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Horbury may have been murdered in his own house, and buried in his own cellar." "You're not joking?" said Neale. "Or you are!" "Far from it, Mr. Neale," answered Polke. "That may seem a very, very outrageous thing to say, but, I assure you, one never knows what may not have happened in these cases. However, Mrs.
"Good advice, certainly," remarked Polke drily. "You'd better take it, miss. But what's Mr. Neale doing here?" "Mr. Neale," said the Earl, "has just been summarily dismissed for to put it plainly taking sides with Miss Fosdyke and myself." "Ho, ho!" exclaimed Polke. "Ah! Well, my lord, there's only one thing to be done, and as your lordship's in town, let us do it at once."
But Polke, when they reached his office, had little o tell. Lord Ellersdeane, Betty Fosdyke, and Stephen Hollis were with him, evidently in consultation, and Starmidge at once saw that Betty looked distressed and anxious in no ordinary degree. All turned eagerly on the two detectives. But Starmidge addressed himself straight to Polke with one direct inquiry. "Seen him? heard of him?" he asked.
"What?" asked the Earl. "You must come with me before the borough magistrates they're sitting now," said Polke, "and make application for a search-warrant. Your lordship will have to swear that you have lost your jewels, and that you have good cause to believe that they may be on the premises occupied lately by Mr. Horbury, to whose care you entrusted them.
Joseph Chestermarke before she went. Really, one dislikes to have to say it of one's neighbours, and of persons of the standing of the Chestermarkes, but their behaviour is is " "Suspicious, my lord, suspicious!" said Polke. "There's no denying it. And yet, they're what you might call so defiant, so brazen-faced and insolent, that " "Here's your London man," interrupted the Earl.
Chestermarkes," suggested Starmidge. "To tell them, of course, of that," he added, pointing to the empty casket. "Your lordship will get some attention I suppose. They won't give any attention to Polke or myself. If your lordship would just tell them that your casket emptied of its valuable contents had been found hidden in Mrs.
"From Scarnham Bridge corner to Ellersdeane Tower yonder is in Scarnham parish: this side the Hollow is in Ellersdeane; everything beyond the Tower is in Middlethorpe." "Then we're in Scarnham," said Polke. "He'll have to be taken down to the town mortuary. We'd better see to it at once. What are you going to do, Starmidge?" he asked, as the detective turned away with Neale.
Polke, superintendent of police at Scarnham, Livesay said that when he first saw the two gentlemen they were coming from the direction of Ellersdeane Tower. There was a path right across the Hollow, from a point in front of the Warren, to the Tower, and thence to the woods on the Scarnham side. That was the path the two gentlemen were on. He was absolutely certain about the time, for two reasons.
His landlady says he never returned home last night. Do you think anything can have happened " "If anything's happened to Mr. Neale," interrupted Starmidge, "it's all of a piece with the rest of it. Now, superintendent!" he went on, turning to Polke, "never mind what news I've brought we've got to find these two Chestermarkes at once! We must go, some of us, to the Warren, some to the Cornmarket.
He saw Gabriel stop, listen to an evident question, and then lift his hand and point to various features of the Hollow. The policeman touched his helmet, and came back to Polke. "Mr. Chestermarke, sir, says the moorland is in three parishes," he reported pantingly.
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