Possibly, I may have something to tell which bears on our
knowledge. Let us be clear!"
He listened carefully while Purdie, at Zillah's request, told him briefly
what had been said before his arrival, and Purdie saw at once that none of
the facts surprised him. He asked Mrs. Goldmark one or two questions about
the man who was believed to have dropped one of his cuff-links in her
restaurant; he asked Melky a question as to his discovery of the other; he
made no comment on the answers which they gave him. Finally, he drew his
chair nearer to the table at which they were sitting, and invited their
attention with a glance.
"There is no doubt," he said, "that the circumstances centring round the
death of my late client are remarkably mysterious! What we want to get at,
put into a nut-shell, is just this--what happened in this parlour between
half-past four and half-past five on Monday afternoon? We might even
narrow that down to--what happened between ten minutes to five and ten
minutes past five? Daniel Multenius was left alone--we know that. Some
person undoubtedly came in here--perhaps more than one person came.
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