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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.
As Lord Ellersdeane there knows being, as his lordship is, a member of our society the bank-house is so old that underneath it there may be such matters as old wells, old drains. Now, supposing Horbury had discovered some way under the present house, some secret passage or something, and that he went down into it on Sunday eh?
Where are the jewels? Where are those securities? And where is Horbury! Answer! without lying. You devil! I tell you I know know! I have seen Mrs. Carswell!" Gabriel had moved a little as he went on speaking moved nearer to his nephew, still pointing the incriminating and accusing finger at him. And Joseph had moved, too backward. He was watching his uncle with a queer expression.
I shouldn't be a bit surprised if they did. Those detective fellows like Starmidge are very clever in their way, but they always seem to me to stop thinking a bit too soon. Now both Starmidge and Polke seem to take it for certain that this Hollis went to meet Horbury when he left the Station Hotel. There's no proof that he went to meet Horbury none!"
"If they came together on to this waste, one couldn't fall down a shaft without the other knowing it, eh? And it's scarcely likely they'd both fall down." Neale glanced at Betty and shook his head. "There you are, you see!" he muttered. "They all hang to the notion that Hollis did meet Horbury! Mr. Horbury may have been alone, after all, you know," he went on, turning to Creasy.
Hollis," remarked Polke, "is that we can't find the slightest reason, either from anybody here, or from your brother's clerk in London, why your brother should come to see Horbury, whether for business, or for any other purpose. And as to his remembering Mr. Frederick Hollis, well, here's Mr. Neale Mr. Horbury was his guardian and Mr. Neale, of course, has known him all his life. Now, Mr.
It's as I say the telephone conversation may have begun with Horbury, but it may have ended with somebody else. And what I say is who was the precise person whom Hollis went to meet?" "Are you going to tell all that to Starmidge?" asked Betty admiringly. "Because I'm sure it's never entered his head so far." "Depends," replied Neale. "Let's see if the tinker has anything to tell.
Nevertheless, his next step was clearly enough discernible. "You say you saw your brother some eight or nine months ago, sir?" he remarked. "Did he mention Mr. Horbury to you at that time?" "No, he didn't," replied Hollis. "Did he ever recently, I mean ever mention his name to you in a letter?" asked Starmidge. "No never!
"And I should say, Starmidge, that it was private business brought him down here if he's the man, as he certainly seems to be. But whose?" Starmidge turned again to the clerk. "You've a good memory, I can see," he said. "Now, did you ever hear Mr. Hollis mention the name of Horbury?" "Never!" replied Simmons. "Did you ever hear him speak of Chestermarke's Bank?" asked Starmidge. "No never!
One night after dinner your lordship was here an hour or so." Gabriel Chestermarke opened the door of the dining-room an old-fashioned apartment which looked out on a garden and orchard at the rear of the house. "Mrs. Carswell," he said, as they all went in, "has Mr. Horbury a safe in this room, or in any other room? You know what I mean." But the housekeeper shook her head.
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