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WOMAN Author of T5heAMATEUR (MKMAN. RAFFLES, Etc. ILLUSTRATIONS bv O. TRWLN MVERS "He used t.i complain that he waa aever left In peace en Saturdays and Sundays, which of course were hla mly quiet tidies for writing." said the ion. elaborating hla talc with filial piety. "So once when I'd been trying :o die of Bearlet fever, and my mother brought me hack dun HaHtlues after ihe'd had nie there some time, the 31(1 governor told us be'd got a place where he could disappear from the Jlatrlct at a moment's notice and yet 06 back In another moment If we rang the gong. I fancy he'd got to tell her where It waa. pretty quick; but 1 only found jut for luyaelf by accident Tears afterward be told me he'd got the Idea from Jean Ingeiow'a place In Italy somewhere." "It's In Florence," said Hlanrhe. laughing. "I've been there aud sern It, and It's the exact same thing Hut Pou mean Michael Angelo, Sweep!" "Oh, do 1?" he salj serenely, "Well, 1 shall never forget bow I found out its existence" "No more shall I You told me all about It at the time, as a terrific se cret, and I may tell you that I've kept It fr mi that day to tills'" "You would," he said almply. "But think of having the nerve to pull up the gaver ior'8 floor! It only shows what a boy will do. I wonder If the hole's there still!" Now all the time the planetary de tectlve had been watching hlB satel lite engaged in an attempt to render the damage done to the mahogany doors a little less conspicuous Nei ther sppeared to be taking any further Interest In the cigar cupboard, or pay ing the slightest attention to Caza let's reminiscences. But Mr. Drink water happened to have heard every word, aud in the last sentence there was one that caused him to prick up his expert ears Instinctively "What's that about a hole?" aald be, turning round. "I waa reminding MIbb Macnalr how the place first came to be " "Yes, yes but what about some bole in the floor?" 1 made one myself with one of those knives that contain all sorts of Ot things, including a saw It was on Baturday afternoon Is the summer hoi lUayc. 1 came In here from the gar den as my father went out by that door Into the hall, leaving one of these mahugany doors open by mis take It a9 the chance of my life; In I slipped to have a look. He came back for something, saw the very door you've broken Btandlng ajar, and shut It without looking in. So there I was In a nice old trap! I simply daren't call out and give myself away. There was a bit of loose oilcloth on the floor " "There Is still," suld the satellite, pausing In his task. "I moved the oilcloth, In the end; hawked up one end of Hie hount thick lly the) weren't groove aud lougue), sawed through the nest one to it, had It up. too, siid got through into the foundations, leaving everything much as I had found It. The place la so small that the oilcloth was obliged to fall in place If It fell anywhere But I had plenty of time, because my people had gone in to dinner." "You ought to have keen a burglar, sir," said Mr. Drinkwater Ironically. "So you covered up a sin w ith a crime, like half the gentlemen who go through my handa for the first and last time! But how did you get out of the foundations?" "Oh, that waa as easy as pie; I'd often explored them. Do you remem ber the row I got itito. Blanche, for taking you with me once and simply ruining your frock?" "I remember the frock!" said Blanche It was her last contribution to the conversation; immediate develop ments not only put an end to the fur ther exchange of ancient memories, but rendered it presently impossible by removing Cazalet from the scene with the two detectives Almost with out warning all three disappeared down the makeshift trapdoor cut by one of them as a schoolboy in his father's floor. She hardly even knew how It hap pened. The little place was so small that she never saw the hole until It had engulfed two of the trio; the third explorer, Mr. Drink water himself, had very courteously turned her out of the library before following the others And he had said so verv little before hand for her to bear, and so quickly prevented Cazalet from saying any thing at all, that she simply could not think what any of them were dulng under the floor. Under her very feet she heard them moving as she walled a bit in the hall; then she left the house by way of the servants' quarters, of course without holding any coiiiinunkatluu with those mutineers, and only Indignant that Mr. Drinkwater should have requested , her not to do so. It was a long hall hour that followed tor Blanche Macnali, but she passed It Characteristically. 