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What's the extraordinary mystery about that book left in Multenius's back parlour and advertised for immediately by Levendale as if it were simply invaluable? Why has Levendale utterly disappeared? And who is this man Purvis and what's he to do with it? You've got the hardest nuts to crack a whole basketful of 'em! that ever I heard of. And I've had some little experience of crime!"
Levendale, is evidently very anxious to recover his book. And he's lost no time in advertising for it, either! But however did it get to Multenius's? "Mister!" said Melky, solemnly. "We'll have to speak to the police now. There's going to be a fine clue in that there book.
"I've no doubt whatever that Chen Li called at Multenius's shop to pay the rent; that he saw the diamond in the old man's possession and swagged him for it; that Parslett saw Chen Li slip away from that side-door and, hearing of Multenius's death, suspected Chen Li of it and tried to blackmail him; that Chen Li poisoned Parslett and that Chen Li himself was knifed for that diamond. Now by whom?
It was impossible to go back and fetch it. It was equally impossible that it should not attract attention. Daniel Multenius's granddaughter, whom I believed to be a very sharp young woman, would notice it, and would know that it had come into the place during her absence.
"All the same, he did paid it in, himself, to Daniel Multenius's credit, at the Empire and Universal. It went into the ordinary account, in the ordinary way, and was used by Mr. Multenius as part of his own effects as no doubt it was. Now," continued Mr. Penniket, turning to Zillah, "I want to ask you a particular question. I know you had assisted your grandfather a great deal of late years.
The more I considered the matter, the more I was certain that my first theory was right the Chinaman had got the diamond and the bank-notes. I was aware of these two Chinamen as tenants of Multenius's furnished house as a matter of fact, I had been present, at the shop in Praed Street, on one of my two visits there when they concluded their arrangements with him.
Of that detail I can't tell anything but I can offer a good suggestion about it. "Stephen Purvis was to call at Daniel Multenius's shop in Praed Street between five o'clock and half-past on the afternoon of November 18th to complete the sale of his diamond. About noon on that day, Daniel Multenius went to the City. He went to his bank and took the diamond away.
It was Melky's firm belief already that the stud had been dropped in Daniel Multenius's back parlour by some person who had no business there in other words by the old man's assailant. And ever since he had found the stud, Melky had been wondering and speculating on his chances of finding its owner. Of one thing he was already certain: that the owner, whoever he was, was no ordinary person.
At a quarter past ten o'clock on the morning following Ayscough's revelation to Zillah, the detective was closeted with a man from the Criminal Investigation Department at New Scotland Yard in a private room at the local police station, and with them was the superior official who had been fetched to the pawnshop in Praed Street immediately after the discovery of Daniel Multenius's body by Andie Lauriston.
Edward Killick, a London solicitor, who, of course, will be able to identify them. As to the marks, I think you'll find a trade explanation of that those rings and the rings in Multenius's tray probably came from the same maker. Now, I find, on looking through the directory, that this Mr.
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