But since this rumour has got out, I'll tell you what I do know, and what the truth is.

Braden did come to Ransford's--not to the house, but to the surgery.

He didn't see Ransford--Ransford had gone out, across the Close.

Braden saw--me!" "Bless me!--I didn't know that," remarked Mitchington.

"You never mentioned it." "You'll not wonder that I didn't," said Bryce, laughing lightly, "when I tell you what the man wanted." "What did he want, then ?" asked Mitchington.
"Merely to be told where the Cathedral Library was," answered Bryce.
Ransford, watching Mary Bewery, saw her cheeks flush, and knew that Bryce was cheerfully telling lies.