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Updated: September 4, 2025
This fellow Mayes is a dangerous man; and I feel it a point of honour that he shall not continue to escape.
In fifteen years to cut a long story short I had made the small competency which I have brought to England with me, with the idea of a peaceful end to my life and my wife's; though I doubt if I am to have that now. I doubt it, and I will tell you why. Mr. Hewitt, when I went away without warning on Thursday night I was dogging Mayes!" Hewitt nodded, with no sign of surprise.
And in the end it became possible to identify this man with Mayes. Mr. Moon, of "The Compasses," was of great comfort to me that evening. My cuts and bruises were washed in his house, and my inner man revived with his food and drink. "Allus glad to oblige the p'lice," said Mr. Moon; "allus. 'Cos why? Ain't they the p'lice? Very well then!"
He was dangerous, and his end came quickly. Another victim who had probably begun innocently enough was Henning, the clerk to Kingsley, Bell and Dalton, and his death in the Penn's Meadow barn leaves a mystery that never can be positively cleared up. Was it murder or was it suicide by post-hypnotic suggestion? It will be remembered that the fire burst out in the barn after Mayes had left it.
Mayes's stronghold was taken, but Mayes had escaped us once again; the cage was in our hands, but the bird had flown. Martin Hewitt, however, had his plans, as he was soon to show.
"It's a case altogether out of the ordinary, and one of a string of such, all of which you have at your fingers' ends. And I don't mind confessing that this man Mayes is a little too big a handful for one for me, at any rate. I wish you could work with me over this; in fact, in the special circumstances I've a good mind to ask to have you retained, as an exceptional measure.
The manager formed a notion that it must be for some gambling purpose he fancied that Mayes said something distantly alluding to that, but wasn't sure." "Did you ask about the address given to the bank?" "Of course; but there we gained nothing. The manager couldn't remember it exactly, and the books, of course, were locked up.
But Corder came up, and made pretence to ask me for a match to light his pipe; and under cover of that he told me that he had seen Mayes not an hour before, coming out of the Admiralty. At this, of course, I pricked up my ears. I didn't know what they wanted me for, but if there was mischief, and that fellow had been there, it was likely at least that he might have been in it.
I could hear a noise of feet and hurried voices, and then suddenly arose a shout in a voice which seemed to be Plummer's. "Here!" it cried. "Help! This way, Hewitt! Brett!" I shouted back at the top of my voice, wondering where Plummer was, and what it might all mean. And with that Mayes turned, and I saw that he was about to make for the door I had entered by.
Brett who was with you, and the matter needs hurry. You've heard no more of that fellow Myatt, Hunt, Mayes, whatever his name is last since the barn murder, of course? Has Peytral given you the tip he half promised?" Hewitt shook his head again. "Brett has this moment come to ask the same question," he said. "I have heard nothing." "I must have it," said Plummer, emphatically.
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