# Mr. Wraythwaite — The Borough Treasurer character guide

> Mr. Wraythwaite in The Borough Treasurer by J. S. Fletcher.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Wraythwaite, Wraye

**First appearance:** 0026-xxvii-mr-wraythwaite-of-wraye

## Snapshot

A man of consequence and hidden history who hears of the Kitely affair and moves at once, not to expose but to protect what he is building.

## Who they are

Wraythwaite is a fine fellow on the verge of doing great things for Harborough and his daughter, which is precisely why the past rattling the present terrifies him. His instinct is to rush to Highmarket and tell everything, but Carfax counsels patience until his own affair is finished, and he compromises by sending money he cannot quite explain. His private inquiries into Miss Pett's antecedents open the seam the whole case will run along, making him the quiet hinge between old secrets and present danger.

## In the story

### [Mr. Wraythwaite of Wraye](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_borough_treasurer_se/chapters/xxvii-mr-wraythwaite-of-wraye)

Revealed as the rightful heir to Wraye; provides Harborough's alibi for the night of Kitely's murder.

### [XXVIII: Pages from the Past](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_borough_treasurer_se/chapters/xxviii-pages-from-the-past)

Leaves the room with Avice, having already known the details; instigated the inquiries.

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