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Now that you've told us who he is, I suppose we can talk to him?" "You'll have to wait a few days, then," said Bryce. "He's gone to town by the last train tonight on this business. I've sent him. I had some information today about Ransford's whereabouts during the time of disappearance, and I've commissioned Harker to examine into it. When I hear what he's found out, I'll let you know."
And, more if Ransford's assertion were true, and if Varner's story of the hand, seen for an instant in the archway, were also true and Varner was persisting in it then, who was the man who flung Braden to his death that morning? He realized that, instead of straightening out, things were becoming more and more complicated. But he realized something else.
Now Bryce, all through, was calculating, for his own purposes, on Ransford's share, full or partial, in that death if Ransford really knew nothing whatever about it, where did his, Bryce's theory, come in and how would his present machinations result?
But before he could speak, the superintendent of police rose and began to whisper to him, and after a conversation between them, he looked round at the jury, every member of which had evidently been much struck by Ransford's suggestion. "At this stage," he said, "it will be necessary to adjourn. I shall adjourn the inquiry for a week, gentlemen.
"You mean to tell me that, even now, you don't know that Brake had two children, and that that oh, it's incredible!" "What's incredible?" asked Folliot. "What are you talking about?" Bryce in his eagerness and surprise grasped Folliot's arm and shook it. "Good heavens, man!" he said. "Those two wards of Ransford's are Brake's girl and boy! Didn't you know that, didn't you?"
If I were only certain that those rumours about what Collishaw hinted he could say had got to Ransford's ears! why, then " "What's being done about that post-mortem?" asked Bryce. "Dr. Coates and Dr. Everest are going to do it this afternoon," replied Mitchington. "The Coroner went to them at once, as soon as I told him." "They'll probably have to call in an expert from London," said Bryce.
He wanted, at the same time, to have the means of exonerating him whether by fact or by craft so that, as an ultimate method of success for his own projects he would be able to go to Mary Bewery and say "Ransford's very life is at my mercy: if I keep silence, he's lost: if I speak, he's saved: it's now for you to say whether I'm to speak or hold my tongue and you're the price I want for my speaking to save him!"
"I'm not going to hate myself on Pemberton Bryce's account," said Ransford. "Let him play his game that he has one, I'm certain." Bryce had gone away to continue his game or another line of it. The Collishaw matter had not made him forget the Richard Jenkins tomb, and now, after leaving Ransford's house, he crossed the Close to Paradise with the object of doing a little more investigation.
I've heard that he's pretty keen on Ransford's ward sister of that lad we saw tonight. I don't know myself, if it's true but I've wondered if that had anything to do with his leaving Ransford so suddenly." "Very likely," said Jettison. They had crossed the Close by that time and come to a gas-lamp which stood at the entrance, and the detective pulled out his watch and glanced at it.
He went away then, without another word or a further glance at the dead man. But Bryce had already assured himself of what he was certain was a fact that a look of unmistakable relief had swept across Ransford's face for the fraction of a second when he knew that there were no papers on the dead man.
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