A strange case!" Bryce turned eagerly to the faded scrap of newspaper.
BANK MANAGER'S DEFALCATION.
At the Central Criminal Court yesterday, John Brake, thirty-three, formerly manager of the Upper Tooting branch of the London & Home Counties Bank, Ltd., pleaded guilty to embezzling certain sums, the property of his employers.
Mr.Walkinshaw, Q.C., addressing the court on behalf of the prisoner, said that while it was impossible for his client to offer any defence, there were circumstances in the case which, if it had been worth while to put them in evidence, would have shown that the prisoner was a wronged and deceived man.

To use a Scriptural phrase, Brake had been wounded in the house of his friend.

The man who was really guilty in this affair had cleverly escaped all consequences, nor would it be of the least use to enter into any details respecting him.

Not one penny of the money in question had been used by the prisoner for his own purposes.

It was doubtless a wrong and improper thing that his client had done, and he had pleaded guilty and would submit to the consequences.