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"Purvis was excited trembling, big fellow though he is, do you see? He will bear me out as to what was said and done. Without a word, he turned and pointed to where Daniel Multenius was lying across the floor dead. 'I haven't been here a minute! said Purvis. 'I came in found him, like that! There's nobody here. For God's sake, where's my diamond? "Now, I was quick to think.
He wanted to know that for a simple reason he had never done business with Mr. Multenius, never even seen him that he remembered, but he had had one transaction with Miss Wildrose, and he wished, if possible, to do his business with her. As a matter of fact he saw nobody inside the shop when he looked in through the front door and the window so he went round to the side-entrance.
Purdie and Lauriston, in fact, had immediately been struck by the similarity of the names Molteno and Multenius, and they exchanged another look which their host detected and knew to convey a meaning. He leaned forward in his chair. "Now, that strikes you both!" he said. "What's all this about? Better give me your confidence."
Multenius appears to have come to his death by violence and I want to know if whoever took your book into his shop had anything to do with it." "Ah! however, I can't tell you any more," said Levendale. "Please see that my book's taken great care of and returned to me, sergeant. Good- morning." Outside, Ayscough consulted his watch and looked at his companions.
Rubinstein, there's one fact which you may as well get into your minds at once. Your deceased relative had his secrets!" Neither Zillah nor Purdie made any comment on this, and the solicitor, with a meaning look at Purdie, went on. "Not that Daniel Multenius revealed any of them to me!" he continued. "I have acted for him in legal matters for some years, but only in quite an ordinary way.
"Here's a schedule, prepared by Mr. Multenius himself, and handed by him to me not many weeks ago, of his property outside this business," he remarked. "I'll go through the items. Shares in the Great Western Railway. Shares in the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. Government Stock. Certain American Railway Stock. It's all particularized and all gilt- edged security.
Here's a cheque here that puzzled me I don't know anything about it. But it'll be a quarter's rent for that house. Look at the signatures!" She laid a cheque before Melky and Mr. Penniket and stood by while they looked at it. There was nothing remarkable about the cheque made out to Mr. Daniel Multenius on order for L36 except the two odd looking names at its foot Chang Li: Chen Li.
Daniel Multenius was throttled for that diamond Parslett's death arose out of that diamond everything's arisen from that diamond! And, now that you police folks know all this you know what to do. You want the man, or men, who were in Daniel Multenius's shop about five o'clock on that particular day, and who carried off that diamond. Mr. Purvis! are you staying in town?"
And I've no more doubt than I have that I see you, that the old pawnbroker whom you knew hereabouts as Daniel Multenius was the same man Daniel Molteno from whom I bought those rings, years ago! Not the slightest doubt!" None of those present made any remark on this surprising announcement, and Mr. Killick went on.
Now you understand the exact relations between Daniel Multenius and myself. We were partners in secret. "We come, then, to recent events. Early in this present autumn, we heard from Mr. Stephen Purvis, with whom I had had some transactions in South Africa, that he had become possessed of a rare and fine orange-yellow diamond and that he was sending it to us.
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