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But no message from anybody professing relationship with the dead man had so far reached the Wrychester police. When everything had been taken into account, Bryce saw no better clue for the moment than that suggested by Ambrose Campany Barthorpe. Ambrose Campany, bookworm though he was, was a shrewd, sharp fellow, said Bryce a man of ideas.
"And," continued Ransford, "Campany further remarked, as a matter for humorous comment, that Bryce was also spending much time looking round our old tombs. Now you made this discovery near an old tomb, I understand?" "Close by one yes," assented the inspector. "Then let me draw your attention to one or two strange facts which are undoubted facts," continued Ransford.
Some of what I shall tell you is hearsay but it's hearsay that you can easily verify for yourselves when the right moment comes. Mr. Campany, the librarian, lately remarked to me that my old assistant, Mr.
"Yes, I was there," said Bryce, who was not unwilling to join in the talk. He turned to Campany. "What makes you think there's a clue in that?" he asked. "Why this," answered the librarian. "Here's a man in possession of an old history of Barthorpe.
Bryce, as he entered, caught what Campany was just then saying. "The most important thing I've heard about it," said Campany, "is that book they found in the man's suit-case at the Mitre. I'm not a detective but there's a clue!"
"The old chap was in the Library when Ambrose Campany said that there was a clue in that Barthorpe history," he mused. "I saw him myself examining the book after the inquest. No, no, Mr. Harker! the facts are too plain the evidences too obvious. And yet what interest has a retired old tradesman of Wrychester got in this affair?
"All the same," retorted Campany, "I should make inquiry at Barthorpe. You've got to go on probabilities. The probabilities in this case are that the man was interested in the book because it dealt with his own town." Bryce turned away towards a wall on which hung a number of charts and plans of Wrychester Cathedral and its precincts it was to inspect one of these that he had come to the Library.
Campany lifted his quill pen and pointed to a case of big leather-bound volumes in a far corner of the room. "Third shelf from the bottom, doctor," he replied. "You'll see two books there one's the register of all burials within the Cathedral itself up to date: the other's the register of those in Paradise and the cloisters. What names are you wanting to trace?"
Bryce, seemed to be taking an extraordinary interest in archaeological matters since he left me he was now, said Campany, always examining documents about the old tombs and monuments of the Cathedral and its precincts." "Ah just so!" exclaimed Mitchington. "To be sure! I'm beginning to see!"
It was all, he could do to repress a start and to check his tongue. But Campany, knowing nothing, quickly gave him the information he wanted. "All these drawings," he said, "are of old things in and about the Cathedral.
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