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"But now I should like to ask a question which arises out of this visit. As we approached your lordship's door, just now, we saw, leaving it, two men. One of them, my friend Mr. Viner immediately recognized. He does not know who the man is " "Which of the two men do you mean!" interrupted Lord Ellingham. "I may as well say that they had just left me." "The clean-shaven man," answered Viner.
"Every chance!" declared Viner, pretending more conviction than he felt. "Don't let yourselves be cast down. We'll move heaven and earth to prove that he's wrongly accused. I gather if you don't mind my asking that your brother has been out of touch with you for some time?" The two sisters exchanged mournful glances. "We had not heard anything of Langton for some years," replied the elder.
But when dinner was over and he had drunk a glass or two of old port, his eyes began to turn toward the door of the quaint little parlour in which he and Viner had been installed, and to which the landlady had promised to come. "I confess I'm unusually curious about what we're going to hear, Viner," he said, as he drew out a well-filled cigar-case.
Martincole's place, Mr. Viner," answered Millwaters. "Mr. Perkwite and I traced Mr. Cave here early in the afternoon; he went in, but he's never come out; we saw you enter here you are. We saw Miss Wickham and Mrs. Killenhall there's Miss Wickham, but where's the other lady? And where " Viner stopped the clerk's questions with a glance, and he laughed a little as he gave him his answer.
The two men came on in close, evidently absorbed conversation, passed Mr. Pawle and Viner without as much as a glance at them, and went along in the direction of Park Lane. "Well?" demanded Mr. Pawle. "The clean-shaven man is the man I told you of the man who was in conversation with Ashton at that tavern in Notting Hill the night Ashton was murdered," answered Viner. "The other man I don't know."
The man went away to return in a few minutes and to lead the callers into a room at the rear of the hall, wherein, his back to the fire, his look and attitude one of puzzled surprise, stood a very young man, dressed in the height of fashion, who, as his servant had said, was obviously just ready to go out. Viner, remembering what had brought him and Mr.
Bigglesforth, when he'd got to know the main features of the case, was willing enough to help, and your aunt immediately brought him round here to see me. And I knew at once that we'd got right there!" "Yes but how, exactly?" asked Viner. "Bigglesforth," answered Drillford, "told me that he'd supplied stationery to Dr.
As it stood, then, Danglar and the gang had not found out the location of that hoard; but they had found out where Perlmer kept his spurious papers stuffed in at the back of the bottom drawer of his desk in his office, practically forgotten, practically useless to Perlmer any more, for, having once shown them to Viner, there was no occasion to call them into service again unless Viner showed signs of getting a little out of hand and it became necessary to apply the screws once more.
They didn't when I was last in, anyway. Perhaps this gentleman I've mentioned to you might know Mr. Ashton might have told his name to him. But you know how it is in these places, Mr. Viner people drop in, even regularly, and fellow-customers may have a bit of talk with them without having the least idea who they are. Between you and me, sir, I came to the conclusion that Mr.
"Sorry, but that doesn't strike me as a good suggestion," replied Viner. "I'm going to have a look at that window!" The one window of the room, a long, low one, was set high in the wall, above the panelling; Viner had to climb on a bookcase to get at it.
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