However positive Jabez Creede, his landlady6, and the various prison warders might be that Mr. Hoskyns, and no one but he, was the man who had assisted Lionel Dering to escape, it was easily proved that they were one and all in the wrong. On the evening of the escape Mr. Hoskyns had dined with Mr. Tressil and three or four other members of the bar, and had not parted from them till after midnight. This fact the gentlemen in question all came forward and swore to, and Mr. Hoskyns was at once exculpated7 from any share in the extraordinary escape of his client. With Jabez Creede it fared somewhat more hardly. Every one at first was inclined to regard him in the light of an accomplice8, and it was not till after he had spent upwards9 of a week in prison, and had been examined and remanded about a dozen times, that he was able to prove how really innocent he was of any complicity in the heinous10 crime of which he was accused.
But who, then, was the consummate11 actor who had so cleverly outwitted, not only drink-soddened Jabez Creede, but the keen-eyed warders of the prison, who, for weeks past, had been in the habit of seeing the real Hoskyns almost daily, and who, one would have thought, were about the last men in the world to be so easily deceived? Government supplemented its second reward for the capture of the escaped prisoner by offering a hundred and fifty pounds for the capture of the man who had helped him to escape. But Government, to all appearance, might as well have never offered to unloosen its purse-strings.
From the moment Lionel Dering and the arch-impostor who aided and abetted12 him in his nefarious13 scheme set foot outside the walls of Duxley Gaol, they seemed to have vanished into thinnest air Like creatures of a dream, they had melted utterly14 away; and not all the ten thousand practised eyes that were on the look-out for them here, there, and everywhere, could succeed in finding the faintest clue to their hiding-place.
Of the two, as far as his private feelings went, Mr. Drayton would much rather have captured the sham15 lawyer than the escaped prisoner. He had no ill feeling towards Mr. Dering. Under similar circumstances, who would not have attempted to escape? But towards the sham Hoskyns, who had deceived everybody with such apparent ease, he certainly felt a degree of animus16 which had kept him in a chronic17 state of ill-temper both at home and abroad ever since the discovery of the escape, and which would have caused it to fare but ill with the miscreant18 in question, could Mr. Drayton's heavy hand but once have been laid upon his shoulder.
The celebrated19 Mr. Whiffins, of Scotland Yard, had, in the first instance, been sent down to investigate the case, and had, so to speak, taken the conduct of it into his own hands. But Mr. Drayton did not believe in Mr. Whiffins--did not believe in his talents as a detective, and secretly resented his interference. But, by-and-by, Mr. Whiffins went back to London not much wiser than he had left it, and Mr. Drayton was left to pursue his investigations20 in peace.
Many and profound were the cogitations of the worthy22 superintendent of police, indulged in the privacy of his own circle, before the following deductions23 worked themselves out to a logical issue in his mind:--The man who personated Mr. Hoskyns so successfully must evidently have been thoroughly24 acquainted with the speech, dress, gait, manner, and every minute peculiarity25 in the appearance and habits of that gentleman, down even to his yellow pocket-handkerchief and his silver snuff box. He must also have had some knowledge of Jabez Creede, and of the position he held with regard to his employer. He must also have known Mr. Dering, and Mr. Dering must have known him: the supposition, in fact, being that the two men were bosom26 friends--for who but a staunch friend would have run the risk of failure in attempting so remarkable27 an escape? Then, the man, Whoever he might be, must also have had some acquaintance with the gaol and with the gaol officials. Had he not mentioned two or three of the warders by name? Then, he must be a man about the same size and build as Mr. Hoskyns, with a thin, clear-cut face, something like that of the old lawyer. Having worked out his problem so far, Mr. Drayton's next care was to look carefully round, and endeavour to "spot" the man in whom the various requirements of the case were most evidently combined.
The result of the cautious inquiries28 instituted by Mr. Drayton was, that suspicion pointed29 in one direction, and in one only.
There was only one person to be found to whom the whole of the deductions worked out in the superintendent's mind would clearly apply. That person was Mr. Tom Bristow.
Mr. Bristow was a friend of the prisoner, and had visited him almost daily in gaol. He was well acquainted both with Mr. Hoskyns and Jabez Creede; and, taking the difference of age into account, he was not unlike the old lawyer in personal appearance.
