Once or twice he asked a
question; one or twice he begged the narrator to pause while he considered
a point: in the end he drew out his watch--after which he glanced out of
his window.
"Do I gather that the taxi-cab which I see outside there is being kept by
you two young men?" he asked.
"It is," answered Purdie. "It's important that we should lose no time in
getting back to town, Mr. Killick."
"Just so!" agreed Mr. Killick, moving towards his library door. "But I'm
going with you--as soon as I've got myself into an overcoat. Now!" he
added, a few minutes later, when all three went out to the cab. "Tell the
man to drive us straight to that police-station you've been visiting of
late--and till we get there, just let me think quietly--I can probably say
more about this case than I'm yet aware of. But--if it will give you any
relief, I can tell you this at once--I have a good deal to tell. Strange!
--strange indeed how things come round, and what a small world this is,
after all!"
With this cryptic utterance Mr. Killick sank into a corner of the cab,
where he remained, evidently lost in thought, until, nearly an hour later,
they pulled up at the door of the police-station.
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