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I'll tell you something now, Mitchington, which you've never heard of, I'm certain. I made it in my way, after Collishaw's death, to get some information, secretly, from his widow, who's a fairly shrewd, intelligent woman for her class.
If I were certain that that rumour which spread, about Collishaw's knowledge of something you know, had got to Ransford's ears why, I should say it looked very much as if Ransford wanted to stop Collishaw's tongue for good before it could say more and next time, perhaps, something definite. If men once begin to hint that they know something, they don't stop at hinting.
"Well, things that look suspicious, on the face of it," continued Mitchington, who was obviously much upset. "As you'll acknowledge when you hear them. I got my information from the next-door neighbour, Mrs. Batts. Mrs. Batts says that when Ransford who'd been fetched by Mrs. Batts's eldest lad came to Collishaw's house, Collishaw was putting up his dinner to take to his work "
Was it possible that Ransford had realized a danger in Collishaw's knowledge, and had He was interrupted at this stage by Mitchington, who came hurriedly in with a scared face. "I say, I say!" he whispered as soon as Bryce's landlady had shut the door on them. "Here's a fine business! I've heard something something I can hardly credit but it's true.
Even in the momentary confusion following upon his discovery of Collishaw's dead body, he had been sufficiently alive to his own immediate purposes to notice that the tomb a very ancient and dilapidated structure stood in the midst of a small expanse of stone pavement between the yew-trees and the wall of the nave; he had noticed also that the pavement consisted of small squares of stone, some of which bore initials and dates.
"I've an abstract here of what the foreman at the Cathedral mason's yard told me of what he knew as to where Collishaw was working that morning when the accident happened I made a note of it when I questioned him after Collishaw's death.
"He told me so," replied Flood. "To hold his tongue. But I'd scarcely heard that when I heard of Collishaw's sudden death. And as to how that happened, or who who brought it about upon my soul, gentlemen, I know nothing! Whatever I may have thought, I never mentioned it to Wraye never! I I daren't! You don't know what a man Wraye is!
You may as well know it you're in danger. Collishaw is the man who hinted as you heard yesterday in my rooms that he could say something definite about the Braden affair if he liked." "Well?" said Ransford. "It's known to the police that you were at Collishaw's house early this morning," said Bryce. "Mitchington knows it." Ransford laughed.
Wraye has been a difficult man to trace, because of his residence abroad for a long time and his change of name, and so on, and it was only recently that my agents struck on a line through Flood. But there's the fact. And the probability is that when Braden came here he recognized and was recognized by these two, and that one or other of them is responsible for his death and for Collishaw's too.
I don't care a snap of my fingers that Brake, or Braden's dead, or that Collishaw's dead, nor if one had his neck broken and the other was poisoned, but whose hand was that which the mason, Varner, saw that morning, when Brake was flung out of that doorway? Come, now! whose?" "Not mine, my lad!" answered Folliot, confidently. "That's a fact?" Bryce hesitated, giving Folliot a searching look.
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