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And tell the farmers, and the cottagers, and so forth, and take a particular look round Ellersdeane Hollow. It would be a help." "Excellent idea, Polke," said the Earl. "I'll ride home and set things going at once. And you'll let me know if anything turns up here during the evening or the night." He strode off to the door and Neale followed.
Polke and his companion returned to the Scarnham Arms, where Starmidge was in consultation with Betty and Neale. "They know nothing at all over there," he reported. "Never heard of Hollis. What's to be done now!" "Mr. Simmons must do the next thing," answered the detective. "Get back to town, Mr. Simmons, and put yourself in communication with every single one of Mr.
Polke jerked his thumb at the poster in the bank window. "Of course!" he said, "so long as they can satisfy their customers that all's right so far as they're concerned, we can't get at what is missing that belongs to the Chestermarkes." "There are ways of finding that out," replied Starmidge quietly. "What ways, now?" asked Polke. "We can't make 'em tell us their private affairs.
She may have done that, of course. I hadn't thought of it." "Is the maid a trustworthy woman?" inquired Polke. "She's been in our service twelve or fourteen years," replied the Earl. "We've always found her quite trustworthy. So much so that I've more than once sent her to my bankers with those very jewels." "You took her with you to the Continent, of course, my lord?" asked Polke.
"I suppose neither of you ever saw or heard aught of Mr. Horbury on Saturday night after he'd gone out?" he inquired. The two women glanced at each other in silence. "Did you?" repeated Polke. "Come, now!" "Well, Mr. Polke," said the elder woman, "we didn't. But, of course, we know what's going on couldn't very well not know, now could we, Mr. Polke?
Polke?" demanded Gabriel. Polke produced a formal-looking document and held it before the banker's eyes. "Merely to show you that, Mr. Chestermarke," he answered. "That's a search-warrant, sir! It empowers me and Mr. Starmidge here to search but I needn't read it to you, Mr. Chestermarke, I think. I suppose we can go into the house now?"
Horbury." "I see," said Polke. "Good! Then first?" "Here's his desk and its drawers," suggested Starmidge. "Now, let us all four take a drawer each and see if we can find any such letter. I'm going on the presumption that this stranger came down to see Mr. Horbury, and that on his arrival he telephoned up to let him know he'd got here.
The Earl started, and Neale looked quickly up from a brown study. "Eh?" said the Earl. "Didn't leave the town?" "Speaking as a policeman," answered Polke, with a knowing smile, "I don't know that he even left his house. I only know that his housekeeper says he did. That's a very different matter. For anything we know absolutely know! Mr.
Horbury. Why? 'Cause he'd rung up Chestermarke's Bank and who should he want at Chestermarke's Bank at six o'clock of a Saturday evening but Mr. Horbury? There wouldn't be nobody else there as Mr. Neale'll agree." "You never heard of this gentleman being in the town on Sunday or today?" asked Polke. "Not a word!" replied Mrs. Pratt. "And never saw him go to the station, neither, to leave the town.
"You think all that would be in the London papers this evening?" asked Polke. "Sure to be," replied Starmidge. "I'm hoping we'll hear something from London tomorrow. I say I've been taking a bit of a look round one or two places tonight, quietly, you know. What's that curious building in Joseph Chestermarke's garden?" Polke put down his paper and looked unusually interested.
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