Now then, between ourselves--Mr. Purdie
being represented to me as in your entire confidence--I may as well tell
you that Daniel Multenius most certainly had dealings of a business nature
completely outside his business as jeweller and pawnbroker in this shop.
That's positively certain. And what is also certain is that in some of
those dealings he was, in some way or another, intimately associated with
the man whose name has already come up a good deal since Monday--Mr.
Spencer Levendale!"
"S'elp me!" muttered Melky. "I heard Levendale, with my own two ears, say
that he didn't know the poor old fellow!"
"Very likely," said Mr. Penniket, drily. "It was not convenient to him--we
will assume--to admit that he did, just then. But I have discovered--from
the bankers--that precisely two years ago, Mr. Spencer Levendale paid to
Daniel Multenius a sum of ten thousand pounds. That's a fact!"
"For what, mister?" demanded Melky.
"Can't say--nobody can say," answered the solicitor. "All the same, he
did--paid it in, himself, to Daniel Multenius's credit, at the Empire and
Universal. It went into the ordinary account, in the ordinary way, and was
used by Mr.
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