The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-23
was not averse to giving little judi clous f1attery to salve the criticism he
 had felt it his duty to indulge in open

was not averse to giving a little judi clous f1attery to salve the criticism he | had felt it his duty to indulge in open ly and secretly i
 Tt settles nothing said Fry. sharp ly. Probably. though. I'm right, but I'm leaving it for you to find out.'' Fry breathed easier. The lecture and rigging had been far less than he had expected and had ended in an expres- sion of confidence.
 'Given a Canuc." he hazarded. feel ing bold to theorize under the condi- ton affairs had assumed, ''and stranger to the individual need not, of cattle. He'd be safe in calculating in ninety-nine cases in a hundred that a drink would set him going''
 "WeH that's for you to find out" repeated Trafford. land you'll be a good deal more likely to get at relia- ble results if you stop generating and get at the individual, and especially if you lay aside your prejudice. found ed on race. religion or something. and go at the affair on the solid ground of fact" ,5 9
 After pause to let this ''soak in," as Fry said to himself. Trafford came back to his purposed absence.
 I'm going to be away three or four days,'' he said. '"That'll give you time to look up this matter Aside from that all that I see new that you'll have to do is just to keep an eye on the Altenburg house. not let Calden or Grimbleshaw out of your sight, and if anything turns up give it attention. By the way. you needn't bother any about that white bulldog. If he's needed any time can put my hand on him.
 It would have been so easy and plausible for Fry to say ''I didn't want to bother you about him until knew" that it seemed to Trafford almost merit in him not to say it.
 "By the way'' said Trafford,. a mo- ment after. glancing at paper the other had laid before him. and show, ing that he regarded the former in- cident as closed, T see that the Cana dian mentioned Grimbleshaw"
 "Yes. met him. or thought he met him. in the woods when he was on the way to the village and his drunk"
 There seems to be quite a feeling n the village that Grimbleshaw knows more about this affair than he's tell ing.''
 Yes, they're saying now he could just as well have disconnected the telephone as any one else"
 'fOf course." continued Trafford. half musingly, when we come down to facts the only thing we've got as to what Grimbleshaw found at the house, or what went on there. for the matter of an hour or more. is Grimbleshaw's own story. For anything anybody who's turned up yet knews. he may have done the ransacking of the trunk and turned the room upside down.
 Are you forgetting Phil Barber?" asked Fry, who found something to weigh seriously in this new line adopt ed by Trafford, and was not averse to get time to weigh it.
 '"The public can hardly be expected to take Barber seriously. It's far more likely to weigh the fact that Grimble- shaw got rid of Barber before he real ly had a chance to see anything, and that all his mysterious visitors had vanished before help got to him."
 1Oh." ejaculated Fry. Trafford was clearly casting about for a measure of the public's attitude, not attempting his own opinions.
 Naturally Trafford went on. tits told with them that he seemed so familiar with the house. It's caIcu- lated to arouse suspicion that he'd been there before"
 "Yes." admitted Fry, they've been saying that down to Bickford's and the post office."
 To be Continued