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"Did you ever see Brake again?" asked Bryce. The old clergyman shook his head. "Yes!" he said sadly. "I did see Brake again under grievous, grievous circumstances!" "You won't mind telling me what circumstances?" suggested Bryce. "I will keep your confidence, Mr. Gilwaters." "There is really no secret in it if it comes to that," answered the old man. "I saw John Brake again just once.
Do you happen to possess a clerical directory?" The vicar produced a "Crockford", and Bryce turned over its pages. Mr. Gilwaters, who from the account there given appeared to be an elderly man who had now retired, lived in London, in Bayswater, and Bryce made a note of his address and prepared to depart. "Find any names that interested you?" asked the vicar as his caller left.
But I'll tell you what, sir," he added, evidently anxious to give his visitor good value for his half-crown, "our present vicar has one of those books with the names of all the clergymen in 'em, and he'd tell you where his predecessor is now, if he's alive name of Reverend Thomas Gilwaters, M.A. an Oxford college man he was, and very high learned."
"And you made no more inquiries? about the wife?" asked Bryce. "I did what I could," replied Mr. Gilwaters. "I made some inquiry in the neighbourhood in which they had lived. All I could discover was that Mrs. Brake had disappeared under extraordinarily mysterious circumstances. There was no trace whatever of her.
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