Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-18

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do had alarmed the mar we were go So
ing to see and that he had disappeared, lo
gone into hiding" g
elbow will we find him? asked. h
asHe is as anxious to see me as ne
is not to see some one else,' Crandail q
told me. He wrote me plain directions t
how to reach a place lie calls the de- S
serted cottage, and made an appoint S
ment there for nine o'clock tonight" t
AS / listened to Louise's story did Z
not know what to think about Gran
dalrs part in the affair. 1t seemed now t
that he had been acting in Katharine's |
behalf, though this did not explain his I
acquaintance and relations with the
man he had called Aleck Young.
"Why," I asked Louise, "do you
suppose that he and Katharine insist.
ed on you coming out here? Why
could not Crandall himself have recoV'
cred the document and restored it TO
Katharine?"
81 asked him that. He told me that
the man who held it had made the
condition that it should be received by
either my father or Katharine. They
did not wish it known that my IA
what had happened. and as they were
certain this man knew neither kath'
arine nor me, I was to go with him
and impersonate my sister"
ibid you get the document"
"No. we failed" said Louise. "and
do not know what in the world | am to
tell Katharine. We came out here In
the afternoon. Crandeli thought it
advisable to find the place by day.
: light. We ran the automobile up the
:, lane that leads to this place and crept
: through the thicket until we came III
= sight of the cottage There were TWO
g men moving about in the cottage,
Young and another man whom Mr..
Crandall told me was the postmaster
= at Ardway. He seemed surprised at
, the presence Of the postmaster. we
- watched for half an aouT and then
- took the automobile back to g little
- hotel about three miles away from ARD
way. For some reason, Mr.. Crandall
= did not want to stop in Ardway."
Il 81 guess | was the reason / re.
y, piled. "But when did you return
rs here?"
Id 1--WE had dinner at the little MOTEL
ne and as soon as 1t was dark, started
x, back for the cottage. When we ar
ke rived We found g light in the window
er- and saw Young there in a stupor jus
ad as you see him. The other man wa
re nowhere around. After trying t.
he awaken Young, without success, MI
re- Crandall searched his clothes, bu
ed there was nothing in any of his pocl
DO. cts. He even felt all the seams, an
M. took off his shoes in search OF the ps
The per we wanted, but it was nowhere o
him. He ransacked the cottage as we
mi as was possible in this dim light, bc
not could not find any suggestion of
hiding-place. Out in the little she
nm. that serves as q kitchen he found
70 slip on which was written a list
eatables-bread, milk, eggs and sue
in. things. We decided from this that tt
act other II thlhA MI. ora
,;th dali had said his name was-had gol
to some %neighboring farmhouse
nth store to lay in supplies and probab
~ would soon return. Mr.. Crandall su
Of gested our hiding in the bushes I'm
noe. his arrival, and we did so. We hi
hardly taken our place behind t
.red bushes before we heard him comir
Mr.. Crandall stepped out, and t
10 rest is so mixed up | don't know il
what happened. I heard shots and +
,o1.. a pain in my arm and | think
.oto, screamed and then | don't rememf
any more until I found you bendi
over me"
,oaa $40 think that it wa my bullet II
hit you!" / cried. 81 might have Kill
ried you"
oded "It's only the lightest sort
scratch" she protested. 1T does
even hurt any more. It does not bot
. .y- me half so much as to know how
so,ne tell Katharine that we failed in
ther mission"
may "Tell her." said I, shat one Of
v ac- conspirators is dead and that the
to er is safe in the hands of lnspet
Davis and myself. Tell her that
|, the document either Of us finds that
any way relates to her father will
ue placed in her hands at once. Tell
knew that I will not leave the prisoners
think until have it safe and that my HI
I SIN is pledged both for Davis and my
which that NO word affecting her father
about ever become public. Crandall is
there now talking with Davis, al
\ al, think you will find that he, too,
ot,rn. tell her the same thing"
AS if in confederation OF my W.
the three of them, Crandall, Davis
= ~ the constable. returned just at
- ~ moment.
loh ~ "Come, Miss Parrish" said Gran
ne put
i it is Necessity is trs Mother.
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