The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
WHO are you? can't see you"

Who are you? can't see you"
Dunford. Bolger never came ashore. I
went to the pier head. He wasn't there. l
pulled out to the Black Bank. He isn't
there. Where is he?''
Il can't tell you. What do you mean by
coming here, and to me, at such an hour?
What do you mean by asking me about
him."
IF I didn't come to you should have
gone to the police
THE police! Oh, for Gods sake, not to
the police tonight whispered Darlington
in a tone of entreaty.
Il have no choice"
why? What do you know? Why should
you go to the police?'
Il told you I was on the pier and heard
you two quarrelling.''
Heard us two! But you said you did
not eavesdrop."
"Eavesdrop! You and he were shouting
Eavesdrop. You two were roaring like
madmen."
And you did not catch our words?'
No l told you no before"
And you did not steal upon and listen
to what was said when lowered our
voices? When the quarreling ceased?"
How dare you ask? But you were on
the pier with him quarreling with him, and
he wasn't on the pier when I got to the
end and he isn't on the Black Bank, and
and he is dead"
Great heavens! 1t cannot be! How do
you know he is dead? How are you sure?"
How else can it be? I come first to
you. When I am finished with you I am
going straight to the police, if you and 1
cannot find Bolger.'
''To the police, not now; not yet. You
mustn't go to the police said Darlington,
hoarsely. Besides you don't know any
thing"
Il suspect more than enough, and 1 will
tell the police my suspicious
Not tonight. Wait few hours
''Pll go to them from where I stand.''
wait till morning." whispered Caring
ton.
mot an hour"
''Then stay where you are moment. I'll
go down to YOU" He withdrew from the
window.
Dunford did not want to be alone with
Darlington in the open air, in the dark
where help was not at hand Darlington
was an athlete and Dunford 10 years older
and inferior physically. If Carrinton turn
ed on him the struggle would be a short
one; the issue foregone conclusion. Car
rington could break Dunford's back across
his knee.
The front door opened and Darlington
stepped out, closing the door behind him
softly, lowering the latch with his key to
prevent the click.
Where are you going?' asked Dunford
in low voice.
Let walk down to the beach don't
want to be overheard
mo" said Dunford Il am not going
to the beach with you-now. This place
will suit me BETTER
What if it won't suit me?''
"Then the police will suit me, Darlington
that is all
1.-THE police! The police! The police! Why
are you harping on the police? You say
you do not know anything"
Il know something, and 1 suspect more"
They were walking slowly along the dark
silent street.
Darlington tried to take Dunfords arm
Dunford shook himself free. He was on
the defensive.
Darlington swore under his breath.
Il am not going farther than the end of
this street with you, Darlington. If be-
tween here and there you do not satisfy me
about Bolger I'll inform
IF you swear not to tell a soul, I'll tell
you
THAT would be monstrous thing to
promise in the face Of what fear
What do you fear?'
"That Bolger is dead. and that you
harmed? him. Nothing but the sight of
him will satisfy that Bolger is alive
If you can't or won't l am going to the po-
lice when we reach the end of the street
That l swear. l won't swear the blind
oath you ask for"
There was long pause, in which Car
rington breathed hard.
"And if 1 do satisfy you that he is alive
you will not tell soul? No matter about
anything else-no matter what you hear
from me so long as you are convinced Boil
ger is not dead, you will keep silent as the
tomb?'
Dunford stopped awhile. eff you satisfy
me he is alive, and that injury has been
done to him-I mean that he hasn't been bad
ly mauled or hurt, 1 promise you upon my
honor to keep to myself what you may
tell me-
Every good. Joe made love to Nanny
Wilton, cousin to both of us, and over that
Joe and l fell out. He was in money diff
culties she has a large fortune, and he was
after her fortune. If he could give out that
he was engaged to her he might borrow
mony and hold on. You are the brewer of
the FiliXfield brewery. He is the cashier"
Eyes, I'm listening.'
''Well yesterday Mamie Wilton dismissed
him, and told him she was engaged to me-
After the row in the High street yesterday
he wrote begging me to meet him at the
end of the pier tonight. l went. We had
some angry words. Then he broke down.
He told me his accounts were in a mess
at the brewery. 1t is hard for me, his cous-
in, to tell you George Dunford, that this
unfortunate cousin of mine has made free
use with the money of the place in which
you and he employed 1 was afraid
you overheard talk about that bust
ness. If you did overhear you would be
bound to tell the brewery people, and |
ola not want any inquiry ABOUT Joe tonight.
You are now bonud by your oath not to in
form"
This is lie to cover something worse"
thought Dunford. "Is it a lie to cover Boil
gers disappearance lie to gain time for
Carrington's disappearance before morn
ing?' After pause he said aloud, II am
not sure that 1 am bound by that OATH but
1 will keep it on the condition stipulated"
5 What is that? 1 have forgotten the con-
dition."
THAT you convince me Bolger is alive,
and is not badly injured. That you explain
the manner of his disappearance in fact"
ooh, yes. He had lowed out his boat in
the early dark, and made her fast on the
seward face Of the wreck. He left his
clothes in her aud pulled the other boat
back in his flannels. AS soon as he and 1
finished our talk he dived off, to swim to
the Blank Bank, unmoor his boat, pull out
to sea, and escape as best he could When
you said he was dead I thought you knew
he had been drowned. 1 did not want him
to be pursued tonight, and if you accused
me of numbering him there would be a
search or pursuit. 1t is awful affair. 1t
will break his fathers heart. I tried to per-
suade him from boiling but he would not
listen to me. Are you satisfied now?'
"Well,' said Dunford, ION what you say
I'll wait till morning.
"And how will you confirm my account
then?''
eff the boat is missing and his accounts
are wrong l shall hold my tongue. Good
night"
Next day Bolger and his boat were miss
ing and his accounts were found to be
wrong. Months after an undated letter came
from him with the Truxillo postmark. 1t
was addressed to Miss Wilton, name
which at that time had become obsolete,
the person who once bore it being then
known as Mrs. Darlington