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Polke and Starmidge, presently entering, found themselves coldly greeted. Gabriel made the slightest inclination of his head, in response to Polke's salutation and the detective's bow: Joseph pointedly gave no heed to either. "Well?" demanded the senior partner. "We've just called, Mr. Chestermarke, to hear if you've anything to say to us about this matter of Mr. Horbury's," said Polke.
Her uncle disappeared nobody knows where he is suspected already of running away with your lordship's jewels and Chestermarke's securities. A very nice business indeed!" "What do you think of it?" asked the Earl. "As a policeman, nothing so far," answered Polke, with another twinkle. "As a man, that I don't believe it!" "Nor do I!" said the Earl.
You needn't be astonished if he suddenly stops and begins reading his book in the open street it's a habit of his." But the antiquary apparently had other business. He turned into the police-station, and when the three visitors followed him a moment later, he was already in Polke's private office, and Polke and Starmidge were gazing speculatively at him.
Miss Fosdyke she can tell you a lot inside a minute informed me that since she was seventeen she had only had one motto in life. It's do it now!" "Good!" laughed the Earl. "But where are you going to begin?" "That's the difficulty," agreed Polke. "A gentleman walks out of his back garden into the dusk and he's never seen again. I don't know.
And if there's any advertising of him to be done by poster, I mean it ought to have a recent portrait of him." "To be sure," agreed Polke. "So far as I understand matters," continued Starmidge, "this gentleman left his house on Saturday evening, hasn't been seen since, and there's an idea that he probably walked across country to a place called Ellersdeane.
"I understand from Polke that you've already done everything," replied Neale. "I've given him orders to spare neither trouble nor expense," she asserted. "He's to send for the very best detective they can give him from headquarters in London, and search is to be made. Because now, Wallie, tell me truthfully you don't believe for one moment that my uncle has run away with things?"
Simmons smiled and glanced at Starmidge. "We've only myself and another a junior clerk and a boy," he said. "It's not a big practice only a bit of good conveyancing now and then, and some family business. Mr. Hollis isn't dependent on it he's private means of his own." "Aye, just so!" observed Polke.
Joseph went away, and she came back in here for a minute or two and then went upstairs. And next thing she came down dressed up and went out. She said nothing to us," replied the woman. "You saw her go out?" said Polke. Both women pointed to the passage which communicated with the hall. "When this door's open as it was," said one, "you can see right through.
"What is he after now?" Starmidge came out of the door of the bank-house alone. He caught sight of Polke and Lord Ellersdeane, smiled, and hurried towards them. He carried something loosely wrapped in brown paper in his hand; as he stepped into the doorway of the club-house, he took the wrapping off, and showed a small morocco-covered box on which was a coronet in gold.
I shouldn't be a bit surprised if they did. Those detective fellows like Starmidge are very clever in their way, but they always seem to me to stop thinking a bit too soon. Now both Starmidge and Polke seem to take it for certain that this Hollis went to meet Horbury when he left the Station Hotel. There's no proof that he went to meet Horbury none!"
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