New Britain herald., 1929-09-21
PEIL,S TRAIL

 totherbury discoveries,
 Chapter 3t PELLS TRAIL T eyed Laxton speculatively while gomerfield fired questions at him. If he had heard of Pcll before the tragedy he must have made in uuiries. But LaXton would go no further. He never stated theories til they worked.
 -"Didn't you say yourself" he said To me, that until we uncarth Pell'5 past we shall never know how or why Pell was killed?"
 ~-"You see, Grenofen?-he's got the idea" cried Somerfeld ha"What idea" LaxtOn asked. I've worried it ont" said l, that iy Peu was shot through the key hole he couldn't hav" r'r' '''- : at."
 ,-."Ah." said Laxton, sitting up, You saw th1,? 2"
 And that if he wasn't aimed a,. It accounted for the seemingly in- applicable fact that the ghost Pell vas going to produce so proudly to Seabroke and Marling and the rest shot Pell himself" a,"Ah"' said I.axton again. That is, if the shot was fired by Pells ghost"
 .@s"By the man who knocked you out, at any rate.'
 Jn, to1 n Q way of a shot it must have been meant for somebody else. That the ideao" asked LaXton.
 "Yes. Somorfield worked out the positions. A shot fired through the keyhole could only have hit Mar ling"
 ,sLaxton sat bolt upright with his hands on the chairarms for q full minute, looking intcntly in front Of him.
 "Marling,' he repeated. 'Thats light--if you're right We add on" to the people concerned in Pell'S past"
 .a.'But you knew Marling was ac- auainted with Pen's past" said l. ,a "Ye-es." LaHton looked sp"cuIa- lively at me. T knew just what wayne told me and you told him about Pen denouncinS Marlins a' the moment of his dcath.' ,@"Oh," said l, there was little more than that" And I related what Marling had sad about Pe' having been in prison.
 ,The effect on LaXton was "X- traordinary. He jumped to his feet. "The dam scoundrel," he cried. I'a "Who-Pen?" said Somerfl"ld, "No-Marling, Don't talk for q second. Let me think"
 .eLaxton paced the room, looking from one to the other Of us with sharp excitement.
 "Does anybody know how Mar ling came 10 Biackwater?' he asked.
 e- somerfield said he had heard tha, Totherbury brought him down as chaplain when he opened up New place and restored the church.
 Was it shut up when Fothcrbmy bought"
 Yes" said SomerlieId. 'Tho last Fedslade was so poor he couIdn'' live in it. When he was at hIarN- water - which wasn't often -- h' lived in Gronofen's house, at Wood cot. Then he sold inc whole thinl just before he begged out.' "Marling - Fotherbury -- P,Il, Laxton recitrd. s,ridu2 ur and down again He pulled up in front ei me.
 "Whatu you bet Marlm2's not a padre at all? lies not in the regis. try, but I put nothing on that til nov. MarlinG - Foth.rbu} rol
 and one other Three years ago. + sua2"-t- uo'hIu, to you2 You tno have boon quin candid"
 His loo, fitted b"'%r.a N~.
 "Yo~." sa.d Som.r..l. "bat yo. haven't Tou made mystery O Pell, lnt + a~-ms yu4 Imo~ aI about him. ros tnsla"r". snat he, been in prison"
 NO" I.a%ton "sc.ajm.l "I anro nothing certain. | surmy,|
 Suddenly recalled Mar.u@'s las visit 10 warn rIc against Ia>'on.
 Did Marlin& know >ou Ir missed s' l atkrI
 How can '~U how muun h gucsseGr r. looks a2 ir h, ma have doubIn-orossod cr.ryDody."
 Then told hlrl how NarlJnr ha given me the informapnu about m possible arrest, thought IaNro would have exploded.
 That settles i',' h. rrJ,J "%o Y you two win help. g" shall ha. Marlng like thle'.-hc -4lonzrd uI thumb on the bach Of q chair-'an thcrcl bc no moro ngHnr. abou Pell. Are you on
 We nodded
 "Bu'." said S2mcrj.iI 10 ci"a everything up. "e ought 70 tnI 70 Ye saw you shado"tne .tise Van dencsscn acrcrs the Scuor.." "Ah. You tHot" got afarp oFr And no doubt you SAW sh' "asu elone. Did you happen 10 ano" n man ?"
 .sg E 0, said ]. II" "I+ "2Ihlh away from us, We couldn't s'r hi face"
 @ I.a@ton's eyes penetrated me as spole,
 a. "Ah yell, leave that" said h. "Now, 90 long as you dont con promise ,Iiss Scabrok". gre yo wiling to join up in 4 real scare for the murder Of pcli"'
 We were.
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