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They stick to the idea that God ought to do such jobs as Brady advocates, and I don't know but they are right. So now you just keep your mouth closed about all this. It is Braden's affair, it's his lookout, not yours. The least said, the better, take it from me. You—" "We will talk of something else, George, if you don't mind," she said, relaxing suddenly.
But not quite himself. Mary caught him looking very grave, in evident abstraction, more than once; more than once she heard him sigh heavily. But he said no more of the matter until two days later, when, at breakfast, he announced his intention of attending John Braden's funeral, which was to take place that morning. "I've ordered the brougham for eleven," he said, "and I've arranged with Dr.
"Good Lord, that will won't stand a minute in a court of—" "It will stand so far as I'm concerned," said Braden sharply, and Simmy blinked his eyes in bewilderment. "You wouldn't be fighting Anne, you know," he ventured after a moment, assuming that Braden's attitude was due to reluctance in that direction. "She is provided for outside the will, she tells me." "Are you her attorney, Simmy?" "Yes.
He arose from his chair with a wry face and a half uttered groan, and crossed over to Braden's side. Strange, fierce pains were shooting through all the joints and muscles of his body. "See here, Brady, I'd like to ask a question, if you don't mind." "I don't mind. What is it?" "Would you have operated on Mr. Thorpe if you'd known what was in this will?" Braden hesitated, but only for a second.
The police theory is that Collishaw witnessed Braden's death at Ransford's hands, that Ransford got to know that Collishaw knew of that, and that he therefore quietly removed Collishaw. And it is on all that that they're going, and will go. Don't ask me if I think they're right or wrong! I'm only telling you what I know so as to show you what danger Ransford is in."
Braden's philanthropic and beaming countenance, which would have made the fortune of a bishop. It was not usual for Mr. Crewe to find it difficult to begin a conversation, or to have a companion as self-sufficient as himself.
You—" she checked the words in time. An instant later her ready tongue saved the situation. "You don't seem to understand what a golden opportunity this is for Braden. Here is a case that every newspaper in the country is talking about. It's the chance of a lifetime. He'll do his best, let me tell you that. If Mr. Marraville dies, it won't be Braden's fault.
"It just comes to this I'm suspected of having had a hand the hand, if you like! in Braden's death, and now of getting rid of Collishaw because Collishaw could prove that I had that hand. That's about it!" "A clear way of putting it, certainly," assented Bryce. "But there's a very clear way, too, of dissipating any such ideas." "What way?" demanded Ransford.
I know for instance, beyond doubt, that Braden and Ransford were bosom friends, years ago, that Braden was married to a girl whom Ransford had wanted to marry, that Braden's wife suddenly left him, mysteriously, a few years later, and that, at the same time, Ransford made an equally mysterious disappearance. The police know all that. What is the inference to be drawn?
Crewe, although he was not wont to take a second place, followed Mr. Braden down the stairs to the door next to the governor's, where he pushed ahead of his guide, through the group about the doorway, none of whom, however, were attempting to enter. They stared in some surprise at Mr. Crewe as he flung open the door without knocking, and slammed it behind him in Mr. Braden's face.
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