Wickerby's
confidential clerk, Lord Fawn, Lord Fawn's solicitor,--that same
Mr. Camperdown whom we saw in the last chapter calling upon Lady
Eustace,--and a policeman. Lord Fawn had been invited to attend, with
many protestations of regret as to the trouble thus imposed upon him,
because the very important nature of the evidence about to be given
by him at the forthcoming trial seemed to render it expedient that
some questions should be asked. This was on Tuesday, the 22nd June,
and the trial was to be commenced on the following Thursday. And
there was present in the room, very conspicuously, an old heavy grey
great coat, as to which Mr. Wickerby had instructed Mr. Chaffanbrass
that evidence was forthcoming, if needed, to prove that that coat was
lying on the night of the murder in a downstairs room in the house in
which Yosef Mealyus was then lodging. The reader will remember the
history of the coat. Instigated by Madame Goesler, who was still
absent from England, Mr. Wickerby had traced the coat, and had
purchased the coat, and was in a position to prove that this very
coat was the coat which Mr.
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