"Aye, just so!" observed Polke. "And I should say, Starmidge, that it was private business brought him down here—if he's the man, as he certainly seems to be. But—whose?"
Starmidge turned again to the clerk.
"You've a good memory, I can see," he said. "Now, did you ever hear Mr. Hollis mention the name of Horbury?"
"Never!" replied Simmons.
"Did you ever hear him speak of Chestermarke's Bank?" asked Starmidge.
"No—never! Never heard either name in my life until I saw them in the papers," asserted Simmons.
"Who looks after the banking account at Hollis's?" asked the detective. "I mean, the business account—you know. Not his private one."
"I do," said Simmons. "Always have done since I went there."
"You never saw any cheques paid to those names—or any cheques from them?" inquired Starmidge. "Think, now!"
"No—I'm absolutely sure of it," said the clerk. "Horbury, perhaps, I might not remember, but I should have remembered Chestermarke—it's an uncommon name, that—to me, anyway."