"I think I've nailed you, my fine fellow!" said Mr. Drayton triumphantly30 to himself one evening, as he shook the ashes out of his pipe and brought his cogitations to an end for the time being.
But it is one thing to suspect a man, and another to have sufficient evidence against him to warrant his arrest. The evidence against Mr. Bristow, such as it was, was entirely31 presumptive, and even Sir Harry32 Cripps, the senior magistrate33, anxious as he was that the culprit should be brought to light, had yet some doubts as to the advisability of issuing a warrant for the arrest of Tom. Now, as it happened, Sir Harry and Mr. Culpepper were old and intimate friends, and when, in the course of conversation, Mr. Drayton chanced to mention that Mr. Bristow had more than once been up to Pincote to dinner, Sir Harry caught at the idea, and decided34 to take no further steps in the matter till after he had consulted with his old friend. So he at once dropped the squire35 a note, in which he asked him to look in at the Town Hall on a matter of private business when next in Duxley.
Next morning brought the Squire, and the case was at once laid before him. He laughed loud and long at the idea of "young Bristow," whom he knew so well, having had anything to do with so nefarious a transaction. He did not scruple36 to express in voluble terms his gratification at poor Dering's escape--thereby shocking Sir Harry's susceptibilities as a magistrate not a little--but that Bristow was the disguised conspirator37 who had assisted him to escape was a thought which found no resting-place in the squire's mind. "He's too simple--too straightforward38 ever to think of such a thing--letting alone the carrying of it out," said Mr. Culpepper. "You don't know Bristow as well as I do, or you would never connect such an idea with his name."
"Suppose we send for him," said Sir Harry, "and put a few questions to him quietly in this room?"
"With all my heart," said the squire; "and have your pains for your reward."
So a messenger was sent round to Tom's lodgings39 with Mr. Culpepper's compliments, and would Mr. Bristow be good enough to step up to the magistrate's private room at the Town Hall for a few minutes?
Tom, who happened to be at home, went back with the messenger without a moment's hesitation40; but it would, perhaps, be too much to say that his heart did not misgive41 him a little as he walked smilingly into the lion's den5. Mr. Culpepper shook hands with him, and pointed to a chair next his own. Sir Harry nodded and said, "How do you do, Mr. Bristow?" but looked anxious and flurried. Drayton coughed behind his hand, and quietly changed his position so as to get between Tom and the door. "There's no knowing what may happen," said the superintendent to himself. "He may grow desperate as soon as he finds it's all up with him."
"We have sent for you, Bristow," said the squire, "that we may have a little talk with you about Mr. Dering's extraordinary escape."
"It was indeed an extraordinary escape, sir," said Tom; "but I am not aware that I am in a position to furnish you with any special information respecting it. The 'Duxley Gazette' seems to me----"
"No--no, that isn't what we mean," interrupted the squire. "To be plain with you, Bristow, a report has got abroad--no matter bow it originated--that you were somehow mixed up in that very queer piece of business."
"In other words, people think that because I was Mr. Dering's friend, it must be I who assisted him to escape?"
"That's just about it," said the squire. "You couldn't have put it in plainer language."
"Well, gentlemen, I will tell you candidly42 that believing firmly, as I do, in Mr. Dering's innocence43, I would gladly have assisted him to escape had it lain in my power to do so. But I think I shall be able to prove to your entire satisfaction that, unless it is possible for a man to be in two places at once, I was in a direction quite the opposite of that of Duxley gaol at the exact time that the escape was being carried into effect."
"There! what did I tell you?" said the squire triumphantly. "I knew the lad was innocent."
"Mr. Bristow has yet to enlighten us as to his proceedings44 on the night in question," said Sir Harry, stiffly.
"In the first place," said Tom, "if you will kindly45 send for Mrs. Potts, my landlady, who is, I believe, a most trustworthy woman, you will find on inquiry46 of her that, on the night of the escape, the clock had just struck eleven as I reached home. Mrs. Potts, will remember the circumstance, because, a minute or two after going indoors, I heard her fastening up the house as usual, and I called over the banisters to ask her the time, my watch having stopped for want of winding47 up. On hearing my question, Mrs. Potts held up her candle to the face of the old case-clock in the entrance-hall, and called out that it was just five minutes past eleven. Now, if I was in my own lodgings at five minutes past eleven, I could not have had anything to do with the escape of Mr. Dering, who, it was proved in evidence by the warders, did not set foot outside the gates till a quarter of an hour past that time."
