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Stafford and several members of Bassett Oliver's company had motored over from Norcaster and had succeeded in getting good places: there were half-a-dozen reporters from Norcaster and Northborough, and plain-clothes police from both towns. And there, too, were all the principal folk of the neighbourhood, and Mrs.
"No," replied the doctor, "they did not. I knew of course, from what they told me that Mr. Greyle had come off the Araconda the night before, and that he was passing on. No I only gathered that they were going to the neighbourhood of Norcaster from the fact that Mr.
Somewhat to Brereton's surprise, the prosecuting counsel, who had been hastily fetched from Norcaster and instructed on the way, went more fully into the case than was usual.
Now then, the next thing is, which way did that motor go with its contents?" They followed the tracks for a short distance along the road, until, coming to a place where it widened at a gateway leading into the wood, they saw that the car had there been backed and turned. Gilling carefully examined the marks. "That car came from Norcaster and it's gone back to Norcaster," he affirmed presently.
He gave Copplestone a squeeze of the elbow, laughed, and went across to the solicitor, who was chatting to Stafford in one of the bow windows. Ten minutes later all three were off to Norcaster, and Copplestone was alone, ruminating over this sudden and extraordinary change in the hitherto even tenor of his life.
I suppose there'd be an end of the case if he'd prove where he was, eh?" "He'd have to account for every minute between nine and ten o'clock," answered Brereton. "It would be no good, for instance, if we proved to a jury that from say ten o'clock until five o'clock next morning, Harborough was at shall we say your county town, Norcaster.
But Christopher Pett told a very different story to Mallalieu. The moors, he said, were being patrolled night and day: it was believed the fugitive was in hiding in one of the old quarries. Every road and entrance to Norcaster, and to all the adjacent towns and stations, was watched and guarded.
A yacht comes up smart 'un very fast sailer and hails me. Was I going into Norcaster or anywheres about? Being a Northborough tug, this, I wasn't. Would I go for a consideration then and there? Whereupon I asked what consideration? Then we bargains. Eventual, we struck it at thirty pounds cash down, which was paid, prompt.
In proof of this he called in at the furniture remover's, to get an estimate of the cost of removal to Norcaster Docks thence, said Christopher, the furniture could be taken by sea to London, where Miss Pett intended to reside in future.
"No that's not at all likely," answered Brereton. "There's some very strange mystery about that man, and I'll have to get at the truth of it in spite of his determined reticence! Bent! I'm going to see this thing right through! The Norcaster Assizes will be on next month, and of course Harborough will be brought up then.
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