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Woman
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ERNEST W. HORNUNG
Author of
'The Amateur Cracksman,'
"Raffles,"etc.
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C azalet, on tho steam er K aiser Frits,
hom ew ard bound fro m Australia, cries
out In his sleep that Henry Craven, who
ten years before had ruined his >a*5,e,r
and him self. Is dead, and finds that H il
ton T oye, who shares the stateroom with
him, knows Craven and also Blanche
Macnalr, a form er neighbor and p lay
mate.
When the dally papers come
aboard at Southampton T oy e reuds that
Craven has been murdored and calls
C a selet’e dream second sight. H e thinks
o f doing a llttie am ateur detective w ork
on the case himself. In the train to tow n
they discuss the murder, which was com
mitted at Cazalet's old home. T o y e hears
from Cazalet that Bcruton, who had been
Cuzalet’s friend and the scapegoat for
Craven's dishonesty, has been released
fio m prison.
C a zalet goes down the
river and meets Blanche.
T o y e also
comes to see her and tells C azalet that
Bcruton has been arrested, but as hs
doesn't believe the old clerk Is gu ilty he
is going to fe rre t out the m urderer.
Cazalet and Blanche go to C a zalet's old
home and meet Mr. D rlnkw ater o f S cot
land Vard. C azalet goes with D rln k w a
ter to the lib rary where the m urder was
com m itted, shows him a secret passage
he knew as a boy, and leads the way
through It. In town T oye, ta lk in g with
t azalet about the murder, suggests finger
prints on the weapon found In the secret
passage as a means o f trapping the m ur
derer and succeeds in securing a print of
C a zalet’s hand.
CHAPTER
V III—Continued.
every Inch like a rat In a trap, you
see; and there it was as I'd left It
twenty /ears before."
«W ell, it's a wonderful ya rn !" ex
claimed Hilton Toye. and be lighted
the cigar that Cazalet had given him.
"I think It may be thought one If
the police ever own how they made
their find,” agreed Cazalet, laughing
and looking at bis watch. Toye had
never heard him laugh so often. “ By
the way, Drinkwater doesn’t want any
of all this to come out until he's
dragged his man before the beak
again."
“ Which you mean to prevent?"
" If only I can! I more or less prom
ised not to talk, however, and I'm
sure you won’t. You knew so much
already, you may Just as well know
the rest this week as well as next. If
you don’t mind keeping It to your
self.”
Nobody could have minded this par
ticular embargo less than Hilton Toye.
He saw Cazalet off with a smile that
was as yet merely puzzled, and not
unfriendly until he had time to recall
Miss Blanche's part In the strange
affair of the previous afternoon.
Say. weren’t they rather intimate,
those two, even If they had known
each other all their lives? He had It
from Blanche (with her second re
fusal) that she was not, and never
had been, engaged. And a fellow who
only wrote to her once In a year—
still, they must have been darned In
timate, and this funny affair would
bring them together again quicker
than anything.
Say, what a funny affair It was when
you came to thing of It! Funny all
through. It now struck Toye; begin
ning on board ship with that dream of
Cazalet's about the murdered man,
leading to all that talk of the old
grievance against him. and culminat
ing in hlB actually finding the Imple
ments of the crime In his Inspired ef
forts to save the man of whose Inno
cence he was so positive
Say. If
that Cazalet had not been on his way
home from Australia at the time!
Like many deliberate speakers, Toye
thought like lightning, and had reached
this point before he was a hundred
yards from the hotel; then he thought
of something elBe, and retraced his
steps. He retraced them even to the
table at which he had sat with Cazalet
not very many minutes ago; the wait
er was only now beginning to clear
away.
“ Say, waiter, what have you done
with the menu that was In that toast-
rack? There was something on It that
wo rather wanted to keep.”
"I thought there was, sir,” said the
English waiter at that admirable ho
tel. Toye, however, prepared to talk
to him like an American uncle of
Dutch extraction.
“ You thought that, and you took It
away?”
“ Not at all. sir. I 'appened to ob
serve the other gentleman put the
menu In his pocket, behind your back
as you were getting up. because I
passed a remark about it to the head
waiter at the tim e!”
Cazalet excused himself with deci
sion. He hud a full morning In front
of him. He was going to see Miss
Macnalr’s brother, son of tho late head
of his father's old firm of solicitors,
and now one of the partners, to get
them either to take up Scruton's case
themselves, or else to recommend e
firm perhaps more accustomed to
criminal practice. Cazalet was always
apt to be elaborate In the first person
singular, either In the past or In the
future tense; but he was moro so
than usunl In explaining his cousld
ered Intentions In this mutter that
lay so very near his heart.
“ Going to see Bcruton. too?" said
Toye.
"Not necessarily." was the short re
ply. But It also was elaborated by
Cazulet on a moment's consideration.
