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Me and Inspector Drayton, we thought we beard a noise, last night, and we considered it safe to look about. We had a thorough search. We thought we'd better. But there wasn't nothing. It's all straight, sir." It was morning, and Brake's clerk was coming in. It was very early, earlier than he usually came, perhaps; but I could not tell.
But as I knew most of the members of the force in that region more or less well, this did not trouble me. I ran on, undisturbed, passing a watchman or two, and came quickly to Brake's place. It was locked. This distressed me. I think I had confidently expected to find him there. It did not seem to me possible to go home without seeing my broker.
"First I ever heard of it, then," said Glassdale. "And that's a fact, too!" "He'd also a very close friend named Ransford Mark Ransford," continued Bryce. "This Ransford was best man at Brake's wedding." "Never heard him speak of Ransford, nor of any wedding!" affirmed Glassdale. "All news to me, doctor." "This Ransford is now in practice in Wrychester," said Bryce.
I have reason to believe that he began to suspect and to plot from that moment. And immediately on hearing of Brake's death, and its circumstances, I was placed in a terrible dilemma.
Go easy, will you!" he had just shoved his foot still harder against the brake, when there was a sharp crack, and the huge vehicle suddenly sprang forward upon the wheelers' heels. "God help us!" cried Jack, "the brake's gone. We've got to run for it now." And run for it they did. It was a time of great peril. Mr. Miller clung tightly to the seat, and Bert shrank back between his knees.
They were as cowardly, and as terrified of the Ashantis, as all the other neighbouring races. In fact, the only work they were fit for was living in deserted villages, or cutting crops and eating up the produce. Three thousand of these levies were ordered to cooperate with Colonel Brake's column.
Now, after Brake's death, the police examined his clothes and effects they never found that scrap of paper! And I work things out this way. Brake was followed into that gallery a lonely, quiet place by the man or men who had got possession of the secret; he was, I'm told, a slightly-built, not over-strong man he was seized and robbed of that paper and flung to his death.
Brake came here, when I met him that morning " He paused, still looking from one to another of his audience as if entreating their belief. "As sure as I'm a living man, gentlemen!" he suddenly burst out, "I'd no willing hand in Mr. Brake's death! I'll tell you the exact truth; I'll take my oath of it whenever you like. I'd have been thankful to tell, many a time, but for for Wraye.
"And he has two young people living with him as his wards a girl of twenty, a boy of seventeen who are, without doubt, John Brake's children. It is the daughter that I want to marry." Glassdale shook his head as if in sheer perplexity. "Well, all I can say is, you surprise me!" he remarked. "I'd no idea of any such thing." "Do you think Brake came to Wrychester because of that?" asked Bryce.
That Mark Ransford had been John Brake's best man; that he was the Marco of the recent Times advertisement; that John Braden, or Brake, was the Sticker of the same advertisement. Clear! clear as noonday! And what did it all mean, and imply, and what bearing had it on Braden or Brake's death?
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