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). THIS 8Trt" ,,, t er brother BJcfc
rt i ,tnth in,ritr tttt Hruct of
DmU " IfSIilJaiul Vnrrl man
,tiB. W ""j ,,,,ker The officers
rf i'iSf fli UV men are, known,
"""tion 0 mstlale and tcarns
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vfin rnils drnd. rolllot
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'Silt to M 'ioiith ond foils to the
mU it 53 "' ,,.,. Hansford, who
""I'm di(4 ilarv. Ho "'' (c
,?i" nils Mm to tell Afc Jtr.
""ASD hkrk it continues
nMltat not aioMdalo who fell. Ho.
D rtry nad w-atchlnir. Btartetl aside as
kknrFolllofs movement, and tha but
rt ptalne between his arm ami body.
'oubS bill' '" Dryca' wn0 M' W'
rr. than a eroan. Bhot Uuough
l"v" - And a h fell. Folllot.
icircely loo"lnK at wImt ho had ?ne'
. iTi. Mhr hand from his pocket.
,lPMdi wmethlnir Into his mouth and
,t down In the blu chair behind him
and within o moment the other
sen In the room were looklnif with nor
Iliad faces from ono dead face to an
other.
When
Bryce had left her. Mary
Bewtrv nan Kono mm mo '!""
iwtlt IUniford'a return from town She
Mint W tell him of all that Hryco had
,a.!4 nd to bejr him to tako immediate
Km to t matters rlffht. not only that
heVlmielf mlht bo oleared of suspicion
t-jt that Dryce's Intrigues might bo
broarht to an end. She had nomo hopa
tfit Baniford would brlnir back satla
frctorv ns; aho know that his liur
j.j uit m T-omlon had somo connec-
tloa with tlieso nfTalrs: and sle also
ttmunbwed what ho had said on the
tiwIoui nlnht. And so. controlling hor
tupr at Bryc and her Impjitlence of
tha. whols situation she waited as
satlwuy ' Eno could until the tlroo
itvr war when Hansford might be ox
vectt4 to he seen coming across the
!. Bh( knew from which direction
Tw would como. and she remained near
tt din tur room window looking out for
hte.-'But G o'oloolc -came und she had
tea M aljm of him: then( na she wao
beglanlnfr to think that ho had missed
tha afttrnoon train sho saw him, at tho
icposlte 6ldt of tho Closo, talking
uniestly to Dick, who presently camo
ata.fi tho houao whilo Itnnsfurd turn
il'tack Into Folllot's Rarden.
Kck Bewcrv came hurriedly In. H'
Bister u at once that he had Just heard
news which had hnd a soberlnR effect
on hl usually efforvescent spirits.
Be looked at her as If ho wondered
txactly how to clve her his message.
"I saw you with tho doctor just now."
it tald, using the term by which she
ind her brother always spoke of their
Mirdlan "Why hasn't he come home?"
pick came close to her, touching her
irra.
"It's all a llcker to mo yet!" he
iMwertd. "I don't understand itI
only know whut the doctor told me to
come and tell you took here, it's
Pretty bad Folllot and Dryco are both
dud !"
In spite of herself Mary Htarted back
a from a great shock and clutched at
th table by which they wero standing.
Dead'" she exclaimed. "'Why
uryce was here, speaking to mo. not an
hour ajo'"
JlW. "al(1 Dlck- "But "' deftrt
rThe 'W..1"' FolHot shot him with
ftj;? klllea him on the spot. And
iiS? ?u't Po'wned himself took the
JwMtuff'-,,h.?. doctor "t1' tliat nnlshed
7? i.c. ip S,,l,1.shaw' ana "l Instantly.
iJu ln Flut a "Id well.house. Tho
"?,".w8 thoro and the police."
J?,a' does It all mean? asked Mary.
iK'.W .ut about th0l! other
ISfi. vv?inBra(,'n and tne Colllshaw
IS h-.K?Ulot W0B .concerned In thorn :
ftnM Uo you thlnk the other waa?
