I saw him again--not very long afterwards--lying in the corner of Paradise--dead!" Mary Bewery was by this time pale and trembling--and Bryce continued to watch her steadily.

She stole a furtive look at him.
"Why didn't you tell all this at the inquest ?" she asked in a whisper.
"Because I knew how damning it would be to--Ransford," replied Bryce promptly.

"It would have excited suspicion.

I was certain that no one but myself knew that Braden had been to the surgery door--therefore, I thought that if I kept silence, his calling there would never be known.
But--I have since found that I was mistaken.

Braden was seen--going away from Dr.Ransford's." "By--whom ?" asked Mary.
"Mrs.Deramore--at the next house," answered Bryce.