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"There are the names of three Scarnham gentlemen before me Gabriel Chestermarke, Joseph Chestermarke, John Horbury. Now, then which of the three sports the other name of Godwin Markham?" Starmidge ate and drank in silence for awhile, evidently pondering his companion's question. "Yes," he said at last, "there's all that in it. It may be any one of the three. You never know!
Very well, let things go on." Neale went out and set his fellow-clerks to the usual routine. Patten went for the letters. Neale carried them into the partners' room. At ten o'clock the street door was opened. A customer or two began to drop in. The business of the day had begun. It went on just as it would have gone on if Mr. Horbury had been away on holiday.
Neale had never heard the name of Hollis mentioned by Horbury. And he added that he was absolutely sure that during the last five years no person of that name had ever had dealings with Chestermarke's Bank open dealings, at any rate. Secret dealings with the partners, severally or collectively, or with Horbury, for that matter, Mr.
As I have already said, if Horbury took charge of your lordship's property, he did so as a private individual, not on our behalf, not in his capacity as our manager. If your lordship had been a customer of ours " "That would have been a very different matter," said Joseph. "But as we have never had any dealings with your lordship " "We have, of course, no liability to you," concluded Gabriel.
"No I'm absolutely sure of it," said the clerk. "Horbury, perhaps, I might not remember, but I should have remembered Chestermarke it's an uncommon name, that to me, anyway." "Well," said Starmidge, after a pause, during which all three looked at each other as men look who have come to a dead stop in the progress of things, "there's one thing very certain, Mr. Simmons.
Polke, you should examine the house and especially that room, for Horbury may have hidden Lord Ellersdeane's property there. A deeply interesting room that!" added the old man musingly. "I haven't been in it for some sixty years or so, but I remember it quite well. It was in that room that Jasper Chestermarke murdered Sir Gervase Rudd."
"Could you tell? had you any idea? whose shadow it was?" demanded Neale eagerly. "No! he passed in a sort of slanting direction back and forward just once," answered Walford. "But his build was, I should say, about the like of John Horbury's. Mr. Neale Horbury might be locked up there! He's a bad 'un, is Joe Chestermarke oh, he's a rank bad 'un, my lad! though most folk don't know it.
He had known John Horbury since his own childhood, and had always regarded him as the personification of everything that was precise, systematic, and regular. All things considered, it was most remarkable that he should not be at the bank at opening hours. And already a vague suspicion that something had happened began to steal into his mind. "Did you happen to notice which way he went, Mrs.
"What?" asked the Earl. "You must come with me before the borough magistrates they're sitting now," said Polke, "and make application for a search-warrant. Your lordship will have to swear that you have lost your jewels, and that you have good cause to believe that they may be on the premises occupied lately by Mr. Horbury, to whose care you entrusted them.
Certainly, if John Horbury and the stranger desired to meet in secret, here was the place. The stranger had nothing to do but stroll along the river-bank from the hotel; Horbury had only to step out of his orchard and meet him. Once together, they had only to cross that foot-bridge into the woods to be immediately in surroundings of great privacy.
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