V. ,..'.' 'i'?31 lnal man i-ladgate,
?'"" "niy tnat isn't his proper
Braflen ".i1, r1?,? uand Folllot finished
iirMtn and Colllshaw, anyway. The
S2fn JSI H' .a"F?te. faS? Folllot
ihtv w:.. ' 1 Kllleu nunaeir just when
inty were rolne to talc him
ni.ip ?s Vle rtotor coming now,'
2 mor"-"1 to the wlndow-
h L id n.n,touly t nanBford as
a aa? Ji"?,ln'; iM Ho Iool0 "
criita aS v "JUHl Kone through a
Soui1h2thL"ha wn" Bl"ehow con
JhtM If 1 'n 78 wn" a certain atmon-
MlSd."?..1 ,VelBilt.,haa Jdenly been
Sht it he"11 "" U00r nnd l00lwd
"AMtw8 loid. y.ouT" h Wiei
Ran.rfi y'. tuld ma" ld Dlok,
flito ih?i? pul ed oK W Blovoa and
Mtur.0 nf'i" tu,bU wlth "'thlng
Miry haat-n.n' w,ar"'e,su- And at that
1W'? iSR'1 t0 "Peak.
"tni-uMl l ""y tnofe don't say any
'WretirtV: n '' 8he Bald'
fcit(Il'l1!?l.at?an,rord- "l''1 rothor say
n ea o ton y?l n2w 1U8t ,low! I've
5 hlt tf'i.P.0'? "f.y?"l"t all this
? untn tnrtk"V..":.?ry. ; I"" a"out .:
last
I
said
'He'll
dHn'VT"' t. was linposslble. becaus
wn know m;iIV:m,,f ow I Uo! I
Sit dnin .h.Il "'v uone wun
Uitea n tner' botn f you. and
nuuSiMlen to that1 S?2?i"y" Tha onl
tt'tln mattr V, ,l " aH ov.r now w"!
d you'll hiv?.ar or can ue. cleared,
"kill I v., V. ,n? more "ecrets. Nor
Cllly nuardert fn 1 keep t'le one Jeal
1 mrer ihSuVriu8v'niefn yaars- A"d
It hs biln tM. U d '' ,reteaf,d a"
Mfi?hon n lm.1.Sfl!?ble and tor-
Wythlnc nii'n M . Ana now' l0 niake
o hear aoin.thi'ntus.ti T"1-6. yourselves
JWy trying n?hL that at !?r8t B0Und
hwrd of ?' Tnhn m5n wh.om you've
N death h"h? Braden. who came to
Vn Brak'nr1'". '" "
b L.i-ljr ? he told this, nut h r,
mm
. tlin f ""?.."'. tms. nut he met
Yo fitWn'AI
olli
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w ,TOU"t
'Ur fath.i- iw ''30. .r. emotion.
rd brl7Mnhn Drae." repeated
,V?. n .rot the worst nawn out.
AlnMeilf;,10 the beginning to
wr wither nl l,2 you Jut h'ni and
?lnwhen w J,."" a close Mtni f
"! ha aT.nT, youn" t"8" I" ton
t'n nr ia? wo?l.k ,Sanaer,i I. lut be-
VB. .r" ' mt yOUr mother. Whnxn n:
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He married hen I
ThV HAn, a II..
i'CW,& thafUnS I did not
'nfToae0fn5t8"n'yn."i.!.!,rni
511"! who mmlane acfiuilntanoe of a
jl...:'" ,"ne rro
ithor ina ..Wo nad. "'..your
1 Fnlklner Wruye nnd Stephen Folllot
)vrTe one Hnu hid dhiiio yuiiiuu.
Itansford paused, observing that Mary
wished to ask a question.
"How long ha,ve you known that?"
she nsked.
