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You ain't a native o' this part I am. D'you think as how a Scarhaven jury's going to say aught agen its own Squire and landlord? Not it! I say, guv'nor all a blooming farce! Mark my words!" "All the same, you'll come?" asked Copplestone, who was secretly of Spurge's opinion. "You won't lose by it in the long run." "Oh, I'll be there," responded Spurge. "Out of curiosity, if for nothing else.
Copplestone had already seen him in conversation with the village doctor, the village police, Chatfield, and Marston Greyle's solicitor, and he began to see the force of Spurge's shrewd remarks. What, of course, was most desired was secrecy and privacy the Scarhaven powers had no wish that the attention of all the world should be drawn to this quiet place. But outsiders were there in plenty.
"How did you come in then?" asked Gilling. "Cousin Jim Spurge's bike down in the stable-yard, now," answered Spurge. "Did it comfortable in under the hour." "I think we ought to go out there some of us," said Gilling. "We ought " At that moment the door opened and Sir Cresswell Oliver came in, holding a bit of flimsy paper in his hand.
I'm that cold and starved ah, if you'd been where I been this last twelve hours or so, you'd be perished." The sleepy waiter was summoned to attend to Spurge's wants until they were satisfied the poacher sat staring fixedly at his cap and occasionally shaking his head.
"Gad! that's valuable!" said Sir Cresswell, glancing again at Spurge, and with awakened interest. "Let me hear this story." Copplestone epitomized Spurge's account, while the poacher listened admiringly, checking off the main points and adding a word or two where he considered the epitome lacking.
He saw no reason to doubt the truth of Zachary Spurge's tale it bore the marks of credibility. But what did it amount to? That Spurge saw Bassett Oliver enter the ruins of the Keep, by the one point of ingress; that a few moments later he saw Marston Greyle come away from the same place, evidently considerably upset, and sneak off in a manner which showed that he dreaded observation.
The two cars met and stopped alongside each other, and Sir Cresswell, with one sharp glance at the rough bandage which Vickers had fastened round Jim Spurge's head, rapped out a question. "Gone!" replied Gilling, with equal brusqueness. "Came in a motor, during the night, soon after Zachary Spurge left Jim. They hit him pretty hard over his head and left him unconscious.
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