New Britain herald., 1922-08-14

Didn't you hear what he said ?"
 What particularly
 That it was Cayley's idea to dra, the pond
 f'"Oh, Oh, say,' Bill was rathe excited again, <~You mean that he'i hidden something there? Some fals, clue which he wants the police, tc hnd7"
 ''I hope so." said Antony earnestly 'but I'm afraid" He stoppse short
 < "Well-"
 Whats the safest place in which to hide anything very important"
 Somewhere where nobody vii look"
 There's better place than that"
 What"
 Somewhere where everybody ha. already looked
 By love. You mean that as soor as the pond has been dragged, Gayle, will hide something there?"
 Yes, I'm afraid so"
 But why afraid9"
 Because think that it must bt something very important, something which couldn't easily be hidden any where else"
 "What?" asked Bill eagerly.
 Antony shook his head.
 No I'm not going to talk about i yet. We can wait and see what tho inspector finds He may find some thing that Cayley has put there fol him to find. But if he doesn't, ther 1t will. be because Cayley is going tc hide something there tonight"
 What? asked Bill again.
 You will see what, Billg said An. tony; because we shall be there"
 Are we going to watch him ?"
 Yes if the inspector finds nothing
 That's good" said Bill
 If it were a question of Cayley o, the law he was quite decided as tc which side he was taking. Previou, to the tragedy of yesterday he had rot on well enough with both of the cousins. without being in the least in. innate with either
 Yet, though he had hesitated to defne his position that morning in re- gard to Mark, he did not hesitate to place himself on the side of the law Y. against Cayley. Mark after all. had 
 committed an unforgivable offense. Cayley had listened secretly to a pri- vate conversation between himself and Tony. Let Cayley hang. if the law demanded it.
 Antony looked at his watch and stood up.
 Come along he said. :It's time for that job I spoke about
 The passage ?" said Bill eagerly.
 No; the thing which I said that had to do this afternoon"
 Without saying anything, Antony led the way indoors to the office.
 It was three o'clock. and at three o'clock yesterday Antony and Cayley had found the body. At few minutes after three, he had been look ing out of the window of the adjoin- ing room, and had been surprised sud- denly to find the door open and Cay ley behind him He had vaguely 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 afterward. Ee had decided that three o'clock that afternoon should find him once more inathe office.
 As he went into the room, followed by .Birl he felt it almost shock that there was now no body of Robert lying there between the two doors But there was dark stain which showed where the dead mans head had been. and Antony knelt down over it, as he had knelt twenty-four
 T want to go through it again" he.said. You must be Cayley. Cay icy 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 1t was all a little un- cAnny. Bill, who had been kneeling 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
 its all different" he said For one thing, you made a devil of a noise in there and Cayley didn't Perhaps yau weren't listening when Cayley went in?"
 "1 wasn't. But I should have heard him, and I should have remem- bered afterword"
 -. ."P.e.rhap1Gayey shut the door after
 He pressed his hand over his eyes and thought. It wasn't anything which he had heard but something reratefy hard to see it again. He saw Cayiey getting up, opening the door from the office. leaving it open and walking into the passage, turning to the door on the right, opening it, going in, and then-What did his his eyes see after that? If they would only tell him again. { Suddenly he jumped up, his face .alight Bill, I've got it!" he cried. : What"
 '"The shadow on the wall l was looking at the shadow on the wall. Oh, ass, and ten times ass." Bill looked uncomprehendingly at him. Antony took his arm and pointed to the wall of the passage
 took at the sunlight on it." he said That's because you've left the door of that room open. The sun comes straight in through the win dows Now, I'm going to shut the door. Look. D'you see how the shadow moves across? That's what I saW-tlie shadow moving across as the door shut behind him. Bill go in and shut the door behind you