The particulars are specified in that receipt--
and I know that I still have it. Does my testimony satisfy you?"
The chief official present glanced at the man from New Scotland Yard, and
receiving a nod from him, smiled at the old solicitor.
"I think we can rely on your evidence, Mr. Killick," he said. "We had to
make certain, you know. But these marks--isn't that a curious coincidence,
now, when you come to think of it?"
"Not a bit of it!" replied Mr. Killick. "And I'll tell you why--that's
precisely what I've come all the way from my own comfortable fireside at
Stanmore to do! There's no coincidence at all. I've heard the whole story
of this Praed Street affair now from these two lads. And I've no more
doubt than I have that I see you, that the old pawnbroker whom you knew
hereabouts as Daniel Multenius was the same man Daniel Molteno--from whom
I bought those rings, years ago! Not the slightest doubt!"
None of those present made any remark on this surprising announcement, and
Mr. Killick went on.
"I was, as some of you may know, in practice in the City--in Moorgate
Street, as a matter of fact," he said.
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