Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-09-10

he'd Just'ye laid those things rfglt
down, he'd have left the print OF his
hand as large as life for Scotland
Yard"
THE devil he would" exclaimed
Cazalet, 81 wish you'd explain he
added; remember I'm a wild man
from the woods. and only know OF
these things by the vaguest kind of
hearsay and stray paragraphs in the
papers. never knew you could leave
your mark 80 easily as all that"
Tcye took the breakfast menu and
placed it face downward on the table.
cloth, LAY your hand on that, palm
down." he said, land don't move 1t
for a minute"
Cazalet looked at him a moment
before complying; then his fine, shape
ly, sunhurnt hand lay still as plaster
under their eyes until Toye told him
he might take 1t up OF course there
was no mark whatever, and Cazalst
laughed.
"You should have caught me when
came up from those foundations,
not fresh from my tub" said he.
you wait replied Hilton Toye,
taking the menu gingerly by the edge
and putting 1t out of harms way in
the empty toast-rack. "Y5h can't see
anything now. but If you come round
to the Savoy ri show You something !"
WHAT
Your prints, sir! don't say I'm
Scotland Yard at the game, but can
do it well enough to show you how
It's dore You haven't left your mark
upon the paper but guess you've left
the sVes. VI vOur hand; If snow a
little French chalk over 1t, the chalk'll
stick where your hand did. and blow
of easily everywhere else Say, come
round to lunch and i'll have your
prints ready for you, I'd like aW.
fully to show you how It's done
Cazalet excused himself with deci.
sion He had a full morning in front
of him. He was going to see Miss
Macnair's brother, son of the late head
of his fathers old firm of solicitors,
and now one OF the partners, to get
them either to take up Scruton's case
themselves, or else to recommend
firm perhaps more accustomed to
criminal practice. Cazalet was always
apt to be elaborate in the first person
singular, either in the past or in the
future tense; but he was more so
than usual in explaining his consid-
cred intentions in this matter that
lay so very near his heart
Going to see Scruton, too?' said
Toye.
mot necessarily" was the short re.
ply. But 1t also was elaborated by
Cazalet on a moments consideration.
The fact was that he wanted first to
know If it were not possible, by the
intervention Of really influential law
yer, to obtain the prisoners immediate
release at any rate on bail If impos-
sible, he might hesitate to force him
self on Scruton in the prison, but he
would see.
ITS perfect scandal that he should
be there at ALL" said Cazalet, as he
rose first and ushered Toye out into
the lounge. "Only think: our old
gardener saw him run out of the drive
at half past seven, when the gong
went, when the real murderer must
have been shivering in the Michael
Angelo cupboard, wondering how the
devil he was ever going to get out
again"
Then 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 iikeliest thing of all" he cried.
Then the gong went-there may even
have come knock at the door-and
there was that cupboard standing open
at his elbow"
with a hole in the floor that might
have been made for him."
"As 1t happens, yes; he'd search
every inch like rat in trap, you
See; and there 1t was as I'd left 1t
twenty years before"
well, it's a wonderful yarnl" ex-
claimed Hilton Toye, and he lighted
the cigar that Cazalet had given him.
Il think it may be thought one If
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, Drihkwater 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"
IF only | can! more or less prom
Used not to talk, however, and Pm
sure you won't You knew so much
already you may just as well know
the rest this week as well as next, "
you don't mind keeping it to your
self"
Nobody could have minded this par
ticular embargo less than Hilton Toye
He saw Cazalet off with a smile that
was as yet merely puzzled, and not
unfriendly until he had time to recall
Miss Blanches part In the strange
affair OF the previous afternoon
Say, weren't they rather intimate.
those two, even II they had known
each other all their lives? He had II
from Blanche with her second re.
fusaD that she was not, and never
had been, engaged. And a fellow who
only wrote to her once In a YEAR
still, they must have been darned in
innate, and this funny affair would
bring them together again quicker
than anything
Say, what funny affair 1t was when
you came to thing of 1t! Funny all
through, 1t now struck TOye; begin