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He told me in time about his affair, and how he'd traced this Wraye to the United States, and then, I think, to New Zealand, and afterwards to Australia, and as I was knocking about the country a great deal buying up wool, he asked me to help him, and gave me a description of Wraye, of whom, he said, he'd certainly heard something when he first landed at Sydney, but had never been able to trace afterwards.
Wraye has been a difficult man to trace, because of his residence abroad for a long time and his change of name, and so on, and it was only recently that my agents struck on a line through Flood. But there's the fact. And the probability is that when Braden came here he recognized and was recognized by these two, and that one or other of them is responsible for his death and for Collishaw's too.
"He told me so," replied Flood. "To hold his tongue. But I'd scarcely heard that when I heard of Collishaw's sudden death. And as to how that happened, or who who brought it about upon my soul, gentlemen, I know nothing! Whatever I may have thought, I never mentioned it to Wraye never! I I daren't! You don't know what a man Wraye is!
Brake came here, when I met him that morning " He paused, still looking from one to another of his audience as if entreating their belief. "As sure as I'm a living man, gentlemen!" he suddenly burst out, "I'd no willing hand in Mr. Brake's death! I'll tell you the exact truth; I'll take my oath of it whenever you like. I'd have been thankful to tell, many a time, but for for Wraye.
That man is really one Falkiner Wraye, the man Braden, or Brake, was seeking for many a year, the man who cheated Brake and got him into trouble. I tell you it's a fact! He's admitted it, or as good as done so, to me just now." "To you? And let you come away and spread it?" exclaimed Mitchington. "That's incredible! more astonishing than the other!" Glassdale laughed.
And it shows how men may easily disappear from a certain round of life, and turn up in another years after! When those two men cheated your father out of that money, they disappeared and separated each, no doubt, with his share. Flood went off to some obscure place in the North of England; Wraye went over to America.
This Wraye, together with his partner, a man called Flood, tricked Brake into lending 'em several thousands pounds bank's money, of course for a couple of days no more and then clean disappeared, leaving him to pay the piper! He was a fool, no doubt, but he'd been mixed up with them; he'd done it before, and they'd always kept their promises, and he did it once too often.
Everything," continued Carfax, again rubbing his hands with great satisfaction, "everything is now all right, and Mr. Wraythwaite of Wraye will take his proper and rightful place amongst his own people." "I'm exceedingly glad to hear it," said Brereton, with a smile at the big man, who continued to watch Avice as if his thoughts were with her rather than with his solicitor's story.
"This is how things are or were. I must tell you that the eldest brother of the late Squire of Wraye married John Harborough's aunt secretly. They had not been married long before the husband emigrated. He went off to Australia, leaving his wife behind until he had established himself there had been differences between him and his family, and he was straitened in means.
And in the struggle he slipped it was just by that open doorway and before I could do more than grasp at him, he shot through the opening and fell! It was sheer, pure accident, gentlemen! Upon my soul, I hadn't the least intention of harming him." "And after that?" asked Mitchington, at the end of a brief silence. "I saw Mr. Folliot Wraye," continued Flood. "Just afterwards, that was.
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