Tho fact was that he wanted first to
know If It were not possible, by the
Intervention of a really Influential law
yer. to obtain the prisoner's Immediate
release, at any rate on ball. If Impos
sible. he might hesitate to force him
self on Scruton In the prison, but he
would see
CHAPTER IX.
"It's a perfect scandal that he should
he there at all." said Cazalet, as he
Fair Warning.
rose first and ushered Toye out Into
It was much more than a map of
the lounge.
“ Only think: our old the metropolis that Toye carried In his
gardener saw him run out of the drive able head He knew the right places
at bulf past seven, when the gong for the right things. He gazed criti
went, when the real murderer must cally at his boots
He was not bo
have been shivering In the Mtchael- dead sure that he had struck the only
Angelo cupboard, wondering how the nmn for boots
There had been a
devil he was ever going to get out young fellow aboard the Kaiser Fritz,
again."
quite a little bit of a military Mood,
"Then you think old man Craven_ who bad come ashore In a pair of
begging his poor pardon—was getting cloth tops that had rather unsettled
out some cigars when the man. who Mr. Toye's mind Just on that one
ever he was. came In and knocked point.
him on the head?”
Captain Aylmer had said he would
Curalet nodded vigorously. "That's like to have Toye Bee his club any
the likeliest thing of a ll!" he cried. time he was passing and cared to look
"Then the gong went there may even In for lunch.
He had said so as
have come a knock at the door— and though he would like It a great deal,
there was that cupboard standing open and suddenly Toye had a mind to take
at bis elbow."
him at bis word right now. The Idea
"With a hole In the floor that might began with those boots with cloth tops,
have been made for him?"
but that was not all there was to It;
"As It happens, yea; he'd search I there was something else that bad
been at the back of Toye’s mind all
morning, and now took charge In
fron t
Aylm er had talked some about a Job
In the war office that enabled him to
lunch dally at the Rag; but what his
job had been aboard a German steam
er Toye did not know and was not the
man to inquire. It was no business of
his, anyway.
Reference to a card,
traded for his own in Southampton
Water, and duly filed In his cigarette-
case, reminded him of the Rag's prop
er style and title. And there he was
eventually entertained to a sound,
workmanlike, rather expeditious meal.
“ Say, did you see the cemetery at
Genoa?" suddenly inquired the vis
itor on their way back through the
hall. A martial bust had been ad
mired extravagantly before the ques
tion.
“ N eve’ want to see It again, or Ge
noa either,” said Captain Aylmer.
“ The smoking-room's this way.”
"Did you say you were there two
days?" Toye was cutting his cigar as
though it were a com.
"Tw o whole days, and we’d had a
night in the Bay of Naples Just be
fore.”
"Is that so? I only came aboard at
Genoa. I guess 1 was wise,” added
Toye, as though he was thinking of
something else
There was no sort
of feeling In his voice, but he was
sucking his left thumb.
" I say, you ve cut yourself!”
"I guess It's nothing. Knife too
suarp; please don't worry. Captain
Aylmer. 1 was going to say I only got
on at Genoa, and they couldn’t give
me a room to myself. I had to go In
with Cazalet; that's how 1 saw so
much of him.”
It was Toye's third and separate In
dependent attempt to introduce the
name and fame of Cazalet as a natural
topic of conversation. Twice M b host
had listened with adamantine polite
ness; this time he was enjoying quite
the second-best liqueur brandy to be
had at the Rag; and he leaned back
in his chair
"You were rather Impressed with
him, weren't you?" said Captain Ayl
mer. “ Well, frankly, I wasn’t, but It
may have been my fau lt”
“ I was only going to ask you one
thing about Mr. Cazalet," Toye said,
“ and I guess I’ve a reason for asking,
though there's no time to state It now.
What did you think of him. Captain
Aylmer, on the whole?”
“ Ah. there you have me. 'On the
whole’ Is Just the difficulty." said Ayl
mer. answering the straight question
readily enough “ I thought he was a
very good chap as far as Naples, but
aftt r Genoa he was another being. I’ve
sometimes wondered what happened In
his three or four days ashore.”
“ Three or four, did you say?”
And at the last moment Toye would
have played Wedding Guest to Ayl
mer’s Ancient Mariner.
"Yes; you see. he knew these Ger
man boats waste a couple of days at
Genoa, so he landed at Naples and did
his Italy overland Rather a good Idea.
I thought, especially as he said he
had friends In Rome; but we never
heard of ’em beforehand, and 1 should
have let the whole thing strike me a bit
sooner if I'd been Cazalet.
Soon
enough to take a hand-bag and a
toothbrush, eh? And I don't think I
should have run It quite so fine at
Genoa, either.
