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"a great deal. Listen. / had not
time 70 pack anything, but I grabbed a
bag had used on my last trip out OF
town, in which I knew there was q
change of clean linen, and just caught
the train"
sect to your point" said Hoabrook
impatiently. deeply interested.
'sTake it easy, my boy, it is not to be
told that way The beauty Of telling
tale is telling it in sequentia manner;
YOU make your points much stronger.
and q clearer understanding Is the re-
suit"
s'Oh, go on your own way" returned
Holbrook, irritably, realizing that Tom
was not to be driven and that Interrupt
ton only delayed the col1s Of his mar
rative.
.'Wel, then, as travelled on l had
time to examine the reasons laying back
Of my impulse. Of course, if Fountain
went to Newport he would go 10 Wither-
spoons. That several kilograms had
passed between himself and the Ash
grove girl, and that Fountain had ex-
pressed desire to remain in New York
few days longer and had yielded in
obedience to the last telegram from
Newport, showed urgency. Now, what
urgency, and why? That was what l
was travelling to Newport to find out if
/ could"
81 should take it very poor reason, J"
interrupted Holbrook. The idea of
travelling off so many miles upon an i'm
pulse"
"My dear fellow, your inability to ap-
preciate how controlling such impulses
are upon some temperaments, shows me
clearly you would never succeed as a
newspaper man. I make it rule of life
to obey the promptings of my intuitions.
Hence my success"
'Well, get on with your story"
"After a while / thought | would
open my bag and find what had with
me, and to my surprise l discovered a
suit of clothes for laboring mana
working suit. Then remembered that
had used it as disguise some time ago
when l was on another affair, and the
thought popped into my head that l
could use it again, possibly to good eff
feet. After l got to Newport l made
my way to the Witherspoon cottage and
took in the surroundings. | knew what
time Fountain was to leave New York.
and, therefore. about what time he would
arrive.
II determined to disguise myself as
gardener, get on the grounds, and rlsk
detection. So procuring a pair of garden
sfrrars, I did my working clothes up in a
package, struggled it out of the hotel,
and on a plausible pretext secured a
room in cottage in the town, where l
could make the change. About the only
thing learned on the stage was expert
ness in make up, and when issued from
the room l was as fit a gardener as you
ever saw. loitered around until about
the time for his arrival. l was near the
gates when the carriage drove up, and
quickly followed it. Fortunately for
me, such as were at work ON the grounds
were in front and not in the rear"
sob, do skip the details, for heavens
saker cried Holbrook.
"You seem to be nervous this morn
ing" rejoined Tom, who, between de-
sire to tease Holbrook and an intense
relish in his own tale, was indulging his
vein of graphic recital. "Well, l saw
the Ashgrove girl waiting for him, say
her greet him, and then sit down and
wait for him while he entered the house.
Shortly he came out again, and had an
opportunity to get close up to the veran-
da out of sight, on the pretext of trim
ming some vines. Then there began the
most extraordinary conversation.
Tom here detailed that scene upon the
veranda, of which the reader is fully in
informed. During its recital Tom was
not interrupted; Holbrook was too anx-
ious and interested to lose a word.
When he had finished Holbrook said:
"That settles it. Fountain is the man. "
81 thisk there is no doubt of it," re-
piled Tom.
"None in the least. What power OF
self possession! Of course he realized
thoroughly what she was driving at.
"Of course" said Tom, "but he is sure
of her love, and does not propose to ad-
NIT it even to her"
1T is only such a firm, determined,
cold blooded kind Of person who could
commit so deliberate and cold blooded a
murder"
True, but 1 think his exhibition Of
frmness and self possession at the club
was even greater than on the veranda-
Howl
"Why, on the veranda he was sure OF
the girl, he could depend on her love for
him: but in the club an intimation that
he was the murderer, backed by proof or
strong suspicion. would have made each
man there an enemy"
''True," commented Holbrook. but
Flora. How that girl does lovel 1t is a
wild, unreasoning, an all pervading love
"a love sacrificing everything. could
not have believed it of her
Come, tell me" said Tom, "of your
doings since I've been gone"
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