And then I found that he, too, who up to that time had been practising in a London suburb--Streatham--had also disappeared.

Just after Brake's arrest, Ransford had suddenly sold his practice and gone--no one knew where, but it was believed--abroad.

I couldn't trace him, anyway.

And soon after that I had a long illness, and for two or three years was an invalid, and--well, the thing was over and done with, and, as I said just now, I have never heard anything of any of them for all these years.

And now!--now you tell me that there is a Mary Bewery who is a ward of a Dr.Mark Ransford at--where did you say ?" "At Wrychester," answered Bryce.