But there are rum
birds In this world, and always will
be! ”
Toye felt one himself as he picked
his way through St. James' square.
U It had not been Just after lunch, he
would have gone straight and had a
cocktail, for of course he knew the
only place for them. What he did was
to slue round out of the square, and
to obtain for the asking, at another
old haunt, on Cockspur street, the
latest little time-table of continental
trains. This he carried, not on foot
but In a taxi, to the Savoy Hotel,
where It kept him busy In hla own
room for the best part of another hour.
But by that time Hilton Toye looked
more than an hour older than on sit
ting down at his writing table with
SAYS ACTION IS NOT INSTANT ment and Is stationed at the Mare | mer.”
Gravitation, at Electrical Phenome
non. Explained by Scientist of
Worldwide Fame.
Gravitation la an electrical phenom
enon and does not act Instantly across
space, but Is transmitted with the v »
loclty of light, thus coming from the
sun to the earth In eight minutes.
So says Prof. Thomas Jefferson
Jackson See. famous astronomer. In
his SUll-word memoir entitled: “ Elec-
tro-dynamte Theory of Magnetism and
of Universal Gravitation: Discovery
of the Cause of Gravitation. With
Proof That This Fundamental fo rce
o f Nature Is Propagated With the Ve
loclty of Light.” He claim* to have
discovered the secret of gravitation
and haa put the Information In the
hand* of the Royal aoctety of London
Frofoasor Sea le an astronomer of
nota Ha la a graduate of the Cntvar
alty of Missouri and haa r*.-«tv*d the
degree of Ph. D. from the University
o f Berlin, for which Institution he »a *
later an ohservar. He la now a navai
observer for the United States govern
pencil, paper and the little be«h
trains; he looked horrified, he looked
distressed, and yet he looked crafty,
determined and Immensely alive.
proceeded, however, to take
the life out of himself, and to add still
more to his apparent age. by rep:- _-
ir.g for more Inward light to a lu r •
ish bath
.
,
Now the only Turkish bath, accord
ing to Hilton Toye's somewhat e l u s
ive code, was not even a hundred
yards from Cazalet's hotel; and there
the visitor of the morning again pre
sented himself before the afternoon;
now merely a little worn, as a man
will look after losing a stone an hour
on a warm afternoon, and a bit blue
again about the chin, which of course
looked a little deeper and stronger on
that account.
Cazalet was not in; his friend wou.d
wait, and in fact waited over an hour
in the little lounge. An evening p t: er
was offered to him; he took it listless
ly, scarcely looked at it at first, then
tore it in his anxiety to find something
he had qvlte forgotten—from the
newspaper end. But he was waiting
as stoically as before when Cazalet
arrived In tremendous spirits.
•Stop and dine:” he cried out at
once.
"Sorry I can’t; got to go and see
somebody,” said Hilton Toye.
^
"Then you must have a drink
"No. I thank you," said Toye, with
the decisive courtesy of a total ab
stainer.
“ You look as if you wanted one; you
don't look a bit fit." said Cazalet, most
kindly.
“ Nor am 1. sir!” exclaimed Toye.
“ I guess London's no place for me in
the fall. Just as well, too. I Judge,
since I’ve got to light out again
straight away.”
“ You haven’t ! ”
"Yes, sir. this very night. That’s
the worst of a business that takes you
to all the capitals of Europe in turn.
It takes you so long to Bit around that
yon never know when you ve got to
start in again.”
“ Which capital is It this time?" said
Cazaiet. His exuberant geniality had
been dashed very visibly for the mo
ment. But already his high spirits
were reasserting themselves; Indeed,
a cynic with an ear might have caught
the note of sudden consolation In the
question that Cazalet asked so briskly.
"Got to go down to Rome,” said
Toye, watching the effect of his
words.
"But you’ve Just come back from
there!" Cazalet looked no worse than
puzzled
"No. sir. 1 missed Rome out; that
was my mistake, and here’s this situ
ation been developing behind my
back."
"What situation?”
"Oh. why, it wouldn't Interest you!
But I’ve got to go down to Rome,
whether I like it or not, and 1 don’t j
like it any. because I don’t have any
friends there. And that's what I’m do
ing right here. 1 was wondering if
you'd do something for me, Cazaiet?"
"If I can.” said Cazalet, "with pleas
ure.” But his smiles were gone.
"I waa wondering if you'd give me
an introduction to those friends of
yours In Rome!”
There was a little pause, and Caza
let's tongue Just showed between his
lips, moistening them It was at that
moment the only touch of color in his
(ace.
“ Did I tell you I'd any friends
there?”
The sound of his voice was perhaps
less hoarse than puzzled. Toye made
himself chuckle as he sat looking up
out of somber eyes.
“ Well. If you didn't,” said be. ” 1
guess I must have dreamed i t ”
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