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Wilchester was four hundred miles away, far off in the south; ninety-nine out of every hundred persons in Highmarket had never heard the name of Wilchester. But Stoner had quite apart from the history books, and the geography books, and map of England. Stoner himself was a Darlington man. He had a close friend, a bosom friend, at Darlington, named Myler David Myler.
"Let your mind go back to it, and to what you've since heard of it," said Cotherstone. "You know that on that afternoon Kitely had threatened me and Mallalieu with exposure about the Wilchester affair. He wanted to blackmail us. I told Mallalieu, of course we were both to think about it till next day.
They were now four hundred miles away from the scene of their crime. There was nothing whatever to bring Wilchester people into that northern country, nothing to take Highmarket folk anywhere near Wilchester. Neither he nor Mallalieu ever went far afield London they avoided with particular care, lest they should meet any one there who had known them in the old days.
We'd a working men's building society in Wilchester in those days it's there now for that matter, but under another name and there were two better-class young workmen, smart fellows, that acted one as secretary and t'other as treasurer to it. They'd full control, those two had, and they were trusted, aye, as if they'd been the Bank of England!
I spent a very pleasant evening with him and one or two more of his profession better sort of police and detectives, you know at a friend's of mine, who was one of our Wilchester police officials oh, it's yes it must be thirty years since. They'd come from London, of course, on some criminal business. Deary me! the tales them fellows could tell!"
The case had excited plenty of attention in Wilchester at the time Wilchester, that for thirty years had been so far away in thought and in actual distance that it might have been some place in the Antipodes. It was not a nice case even now, looking back upon it from his present standpoint, it made him blush to think of.
They're painful. Are you and your partner, Mr. Mallalieu, the same persons as the Chidforth and Mallows who were prosecuted for fraud at Wilchester Assizes in 1881 and sentenced to two years' imprisonment?" Cotherstone neither started nor flinched. There was no sign of weakness nor of hesitation about him now.
That five hundred is yours aye, as dead certain as that my nose is mine! It's it's what they call inductive reasoning. The initials M. and C. Mallows and Chidforth Mallalieu and Cotherstone the two thousand pounds the fact that Kitely was at Wilchester Assizes in 1881 that he became Cotherstone's tenant thirty years after oh, I see it all, and so will a judge and jury!
That was another piece of luck, for Stoner was quite certain that if Cotherstone had ever had any connexion with Wilchester it must have been a long, long time ago: he knew, from information acquired, that Cotherstone had been a fixture in Highmarket for thirty years.
The firm had no dealings with any firm at Wilchester. Stoner, who dealt with all the Mallalieu & Cotherstone correspondence, knew that during his five and a half years' clerkship, he had never addressed a single letter to any one at Wilchester, never received a single letter bearing the Wilchester post-mark.
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