The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-08-18
Ios.ssr,ued From our Last issue)

saieed this answer coming and had
drawn back from It. For, II Mark
had been killed. 1t seemed such8a
sGoId .b1oodeda Killing. Was Cayley
equal to ait?
sBiI would have said mo" be.
scause @Bil1 wouldn't have killed
sanybody in cold blood himself, and
because he took it for. granted that
sother people behaved pretty much
zass he did But Antony had no such
Murders were done;
smurder had actually been done
there. for there was Roberts dead
body Why7not another murder?
Had Mark been in the office at
ssall that afternoon? The only evil
#dence (other than Cayley's, which
OBVIOUSLY did not county was
Elsiess. Elsie was quite certain
that she had heard his voice. But
then Bill had said that it was a
very Characteristic voice-an easy
voice, therefore. to initiate. If Bill
acou1d initiate it so successfully,
why pot Cayley?
sButSperhaps 1t had not been
such aco1d-b1ooded killing, after
aH. Suppose Cayley had had a
quarrel with his cousin that aft
sernoon over the girl whom they
were both wooing. Suppose Cay
ley had killed Mark, either pur-
s;pose1y, In sudden passion, or ac-
Scfde ntal1y, meaning only to knock
him down Suppose that this had
sShappened in the passage, say
ley there, with the body at his
fleet, feeling already the rope
round his neck: his mind darting
this way and that in frantic
search fora way to escape; and
suppose that suddenly and ire
@leYant lys he remembers that Robert
sis coming to- the house at three
O'Clock that afternoon - auto
8matica11y. he looks at his watch
In half an hours time
ANTONY pictured to himself Cay
sleysain the passage, standing over
the dead body of, his cousin, and
sbe mad g to seem the murderer,
Il ifsRobert were alive to deny it?
But suppose Rober twere dead.
too
He looks at his watch again.
Only twenty-five minutes now.)
s8Suppose Robert were dead, too?
ssRobert dead in the office and
lark dead in the passage-how
docs that help? Madness! But
sssif the bodies were brought to-
sSgethera somehow-..-----And Roberts
death looked like suicide?-------
ssYYasEit it possible?
NJ adness again. Too difficult
stOnly$ twenty minutes now) Too
to arrange in twenty
minutes. Can't arrange a suicide.
9Too Only nineteen
S4min utes.---.-.
ssAnd then the sudden inspira-
ltioni Robert dead in the office,
MARKS body hidden in the passage
to make Robert seem
5;the murderer, but how easy to
make Mark! Robert dead and
MARK missing; why. itjumped to
sfthe eye at once. Mark had killed
Robert accidentally; yes. that
swonld be more likely-and then
sahadsrun away Sudden panic.
fHe looks at his watch again.
sFIfteen minutes. but plenty of
SsssIne now. The thing arranges
was that the solution. Antony
swondered. 1t seemed to fit in
with the fact as they know them;
ssbut then, so did that other theory
1.-THE morning.
3sE;ss;astsWyhich one2'' said Bill.
They were sitting in the corpse
isabout the pound, from which the
gInspector and his fishermen had
now with drawn. Bill had listened
with open mouth to. Antony's the
cory; and save for an occasional by
sJoye! had listened in silence,
ISM art Man, Cayley,' had been his
only comment at the end.
Ssf9 (which other theory"
.sThat Mark had killed Robert ac-
and had gone to Cayley
for help, and that Cayley having
hidden him in the passage, locked
the office -door from the outside,
Sand hammered on it,
yes, but you were so dashed
sSmysterfaus about that. asked you
what the point of it was, and you
sSWou1dn't say anything" He thought
for a little, and then went on, 81
suppose you meant that Cayley de-
n Hberately betrayed Mark, and tried
NtoEmake him look like murderer
ssss..I wanted to warn you that we
sishould probably find Mark in the
massage. alive or dead"
And 4nowyou don't think so 2"
.NowI think that his dead body
lis there.
~ NJ leaning that Cayley went
down and killed him afterward-
after you had come, after the po-
8liceI had come ?''
that's what shrink from
sBil1s It's so horribly cold bloodeu.
aEayley may be capable Of it. but
Az hate to think Of it,"
But dash it all, your other way
i iscold-blooded enough. According
stoSyou. he goes up to the office
Sand deliberately shoots a man
with whom he has no quarrel,
Whom he hasn't seen for fifteen
years!
eBut, but to save his own neck.
THAT makes a. difference. And Il
think that Marks dead body is in
the passage, now and has been
there sinceSsay, half-past two yes
afternoon. And tonight
SGayIeya IS going to hide it in the