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Updated: May 13, 2025
Built of mellow red brick with dingy white stone facings, it stood a few yards back from the roadway which ran from Gartley Fort through the village, and, at the precise point where the Pyramids was situated, curved abruptly through woodlands to terminate a mile away, at Jessum, the local station of the Thames Railway Line.
Like a geographical Lord Byron, the isolated village of Gartley awoke one morning to find itself famous. Previously unknown, save to the inhabitants of Brefort, Jessum, and the surrounding country, and to the soldiers stationed in the Fort, it became a nine days' centre of interest.
When I became aware that you must have written the letter, I drove at once to Jessum to see if you had gone to London, as you had posted it there. I learned from the station master and from a porter that you went to town by the seven o'clock train and returned by the midnight." Mrs. Jasher leaped to her feet. "They could not recognize me.
As they entered the door, the two men who had taken in the case blundered out and shortly drove away on the lorry towards Jessum railway station. In the museum they found Braddock purple with rage and swearing vigorously.
Robinson went to his own house to get his trap and drive into Jessum, there to catch the train and ferry to Pierside. It was necessary that Inspector Date should be informed of this new tragedy without delay, and as Constable Painter was engaged in watching the cottage, there was no messenger available but Dr. Robinson.
Lucy and the servants all sighed with relief when they saw the trap disappear round the end of the road in the direction of Jessum. In addition to being a famous archaeologist, the Professor was assuredly a great nuisance to those who had to do with his whims and fancies. For the next two or three days Lucy enjoyed herself in a quiet way with Archie.
Braddock rarely gave early intimation of his urban nostalgia. At breakfast he would suddenly announce that the fit took him to go to London, and he would drive to Jessum along with Cockatoo to catch the ten o'clock train to London.
Halfway down the village they met a trap, and in it Captain Hervey being driven to the Jessum railway station. "Have you seen Don Pedro?" asked the Professor, stopping the vehicle. "I reckon not," answered Hervey stolidly. "He's gone into Pierside to see the police. I'm off there also." "You had better come with us," said Archie sternly; "we are going to see Sir Frank Random."
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