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Updated: May 19, 2025
Ordinary, everyday persons do not wear studs or tie-pins on chains made of platinum the most valuable of all the metals. How came a solitaire stud, made of a metal far more valuable than gold, and designed and ornamented in a peculiar fashion, to be lying on the hearthrug of old Daniel Multenius's room?
When Parslett heard of what had happened in Multenius's back-parlour, he kept his knowledge to himself, and went and blackmailed the man. The man gave him that fifty pounds in gold to keep his tongue quiet no doubt arranging to give him more, later on and at the same time he cleverly poisoned him. That's my theory, Mr. Purdie." "Then the only question now is who's the man?" suggested Purdie.
Somewhat later, chancing to be at his front door and looking out into the street, he saw Chen Li open the door of Multenius's shop and go swiftly away. Half-an-hour after that he heard that something had happened at Multenius's later in the evening he heard definitely that the old man had been assaulted under circumstances which pointed to murder for the sake of robbery.
And if you like to tell me about yourself, and how you came to go to Multenius's why, it would be as well." "There's not much to tell," answered Lauriston. "I came from Scotland to London, two years ago or thereabouts, to earn my living by writing. I'd a bit of money when I came I've lived on it till now. I've just begun to earn something.
There was a light in the projecting sign over the side entrance to the pawnshop, down the passage. For the first few minutes while he stood at his door, looking across to Multenius's, he did not see any one enter or leave that establishment. But he then saw a young man come along, from the Edgware Road direction, whose conduct rather struck him.
The young man, after sauntering past Multenius's shop, paused, turned, and proceeded to peer in through the top panel of the front door. He looked in once or twice in that way. Then he went to the far end of the window and looked inside in the same prying fashion, as if he wanted to find out who was within. He went to various parts of the window, as if endeavouring to look inside.
That book we noticed on the table in Multenius's back room last night that finely bound book it's advertised for in the Daily Mail handsome reward offered." "Yes, and in the Times, too and in the Daily Telegraph," said Lauriston. "Here you are just the same advertisement. It's very evident the owner's pretty keen about getting it back."
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?"
Parslett, being next-door neighbour to Daniel Multenius, had probably seen Chen Li whom we now believed to have been the actual thief slip away from Multenius's door, and, when the news of Daniel's death came out, had put two and two together, and, knowing where the Chinamen lived, had gone to the house in Maida Vale to blackmail them.
And he slipped his hand within his companion's arm, piloted him along the street, across Praed Street, round the back of the houses into the narrow passage which communicated with the rear of the late Daniel Multenius's premises, and in at the little door which opened on the parlour wherein so many events had recently taken place.
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