Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-20
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What Keith Found


lay so green and shady in the blazing
heat of the sun. In Keith s mind the
strangest thoughts were stirring, and
Dick shrugged his shoulders and said
with angry impatience:
''Wel, what if he did? He can stop
there if he likes. can't hc:'
'Yes. only what should he be stop
ping there for?' asked Walters. and
Keith saw his small and uneasy eyes
rest twinkingly first on one Of them
and then on the other.
GLOW should we know" demanded
Dick.
"Csn anything have happened tn
him. asked Reenic from behind.
Don't be silly snapped Dick. cot
course not. What could happen:
"Now then observed Walters argu
mentatively, that's just it-what
could:''
''When YOU went after him." Keith
said TO Dick, you could see nothing
of him at aIl?"
"No." answered Dick. "but d1dn t
worry myself much. He was i'll such
a rage it wouldn't have been any good
saying anything to him.
You went after him into the wood.
did you. sir?' asked Walters. He :
never come out again. he repeated
thoughtfully. ITS queer. Did you
say he seemed in one of his tcmpcrs'
Mr.. DiCk!'
Eyes, I did" answered Dick, but
don't YOU ask so many questions.
You re getting a bit too cheeky, Wal
ters.''
.'very sorry, sir" said Walters,
s.but you see while We was coming
here he said one or two things
| thought 49,
'Well. you can clear out and 90
your thinking somewhere else. said
Dick angrily. Il don't want you
hanging about here. Clear out.
.Yes. sir said Walters. very
sorry, sir Only you see, it is bit
aueerlike, because, if he went into that
wood, why hasn't he come out again:
'It is strange, Dick, said Reenle
from behind. Il think perhaps some
thing may have happened. l think
YOU ought to go and see
Rot: what could happen asked
Dick irritably. 49,,
But nevertheless he. as well as keith
and Walters. were all three staring IN
teptly into the green and shady depths
of the wood, intently and llttle
strangely. ,,,. =,
II think you ought to go and look
Rccnie repeated.
eyes, come along Keith SAID
ue began TO walk toward the wood
and Dick followed sulkily, muttcrlng
something under his breath ms he ana
so. Walters followed close behind, MS
.forohead puckered, his small eyes alcrt
and twinkling.
They entered the wood where the
path began and followed this IN silence
right through to the other side OF the
wood without find any trace ot Ola
( Mr.. Wentworth. On the road they had
now reached the big motor car in winch
he had arrived was standing just as
Walters had left it, and there was no
sign of Mr.. Wentworth to be seen there
either.
"Where can he be-" Walter said, u
don't understand it; it isn't like him.
His small sharp little eyes hickered
from one to the other in turn. and 1t
was not difficult to see that suspicious
were forming in his mind. Keith, too
was beginning TO feel seriously uneasy
and Dick shrugged his shoulders and
said:
'It's no business of ours; he can look
after himself, can't he:'
''I think we had better have another
look" said Keith, turning back to the
wood.
The other two followed him. though
Dick seemed not too willing and grum-
bled a little to himself about wasting
time and about the old man being well
able to take care of himself. They
returned the way they had come, but
searching more closely and carefully the
ground on each side of the path, and
then they turned back and went through
the wood length ways, still without
finding any trace of the missing man.
When they gone through a third time,
still without finding any trace or sign
Of him, and had come again TO the road
where the big motor car stood, Walters
said abruptly:
Hes not in the wood; he's not
here; where is he?"
II don't know and I don't care. y
said Dick. I'm fed up, anyhow. He
Is pTODaDly WOIhlnB Out sOhS VI ms
beastly clever schemes. I'm not going
to waste any more time hunting for
him"
''It's beginning to look to me as
though something may have happened,
Keith said slowly.
''Oh, that's all rot" declared Dick.
Its not rot retorted Keith that
something happened to me last night
in this place"
"Oh,'' said Walters, what was that
sir?"
''Somebody made an attack on me,
answered Keith. 81 don't know who.
That's rummier than ever, that is, -
declared Walters, but not very much as
though he believed what Keith said.
sWell. as ! understand it, Mr.. Dick,
sir, Mr.. Wentworth had words with
YOU and he went back through the
wood to return to me where I was
waiting for him with the car, but he
never got me, and when you went after
him into the wood you couldn't find him
nnd now we can't find any trace of him
nrywhere.
Dick did not answer. He was a little
ua(e, and be knew the chauffeur was
+ Io6kipg 1T him with a doubtful, sideA
~r<rs glance, but he did nos know whaj
A. <&5 <kishout appearing g admit thai