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But he only shrugged his great shoulders. and repeating his entire ignorance as to the existence or whereabouts of any will, he rose and numbered of.
 Well" Dobbins said, 1t begins to look serious. Can we get hold of the other witness. .Mrs. Raynor?" T don't know" Nan said, looking thoughtful rather than confounded. T can't understand 1t at all"
 CHAPTER VIII. The Secret Parcel Malcolm Finley was not at all pleased with the role in which he found himself cast. He was man of action, and he was obliged to keep quiet.
 Most of all, he was desperately in love with Nancy Raynor. and was not allowed'to tell her so.
 Your time will come," Goddard told him. If your love for her is the real thing. and if she recipro- cates, no harm can come of waiting until right and proper time to tell her of 1t. It would be unwise as we'll as untimely to tell her now and too, Finley, there's big mys- tery to be solved by somebody. Be- tween you and me, don't think much Of that detective"
 But for that reason he's a good one to have on the case. He gets nowhere. he befogs all the issues"
 And is that a good thing?"
 Tt most certainly is-for all con- cerned."
 Finley went off and Goddard unused over what he had said.
 Ezra Goddard carried a heavy heart. He felt that there was no solution to the mystery of the shoot ing. but to ascribe 1t either to Nan or Malcolm and he couldn't bear to think it was either of those. More- over, Nan had confessed to the own ership of the book on poisons, she he'd been seen secretly slipping tab lets into her husbands teacup--what theeory was there except the guilt of one or 10th?
 Just now, matters seemed to be temporarily held up because of the absence of the will which Nan de- clared existed.
 If this could be found and Nan inherited the estate, things would be quite different from the event of Lionel Rayner owning the place.
 Goddard didn't like young Raynor didn't like him at all.
 Yet his opinions made small diff ference if the will Lionel possessed was the only one extant. For it was In every way. Goddard knew, a true and legal document-the only question being whether there had been a later one--or whether--this just occurred to Goddard, whether Douglas Raynor in a 1t of anger had destroyed the will he had made in Mans favor.
 Goddard longed to send to New York for famous detective he knew of. but. somehow he feared the things such detective might dis cover.
 On the theory of many people, Nancy Raynor and Malcolm Finley were glad to renew their old time friendship and 1t had quickly ripen- ed into love.
 Both were of intense and passion ate temperament He could not deny the possibility that, goaded beyond endurance by her husbands cruelty and longing for the love and peace of Finley's protection. Nancy had let herself be driven to the point of poisoning the one that stood be- tween her and happiness.
 Also, it could be, that Finley, ut- terly exasperated at Raynor's petty cruelties to the woman he loved, had shot him down.
 While he was pacing the east veranda and thinking these things over Malcolm Finley had at last found Nan alone.
 Yet when he chanced to see her alone, on the west terrace, half hid den in the shadows of great wis.,