8 he turned her wholesome mind to dogs which In some ways she knew better and trusted further than men. There was a dog at Uplands, and as yet she had seen uoihlug of him, he lived In a large kennel in the yard, for he was a In rue dog and rather friendless. But Bluiiche knew him by sight, and hud felt always sorry for blm. The large kennel was Just outside the back door, which was at the top of the cellar steps and at the hot torn of two or three leading Into the scullery; but Blanche, of course, went round by the garden. She found the poor old dog quite disconsolate In a more canine kennel in a corner of the one that was reaily worthy of the mora formidable camlvora. There was every sign of his being treated as tile dangerous dog that Blanche, Indeed, had heard he was; the outer bars wen further protected by wire netting, which stretched like a canopy over the whole cage; but Blanche let her- ill li "You Ought to Have Been a Burglar, Sir," Said Mr. Drinkwater. self In with as little hesitation as she proceeded to beard the poor brute In hla Inner lair Aud he never even barked at her; he )ust lay whimpering with his tearful nose between his two front pawB as though bis dead master had not left blm to the servants all bis lire. Blanche coaxed and petted blm en til she almost wept herself, theu sud denly and without warning the dog showed his worst side. Out he leaped f i out wooden sanctuary, almost knock lug her down, and barking hotrltily but not at Blanche She followed hit infuriated eyes; and the back door way trained a dusty aud grimy figure Just climbing into full length on the ,-ellar stairs, which Blancne had somt difficulty in Identifying with that ol Caalet 'Well- you really are a Sweep!'' etu cried when she had slipped out Just lu time, aud tha now savage dog wa him by!" His stage voice fell a sepul chral semitone. "But 1 see him again at the station this very afternoon I did! I promised not to talk about that you'll keep that a secret If 1 tell 'e Bomethin'? but I picked him out of half a dozen at the first time of askln'!" Savage said thia wltb a pleased and vacuous grin, looking Cazalet full In the face; his rheumy eyes were red as the sunset they faced; and Cazalet drew a deep breath as Blanche aud he turned back toward the river. "First time of prompting, I expect!" he whispered. "Rut there's hope If Savage Is their atiougesl witness." "Ouly listen to that dog." said Blanche, ag they passed the yard. CHAPTER VIII. Flnyer-Prlnta. Hilton Toye was the kind of Ameri can who knew London as well as most Londoners, and some other capitals a good deal better than their respective citizens of corresponding intelligence. Ills travels were mysteriously but en viably interwoven with business; he had an air of enjoying himself, and at the same time making money to pay for his enjoyment, wherever he went. His hotel days were much the same all over Europe; many appointments, but abundant leisure As, however, he never spoke about his own affairs un less they were also those of the lis tener aud not always theu half his acquaintances had no Idea how be made his money, and the other balf wondered how he spent his time. Of his mere Interests, which were manv. Toye made no such secret but tt was' quite impossible to deduce ii n,ain in i dustry from the byproducts of In a level headed versatility, I Criminology, for example, was an j odvIous byproduct; It was no morbid taste In ililtoti Toye, but a scientific hobby that appealed to his mental subtlety. And subtle he was yet with strange simplicities; grave and dignified, yet addicted to the ex pies she phraseology of his less enllpht ened countrvmen; naturally sincere and vet always capable of some in genuous duplicity. The appeal of a Blanche Macnalr to stu b a soul netda no analysis She had struck through all complexities to the core, bui h as It was or as she ml?ht make It. As yet she could only admire the character the man had shown, though it had upset her none the less At Fnelberg lie had pio posed to her "InfU'.s of twe weeks " is he had admitted without compunc lion at the time It bad taken him he said, about two iiiihutea to make up hla mind; but the following sum tner he had laid more deliberate siege lu accordance with some old idea thai she had let fall to soften her Hi si re fusal. The result had been the same only more explicit on both sides Sa had denied him the least particle of hope and he bad warned her that she had not heard the last ct blm by any means, and never would till she mar rlcd another man This had Incensed bcr at the time, but a great deal less on subsequent reflection; and such was the position between that pair w hen Toye and Cazalet landed lu Eng land from tbe same steamer. On this second day ashore, as Cata let sat over a late breakfast In Jer myn street, Toye sent In bli card and was permitted to follow It, rather to his surprise. He found hla man (rank ly divided between kidneys and bacon and the morulng paper, but in a heartv moed, Indicative of, amends for his still outer: and clawing at his bars ! "How did you come out, aud where ! ace the enemy T" "The old way," he answered "I left thera down there." "And what did you find?" "I ll tell you iater. I can't hear my voiie lor that Internal dog" i The dreadful barking followed them ! out into the yard, and round to the j rlKht, past the tradesmen's door, to I the verge of the drive. Here they m.