The Washington times., 1910-09-07


after one in the morning, and drove
him on deck. there to stand barefoOted
and IN thin pajamas for mani. minutes,
staring intently at the house on the hill
top
II sat dark and disrnaI-Iooking on its
far height. and seemed ObsIiuateIy 10
refuse TO lend confirmation TO his earlier
experience GadOgau had secretly rather
ena- having worried himself into a con
fused state CT mind 10 a degree inclined
10 impeach the testimony OF his own
eyes
Had he really seen anythingz
Beyond question he had Jane Todd
on MS right willing on his left. had
likewise seen IL His credulity had not
IrlCked him, with the aid OF an over
active Imagination He had to remind
himself that he was q product OF a
phase Of civilization which was no be-
lever in witch and ghost craft and
which fouted generally the manifesto
tons OF the occult
Unless his training and education had
been worthless. he was a trife too well
posed upon by vikings SOmber hints
and
The light, as he watched the desert
ed mansion, flashed out a ivid blue
from an upper window. and vanishing.
reappeared twice, in all exhibiting itself
TO his startled eyes three times, with the
least OF intervals between
Very wellf Cadogan set his jaw grim
]
with unclOuded vision that there really
vast argued one thing Only-that hui
man beings infested the OstensihIy unin-
habited dwelling. lying ambushed in the
daytime. by night showing these weird
lights and performing whatever other
pTankS they chose, the better 10 fTIghtsn
the curious and keep hidden their pur-
pose
And that purpose?
CadOgan thought darkly OF srnugglers
and counrerfeinters. who would find in
Cedar Island an ideal retreat. quiet,
hImdrun. and out OF the way The vis-
its OF the lighthouse tender were infre-
q1ent, sometimes as many as SIX
months elapsing between Inspections 50
the girl had told him The lawless.
therefore. had little 10 fear from the
authorities; nothing whatever to fear
long as they kept them whOlesOmsly
And YET there were other islands
which had not even those drawbacks
the heart Of a Counterfeiter who loved
his art and disliked the inevitable inter-
ruptions which attend its pursuit In she
crowded Centers OF civilization. or OF a
smugEier with a taste for a rather re-
mote suburban residence
Having decided that an arIfuI and
businesslike lawbreakeT would select
some more remote, less popuious islet
for his purposes. the question Of the
real reason for this campaign OF mysu-
Acation engaged the imaginative young
-
How. for one thing. did II affect Jane
Todd and her father. to say nothing Of
WiIIing9 Did II affect his fortunes.
too2 was IL likely that the bold and
acute mentality which Cardigan beIiev-
ed he OWNED beneath the mans mask
/ OF blun. sluggish. thiCk-witted hearth
uesS-Was It likely that the sound and
weII-poised brain would suffer itself to
[ be hOCus-pocused by such puerile CHI
/ canery2 To believe that OF him was
1 Inconsistent: Cardigan concluded that
he didn't believe it.
Vikings a bold. bad butterfly he
summed I'D. and nObody-s fool think
We VIII go, look, see-find out, If We
/ Can-what sort Of devilment's at the
bottom of this stage magic"
With this determination, and actuated
further by a shTeWd suspicion that he
would not sleep until he had at least
attempted TO Investigate, he slipped
/ below and Into shirt trousers, and
over the question Of arming himself
/ he hesitafed brief moment. If his
memory did not mislead him. and IL IL
! had not been disturbed since the DAYS
/ when he and LOnax had buCCaJleeTed II
I'D and down the shore of Long Island
Sound during their aII-tCO-bTief vaca-
I tons there should be revolver stored
/ away in one OF the lockers, and car
Z tridges, too
BUt he did not remember precisely
/ where 10 look for 1t, q search would
1 consume time; and. besides. his was 10
I be no n4urderots midnight fOray, but
] \ Deacsable quiet, un@dVertised recon-
noitering- He was not seeking trouble,
but light.
"FH have a look at that siSnboard, -
/ he considered. and if it's deciDherable-
/ the address, 7 mean-I'n investigate
/ from the other end first
! Crea=i was snoring ike = Boston bull
rIlp in the fcrecaStle as Cadogan tlptoed
! 10 the hatchwav to listen, and his ad-
venture would never be known unless
] he himself chose 10 make it public