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"Heard all about this discovery of those missing Saxonsteade diamonds?" he asked as he and Bryce picked up their knives and forks. "Queer business that, isn't it? Of course, it's got to do with those murders!" "Think so?" asked Bryce. "Can anybody think anything else?" said Sackville in his best dogmatic manner. "Why, the thing's plain.
Nothing whatever is known at Barthorpe which is a very small town of any person of that name." So much for that, thought Bryce. He turned with more interest to the next witness the Duke of Saxonsteade, the great local magnate, a big, bluff man who had been present in court since the beginning of the proceedings, in which he was manifestly highly interested.
Glassdale had been in Wrychester the previous evening; he could scarcely be far away now; there was certainly one person who would know where he could be found, and that person was the Duke of Saxonsteade.
Without a word, Bryce snatched up his hat from the table of the summer-house, and went swiftly away a new scheme, a new idea in his mind. Glassdale, journeying into Wrychester half an hour after Bryce had left him at the Saxonsteade Arms, occupied himself during his ride across country in considering the merits of the two handbills which Bryce had given him.
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.
Bryce hasn't it struck you that there's one feature in connection with Brake, or Braden's visit to Wrychester to which nobody's given any particular attention up to now so far as we know, at any rate?" "What?" demanded Bryce. "This," replied Harker. "Why did he wish to see the Duke of Saxonsteade? He certainly did want to see him and as soon as possible.
"He went to town by the first express, and I have had a lot of bother arranging about his patients." "Did he hear about this discovery of the Saxonsteade jewels before he went?" asked Folliot. "Suppose he wouldn't though wasn't known until the weekly paper came out this morning. Queer business! You've heard, of course?" "Dr. Short told me," answered Mary. "I don't know any details."
He pointed to a copy of the weekly newspaper, lying on his desk, and to a formal account of the discovery of the Saxonsteade jewels which had been furnished to the press, at the Duke's request, by Mitchington. Glassdale glanced at it unconcernedly. "The same," he answered. "But I didn't call here on that matter though what I did call about is certainly relative to it.
I knew John Braden who, of course, was John Brake very well, for some years. Naturally, I was in his confidence." "About more than the Saxonsteade jewels, you mean?" asked the solicitor. "About more than that," assented Glassdale. "Private matters. I've no doubt I can throw some light some! on this Wrychester Paradise affair. But, as I said just now, I'll only deal with the principal.
Who, really, was the man who had registered at the Mitre under the name of John Braden? Why did he wish to make a personal call on the Duke of Saxonsteade? Was he some man who had known Ransford in time past and whom Ransford had no desire to meet again? Did Ransford meet him in the Cathedral? Was it Ransford who flung him to his death down St. Wrytha's Stair?
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