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Findlayson, this is two months before anything could have been expected, and the left bank is littered up with stuff still. Two full months before the time!" "That's why it comes. I've only known Indian rivers for five-and-twenty years, and I don't pretend to understand. Here comes another tar." Findlayson opened the telegram. "Cockran, this time, from the Ganges Canal: 'Heavy rains here.
Findlayson, this is two months before anything could have been expected, and the left bank is littered up with stuff still. Two full months before the time!" "That's why it comes. I've only known Indian rivers for five-and-twenty years, and I don't pretend to understand. Here comes another tar." Findlayson opened the telegram. "Cockran, this time, from the Ganges Canal: 'Heavy rains here.
"The fact is, we are especially anxious to solve this mystery," Quarles went on, "and I believe you are the only person who can help us. Now, from certain inquiries which I have been making I have come to the conclusion that Mr. Parrish is not dead." "Not dead!" the woman exclaimed. I saw Cockran look enquiringly at Quarles, but he did not say anything.
I suppose Cockran felt a fool, as the professor intended he should. There was little to be explained when I went to Chelsea later. Quarles's reconstruction of the crime had showed me the lines along which he had worked.
Many of the people were still on the stage, but Mrs Cockran, finding that the water had almost ceased to rise, and that the parsonage still stood fast, returned to the garret of her old home. Here she received Victor and the recovered Tony with great delight.
Since he did not sell his work, where did the money come from?" "Some annuity," I suggested. "Exactly, which he must have collected himself, since he received no letters, and taken away in cash, since he had given up using a banking account. Cockran has made inquiries at the insurance offices, and in the name of Parrish there exists no such annuity, apparently.
From the first moment, Cockran, director of the hospitals, left all his other occupations to attend to him alone.
Having no official position in the matter I must attach myself to some one to facilitate my investigation. Cockran thinks I am an old fool with lucid moments, during which I may possibly say something which is worth listening to." "He is generally looked upon as a smart man," I said. "Oh, perhaps he is right in his opinion of me, also in his judgment of you." "What has he got to say about me?"
Great, therefore, was her satisfaction when Herr Winklemann appeared in his canoe with a request for a barrel of flour. "You shall have one," said Mrs Cockran, "and anything else you may require; but pray do not leave me to-night. I can give you a comfortable bed, and will let you go the moment my husband returns. I fully expect him this evening."
However, he so far sank his political opinions as to telegraph to Mr. Bourke Cockran, and the anxiety which my relations were suffering on my account was thereby terminated. I had one other visitor in these dull days, whom I should like to notice.
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