12/27 He preserved an obstinate silence on that point. The clergyman in whose family Mrs.Brake had been governess saw Brake, after his conviction--Brake would say nothing to him. Of Mrs.Brake, nothing more is known--to me at any rate. What was known at the time is this--Brake communicated to all who came in contact with him, just then, the idea of a man who has been cruelly wronged and deceived, who takes refuge in sullen silence, and who is already planning and cherishing--revenge!" "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. |