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And before he'd been here two days I came to a certain conclusion about him, and I've had it ever since, though he never said one word, or did one thing that could positively confirm me in it." "Yes!" exclaimed Mr. Pawle. "And that, ma'am, was "
The coroner's inquest is to be held tomorrow. Go there and volunteer the evidence you've just told us! It mayn't do a scrap of good but it will introduce an element of doubt into the case against Hyde, and that will benefit him." "Tomorrow?" said Fosdick. "We'll do it. Give us the time and place. We'll be there, Mr. Pawle.
But documents there were next to none. Several of the drawers of the desk were empty, save for stationery. One contained a bunch of letters, tied up with blue ribbon these, on examination, proved to be letters written by Miss Wickham, at school in England, to her guardian in Australia. Miss Wickham, present while Mr. Pawle and Viner searched, showed some emotion at the sight of them.
"Haven't we heard already, that a man named Wickham handed over his daughter Avice to Ashton's care and guardianship?" he asked. "Doesn't that seem to be an established fact?" "No doubt of it!" assented Mr. Pawle. "Well?" "In my opinion," said Viner, quietly, "Wickham was the missing Lord of Marketstoke!" Mr.
"Now, is it a coincidence that Miss Wickham's name should be Avice? Or is it that there's some connection between her and all these dead and gone Avices?" "Very strange!" admitted Mr. Pawle. "Viner we'll go next and have a look at the parish registers. But look here! Not a word to parson or clerk about our business! We merely wish to make search for a certain legal purpose, eh?"
Pawle, what we can tell is maybe more a matter for a lawyer than for a policeman. It's mysterious." "Gentlemen," said Mr. Pawle, "I'll be frank with you. I recognized your names as soon as my clerk announced them. Here's a cablegram which I have just received from Melbourne you'll see your names mentioned in it." The two callers bent over the cablegram, and Fosdick looked up and nodded.
It can then be proved by you, or by Carless, that a man claiming to be the missing Lord Marketstoke showed these stolen papers to you. In the meantime, get the coroner to summon this man as a witness, and take care that he's brought to the court. Once there, let him be asked how he came into possession of these papers? Do you see my idea?" "Capital!" exclaimed Mr. Pawle. "An excellent notion!
"He showed it to me as a sort of curiosity a stone which had some romantic history attaching to it. But I was not half as much interested in that as in the other affair." "All the same," remarked Mr. Pawle, "that diamond is worth some fifty or sixty thousand pounds, Perkwite and it's missing!" Mr. Perkwite looked his astonishment. "You mean he had it on him when he was murdered?" he asked.
"Probably!" answered Mr. Pawle. "For you never know how these little matters might help. We've established two facts, anyway. One that there have never been any folk of the name of Ashton in this town since the registers came into being in 1567; the other, that the name Avice was a very favourite one indeed amongst the women of the Cave-Gray family.
Let us find out all we can from her; there are several questions I should like to ask her, myself, arising out of what you have told us. Leave all the rest until a later period. If your theory is correct, Pawle, it can be established, if it isn't, the girl may as well be left in ignorance that you ever raised it." "Until three o'clock, then," said Mr. Pawle.
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