The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-02
XXIII.
YOUNG cALDEN SEES A POINT.

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 The trouble with you two fellows" 1" said Reckwith. when Grimbleshaw was through with his story. ''is that you've been playing the game against Traf- ford, and you're outclassed- He's read your moves as if they were accom- panied by full letter text. and the more you didn't say the more he learned. If you had had brains you'd have come and told ma everything. everything. mind. and then left me to play the. game"
 I've told you everything" said Grimbleshaw.
 ''Yes. three weeks after the event. and twenty days after Trafrord knew den. he hasn't told me all yet"
 Then I've told you what he's been holding back?"
 ''Yes. I'm beginning at last to get some facts to work on. Trafford's had lem all the time"
 But neither Calden nor I ever told him."
 Thunder. mol Say. I'd ought to have found out. too. and be done with iti You couldn't expect me to play detective on my own clientT'
 When I've a patient he either tells me everything or I find it out. or he becomes somebody else's patient"
 "Dio you come here to get advice or give ft?" demanded Beckwith-
 I've got sort of feeling that I was brought here to be jumped on."
 "Of course" Beckwith said. feeling IA. %0 TO mark. "Trafrord hasn't any serious in- tention of accusing you of the murder. though he's got a mighty pretty case against you. all the same. It looks very much as if 1t lay between old man Calden. young Calden. you and the field. with the chances that 1t was old Calden. A man is murdered: an escaped Iunatic. who is bitterly mimi cal to the man. Is concealed in the house at the time. seems to have found the body and certainly tele- phoned for assistance Besides. he owes up to the killirE. and his son and daughter believe he did it. A third rate man in Trafford's place would surely send old man Calden to Thom- aston for life"
  thought, I am certain she doesn't now believe her father guilty" said Grim bleshaw. remembering his long strug- gle with Judith that very morning.
 What good does that do?" demand ed Beokwith. 'Tt only means she now thinks it's young Calden. and she can't account for two hours of his time. and during those two hours the act was done. Besides. I'm trying for the detectiveis point of view. Fry would certainly send old man Calden to Thcmaston If he was let alone"
 That is. Fry is your third-rate man. from whom we are to pray to be de- livered. I like him as little as your hrst-rate man"
 You mean Trafrord7 haven't com. mitted myself to the assumption that Trafrord is a first-rate man. I'm tn- clired to rank him as not more than superior second-rate. I should 3feel safer if he were a stronger man. man who united with the detective faculty some knowledEe of the law and a trained conception of the value of the evidence. He'll not stoop to do injustice. knowingly. but he's liable to mistakes for want of thorough train ing. We've got to supply his de- fciencies."
 You talk as if he were working in in place of being at swords point" exclaimed Grimbie- shaw.
 And that's one of the things that's got to be pulled straight We've got to work together. We can't take the risk of not doing it. I'm assuming now that I'll be retained for old man CaIden. Really. I don't see whatrl become of him if I'm not: he's actually in a dangerous position"
 But Horace I'll never consent to mako common cause with me now fin this affair."" said Grimbleshaw.
 Hes got toi" exclaimed Beckwith. sharply. ''The time for fooling's gone by. I'm going to take command from this time on. and don't you make any about that. There's an un- known somewhere in this affair. He's got to be found. or one of you'll 20 to and I don't know which one it'll be. though I can make a mighty snrewd guess. I'm going to find him if I have to sleep with Traf- ford to do it."
 He went to the phone and called the AltenburE house Mrs. Calden an- .v<arad x.,ifb tba fnfornnatton that Hor-