I have respected your confidence, so far." The two men looked at each other.

And this time it was Ransford who spoke first.
"It seems to me," he said, "that there is no great reason for privacy.
If rumours are flying about in Wrychester, there is an end of privacy.
Dick tells me they are saying at the school that it is known that Braden called on me at my house shortly before he was found dead.

I know nothing whatever of any such call! But--I left you in my surgery that morning.

Do you know if he came there ?" "Yes!" answered Bryce.

"He did come.