Of one thing I'm dead certain, anyway--if you
want to get at the bottom of this affair, you've got to find those two
men!"
"It would make a big difference if we had any idea of what it was that
Daniel Multenius had in that packet which he fetched from his bank on the
day of the murder," remarked Ayscough. "If there's been robbery, that may
have been the thief's object."
"That pre-supposes that the thief knew what was in the packet," said
Purdie. "Who is there that could know? We may take it that Levendale and
Purvis knew--but who else would?"
"Aye!--and how are we to find that out?" asked the New Scotland Yard man.
"If I only knew that much--"
But even at that moment--and not from any coincidence, but from the law of
probability to which Mr. Killick had appealed--information on that very
point was close at hand. A constable tapped at the door, and entering,
whispered a few words to the chief official, who having whispered back,
turned to the rest as the man went out of the room.
"Here's something likely!" he said. "There's a Mr. John Purvis, from
Devonshire, outside. Says he's the brother of the Stephen Purvis who's
name's been in the papers as having mysteriously disappeared, and wants
to tell the police something.
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