"Whose idea it was to connect the two passages up I could not say, or
when Borkins got into the pay of Brellier and played false to a family
that he had served for twenty years. But the fact remains. The two
passages _are_ linked up, and then continued at great labour in another
direction to that field which lies off the Saltfleet Road and just at the
back of the factory. And thus was made a convenient little subway for the
carrying on of nefarious transactions of the kind which we have
discovered."
"And how did you discover that Brellier was the 'Master' in question?"
put in the judge at this juncture.
"He happened to come to the factory one day while we were at work upon
our machines. Someone said, 'Crickey! 'Ere's the Master! Funny for _'im_
to be prowlin' round at this hour of the day--night's more to 'is
likin'.' I could hardly contain myself when I saw who it was even though
I had already discovered the passage to Withersby Hall. I had not yet
realized that 'Jonathan Brent' and Brellier were one and the same, though
I discovered that the former had a perfectly legitimate office in London
in Leadenhall Street.
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