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He led Harker back to Paradise and to the place where he had left Dick Bewery, whom they approached so quietly that Bryce was by the lad's side before Dick knew he was there. And Harker, after one glance at the ring of faces, drew Bryce back and put his lips close to his ear and breathed a name in an almost imperceptible yet clear whisper. "Glassdale!" Bryce started for the third time.

For on the day following the interview with Mary Bewery and Ransford, Bryce being in the library was treated by Campany to an inspection of certain drawings which the librarian had made for illustrating his work-drawings, most of them, of old brasses, coats of arms, and the like, And at the foot of one of these, a drawing of a shield on which was sculptured three crows, Bryce saw the name Richard Jenkins, armiger.

The Mary Bewery whom Bryce knew in Wrychester was just about twenty this Mary Bewery, spinster, of Braden Medworth, was, then, in all probability, her mother. But John Brake who married that Mary Bewery who was he? Who indeed, laughed Bryce, but John Braden, who had just come by his death in Wrychester Paradise? And there was the name of Mark Ransford as witness. What was the further probability?

He appropriated money from them under apparently mysterious circumstances of which I, as yet, knew nothing; he was prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. And those two wards of Ransford's, Mary and Richard Bewery, as they are called, are, in reality, Mary and Richard Brake his children."

He had sown the seeds of uneasiness and suspicion broadcast some of them, he knew, would mature. Mary Bewery played no golf that morning. In fact, she only went on to the club-house to rid herself of Bryce, and presently she returned home, thinking. And indeed, she said to herself, she had abundant food for thought.

He must strengthen and deepen the suspicions which the police already had: he must give them chapter and verse and supply them with information, and get Ransford into the tightest of corners, solely that, in order to win Mary Bewery, he might have the credit of pulling him out again.

"And as young Bewery drew my attention to your proceedings, why, I thought I'd draw Harker's. And Harker was interested." Mitchington hesitated before saying more. But eventually he risked a leading question. "Any special reason why he should be, doctor?" he asked. Bryce put his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat and looked half-lazily at his questioner.

And there an entry caught his eye at once and he knew that he had discovered more than he had ever hoped for. He read it again and again, gloating over his wonderful luck. June 19th, 1891. John Brake, bachelor, of the parish of St. Pancras, London, to Mary Bewery, spinster, of this parish, by the Vicar. Witnesses, Charles Claybourne, Selina Womersley, Mark Ransford. Twenty-two years ago!

Mary Bewery was our governess at Braden Medworth. She came to us when she was nineteen she was married four years later. She was a girl who had no friends or relatives she had been educated at a school in the North I engaged her from that school, where, I understood, she had lived since infancy. Now then, as to Brake and Ransford.

"As you are aware, I am often asked out to tea," replied Bryce, "and to garden-parties, and tennis-parties, and choice and cosy functions patronized by curates and associated with crumpets. I have heard with these ears. I can even repeat the sort of thing I have heard. 'That dear, delightful Miss Bewery what a charming girl! And that good-looking boy, her brother quite a dear!

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