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Explains a lot." "But," continued Ransford, "what I have to tell you now is of a much more serious and confidential nature. Now, do you know but, of course, you don't! that your proceedings tonight were watched?" "Watched!" exclaimed Mitchington. "Who watched us?" "Harker, for one," answered Ransford. "And for another my late assistant, Mr. Pemberton Bryce." Mitchington's jaw dropped.
He thought much and gravely while he ate his dinner; he thought still more while he smoked his after-dinner pipe. And his face was still heavy with thought when, at three o'clock, he walked into Mitchington's office and finding the inspector alone shut the door and drew a chair to Mitchington's desk. "Now then," he said.
And behind him, to Mitchington's surprise, came old Simpson Harker, who had evidently travelled with him. With a silent gesture Mitchington beckoned the whole party into an empty waiting-room and closed its door on them. "Now then, inspector," said Ransford without preface or ceremony, "you've got to act quickly! You got my wire a few words will explain it.
Come now, doctor! you know very well that Braden, or Brake, did come to your surgery that morning and said to your assistant that he'd known a Dr. Ransford in times past! Why not speak?" Ransford, instead of answering Mitchington's evidently genuine appeal, looked at the New Scotland Yard man. "Is that your theory?" he asked. Jettison nodded his head, with a movement indicative of conviction.
And I'll lay all I'm worth to a penny-piece that the Duke and those men are gladding their eyes with the sight of them just now! in Mitchington's office and that the information that they were where they've just been found was given to the Duke by Glassdale!" "Glassdale! That man!" exclaimed Bryce, who was puzzling his brain over possible developments. "That man, sir!" repeated Harker.
You know both well enough. Wraye is-" "Mr. Folliot!" interrupted Mitchington, pointing to Glassdale. "So he's just told us; he's identified him as Wraye. But the other who's he, doctor?" Ransford glanced at Glassdale as if he wished to question him, but instead he answered Mitchington's question. "The other man," he said, "the man Flood, is also a well-known man to you. Fladgate!"
"Did you see them their faces?" "Not their faces," answered Dick. "Only their figures in the gloom. But I heard Mitchington's voice." "Police, then!" said Bryce. "What on earth are they after?" "Look here!" whispered Dick, pulling at Bryce's arm again. "Come on! I know how to get in there without their seeing us. You follow me."
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