Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-05-26

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and his gaunt frame took up the cry,
as it swayed upon the threshold in
dressing-gown and bedroom slippers
that Toye instantly recognized as be-
longing to Cazalet The man had
shock of almost white hair, and less
gray beard clipped roughly to a point.
An unwholesome pallor marked the
fallen features; and the envenomed
eyes burned low in their sockets, as
they dealt with Blanche but fastened
on Hilton Toye.
What do you know about Henry
Craven's murderer" he demanded in
a voice between a croak and a crow.
Have they run in some other poor
devil or were you talking about me?
II so, I'll start a libel action, and call
Cazalet and that lady as witnessesl"
This is Scruton," explained Cazalet,
who was only liberated this evening
after being detained week on a charge
that ought never to have been brought,
as I've told you both all along" Scru-
ton thanked him with a bitter laugh.
I've brought him here" concluded
Cazalet because l don't think he's
fit enough to be about alone"
Mice of him, isn't it?" said Scru-
ten bitterly. I'm so fit that they
wanted to keep me somewhere else
longer than they'd any right; that may
be why they lost no time in getting
hold of me again. Nice, considerate.
kindly country Ten years isn't long
enough to have you as a dishonored
guest. Won't you come back for
another week, and see II we can't ar
range for nice little sudden death
and burial for you? But they couldn't
you see, blast 'em!"
He subsidized into the best chair in
the room, which Blanche had wheeled
up behind him; a moment later he
looked round, thanked her CURLY, and
lay back with closed eyes until sud
denly he opened them on Cazalet
And what was that you were say
ing-that about travelling across Eu-
rope and being at Uplands that night?
thought you came round by sea?
And what night do you mean?"
1.-THE night 1t all happened" said
Cazalet steadily.
unknown knocked Craven on the
head?"
Yes"
The sick man threw himself for
ward in the chair. You never told
me thisl" he cried suspiciously; both
the voice and the man seemed strong
er.
There was no point in telling you. -
did you see the person?"
yes"
Then he isn't unknown to your"
81 didn't see him WE'LL
! Scruton looked sharply at the two
mute listeners. They we're very in
tent. indeed. who are these people
Cazalet? MOI | know one of 'em,
he answered himself in the next
breath. TITS Blanche Macnair, isn't
It? / thought at first 1t must be q
younger sister grown up like her
You'll forgive prison manners, Miss
Macnair, If that's still your name. You
look woman to trust-if there is
OhC anu JOu saw lhO JOuA VIAL
Anyhow, you've been in for a penny
and you can stay in for a pound. as
far as carel But who's your Amer
can friend, Cazalet?"
"Mr. Hilton Toye, who spotted thai
I'd been all the way to Uplands and
back when l claimed to have been in
Romel"
There was touch of Scruton's bit
terness in Cazalet's voice; and by
some subtle process it had distinctly
modifying effect on the really embit
tered man.
Uplands?" he asked in a kind of con
fidential bewilderment.
, Il went down to see a man."
Toye himself could not have cut ant
measured more deliberate monosyl
tables.
"Craven7" suggested Scruton.
mo; a man / expected to find a
| Craven's"
"The writer of the letter you fount
! at Cooks office in Naples the nigh
! you landed there, l guessl"
l 1t really was Toye this time, ant
there was no guesswork. in his tone
3 Obviously he was speaking by his lit
! tie book, though he had not got 1t on
D again.
3 How do you know l went u
' Cook's?"
Il know every step you took be
tween the Kaiser Fritz and Charinl
Cross and Charing Cross and tn,
I Kaiser FRITZ"
{ Scruton listened to this interchang'
s with keen attention, hanging on eacl
4 mans lips with his sunken eyes; boil
d took 1t calmly, but Scruton's surpris'
r was not hidden by a sardonic grin.
you've evidently had a stern chas,
a with Yankee clipperl" said he. Il
, he's right about the letter. Cazalet,
should say so; presumably 1t WASH
a from Craven HIMSELF"
q mo"
yet 1t brought you across Europ