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They were so much surprised indeed, as to be almost childishly interested, and Starmidge had never had such attentive listeners in his life as these two elderly city men, to whom crime and detention were as unfamiliar as higher finance was to their visitor.
The two men in the course of their slow strolling away from the Adalbert Theatre had come to the end of Shaftesbury Avenue, and had drawn aside from the crowds during the last minute or two to exchange their confidences in private. Starmidge looked meditatively at the thronging multitudes of Piccadilly Circus, and watched them awhile before he answered his companion's last observation.
Carswell's room, perhaps they'll listen, and what is much more important give you their views on the matter. I," concluded Starmidge, drily, "should very much like to hear them!" The Earl made a wry face. "Oh, all right!" he answered. "If I must, I must. It's not a job that appeals to me, but very well. I'll go now."
And you can make your mind easy for the present I don't see any reason for any unpleasant publicity just now in fact, I think you'll find there won't be any. The unpleasant publicity, ma'am," concluded Starmidge, with an almost imperceptible wink at Easleby, "will be for some other people." The two detectives bowed themselves out, re-entered their car, and were driven on to Chesham.
"Any news?" he asked sharply. "He's off, Mr. Starmidge!" replied Gandam. "I've just come straight from watching him away. He left his house about nine-twenty, walked to the St. John's Wood Station, went down to Baker Street, and on to King's Cross Metropolitan. We followed him, of course. He walked across to St. Pancras, and left by the ten-thirty express."
Horbury had been in a hurry to deliver up these jewels, he'd have driven out to Lord Ellersdeane's place." "Good!" muttered Polke. "That's the more probable thing." "Where are the jewels, then?" asked Neale. Starmidge glanced at Polke with one expression, at Betty and Neale with another. "They haven't been searched for yet, have they?" he asked quietly. "They may be somewhere about, you know."
But Starmidge was not in the mood for saying anything more just then, and he put his questioner off, asking him, at the same time, to keep the matter of the cheque to himself. Presently Hollis went away with Neale, to whom he wished to talk, and Starmidge, after a period of what seemed to be profound thought, turned to Polke. "Superintendent!" he said earnestly.
And mark you! after a few minutes' conversation with Joseph Chestermarke. Ecclesborough, indeed! Might as well look for a drop of water in the ocean as for one woman in Ecclesborough! She was set down at the Exchange Station why, she may be half-way to London or Liverpool, or Hull, by now!" Starmidge was listening intently.
"I don't know!" he answered. "How did you see it? I've never seen inside his garden." "Climbed a tree on the river-bank and looked over the wall," replied Starmidge. "Well," said Polke, "I did hear, some few years ago, that he was building something in that garden, but the work was done by Ecclesborough contractors, and nobody ever knew much about it here.
Presently an exclamation from her brought the others hurriedly to her side. She pointed between two slabs of stone. "There!" she whispered. "A man's face!" Starmidge turned to Lord Ellersdeane. "Get her away aside anywhere for a minute!" he muttered. "Let's see what condition he's in, anyway. The other was blown to pieces." Lord Ellersdeane took a firm grip of Betty's arm and turned her round.
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