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Do that at once first thing tomorrow morning." "You don't want to tell the police all this?" asked Selwood. "No! Not at present, at any rate," answered the Professor. "The police have their own methods, and they don't thank anybody for putting them off their beaten tracks. And for the present we won't tell them anything about your seeing Burchill. If we did, they'd be incredulous.
Selwood paused there, and a sudden silence fell to be as suddenly broken by a sharp question from Barthorpe. "The Witnesses?" he said. "The witnesses!" Selwood glanced at the further paragraph which he had not thought it necessary to read. "Oh, yes!" he said. "It's witnessed all right." And he went on reading.
East Somerset, now one of the fairest and richest of English counties, was then for the most part thick wood and tangled swamp, but miserable as the lodging is it is welcome for the time to the King. In the first months of 878 Selwood Forest holds in its recesses the hope of England.
That part the police part is to be left to them." "I understand," said Selwood. "Very well we will get out, if you please, and we will go straight to Professor Cox-Raythwaite. At two o'clock I shall ring you up and give you our answer." He hurried Peggie into a taxi-cab as soon as Mrs.
Give me the facts, Mr. Selwood!" Selwood stared at the ardent collector of news; then he motioned him to follow, and led him into the hall to where Barthorpe Herapath was standing with the police-inspector. "This is a newspaper man," he said laconically, looking at Barthorpe. "Mr. Triffitt, of the Argus. He wants the facts of this affair." Barthorpe turned and looked the new-comer up and down.
Don't forget that I found both doors open when I went there! That's a point that mustn't be overlooked." "There's absolutely nothing else you can think of?" asked Selwood. Barthorpe shook his head. No there was nothing he was sure of that. And then he turned eagerly to the question of finding Burchill.
"All Putney knows you're shy." "I'm not so sure about that!" He tossed his head. Then he began at the beginning and recounted to her in detail the historic night and morning at Selwood Terrace, with a psychological description of his feelings. He convinced her, in less than ten minutes, with the powerful aid of five hundred pounds in banknotes, that he in truth was Priam Farll.
He left the room, followed by the coachman, and Peggie turned to Selwood. "What do you think?" she asked, with a slight show of anxiety. "You don't know of any reason for this, do you?" "None," replied Selwood. "And as to what I think, I don't know sufficient about Mr. Herapath's habits to be able to judge." "He never did anything like this before," she remarked.
Peggie fumbled with the seal of the envelope and then, with a sudden impulse, passed it to Selwood. "Mr. Selwood!" she exclaimed imploringly. "You I can't. You open it, and " "And let him read it," added Mr. Tertius. Selwood, whose nerves had been strung to a high pitch of excitement by this scene, hastily slit open the envelope, and drew out a folded sheet of foolscap paper.
If you would wait here while these gentlemen go with me." Peggie hesitated a moment; then she turned away and sat down. "Very well," she said. The inspector silently motioned the two men to follow him; with his hand on the door Selwood turned again to Peggie. "You will stay here?" he said. "You won't follow us?" "I shall stay here," she answered.
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