-t ; an elderly man in a tremendous hurry an unstable dotaid who instantly abandoned whatever purpose he had fon,"?d, and came to anchor In front if theui with rheumy eyes uud twitch ing wrinkles "Why, ir that Isn't Miss Blanche!" lis quavered "Do you hear our Roy, i Id .' I bu n t heard that go ou like that bin. e the uilil that happened !" Then t'a.alet introduced himself to the old gardener whom he had knwn all his life; and by rlfcbts the mail should have wept outright, or else emitted rustic epigram laden with wise humor. But uld Kuvaite hailed from silly Suffolk, aud all hla life he had belled his surname, but never the alliterative libel on hla native county He look the wanderer's return very much as a mailer of course, very much as though lie hud never been : sway at all, uud was deimuistiuttve only In his further use of the East Anglian pronoun "That's a long time since we fared to see jou. Mils' Waller," tald he, "that s a right long lime' Aud now here's a nice kettle or tlsh for you to riliu' But 1 seen the man, Mils' Waller, and we'll bring that home to blm, never you fear!" "Are you sure that you saw him?" asked Blanche, already under Caza let s Influence on this point. Savage looked cautiously toward the house before replying; then he lowered his voice dramatically "Sure, Miss Blanche. Why, 1 see hint that night as plain as 1 fare to see Mus' Wfcller now!" "I should have thought it was too dark to see anybody properly," said Blanche, and Cazalet nodded vigorous ly to himself. "Dark, Mias Blanche? Why, there was broad day light, and If that wasn't tljere were the lodge lights on to see great heat In yesterday's argument A plainer Indicallou was the down right yet sunny manner lu which Caza let at once returned to the contentious topic "Well, my dear Toye, what do you think or It now?" "I was going to ask you what you thought, but 1 guess I can see from your (ace " "1 think the police are rotters fur not setting him free last night!" "Scruton ?" "Yes Of course, the tase'll break down when it comes on next week, but they oughtn't to wait for that. They've no right to detain a man In custody when the bottom s out of tholr case already." "Bui- hut the papers claim they've found the very things they were searching for." Toye looked non plused, as well he might, by an appar ently perverse jubilation over such in telligence. "They haven't found the missing cap!" crowed Cazalet. "What they have found is Craven's watch and ficSE'Jt "They Haven't found the Missing Cap!" Cried Cozalct. keiB. anil the tilver mounted ttuii cbcoii in-, I killed hi n But they toiind th. in in a place where iliey couhin'l possibly have been pot by the man Ideiilliied as Scruton!' "Hay, where was thai?" asked Toye with grvat interest. 'My paper only says the things were fuud, not where." "No more does mine, but i can lull you, because I heipid to find tin" "You don't eal!" "Yo.ril nevti gi.op whete." contin tied l a.alet 111 lliu loiimlalii na nil der the bouee!" Details followed lu all fullness: Hie listener mi 'ht have hail a part in the I'plands act of ye.-in davg drama, might have played in thf library situe with his oiic.red Miss tllani-he, so vlv idly was every miiiuie of that crowd ed houi In mu lit Im ne to him He w as net so suie that he Ii el any vei v den into inoept:cn of the tuuiM.it .ms ol an English hon.-ie "On i s weie like ever so miiiv little tiny rooms, " tan! (aaiei, "where I couldn l bland ln-.ui.. iih i. lit exit as a Siiall hov without giving my tua.l a crack a x . 1 1 1 .i I the gioiiiul Honrs 'I heV led iiito otic another h a lot of little ilia n U'.li u tlt-'hl flu even for a hoy, hut niarlv fatal to the buss police man yesterday !" Hilton Toye, edging In his word, said he guessed lu visualized but just where had those missing things been found? "Three or four cimpaitments from the first one under the library." said Cazalet. "I'ld yrn find lliont?" "Well, I kicked against the trun cheon, hut Prlnkwaler dug It up The watch and keys weie wllh It." "Sty, were they burled .'" "Only In the loose rubble and brick dusty stuff that you get in founda tions " "Say, thnt's had! Tint murdirer must have knrwn Bonn thing, or else It'a a bully fluke In his favor.'' "i don't follow yau. Toye." li If : m "I'm thinking of finger prints. It he'd Ju.t'v laid these tliir.gs tif.lt down, he'd have left the print of his hand as large as life for bcodaud Yard." "The devil ha would'" exclaimed ne Cazalet. "I wish you'd explain,' added; "remeuler 1 in a wild man from the woods, and only know of these things by tbe vaguest kind of hearsay and stray paragraphs lu the papers 1 never kne you could leave your mark so easily as all that." Teye took the breakfast menu and placed it face downward on the table cloth. "Lay your hand on