Last man in the world I should have thought would have been mixed up in an affair of this sort!" "And therefore all the more likely to be!" said Jettison.

"Well--the other ?" "Bryce was until the very day of Braden's appearance, Ransford's assistant," continued Mitchington.

"Been with Ransford about two years.
Clever chap, undoubtedly, but certainly deep and, in a way, reserved, though he can talk plenty if he's so minded and it's to his own advantage.

He left Ransford suddenly--that very morning.

I don't know why.