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assistance from Scotland Yard, and
he privately limited to the chief OF the
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assistance from Scotland Yard, and
he privately limited to the chief OF the
c. I. D. that should be assigned to
the case. He also telegraphed TO me
from Colnbrook Towers that I should
see him there before got busy.
went down at once. disguised as
MISUNDERSTANDING clergyman. and
I learned In the first Eve minutes Of
our interview that what he wanted
was to get Sir Dudley Glenister con:
victed Of his cousins murder.
II broke down at the start" con-
tinued Wragge. looking round at the
rapt faces of his audience wistfully.
II cannot altogether blame myself.
From previous experience I wa
tolerably sure that Mr.. Colne had an
ak of his own to grind, but I thought
his motive was political. And my
reading of the reports of the affair
had swayed my mind toward the
probable guilt of Sir Dudley. Mr.
Colne's private moral character
never entered into my speculations.
Eat that interview there occurreda
little incident which by the Light OF
subsequent discoveries became sig
nificant, though at the time could
not understand 1t. / raised the ques-
ton whether Mr.. Glenister's death
might have been due to crime pas
sionelle-whether, there was a wo.
man at the back Of it--but Mr.. Colne>
angrily bade ME dismiss any suca
notion.
~ set to work on the case without
delay. and the same afternoon, DUR
ing a call I paid here at the Grange.
I went far toward confirming my
half.formed suspicion of Sir Dudley.
I met Doctor Melville lettering at the
lodge gates, and in spite of my cleri'
cal disguise ne recognized me as q
former patient. Of course, he guessed
what I was after. He said that a :
disreputable. looking man was with
Sir Dudley and that 1t might DE to
my advantage to have look at him.
We walked up to the house together.
I to apply for admission at the front
door and Doctor Melville going round
to the library window.
I'VE entered the room at practical
ly the same moment, and sure
enough Sir Dudley's visitor came up
to the Doctors description. A dis
solute. loose.living blackguard OF
type we at the Yard are only too
familiar with. Melville was rather
too demonstrative in the way he
fixed him with his eyeglass. Either
that, or it is possible that he may
have recognized me. Anyhow. he
turned and bolted through the
French window, and till today was
seen no more at the Grange"
wragge paused and glanced quiz.
cally at Kathleen. ff'If you could
have seen into my mind at that mo-
ment, Miss Glenister," he said, "yol
would not have been 30 hard on me
next day for not instantly arresting
Sir Dudley. For I formed the too
obvious opinion that the disreputable
stranger had knowledge OF your
cousins guilt and was there to black
mail him. In that I was partly right,
but not to the full extent. He was
the Mr.. Simon Trickey who. in re.
venge for being rebuffed, took g
much of his tale as he dared to you
and would have probably sold you
some half.truths later if he had 49,
been otherwise engaged"
Engaged in dying" said Kat
leen, who had lost much of her truco.
lence. II was in his house at tas
time. I told you about It."
Since then he has been engaged
in coming to life again, but that IL
another story" said Wragge with 4
snap Of his jaws. Il too beiierN1
that he was dead, but I was con
WINGED that if evidence was procur
able against Sir Dudley this man
Trickey held the key to it. Stronger
than ever grew that belief when
discovered that his wife was IA
Beechwood girl. the daughter OF
!onn Grimes. the Grange gar".
Keeper. raked about among tie
ashes Of Mr.. Trickey's past and ,ha.
of his sister. Mrs. Comm gsby.'
Mrs. Coningsbyw repeated Kat:l
Ieen. "Why. she was the widow =.
Sir pudley's former.+partner on ti.e
stock exchange"
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