that, palm down," he said, "and don't move It for a r.ilnute " Cazalet looked at him a moment before complying; then hla tine, shape ly, sunburnt hand lay still as plaster under their eveB until Tove told him he might take It up. Of course there was no msik whatever, ami Cazalet laughed. "You should have caught me when 1 came up from tlcse foundations, not fresh from my tub!" said he. "You wall.' replied Milton Toye. taking the menu gingerly by the edge, and putting It out of harm's way In the e.optv .cast rack -y.fc can't see anything now. but If you con,,, round to the Savjy I'll bIiow y.m something " "W'huir- "Your nrlnts, bIi! I don't say I'm Scotland Yard at the game, but I ran do It well enough to show you how It's dore You haven't left your mark upon the paper but I guess you ve left the swe'. ot vom hand; if I snow a little Krench chalk over 11. the chalk'll stick where your haud did. and blow off easily everywhere else Say, come round to lu:ich and i II have your prints ready for you. I'd like aw fully to show you how It's done " Cazalet excused himself with deci sion. He had a full morning in front of him. He was going to see Miss Macnalr'B brother, son of the late head of his father's old firm of solicitors, and now one of the partners, to get them either to take up Scrutou's case themselves, or else to recommend a Ann perhaps more accustomed to criminal practice. Cazalet was always apt to he elaborate In the drat person singular, cither In the past or in the future tense; but he was more so than usual in' explaining his consid ered Intentions in this matter that lay so very near his heart. "doing to see Scruton, too?" said Toye. "Not necessarily," was the short re- ply. Ilut It also was elaborated by Cazalet on a moment's consideration, j to accumulate go up 111 smoke or The fact was that he wanted first to . are ruined by water ill a few know If it were not posiible, by the . c a intervention of a really r influential law-1 moments, and you are forced to yer, to obtain the prisoner's Immediate 1 begin all Over again without cap release, at any rate on bail. If liupos- jtal. slble, he might hesitate to force him self on Scruton lu the prison, but he would see. "It's a perfect scandal that he should sucn a disaster come to you, the be there at all," said Cazalet, as he I . . . , , , rose first and ushered Toye out Into amount of your loss would be at the lounge. "Only think: our old ! your command, almost immedi gardener Baw him run out of the drive ately. at half past seven, when the gong went, when the real murderer must! W e represent the most reliable have been shivering in the Michael- insurance companies in America, Angelo cupboard, wondering how the , ho(e Mfx Kuarantee absolute iiikVll ha una hudp onina 1 1 oat nut again." "Then you think old man Craven begging his poor pardon was getting out some cigars when the man, who ever he was, came In and knocked li t in on the head?" Caalet nodded vigorously. "That's the likeliest thing of all!" he cried. "Then the gong went there may even have come a knock at the door and there was that cupboard Btandlng open at his elbow." "With a hole lu the floor that might have been made for him?" "As It happens, yes; he'd search every inch like a rat in a trap, you see; aud there it was as I'd left It twenty years before." "Well, it's a wonderful yarn!" ex-. claimed Hilton Toye, and he lighted ! the cigar that Czalet had given him. I "I think it may be thought one if; the police ever own how they made j their find," agreed Cazalet, laughing ; and looking at his watch. Toye had I never heard him laugh so often "lly the way, Drinkwater doesn't want any j of all thia to come out until he's dragged his man before the leak again." 1 "Which you mean to prevent?" I "If only 1 can! I more or less prom-1 leed not to talk, however, and I'm sure you won't You kaew 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 eff 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 alfair 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 onco tn a yekr still, they must have been darned In timate, and this funny affair would bring them together agalu quicker than anything Say, whit a funny affair It was when you came to thing of It! Funny all through, it now struck Tove; begin ning oil U.ald ahlp Wllh thai ill cum ol Caalet's about the murdered man. leading to all that talk of the old grievance against him, and culminat ing in his actually finding the liuple ments of the crime In his Inspired ef j forts to save the man of whose inno-1 cence he waa so positive Say. If that Cazalet had not been on his way ' home from Australia at the time! I Like many deliberate speakers. Toye thought like lightning, aud had reached this point befcre he was a hundred yards from the hotel; then he thought of something else, and retraced his steps. Ho 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. 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