I'll drop in at your place later and hear if Coates can say anything really certain." Mitchington went away, and Bryce spent the rest of the afternoon wondering, speculating and scheming.

If Ransford had really got rid of this man who knew something--why, then, it was certainly Ransford who killed Braden.
He went round to the police-station at five o'clock.

Mitchington drew him aside.
"Coates says there's no doubt about it!" he whispered.

"Poisoned! Hydrocyanic acid!".