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Wraythwaite is here, and that everything's all right. Run away, my dear young lady, and be quite happy Mr. Wraythwaite will tell you everything you want to know. And now, my dear sir," he continued, as he shut the door on Wraythwaite and Avice and bustled back to the table, "there are things that you want to know, and that you are going to know from me and from these two gentlemen. Mr. Stobb Mr.
"What is your theory?" asked Brereton. Mr. Stobb nodded across the table at Carfax. "Not my business to say what my theories are, Mr. Brereton," he answered. "All I had to do was to find out facts, and report them to Mr. Carfax and Mr. Wraythwaite."
Stobb, a big, cheery-faced man, who looked like a highly respectable publican, turned to Brereton with a smile. "It was a very easy job, sir," he said. "I found out all about the lady and her connexion with Woking in a very few hours. There are plenty of folk at Woking who remember Miss Pett she gave you the mere facts of her residence there correctly enough.
So Stobb went to Woking, and Leykin devoted himself to the London part of the business. "And I think, Stobb," concluded the solicitor, turning to one of the inquiry agents, "I think you'd better tell Mr. Brereton what you found out at Woking, and then Leykin can tell us what he brought to light elsewhere."
He, however, insisted on sending you that money which was done: nothing else would satisfy him. But now arose a deeply interesting phase of the whole affair which has been up to now kept secret between Wraythwaite, myself, and Messrs. Stobb and Leykin there. To it I now invite your attention." Mr.
"Well, it's not much, Mr. Brereton," said Stobb. "It's merely that we've ascertained that Kitely had left all he had to this woman, and that " "I know that," interrupted Brereton. "She made no concealment of it. Or, rather, her nephew, acting for her, didn't." "Just so," remarked Stobb drily. "But did you know that the nephew had already proved the will, and sold the property? No? well, he has!
Against Miss Pett there appears to have been no suspicion in Woking at that time and for the matter of that," concluded Mr. Stobb drily, "I don't know that there is now." "You have some yourself?" suggested Brereton. "I went into things further," answered Mr. Stobb, with the ghost of a wink. "I found out how things were left by Stilman.
Now this Eurasian girl had been strangled with a silk handkerchief and if that handkerchief could only have been traced to Pett, she'd have been found guilty. But, as I said, she was found not guilty and she left her place at once and evidently returned to England. That's all, sir." "Stobb has a matter that might be mentioned," said Carfax, glancing at the other inquiry agent.
"All the same," said Brereton quietly, "you think it quite possible that Miss Pett, knowing that Stilman took these strong doses, and having a pecuniary motive, gave him a still stronger one? Come, now!" Stobb smiled, rubbed his chin and looked at Carfax. And Carfax pointed to Stobb's partner, a very quiet, observant man who had listened with a sly expression on his face.
And, as I say, we employed Stobb and Leykin, men of great experience, to just find out a little about Miss Pett. Of course, Miss Pett herself had given us something to go on. She had told you some particulars of her career. She had been housekeeper to a Major Stilman, at Kandahar Cottage, Woking. She had occupied posts at two London hotels.
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