Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-10-08
Copyright by the Bobbs Merrill Compani

WHAT mas ne done! Sn6 begged,
with pathetic abandonment OF her
previous attitude, the moment they
were by themselves.
Must | tell your" His reluctance
rang genuine.
Il insist upon it," she flashed again.
Well, it's long story
Never mind can listen
You know, | had to go back to
Italy"
Had your"
Well, l did go" He had slurred
the first statement, this one was char
acteristically deliberate Il did go,
and before | went asked Cazaet for
an introduction to some friends OF his
down in Rome
Il didn't know he had any" said
Blanche.
Why, he doesn't have any" said
Toye, but he claimed to have some
He left the Kaiser Fritz the other day
at Naples. l guess he told you?'
No, | understood he came round to
Southampton. Surely you shared a
cabin?"
Only from Genoa; that's where |
took the steamer and Cazalet regained
her"
"Well?"
He claimed to have spent the in
terval mostly with friends at Rome
Those friends don't exist. Miss
Blanche, said Toye
is that any business Of mine?" she
asked him squarely
Why, yes, I'm afraid it's going to
be. That is, unless you'll still trust
me-"
Go on, please.
Why, he never stayed at Rome at
all, nor yet IN Italy any longer than il
takes to come through on the train.
Your attention for one moment" He
took out neat pocketbook Blanche
mad opened her lips but she did not
interrupt; she Just grasped the arms
OF her chair as though about to bear
Toye was speaking from his book
got TO Naples late Monday afternoon
September eighth. Seems she was
overdue, and | was mad about it, and
never got away again till the
Do tell me about Walter Cazalet!"
cried Blanche II was like small talk
from dentist at the last moment
] want you 10 understand aoout the
steamer trst SAID Toye She wait
Cd Monday night IN the Bay IL Naples,
only sailed tuesday morning only
reached Genoa Wednesday n III q,
and lay there all OF forty eight no. g,
as these German boats do, anyhow
That brings us to Friday morning be,
fore the Kaiser Fritz gets quit of Italy
doesn't ~"
"Yes-I suppose so-do tell me
about Walter!"
Why, ! first heard of him at &c
nOa. where they figured should have
stateroom all to my SELF. as the other
gentleman had been LETT behind at
Naples never saw him til he
scrambled aboard again Friday, about
the tttyninth minute OF the eleventh
hour"
At GenoaP"
Sure"
And you pretend to know where
he'd BEEN"
Il guess do know"-and Toye
sighed as he raised his little book
"Calslet stepped on the train that left
Naples six'tifty Monday evening, and
on the one timed to reach Charing
Cross three twenty.hy Wednesday
The day OF the m"
Yes. | never called II by the hard
est name, myself; but 1t was seven
thirty Wednesday evening that Henry
Craven got his death blow somehow
Well, Walter Cazalet left Charing
Cross again by the nine o'clock that
night, and was back aboard the Kaiser
Fritz on Friday morning full OF his
friends In Rome who didn't exist
The notebook was put away with
every symptom Of relief
i suppose you can prove what you
say Z" said Blanche In voice as dull
as her unseeing eyes
81 have men to swear to him-tick
et-collectors, conductors, walters on
the restaursntcar-all up and down
the line | went over the same
ground on the same trains, so that
was simple. | can also produce the
barber who claims to have taken of
his beard in Paris, where he put In
hours Thursday morning"
Blanche looked up suddenly, not at
Toye but past him toward an over.
laden sidetable against the wall II
was there that Cszslets photograph
had stood among many others; until
this morning she had never missed it,
for she seemed hardly to have been
In her room all the week; but she had
been wondering who had removed it,
whether Cazalet himself (who had
WHY, or Martha whom she would not
question about it, In a fit of ungov.
ernable disapproval And now there
was the photograph back in its place,
leather frame and all
Il know what you did said
Blanche. You took that photograph
with you-the one on that table-and
had him identified by it,"
1T was the night came down to
bid you good-by." hs confessed, and
didn't have time to wait. didn't
come down for the photo. | never
thought Of 1t till | saw 1t there.
came down to kind of warn you, Miss
Dlanche!"
Against him." she said, as If there
was only one man left In the world.
"Yes-I guess ia already warned
Cazalet that was starting on his