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Chen Li protested that he had but some fifty or sixty pounds in gold available but he promised to have the rest of the thousand ready on the following evening. Finally, he handed Parslett fifty pounds, arranged that he should call the next night and then invited him to take a drink.
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.
He wanted a thousand pounds and he wanted it in gold, and as much of it as Chen Li could hand out there and then. He refused to believe that Chen Li hadn't gold in considerable quantity somewhere about he must, said Parslett, have changed some of those notes since he had stolen them the previous day.
Somewhere, he felt sure, there was, in that house, the money which Chen Li had evidently stolen from old Multenius. He immediately set to work to find it. But he had no difficulty the bank-notes were in the drawer from which he had seen Chen Li take the gold which he had given to the blackmailer, Parslett.
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