[The Paradise Mystery by J. S. Fletcher]@TWC D-Link bookThe Paradise Mystery CHAPTER XXIII 14/20
"I was fetched to Braden--I saw him die.
It was I who found Collishaw--dead.
Of course, I've been mixed up, whether I would or not, and I've had to see a good deal of the police, and naturally I've learnt things." Mary suddenly turned on him with a flash of the eye which might have warned Bryce that he had signally failed in the main feature of his adventure. "And what have you learnt that makes you come here and tell me all this ?" she exclaimed.
"Do you think I'm a simpleton, Dr.Bryce? You set out by saying that Dr.Ransford is in danger from the police, and that you know more--much more than the police! what does that mean? Shall I tell you? It means that you--you!--know that the police are wrong, and that if you like you can prove to them that they are wrong! Now, then isn't that so ?" "I am in possession of certain facts," began Bryce.
"I--" Mary stopped him with a look. "My turn!" she said.
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