The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-03-10
CHAPTER xll-continued.
III

resignation, little short OF alacrity.
There was gleam in his somber eyes
and his blue chin came up with jerk.
That's talkingl" said he. Now will
you promise me never TO marry GAIA
let?"
'Mr. Toyel"
That's talking, too, and guess
mean it TO be. It's not all dog-in-the-
manger either. | want that promise a
lot more than | want the other. You
needn't marry me. Miss Blanche. but
you mustn't marry Cazalet"
Blanche was blazing. But this is
simply outrageous"
IL claim there's an outrageous cause
for it, Are you prepared TO swear
what ] ask. and trust me as I'll trust
you. or am | to tell you the whole
thing right now?"
you won't force me to listen to an
other word from you. If you're a gen
tleman. Mr.. Toye!"
IT'S not what | am that counts.
Swear that to me, and | swear. on my
side, that | won't give him away TO
you or anyone else. But IL must be
the most solemn contract man and
woman ever made"
The silver teapot arrived at this
juncture, AID not inopportunely She
had to give him his tea, with her
young maids help, and to play a tiny
part in which he supported her really
beautifully. She had time to think al.
nnnllxr. ond fha,uht oh
a thrill If IL was a question OF her
marrying or not marrying Walter
CaZalet. then he must be free and only
the doer of some dreadful deed
What has he done?" she 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.
We'll. it's a long story"
Never mind | can listen"
you know, had to go back to
Italy"
Had you?"
We'll. | did CO." He had slurred
the first statement; this one was char
acteristically deliberate Il did go.
and before | went | asked Cazalet for
an introduction to some friends of his
down in Rome"
II 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. | guess he told you?"
mo, | understood he came round to
Southampton. Surely you shared a
cabin?"
only from Genoa; that's where
took the steamer and Cazalet regalned
her"
"Well?"
He claimed TO have spent the in.
terval mostly with friends at Rome.
Those friends don't exist, Miss
Blanche" said Toye
rs that any business of mine?" she
asked him squarely.
"Why, yes, I'm afraid it's going to
be. That is. unless youll still trust
me"
Go on, please"
why, he never stayed at Rome at
all, nor yet in Italy any longer than II
takes to come through on the train.
Your attention for one moment" He
took out "A neat pocketbook Blanche
had opened her lips. but she did not
interrupt; she just grasped the arms
of her chair, as though about to bear
physical pain. THE Kaiser Fritz
Toye was speaking from his book
got to Naples late Monday afternoon.
September eighth. Seems she was
overdue. and was mad about il. and
never got away again till the"
do tell me about Walter Cazalet!"
cried Blanche. IL was like small talk
from dentist at the last moment
Il want you to understand about the
steamer first" said Toye she wait
ed Monday night in the Bay of Naples.
only sailed Tuesday morning. only
reached Genoa Wednesday morning.
and lay there all OF forty-eight hours,
as these German boats do. anyhow.
That brings US to Friday morning be-
fore the Kaiser Fritz gets quit OF Italy.
doesn't it?"
yes suppose so-do tell me
about Walterl"
why. I first heard OF him at Ge-
noa. where they figured I should have
a stateroom all to myself. as the other
gentleman had been left behind at
Naples. | never saw him till be
scrambled aboard again Friday, about
the fifty-ninth minute Of the eleventh
hour"
AT Genca?"
Sure"
And you pretend TO know where
he'd been?"
II guess | do know"-and Toye
sighed as be raised his little book.
"Cazalet stepped on the train that left
Naples six.fifty Monday evening. and
Of the one timed to reach Charing
Cross three-twenty-hve Wednesday"
THE day Of the m"
"Yes. ! never called II by the hard
est name. myself: but II was seven