Put them together." Bryce paused awhile, as if marshalling his facts.
"Now, after that," he continued presently, "I began to investigate matters myself--for my own satisfaction.

And very soon I found out certain things--which I'll summarize, briefly, because some of my facts are doubtless known to you already.

First of all--the man who came here as John Braden was, in reality, one John Brake.

He was at one time manager of a branch of a well-known London banking company.

He appropriated money from them under apparently mysterious circumstances of which I, as yet, knew nothing; he was prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.