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As it was, in the supposed fight, Mr. Shipman's diamonds passed from the hands of the tramp into those of his accomplice. "Then, later on, Robertson, ill in bed, while his master was supposed to have returned by the way, it never struck anybody that no one saw Mr. Knopf come home, though he surely would have driven up in a cab. Then the double part played by one man for the next two days.
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Emile Knopf's name in order to get his brother out of the way. "It was now nearly ten o'clock, and the detectives, having taken leave of Mr. Shipman, went back to No. 22, in order to ascertain whether Mr. Knopf had come back; the door was opened by the old charwoman, who said that her master had returned, and was having some breakfast in the dining-room. "Mr.
"The man in the shirt was gradually recovering from his excitement. "'Can I give this man in charge? he asked. "'What for? "'Burglary and housebreaking. I heard him, I tell you. He must have Mr. Knopf's diamonds about him at this moment. "'Where is Mr. Knopf? "'Out of town, groaned the man in the shirt. 'He went to Brighton last night, and left me in charge, and now this thief has been and
Ferdinand Knopf, he said, was a diamond merchant, and a bachelor. He himself had been in Mr. Knopf's employ over fifteen years, and was his only indoor servant. A charwoman came every day to do the housework. "Last night Mr. Knopf dined at the house of Mr. Shipman, at No. 26, lower down. Mr. Shipman is the great jeweller who has his place of business in South Audley Street.
The accomplice, then, was fully on the alert; he slipped the bolts of the back garden gate. Five minutes later Knopf was in the house, in a hot bath, getting rid of the disguise of our friend the tramp. Remember that again here the detective did not actually see him. "The next morning Mr. Knopf, black hair and beard and all, was himself again.
Ferdinand Knopf was a middle-aged man, with sallow complexion, black hair and beard, of obviously Hebrew extraction. He spoke with a marked foreign accent, but very courteously, to the two officials, who, he begged, would excuse him if he went on with his breakfast. "'I was fully prepared to hear the bad news, he explained, 'which my man Robertson told me when I arrived.
"It was Robertson who, two days after the robbery, having need of a large stone, for some household purpose or other, dislodged one from that piece of waste ground, and found a few shining pebbles beneath it. Mr. Knopf took them round to the police-station himself immediately, and identified the stones as some of his Parisian ones.
"Then the Brazilian diamonds, and the Parisians which, remember, were so perfect that they required chemical testing to be detected. The Parisian stones are sold not in business, of course in the evening, after dinner and a good deal of wine. Mr. Knopf's Brazilians were beautiful; perfect! Mr. Knopf was a well-known diamond merchant. "Mr.
"Who knew of the presence of the diamonds in the house of Mr. Shipman and Mr. Knopf? Firstly," he said, putting up an ugly claw-like finger, "Mr. Shipman, then Mr. Knopf, then, presumably, the man Robertson." "And the tramp?" said Polly. "Leave the tramp alone for the present since he has vanished, and take point number two. Mr. Shipman was drugged.
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