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But all men who ever had anything to do with Markledew were well aware that, difficult as he was of access, you had only got to approach him with something good to be rewarded for your pains in full measure. At ten minutes past four Triffitt, who had just finished his work, lifted his head to see a messenger-boy fling open the door of the reporter's room and cast his eyes round.
Of course, he was going to see my next-door neighbour! What about, friend Carver?" "If you could answer your own last question, we should know something," replied Carver. "We know something as it is," said Triffitt. "Enough for me to tell Markledew, anyway.
If he had consulted his own personal inclination he would have demanded to be led straight to the taxi-cab driver. But Triffitt knew himself to be the expender of the Markledew money, and the knowledge made him unduly cautious. "It comes to this," he said at last, "this chap knows something which he's already told to this Mr. Tertius. Mr.
He had wanted to find things out for himself, to make a grand discovery, to be able to go to Markledew and prove his case. Markledew could then have done what he pleased; it had always been in Triffitt's mind that Markledew would in all probability present the result of his reporter's labours to the people at Scotland Yard.
"Now, attend!" said Markledew, impressively. "You'll go on with this. You'll follow it up on the lines you suggest. But you'll print nothing except under my personal supervision. Make certain of your facts. Facts! understand! Wait." He pulled a couple of slips of paper towards him, scribbled a line or two on each, handed them to Triffitt, and nodded at the door. "That'll do," he said.
But Markledew had become somewhat previous he had insisted that Triffitt should talk to the Scotland Yard folk at this early in Triffitt's view, much too early stage of the proceedings. And Triffitt had felt all the time he was talking that he was only telling the high official and the apathetic Davidge something that they already knew.
Triffitt looked at Markledew: Markledew nodded his big head. "Go with him," said Markledew. "Work with him! He knows what he's after." Davidge took Triffitt away to Mr. Halfpenny's office on the way thither he talked about London fogs, one of which had come down that morning. But he never mentioned the business in hand until having left Triffitt outside while he went in he emerged from Mr.
"When you want me, let me know. And mind you've got a fine chance, young man." Triffitt could have fallen on the carpet and kissed Markledew's large boots. But knowing Markledew, he expressed his gratitude in two words and a bow, and sped out of the room. Once outside, he hastened to send the all-powerful notes.
It was very soon plain to him, however, that his proprietor knew his way about the Criminal Investigation Department as well as he knew the Argus office. Markledew was quickly closeted with the high official who had seen Mr. Halfpenny and Mr. Tertius a few days previously; while they talked, Triffitt was left to kick his heels in a waiting-room.
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