Have investigated this myself.
From the exact spot where C.was clearing the timber, there is an uninterrupted view of the gallery on the south side of the nave, and of the arched doorway at the head of St.

Wrytha's Stair.'" "'Well," observed Jettison, "that proves what I'm saying.

It wasn't hush-money.

For whoever it was that Collishaw saw lay hands on Braden, it wasn't Bryce--Bryce, we know, was at that time coming across the Close or crossing that path through the part you call Paradise: Varner's evidence proves that.

So--if the fifty pounds wasn't paid for hush-money, what was it paid for ?" "Do you suggest anything ?" asked Mitchington.
"I've thought of two or three things," answered the detective.