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"What do you want me to do?" he asked suddenly. "You've got some scheme, of course, or you wouldn't have got me down here alone." "Just so," agreed Chettle. "I have a scheme and that's why I did get you down here alone. Mr. Allerdyke, you're a sharp, shrewd man all you Yorkshiremen are! at least, all that I've ever come across. You're good hands at ferreting things out. Now, Mr.
"I must go," he said. "I've a business appointment. I'll see you later." Fullaway made no reply, and Allerdyke left him, went downstairs and sought Gaffney, whom, having found, he led outside to the street. "How soon can you lay hands on that brother of yours?" he asked. "Twenty minutes in a cab, sir," replied Gaffney.
James Allerdyke, in charge of the Princess Nastirsevitch's jewels, was to have landed at Hull the night before, and I concluded that Mr. Fullaway had set off to meet him. But Mr. Fullaway has a bad habit of leaving letters and telegrams lying about, for any one to see, and within a few minutes I found on his desk a telegram from Mr.
For a good hour one brain gave out, and the other took in, and without waste of words. It came to an end at last, and master looked at man. "Well?" said Allerdyke, after a silence that was full of meaning "well?" "Take some thinking about," answered Appleyard tersely. "It's a big thing a devilish clever thing, too. There's one fact strikes me at once, though.
This message bore the same address which Allerdyke had found in the telegram discovered in James's pocket-book Waldorf Hotel and he determined to wire Mr. Franklin Fullaway immediately. He sat down at a writing-table in the hall and drew a sheaf of telegraph forms towards him. But it was not easy to compose the message which he wished to send.
I never have had anything to do with the private affairs of any employee of mine." "She makes her private affairs have something to do with you though," said Allerdyke, tapping the telegram significantly. "But, in my opinion, that wire's nothing but an excuse. What're you going to do?" "Oh, I don't know!" exclaimed Fullaway. "I'm about sick of the whole thing." Allerdyke pulled out his watch.
"Because my cousin had in his possession a consignment of such things, of great value, and we believe that he was murdered for them that's why," replied Allerdyke. "He had them when he left Christiania he had them when he entered the Hull hotel " Fullaway, who had been listening intently, leant forward with a shake of his head. "Stop at that, Allerdyke," he said.
He was bringing them over here to me." "On whose behalf?" asked Allerdyke. "On behalf of a Russian lady, a Princess, who wished to find a purchaser for them," replied the American promptly.
"Waistcoat-pocket just now," replied Allerdyke laconically. "That'll be an extra passport," observed Fullaway. "Not that it's needed, because, as I said, I've done business for her. Oddly enough, that was in the jewel line I negotiated the sale of Pinkie Pell's famous pearl necklace with Mademoiselle de Longarde. You've heard of that, of course?" "Never a whisper!" answered Allerdyke.
She set down the glass which she was just lifting to her lips; her large, handsome eyes dilated, her lips quivered a little. She turned a look of sympathy on Allerdyke, who, at that moment, realized that she was a very beautiful woman. "You don't say so!" she exclaimed. "Well, I'm really grieved to hear that I am! Dead? and when I left!
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