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I answered that it was just those other parties that I meant to know about, if I were to move a step in the matter. At this he got into a sad state — imploring, actually imploring, me not to desert him. He said he should do something desperate — something terrible — that night if I didn’t relieve his mind, and undertake the case. What he meant he’d do I didn’t know, of course, but it didn’t move me. I said finally that I would deal only with principals, and that until I had the personal instructions of the actual owner of the diamonds, in addition to a complete explanation of the brougham incident, I should do nothing, and I recommended him to go to the police; and with that I left him.”
“And you got nothing more from him than that?”
“Nothing more; but it was something, you see. He admitted, to all intents, that the diamonds were not his own. And now see here. I suppose I left him about ten o’clock. Here is a paragraph in one of this morning’s newspapers. It is only in the one paper; the matter seems to have occurred rather late for press.”
Hewitt gave me the paper in his hand, pointing to the following paragraph:
“HORRIBLE DISCOVERY. — A shocking discovery was made just before midnight last night, near the York column, wher a police-constable found the dead body of a man lying on the stone steps. The body, which was fully clothed in the ordinary dress of a labouring man, bore plain marks of strangulation, and it was evident that a brutal murder had been committed. A singular circumstance was the presence of a curious reddish mark upon the forehead, at first taken for a wound, but soon discovered to be a mark apparently drawn or impressed on the skin. At the time of going to press, no arrest had been made, and so far the affair appears a mystery.”
“Well,” I said, “this certainly seems curious, especially in the matter of the mark on the forehead. But what has it all to do ——”
“To do with Samuel and his diamonds, you mean? I’ll tell you. That dead man is Denson!”
“Denson?” I exclaimed. “Denson? How?”
“I get it from the housekeeper next door. It seems that when the police came to examine the body they found, among other things — money and a watch, and the like — a piece of an addressed envelope, used to hold a few pins — the pins stuck in and the paper rolled up, you know. There was just enough of it to guess the address by — that of the office next door; and it was the only clue they had. So they came along here at once and knocked up the housekeeper. He went with them and instantly recognised Denson, disguised in labourer’s clothes, but Denson, he says, unmistakably.”
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