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But I have still more to tell you perhaps, considering everything, the most important matter of the whole lot. On Monday morning last that would be a few hours before his death Mr. Multenius called at the bank and took from it a small packet which he had entrusted to his banker's keeping only a fortnight previously.
The next instant, with no thought but of the exigencies of the moment, he had leapt over the partition and darted into the room. There, stretched out across the floor, his head lying on the hearthrug, his hands lying inert and nerveless at his sides, lay an old man, grey-bearded, venerable Daniel Multenius, no doubt.
Now, look here," he continued, leading the way into the little back- parlour where Lauriston had found Daniel Multenius lying dead, "here's you and me alone Zillah, she's upstairs, and Mrs. Goldmark is with her. Just you tell me what you saw when you came in here, d'you see, Mr. Lauriston never mind the police just give me the facts.
He then proceeded to my office, where I handed him eighty thousand pounds in bank notes notes of large amounts. With the diamond and these notes in his possession, Daniel Multenius went back to Praed Street. I was to join him there shortly after five o'clock. "Now we come to my movements.
Ayscough there is doing a bit of looking into this mystery about Mr. Multenius, and knowing as you was a big man in your way, it struck me you'd tell me something. I was at that inquest on Parslett, you know, mister." Mirandolet nodded and waited, and Melky gained courage. "Mister!" he said, suddenly bending forward and tapping the doctor's knee in a confidential fashion.
Multenius kept his account the Empire and Universal, in Lombard Street and I have made some curious unearthings in the course of them. Now then, between ourselves Mr. Purdie being represented to me as in your entire confidence I may as well tell you that Daniel Multenius most certainly had dealings of a business nature completely outside his business as jeweller and pawnbroker in this shop.
He had changed his name to Multenius, and was trading in Praed Street as a jeweller and pawnbroker. Now, I had no objection to carrying on a trade with certain business connections of mine at the Cape and after some conversation with Multenius he and I arranged to buy and sell diamonds together here in London, and I at once paid over a sum of money to him as working capital.
It's no common affair old Daniel Multenius was attacked by somebody somebody! for some special reason and it's going to take a lot of getting at. And I'm convinced this Parslett affair is a development Parslett's been poisoned because he knew too much." "You say you don't know what particular poison was used?" asked Purdie. "It would be something of a clue to know that.
"Is the man who seems undoubtedly to have dropped those studs the same man who brought that book in here? Or, had Mr. Multenius two callers here during your absence, Miss Wildrose? And who is this mysterious man who dropped the studs valuable things, with a special device on them? He'll have to be traced! Mrs. Goldmark can you describe him, particularly?" Before Mrs.
Purdie, a very deep game indeed! and now I don't think there's much need to be anxious about that young friend of yours. I'm certain, anyway, that the man who poisoned Parslett is the man who killed poor old Daniel Multenius. But we shall see." Purdie parted from Ayscough outside the hospital and walked along to Mrs. Flitwick's house in Star Street.
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