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The magnification is eight diameters, so that the squares are here each two-thirds of an inch in diameter. I have a number of these micrometers of different scales, and I find them invaluable in examining cheques, doubtful signatures and such like. I see you have packed up the camera and the microscope, Polton; have you put in the micrometer?"
Marchmont has been here, sir, with Inspector Badger and another gentleman," said Polton, as we entered our chambers. "They said they would call again about five." "Then," replied Thorndyke, "as it is now a quarter to five, there is just time for us to have a wash while you get the tea ready. The particles that float in the atmosphere of Limehouse are not all mother-of-pearl."
For I had not only been an absentee; I had been a very poor correspondent. "The prodigal has returned, Polton," he exclaimed, looking into the room. "Here is Dr. Jervis." I followed him into the room and found Polton his confidential servant, laboratory assistant, artificer and general "familiar" setting out the tea-tray on a small table.
As I was not "coming back to them" quite in the sense intended I felt a little guilty, but reserved my confidences for Thorndyke's ear and replied in polite generalities. Then Polton fetched the tea-pot from the laboratory, made up the fire and departed, and Thorndyke and I subsided, as of old, into our respective arm-chairs.
"Yes, it must be," I replied, "judging by the condition of the Strand." I entered and ascended the stairs, glad enough of the prospect of a warm and well-lighted room after my comfortless groping in the murky streets, and Polton, with a final glance up and down the walk reluctantly followed.
The green light vanished from the bulb, the hum of the interrupter swept down an octave or two and died away. Then Thorndyke and Dr. Norbury rose from their chairs and went towards the mummy, which they lifted tenderly while Polton drew from beneath it what presently turned out to be a huge black-paper envelope.
"Which," added Thorndyke, "is a fact of some evidential value." At this moment a hansom drew up outside. A moment later flying footsteps were heard on the stairs. There was a furious battering at the door, and, as Polton threw it open, Mr. Curtis burst wildly into the room. "Here is a frightful thing, Marchmont!" he gasped. "Edith my daughter arrested for the murder.
"Per'aps you wouldn't mind squirtin' out the soda, sir, bein' more used to it." While these preliminaries were being arranged, Polton silently slipped out of the room, and when our visitor had fortified himself with a gulp of the uncommonly stiff mixture, the examination began. "Your name, I think, is Wilkins?" said Thorndyke. "That's me, sir. Samuel Wilkins is my name." "And your occupation?"
We all gathered round to watch, as Polton the high priest of these mysteries drew from the black envelope a colossal sheet of bromide paper, laid it carefully in the tray and proceeded to wet it with a large brush which he had dipped in a pail of water. "I thought you always used plates for this kind of work," said Dr. Norbury.
"We had better also take a microscope and the micrometers, though we are not likely to want them; that is all, I think." "A box and a portfolio," repeated Polton in a speculative tone. "Yes, sir, I will take them with me." He opened the door and was about to pass out, when, perceiving a visitor ascending the stairs, he turned back. "Here's Mr. Miller, from Scotland Yard, sir; shall I show him in?"
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