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With his long arms swinging by his side, his steady, grey eyes observant of all around him, he rolled on, in true nautical style, towards the gipsy camp. This was not hard to discover, for it lay only a mile or so from Southberry Junction, some little distance off the main road.
But the secret can be nothing harmful. 'If it were not, replied Graham, drily, 'Pendle would not take such pains to conceal it. People don't pay two hundred pounds for nothing harmful, my lad. 'Do you believe that the money was paid? 'Yes, on Southberry Heath, shortly before the murder.
I agreed to buy Jentham's silence at his own price; and as I did not wish him to come here again, lest Amy should see him, I made an appointment to meet him on Southberry Heath on Sunday night, and there pay him his two hundred pounds blackmail. 'Did you speak with him on the spot where his corpse was afterwards found? asked Graham, in a low voice, not daring to look at his friend.
'Well, of all mad things! said Bell, grimly. 'It's easy seen, Mr Gabriel Pendle, how badly you want a wife at your elbow. Where did you go? 'I rode out on to Southberry Heath, replied Gabriel, with some hesitation. 'Lord ha' mercy! Where Jentham's corpse was found? The curate shuddered. 'I didn't see any corpse, he said, painfully and slowly.
Cyril, repeated Mrs Pansey, with a snort, 'the idea of a pauper like Mrs Jennings giving her brat such a fine name. Well, it was Cyril's night out on Sunday, and he did not come home till late, and then made his appearance very wet and dirty. He told me that he had been on Southberry Heath and had been almost knocked into a ditch by Mr Pendle galloping past.
If Bishop Pendle had only been seated on his throne to hear that sermon, Cargrim would have been thoroughly satisfied. But, alas! the bishop worthy man was confirming innocent sinners at Southberry, and thus lost any chance he might have had of profiting by his chaplain's eloquence.
'I wish to see Mrs Mosk particularly, reiterated Cargrim, who was bent upon carrying his point. 'If not, your father will do. 'My father is absent in Southberry. Why do you want to see my mother? 'I'll tell her that myself with your permission, said Cargrim, suavely. 'You sha'n't, then, cried Bell, and flung down her duster with sparkling eyes.
Finally Miss Whichello's real reason for calling came out by degrees, and in true feminine fashion she approached the main point by side issues. 'Is your father in, Miss Mosk? she asked, clasping and unclasping her hands feverishly on her lap. 'No, Miss Whichello. He rode over this afternoon to Southberry on business, and we do not expect him back till to-morrow morning.
Also he had been informed that Captain Pendle and his brother Gabriel had been on Southberry Heath on the very night, and about the very time, when the man had been shot; so, with all these materials, Mr Cargrim hoped sooner or later to build up a very pretty case against the bishop. If Miss Whichello was mixed up with the matter, so much the better.
'No; didn't even hear the shot, though that wasn't to be wondered at, considering the row made by rain and thunder. 'Where was the body found? 'Somewhere in a ditch near the high road, I believe. At all events, it wasn't in the way, or my gee would have tumbled across it. Miss Whichello reflected. 'The bishop was over at Southberry yesterday, was he not? she asked.
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