Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-19

tbe bay under suspicious .;,.nd
s.sroes and Bolton, a newly arrive"
Z detectfye, is mysteriously m"'u'''U'
Ann HERE 1T CONTINUES
The Confdant
SECOND or two passed before l
"A ,.s ohle to answer at all, ana eNeu
~, ~ frst remark was not IN inc
,nsa4 ,s ,rorthv of the occasion; out II
expressed precisely what was
mind. n., did Won find
me eut?" ,..,. but ber manner
was anxious still, ,.s. :, Ran.
sJ haven't lived all my lie III
.,v,, she said. II have even oeyn ~
Tnndon and to quite good many i'on
dor theatres. In fact I've seen you "|'
before, Mr.. Merton +o bo
.syybat an extraordinary way 10 W
found OUT" l thought ana "iouu
said, .Lo nroyram
in Ramsay ,ost here,
svon mnst remember, sad she'
Locked at her for a moment anu
sbs at me. and in that exchange vi
rlances decided emphatically tha' .nel'
,,.g No sign of evil in those eyes. AN!
bow 7 stood to lose nothing IL l eo1
"A t.r confidence, and my own couiu De
withheld or not as l saw MT
uyye might as we'll be frank, SAID
.yJow exactly did you come to spot
me?" L.. .Lo
rain she smiled, and each time she
smiled straight at me like that' l eon
fess frankly / grew less cautious.
.sDo you remember when oap'aln
Nbiteclett came to arrest YOU your
! bedroom door was open just 1or
minute?'' .-
did remember now and recalled her
face outside and its very expression
vividly. w., s
~ heard him call you Roger and
4 Aaw that you knew each other Well ana
nben of course | knew we had been
Mtterly wrong in thinking you Il
She paused and l finished the SEN
Il tence for her.
"a spy"
,sWen. are you honestly surprised
J You did do some post extraordlnar.
things. Mr.. Merton l only began Il
ret the least idea of what you "er
about some time afterward.
nAnd what idea did you get then
And how did you get it,:
ssIt was when we began to hear OF th'
bad name our island was getting. IheI
/ guessed you must have been trying
to Investigate and catch the traitor
and / had gone and interfered-an(
even locked you up!
sit was you, then?'
"Weu, father. of course, approved
but l locked the door. And after
had found out the truth l could hav
murdered myself! But why did yo
puzzle us SOP
Her charm and sincerity and ami
nation almost made me tell her ther
and then, but l had just enough hol
Of myself to ask instead,
''But this doesn't explain how yo
came to find me out this time?'
'swell, in a way it does for / kne1
then that Roger Merton was your req
name and then l remembered wher
/ had heard it before, and l knew 20
were the same person. When you calle
as Mr.. Hobhouse that first day
and then suddenly you began to loo
familiar-'
with this beard ~
"Well, your face isn't all hidden b
your beard and | thought I recognize
= the other bits. If l hadn't known 70
were an actor"
"a pretty bad one, 1t appears"
interposed.
"Oh, no, indeed. you were simp
splendid You still kept me puzzle
and only half certain even after l ha
met you and Captain Whiteclett wall
ing together and noticed you move apa
when you saw me. In fact, | WASH
sure till that walk along the shore.
srranged that to make quite certain"
"You arranged it" l exclaime,
'fThe deuce you did, Miss Kendall -
She laughed defantly.
81 was dying to make sure! So wht
/ saw you coming toward the house
rushed into my things and went o.
to meet you. l thought if l could tai
You the same walk as we had been b.
fore you could hardly help doing SOM
thing to give yourself away. And
last you did !"
May l ask what my lapse wasF'
.swhen got you to the same place
last time and said the same thing,
noticed you jump. And then you
really rather give yourself away VIII
asked you if you wanted to look
the rocks, and you jumped at t
chance. l know nothing about antiqu
ties--not even as much as you do, NJ
Nation
'Hit me again !" / laughed.
.tOh, but it was very clever of y
~ to pretend to be so learned - she has
ened TO say. 'Still, | did know th
there are no antiquities below hi
water mark, so l knew you just want
10 inspect the place where somethi
happened to you before"
.'Where what happened?" /
ouired.
<spaat's what / want you to tell n
0t. IL you only knew how I've d
IA loow what happened that night !"
How do you know anything ha
'f guessed, = she said.
4kis may not sound convincing
paper, but it did as she said it,
x8s almost ready, in fact, to swt
bs je3a Kendall now.
: Asd 80 you made sure Of Thon
X J.. ~ n - Al