News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-12-08

| oe ANhPiCo' buSSp iC lOlu you
mo, ! understood he came round to
Southampton Surely you shared a
cabin?"
only from Genoa; that's where !
took the steamer and Cazalet regained
her"
"Well?"
"He claimed to have spent the in.
terval mostly with friends at Rome.
Those friends don't exist Miss
Blanche" said Toye
els that any business of miner" she
asked him squarely.
"Why, yes, I'm afraid it's going to
be. That is, unless you'll still trust
me"
go on, please"
"Why, he never stayed at Rome at
all, nor yet in Italy any longer than it
takes to come through on the train.
Your attention for one moment" He
took out a neat pocketbook. Blanche
had opened her lips, but she did not
interrupt; she just grasped the arms
of her chair, as though about to beaI
physical pain. "The Kaiser Fritz
Toye was speaking from his book
got to Naples late Monday afternoon
September eighth. Seems she was
overdue, and was mad about it, and
never got away again till the"
DO tell me about Walter Cazalet'
cried Blanche. 1t was like small talk
from a dentist at the last moment.
II want you to understand about the
steamer first" said Toye. "She wait
ed Monday night in the Bay of Naples
only sailed Tuesday morning, only
reached Genoa Wednesday morning
and lay there all Of forty-eight hours
as these German boats do, anyhow
That brings US to Friday morning be
fore the Kaiser Fritz gets quit of Italy
doesn't it,"
"YeS-T suppose so-do tell me
about Walter."
why, I first heard of him at &c
noa, where they figured | should have
statoroom all TO myself, as the other
gentleman had been left behind at
Naples. / never saw him till he
scrambled aboard again Friday, about
the ffty-ninth minute of the eleventh
hour" =
eat Genoa?"
Sure"
And you pretend to know where
he'd been?"
81 guess l do know"--and Toye
sighed as he raised his little book
"Cazalet stepped on the train that left
Naples six-fifty Monday evening, and
off the one timed to reach Charina
Cross three-twenty-tive Wednesday,"
"The day of the m"
Eyes. l never called it by the hard
est name, myself; but it was seven
thirty Wednesday evening that Henry
Craven got his death-blow somehow
Well, Walter Cazalet left Charing
Cross again by the nine o'clock that
night, and was back aboard the Kaiser
Fritz on Friday morning-full of his
friends in Rome who didn't exist!
The, notebook was put away with
every symptom of relief.
Il suppose you can prove what you
say?" said Blanche in a voice as duh
as her unseeing eyes.
az have men to swear to him--tick.
et-collectors, conductors, walters on
the restaurant-car-all up and down
the line. l went over the same
ground on the same trains, so that
was simple. | can also produce the
barber who claims to have taken of
, in, ara h.,r hn in
hours Thursday morning"
Blanche looked up suddenly, not at
Toye, but past him toward an over
laden side-table against the wall. 1t
was there that Cazalet's photograph
had stood among many others; until
this morning she had never missed it,
for she seemed hardly to have been
in her room all the week; but she had
been wondering who had removed it,
whether Cazalet himself (who had
spoken of doing so, she now knew
Why, or Martha ("hom she would not
question about it, in fit of ungov-
ernable disapprovai. And now there
was the photograph back in its place,
leather frame and all!
81 know what you did" said
Blanche. You took that photograph
with you-the one on that table-and
had him identified by it,"
1T was the night l came down to
bid you good-by," he confessed, and
didn't have time to wait. | didn't
come down for the photo. l never
thought of it till | saw it there. l
came down to kind of warn YOU Miss
Blanche!"
Against him." she said, as if there
was only one man left in the world
"Yes-I guess I'd already warned
Cazalet that l was starting on his
tracks"
And then Blanche just said, Poor
old-Sweep!" as one talking to her
self And Toye seized upon the words |
as she had seized on nothing from
him.
Have you only pity for the fellow"
he cried; for she was gazing at the |
earded nhotopraph without reVul- |