The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-13
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CHAPTER TX.
Eden borough's Plight


and looked 50 ghastly In the cleo
trio light that Dollar did not
switch 1t on in the consulting
room. or ask a question as he shut
the door.
1t was one of those mild, I'M
seasonable days on which the best
of servants keep up the biggest
fires; the doctor opened the
French window that led from his
den, down rusty steps. Into foul
and futile enclosure of grimy
gravel and moribund shrubs.
In the meantime Edenborough
had not taken a seat as mechani-
cally hidden. but had planted him
self in defiant poee before the
fire; and the glow showed rest
less hands twitching into fists,
but not the face of which one
look had been enough.
"You might have left word
where you were;" he began with
great bitterness.
81 have Just done So" returned
Dollar, Eat your rooms. was
waiting to see you-presently. II
seems like fate, to find you here
before NO."
Il suppose you've heard the lat
est, wherever you've been?" pur-
sued Peterborough, aware and
jealous of some Independent per-
plexity on the part of Dollar.
II have heard so much!" said
the doctor. dropping into a chair.
Better be explicit-and as expe-
ditious as you can, my dear fell
low. / have an appointment al
most directly"
"Oh, there's not much to say"
rejoined the other sardonically
You remember when you came
to Princes, doctor?"
81 do, indeed"
They both spoke as IL it were
weeks asQ.
you know | told you I'D had a
hard day out of town."
II remember"
Il meant with my chief-Lord
Stockton-seeing his new brood OF
submarines"
In their unfledged state, sup
pose?"
THAT was it-and making the
usual sketches. That's my job -
or was. | was Stockton's walking
kodak until yesterday afternoon ;
then | got the boot for a wedding
present, and a chance of the jug
for my honeymoon"
The harsh voice broke, for all
it's sudden slang and satire. Dollar
was driven to his only policy.
I'm not going to pretend
don't know Of this" he said. 81
know of 1t from the home secre-
tary., A duplicate of one Of those
last drawings of yours"
"A duplicated"
We'll, a bad imitation, if you
like"
The doctor paused as though he
had finished sentence, as though
the amended phrase had interrupt
ed his thought.
"Well?" said scarborough
grimly. did you hear how they
got hold of it,"
Intercepted in the post, | gath
cred, on its way abroad"
"In our post?" said Edenbor-
ough. almost a casus belli in
Itself, | should have thought"
And have you no idea how II
came there?" asked Dollar blunt
ly-but now he meant to be
blunt; he was not sorry when his
man flew into a feeble passion on
the spot.
What the deuce do you mean,
Doctor Dollar? / know no more
about the matter than was GO
ing to say, than you Debut ! be-
gin to think you know more than
you Pretend"
II didn't think I had pretend
ed said Dollar, simply.
well, what do you know" de-
manded Peterborough, in a fury of
suspicion. Cali, I suppose?" he
added, with a schoolboy sheer,
when the answer was slow to
come.
Eyes. ALL" said the doctor, very
gravely and reluctantly, as though
driven into a announcement of
life or death.
There was no cutlery Of surprise
from Peterborough. He had some
pride. But his knees began to
tremble in the freight. and his
unclenched hands to twitch.
Il don't believe It," he exelaim-
ed at length. you tell me what
you know!"
"All that you yourself suspect
ed, and made yourself i'll with
suspecting-and couldn't sleep for
suspecting-long ago!"
Pitiful tone and tender hand
carried a heavier conviction than
the words. And now it was the
patient who had sunk into the
chair, the doctor bending over his
bowed and quivering shoulders.
"You are not the first man, my
dear Edenborough," he went on,
who would seem to have been be-
trayed in cold blood by a woman
by the woman. Mark my words
closely. ! say It seems so. / would
not condemn the greatest male
factor unheard. I meant to hear
Miss Treyellyn first-feeling in
my bones, against all reason, that
there may still be some unimag gin
m hfa tln., n,.A /.