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Updated: June 17, 2025
Of course, you can't see it all the way in either direction, but you can take my word for it it does. It comes out at Ellersdeane by the duck-pond, at Scarnham by the bridge at the foot of Cornmarket. People who know it would follow it if they wanted a short cut across the moor from the town to the village or the opposite, as you might say. Now then, look here a bit this way."
But the medical men had some suspicion that the unfortunate gentleman might have been poisoned, and he, the Coroner, thought it well to tell them that a specialist was being sent down by the Home Office, who, with the Scarnham doctors, would perform an autopsy on his arrival. The result would be placed before the jury when these proceedings were resumed."
Lester, after a moment's reflection, looked steadily at her visitors. "Very well!" she answered, "I suppose I had better. Indeed, I have been feeling, ever since my bankers rang me up this morning, that I should have to tell you though I still can't see how anything that I can tell you has to do that is, precisely with Mr. Hollis's visit to Scarnham. Yet it may perhaps must have.
The two detectives were immediately shown into a morning room in which sat a little, middle-aged lady in a widow's cap and weeds, who looked at her visitors half-timidly, half-welcomingly. She sat by a small table on which lay a heap of newspapers, and Starmidge's sharp eyes saw at once that she had been reading the published details of the Scarnham affair.
Gabriel Chestermarke, senior partner in Chestermarke's Bank, at Scarnham, while you, up to now " "Have only known him as Godwin Markham, money-lender, financial agent, and so on, of Conduit Street," interrupted Castlemayne. "And known him a lot too much for my peace, I can tell you! Of course, we're talking of the same man! I can quite believe he runs a double show.
"I suppose there's some journalist here in the town who sends news to the London press, isn't there?" he asked. "Parkinson, editor of the 'Scarnham Advertiser, he does," replied Polke, with promptitude. "He's a sort of reporter-editor, you understand, and jolly glad of a bit of extra stuff." "That's the first thing," said Starmidge.
"You'll stay in the town a bit, sir?" suggested Polke. "You'll want to make arrangements for your poor brother's funeral, of course. Aught that we can do, sir, to help, shall be done." "I'm much obliged to you, Mr. Polke," replied Hollis. "Yes, I shall certainly stay in Scarnham.
Amidst all the change and development of the nineteenth century, Scarnham had been left untouched: even the bank itself was a time-worn building, and the manager's house which flanked it was still older.
Hollis was empowered to offer ten thousand pounds in full satisfaction, Mr. Stipp," he said. "And what's more a cheque for that amount was found on his dead body when it was discovered. Now, sir, you'll understand why we want to know who it was that he went to see at Scarnham!" Both men were watching the money-lender's manager with redoubled attention.
As a rule they both went across to the Scarnham Arms Hotel at half-past one for lunch a private room had been kept for them at that old-world hostelry from time immemorial but now they remained within their parlour, apparently interned from their usual business world. And Neale had a very good idea of what they were doing.
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