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And he was surprised to find that the detective's presentation of the case was not that which he himself would have made. Starmidge did no more than refer to the fact that Lady Ellersdeane's jewels were missing: he said nothing whatever about the rumours that some of Chestermarke's securities were said to have disappeared.
"With your leave, I'd like to try an experiment." "What experiment?" demanded Polke. Starmidge pointed to the ten thousand pound cheque, which was still lying on the table. "I'd like to take that cheque across to Chestermarke's Bank, and show it to the partners," he answered. "Good heavens! why?" exclaimed Polke. "I thought you didn't want anybody to know about it."
"Easily!" replied Gandam. "Easiest thing in the world. Do you know where a little lodge stands, as you go into Primrose Hill, the St. John's Wood side? Well, his house is close by that. On the other side of the road there's a little path leading over a bridge into the Park close by the corner of the Zoo I can watch from that path. You can rely on me, Mr. Starmidge.
His father always refused he was a strict and, in some ways, a very hard man about money. And so my son had recourse to a money-lender." Starmidge, who was sitting close by his fellow-detective, pressed his elbow against Easleby's sleeve at last they were getting at something. "Just so, ma'am," he said encouragingly. "Nothing remarkable in all this so far quite an everyday matter, I assure you!
"Never mind I've an idea," said the detective. "I'd just like them to see it, anyway, and," he added, with a wink, "I'd like to see them when they do see it!" "You know best," said Polke. "If you think it well, do it." Starmidge put the cheque in an envelope and walked over to the bank. He was shown into the partners' room almost immediately, and the two men glanced at him with evident curiosity.
"I say!" he exclaimed. "Mr. Horbury was a bit of a collector of that sort of thing, as you probably saw from his house. This man may have run down to see him about some affair of that sort." But at that moment Starmidge unfolded a slip of paper which he had drawn from an inner pocket of the letter-case. He gave one glance at it, and laid it flat on the table before his companions. "No!" he said.
"They'll only tell what they please." "Let's try the other two, anyway," counselled Starmidge. "They may be able to tell something. For as sure as I am what I am, the whole secret of this business lies in Hollis's coming down here to see Horbury, and in what followed on their meeting. If we could only get to know what Hollis came here for ah!"
Chestermarkes," suggested Starmidge. "To tell them, of course, of that," he added, pointing to the empty casket. "Your lordship will get some attention I suppose. They won't give any attention to Polke or myself. If your lordship would just tell them that your casket emptied of its valuable contents had been found hidden in Mrs.
She'd put that behind the back of the grate a favourite hiding-place. I say she but, of course, some one else may have put it there. Still we must find her. You telephoned to the police at Ecclesborough, superintendent?" "Ay, and got small comfort!" answered Polke. "It's a stiff job looking for one woman amongst half a million people." "She wouldn't stop in Ecclesborough," said Starmidge.
He ended with a dry laugh, and waved his hand as if the matter were settled. But Starmidge had a love of precision, and liked matters to be put in plain words. "Well and what then?" he demanded. "What, then?" exclaimed Easleby. "Why, then we shall know, for a certainty, that Gabriel Chestermarke is keen about his secret!
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