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

dead suro that he had struck the only
man for boots. There had been a
young fellow aboard the Kaiser Fritz,
quite little bit of military blood,
who had come ashore in a pair of
cloth tops that had rather unsettled
Mr.. Toye's mind Just on that one
point.
Captain Aylmer had said he would
like to have Toye see his club any
time he was passing and cared to look
in for lunch He had said so as
though he would like 1t great DEAL
and suddenly Toye had mind to take
him at his word right now. The idea
began with those boots with cloth tops,
but that was not all there was to 1t;
there was something else that had
been at the back of Toye's mind all
morning, and now took charge In
front
Aylmer had talked some about Job
in the war office that enabled him to
lunch daily at the Rag; but what his
job had been aboard German steam
er Toye did not know and was not the
man to inquire. 1t was no business OF
his, anyway. Reference 10 card,
traded for his own in Southampton
Water, and duly filed In his cigarette
case, reminded him of the Rags prop
err style and title. And there he was
eventually entertained to a sound.
workmanlike, rather expeditions meal
Say, did you see the cemetery at
Genoa?" suddenly inquired the Wis
itor on their way back through the
hall A martial bust had been ad-
mired extravagantly before the ques-
ton.
Never want to see 1t again, or &C.
noa either" said Captain Aylmer.
"The smoking-rooms this way"
Did you say you were there two
days?" Toye was cutting his cigar as
though 1t were a corn.
1.-TWO whole days, and we'd had
night in the Bay Of Naples just be.
fore"
rs that SO? only came aboard at
Genoa. / guess / was wise" added
Toye, as though he was thinking OF
something else. -Fhere was no sort
Of feeling in his voice, but he was
sucking his left thumb,
81 say, you've cut yourself! !"
81 guess it's nothing Knife too
sharp; please don't worry, Captain
Aylmer. was going to say | only got
on at Genoa, and they couldn't give
me a room to myself | had to go in
with Cazalet; that's how saw SO
much of him"
1t was Toye's third and separate in.
dependent attempt to introduce the
name and fame of Cazalet as a natural
topic Of conversation. Twice his host
had listened with adamantine polite
ness; this time he was enjoying quite
the second-best liqueur brandy to be
had at the Rag; and he leaned back
in his chair,
you we're rather impressed with
him, weren't your" said Captain Ayl
mer well, frankly, | wasn't, but II
may have been my fault
81 was only going to ask you one
thing about Mr. Cazalet," Toye said
"and guess I've reason for asking
though there's no time to state 1t now
What did you think of him, Captain
Aylmer, on the whole?"
"Ah, there you have me On the
whole is just the difficulty" said Ayl
mer answering the straight question
readily enough. Il thought he was q
very good chap as far as Naples, but
after Genoa he was another being I've
sometimes wondered what happened IL
his three or four days ashore"
Three or four, did you say?"
And at the last moment Toye would
have played Wedding Guest to Ayl
mer's Ancient Mariner.
Eyes; you see, ne knew these Ger
man boats waste couple Of days al
Genoa, so he landed at Naples and did
his Italy overland. Rather good idea
thought, especially as he said he
had friends In Rome; but we never
heard Of 'em beforehand, and should
have let the whole thing strike me bill
sooner If I'd been Cazalet. Soon
enough to take a handbag and 8
toothbrush, Ell? And | don't think !
should have run 1t quite so fine al
Genoa, either. But there are run
birds in this world, and always will
bel"
Toye felt one himself as he picked
his way through st. James square
II 1t had not been just after lunch, he
would have gone straight and had 8
cocktail, for Of course he knew the
only place for them. What he did was
to slue round out Of the square, and
to obtain for the asking, at another
old haunt, on Cockspur street the
latest little timetable Of continental
trains. This no carried, not on foot
but in taxi, to the Savoy Hotel
where 1t kept him busy in his own
room for the best part of another hour
But by that time Hilton Toye looked
more than an hour cider than on sit
ting down at his writing-tabIe with
pencil, paper and the little book OF
trains; he locked Mortified, he looked
distressed, and yet he looked crafty
determined and immensely alive. He
proceeded, however. to take some Of
the life out Of himself. and to add still
more to his apparent age, by repair.
ing for more inward light to Turk.
ish bath.
Now the only Turkish bath, accord
ing to Hilton Toye's somewhat exclus-
i've code. was not even a hundred
yards from Cazalet's hotel; and there
the visitor of the morning again pre-
scented himself before the afternoon;
now merely little worn, az Q man
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