He was watching Ransford, who was talking to the Coroner.

And he was not mistaken now--Ransford's face bore all the signs of infinite relief.

From--what?
Bryce turned, to leave the stuffy, rapidly-emptying court.

And as he passed the centre table he saw old Simpson Harker, who, after sitting in attentive silence for three hours had come up to it, picked up the "History of Barthorpe" which had been found in Braden's suit-case and was inquisitively peering at its title-page..