The Washington times., 1910-09-10

pened. when they got up and found
you missing yesterday morning they
..-2-ie1 vii I-ou see them again.
oh tonight I'm due back BY sun
dowu-day of. YOU know ran across
20 Bav st Louis this morning and
caught the train there a fellow knSGi
OF likes to set IN a crowd after a spell
OF Cedar Island. you know
Willing made no more elaDOrte AZ
tempt 10 explain his presence IN New
Orleans. CadOEau found him hard 10
read-an interesting riddle There was
10 lack OF ease apparent IN ms de
UeanOri he had been attronteo, faq
forgiven the OffeDse. and now gOSsIped
with Characteristic facility. If a true
man, be was a diamond iq the rougn-
If not, most accomplished scoundTei
You VIII give my compliments 70 me
Captain and Miss Todd. won't you,
Wuing2 Tel them I count on reaching
Cedar Island again by noon tomorrow.
I want that anchor --5u know
Yes, I s'pose 50. Glad TO see YOU
You'll sail touisht2'
Il count on doing So
"Sorry / got TO get back right away,
OF I'd ask you 70 give me INT
"Oh, 7 say. Wiling"
The man paused in the act OF turning
Did you see those lights on the hill
again last night2F
40. They don't show all the time.
Sometimes a month VIII pass with nary
= flicker Then, again. every night
How do YOU account for them, Will
inE2"
7 don't The mans expression was
ENORMOUSLY peri Irbed- There's more
things under the sun than you and ]
can understand 7 reckon, as the fellow
says To tell the ruth. I don think /
want to know what causes those
lights
s.Then you're afraid Of ghosts. Will
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scratched his chin and smiled sheepish-
I am not" returned -Cadogan, with
meaning.
don't Know think II safer 10 side
step things like that. Mr. CadOgan-'
Possibly CadOgan waved acknOwl-
edgment Of the assistant keepers part
ing salute and turned away, revolving
the affair III a beWildered mind OF one
thing he was almost wholly convinced
that vikings hands were clean OF any
completely in the matter CadOgau was
inclined 10 berate himself harshly for
lack Of generosity in his judgment OF
men. for he believed that he had erred
in this inStance-had done an honest
man a ETieVOUS injustice Well. he must
ind q way 10 make due reparation in
some acceptable COTm- Now, should he
bother with this auCtiOn2
II the assistant Keeper was hand-in-
glove with those " 10 couSDiTed to keep
spectacular methods, Il was more than
likely that his interest would take him
TO the sale If only to watch IL bid in by
ms associates II, on the other hand, he
merely happened to hear that the prop
eTty was 10 be put up at public auction.
it would be neither Inconsistent nor i'm
probable that he should wish TO know
into whose possession il passed and
whom he might expect for nsighbOrs on
the lonely island. So vikings presence
at or absence from the sale would prove
nothing. after all
CadoEan wagged his head with a rue
fUI smile.
This business VIII drive me daft he
thought. If I don't quit botherinS my
self about IT.
And remembering. at the same time
mat the easiest way TO get rid of temp
tatiOu is TO weld 10 IL he decided 10
hUmOr his wealI-eSs and attend she sale
He had barely glanced a the address
furnished him by II Lesfrange- He now
drew ont the slip OF paper and consulted
IT, The location written in the attor-
news crampeG. clear hand was not far
distant, on a side street. near Canal. a
few blocks up from the river t-s.io-
gan'S long LEGS and active interest took
him thither IN less than FIVE minutes
and ne arrived ahead Of time
Through q doorway decorated with
a dingy REQ hag he entered, to find