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If I were certain that that rumour which spread, about Collishaw's knowledge of something you know, had got to Ransford's ears why, I should say it looked very much as if Ransford wanted to stop Collishaw's tongue for good before it could say more and next time, perhaps, something definite. If men once begin to hint that they know something, they don't stop at hinting.
"I tell you Ransford was already gone out," answered Bryce. "He saw no one but myself. Where Mrs. Deramore made her mistake I happen to know, Mitchington, that she started this rumour was in trying to make two and two into five. She saw this man crossing the Close, as if from Ransford's house and she at once imagined he'd seen and been talking with Ransford." "Old fool!" said Mitchington.
There might be he was still under the influence of Ransford's indignant and dramatic assertion of his innocence. Would Ransford have allowed himself an outburst of that sort if he had not been, as he said, utterly ignorant of the immediate cause of Braden's death?
"Bryce was until the very day of Braden's appearance, Ransford's assistant," continued Mitchington. "Been with Ransford about two years. Clever chap, undoubtedly, but certainly deep and, in a way, reserved, though he can talk plenty if he's so minded and it's to his own advantage. He left Ransford suddenly that very morning. I don't know why. Since then he's remained in the town.
She would do anything that seemed good to Ransford but all the same she wondered at this somewhat unusual show of interest in a total stranger. She put it down at last to Ransford's undoubted sentimentality the man's sad fate had impressed him. And that afternoon the sexton at St. Wigbert's pointed out the new grave to Miss Bewery and Mr.
"I won't trouble to exchange any farewells not because of Ransford's hint, but because there's no need. If Ransford thinks he's going to drive me out of Wrychester before I choose to go he's badly mistaken it'll be time enough to say farewell when I take my departure and that won't be just yet. Now I wonder who that old chap was? Knew some one of Ransford's name once, did he?
"God bless my soul!" he said. "You don't mean it, doctor! Why, how did you " "Wait a minute," interrupted Ransford. He left the room, and the two callers looked at each other. "This chap knows more than you think," observed Jettison in a whisper. "More than he's telling now!" "Let's get all we can, then," said Mitchington, who was obviously much surprised by Ransford's last information.
The summarily dismissed assistant, thus left alone, stood for a moment in evident deep thought before he moved towards Ransford's desk and picked up the cheque. He looked at it carefully, folded it neatly, and put it away in his pocket-book; after that he proceeded to collect a few possessions of his own, instruments, books from various drawers and shelves.
Ransford not long before the accident, or murder, or whatever it was, happened," said Bryce. "That's it eh?" "Something of that sort," agreed Mitchington. "It's being said, anyway, that Braden was at Ransford's house, and presumably saw him, and that Ransford, accordingly, knows something about him which he hasn't told. Now what do you know?
He appropriated money from them under apparently mysterious circumstances of which I, as yet, knew nothing; he was prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. And those two wards of Ransford's, Mary and Richard Bewery, as they are called, are, in reality, Mary and Richard Brake his children."
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