"Well?" demanded Mr. Pawle.
"The clean-shaven man is the man I told you of--the man who was in
conversation with Ashton at that tavern in Notting Hill the night Ashton
was murdered," answered Viner. "The other man I don't know."
Mr. Pawle turned and looked after the retreating figures.
"You're sure of that?" he asked.
"Certain!" replied Viner. "I should know him anywhere."
Mr. Pawle came to another halt, glancing first at the two men, now well
up the street, and then at the somewhat sombre front of Ellingham House.
"Now, this is an extraordinary thing, Viner!" he exclaimed. "There's the
man who, you say, was with Ashton not very long before he came to his
end, and we find him coming away--presumably--from Lord Ellingham,
certainly from Lord Ellingham's house! What on earth does it mean? And I
wonder who the man is?"
"What I'd like to know," said Viner, "is--who is the other man? But as
you say, it is certainly a very curious thing that we should find the
first man evidently in touch with Lord Ellingham--considering our recent
discoveries. But--what are you going to do?"
"Going in here," affirmed Mr.
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