Evening star., 1924-03-12
from Yesterdays Starr
CHAPTER TX.
The Shaving Pot.

Inc SHAVING fOts
The barrister led the way into the
open village street, and turned up It
in the direction Of the gates of Lynne
Court. He was evidently in deep
thought, and neither OF his compan-
til he suddenly swung his small figure
round to them
"Hextall" he said. 1.-The first thing
we must do is to get on a proper
oSsing mSs Surely Sy as ba sebese ems We w
walk up to the house. You must see
him and tell him that learning of
this, and being concerned Tor ms
sisters health, you hurried down ana
brought a friend with you who may
be of use. In the meantime, you
Styler-but come here and III give
you your Instructions"
He took the clerk aside and hello
brief consultation with him, at the
end of which Styler turned back to
the inn. Smith rejoined HeXtall; To-
gether the two walked quickly up 10
Lynne Court through the pine wooos.
Darrell Tress came hurrylng ;tb 1u, sin. n..
ing him up, quickly muttered an
aside to his companion. ;,
This chap is easy to read, ne
said. Weak good natured YER
easily led-naturally, utterly depend,
ent on somebody else. He's as pleased
as punch to see us; he knows we
shall take responsibility off his Shout
ders. I know this type of yoGnsster
and 1 should say that the finest thing
that ever happened in his career WaS
when somebody put that pulie'
through kesteven this morning hex
tall, we must try to pull this fellow
round and make him decent mem-
Der of society. or
Darrelrs pleasure and relief at
sight of Hextall were obvious enough.
,xytf
essary warmth, welcoming him as a
man who has been shipwrecked might
welcome reScuer. ,,
"Oh, 1 say, I'm awfully obliged TO
you for coming, DOCTOR. ne purst out !,
without ceremony, and evidently
quite ignorant as to what means mad
been taken to bring Hextali tnere.
ITS such a relief to have somebody
here-Tve sent for my solicitor ano
told him to bring detective bns
course, the local police are on the
This is my friend, Mr.. John Smith,
of the Middle Temple, said Hextaii' >
draw wing Smith forward. MT. Smltn
is interested in matters OF TINS sorl'
and he may be useful to you.
Darrell shook hands with Smith IN
the same effusive fashion.
IT'S tremendously good of you" he
protested. I'm no end obliged. OF
course, we're all at SKIES and seVens
here, but the police have already cir
culated reports about that chap TICK
ell, So
You think that Tickell shot Kest-
even?' interrupted Smith.
why. certainly ! do" answered
scarcely anything about Tickell-he's
only a chap that Id seen on race
duced him-and sometimes he'd been
at my fiat, playing cards. I'm afraid
I've been an awful ass, don't you
know, about that sort of thing, but
this has given me shock. BY gao
and I'll chuck it. l will indeed, by gad.
And, say, I've not told the police yet,
but do you know, kesteven had lot
of money on him last nfght-piles.-
and they tell me that when they
searched him this morning his pockets
were empty, by George-empty! You
see. Hextall, we'd been over to Bou-
logne for a day or two, Kesteven and
1, and we had a most tremendous run
of luck-extraordinar we
brought a. lot of money back with
US. and Kesteven, last night. had ooth
there'd be five or six thousand pounds
in banknotes. French and English.
And we picked up Tickell at Brighton,
where we stopped TO dine, ano ne
came on with us here, and, by george!
for that coin, I'll swear he did! But
he can't have got very far, can he?
and surely somebodyIl lay hands on
him-and won't you come and see the
place where he shot him, by George!
the mean hound!'
HextaIl left Smith to accompany
the young master of Lynne Court and
went into the house and straight to
Pauuita's room. Outside there he mel
. Nurse Palliser.
taking her aside.
Nothing, SIR" she answered read.
ily. Miss Tress had a very gooo
night, and she's very well this morn
ing. OF course, she never knew any
thing about this AFFAIR until we to.c ,
she seems in quite good spirits now
Hextail heard this with immense
! relief. and he fingered a moment.
Did you hear anything of this
business?" he asked. ANY shot, fol
instance"
| xery quiet night. Miss Tress was
disturbed when she heard that the
three gentlemen had come, but shf
auieted down when Fowler told hel
that Mr.. TreSS was SOUND asleep IN
he'd. Nurse Hicks slept in the little
drawing room next to Miss Tress, and
she says they had a particularly gooc
nieht-Miss Tress slept right through
That's good" said Hextall. Il shall
own rooms today; she mustn't &c
down stairs at all. See to that:
Then he went into Paquita's sitting
room-to find her at an open "lnoo"
stitching busily at some fancy work
She sprang up with a gao cry as ne
him. and HextalI could not forbeal
holding her hand rather longer thar
was professionally necessary.
Here alreadyw she exclaimed. Bu'
have only just wired to YOU:
81 heard the news first thing thi:
| morning and came at once" said Hex:
; tall, taking her back to her chair. :
was afraid-for you.
/, and shook her head.
Il don't quite know What
think: she said thoughtfully. Il cam
truthfuliy say I'm sorry. L suppos'
! ] am. in one way, poor man; But
was it very wrong? When they tolt
! me that he was dead, II felt such
tremendous sense Of relief. You don
know-not even you, though I've toie
YOU so much-what nightmare tha
| man has been. 1 know he was liter
| ally running Darrell. body ana soui
! And Darrell's been in here this morn
| ing. and he's fearfully repentant abou
!. everything. and he says It's givel
he's sworn faithfully that he'll reform
and be-oh, ever so good-and you'll
F.. tell me how to ,help, won't you? sh'
, wound up, with a look OF appeal tina
| that made Hextall more in love will
! her than ever. I'm sure he means i
this time"
! "Tll help" said Hextall. There
| the chief obstacle gone, anyway"
yes" she answered: Tit seem
| almost providential, doesn't 1t? d.
! Tn,I remember what 1 said to yo,
| when l came to your house tina
! night?-that I'd more than once fel
| that I could shoot him? Well. isn't i
!; strange?-last night dreamt that
! did shoot him-someWhere IN Woo
1t was all confused and queer-bu
recollect vividly that I did shoe