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The Eurasian girl was found near the house one night with a cord tightly twisted round her neck dead, of course. There were no other signs of violence, but some gold ornaments which the girl wore had disappeared. Pett was tried and she was discharged, for she set up an alibi of a sort that wouldn't have satisfied me," remarked Leykin in an aside.
He, however, insisted on sending you that money which was done: nothing else would satisfy him. But now arose a deeply interesting phase of the whole affair which has been up to now kept secret between Wraythwaite, myself, and Messrs. Stobb and Leykin there. To it I now invite your attention." Mr.
She had spent ten years in India between leaving home and going to the Royal Belvedere. She went out to India as a nurse in an officer's family. And while she was in India she was charged with strangling a fellow-servant a Eurasian girl who had excited her jealousy." Brereton started again at that, and he turned a sharp glance on Carfax, who nodded emphatically and signed to Leykin to proceed.
Leykin. Both ex-Scotland Yard men, and now in business for themselves as private inquiry agents. Smart fellows though I say it to their faces." "I gather from that that you have been doing some private inquiry work, then?" said Brereton. "In connexion with what, now?"
"Your turn, Leykin," he said. "Tell the result of your inquiries." Leykin was one of those men who possess soft voices and slow speech. Invited to play his part, he looked at Brereton as if he were half apologizing for anything he had to say. "Well," he said, "of course, sir, what Miss Pett told you about her posts at two London hotels was quite right.
"I have the report of that affair in my pocket," continued Leykin, more softly and slowly than ever. "It's worth reading, Mr. Brereton, and perhaps you'll amuse yourself with it sometime. But I can give you the gist of it in a few words. Pett was evidently in love with her master's orderly. He wasn't in love with her. She became madly jealous of this Eurasian girl, who was under-nurse.
And, as I say, we employed Stobb and Leykin, men of great experience, to just find out a little about Miss Pett. Of course, Miss Pett herself had given us something to go on. She had told you some particulars of her career. She had been housekeeper to a Major Stilman, at Kandahar Cottage, Woking. She had occupied posts at two London hotels.
So Stobb went to Woking, and Leykin devoted himself to the London part of the business. "And I think, Stobb," concluded the solicitor, turning to one of the inquiry agents, "I think you'd better tell Mr. Brereton what you found out at Woking, and then Leykin can tell us what he brought to light elsewhere."
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