Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-11-17

TO tell mo WHAT you Q08IO. 5gt ~ n. 2
well. I guess you've said 1t your.
self right now. That man seems to
have begEared everybody AL around
except himself; that's how make It
out, said Hilton Toye. ~
4 ''He did worse" said Cazalet through
his teeth He killed my poor father:
he banished me to the wilds Of Aus.
tralfa: and he sent . better man than
himself to prison for fourteen years."
Toyo opened his dark eyes for once.
rs that so7 No. never heard that"
said he. q 1s35i 81 sI
You hear It now. He did al that,
Indirectly, and didn't realize 1t at the
time, was too young. and the whsle
thing laid me out too nat; but know
It now. and I've known It long enough.
It was worse than . crash. It was
scandal. That was what finished M
Of. all but Henry Craven! Thered
been . gigantic swindlespecial in.
.vestments recommended by the llrm,
bogus certificates and all the rest Of 1t.
We were all to blame, Of course. Ny
poor father ought never to have been
. poet. Even IL was only 4 young
ster tn the ONCE. but ought to have
known what was going on. But Henry
Craven did know. He was in 1t up to
the neck. though . fellow called scru.
ton did the actual job. Scruton got
fourteen years-and Craven got our
old house on the river"
And feathered 1t pretty we'll" said
Toye, nodding. Yes. I; did hear that.
And can tell you they, don't think
any better of him. in tho neighbor
hood. for going to live right there. But
how did he stop the other mans
mouth, and--hows do you know"
Never mind how know. said ca
zalet. "scruton was 4 friend of mine.
though IN older man; he was good
to me. though he was : wrong 'un
himself. He paid for it-paid for two
that l can say! But no was engaged
to Ethel Craven at the time. was 60
ing to be taken into partnership on
their marriage. and you can put two
and two together for yourself !,
did she wait for him?"
About as long as you'd expect Of
the breed! She was her fathers daugh4
ter. wonder you didn't come across
her and her husband!"
II didn't see SO much Of the Craven
crowd" replied Hilton Toye. Il wasn't
stuck on them either. Say. Cazalet, I
wouldn't be that old man when Scru-
ton comes out, would your"
But Cazalet showed that he could
hold his tongue when he liked, and his
grim look was not SO legible as some
that had come and gone before. This
one stuck until 5Toye, produced . big
flask from his grip, and the talk shift
ed to less painful ground. It was the
last night in the Bay OF Biscay. and
Cazalet told how he had been in it,
fortnight ON his way ont by sailing
vessel. He even told ittwith consider
able humor, and hit on sundry passen-j
gers OF ten years ago rs though they
had been aboard the German boat that
night and Toye drew him out about
tho bush until the shadows passed for
minutes from the red brick face with
the whitebr forehead. 5 ,ss
Il remember thinking would dig
for gold" said Cazalet. That's all I
knew about Australia. But you can
have adventures OF sorts II you 60 far
enough up-country for 'em; it still
pays to know how to use your fists
out there. Iremember once at a bush
shanty they dished up such fruity
chops that I said I'd fight the cook If
they'd send him up; and I'm blowed
ii 1t wasn't a fellow I'd been at school
with and worshiped as no end of .
swell at games! Potts his name was,
old Venus Potts, the best looking chap
in the school among other things; and
there he was, cooking carrion at
twenty-five bob week! Instead of
fighting we joined forces. got burr
cutting Job on a good station, then q
better one over shearing, and after
that wormed my way In as book
keeper. and my pal became one Of The
head overseers. Now we're our own
bosses with share in the show. and
the owner comes up only once . year
to see how things are looking"
II hope he had daughter" said
Toye, land that you're going to marry
her, II you, haven't YETI
Caxalet laughed, but the shadow had
returned. mo. left that to my pa"
he said. HE did that all right"
Then i advise you to go. and do
likewise" rejoined his new friend with
. geniality impossible to take amiss.
II shouldn't wonder, now. II there's
some girl you left behind you"
Caxalet shook his head. None wha'
would look on herself in that light
he interrupted. 1t was all he said.
but once more Toye was regarding
him as shrewdly ~ when the night
was younger, and the littleness of the
world had not yet made them conf
dant and boon companion.
Eight bells actually struck before
their great talk ended and Cazalet
swore that he missed the watches
aft. sir!" of the sailing-vessel ten
years before. .s-rs-<
SAY" exclaimed Hilton Toye, knit
ting his brows over some nebulous rec
of his own. II seem to have
heard Of you and some Of your yarns
before. Didn't you spend nights in a
log. hut miles and miles from any hu-
man beiug?"
II was aa thew were furn;np in ut