down here? The path, you see, is a good thirty yards off. But he may have fallen over or been thrown over and it's a sixty-feet drop from top to bottom." Neale and Betty looked up the face of the rocks and said nothing.
"I do not know where your uncle is," replied Gabriel suddenly, and losing his starchiness. "I wish to Heaven I did!" "None of us know where Mr. John Horbury is," repeated Joseph, in his suavest tones. "We all wish to Heaven we did!" The girl turned and gave the junior partner a look which took in every inch of him.
You can tell Miss Fosdyke if you like she'll understand: women have more intuition than men. Now I'm off I want to get a wire away to London. Look here drop in at the police-station when you get back. We shall examine Hollis's clothing, you know there may be some clue to Horbury." He hurried off towards the town, and Neale rejoined Betty.
Carswell says he did leave the house, so we must take her word to begin with, and see if we can find out where he went. And as your lordship is here, there's just a question or two I should like to have answered. How many people know that your lordship handed over these valuables to Mr. Horbury?" "So far as I know, no one but the Countess and myself," replied the Earl.
In it, at the corner of Ledbury Road, stands the Westbourne Grove Baptist Chapel, a fine gray stone building with two southern steeple towers. The southern end of Pembridge Road is joined at an angle by Kensington Park Road, and at the corner stands Horbury Congregational Chapel, founded in August, 1848. It is built of gray stone and stands in a good position.
John Horbury, the manager of Chestermarke's Bank at Scarnham, pointed out to him when he left school, he needed more than three pounds a week if he wished to live comfortably and like a gentleman. Still, a hundred and fifty a year of sure and settled income was a fine thing, an uncommonly fine thing all that was necessary was to supplement it.
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