"Not until toftay." replied rtansford,
promptly. "Never had the ghost of a
rotlon of It. If I had only known
hut, I hadn't. However, to go back
this man Wrayo. who appears always
to hnvo been a perfect mneter of plausi
bility, able to- twist people round his
llttlo finger, somehow got into close
touch with your father hout financial
matters. Wraye Was at that tlmo a sort
of financial agent In Ixmdon, engaging
in various doings whloh, I should Im
aglne. were In the nature of gambles.
it. m ntUt,l in thean bv a man
who was either ft. partner with him or
a very coniuientiai cierit or ugnip, un
FIoiHl. who Is Identical with tho man ;mi
have known lately ns Fladgale, the
crger. Itetwcen them, theao two appear
to r.avo cajoiea ci persuniwu yum ,"'"
r.t ttmon to do very foolish nml lujudl
cuius things which wero. to put It bncily
nr.d plainly, tho lendlnga of various sums
of money as Bhort loans for their trans
acllona. For some time they Invariably
kept their word to him, and tho ndvancoj
woro nlways repaid promptly. Hut ryen
iiv whun thni- md borrowed from
him n considerable sum Mine thousands
of pounds for a deal which wan to bo
carried through within a couplo of days,
they decamped with tho money, und com
tletely disappeared, leaving your father
to bear tho cohsquence You may easily
understand what followed. Tho money
which Urake had lent them was tho
bank's money. The bank unexpectedly
came down on him for his balance, tho
whole thing was found out, ond ha was
prosecuted. Ho had no dofenso ho was,
of course, technically guilty and ho
was sent to penal servitude."
Hansford hnd droaded the telling of
this, buJLMary inndo. no sign, and Dick
r.Tii.r rriniu.il riia. i, mi.ii.i, iiu.o.iuii
v...,,..,. ....... ,...- ------ -
"He liaun t meant to ron xno iim iui
himself, anyway, had hoT' he-asked
"No nql Not at all I" replied Hans
ford hastily. "It wns a bad error of
judgment on his part, Dick, but he
he'd relltd on thero men. more part cu
larly on Wrayc who'd been the lcadlni?
spirit Well, that was your father") Had
fate. Now wo como to what happened
to your mothor and yoursolvon. Just
before your fathor's arrest, when ho
knew that all was lost, and that ho wan
helpless, ho sent hurriedly for me nnd
told me everything In your mothers
prp&enco. He begged mo to get her and
you two children right nway ot once.
Sho was against It; ho Insisted. I. took
you nil to a quiet place In tho couTttry,
whero your mother nssumud hor maldoti
nnma T'liarn ulthlll n. VCUr. UhS died
(..-...V. ..v.w, ......... . -
"From that tlmo until the morning of
his death here In wryenester i nover
"You did tieo him that morning?"
nnlatl Affile
"I saw him. of course, unexpectedly,
anoworcd Ransford. "I had been across
tho cloic I come back through the
south nlslo of tho cathedral. .Hut before
I left the west porch I Eaw Urnke go
ing up tho stairs to the galleries, t
know him at once. Ho did not see me,
nnd I hurried homo much upset. Unfor
tunately, I think, BTyco camo ln upon
mo In that state of ngltatlon. I have
reason to believe that he began to rub
rur. nmi tn nlnt from that moment. And
Immediately on hearing of Brake's
death, nnd Its circumstances, I was
S laced III lerrlUlC uuemmu. rur i
ad made up my mind never to tell you
two of your father's history until I hnd
been able to trace theso two men and
wring out of them a confesB on which
would havo cleared him of all but tho
technical commission of the orlme of
which he was convicted. .Now i nau
not th least idea mat tno iwo ie'
wero close at hand, nor that they had
had any hand in hla death, und so l
kept silence, nnd let him be burled un
der the name he had taken John
Bradnn." . , ,, .. .
Itanaford paused and looked at his two
listeners aa if. Inviting question or com
ment But nelthor spoke, and ho went
"You know what happened after
that," he continued. "It soon became
evident to me that sinister and secret
things wero going on. Thcfe was tne
death of the laborer Colllshaw. There
were othor matters. But ocn thon 1
had no suspicion of tho real truth tho
fact Is, I began to havo soma strange
suspicions about Bryeo nnd that old
Ir.an Harker based upon certain evi
dence which I got by chance. But, all
this time, I had neer censed my inves.
tlgationa nbout Wruyo and Flood, and
when tho bank-manager on whom Brake
had called in London was here at the
inquest. I privately told him tho whole
story and invited his co-operation in a
certain line which I was then following.
