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He might have fallen into the condition of an official sleeping beauty, but that a sharp knock at the door roused him sufficiently to bid the knocker enter, whereupon a well-fed policeman presented himself with the information delivered in a sleepy, beefy voice that Mr Baltic wished to see Mr Tinkler.
''Tention! threw out Tinkler, and arranged pen and ink and paper to take notes. 'Now, Mr Baltic, sir! 'My knowledge of the man Jentham, droned Baltic, in his monotonous voice, 'begins at the moment I was informed by Mr Cargrim that he called at the palace to see Bishop Pendle a few days before he met with his violent end.
'I should think not! growled Tinkler, wrathfully. 'Bishops don't murder tramps in England, whatever they may do in the South Seas! and he made a third note, 'Memo. To ask his lordship if he lost a pistol. 'As Captain George Pendle is a soldier, Mr Inspector, I fancied on the testimony of the initials that the pistol might belong to him.
'I fancy the time for the Celt is not dawning, but setting, said Philip, with a sharp smile; and Patrick wore an artful look. A corner of the room was guilty of the incessant alarum. Captain Con gazed in that direction incredulously and with remonstrance. 'The tinkler it is! he sighed. 'But it can't be midnight yet? Watches were examined. Time stood at half-past the midnight.
This was the gist of Mosk's information, but he added, as an afterthought, that Jentham had promised to pay him when certain monies which he expected came into his possession. 'Who was going to pay him this money? asked Tinkler, pricking up his ears. 'Carn't y'arsk me somethin' easier? growled Mosk; 'how should I know?
The big, emphatic eight-day, opposite the front door, might proclaim that it was eleven, only to be at once contradicted by the little tinkler on the parlor mantel, which announced that it was six, thereby starting up the cathedral case on the stairway and the Grandfather in the dining-room, who held out respectively for eight and two, while all the time it was really half-past one.
"I've thought of nothing else for a month," said Dickie, and began to lay out the moon-seeds on the smooth sand. "Now," he said, when the pattern was complete, "I shall hold Tinkler and the white seal in my hand and take them with me. When I've gone, you can put the moon-seeds in your pocket and go home. When they ask you where I am, say I am in the cave.
And if you lay out your moon-seeds round them, in the old shape, and stand with them in the midst, holding your Tinkler and your white seal, you will all go whithersoever you choose." "I shall choose to go straight to the treasure, of course," said practical Dickie, swinging his feet in their rosetted shoes. "That thou canst not.
But Inspector Tinkler was the most wary of officials, and pending the inquest and the verdict of twelve good men and true, he declined to commit himself to an opinion.
So, Tinkler the valet was instructed to find Miss Amy's maid, and to request that subordinate to inform Miss Amy that Mr Dorrit wished to see her in his own room.
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