New Britain herald., 1929-09-30
Chapter A
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 thought wo thought it was lone man. had just discovered the abbey treasures Whon I.aXton's voice frightened thom. They stuffed the .wols in'o bag and fled.
 Ecdsla5o continued:
 You sor, Fothcrhury was trying 1)l the timo 10 c~ozs Poll, but Pou crossed him. PeU's attack here in tl" library was tho last straw, Pell and warc going to confront him with the whole story, make him eat humble pie We were comparative 'y rich. w. meant 10 clear him ont and rcc0vo~ NaWpIacc at our own terms, We had him between the rjncers, and We didn't reckon with NjoIcnce----'
 'N-et." said l. it seemed to mo. rclI wasn't easy in his mind Don't Eou ihiaf h. had some inklins Of the risk Of yiolcncr@"
 "Ah. yes -- certainly, He kncv his Fothcrbury and ho knew his Marlnc. That was why Fell in- sisted on keeping Newr,acc right in tho Gmelight. But now it was all over and he thorght hH had Eothorlury truSsed. We didn't think Hlolrnco was possible in the pres oncn of all those people Who would have thought it possihlo?"
 "Aud evon now," said I. fit beats mo. Cant see how it was doMo-----'' That's because you aren't cb- servant" said LaXto". "rothrrbury shot Pcll and ran tn" risk of hav- ing to shoot hims"f rather than faoa what was coming. Nou didn't soo him because you weren't look jN@ Nou wc~n aU staring at DeU." "nut he vas oNamjncd like inc rest: TO s;,n."
 lilo Was standing hy tho fireplace. waen't he? And you were all in front of him except Marlinc That's why yo0 saw nothing, But I'm con- yiMncd that MarlinG saw it."
 And then I recalled rh" awful look in MarHne's corpso-Hke face during that ordaL
 "lt's worry simple" I.aNtcN went on. After Fothcrbury had cried out his horror of the deed and Eastlov he'd examined the body, he did what I'll do now"
 .a>ton got up and walked to the taI"fhone by the fireplace.
 He called Wayne. Then he just slipped hack the catch Of the little do~i, hero and raised it.
 We strained CUT cy,s to watch I.ayton. He closed the roYor of the telephone desk and held up little revolver
 "I found it tho day before ycstcr- day Why he didn't remove it SO crot'y I can't say; partly fear and partly feeling that ii was In" safest hiding place."
 That old man! - so venerable. win his grand air--''
 My dear Mir. Grenofon," said Ia&'on. there's nothing in the world can be so doccntivc as a ven "rablo appearance! He didn't take mo in for long. I deceived him much longer Fothcrbury believed until this very night that I was a professor of archoology, don't believe Mir. Rod@IaGo himself even now fully realizes how this dirty Usurrr did him in, What vas the mortgage debt that smithns claarcd?"
 Just over flo,ooo," said Red sladc.
 And they let you have inc same sum. Fothcrhury. being Smifhins. raid exactly f2o.ooo for the whole thing-and suppose it's worth five times that at least. When that was evident I knew who'd killed Polt or had him killed. Put how? I traced every movement of every man, Tho man who dictated every movement was Fothcrbury. I walked about between the door and the chimney corner trying for some dodge to rid myself of an imaginary phone receiver just as Fothcrhury had done My own back would hyre hidden me from everybody in in" room except the man by my side. Hut still there vas no hiding placo in vicw-tiil my right hand naturally fell on the little desk cover and it moved -"
 By love-" said l. "Marinc, It struck my nerves horribly at that moment. Marling dropped his apoctaclc-caYc with clattcr on the stones while Fotherbury stood at the telephone. He must have ScCn---"
 "Narline had nerves. too," said I.aXton. "Old Fotherbury had none"
 We all looked at Redsadc. his dark eyes gazing through us.
 'Ths ought 10 be the harpicst day of my lire,' said he, "rut I've lost P"ll. Rather than lose poll I'd have stayed in that awful prison another five years. Pc!l- h" was the perfect friend, No mar could he worthy of P2ll. -
 Redslade fell silent When ] looked up his head had sunk 10 the table on his folded arms.
 By the end of October the won- dcrful thing had happened to me I was sitting on the terrace of the Monte Hotel 2 00O feet above the town of Fmchal. looking dowr upon sea than which nothing ir the world was bluer-cxc,rt the eyes of Mrs. Tom Grcnofcn. who sat hcgido mo. "" discussed a let ter from Somcrficld.