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by George" he cried, searching the
lnscrutable face with cleaning eyes.
Uncle Horace hasn't set you to watch
ing Chetwynd, has hep
II should say not!' exclaimed
Adam Carr with an amazed look at the
questioner. 1t was his turn to be puz-
lied. MIR. Carr was never surprised.
Why should he want to nave him
watched?'
Eric caught the cunning, eager CLEAN
in the mans eye and hesitated. There
was something back of all this that he
could not understand, n he began to
feel the wisdom of keeping a close
tongue in his head. After all, who was
Adam Carr? What were his secret mo
tives?
II just asked, that is ALL" he said
quickly. The other merely grunted.
II guess IN ring the bell now. he
said, arising a ONE later. Eric
started to ask another question, but
thought better of it. He looked at the
sturdy hack and thick neck of the man
who pulled the bell knob. and thought
not OF a bulldog. but of a bloodhound.
There was something cruel and relent-
less in the back Of the strange man, in
keeping with the face Of him. The boy
experienced the sudden. uncanny SEN
sation of an enduring clOseness to Ad-
am Carr, as If he had known him in
timately, in some form or another. all
H1o ille, dIAO Always WOulu huOW IllIIl.
Oddly enough and concurrent with the
strange impression, Adam turned, af-
ter pulling the bell, and said:
II like you. Wen be good friends
for a long time. mark my word. Long
as we both shall live, I hope"
Judge Bright himself came to the
door In response to the tinkling OF the
bell.
"Ah, Carr" he said, 1--WE been wait
ing for you. Good morning Erie
He came out to the porch and shook
hands with h youth, but did not offer
to do the same with Adam Carr. Eric
noticed the omission and wondered. All
thought of it vas driven from his mind
an instant afterward when Judge
Bright, still c%lasping his hand, bent his
head slightly forward and looked with
searching intentness into his eyes. For
a moment h great jurist appeared to
be studying the boys face as if it
were something in which he sought to
discover a flaw. Then the hand pres
sure was renewed, more warmly than
before, and the eyes of the justice grew
kind and generous as he said, positive
relief in his voice:
you'll find Joan in my study. Erie
His manner puzzled the young fell
low not a little. He had the feeling tina
this great judge of men had acquitted
him Of crime. as he might have passed
Judgment on a prisoner In the dock aft
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him. What could it all mean? Vaguely
disturbed in his mind, he entered the
house, leaving the two men on the
porch. Looking back. he saw them
descend the steps n walk slowly
across the lawn toward a stone bench
in the shade of the vine covered wall.
Hello" he said as he entered the
judges study, addressing the girl in
pink, who sat in the window seat look
ing owe the lawn. Her attitude was one
of extreme pensiveness. She sat with
her elbow on the window ledge. her
der her, one small foot and ankle hang
ing free. She started as If aroused from
q dream.
Oh she cried. "it's you. 1 didn't
hear you come H."
I 1--WE been chatting on the porch with
Il say. Joan, what is Adam Carr do
ing here? What's up?" He crossed
the room and stopped beside her. She
hesitated. and then made room for him
on h seat. He was struck by the
wistful, inquiring expression in her ten
81 don't know. Eric. I wish 1 did,
she said. Father sent for him this
morning. IL" She looked away, un-
decided. and then returned her gaze to
meet his questioning eyes. Eric, Mrs.
Blagden was here yesterday afternoon
with Mrs. Presbrey. They talked to
me a~bout-about that night we spent on
the reef. IL think Mr.. Carr is here
to see father about It,"
His brow clouded. What could they
have to say abou that night?' he de-
manded.
She found it difficult to reply at once.
When she spoke it was in low tones.
suggestive of tears that had come and
gone.
MRS. Presbrey came expressly to tell
me that it was very wrong to have
L orNnn mt aof1}n0 uy3th 0,n,, o~l chat
that people are talking about U.S.. She
said the only way to stop the-the ak
was for us to have nothing more to do
with Zach Other"
He was silent for a long time, cold
to the marrow.
"Nothing more to do with each 9TH
err" he repeated slowly.
"Your aunt said that she felt
herself in duty bound to warn me
against too close an intimacy with
with Mary. She said"
What" 8 began. to see things
blood red before his eyes. What" he
almost shouted.
II don't believe 4 word she said. 1
am only telling you, 30 that you may
know" h cried hastily. alarmed by
It was the most humiliatinE thing she
ever had to do in all her life. but that
her conscience and her love for me
prompted her to tell me that Mary IL
OF always What she should be. She
said she could never forgive herself If
I fell into her WAYS. unsuspectingly. oh,
yes. and she said that she and your
uncle were doing all In their power to
curb q hereditary tendency to-Eric!"
He had sprung to his feet with q moan
LOT rage and despair. clapping his hands
to his yes - IL TO shut out some hor-
rid, devilish sight.
"Oh, ERIC. I shouldn't have told you
she cried TREMENDOUSLY.