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CHAPTER VIII.
cLEws AND SUSPICIOUS.

CLEWS AND SUSPICIOUS.
In pursuance of his first thought,
Tony took the cap and went to Mrs.
Hamilton's with it in his pocket. He
hardly knew how to breach the matter.
but at last did so by laying it on the
table and asking quietly. WAS that
Mr.. Hamilton's?"
With a low cry Constance snatched
the cap and pressed it eagerly to her
breast, while she turned her startled
eyes upon Tony as if begging for some
expression which might bid her TO
hope. But as he did not speak, she
said:
Yes, it is his cap, his travelling
cap. made it myself and he took it
away with him. Where did you find
az
1T found it on the river bank. where
it lay as if tossed there by the freshet,
or some person"
ooh, then he was drowned. He was
coming from the bank toward home
and he fell into the river. Was it
very dark that night Tony? l don't
recollecI." said Constance. piteously
Rather dark. but consider, Mrs.
Hamilton. the unlikellhood OF his walk
ing into the river. a man Of his senses
and one whO never drank
True Then whAs do you think
about i
1t is al conjecture. Mrs. Hamilton"
said the yOlng man. forOearing to
speak q 1hs presence q The Italians,
as As AS6 done - Dir. Hastings Pos
SHY - AsE knco1mseTe1 Ashley in
stead II WAS an conjecture. as he
tod As1- Z fToug1t the cap for you
70 ssas and ks,sF Il you wish. I thought
yoz zlEh4 Gka 10 know that it was
probable MI Hamilton started to come
hs-E thz1 night"
Oh yes thank you, Tony, and
VIII kssP lhe cap / was sure Vane
never u-onl5 90 away without coming
bO-ne- SUI Il he did start and was
prevented. what was it that happened
10 hinnz Il was something dreadful
He may have been murdered and
thrown into the river" and Constance
clutched at a chair to save herself
from falling.
Let us hope that it is not so bad
as that He may be in the tolls of
Ashley somewhere. Things of that sort
happen. sometimes, according to the
newspapers. Ashley may have taken
the notes from him, thrown his cap
into the river to make people think
he had committed suicide"
Tony did not believe this, he only
spoke of 1t to, in some measure, reas-
sure Mrs. Hamilton.
who is Ashley, Toney?"
Young Osborn saw that by his SYM
patty he had been led into error. Evil
IDENTIFY she knew nothing about the
suspicion entertained by Bruce and
others He hardy knew what was best,
but he decided to tell her about II.
This would introduce the hypnotic the
DRY, which might be in some sense
comfort to her, as doing away with
the one point, hitherto regarded as in
controveruble, of her husbands pre-
senttsgfn person the altered notes to
Low and to the other bank and re-
ceiving the money in exchange.
Constance listened to his account of
Ashley, of Bruce's suspicious, and
Tony's own ideas based on Bruce's ac-
count of Ashleys hypnotizing the
jaAer.
Now. if he could do that, Mrs. Ham
ilton, why might he not have inf1u-
enced Low to the extent of making
Grovedale Bank?"
1T is bold idea, Tony, 1
wish could credit 1t fully.
And yet, as you say, it is no stranger
than what he did to the jailer, as al
legged by Mr.. Bruce. Bruce then thinks
Ashley and Nane are one ana the
same"
Bruce is stupid old curmudgeonl
Couldn't track a mouse back to his
hole"
Mrs. Hamilton smiled at his out
burst.
Il am sorry il he is so. We ought
to have had a bright man in case
like this"
"Oh, he is bright enough, usually,
but 1 believe he has made muss of
this matter"
Tony" said Mrs. Hamilton, sud
denly. what do you think of the let
ter thrust under Mr.. Hastings door
and purporting to have been written
by Mr.. Hamilton"
We'll" said he, with a sideways
look, Il do not suppose l should kick
at it, but, to tell the truth, the dec
laration 1t contained that l was hon
est gave me very uncomfortable feel
ing, for until then l had not thought
any one would think / was not -
II do not think he wrote II at ALL"
HE certainly did not. if what we
have conjectured is true"
why l think so I will tell you
He would never send me a message
through another person no more than