Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-12-15
.<rhen you think old man Craven

'<rhen you think old man Craven
begging his poor pardon-was getting
out some cigars when the man. who
ever he was, came in and knocked
him on the head?"
Cazalet nodded vigorously. THAT'S
the likeliest thing of ALL" he cried.
Then the gong went-there may even
have come a knock at the door-and
there was that cupboard standing open
at his elbow"
with hole in the floor that might
have been made for him."
"As it happens, yes; he'd search
every inch like rat in a trap, you
see; and there it was as I'd left it
twenty years before"
"Well, it's a wonderful yarn!" ex-
claimed Hilton Toye, and he lighted
the cigar that Cazalet had given him.
Il think it may be thought one II
the police ever own how they made
their find" agreed Cazalet, laughing
and looking at his watch. Toye had
never heard him laugh so often. "By
the way, Drinkwater doesn't want any
Of all this to come out until he's
dragged his man before the beak
again."
(Which you mean to PREVENT"
III only can! more or less prom.
ised not to talk, however, and I'm
sure you won't. You knew SO much
already, you may just as we'll know
the rest this week as we'll as next, If
you don't mind keeping it to your.
SELF"
Nobody could have minded this par
ticular embargo less than Hilton Toye.
He saw Cazalet OF with smile that
was as yet merely puzzled, and not
unfriendly until he had time to recall
Miss Blanche's part in the strange
affair OF the previous afternoon.
Say, weren't they rather intimate.
those two, even If they had known
each other all their lives? He had it
from Blanche with her second re-
fusaD that she was not, and never
had been. engaged. And fellow who
only wrote to her once in q year
still. they must have been darned in.
innate, and this funny affair would
bring them together again quicker
than anything.
Say, what a funny affair it was when
you. came to thing Of it! Funny all
through, it now struck Toye; begin.
ming on board ship with that dream OF
Cazalet's about tho murdered man,
leading to all that talk of the old
grievance against him, and culminat.
ing in his actually finding the imple-
ments of tho crime in his inspired ef-
forts to save the man Of whose limo.
cence he was 20 positive. Say, II
that Cazalet had not been on his way
home from Australia At tho time!
Like many deliberate speakers. Toye
thought like lightning, and had reached
this point before he was hundred
yards from the hotel: then he thought
of something else, and retraced his
steps. He retraced them even to the
table At which he had sat with Cazalet
not very many minutes ago; the wait
er was only now beginning to clear
away.
"Say. waiter, what have you done
with the menu that was in that toast
rack? There was something on it that
We rather wanted to keep"
II thought there was, sir" said the
English waiter at that admirable no.
tel. Toye. however, prepared to talk
to him like an American uncle Of
Dutch extraction.
"You thought that, and you took it
away"
"Not at all, sir. 'appened to OBJ
serve the other gentleman put the
menu in his pocket, behind your back
as you were getting up, because I
passed a remark about it to the head
waiter at the time!"