That line suddonly ran up against tha
man Flood otherwise Fladgato. It was
not until thla very week, however, that
my agents definitely discovered Flad
gato to bo Flood and that through
the lnvostlgatlona about Flood Folllot
was found to be Wraye. Today,
ln London, where I met old Har
ker at the bank at which Brake
had lodged tho money he had
brought from Austrnlla, the whole thing
was made clear by the last agent of
initio who has had the searching In
hand. And It shows how men may eas
ily disappear rrom a certain round ot
life, and turn up In another years after!
Whon those two men chcatod your
father out of that money, they disap
peared and separated each, no doubt,
with his share. Flood went oft to some
obsouro place In tho north of England;
Wraye went over to America. Ho evi
dently made a fortune thero; knocked
about tho world for a, while; changed
his name to Folllot and under that
name married a wealthy widow, and
settled down hero ln Wrychester to
grow roses! How and whoro he caiih.
across Flood again is not exactly clear,
but wo know that a few years ago
Flood was In London, In very poor cir
cumstances, and the probability Is that
It was then when the two men met
again. What wo do know Is that Fol
llot, as nn Influential man here, got
Flood tho post which he has held, and
that things have resulted ns thoy have.
"And that a an : iui mai i neeu ieu
you at present. Thoro aro details, but
they're ot no Importance."
Mary remained silent, but Dick got
up with his hands in his pockets.
"There's one thing I want to know,"
he said. "Whloh ot those two chaps
vuiarf mv ftLther? You said It was ac
cident but waa It? I want to know
about that I Are you saying It wao ao
cldent Just to let things down a bit?
Don't S I want to know tho truth."
"I believe it waa acoldcnt," answered
IUnsford. "I listened most carefully
Just now to Fladgatp'8 account ot what
happened. I firmly believe the man was
tolling the truth. Hut I haen't the
least doubt that Folllot poisoned Colll
shaw not the least Folllot knew that
If the least thing came out about Flad
gate, everything would come out about
himself."
Dick turned away to leave the room.
"Well. Folllot's done fori" he re
marked "I don't care about him, but i
wanted to know for certain about the
When Dick had gone, and Hansford
and Mury wero left alone, a deep silence
fell on the room. Mary was apparently
deep in thought, and Itanaford, after a
glance at her, turned away and lookod
A, nf th window at the sunlit close.
thinking of tho tragedy ho had Just wit
nessed. And he had become so absorbed
In his thoughts of It that he started at
feeling a touch of his arm aiid looking
round saw Mary standing at his aide,
"I don't want to say unythtng now.
she said, "about what you havo Juat
told ui Some of It I had half:gueMd,
nomo of It I had conjectured. But why
didn't you tell me I Before I It wasn't
that you hadn't confldenoe?"
"Confldencol" he exclaimed. "Tbire.
was only one reason I wanted to get
your father'" memory oleared as far aa
possible before ever telling you any
thing. I've xn wanting to tell you I
Hadn't you eeen that I hated to keep
"Hadn't you seen that I wanted to
ohare all your trouble about ltr she
asked. "That was what hurt me be
cause I couldn't I" .... .
Hansford drew a long prfath ana
looked at her. Then he put his hands
n"MarryBr Uherfl.'..d. "You-you don;t
mean to say be Plain l-you don't
mean that you can care for an old fel-
He was" holding her away from him.
but she suddenly stntled and came closer
to hun,
"Yon must have
have seen that for
answered.
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The young ltdy across the way
snys she knows her father wants
full ond complete justice done lu
this absurd case brought againt
hlai as she overheard him tell bis
lawyer not to overlook the slight
est technicality.
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