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Selwood repeated the gist of the Professor's arguments and suggestions, and Barthorpe began to show some interest. But at the end he shook his head. "I don't know that there's anything more that I can tell," he said. "Whatever anybody may think, I told the entire truth about myself and this affair in that statement before the magistrate.
A man had come quietly into the room a slightly-built, little man, grey-bearded, delicate-looking, whose eyes were obscured by a pair of dark-tinted spectacles. He moved gently and with an air of habitual shyness, and Selwood, who was naturally observant, saw that his lips and his hands were trembling slightly as he came towards them. "Mr.
Selwood, and ahead of the manager and cashier from the estate office; instead, he had taken a place in the rear ranks of the procession, and in it he remained until the close of the ceremony.
Go straight home, Robson," she went on, turning to the chauffeur. Selwood turned slowly and unwillingly back to the office door as the car moved off. And as he set his foot on the first step a young man came running up the entry not hurrying but running and caught him up and hailed him. "Mr. Selwood?" he said, pantingly. "You'll excuse me you're Mr. Herapath's secretary, aren't you?
It made the girl sick at heart, and it showed Selwood what deprivation of liberty means to a man who has hitherto been active and vigorous. "Have we done any good?" asked Peggie, drawing a deep breath of free air as soon as they were outside the gates. "Any bit of good?" "There's the affair of the bank-note," answered Selwood. "That may be of some moment.
The windows are traceried, and have above them figures of the four Evangelists, and ecclesiastical effigies stand as finials on two of the gables. A flood which in 1606 inundated the neighbourhood is said to have reached to the foot of the tower. St John's Church in High Street, built by Abbot Selwood in 1465, has, on the contrary, some pretensions to magnificence.
I want to get a full list. Who are the two elderly gentlemen with Mr. Barthorpe Herapath relatives, eh?" "No old personal friends," answered Selwood, good-naturedly turning aside with the little reporter. "One is Mr. Tertius Mr. J. C. Tertius a very old friend of the late Mr. Herapath's; the other is Mr. Benjamin Halfpenny, the solicitor, also an old friend."
"Does she know?" "She may have heard from her maid, sir," replied Kitteridge in low tones. "Of course they're all talking of it. I was going to ask to see Miss Wynne as soon as she was dressed." By that time the girl had advanced towards the three men, and Selwood stepped forward to meet her.
And though his dignity had been considerably damaged during the final moments at Selwood Terrace, there was matter for congratulation. The doctor, for instance, had shaken hands with him at parting; had shaken hands openly, in the presence of Duncan Farll: a flattering tribute to his personality.
However, we must look over his papers both here and at Portman Square." Selwood made no comment. He silently followed Barthorpe into the private room in which his late employer had so strangely met his death.
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