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You've offered a reward for any information that would lead to the solution of that mystery about Braden and the other man, Collishaw." "Of a thousand pounds yes!" replied the solicitor, looking at his visitor with still more curiosity, mingled with expectancy. "Can you give any?" Glassdale pulled out the two handbills which he had obtained from Bryce.
"That's why Glassdale was in Wrychester the day of Braden's death. And that's why Braden, or Brake, came to Wrychester at all. He and Glassdale, of course, had somehow come into possession of the secret, and no doubt meant to tell the Duke together, and get the reward there was 95,000 offered!
We'd better hear that first. Folliot! good Lord! who'd have believed or even dreamed it!" "You'll see," said Glassdale as they went out. "Maybe Dr. Ransford's got the same information." Ransford was out of the train as soon as it ran in, and hurried to where Mitchington and his companions were standing.
Even if Glassdale had left the neighbourhood, there might be fragments of evidence to pick up from the Duke, for Glassdale, he knew, had given his former employer the information about the stolen jewels and would, no doubt, have added more about his acquaintance with Braden.
And I might want to save him, d'ye see, from well, from the consequence of what's happened, and to hear about it first if anybody came forward, eh?" "As I've done," said Glassdale. "As you've done," assented Folliot. "Now, perhaps it would be in the interest of this particular friend of mine if he made it worth your while to say no more to anybody, eh?" "Very much worth his while, Mr.
For, think! according to Glassdale, who, we are quite sure, has told the exact truth about everything, Brake had on him a scrap of paper, on which were instructions, in Latin, for finding the exact spot whereat the missing Saxonsteade jewels had been hidden, years before, by the actual thief who, I may tell you, sir, never had the opportunity of returning to re-possess himself of them.
Folliot," declared Glassdale. "Aye, well," continued Folliot. "This very particular friend would just want to know, you know, how much you really, truly know! Now, for instance, about these two men and one in particular that Braden was after? Did did he name 'em?" Glassdale leaned a little nearer to his companion on the rose-screened bench. "He named them to me!" he said in a whisper.
It may have been that he and Glassdale wanted to visit the Duke, together." Bryce silently considered this suggestion for awhile. "You said, just now, that Glassdale could be traced?" he remarked at last. "Traced yes," replied Harker. "So long as he's in England." "Why not set about it?" suggested Bryce. "Not yet," said Harker. "There's things to do before that.
"You haven't answered my question, Mr. Glassdale," he observed. "Can you give any information?" Glassdale threw his questioner a significant glance. "Whatever information I might give," he said, "I'd only give to a principal the principal. From what I've seen and known of all this, there's more in it than is on the surface. I can tell something.
"I must have that tooth seen to. So you never heard or saw anything of this man?" "Never!" answered Glassdale. "But I've wondered since this Wrychester affair if Brake accidentally came across one or other of those men, and if his death arose out of it. Now, look here, doctor!
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