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According to Ashton, he and Marketstoke became friends, close friends, at a very early period of Marketstoke's career in Australia, and the friendship deepened and existed until Marketstoke's death some twelve or thirteen years ago. But Ashton never had the slightest notion of Marketstoke's real identity until his friend's last days.
Now, Ashton came from Australia, and as I say, we believe him to have brought with him certain highly important papers relative to Lord Marketstoke, whom we think to have been well known to him at one time. Indeed, we felt sure that Ashton knew Lord Marketstoke's secret.
I replied that I had at the time when application was made to the courts for leave to presume Lord Marketstoke's death. "Thereupon, pledging me to secrecy for the time being, Ashton went on to tell me that Lord Marketstoke was well known to him and that he alone knew all the facts of the matter, though a certain amount of them was known to another man, now living in London.
Now, my lord, we are also confident that whoever killed John Ashton did so in order to get hold of certain papers which, I feel certain, Ashton made a habit of carrying on his person papers relating to his friend Lord Marketstoke's identity." Lord Ellingham remained silent for a moment, looking from one visitor to another.
"My recollection is that it was at some place of a curious name. Ashton told me that Marketstoke's wife had been a governess in the family of some well-to-do-sheep-farmer she was an English girl, and an orphan. The child, however, was certainly born in Melbourne and registered in Melbourne." "Now, that's odd!" remarked Mr. Pawle.
"He merely told me that he was a man who had lived in Melbourne for some time and had known Marketstoke and himself very intimately had left Melbourne just after Marketstoke's death, and had settled in London. No, he did not mention his name." "Disappointing!" muttered Mr. Pawle. "That's the nearest approach to a clue that we've had, Perkwite. If we only knew who that man was!
He carried those in a pocketbook; had so carried them, he told me, ever since Marketstoke had handed them to him; they had never, he added, been out of his possession, day or night, since Marketstoke's death. Now, on examining the papers, I at once discovered two highly important facts.
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