The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-03-17

and his gaunt frame took up the cry.
as IL swayed upon the threshold In
dressing-gown and bedroom slippers
that Toye instantly recognized as be-
longing TO Cazalet The man had a
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
voice between a croak and crow.
Have they run in some other poor
devil. or were you talking about me?
IL so. Ill start libel action. and call
Cazalet and that lady as Witnesses"
This is Scruton," explained Cazalet.
who was only liberated this evening
after being detained a week on 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 | don't think he's
fit enough to be about alone"
Nice OF him, isn't it," said Scru-
ton 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. considernte.
kindly country, Ten years isn't long
enough TO have you as dishonored
guest. Won't you come back for
another week, and see il we can't ar
range for a nice little sudden death
and burial for you?' But they couldn't
you see. blast 'em!"
He subsided into the best chair in
the room. which Blanche had wheeled
up behind him; moment later he
looked round, thanked her curtly. 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?"
The night it all happened" said
Cazalet steadily.
You mean the night some person
unknown knocked Craven on the
! head?"
Yes"
The sick man threw himself for.
ward In the chair You never told
me this" 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 well"
Scruton looked sharply at the two
! mute listeners. They were very In
tent. indeed who are these people,
Cazalet? No! | know one OF EN-"
he answered himself in the next
breath. IT'S Blanche Macnair, isn't
it? | thought at first il must be
younger sister grown up like her.
| You'll forgive prison manners. Miss
Macnair. If that's still your name. You
| bns woman TO trust-if there is
one-and you gave me your chair.
I Anyhow, you've been In for a penny
and you can stay in for a pound. as
far as care, But who's your Amer.
can friend. Cazalet?"
Mr. Hilton Toye. who spotted that
I'd been all the way 10 Uplands and
back when claimed 20 have been in
Rome!"
There was a touch OF Scruton's bit
terness in Cazalet's voice; and by
some subtle process II had a distinctly
notifying effect on the really embit.
tered man.
\ Uplands?" he asked. in a kind OF con-
fldential bewilderment
II went down 10 see man"
Toye himself could not have cut and
measured more deliberate monosyl.
| lables.
"Crayen?" suggested Scruton.
NO; a man | expected TO find at
Cravens"
! "The writer OF the letter you found
at Cooks Office in Naples the night
I 1Ou ldnhfu AuFlfs u HutNns
II really was Toye this time. and
there was no guesswork in his tone
I Obviously he was speaking by his ~.
tie book though he had not got 1t out
again
How do you know went to
Cooks"
- know every step you took be
tween the Kaiser Fritz and Charing
Cross and Charing Cross and the
Kaiser Fritz"
Scruton listened 20 this interchange
with keen attention hanging on each
mans lips with his sunken eyes; both
took II calmly but Scruton's surprise
Was not hidden by sardonic grin.
You've evidently had a stern chase
with a Yankee clipper" said he II
he's right about the letter Cazalet. I
shonld say so. presumably IL wasn't
from Craven bimself?"
No
yet II brought you across Europe
IN Cravaufa houaa1"