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Updated: June 26, 2025
A wretched remnant of a town on an abandoned goldfield. One street, each side of the dusty main road; three or four one-storey square brick cottages with hip roofs of galvanised iron that glared in the heat four rooms and a passage the police-station, bank-manager and schoolmaster's cottages, &c. Half-a-dozen tumble-down weather-board shanties the three pubs., the two stores, and the post-office.
Brereton had expected that the police would ask for an adjournment after the usual evidence of the superficial facts, and of the prisoner's arrest, had been offered; instead of that, the prosecution brought forward several witnesses, and amongst them the bank-manager, who said that when he cashed Kitely's draft for him the previous morning, in Harborough's presence, he gave Kitely the one half of the money in gold.
"You mentioned Harborough," said the bank-manager, shaking his head. "Well?" said Mallalieu. "What then?" "Harborough was at the counter when Kitely took his money," answered the bank-manager. "He had called in to change a five-pound note." The two men looked at each other in silence for a time. Then the bank-manager shook his head again.
A telegram! Telegrams in war time had a special significance. The bank-manager understood, and was silent while John Swinton held out his hand tremblingly and opened the yellow envelope with feverish fingers. Under the light, he read words that swam before his eyes, and with a sob he crumpled the paper. All the color was gone from his face. "My son" he explained. "Nothing serious, I hope. Not ?"
And proof as he believed himself to be against such slight things, the sudden opening of a window above his head made him jump. The startled bank-manager, hurrying down to his midnight visitor in his dressing-gown and slippers, stood aghast when he had taken the Mayor within and learned his errand. "Certainly!" he said. "Kitely was in the bank today, about noon I attended to him myself.
As things were, it seemed unlikely that any relations of Braden would now turn up. The Wrychester Paradise case, as the reporters had aptly named it, had figured largely in the newspapers, London and provincial; it could scarcely have had more publicity yet no one, save this bank-manager, had come forward.
There was one moment during which Somerset might have conveniently made his presence known; but the juxtaposition of the bank-manager, and his own disarranged box of securities, embarrassed him: the moment slipped by, and she was gone. In the meantime he had mechanically unearthed the pedigree, and, locking up his father's chest, Somerset also took his departure at the heels of Paula.
But they got no further information from either Betty Fosdyke or Wallington Neale. Neither had ever heard of Mr. Frederick Hollis, of Gray's Inn. Betty was certain, beyond doubt, that he was no relation of the missing bank-manager: she had the whole family-tree of the Horburys at her finger-ends, she declared: no Hollis was connected with even its outlying twigs.
"But haven't you done anything to the money itself?" said I timidly. To this day I do not know exactly what the bank-manager said, but it came to this in the end that I had better not meddle with things that I did not understand. On reviewing the whole matter, I can be certain of this much only, that the money given out at the musical banks is not the current coin of the realm.
She lifted her hands in amazement directly their backs were turned. 'Goodness send us grace! 'Who be they? said her husband. 'Actually Mr. Trewen, the bank-manager, and his wife. John Smith, staggered in mind, went out of doors and looked over the garden gate, to collect his ideas. He had not been there two minutes when wheels were heard, and a carriage and pair rolled along the road.
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