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"Did you ever, at any time, hear Mr. Ashton make any reference I'm talking now of the last few weeks to the Ellingham family, or to the Earl of Ellingham?" "Never!" replied Miss Wickham. "Never heard of them. He never " Mrs. Killenhall was showing signs of a wish to speak, and Mr. Pawle turned to her. "Have you, ma'am?" he asked. "Yes," said Mrs. Killenhall, "I have!
I think it will be well if I ask for information through the newspapers." "There is one matter we haven't mentioned," said Mrs. Killenhall. "Just after we got settled down here, Mr. Ashton went away for some days three or four days. That, of course, may be quite insignificant." "Do you know where he went?" asked Mr. Pawle. "No, we don't know," answered Mrs. Killenhall.
And I want some information about him, about his habits and " Miss Wickham got up from her chair and looked meaningly at Mrs. Killenhall. "The fact is," she said, turning to Drillford; "strange as it may seem, neither Mrs. Killenhall nor myself know very much about Mr. Ashton."
Killenhall and Miss Wickham saw him take it out just before he left to give some cash to the parlourmaid, and they saw him replace it in his trousers pocket; I also know for another fact where he spent money that evening in short, I know now a good deal about his movements for some hours before his death." "Then you ought to tell us, Mr. Viner," said Drillford a little sulkily.
To his astonishment it opened readily, but the anteroom outside was empty; Mrs. Killenhall had evidently walked straight through it and disappeared. "That's odd!" he said, turning to Miss Wickham. "I distinctly thought I heard something like the snap of a lock, or a bolt or something. Didn't you?" "I certainly heard a sound of that sort," admitted Miss Wickham. "But the door's open, isn't it?"
"I'm getting them to insert paragraphs asking the two men, Fosdick and Stephens, to come forward and tell us if they've seen anything of Ashton since he came to England; I'm also asking if anybody can tell us where Ashton was when he went away from home on that visit that Mrs. Killenhall spoke of. If " Just then a clerk came into Mr.
If you'll leave everything to me, I'll see that you are spared as much as possible. Of course, there'll have to be an inquest but you'll hear all about that tomorrow. Leave things to us and to Mr. Ashton's solicitors." He moved towards the door, and Viner, until then a silent spectator, looked at Miss Wickham, something impelling him to address her instead of Mrs. Killenhall.
Then I began to make final preparations. But before I'd finished telling my men exactly what to do, another party drove up your companion, Miss Wickham, Mrs. Killenhall. She too entered. Then I moved quick. Some of us went to the front I with the others went in by the back. We made straight for Cortelyon's surgery, and we were on him and the other two before they'd time to move, literally.
Martincole's place, Mr. Viner," answered Millwaters. "Mr. Perkwite and I traced Mr. Cave here early in the afternoon; he went in, but he's never come out; we saw you enter here you are. We saw Miss Wickham and Mrs. Killenhall there's Miss Wickham, but where's the other lady? And where " Viner stopped the clerk's questions with a glance, and he laughed a little as he gave him his answer.
If we're delayed much longer, Mrs. Killenhall will be too late for the bank." "What bank?" asked Viner. "My bank. I always give Mrs. Killenhall a check for the weekly bills every Friday, and as we were coming through the City to get here, she said, just before we left home, that I might as well give her the check and she could call and cash it as we drove back.
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