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So that he can get the five thousand pound reward! Plain as a pikestaff! Only, the police are such fools." "And what about Collishaw?" asked Bryce, willing to absorb all his companion's ideas. "Part of the game," declared Sackville. "Same man that got rid of Braden got rid of that chap! Probably Collishaw knew a bit and had to be silenced.
But between now and then, there'll be the inquest on this man Collishaw. And, about that a word in your ear! Say as little as ever you can! after all, you know nothing beyond what you saw. And we mustn't meet and talk in public after you've done that bit of exploring in Paradise tomorrow night, come round here and we'll consider matters."
Except this," added Dick; "they've found out about those other affairs the Braden and the Collishaw affairs. Folliot was concerned in them; and who do you think the other was? You'd never guess! That man Fladgate, the verger. Only that isn't his proper name at all. He and Folliot finished Braden and Collishaw, anyway.
But Varner's is a direct affirmation the other matter's a sort of ugly hint. There's a man named Collishaw, a townsman, who's been employed as a mason's labourer about the Cathedral of late. This Collishaw, it seems, was at work somewhere up in the galleries, ambulatories, or whatever they call those upper regions, on the very morning of the affair.
"Good Heavens, man I know that!" "How do you know?" asked Mitchington. "Because I poured a few drops from that bottle into my hand when I first found Collishaw and tasted the stuff," answered Bryce readily. "Cold tea! with too much sugar in it. There was no H.C.N. in that besides, wherever it is, there's always a smell stronger or fainter of bitter almonds. There was none about that bottle."
"Well, I thought over that business a lot, early this morning, and I fancied I saw how I could find something out about it. So I have on the strict quiet. That's why I went to the Friendly Society. The fact was I wanted to know in what form Collishaw handed in that fifty pounds. I got to know. Gold!"
"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 "
Flood lifted his hand and wiped away the perspiration that had gathered on his face. "Before God, gentlemen!" he answered. "I know no more at least, little more about that than you do! I'll tell you all I do know. Wraye and I, of course, met now and then and talked about this. It got to our ears at last that Collishaw knew something.
"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.
The fact is, Folliot shot him with a revolver killed him on the spot. And then Folliot poisoned himself took the same stuff, the doctor said, that finished that chap Collishaw, and died instantly. It was in Folliot's old well-house. The doctor was there and the police." "What does it all mean?" asked Mary. "Don't know.
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