Who
was the person? Were there two persons? If there were two, did they come
together--or singly, separately? All that will have to be solved before we
find out who it was that assaulted my late client, and so injured him that
he died under the shock. Now, Miss Wildrose, and Mr. Rubinstein, there's
one fact which you may as well get into your minds at once. Your deceased
relative had his secrets!"
Neither Zillah nor Purdie made any comment on this, and the solicitor,
with a meaning look at Purdie, went on. "Not that Daniel Multenius
revealed any of them to me!" he continued. "I have acted for him in legal
matters for some years, but only in quite an ordinary way. He was a well-
to-do man, Mr. Purdie--a rich man, in fact, and a considerable property
owner--I did all his work of that sort. But as regards his secrets, I know
nothing--except that since yesterday, I have discovered that he certainly
had them. I have, as Miss Wildrose knows--and by her instructions--been
making some enquiries at the bank where Mr. Multenius kept his account--
the Empire and Universal, in Lombard Street--and I have made some curious
unearthings in the course of them.
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