Multenius as part of his own effects--as no doubt it was.
Now," continued Mr. Penniket, turning to Zillah, "I want to ask you a
particular question. I know you had assisted your grandfather a great deal
of late years. Had you anything to do with his banking account?"
"No!" replied Zillah, promptly. "That's the one thing I never had anything
to do with. I never saw his pass-book, nor his deposit-book, nor even his
cheque-book. He kept all that to himself."
"Just so," said Mr. Penniket. "Then, of course, you don't know that he
dealt with considerable sums--evidently quite outside this business. He
made large--sometimes very heavy--payments. And--this, I am convinced, is
of great importance to the question we are trying to solve--most of these
payments were sent to South Africa."
The solicitor glanced round his audience as if anxious to see that its
various members grasped the significance of this announcement. And Melky
at once voiced the first impression of, at any rate, three of them.
"Levendale comes from those parts!" he muttered. "Came here some two or
three years ago--by all I can gather.
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