The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-22


81 know, on the contrary, that
have every right" was the reply
This Is my cousins trunk that | was
commissioned to recover IL possible"
Then why have you broken II
open?"
because he didn't want the rotten
clothes, you fool" he snarled say
s~avagely.
Il should think not" Grayton
laughed. Does he usually wear WON.
ems ~dresses?"
This was a retort the other evident
ly was not prepared for, and for a
moment he stared at the articles Of
female attire scattered about him.
Then he stammered, These things be.
longed to his wife, l expect"
Mr.. Nevins, why will you add lying
to your other sins?" Grayton ques-
toned: You know you are lying. and
/ know you are lying. You had no
relative on board the Nebraska"
But tell you I had, and his name
was Robert Webster. This is his
trunk, and his initials are burned on
the side"
How can you lie SOL" GraytOn an
swered, in a grieved tone. II had a
letter from the owners only this
morning to say that nobody OF the
name of Webster was on the Nebrag-
ka at the time she was foundered."
You had?"
81 had. l can show you the letter
II you like"
"Have you got it with your"
mo; but | have Il at home"
81 wish you would go and fetch It."
Grayton started, and a new posi-
bility suddenly stared him In the face.
If he was not careful Nevins would
give him the slip, and everybody else
the slip. While they had been talk
ing the darkness had been coming on
rapidly. Evidently Nevins had been
wise in carrying OF a conversation. If
it got much darker he would be able
to sink unobserved. Moreover, he
would have the chance of unloading
his treasure in some secret place I'M
til such time as he would be able safe
ly to pick II up again. That was a
possibility that would have to be pre-
vented at all costs.
"All right he answered, 81 won't
be very long" and the next moment
had disappeared behind the rock.
He saw Nevins stoop at once and
pick up the box and tuck 1t under the
cape of Inverness coat; then he struck
out as fast as he could walk toward
the entrance of the Forth.
GRAFTON clnmbered along the rough
end uneven wedge Of cliff in the same
direction, and at his best possible
pace: but Nevins had the advantage |
in more ways than one. In the first
place, he had safe and level ground
to walk upon ard in the second
place. while he (Gravton) was COM
to keen s'ong the straight edge
Of the cliff, Nevins was able to make
a bee line for the farther corner of
the Forth: so hat the distance be-
tween them widened at everv step.
Hes an astuter rascal than I be-
Gravton said to himself, but
he doesn't know everything, He fan
S!bS / rave gone III W 81 SuiOS W
inform the constable. He'll discover
that he is not going to be al
owed to escape so easily"
The Forth opened out on a wide
Of moorland, covered with
gorse and heather, and dot
ed hither and thither with mounds of
Earth. thrown up from prospecting
pits, dug by miners in search of cop
per and tin. Penny Downs was IN
If the widest tracts of u~ucultivatad
end in the county. 1t stretched five
along the ~seacoast and nearly
IS many miles inland, was entirely
destitute OF trees, and scored deeply
With lens and w~atercourses.
1t was not an easy tract of coun-
ny over which to chase a man, but,
or difficult, Grayton felt it was
he task that had been appointed him
md one which he dared not shirk. BY
he time he had reached comparative
Y level ground Nevins was little more
han a moving speck on the wide
moor, and was pressing forward at
lis best pace.
ITO Be Continued ]