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Somewhat wonderingly, Elkin rang the bell once more, gave the necessary instructions, and the room was cleared of its art. He was quite sure now that Furneaux was, as he put it, "dotty." The latter, however, sat and enjoyed his tea as though well pleased with his bargain.
There was no minister there to conduct religious services. In all that new country there was no church; and no holy man could be found to speak words of comfort and hope to the grieving ones around the grave. But the boy, Abraham, remembered a traveling preacher, whom they had known in Kentucky. The name of this preacher was David Elkin. If he would only come!
"No, thanks not when I'm on duty." Elkin raised his eyebrows sarcastically. He could not possibly guess that Robinson was adopting Furneaux's pose of never accepting hospitality from a man whom he might have to arrest. "Well, blaze away. I'm ready." The younger man leaned against a gate. He looked ill and physically worn. "Your business has kept you out late of a night recently, you say, Mr.
The bounder ought to be in jail instead of giving dinner-parties. Imagine Doris eating in that house!" "Ay! Sweetbreads an' saddle o' lamb," interjected Hobbs with the air of one imparting a secret. Elkin was pallid with wrath. He glared at Hobbs. "What I had in my mind was the impudence of the blighter," he said shrilly.
"Frivolous?" "Not more than the rest of 'em, sir." "Have you seen her flirting with Elkin?" Robinson took thought. "Now that I come to think of it, she might be given a bit that way. Her father shoes Elkin's nags, so there's a lot of comin' an' goin' between the two places. But folks would always look on it as natural enough. Yes, I've seen 'em together more than once."
"The chemist? Foreman of the jury?" "Yes, sir." "From appearances, he is a likelier candidate than either Elkin or Tomlin. Anybody else?" "I shouldn't be far wrong if I gave you the name of most among the young unmarried men in the parish." "Dear me! I must have a peep at this charmer. But I want those names, Robinson." Winter produced a note-book, so he was evidently taking the matter seriously.
A second campaign in stellar parallax was undertaken by Gill and Elkin in 1887. But this time the two observers were in opposite hemispheres. Both used heliometers. Dr. Elkin had charge of the fine instrument then recently erected in Yale College Observatory; Sir David Gill employed one of seven inches, just constructed under his directions, in first-rate style, by the Repsolds of Hamburg. Dr.
Bates was blunt of speech, though a philosopher withal. "Elkin is my only serious rival, then?" laughed Grant, passing off as a joke a thrust which was shrewder than the gardener knew. "'E 'as plenty of brass, but I reckon nowt on 'im," was the contemptuous answer. "Well, he is not a likely person to kill a woman he had never before seen. Miss Martin will marry whom she chooses, no doubt.
Franklin, drawn to the court by curiosity, happened to glance at him once, and found him gazing at Furneaux in a peculiarly thoughtful manner. Elkin, thriving on a diet of tea and eggs, was also interested in the representative of Scotland Yard. He seemed to ignore Grant entirely. Doris Martin was not in court.
"And how are things going in the murder at The Hollies?" inquired the horse-dealer, by way of a polite leading up to the visitor's unexplained business. "Fairly well," said the detective. "My chief difficulty was to convince certain important people that you didn't kill Miss Melhuish. Once I " "Me!" roared Elkin, his pale blue eyes assuming a fiery tint. "Me!"
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