The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-02

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 Leonard had put the matter in z
 nutshell. Only why didn't he crack
 the nut-why any hesitation about leaving Jervis to drown? He fell cutie unable to credit Leonard with a qualm of conscience.
 "Rosamund has an objection, 5aid Leonard regretfully. Jervis threw up his head and laughed.
 Not really? May ask why?"
 Sentiment" said Leonard.
 "Rosamund?" x
 You wouldn't suspect her of it. But that's how 1t is with a wo- man-you never know where you are-and it's lucky for you. If you ask me, I should say a hundred fifty thousand is letting you off dirt cheap You'd better close before a raise it."
 There was pause. Then Jer- wis laughed again.
 "In case you're forgetting it, this is the twentieth century. One does not just disappear and no notice taken"
 Who's going to disappear?" said Leonard. You either pay up and explain your absence any way you like, or else"
 "Yes-"
 Or else you're washed ashore somewhere along the coast-and there has been another unfortu- nate swimming fatality. RoSamund will remember your having cramps once or twice this summer, when you were bathing together"
 Jervis said things. They may or may net have got through Robert Leonard's skin, they certainly re- lieved Jervis. Leonard's voice did not sound as if he had been touched. He said;
 None of that business! We're to be talking business.
 DO you think I carry 150 thou sand dollars in my pockets?"
 ''No-and don't expect to cash 3 check across the counter either. Rosamund says she's never known you to go back on your word in ,our life, and shes prepared to go oail that you'll ante up and hold 5our tongue. So you see that makes the whole thing perfectly ,imple.
 You give your word-I drive you ver to the junction-you put up my story you like to account for our absence-and not later than tomorrow you buzz up to town nd tell old Page you've decided 0 settle 150 thousand on Rosa aund. It's as easy as falling off l
 log"
 Jervis leaned against the rock. 1 Ie was thinking hard. It had been I his mind that when the tide ose he could hold on to the iron ars which divided the inner and uterI caves. If the bars didn't reach to the oof he might get over when the | 'ater was high enough; and once the outer cave, he would have |
 pretty good chance of getting | way when the tide went down. ! He could float for hours in this arm water with the bars to hold | n to. He reckoned that the wa 1T would be up to his waist in | mother half hour or so. He might l ave to hold on for five or six ours. Well, he ought to be able | , do that.
 Thinking it over?" said Robert | eonard. You've not got too much me. Better speed up the think lg machine. He plcked up the torch again | nd sent the beam glittering down pon the pool. There wasn't a i ool any longer. There was one mooth blackness of water-and ne edge of it was level with the ock on which Jervis stood.
 The light shifted and showed i'm smooth blackness everywhere. came back again and rested | pon the edge of the rock a yard | way from his feet. It showed | 1e water and the rock in a silver Ing, the water lifted very gently nd flowed over the rock. The cam swung upwards, and the torch as set down again.
 The light had never touched the ars. Did they come up to the ,of-or didn't they?
 Well. are you going to come to srms," said Robert Leonard.
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