"He got, as you say, ten years.

I saw him just before he was removed and asked him if there was anything I could do for him about his wife and children.

I'd never seen them--I arrested him at the bank, and, of course, he was never out of custody after that.

He answered in a queer, curt way that his wife and children were being looked after.
I heard, incidentally, that his wife had left home, or was from home--there was something mysterious about it--either as soon as he was arrested or before.

Anyway, he said nothing, and from that moment I never set eyes on him again until I met him in the street here in Wrychester, the other night, when he came to the Mitre.