The Washington times., 1913-12-08
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~ URING the meal nc reference
whatever was made to the sub
jects that were uppermost in
the minds of both: but at the
close of II, Clancy inquired:
Now, Bins, what are your plans?
Il haven't had time to make any yet, -
Harvard replied.
Don't you think you had better lay
Up here today. and rest?"
Perhaps. since it is daylight outside.
Those cops over there
''NYm doubtless chase me downtown
when / so out"
Yes; ana back home again when you
return. I'll have to get on, before
that
"or afterward. Why not stay right
on here for few days and rest up?'
No. That is out of the question
Why"
Don't you realize. Tom. thai you are
harboring and giving succor to a Grim
Inal?"
Il don't care hang
i know you don't
1t isn't any sure-pop proposition,
Bing, that one of those chaps, OF may
be a pair Of them won't stay behind
"Hth 60 ohl " hcNp dh t1t Si tiA-
mouse. You sort of had a hunch last
night that maybe the inspector thought
you might come directly here after YOUR
interview with him.
Il think il quite likely ti:at the house
will be watched now as well as your
self 49,
Then you've got to stay.
'On the contrary. all the more rea-
son why l should go away"
But il you cannot go without being
seen-what then
IN go anyhow. must 80 | can't
stay here. won't stay"
How are you going to get out of it -
There is a roof on the house. isn't
there? Ard scuttlc TO the ROTOR
something of the sort? I'll find q way
cut somehow"
I've got to 20 and that's all about
You might blacksn your face AMI
borrow 4 sui; of SciPios clothes. ana -
And get .pinched before got to i
Clancy looked at his watch and start.
cd to his feet.
I've got To- go. and thsts all about
il kc announced. You vii! stay on
mere until 7 get Lack won't YOU? We
viii have been shlc 10 think up some
thing by that time. En-
Perhaps. Only wont make any
.'Iii call you on the telephone as soon
For goodness sake. Tom don't do
WHY not?"
Don't you realize that police head
quarters would know that you had call
ID me here inside OF five minutes after
YOU did IT..
well. l can call scipio. do tina,
frequently
Please do not do it TO-DAY. then. II
Oh really wish 10 do something TO Serve
nv interests. axe Scinio TO the Office
with you and keep him there ;inder YOUR
own eyes all day long. I!o seemed
nightly interested i'm me while ne Was
waiting upon Us think he more than
half suspected wIo 7 am.
Not a word WAS passed between them
about Lady Kate that morning. IIs,-
vard was natura"y reluctant 70 bring
III the subject aGain. and Clancy han
his own good and sufficient reasons foI
keeping silent
SO Bingham Harvard presently found
himself alone in tho house OF his friend.
For the first time in many weeks he
vas really comfortable and. in the main,
contented.
The day passed slowly and uneyent-
fully.
Harvard got through it after a man
ner that had not been his privilege dur
ing many a long week He read. ne
ithIeo' ne s'"pl niue: ne spent nours
IN deep thought upon the problems that
confronted him. At : that afternoon
an hour before the time he was normal
~ due-'lancv came home
Business first. pleasure afterWard.
he announr"d - soon IS he was vel!
inside TIE EoUsc. To begin. have
sent Scipo awsy. 50 MS pree"?re woT't
bother Won I thought NJ an Importan;
errand that took him 10 Pnilade' phta--
thai Is faI "no"Gh Tor prcscnr pL.-
poses.
Yes. Whs; abcu' ;ne shadows.
OH. they have been in evidence ali
not havo noticed il il lad not been
f"rWaTHc4. aW d'Iitc sure too. th3t
they ha'" kept tabs upon the house as
well aS On HIe.
SO have decided hat YOU had bet
ter remain here whGe YOU are for
And nave irrevocably decided that
will remain an hour after it gets
dark outside"
Clancy grinned.
Y expected that answer, and so I
have prepared for it he said. 1T was
a suggestion OF your own that opened
the way for IL.
What is il?
ri tell you: but I've got TO ask a
question or SO first
Go ahead
Having Dceu accused Of theft. and
having committed several actual in
frinyensents o. the la| since that &C
cusation., ] don't suppose ii will get on
NCur Conscicncc 10 any rrest extent to
have another crime or SO charged at
your door will it,
mo: particularly since l am con-
fcEpiatir" what most people would call
a still greater one. What are you driy-
ing st?'
Down the street. to the west of us.
there lives man named Rice. know
him BY sight only. His house ID twelve
doors from here, and just at the pres