News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-24
CHAPTER VIII.
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| good deal better imam their respective
citizens Of corresponding intelligence.
| His travels were mysteriously but en-
viably interviewer with business he
| had an air Of enjoying himself, and at
the same time making money to pay
for his enjoyment, wherever he went.
His hotel days were much the same all
| over Europe: many appointments, but
| abundant leisure. AS, however, he
! never spoke about his own affairs I'M
! less they were also those of the lis
| tener-and not always thcn-half his
acquaintances had no idea how he
made his money, and the other half
! wondered how he spent his time. Of
| his mere interests, which were many,
| Toye made no such secret; but it was
quite impossible to deduce a main in
dustry from the by-products of his
| level-headed versatility.
Criminology. for example, was an
| obvious by-product; it was no morbid
taste in Hilton Toye, but a scientific
hobby that appealed to mis- mental
| subtlety. And subtle he was, yet
with strange simplicities; grave and
dignifed, yet addicted to the express
sive phraseology of his less enlight-
ened countrymen; naturally sincere,
and yet always capable Of some in
genuous duplicity
The appeal of Blanche Macnair to
/ such a soul needs no analysis. She
had struck through ell complexities to
r-I,o
might make it. AS yet she could only
admire the character the man had
shown, though it had upset her none
the less. At Engelberg he had pro
posed to her inside of two weeks,
as he had admitted without compunc-
ton at the time. It had taken him,
he said, about two minutes to make
up his mind; but the following sum
mer he had laid more deliberate siege,
in accordance with some old idea that
she had let fall to soften her first re-
fusal. The, result had been the same,
only more explicit on both sides. She
had denied him the least particle of
hope, and he had warned her that she
had not heard the last of him by any
means and never would till she mar
ried another man. This had incensed
her at the time, but great deal less
on subsequent reflection; and such
was the position between that pair
when Toye and Cazalet landed in Eng
land from the same steamer.
On this second day ashore, as GAIA
let sat over a late breakfast in Jer
myn streetsToye sent in his card and
was permitted to follow it, rather to
his surprise. He found his man frank
ly divided between kidneys-and-baco
and the morning paper, but in hearty
mood indicative of amends for his
great heat in yesterdays argument.
A palmer indication was the down.
right yet sunny manner in which GAIA
let at once returned to the contentious
topic. ,..st.., 'a..-.,..-.-. ..as-
Well, my dear Toye, what do you
think of it now?"
Il was going to ask you what you
thought, but l guess l can see from
your face"
Il think the police are, rotters for
not setting him free last night"
"Scruton?"
yes. OF course, the casell break
down when it comes on next week, but
they oughtn't to wait for that. They've
no right to detain a man in custody
when the bottoms out of their case
already"
"But-but the papers claim they've
found the very things they were
searching for" Toye looked non
plused, as well he might, by an appar- |
emily perverse jubilation over such in
telligence.
They haven't found the missing
capt" crowed Cazalet What they |
have found is Craven's watch and
keys, and the silver-mounted trun-
cheon that killed him. But they found
them in a place where they couldn't |
possibly have been put by the man
identified as Scruton!"
Say, where was that?" asked Toye
with great interest, MY paper only
says the things were found, not
where"
mo more does mine, but : can tell
you, because helped to find EN-"
you don't say"
You'll never grasp where" contin
ued Cazalet In the foundations I'M
der the housed"
Details followed in all fullness; the
listener might have had a part in the
Uplands act of yesterdays drama,
might have played in the library scene
with his adored Miss Blanche so Wv
idly was every minute of that crowd
ed hour brought home to him He was 4