Mr.Folliot testified to having seen him in the Cathedral, going towards one of the stairways leading to the gallery.
Varner--most important witness of all up to that point--told of what he had seen.

Bryce himself, followed by Ransford, gave medical evidence; Mitchington told of his examination of the dead man's clothing and effects in his room at the Mitre.

And Mitchington added the first information which was new to Bryce.
"In consequence of finding the book about Barthorpe in the suit-case," said Mitchington, "we sent a long telegram yesterday to the police there, telling them what had happened, and asking them to make the most careful inquiries at once about any townsman of theirs of the name of John Braden, and to wire us the result of such inquiries this morning.
This is their reply, received by us an hour ago.

Nothing whatever is known at Barthorpe--which is a very small town--of any person of that name." So much for that, thought Bryce.

He turned with more interest to the next witness--the Duke of Saxonsteade, the great local magnate, a big, bluff man who had been present in court since the beginning of the proceedings, in which he was manifestly highly interested.