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Updated: June 22, 2025
Glancing around the room as he sat in a big easy chair, his hands behind his head, Brereton's eyes fell suddenly on Kitely's legacy to Windle Bent.
Kitely's gone out for his regular bedtime constitution he will have that, wet or fine, every night. But he's much longer than usual, and " She stopped suddenly, seeing some news in Bent's face, and her own contracted to a questioning look. "Is there aught amiss?" she asked. "Has something happened him? Aught that's serious? You needn't be afraid to speak, Mr.
For the one topic which filled his own mind was also the very one which he could not discuss with Bent. Had Cotherstone, had Mallalieu anything to do with Kitely's death?
"My answer's in one word, too. Yes!" Tallington opened Kitely's scrap-book at the account of the trial at Wilchester, placed it before Cotherstone, and indicated certain lines with the point of a pencil. "You're the Chidforth mentioned there?" he asked quietly. "And your partner's the Mallows?"
Kitely's death?" "Yes. I sent him a telegram first thing this morning." "Asking him to bring the will?" "No, I did not!" exclaimed Miss Pett, indignantly. "I never mentioned the will. Mr. Kitely was very fond of my nephew he considered him a very clever young man." "We shall, no doubt, have the pleasure of seeing your nephew," remarked Brereton.
She knew her master's habits she knew the surroundings she knew where Harborough kept that cord she is the sort of person who could steal about as quietly as a cat. If as may be established by the will which her nephew has, and of which, in spite of all she affirmed, or, rather, swore, she may have accurate knowledge she benefits by Kitely's death, is there not motive there?
"I've no desire to see Mr. Kitely's will. I quite accept all that you say about it. You, as a lawyer, know very well that whatever I asked Miss Pett this morning was asked in the interests of my client. No you can put the will away as far as I'm concerned. You've assured me that Miss Pett is as yet in ignorance of its contents, and I take your word.
From the moment in which Mallalieu had discovered that Kitely knew the secret of the Wilchester affair he had prepared for eventualities, and Kitely's death had made no difference to his plans. If one man could find all that out, he argued, half a dozen other men might find it out. The murder of the ex-detective, indeed, had strengthened his resolve to be prepared.
His whole behaviour suggested pre-occupation, occasional absent-mindedness: once or twice he obviously did not hear the remarks which were addressed to him. He had certainly betrayed some curious sort of confusion when Kitely's name was mentioned. And he had manifested great astonishment, been much upset, when Garthwaite came in with the news of Kitely's death.
Harborough had again been brought up before the Highmarket magistrates, had stubbornly refused to give any definite information about his exact doings on the night of Kitely's murder, and had been duly committed for trial on the capital charge. On the same day the coroner, after holding an inquest extending over two sittings, had similarly committed him.
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