Chapter 58

‘No. It’s quite true.’ The other man shook his head. ‘An impersonation story fifty years old. There were two brothers—Swithin Cush just ordained, Welwyn Cush, too poor to take the ’varsity course. Swithin died, apparently quite suddenly, from heart trouble. The two brothers were living alone together in rooms in Kensington. The dead man had just been appointed to his first curacy in a Norfolk village. The younger man had a great friend in the daughter of the house, and it was she, I fancy, who put the idea up to hi…