Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-05

seat, his long legs stretched out in
| front of him. He appeared to be
watching the race of clouds between
the horizon and the zenith. He said
/ words away
Henry sat down again.
Look here. Tony" he said. you've
| not answered my question. Did you
tell any one? Damn 1t all, Tony, /
| wouldn't ask if didn't have to! Did
you ever tell Raymond"
A great gust swept the headland,
| another and more violent one fol-
lowed it, battered against the cliffs
and then dropped suddenly into what,
after the tumult, seemed like a ST.
lence.
Piggy speaking, or you?" said An
| thony Luttrell quite lightly.
Both" said Henry.
You sound heated, Henry. Now, I
should have thought that that would
have been my role. Instead, l merely
| repeat to you, and you in your turn,
of course, repeat to Piggy that l
have told no one about the passages,
and after you have admired my mod
GRAFTON perhaps we might change the
subject"
I'm afraid 1t can't be DONE" said
Henry. Tony, do you mind sitting
up and looking at thisT
AS he spoke he placed this on the
seat between them and turned light
| upon 1t, holding the torch close down
on to the seat so that the beam did
not travel beyond its edge. Mr.. Lut
trell turned lazily and saw small
handkerchief of very fine linen with
an embroidered RI in the corner.
He continued to look at it, and Henry
continued to hold the torch so that
the light fell upon the initial. Then
quite suddenly Anthony Luttrell
reached sideways and switched off the
light. His hand dropped to the hand
kerchief and covered it,
NO, / don't want it," said Henry
but L thought you ought to know
that l found IL in the passage behind
US just where one stoops to shift the
stone"
It's one 1 found and dropped" said
Anthony. putting it into his pocket.
Henry said nothing at all.
A somewhat prolonged silence was
broke en- by Luttrell.
I'm chucking my job here" he
said. I've written to Sir Julian.
Here's the letter for you to give him. F."
He pushed 1t along the seat as he
spoke and Henry picked 1t up re-
luctantly. I've asked to be replaced
with as little delay as possible. You
might urge that point on him, IL you
don't mind. I want 1t made perfectly
clear that under no circumstances
will stay on more than three days
| will, in fact, see the whole depart
ment damned first"
He spoke without the slightest
heat in the rather cold drawing
manner which Henry had known as
a danger signal from the days when
he was a small boy and Anthony a big
one and his idol.
Are you giving any reason?"
NO. There's no reason to give"
Piggy" said Henry thoughtfully
will want one. It's all very well
for you, Tony, to write him a letter
and say you're going to chuck your
job without giving a reason. I've got
to stand up at the other side of his
table and stick out a cross examina-
ton on the probable nature of the
reasons which you haven't given
You're putting me in an impossible
position"
ITS that damned conscience of
yours. I suppose I cannot tell a lie.
and all that sort of thing"
Not to Piggy about this"
All right" said Anthony, getting
to his feet, tell him the truth. Why
should l care? I suppose, in COM
mon with everybody else he is per-
fectly well aware that once made a
fool Of myself about Lady Heritage
Well, I thought I could stick being
down here and seeing her, but I can't
1t just comes to that can't stick"
Does she know you're here?'
NO, she doesn't. She sees me in
an overall and a mask. She has been
pleased to commend my skill This
afternoon she leaned over my shout
der to watch what / was doing. Well
l came away and wrote to Piggy l
can't stand it, and you can tell him so
with the utmost circumstance"
Henry was leaning forward, chin in
hand. He looked past Anthony at the
black, moving water.
why don't you see Raymond?' he
said NO, Tony, you've just got to
listen to me. What you've been say
ing is true as far as II goes, but it
doesn't go very far. You wouldn't
chuck your job just for that You
know and I know that you're chuck
ing 1t because you are afraid that
Raymond is involved. If you know
it and I know it, don't you think
Piggy will know 1t. too? That's why
| say see Raymond. If she's let her
self get mixed up with this show, it's
because she's had rotten time and
wants to hit back. She said as much
to me oh, not apropos of this, of
course; we were just talking"
Il heard her" said Anthony Lut-
trell. He paused and added with a
distinct sheer, You displayed an ad-
mirable discretion
Thank you, Tony. Now. what's
the good of you clearing out? If you
do, Piggy will send some one else
down here, and If Raymond has got
mixed up with any of Ember's dew
Try, she'll get caught out For the
Lords sake, Tony, see her; let her
know you're alive! I believe she'd
chuck the whole thing and go to the
ends of the earth with you. Nobody
would press the matter. We should
catch Ember out, and you and Ray
mond could go abroad for a bit. I
don't see any other way out of it."
You seem to me to be assuming a
good deal, Henry said Anthony Lut-
trell.
I'm not assuming anything {"
Henry's tone was very blunt. 'I
know three things"
"Yes?"
"One"-Henry licked his facts off
on the fingers of his left hand-"tbe
passages are being used; two, they've
been wired for electric light; three.
Raymond has been through them, and
quite lately. Those three facts, taken
IN conjunction with deposition stat
ing that something of highly dan
gerous and anti-social nature Is be-
ing manufactured on these premises
and under cover Of the government
Speriments-well, Tony, 1 don't sun
pose you want me to dot the i's' and
cross the rs"
1T never occurred to you that nv
father might have had the place
wired, I suppose?"
He didn't" said Henry. IT'S no
good, Tony. You can't bluff me. and
hate your trying to. There's only
see Raymond"