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I was going on to tell Polke about it at once, but I remembered that you were in the house at this cricket club meeting, so I thought you'd do instead you can tell Polke. I'm in a bit of a hurry myself you know it's Wymington Races tomorrow, and I'm off there tonight, at once, to meet a man that I do a bit of business with in these matters we make a book together, d'ye see so I can't stop.
He gave no particular attention to any of these beyond ascertaining that there was a good deal of loose money in the purse some twelve or fifteen pounds in gold and pointing out that the watch had stopped at ten minutes to eight. "That shows the time of the accident," he remarked. "Are you sure?" suggested Polke doubtfully. "It may merely mean that the watch ran itself out then."
Ipsden. "Polkez-vous, madame?" Lady Barb. "Si, je polke, Monsieur le Vicomte." They polked for a second or two. "Well, I dare say I am wrong," cried Lady Barbara, "but I like you better now you are a downright ahem! than when you were only an insipid non-intellectual you are greatly improved." Ips. "In what respects?" Lady Barb.
And Mr. Polke and company," concluded Mrs. Pratt, solemnly turning from one listener to another, "that was the last I saw of him. For he never came back!" "Never came back!" echoed Polke. "Not even the ghost of him!" said Mrs. Pratt. "I waited up myself till twelve, and then I decided that he'd changed his mind and was stopping with somebody he knew, which person, Mr. Polke, I took to be Mr.
"Neither surprise nor anything else," said Neale. "Absolutely unaffected!" Polke, hearing the news, immediately bustled into activity, sending for a cab in which to drive along the road to a point near Ellersdeane Tower, from which they could reach the lead mine. But he shook his head when he saw that Betty meant to return. "Don't, miss!" he urged. "Stay here in town you'd far better.
Polke narrated the story of the various happenings since the granting of the search-warrant, and the Earl's face grew graver and graver. "Mr. Polke," he said at last, "I do not like what I am hearing about all this. It's a most suspicious thing that the housekeeper should disappear immediately after Miss Fosdyke's first call this morning, and that she should have had some conversation with Mr.
"So," said Starmidge, "he didn't fill in either the name of the payee or his own name until he was sure! See, Mr. Neale!" "Why did he fill in the amount?" remarked Neale, sceptically. Starmidge winked at Polke. "Very likely to dangle before somebody's eyes," he answered slyly. "Can't you reconstruct the scene, Mr. Neale? 'Here you are! says Hollis, showing this cheque.
Nevertheless, he begged him to do his best the far-off partner in this interchange of remarks answered that they would do a lot better if Mr. Polke would tell them something rather more definite. Polke gave it up at that, and went off into the Market-Place again, to return to the bank.
I'll give it to you, sir, to take to Superintendent Polke in Scarnham he knows me. But just let me point something out. I ain't a detective, but in my eight-and-forty years I've had to keep my wits sharpened and my eyes open. Point out to Polke, and notice yourself that whenever that pipe was dropped it was being smoked!
In fact," he went on, rising and looking quietly from one man to the other, "I shall stay in Scarnham until I, or you, or somebody have satisfactorily explained how my brother came to his death! I shall spare neither effort nor money to get at the truth that's my determination!" "There's somebody else in like case with you, Mr. Hollis," observed Polke.
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