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Penniket!" he said, glancing around him as if to invite approval of what he was about to say. "You're a lawyer, mister! you can put things in order and present 'em as if they was in a catalogue! Take the whole business to New Scotland Yard, sir! let the big men at headquarters have a go at it. That's what I say! There's some queer mystery at the bottom of all this, Mr.
Here's a cheque here that puzzled me I don't know anything about it. But it'll be a quarter's rent for that house. Look at the signatures!" She laid a cheque before Melky and Mr. Penniket and stood by while they looked at it. There was nothing remarkable about the cheque made out to Mr. Daniel Multenius on order for L36 except the two odd looking names at its foot Chang Li: Chen Li.
Penniket, rubbing his hands, "you'll find you're very fortunate not to say wealthy young people, and I congratulate you on your good fortune! Now, perhaps, you'd like to read the will?" Mr. Penniket laid the will on the table before the two cousins, and they bent forward and read its legal phraseology. Zillah was the first to look up and to speak.
"As far as I can put things together," answered Purdie, "I fully agree that there is some extraordinary mystery round and about Mr. Multenius's death. And as the detective force at New Scotland Yard exists for the solution of such problems why, I should certainly tell the authorities there everything that is known. Why not?" "Very good," said Mr. Penniket.
Penniket, selecting and unfolding one of the documents. "It was made about a year ago by me. That is, I drafted it. It's a short, a very short and practical will, drafted from precise instructions given to me by my late client, your grandfather. I may as well tell you in a few words what it amounts to.
"There's too much atmosphere of murder and mystery what they call Oriental mystery for me in there, Mr. Rubinstein! Now then, there's something we can do, at once. Did I understand you to say these two were medical students at University College?" "So Mr. Penniket said," replied Melky. "S'elp me! I never heard of 'em till this afternoon!"
"All the same, he did paid it in, himself, to Daniel Multenius's credit, at the Empire and Universal. It went into the ordinary account, in the ordinary way, and was used by Mr. Multenius as part of his own effects as no doubt it was. Now," continued Mr. Penniket, turning to Zillah, "I want to ask you a particular question. I know you had assisted your grandfather a great deal of late years.
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