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Lauriston, almost out of breath with excitement, turned and pointed to the open door of the little parlour. "There's an old man lying in there dead!" he whispered. "A grey-bearded old man is it the pawn-broker Mr. Multenius?" The man stared, craned his neck to glance in the direction which Lauriston's shaking finger indicated, and then started forward.
Multenius in his parlour he was counting a lot of bank- notes they must, said Parslett, have represented a large sum. The old man bade him leave the mushrooms, said he'd send him the money across presently, and motioned him out. Parslett put the dish of mushrooms aside on a chiffonier and went away.
All that Hollinshaw had said was quite true. It was quite true that he had gone to Multenius's pawnshop about five- thirty of the previous afternoon, on his own business. He had looked in through both doors and window before entering the side-door: he wanted to know who was in the shop whether it was Mr. Multenius, or his grand- daughter.
He got the rings out towards the end of Monday afternoon, determining to take them round to Daniel Multenius and raise sufficient funds on them to last him for, at any rate, another month or two.
We had seen no signs of violence on the old man I knew him to be very feeble, and I believed he had been suddenly struck over by paralysis, or something of that sort. I reckoned matters up, carefully. It was plain that Daniel Multenius had been left alone in house and shop that his granddaughter was out on some errand or other. Therefore, no one knew of the diamond and the money.
"On what grounds?" asked the solicitor. "It turns out Stephen had sent Mr. Multenius a rare fine diamond uncut from South Africa," answered Ayscough. "Worth every penny of eighty thousand pounds!" He was closely watching Zillah and Melky as he gave this piece of news, and he was quick to see their utter astonishment. Zillah turned to the solicitor; Melky slapped the table.
Goldmark could reply, a knock came at the side-door, and Zillah, going to answer it, returned presently with a middle-aged, quiet- looking, gold-spectacled gentleman whom she introduced to Purdie as Mr. Penniket, solicitor to the late Daniel Multenius. Mr. Penniket, to whom the two cousins and Mrs.
"You can take it from me considering all that I've been told this afternoon " said the old solicitor, "that Spencer Levendale is Sam Levin come back from South Africa, a millionaire. I'm convinced of it! And now then, gentlemen, what does all this mean? There's no doubt that old Multenius and Levendale were secretly mixed up. What in?
Here was a wealthy young Scottish manufacturer, a person of standing and position, who was able to vouch for Andrew Lauriston in more ways than one, who had known him from boyhood, had full faith in him and in his word, and was certain that all that Lauriston had said about the rings and about his finding of Daniel Multenius would be found to be absolutely true.
Daniel Multenius was a well-known and much respected tradesman of the neighbourhood, that they were all sorry to hear of his sudden death, and that there were circumstances about it which necessitated a careful investigation, the business began and Lauriston, who, for professional purposes, had heard a good many legal cases, saw, almost at once, that the police, through the redoubtable Mr.
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