Penniket, solicitor to the late Daniel Multenius.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
THE DETECTIVE CALLS
Mr. Penniket, to whom the two cousins and Mrs. Goldmark were evidently
very well known, looked a polite enquiry at the stranger as he took the
chair which Melky drew forward for him.
"As Mr. Purdie is presumably discussing this affair with you," he
observed, "I take it that you intend him to hear anything I have to tell?"
"That's so, Mr. Penniket," answered Melky. "Mr. Purdie's one of us, so to
speak--you can tell us anything you like, before him. We were going into
details when you come--there's some strange business on, Mr. Penniket! And
we want to get a bit clear about it before we tell the police what we
know."
"You know something that they don't know?" asked Mr. Penniket.
"More than a bit!" replied Melky, laconically. "This here affair's
revolving itself into a network, mister, out of which somebody's going to
find it hard work to break through!"
The solicitor, who had been quietly inspecting Purdie, gave him a sly
smile.
"Then before I tell you what I have just found out," he said, turning to
Melky, "I think you had better tell me all you know, and what you have
been discussing.
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