Gowran's evidence out of Mr. Gowran's own mouth. Would not
Frederic postpone the interview till he should have seen Mr. Gowran? But
to this request Frederic declined to accede. He had fixed a day and an
hour. He had made an appointment. Of course he must keep it.
CHAPTER LVII
HUMPTY DUMPTY
The robbery at the house in Hertford Street took place on the 30th of
January, and on the morning of the 28th of February Bunfit and Gager were
sitting together in a melancholy, dark little room in Scotland Yard,
discussing the circumstances of that nefarious act. A month had gone by
and nobody was yet in custody. A month had passed since that second
robbery; but nearly eight weeks had passed since the robbery at Carlisle,
and even that was still a mystery. The newspapers had been loud in their
condemnation of the police. It had been asserted over and over again that
in no other civilised country in the world could so great an amount of
property have passed through the hands of thieves without leaving some
clue by which the police would have made their way to the truth. Major
Mackintosh had been declared to be altogether incompetent, and all the
Bunfits and Gagers of the force had been spoken of as drones and moles and
ostriches.
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