The Red Cloud chief., 1916-02-17
CHAPTER lv-Contlnued.

Il wonder who can have done i'll"
so do the police. and they don't
look much like finding Quit"
1T must have been for his watch
and money. don't you think? And yet
they say no had 80 many enemies!"
Cazalet kept silence; but she thought
he WINGED. "Of course II must have
been the man who ran out OF the
drive" che concluded hastily. "Whcre
were you when 1t happened, Sweep"
Somewhat hoarsely he was recall.
Ing the Mediterranean movements OF
the Kaiser Fritz, when at the first
mention of the vessels name he was
firmly heckled.
Sweep. you don't mean to say you
came by a German steamer"
Il do. 1t was the first going. and
why should waste week? Besides.
you can generally get cabin to your.
self on the German line"
so that's why you're here before
the end Of the MONTH" said Blanche.
well. l call II most unpatriotic: but
the cabin to yourself was certainly
some excuse"
THAT reminds mel" he exclaimed.
II hadn't II TO myself all the way;
there was another fellow In with me
from Genoa: and the last night on
board II came out that he knew you'll"
Who can It have been?"
"Toye, his name was. Hilton Toye."
"An American man! Oh, but I
know him very WE'LL" said Blanche In
. tone both strained and cordial. Hes
great fun. Mr.. Toye. with his delight
full Americanisms. and the perfectly
delightful way he says them!"
Cazalet puckered like the primitive
man he was, when taken at all by sur.
prise; and that anybody. much less
Blanche. should think Toye. OF all peo-
pie. either delightful" or great fun"
was certainly surprise to him, II 1t
was nothing else. or course 1t was
nothing else. to his immediate knowl.
edge: still. he was rather ready to
think that Blanche was bushing. but
forgot. II indeed he had been In a fit
state to see It Mt the time, that she
had paid himself the same high com
pliment across the gate. On the whole
II may be said that Cazalet was ruff
0ed without feeling seriously disturbed
~ to the essential issue which alone
peaped to his mind.
Where did you meet the fellow?"
he inquired. with the suitable admix.
ture Of confidence and amusement.
IN the first instance. at Engelberg."
"Engelberg! Where's that?"
only one Of those places in Swift.
ssrland where everybody goes now.
adays for what they call winter
sports"
She was not even smiling at his ar
r0gant ignorance; she was merely ex.
planning one geographical point and
another of general information. A
close observer might have thought
her almost anxious not to Identify her.
self too closely with popular craze.
Il dare say you mentioned It," said
Caxalet. but rather as though he was
wondering why she had not.
Il dare say I didn't! Everything
won't go into an annual letter. II was
the winter before last-I went GU,
with Betty and her husband"
"And after that he took a place
down here?"
Eyes. Then I met him on the river
the following summer. and found hed
got rooms in one Of the Nell Gwynns
Cottages, II you call that a place"
II see"
But there was no more to see; there
never had been much. but now
Blanche was standing up and gains
out of the balcony into the belt o.
singing sunshine between the opposite
side of the road and the invisible rive
acres away.
why shouldn't We 60 down to Lit
tleford and get out the boat II your,
really going to make an afternoon o
~" she said. But you simply mus
see Martha first; and while she's max
ing herself fit to be seen. you mus
take something for the good Of tn
house. III bring 1t to you on a lordl.
tray"
She brought him siphon. stopperet
bottle. a silver biscuit-box of anclen
memories, and left him alone will
them some little time; for the younl
mistress. like her old retainer In an
other minute. was simply dying I,
make herself more presentable. Ye
when she had done 30. and came bacl
like snow, In . shirt and skirt JUS
home from the laundry. she saw tina
he did not see the difference. His de
vouring eyes shone neither more no