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If you was to go out o' Scarhaven harbour and turn north, you'd sail along our coast line up here to the mouth of Norcaster Bay and you'd think there was never an inlet between 'em. But there is.
Had Mallalieu chanced to look back at the door of the police-station as he entered the ancient door of the Town Hall he would have seen three men drive up there in a motor-car which had come from Norcaster one of the men being Myler, and the other two Norcaster detectives. But Mallalieu did not look back. He went up to the committee-room and became absorbed in the business of the meeting.
He had now to learn that a young man from Norcaster had come over to Highmarket that Sunday afternoon to visit his sweetheart; that this couple had gone up the moors; that they were on the opposite side of Hobwick Quarry when he went down into it after Stoner's fall; that they had seen him move about and finally go away; what was more, they had seen Cotherstone descend into the quarry and recover the stick; Cotherstone had passed near them as they stood hidden in the bushes; they had seen the stick in his hand.
"I've thought of that," observed Spurge. "And you can always find that much out from my cousin at the 'Admiral. He keeps in touch with me if it got too hot for me here, I should clear out to Norcaster there's a spot there where I've laid low many a time. You can trust my cousin Jim Spurge, that's his name. One eye, no mistaking of him he's always about the yard there at Mrs. Wooler's."
Not a railway station, 'cause them boxes 'ud be conspicuous and easy traced when inquiry was made. And yet they'd want to get 'em away as soon as possible. Very well what's the other way o' getting any stuff out o' Norcaster? What? Why that!" He jerked his thumb in the direction of a patch of grey water which shone dully at the end of the alley and while his thumb jerked his eye winked.
But he forgot the press and the local reporters were so glad to get hold of what was really spicy news that all the Norcaster and Northborough papers have been full of it. Everybody's talking of it, as I said people are asking what this evidence from America is; why was there such mystery about the whole thing, and so on. And, since then, everybody knows that Squire Greyle has left Scarhaven."
Bassett Oliver, having sent his luggage forward to Norcaster, had left the house on foot at eleven o'clock the previous morning, and had been seen to walk across the market-place in the direction of the railway station. But an old head-waiter, who had served the famous actor's breakfast, was able to give some information; Mr.
"So that's the line you're taking?" said Tallington quietly. "A good one for him." "Every man for himself," remarked the Norcaster practitioner. "We're not concerned with Mallalieu we're concerned about ourselves. See you when Cotherstone's brought before your worthies next Tuesday. And a word in your ear! it won't be a long job, then."
"I often say that no stranger ought to go alone here. They aren't safe, these cliffs." Stafford set down his glass and rose. "I think you've got a telephone in your hall," he said. "I'll just call up Norcaster and find out if they've heard anything. If they haven't " He shook his head and went out, and Copplestone glanced at the landlady. "You say the cliffs are dangerous," he said.
These are officers from Norcaster, sir there's a warrant for your arrest. It's it's the Stoner affair!" The Highmarket clocks were striking noon when Mallalieu was arrested. For three hours he remained under lock and key, in a room in the Town Hall most of the time alone. His lunch was brought to him; every consideration was shown him.
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