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Updated: June 28, 2025
Such things have been known. I want to go into all that. But now here's another matter. If Ashton really was the missing Lord Marketstoke, who is this girl whom he put forward as his ward, to whom he's left his considerable fortune, and about whom nobody knows anything? I've already told you there isn't a single paper or document about her that I can discover. Was he really her guardian?"
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.
"Well, now, did you think you recognized anything of him making allowance for the difference in age in this man who called himself John Ashton?" asked Mr. Pawle. "For that, of course, is important!" "Mr. Ashton," answered Mrs. Summers, "was just such a man as Lord Marketstoke might have been expected to become. Height, build all the Cave-Grays that I've known were big men colour, were alike.
"After we came back from Marketstoke," replied Mr. Pawle, "I looked up the Cave-Gray family and their peerage. That locket bears their device and motto. The device is a closed fist, grasping a handful of blades of wheat; the motto is Have and Hold. Viner, as sure as fate, that girl's father was the missing Lord Marketstoke, and Ashton knew the secret! I'm convinced of it I'm positive of it.
"You'd have thought that when Lord Marketstoke was so extensively advertised for some years ago, on the death of his father, some of these officials " "Ah! I put that point to Ashton," interrupted Mr. Perkwite.
"Wrong or right, my conclusions are these: From certain investigations which Mr. Viner and I have made since this affair began with the murder of Ashton and from certain evidence which we have unearthed, I believe that Ashton's friend Wickham, the father of the girl we are going to produce this afternoon, was in reality your lordship's uncle, the missing Lord Marketstoke.
Now," he continued, turning again to the witness as the magistrate nodded assent, "we will assume for the time being that you are what you represent yourself to be the Lord Marketstoke who disappeared from England thirty-five years ago. You have just heard what I said to His Worship about these papers, and what I put forward as regards their connection with the murder of John Ashton?
Ashton then not only asked his advice about the Ellingham affair, alleging that he knew the missing Lord Marketstoke, but showed him the papers which you have recently deposited with Mr. Methley here which papers, Ashton alleged, were intrusted to him by Lord Marketstoke on his deathbed. Ashton, according to Mr.
"Haven't we heard already, that a man named Wickham handed over his daughter Avice to Ashton's care and guardianship?" he asked. "Doesn't that seem to be an established fact?" "No doubt of it!" assented Mr. Pawle. "Well?" "In my opinion," said Viner, quietly, "Wickham was the missing Lord of Marketstoke!" Mr.
If you'll consent to that, I'll see that, without a word from us as to why, this man who claims to be the missing Lord Marketstoke is brought here. If what you say is true, we are not going to be partners to a crime. Let me tell Woodlesford I'll answer for him." Viner considered this proposition for a moment. "Very well!" he said at last. "Tell him I shall trust you both.
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