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Melky forgot no detail; he did full justice to every important point, and laid particular stress on the proceedings before the Coroner. And in the end he appealed confidently to his listener. "And now I put it up to you, mister straight!" concluded Melky. "Could I ha' done better for him than to give him the advice I did?
Here then, said Lauriston to himself, were eleven men, all in a secret and there were doubtless others amongst the company whom he did not know. "But where's Melky Rubinstein?" he whispered suddenly. "I should have thought he'd have turned up he's been so keen on finding things out." "There's time enough yet," answered Purdie. "It's not one. I don't see the Jap, either.
"There's a friend o' mine," continued Melky, "wholesale jeweller, down Shoreditch way, wants to get out a catalogue. He ain't no lit'ry powers, d'you see? Now, he'd run to a fiver cash down if some writing feller 'ud touch things up a bit for him, like. Lor' bless you! it wouldn't take you more'n a day's work! What d'ye say to it?"
"What Melky says is go and find out what Mr. Killick can prove," he said. "Best thing to do, too, Andie, for us. Now that these detectives are fairly on the hunt, and are in possession of a whole multitude of queer details and facts, we'll just do our bit of business which is to clear you entirely. There's more reasons than one why we should do that, my man!"
When the waitress came back, he whispered a word or two to her; the waitress nodded with full comprehension for everybody knew Melky at Goldmark's, and if the waitresses wanted a little jewellery now and then, he let them have it at cost price. "So you can give me the checks for both," said Melky. "I'll pay 'em."
"Let's see if there's any way of getting in here," he said. "My conscience, Mr. Rubinstein! you must have had some instinct about coming here tonight! We've hit on something but Lord bless me if I know what it is!" "Mr. Ayscough!" said Melky. "I hadn't a notion of aught like that it's give me a turn! But don't I know what it means, Mr. Ayscough not half! It's all of a piece with the rest of it!
Melky nodded at Purdie, as much as to invite him to speak. "The authorities at New Scotland Yard have the Levendale affair in hand," said Purdie. "We've been in and out there, with Mr. Multenius's solicitor, all the afternoon and evening. But, of course, we couldn't tell anything about this other man because we didn't know anything, till now. You'll have no objection to going there tomorrow?"
But lor' bless yer! they takes their tip from the Coroner he's the fellow what you've got to watch." Then Melky looked around more narrowly, and suddenly espied the legal- looking man who was talking to the police. He dug his elbow into Lauriston. "Mister!" he whispered. "You be careful what you say when you get into that there witness-box.
Lauriston, whom she also knew, in the shop, and her grandfather dead in the parlour behind. At this stage of her evidence, the Coroner remarked that he did not wish to ask Zillah any further questions just then, but he asked her to remain in court. Mrs. Goldmark had followed her, and she and Zillah sat down near Melky and Lauriston and Lauriston half believed that his own turn would now come.
"Strikes me you ain't up to your job!" remarked Melky, coolly. "He went out, three-quarters of an hour ago. Gone home, I should say." The man turned away, evidently puzzled, but just as evidently taking Melky's word. He went off in the direction of Star Street, while Melky strolled along to the pawnbroker's shop. It was necessary that he should tell his cousin of what he had done. Mrs.
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