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"Just so and therefore I've been doing a bit of secret inquiry amongst the bankers, as to who supplied himself with gold about that date," continued Jettison. "I'd to convince 'em of the absolute necessity of information, too, before I got any! But I got some at the third attempt.
Mitchington, thoroughly taken aback by this candid statement, was at a loss for words, and again he glanced at Jettison. But Jettison gave no help, and Mitchington fell back on himself. "So you fetched old Harker?" he said. "What what for, doctor? If one may ask, you know." Bryce made a careless gesture with his cigarette. "Oh old Harker's deeply interested in what's going on," he answered.
And taking things altogether; what are, or have been, these secret affairs which Bryce and Harker have evidently been engaged in?" Jettison suddenly rose, buttoning his light overcoat. The action seemed to indicate a newly-formed idea, a definite conclusion. He turned sharply to Mitchington. "There's one thing certain, inspector," he said. "You'll keep an eye on those two from this out!
It consisted of brief phrases and single words alternately; the single words the codebook offered a selection of a couple of hundred of them were meaningless, and employed solely to separate the phrases; and for half an hour Herr Haase's task was to separate this ballast from the cargo of the message and jettison it.
In spite of the simoom the prevailing west wind had cast up all along the shore for two or three miles each way perhaps a quarter or a third of the stores they had been forced to jettison. Before doing anything else, the Legion brought in these cases of provisions and established a regular camp in the wady where they would be protected from observation from the Sahara.
That their mother's dead that they're known under her maiden name: that they, without a shadow of doubt, are John Brake's children. And that leads up to my theory which I'll now tell you in confidence if you wish for it." "It's what I particularly wish for," observed Jettison quietly. "The very thing!" "Then, it's this," said Bryce.
"That man knows more than he's told, even now!" "Why hasn't he spoken sooner, then?" demanded Mitchington. "He's had two good chances at the inquests." "From what I saw of him, just now," said Jettison, "I should say he's the sort of man who can keep his own counsel till he considers the right time has come for speaking.
Jan told him that the carriages were giving way under the strain of the tents, two of the axle struts having broken; and he suggested that if we did not jettison the tents, some of the carriages would probably never get as far as Rashka. Sir Ralph told him to do what he thought best. So we pitched the two heavy tops and the long bamboo poles overboard, keeping the sides.
"And, since you're here now!" Mitchington, who felt a curious uneasiness, gave Jettison another glance. And this time it was Jettison who spoke. "I should say," he remarked quietly, "knowing what I've gathered of the matter, that we ought to be glad of any information Dr. Bryce can give us." "Oh, to be sure!" assented Mitchington. "You know more, then, doctor?"
Fairly astounded me, sir! Fifty pounds all in a lump!" "It's about that fifty pounds I want to know something," said Jettison. "He didn't tell you how he'd come by it? Wasn't a legacy, for instance?" "He didn't say anything but that he'd had a bit of luck," answered Stebbing. "I asked no questions. Legacy, now? no, he didn't mention that.
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