He told me in time about his affair, and how he'd traced this Wraye to the United States, and then, I think, to New Zealand, and afterwards to Australia, and as I was knocking about the country a great deal buying up wool, he asked me to help him, and gave me a description of Wraye, of whom, he said, he'd certainly heard something when he first landed at Sydney, but had never been able to trace afterwards.

But it was no good--I never either saw or heard of Wraye--and Brake came to the conclusion he'd left Australia.

And I know he hoped to get news of him, somehow, when we returned to England." "That description, now ?--what was it ?" asked Bryce.
"Oh!" said Glassdale.

"I can't remember it all, now--big man, clean shaven, nothing very particular except one thing.

Wraye, according to Brake, had a bad scar on his left jaw and had lost the middle finger of his left hand--all from a gun accident.