Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02
CHAPTER xIv-ContInued.

ly as ChLdlet turueu 10 uih pcioio
proceeding.
Il went in and found Henry Craven
lying in his blood. That's gospel-it
was so | found him-lying just where
he had fallen in heap out OF the
leather chair at his desk. The top
right-hand drawer of his desk was
open, the key in 1t and the rest Of the
bunch still swinging A revolver lay
as 1t had dropped upon the desk-it
had upset the ink-and there were
cartridges lying loose In the open
drawer, and the revolver was loaded
| swept it back into the drawer, turned
the key and removed it with the bunch
But there was something else on the
desk-that silver-mounted truncheon
and a mans cap was lying on the
floor | picked them both up My
first instinct, | confess 1t, was to re-
move every sign of manslaughter and
to leave the scene to be reconstructed
into one OF accident-seizure-
thing but what 1t was!"
He paused as If waiting for ques-
ton. None was asked. Toye's mouth
might have been sewn up, his eyes
were like hatpins driven into his head
The other two simply stared.
1T was a mad idea, but | had gone
mad" continued Cazalet. 81 had hat
ed the victim alive, and 1t couldn't
change me that he was dead or dying;
that didn't make him a white man,
and neither did II necessarily blacken
the poor devil who had probably suf-
fered from him like the rest Of us
and only struck him down In self
defense. The revolver on the desk
made that pretty plain. 1t was out
OF the way, but now | saw blood all
over the desk as well; 1t was soaking
into the blotter, and II knocked the
bottom out of my idea. What was to
be done? had meddled already; how
could | give the alarm without giving
myself away to that extent, and God
knows how much further? The most
awful moment of the lot came as
hesitated-the dinner-gong went off In
the hall outside the doorl remem-
Der watching the thing on the floor
to see If 1t would move.
Then lost my head-absolutely.
turned the key In the door, to give
myself few seconds grace or start
1t reminded me OF the keys in my
hands One of them was one OF those
little round bramah keys. 1t seemed
familiar to me even after so many
years. | looked up, and there was my
fathers Michael Angelo closet, with
its little, round bramah keyhole.
opened 1t as the outer door was
knocked at and then tried. But m,
mad instinct of altering every pos
sible appearance. to mislead the pc
lice, stuck to me to the last And
took the mans watch and chain into
the closet with me, as well as tn,
cap and truncheon that | had picked
up before
81 don't know how long | was abov,
ground. so to speak, but one of m,
fathers objects had been to make hi
retreat sound-tight, and could scarce
ly hear what was going on in the room
That encouraged me; and two of you
don't need telling how | got ou
through the foundations, because you
know all about the hole | made my
self as a boy in the floor under tn,
oilcloth. II took some finding will
single matches; but the fear OF you
neck gives you eyes in your finger
ends, and gimlets. too. by Jovel Thu
worst part was getting out at tn
other end, into the cellars; there wer
heaps of empty bottles to move, on
by one, before there was room to opel
the manhole door and to squirm on
over the slab; and thought they ram
like peal OF bells. but | put then
all back again, and apparently .
nobody overheard in the scullery
THE big dog barked at me lik
blazes-he did again the other day
but nobody seemed to hear him either
l got to my boat. tipped fellow o.
the towing path to take 1t back an
pay for it-why haven't the police go
hold OF him?-and ran down to tn
bridge over the weir. | stopped a bi
car with a smart shaver smoking hi
pipe at the wheel | should hav
thought he'd have come forward TO
the reward that was put up; but pre-
tended / was late for dinner / had 4
town. and let him drop me at tn
Grand Hotel. He cost me a flyer, bu
l had on a waistcoat lined with notes
and I'd more than FIVE minutes in han
at Charing Cross. II you want t
know, 1t was the time in hand tina
gave me the whole idea of doublin
back to Genoa; | must have been hal
way up to town before / thought {
it'll"
He had told the whole thing as h
always could tell an actual exper
ence; that was one reason why it ran
so true to one listener at every poin
But the sick mans sunken eyes ha
advanced from their sockets in cum
lative amazement. And Hilton Toy
laughed shortly when the end wa
reached.
You figure some on our credulity
was his first comment.
'T don't figure on anything frol