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"Well, as long as you know all that, there's a common basis and a common starting-point," remarked Harker, "so I'll begin at Brake's trial. It was I who arrested Brake. There was no trouble, no bother. He'd been taken unawares, by an inspector of the bank. He'd a considerable deficiency couldn't make it good couldn't or wouldn't explain except by half-sullen hints that he'd been cruelly deceived.
"It's gettin' kinder speedy, Hank!" The motorman twisted the handle. There was a grinding noise as the shoes took hold on the wheels. Then a chain snapped and the car seemed to leap ahead. "The brake's busted! I can't stop the car!" yelled the motorman. Vainly he twisted at the handle.
By the merest chance accident, in fact I discovered yesterday at Braden Medworth that some twenty-two years ago you married one Mary Bewery, who, I learnt there, was your governess, to a John Brake, and that Mark Ransford was John Brake's best man and a witness of the marriage. Now, Mr. Gilwaters, the similarity in names is too striking to be devoid of significance.
After an interval how long I cannot tell of this suspended intelligence, my brain grew more clear and natural, and I remembered that I was very late at the hospital, at the consultation, at Brake's, at every appointment of the evening; so late that my accustomed sense of haste now began to possess me to the exclusion of everything else.
Brake came to Wrychester by himself I was to join him next morning: we were then to go to see the Duke together. When I got to Wrychester, I heard of Brake's accident, and being upset by it, I went away again and waited some days until yesterday, when I made up my mind to tell the Duke myself, as I did, with very fortunate results. No, that's the only reason I know of why Brake came this way.
And then I found that he, too, who up to that time had been practising in a London suburb Streatham had also disappeared. Just after Brake's arrest, Ransford had suddenly sold his practice and gone no one knew where, but it was believed abroad. I couldn't trace him, anyway.
Those who think these disagreeable matters of supreme importance, and allow such things to stand between them and Brake's greatness, are like the people slightly to alter a figure from a philosopher of old who, when they went to Olympia, could only perceive that they were scorched by the sun, and pressed by the crowd, and deprived of comfortable means of bathing, and wetted by the rain, and that life was full of disagreeable and troublesome things, and so they almost forgot the great colossus of ivory and gold, Phidias's statue of Zeus, which they had come to see, and which stood in all its glory and power before their perturbed and foolish vision.
There is the fact that Brake's wife disappeared mysteriously that Ransford made a similar mysterious disappearance about the same time that Brake was obviously suffering from intense and bitter hatred when I saw him after the trial hatred of some person on whom he meant to be revenged and that his counsel hinted that he had been deceived and betrayed by a friend.
He got wrong, somehow, and he forged the Duke's name to a cheque. Now, then, considering who Glassdale is, and that he was certainly a fellow-convict of Brake's, and that I myself saw him here in Wrychester on the day of Brake's death what's the conclusion to be drawn? That Brake wanted to see the Duke on some business of Glassdale's! Without a doubt!
"Ransford was the close friend who tricked and deceived Brake: "He probably tricked him in some money affair, and deceived him in his domestic affairs. I take it that Ransford ran away with Brake's wife, and that Brake, sooner than air all his grievance to the world, took it silently and began to concoct his ideas of revenge. I put the whole thing this way. Ransford ran away with Mrs.
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