"Oh, Mr. Viner," she exclaimed, "you are so kind, and so clever. I'm sure
you'll see a way out of this! It looks, oh, so very black, and so very
much against him; but oh, dear Mr. Viner, there must be some
explanation!"
"But what is it?" asked Viner, looking from one to the other. "What has
happened! Has any one been here?"
Miss Penkridge silently handed to her nephew an early edition of one of
the evening newspapers and pointed to a paragraph in large type. And
Viner rapidly read it over, to the accompaniment of the younger Miss
Hyde's sobs.
A sensational discovery in connection with the recent murder of Mr.
Ashton in Lonsdale Passage, Bayswater, was made in the early hours of
this morning. Charles Fisher, a greengrocer, carrying on business in the
Harrow Road, found in his woodshed, concealed in a nook in the wall, a
parcel containing Mr. Ashton's gold watch and chain and a diamond ring.
He immediately communicated with the police, and these valuables are now
in their possession. It will be remembered that Langton Hyde, the young
actor who is charged with the crime, and who is now on remand, stated at
the coroner's inquest that he passed the night on which the crime was
committed in a shed in this neighbourhood.
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