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Had he remained in that garden he would have seen Glassdale, after reading both the handbills, go into the house and have heard him ask the landlady at the bar to get him a trap and a good horse in it as soon as possible; he, too, now wanted to go to Wrychester and at once. But Bryce was riding down the road, muttering certain words to himself over and over again.
Our informant tells us that Braden certainly had on him, when he came to Wrychester, a sort of diagram showing the exact location of the spot where the jewels were hidden that diagram was most assuredly not found on Braden when we examined his clothing and effects.
Harker affected no surprise at all he looked the astonishment he felt as the younger man rose and motioned him to the comfortable easy-chair which he himself had just previously taken. "Dear me!" he exclaimed, nodding his thanks. "I'd no idea that I should meet you in these far-off parts, Dr. Bryce! This is a long way from Wrychester, sir, for Wrychester folk to meet in."
"They've just been examined, and they're now in the Duke's own hands again after all these years! And I may as well tell you we now know that the object of Braden's visit to Wrychester was to tell the Duke where those jewels were hidden. Braden and another man had learned the secret, from the real thief, who's dead in Australia.
"And he has two young people living with him as his wards a girl of twenty, a boy of seventeen who are, without doubt, John Brake's children. It is the daughter that I want to marry." Glassdale shook his head as if in sheer perplexity. "Well, all I can say is, you surprise me!" he remarked. "I'd no idea of any such thing." "Do you think Brake came to Wrychester because of that?" asked Bryce.
No he didn't come to Wrychester for any such purpose as that! But " He paused and gave Folliot a meaning glance out of the corner of his eyes. "Aye what?" asked Folliot. "I think he met at least one of 'em here," said Glassdale, quietly. "And perhaps both." "Leading to misfortune for him?" suggested Folliot. "If you like to put it that way yes," assented Glassdale.
"The old chap was in the Library when Ambrose Campany said that there was a clue in that Barthorpe history," he mused. "I saw him myself examining the book after the inquest. No, no, Mr. Harker! the facts are too plain the evidences too obvious. And yet what interest has a retired old tradesman of Wrychester got in this affair?
It was her habit to go there almost every day, and Bryce was well acquainted with her movements and knew precisely where to waylay her. And empty of Bryce though her mind was, she was not surprised when, at a lonely place on Wrychester Common, Bryce turned the corner of a spinny and met her face to face.
Who wouldn't?" "And he'd tracked 'em down, eh?" asked Folliot. "There are questions I can answer, and there are questions I can't answer," responded Glassdale. "That's one of the questions I've no reply to. For I don't know! But I can say this. He hadn't tracked 'em down the day before he came to Wrychester!" "You're sure of that?" asked Folliot. "He didn't come here on that account?"
"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?
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