Iron County register., 1910-08-25
CHAPTER II.-contlnued.

Flora had a bewildered feeling that
this judicial summing up Of facts
wasn't the sort of thing the evening
had led up to- She couldn't see, If
this was what 1t amounted to, why
Harry had changed his mind about
telling them at the dinner table. She
could not even understand where this
belonged in the march Of events in
their story, but Clara took it up,
clipped it out, and fitted it into its
place.
Then there will be pressure
enormous pressure, brought to bear
to recover it?"
"oh-o-oh!" Butler drew out the syl-
liable with unctuous relish. They'll
rip the town inside out. They'll do
worse. There'll be a string of detect
ives across the country-yes, and at
intervals to China-so tight you
couldn't step from Kalamazoo to Osh-
lxosh without running into one. The
thing is too big to be covered. The
chap who took it will play 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 Wand?" Flora flung it out
las challenge among these prosaic
people; 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 met
1t as if he swallowed it with almost
IA facial grirnace that Judge Butler
blinked it hard in the face--the most
bothered of the lot. He came at 1t
first in words.
Farrell Wand?" He felt it over, as
If, like doubtful coin, it might have
rung false. "Now, what did l know
of Farrell Wand?"
Farrell Wanda" Kerr took it up
rapidly. "Why, he was the great John
ME who went through the Scotland
Yard men at Perth in '94, and got off
Don't you remember? He took a
great assortment of things under the
most peculiar circumstances-too the
'Tilton emeralds off Lady Tilton's neck
lat st. James"
why, Harry, you" Flora began
-"You told us that" was what she had
meant to say, but Harry stopped her
Stopped her just with look, with 6
mod; but it was as if had shaken his
head at her. His tawny lashes, hall
dropped over watching eyes, gave hin
more than ever the look of a great
still cat; a domestic, good-humoret
cat, but in sight of legitimate prey
Her eyes went back to Kerr with {
sense Of bewilderment. His voice was
still going on, expansively, brilliantly
Juggling his subject
''He knew them all, the big-wigs III
in Parliament, the big-wigs on change
the little duchesses in Mayfair, ant
they all liked him, asked him, dinet
him, and-great Scott, they paid
Paid in hereditary jewels, or thu
shock to their decency when the thint
came out-but poor devil, SO did he!
And through it all Butler gloomet
.nnsmiling, with out-thrust underlip.
mo, no." he said slowly, that
mot my connection with Farrell Wand
What happened afterward. What dit
they do with him?"
Kerr was silent, and Flora though
ghis face seemed suddenly at its SHARP
lest.
1t was Clara who answered with ar
other question. Didn't he get to tn
colonies? Didn't he die there?"
Judge Butler caught it with sna
sof his fingers. Got It'll" he triumph
ed, and the two men turned squar
upon him. "They ran him to earth |
Australia. That was the year wa
tthere-'96. I got snapshot of hir
sat the time"
1t was now the whole table tha
turned on him, and Flora felt, wit
that unanimous movement, somethin
,,crucial, the something that she ha
lbeen waiting for; and yet she coul
In no way connect it with what ha
happened, nor understand why Clari
WHY Harry, why Kerr above all shoul
he so alert. For more than all b
looked expectant, poised, and read
for whatever was coming.
what sort Of a chap?" he muse
and fixed the Judge a moment wit
the same stare that Flora remembe
ed to have first confronted her.
"What sort? Sort of criminal
the Judge smiled. "They all loo
alike"
"Still," Clara suggested, such
man could hardly have been Q
dinary-"
"In the chain-gang oh, yes" sat
Butler with conviction.
"Oh! Then the picture WASH
worth anything?"
why, no." Butler admitted slowl
s'though, come to think Of it, It WASH
the chain-gang either. They wer
taking him aboard the ship. I'll
crowd was so thick hardly saw hiI
apd--only got. one shot at him. B
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