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"Good heavens!" he muttered after a moment's silence. "You don't mean it?" "Fact!" answered Jettison. "Plain, incontestable fact, my lad. Dr. Bryce keeps an account at the Wrychester bank. On the day I'm speaking of he cashed a cheque to self for fifty pounds and took it all in gold." The two men looked at each other as if each were asking his companion a question.
And since you will talk of this matter, I tell you frankly, Mrs. Folliot, that I don't believe any decent person in Wrychester has the least suspicion or doubt of Dr. Ransford. His denial of any share or complicity in those sad affairs the mere idea of it as ridiculous as it's wicked was quite sufficient.
And to begin with, I'll make a bold assertion I know more of this Wrychester Paradise mystery involving the deaths of both Braden and Collishaw, than any man living because, though you don't know it, Mitchington, I've gone right into it. And I'll tell you in confidence why I went into it I want to marry Dr. Ransford's ward, Miss Bewery!"
Glassdale! the man whom Harker had seen in Wrychester within an hour or so of Braden's death: the ex-convict, the forger, who had forged the Duke of Saxonsteade's name! And there! standing, apparently quite at his ease, by the Duke's side. What did it all mean?
"Aye, aye!" muttered Mitchington. "Revenge? just So!" "Brake, then," continued Bryce, "goes off to his term of penal servitude, and so disappears until he reappears here in Wrychester. Leave him for a moment, and go back. And it's a going back, no doubt, to supposition and to theory but there's reason in what I shall advance.
Ever since his return from Barthorpe he had been making attempts to get at the true meaning of this mystery. He had paid so many visits to the Cathedral Library that Ambrose Campany had asked him jestingly if he was going in for archaeology; Bryce had replied that having nothing to do just then he saw no reason why he shouldn't improve his knowledge of the antiquities of Wrychester.
"I must have that tooth seen to. So you never heard or saw anything of this man?" "Never!" answered Glassdale. "But I've wondered since this Wrychester affair if Brake accidentally came across one or other of those men, and if his death arose out of it. Now, look here, doctor!
And his first words in reply to Bryce's questions convinced Bryce that his surmise was correct and that the old man had read nothing of the Wrychester Paradise mystery, in which Ransford's name had, of course, figured as a witness at the inquest. "It is nearly twenty years since I heard any of their names," remarked Mr. Gilwaters. "Nearly twenty years a long time! But, of course, I can answer you.
"She is a young woman of twenty, and she has a brother, Richard, who is between seventeen and eighteen." "Without a doubt those are Brake's children!" exclaimed the old man. "The infant I spoke of was a boy. Bless me! how extraordinary. How long have they been at Wrychester?" "Ransford has been in practice there some years a few years," replied Bryce.
"Naturally no man wishes to marry unless he knows as much as he can get to know about the woman he wants, her family, her antecedents and all that. Now, pretty nearly everybody in Wrychester who knows them, knows that there's a mystery about Dr. Ransford and his two wards it's been talked of, no end, amongst the old dowagers and gossips of the Close, particularly you know what they are!
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