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But it needed little attention on his part to see that theirs was already closely strained; each man was eagerly taking in all that he said and suggested. And he went on emphasizing every point as he made it. "Collishaw saw what happened?" he repeated. "That, of course, is theory supposition. But now we pass from theory back to actual fact.
"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.
For whoever it was that Collishaw saw lay hands on Braden, it wasn't Bryce Bryce, we know, was at that time coming across the Close or crossing that path through the part you call Paradise: Varner's evidence proves that. So if the fifty pounds wasn't paid for hush-money, what was it paid for?" "Do you suggest anything?" asked Mitchington.
"For everything that Varner could prove to the contrary," answered Bryce, "the hand might have been stretched out to pull Braden back. No I think there may have been accident in that affair. But, as regards Collishaw murder, without doubt deliberate!"
The police theory is that Collishaw witnessed Braden's death at Ransford's hands, that Ransford got to know that Collishaw knew of that, and that he therefore quietly removed Collishaw. And it is on all that that they're going, and will go. Don't ask me if I think they're right or wrong! I'm only telling you what I know so as to show you what danger Ransford is in."
Harker here, who had called to find something out for himself. Now I'll sum things up in a nutshell: for years Braden, or Brake, had been wanting to find two men who cheated him. The name of one is Wraye, of the other, Flood. I've been trying to trace them, too. At last we've got them. They're in this town, and without doubt the deaths of both Braden and Collishaw are at their door!
Here you are: 'Foreman says that on morning of Braden's accident, Collishaw was at work in the north gallery of the clerestory, clearing away some timber which the carpenters had left there. Collishaw was certainly thus engaged from nine o'clock until past eleven that morning. Mem. Have investigated this myself.
Underhand work, you understand? However, my particular job is the Collishaw business and there's a bit of information I'd like to get hold of at once. Where's the office of that Friendly Society we heard about last night?" "That'll be the Wrychester Second Friendly," answered Mitchington.
It's an amateurish way of poisoning anybody unless you can do it in such a fashion that no suspicion can attach you to. And in this case it's here whoever administered that poison to Collishaw must have been certain absolutely certain, mind you! that it was impossible for any one to find out that he'd done so. Therefore, I say what I said the man must be damned clever.
There was little that Bryce could say or could be asked to say at the inquest on the mason's labourer next morning. Public interest and excitement was as keen about Collishaw's mysterious death as about Braden's, for it was already rumoured through the town that if Braden had not met with his death when he came to Wrychester, Collishaw would still be alive.
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