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He followed until they had passed the front of the hospital a few yards further, and Yada suddenly crossed the road in the direction of the Underground Railway. He darted in at the entrance to the City-bound train, and disappeared, and Melky, uncertain what to do, almost danced with excitement until Ayscough came leisurely towards him. "Quick! quick!" exclaimed Melky.
"It ain't never been off me, mister, since I found it!" he said, producing a little packet wrapped in tissue paper. "There you are!" Guyler took the stud which Melky handed to him and laid it on the table around which they were all sitting. After glancing at it for a moment, he withdrew the studs from his own wrist-bands and laid them by its side.
Oh, yes I don't make no mistake, Mr. Purdie." Purdie looked again at Melky this time with an enquiry in his glance. "Don't ask me, Mr. Purdie!" said Melky. "I don't know what to say. Sounds like as if these two went into Levendale's house. But what man would have a latch-key to that but Levendale himself? More mystery! ain't I full of it already? Now if Mr. Ayscough hadn't gone away "
"Not in reason," answered Purdie. "Then there's the Great Western Hotel, at the end o' Praed Street," said Melky. "That'll suit a young gentleman like you, mister, down to the ground. And you'll be right on the spot!" "Come with me, then," said Purdie. "And then to the police."
"He's gone down there City trains. He'll be off unless you're on to him!" But Ayscough remained quiescent and calmly relighted his cigar. "All right, my lad," he said. "Let him go just now. I've seen what I expected to see!" Melky, who had grown breathless in his efforts to carry out his companion's wishes, turned and looked at him with no attempt to conceal his wonder.
Purdie jumped to his feet, and putting the man aside looked into the dimly-lighted corridor. There, a few paces away, stood Zillah and, half hidden by her, Mrs. Goldmark. "Come in come in!" he exclaimed. "Nobody here but Andie Lauriston and Melky Rubinstein. You've something to tell something's happened?"
But it's you that's the quick mind." Melky laid a finger to the side of his nose. "Do you know what, Mrs. Goldmark?" he said. "I ain't going to let them police fellows put a hand on young Lauriston, not me! I've my own ideas about this here business wait till I put my hand on somebody, see?
"You seem very anxious to buy that watch," said Lauriston, laughing. "No I don't want to sell the ticket not I! I wouldn't part with that watch for worlds." "Well, if you don't, you don't," remarked Melky. "And as to wanting to buy that's my trade. I ain't no reg'lar business I buy and sell, anything that comes handy, in the gold and silver line.
That object was the duplicate of the platinum solitaire which Melky had in his pocket. Without ceremony being well known there he at once picked it up. "What's this bit of jewellery?" he demanded. "That?" said the waitress, indifferently. "Oh, one of the girls picked it up the other day off a table where a stranger had been sitting we think he'd dropped it. Mrs.
He told how Lauriston ran into him as he entered the shop; what Lauriston said to him; what he himself saw and observed; what happened afterwards. It was a plain and practical account, with no indication of surprise, bias, or theory and nobody asked the detective any questions arising out of it. "Ain't nobody but you to call, now, mister," whispered Melky.
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