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To Tarling it was amazing that the man had maintained this show of bravado to the last, though in his heart he knew that the Crown had a very poor case against Milburgh if the charge of embezzlement and arson were proceeded with.
Milburgh was a man who let very few opportunities slip. What could he make out of this, he wondered? Again Sam Stay supplied the clue. "I'm going to settle with that girl " He stopped and closed his lips tightly, and looked with a cunning little smile at Milburgh. "I didn't say anything, did I?" he asked with a queer little chuckle. "I didn't say anything that would give me away, did I?"
I begged that she would not go near the flat, and I promised that I myself would go there, pack the necessary articles for the journey and take them down in a taxi to Charing Cross." "I see," said Tarling, "so it was you who packed the bag?" "Half-packed it," corrected Mr. Milburgh. "You see, I'd made a mistake in the time the train left.
It is a disgraceful habit, and really is one of my few vices," he admitted. "I threw it down when I turned out the radiator." Tarling smiled. "Won't you sit down?" said Milburgh, seating himself in the least comfortable of the chairs. "You see," his smile was apologetic as he waved his hand to the table, "the work is frightfully heavy now that poor Mr. Lyne is dead.
You'll find they're simply signed with an initial a characteristic of his but they bear his town address." "You've looked through them?" asked Tarling "Read 'em all," replied the other. "There's nothing at all incriminating in any of them. They're what I would call bread and butter letters, dealing with little investments which Milburgh has made in his wife's name or rather, in the name of Mrs.
"Your radiator is still warm," said Tarling quietly, stooping to feel the little stove. Mr. Milburgh chuckled. "Isn't that clever of you to discover that?" he said admiringly. "The fact is, I was so sleepy when I went to bed, several hours ago, that I forgot to turn the radiator off, and it was only when I came down to answer the bell that I discovered I had left it switched on."
Milburgh to say that complaints have been made by Milburgh concerning thefts of money from your department." "That's absolutely impossible!" she cried emphatically. "Mr. Milburgh would never say such a thing. Absolutely impossible!" "Mr.
"It was a woman's act to put flowers on the man," said Whiteside quietly. "Those daffodils tell me of pity and compassion, and perhaps repentance." A slow smile dawned on Tarling's face. "My dear Whiteside," he said, "you are getting sentimental! And here," he added, looking up, "attracted to the spot, is a gentleman I seem to be always meeting Mr. Milburgh, I think."
I snatched my overcoat from the peg and ran out of the room; through the back way into the mews, and reached Camden Town that night, a mental and physical wreck." "Did you leave the lights burning?" asked Tarling. Mr. Milburgh thought for a moment. "Yes," he said, "I left the lights burning." "And you left the body in the flat?" "That I swear," replied Milburgh.
Milburgh had, in fact, made such an attempt, but as he was engaged in a systematic study of the diaries from the beginning he had eventually put aside the last volume after an unsuccessful effort to break the fastening. "Is there nothing else?" asked Tarling. "Nothing," said the disappointed inspector, looking into the interior. "There may be other little cupboards of this kind," he added.
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