"Of course not. The thing's as clear as daylight," said the squire, heartily48.
"Perhaps, Sir Harry, you will kindly send for Mrs. Potts," said Tom. "I should like you to hear the corroboration49 of my story from her lips, while I am here."
"Drayton, send one of your men with my compliments to Mrs. Potts, and----"
"Beg pardon, Sir Harry," said Drayton, with some confusion, "but I found out two or three days ago, in consequence of certain private inquiries made by me, that what Mr. Bristow says about Mrs. Potts and the clock is quite true. According to that clock, Mr. Bristow, on the night of the escape, was at home at eleven to the minute."
"What on earth do you mean, Drayton?" said Sir Harry, growing very red in the face. "If you knew all this before, why let me send for Mr. Bristow? If what you say is true, there is no case whatever against this gentleman, and I can only apologize to him for having brought him here at all."
Drayton turned very white, but he was a man not easily put down. "Such things have been known," he said, "as clock fingers being put either backward or forward so as to suit people's own convenience."
"Drayton, you are a bigger fool than I took you to be," said Sir Harry, irately50, "and I never had a very high opinion of your brains."
Drayton, metaphorically51 speaking, sank into his boots.
"As it happens," said Tom, "I am in a position to offer you a still stronger confirmation52 of the impossibility of my having had anything to do with effecting the escape of Mr. Dering."
"We shall be very happy, Mr. Bristow, to listen to anything you have to say," said Sir Harry, politely.
"Then I must ask you, Sir Harry, to kindly answer me one or two questions," said Tom.
"As many as you like, Mr. Bristow."
"Were not you yourself in Duxley till rather a late hour on the night of the escape?"
"I was. I did not leave the White Bear till nearly ten o'clock."
"Precisely53 so. You and your son together in your dog-cart. When you reached Deadman's Hollow--you know the place I mean; that deep cutting in the road about two miles out of Duxley, where the trees, planted thick on both sides, nearly meet overhead?"
"I know the place you mean," said Sir Harry.
"When you reached that spot, you did not see a man sitting on a broken bit of wall in the gloomiest part of the road?"
"I certainly did not."
"He had been taking a constitutional by starlight. The night was close and oppressive, and he had sat down, hat in hand, to gather breath before climbing the opposite hill.
"I certainly did not see the person to whom you allude54."
"But he saw you, Sir Harry. He saw you come to a dead stop within a dozen yards of where he was sitting. One of the traces had suddenly given way. You got down to ascertain55 what was the matter, and as you did so, you made use of a rather strong expression. Would you like me, Sir Harry, to repeat the exact words made use of by you on the occasion in question?"
"Not at all, Mr. Bristow, not at all. Not requisite56, I assure you," said Sir Harry, hastily.
"You alighted from the dog-cart," resumed Tom. "Your son got down after you, and you gave him one of the side-lamps to hold while you did your best to mend the broken trace. As you got into the trap again, the church clock at Leyland chimed the quarter. 'We shall be very late home, father,' said your son. 'Mamma will have given us up long ago.' What you answered I did not hear, but next moment you were driving away again as hard as you could, as if to make up for lost time, And now, gentlemen, I hope you will agree with me that it was a sheer impossibility for the man who was a witness of this incident to have been at that very moment in Duxley gaol assisting a prisoner to escape."
"Mr. Bristow, not another word," cried Sir Harry. "I regret exceedingly that you were ever called upon for any such explanation. Mr. Culpepper and I are going to have luncheon57 in five minutes. Will you do me the favour of joining us?"
"This will be something to tell Jane when I get home," said the squire with a chuckle58. "I believe you are a prime favourite with my Jenny," he added, turning to Tom.
So Tom lunched at the White Bear with Sir Harry and the squire, and parted from them afterwards on the best of terms.
But Mr. Drayton, although staggered by Tom's statement, was by no means convinced in his own mind of the latter's innocence. "Artful--very," was his muttered comment as he left the room. "But hang me if I don't think he's been bamboozling59 Sir Harry all the way through."
