Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-14
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nat,
THAT it was Cayley's idea to drag
the pond"
"Oh! Oh, I say!" Bill was rather
excited again. you mean that he's
hidden something there? Some false
clue which he wants the police to
find ?"
81 hope so,'' said Antony earnest
| ly, but I'm afraid" He stopped
short.
"Well?"
whats the safest place in which
to hide anything very Important"
Somewhere where nobody will
look"
"There's a better place than
that"
"What?"
Somewhere where everybody has
already looked"
by Jove! You meal that as soon
as the pond has been dragged Cay
ley will hide something there?"
Yes, I'm afraid So"
"But why afraid?"
Because 1 think that it must be
something very important, some
thing which couldn't easily be hid
den anywhere else"
"What?" asked Bill eagerly.
Antony shook his head.
mo, I'm not going to talk about
1t yet. We wait and see what
something that Cayley has put there
for him to find. But If he doesn't,
then it will be because Cayley is
going to hide something there to-
night"
"What?" asked Bill again.
"You will see what, BILL" said
Antony; because we shall be there"
Are we going to watch him?"
Eyes, IL the inspector finds moth
ing"
That's good" said Bill.
If 1t were a question of Cayley or
the law, he was quite decided as to
which side he was taking. Previous
to the tragedy OF yesterday he had
got on well enough with both OF
the cousins, without being in the
least intimate with either.
Yet, though he had hesitated to
| define his position that morning in
regard to Mark, he did not hesitate
| to place himself on the side OF the
law against Cayley. Mark. after all.
| had done him no harm, but Cayley
| had committed an unforgivable Of
fence. Cayley had listened secretly
to a private conversation between
himself and Tony. Let Cayley hang,
IL the law demanded 1t.
Antony looked at his watch and
stood up.
Come along" he said. "It's time
for that job / spoke about"
THE passage?" said Bill eagerly.
mo: the thing which I said that !
had to do this afternoon"
Without saying anything, Antony
led the way indoors to the Office.
1t was three o'clock, and at thre:
o'clock yesterday Antony and CayleS
had found the body. At a few min
utes after three he had been looking
out of the window of the adjoining
room, and had been surprised sud
denly to find the door open and Cay
ley behind him. He had vaguel,
wondered at the time why he had
expected the door to be shut, but he
had no time then to worry the thing
out, and he had promised himself
to look into it at his leisure after.
ward. He had decided that three
o'clock that afternoon should find
him once more in the office.
AS he went into the room, follow
ed by Bill, he felt 1t almost as a
shock that there was now no body
OF Robert lying there between the
two doors. But there was a dark
stain which showed where the dead
mans head had been. and Antony
knelt down over it, as he had knelt
twenty-four hours before.
II want to go through 1t again"
he said. "You must be Cayley. Cay
ley said he would get some water
Now then. Bill. just pretend you're
Cayley. You've just said something
about water, and you get up"
Feeling that it was all q little un-
canny, Bill, who had been kneelins
beside his friend. got up and walked
out. Antony, as he had done on the
previous day, looked up after him
as he went. Bill turned into the
room on the right. and came back
"Well?" he said wonderingly.
Antony shook his head.
"It's all different" he said. For
one thing, you made . devil OF a
noise in there and Cayley didn't"
Perhaps you weren't listenita
when Cayley went in?"
II wasn't. But I should have
heard him IL I could nave heard
him, and I should have remembered
Perhaps cayley shut the doc,
after him."
WATT"
He pressed his hand over his eye,
and thought. It wasn't anything
which he had heard, but something
which he had SEEN. He tried des'
perately hard to see 1t again. .
He saw Cayley getting up, opening
the door from the Office. leaving !
open and walking into the passage
turning to the door on the right
opening it. going in. and then
What did his eyes see after that? i
they would only tell him again!
Suddenly he jumped up, his fac,
alight. "Bill. I've got it," he cried
"What?"
"The shadow on the wall, I wa
looking at the shadow on the wall
Oh, ass, and ten times asst"
Bill looked uncomprehendingly a
him. Antony took his arm AM
pointed to the wall OF the passage.
LOOK at the sunlight or It," hi
said. That's because you've lef
the door of that room open. Tit
sun comes straight in through thu
windows. Now. I'm going to shu'
the door. Look! D'you see how thu
shadow move across? That's wha
1 saw-the shadow moving across
as the door shut behind him. Bill
go in and shut the door behind yoi
quite naturally. Quick!"
Bill went out and Antony knelt
watching eagerly.
II thought SOL" he cried. Il knew
it couldn't have been that"
What happened? 2" said Bill, com
ing back.
"Just what you would expect. Til,
moved back again-all In move
ment."
And what happened yesterday
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