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Glassdale closed the door and favoured them with a knowing smile. "Something else for you, inspector!" he said. "Mixed up a bit with last night's affair, too. About these mysteries Braden and Collishaw I can tell you one man who's in them." "Who, then?" demanded Mitchington. Glassdale went a step nearer to the two officials and lowered his voice.
On the day previous to that on which Collishaw handed that fifty pounds to Stebbing, a certain Wrychester man drew fifty pounds in gold at his bank. Who do you think he was?" "Who who?" demanded Mitchington. Jettison leaned half-across the desk. "Bryce!" he said in a whisper. "Bryce!" Mitchington sat up in his chair and opened his mouth in sheer astonishment.
Her old friend the pilot of the Pinta would not have been guilty of such lubberly work. But to my great delight they got her into a berth, and the neuralgia left me then, or was forgotten. The captain of the steamer, like a true seaman, kept his word, and his agent, Mr. Collishaw handed me on the very next day the price of the lost anchor and chain, with something over for anxiety of mind.
"Those pills are, as you will observe, coated, and the man would swallow them whole immediately after his food. Now, it would take some little time for a pill to dissolve, to disintegrate, to be digested. If Collishaw took one of my pills as soon as he had eaten his dinner, according to instructions, and if poison had been in that pill, he would not have died at once as he evidently did.
And the other night, being somewhat under the influence of drink, and talking the matter over with his mates at a tavern, he let out some dark hints that he could tell something if he liked. Of course, he was pressed to tell them and wouldn't. Then so my informant tells me he was dared to tell, and became surlily silent. That, of course, spread, and got to my ears. I've seen Collishaw."
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