And Mr. Drayton was not far wrong in his supposition.
Tom had put the clock at his lodgings half-an-hour back, and had purposely called his landlady's particular attention to the time of his arrival at home, knowing well how such evidence would tell in his favour should worthy Mrs. Potts ever be called upon to give it.
As for the incident of the broken trace, Tom had obtained his knowledge of that quite by accident. As he was taking a country ramble60 the day after the escape, a sudden thunder-shower drove him for shelter into a little roadside public-house. He sat down and called for some refreshment61. While waiting for the rain to abate62, his attention was attracted by the conversation of two labouring men who were sitting on the opposite side of the partition against which he was seated. One of the two men was recounting some incident to his companion, with all that particularity as to time and place, and the actual words overheard, which, not unfrequently, makes the narrations63 of uneducated persons so thoroughly vivid and life-like. The man, it appeared, was on his way home, and had stopped to rest awhile in the dark part of the road, when Sir Harry's dog-cart drove up. Then came the sudden halt and the after-incidents, exactly as told by Tom at second-hand64 from the man.
"I'd have gone and lent him a hand," added the man, "if it had been anybody but Sir Harry Cripps. But he gave me three months once because a hare was found in my pocket, which had got there quite accidental, so that if he had broke his neck it wouldn't have broke my heart."
It was the story thus told which Tom had boldly seized upon and appropriated as an experience of his own when before Sir Harry; with what result has been already seen.
It had been a serious question with Tom whether, after the escape of Lionel, he should continue to call at Alder65 Cottage as he had been in the habit of doing previously66, or whether he should absent himself entirely till the first ardour of the hue-and-cry was over, and his friend had been safely smuggled67 away to some more distant hiding-place. After mature consideration, Tom decided that it would be better in every way that he should keep up his visits as usual--as if, in fact, the escape of Lionel Dering were a matter of no moment either to the inmates68 of Alder Cottage or to himself. To break off his visits might merely serve to breed suspicion where none existed already; besides which it was absolutely necessary that he should see Lionel occasionally, in order that the means might be concocted69 and agreed upon for his further escape.
So Tom came and went as usual, and in no wise altered the mode of his daily life. But, after a time, he became conscious that not only he himself, but the inmates of Alder Cottage, had been placed under police surveillance.
Wherever he went his footsteps were dogged--not offensively, but cautiously, respectfully, and at a distance. The cottage, too, was, so to speak, surrounded with spies.
This gave Tom some anxiety. It seemed to show that the suspicions of Messrs. Whiffins and Drayton were beginning to concentrate themselves nearer home. And to a certain extent he was right. After slow and painful cogitation21, and not till more than three weeks after the escape, Mr. Drayton arrived at the conclusion that it was just possible that Mr. Dering might never have attempted to go abroad at all, or even to get as far as London, but might be snugly70 hidden somewhere close at hand. And if so--where?
The result of this question was the watching by day and night of Alder Cottage, and of the comings and goings of its inmates.
A week passed away and Mr. Drayton began to despair. His men had absolutely nothing to report, except that the ladies went out occasionally for a short walk; that Martha Vince, the servant, went out every morning to make the needful domestic purchases; and that Mr. Bristow called every other day and was the only visitor at the cottage.
Mr. Drayton was seriously considering as to the advisability of withdrawing his men, when one of them brought him a piece of information which startled him considerably71. This man, Tidey by name, had been on watch in a clump72 of trees a short distance from the cottage, when, so he averred73, he saw a corner of one of the blinds drawn74 on one side, and a man's face peer out along the road, as if expecting some one. Tidey was positive that it was a man's face. He was equally certain it was not the face of Mr. Bristow, which was well known to him by sight. That it could not be Mr. Bristow was proved in another way, by another man, who had seen that gentleman leave the cottage only two hours previously.
Mr. Drayton decided to strike while the iron was hot. He went at once to Colonel Chumley, one of the magistrates--he would not go to Sir Harry Cripps again, who, indeed, happened not to be sitting that day--and haying deposed75 to his belief that Lionel Dering was at that moment hiding at Alder Cottage, he at once obtained the requisite warrant, authorizing76 him to search the premises77 in question.
Half an hour later, followed by four picked men in plain clothes, Mr. Drayton set out for the cottage.
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