Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-11

Office? Only Cayley. And If Cayley
had been hiding the truth about the
keys, why should he not be hiding
the truth about Marks entity into
the Office? Obviously all Cayley's
evidence went for nothing. Some OF
it no doubt was true; but he was
J giving it, both truth and ~falsehood,
, with a purpose. What the purpose
was Antony did not know as yet; to
| shield Mark, to shield himself, eve
to betray Mark-it might be any OF
these.
Elsie's evidence, however, seemed
to settle the point. Mark had gone
into the office to see his brother;
| Elsie had heard them both talking;
! and then Antony and Cayley had
found the body of Robert -. . ana
| the inspector was going to drag the
pond.
But certainly Elsie's evidence did
| not prove anything more than the
mere presence of Mark in the room.
ITS my turn now; you wait" That
was not an immediate threat; II
was a threat for the future. ii
| Mark had shot his brother imme-
| diately afterward it must have been
an accident, the result of a strug-
gle, say, provoked by that nasty
like tone of voice. Nobody would
| say "You wait" to a man who was
Just going to be shot. you wait
meant You wait, and see what's
| going to happen to you later on"
The conversation Elsie had over
| heard couldn't have meant murder.
| Anyway not murder of Robert by
Mark. -.
Its a funny business" thought
! Antony. 1.-The one obvious solution
is so easy and yet so wrong"
He found Bill in the hall and pro-
posed a stroll. Bill was only too
ready.
Where do you want to go?" he
asked.
Il don't mind much. Show me
1.-The park"
"Righto."
They walked out together.
WATSON, old man." said Antony,
Eas soon as they were away from the
| house. you really mustn't talk so
loudly indoors. There was a gen.
| tleman outside, just behind you all
the time"
"Oh, / say" said Bill, going pink.
I'm awfully sorry. So that's why
| you were talking such rot
1dTllH, ycls III aAs
I do feel rather bright this morning.
| We're going to have a busy day."
Are we really? What are we
| going to do?"
They're going to drag the pond
beg it's pardon, the lake." =,
"We're on the way to 1t now. II
you'd like to see it. What are they
dragging it for?"
mark"
ooh, rot" said Bill uneasily. He
was silent for a little, and then,
eagerly, II say, when are we going
to look for that passage?"
"We can't do very much wnlle
Cayley's in the house."
what about this afternoon when
they're dragging the pond? He's
| sure to be there"
Antony shook his head.
There's something I must do this
| afternoon" he said. "Of course we
might have time for BOTH"
HAS Cayley got to be out OF the
house for the other thing too?"
well, l think he ought to be-"
IT say, is it anything rather ex-
c.ting?"
IT don't know. 1t might be rather
| interesting. 1 daresay l could do 1t
at some other time. but l rather
| fancy it at 3 o'clock. somehow. I've
| been specially keeping it back for
then"
They had come to the pond -
| Marks Lakeland they walked silent
lv round it. When they had maze
| the circle, Antony sat down on the
| grass, and relit his pipe. Bill foi-
lowed his example. :,
"Well,. Mark isn't there" SAID
Antony.
mo" sain Bill. Eat least, I don't
quite see why you know he isn't"
ut isn't knowing it's guess
ing" said Antony rapidly. It's
much easier to shoot yourself tnan
to drown yourself, and II Mark a
wanted to shoot himself in the wa
ter, with some idea of not letting
1.-THE body be found, he'd have put Dig
stones in his pockets, ana the ohls
big stones are near the waters edee
and they would have left marks. n
thew haven't, and therefore he han
and-oh. bother h pond; that car
wait till this afternoon. BIZ, wnere
does the secret passage begin?"
"Well. that's what we've got II
find out, isn't it," -,
Eyes. You see, my idea is this
He explained his reason for think
ing that the secret of the passage
was concerned in some way with the
secret of Roberts death, and wen
on:
my theory is that Mark discov'
cred the passage about a year ago
the time when he began to get keen
on ~croauet. Well. then, when miss
Norris was going to dress-up, cay
lev gave it away. Probably he told
her that she could never get dowr
to the bowling green without being
discovered, and then perhaps showed
that he knew there was way II
which she could do 1t, and she
wormed the secret out of him some
how"
"But this was two or three oays
before Robert turned Up.
Exactly. 1 am not suggesting
that there was anything sinister
about the passage in the first place:
It was Just a little private bit OF
romance and adventure for Marx
three days ago. He didn't even know
that Robert was coming. But some
how the passage has been used since
In connection with Robert. Perhaps
Mark escaped that way; perhaps
he's hiding there now. n II So
then the only person who could give
him away was Miss Norris. And
she, Of course, would only do 1t In
nocentIy-not knowing that the
passage had anything to do with It.
$50 it was safer 10 have her ou'
of the way?"