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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Much too soon! All I want is detective help of the strictly professional kind. No we'll give Mr. Pratt a little more rope yet for another four-and-twenty-hours, say. But it'll come! Now, who is the best local detective a quiet, steady fellow who knows how to do his work unobtrusively?" "Prydale's the man!" said Eldrick "Detective-Sergeant Prydale I've had reason to employ him, more than once.
Eldrick and Collingwood had arranged to lunch together that day, and they presently went off, asking the detective to keep them informed of events. But up to half-past three o 'clock they heard no more then, as they were returning along the street Byner came running up to them. "Prydale's just had a telephone message from the butler at Normandale!" he exclaimed.
Then I fill up one of these papers, giving just the same particulars, and post it at once to the Company with the passage money, less my commission. When one of these books is finished, I return the counterfoils to Liverpool they check 'em. Prydale's up to all that. He asked to see the counterfoil in this case. I had to say I hadn't got it I'd sent it to the Company.
Shepherd, a retired quarry-owner, who lived in a picturesque old stone house in the middle of Whitcliffe Moor, with nothing to occupy his attention but the growing of roses and vegetables, and an occasional glance at the local newspapers, listened to Prydale's request with gradually rising curiosity.
And in spite of all his assurances to the watchmaker and his suggestion for the next move, Pratt was far from easy about the whole matter. He would have been easier if he had known who Prydale's companion was probably he was, as Murgatroyd had suggested, a London detective who might have been making inquiries in the town for some time and knew much more than he, Pratt, could surmise.
"And his murderer had pretty cleverly weighted his body with scrap iron, before dropping it into a pit full of water, where it might have remained for a long time undiscovered. However that's settled!" Eldrick got out the first question. "Pratt?" "Prydale's after him," answered Byner. "I expect we shall hear something in a few minutes if he's in town.
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