The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-04

nous pressure, brought to zeal to re-
cover it?"
"Oh-o-oh!" Butler drew out the sylla-
bic with unctuous relish. They'll rir
the town inside out. They'll do worse
There'l be a string of detectives across
the country-yes, and at intervals to
China-so tight you couldn't step from
Kalamazoo to Oshkosh without rum
ming into one. The thing is too big to
be covered. The chap who took it will
play a lone game; and to do that
Lord knows there aren't many who
could-to do that he'd have to be
a-a-'
Farrell Wanda" Flora flung it out as
a challenge among these prosaic peo-
pie; but the effect of it was even
sharper than she had expected. She
fancied she saw them all start; that
Harry squared himself, that Kerr me.
it as if he swallowed 1t with almost a
facial grimace; that Judge Butler
blinked it hard in the face-the mos
bothered of the lot. He came at it
first in words.
Farrell Wand?' He felt it over. as
If, like a doubtful coin, it might have
rung false. Now, what did 1 know of
Farrell Wand?'
Farrell Wand?" Kerr took it up rap
idly. why, he was the great Johnnie
who went through the Scotland Yard
men at Perth N "a, and got off. Don't
you remember? He tool a great as
sortment of things under the most pc
culiar circumstances-topk the Tilton
emeralds off Lady Tilton's neck at st.
James's."
why, Harry, you Flora began.
'You told us that was what she had
meant to say, but Harry stopped her.
Stopped her just with a look, with q
nod; but it vas as if he had shaken
his head al her. His tawny lashes,
half dropped over watching eyes, gave
him more than ever the look of a great,
still cat; a domestic, good-hunored
cat, but in sight of legitimate prey.
Her eyes went back to Kerr with a
sense of bewilderment. His voice was
still going on, ex~pansively, brilliantly,
juggling his subject.
H knew them all, the big-wigs up
in Parliament, the big-wigs on Change,
the little duchesses in Mayfair, and
they all liked him. asked him, dined
him, and-great Scott, they paid! Paid
In hereditary jewels, or the shock to
their deeency when h thing came out
but, poor devil, so did he!"
And through it all Butler .gloomed
unsmiling, with outthrust under lip.
mo, no." he said slowly, that's not
my connection with Farrell Wand.
What happened afterward? What did
they do with him?"
Kerr was silent, and Flora thought
his face seemed suddenly at it's
sharpest.
1t was Clara who answered with an
other question. Didn't he get to the
colonies? Didn't he die there?"
Judge Butler caught it with a snap
of his fingers. Got it," he triumphed,
and the two men turned quare upon
him. "They ran him to earth in Aus
tralia. That was the year l was there
-9e. l got a snapshot of him at the
time"
1t was now the whole table that
turned on him, and Flora felt, with
that unanimous movement. something
crucial, the something that she had
been waiting for; and yet she could In
no way connect 1t with what had han
pened, nor understand why Clara, why
Harry. why Kerr, above all, should be
SO alert. For more than all he looked
expectant, poised, and ready for what
ever was coming next.
What sort of a chap?" he unused
and fixed the judge a with
the same stare that Flora remembered
to have first confronted her.