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1 u ,, , , " ' THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, U. tS., FRIDAY. JANUARY 7, 1938 PAGE THREE ' 'i THERE'S ONLY ONE By SOPHIE KERR. nSET0' - CHAPTER IX Continued f. -n-': -"I notice that neither your ap pearance nor your ego has suffered. Apparently you're the belle of the servants' hall. So why all that wail about returning to sanity and a strange household?" Rachel armed herself with cau tion.. ."Maybe you're right about my never having had much experi ence. And then maybe it's because I'm looking at the Cayne family from within and beneath. But they're all wrong. The son wants to be an artist and his father won't hear; of It "The mother sides with the son and what I've noticed is that they don't sit-down and drag all their thoughts and feeling to the surface the way my mother and I always did; they hide them and fight subterraneanly, scoring infini tesimal points, or else they have raging arguments and oh well, it seems so petty and so unnecessary. And it gets them nowhere." "It's a very' usual situation, I should say. You're taking it too se riously. You're there to find out who stole the cigarette box and Mrs. Cayne's ring and not to practice amateur psychiatry. Why bother about the family quarrels?" She turned the matter away light ly. "I don't really take it very seriously, Curt, but I'm there under their roof and Towers and his wife talk about them all the time and it does seem a pity." "Lots of things are a pity. It's a great pity you won't have dinner and go to a show with me there's something I could weep about" "Go ahead and weep. I am sorry, but Pink and I are having dinner together and afterwards Terriss is coming so that I can report to him fully" uurt cnucKiea. "You sound so important and Sherlockish! A full report oughtn't to take so long. How about it if I call up a little after nine? We could take in a late mov ie and split a herring at a night club. Don't you realize how much I've missed you?" "How you flatter, mister! I'd love to gad around a bit, but there again suppose I run into my es teemed employers and they see I'm leading a double life? Not so good "I'll call up anyway. You haven't any other date?" "No." She knew he was thinking of the man she had talked of want ing to evade. She had not seen Oliver Land nor heard from him since the night he had staged his trick to get money from heir and she wondered what Curt would say if she told him about that He began to talk about other things and kept it up all the way down to the apartment. "Remenv ber, I'll call you up about nine thirty," he said as he left her, "and I'll ;flnd some' place not infested with Caynes for us to go." Pink had just come in, she was on the crest of the wave, her im mediate superior in her department was about to be transferred and Pink was heading for his place through a dire mesh of office poli tics and intrigue. She was far too absorbed in her own affairs to want to know about Rachel's and Rachel was glad enough of this, for Pink's curiosity once aroused was as far reaching and thorough as her en thusiasms and her opinions. . Rachel sat still arid seemed to listen while Phik sparkled and ges tured, but .she was busy with. her own thoughts. The - apartment's studied bareness and simple old fur niture had never looked so good to her. VI had to learn that by con trast," she thought, "I took It for - granted before.' Like "simple food and Pink's table manners and no heavy perfume about;, and vPhvk, even when : ihe'a : raging,"; Isn't thoughtless of other people's feet tags. It all belongs together. Curt belongs, too. , But most of all Anne. ' Curt was right, I've had no variety of experience. Well, I'm getting It now." - Terriss was in time, dry and blank as before. Pink gave him one look and came to instant decision. I'm going over to the Steeles'," she said. "Back about half past ten. What time do you have to check in at your Job, Rachel?" "Before twelve. But Curt El ton" ' "Oh a date with Curt! Well, phone me at the Steeles and say good-by." A gleam in interest showed in Terriss' eyes as Pink departed. "That young lady is very full of pep," he commented; then recall ing himself to business: "Go ahead Miss Vincent, give me a general outline and I'll take up special points as they come along. Don't tell me what you think, but what you've actually seen and heard. You said over the phone the other day that the butler and cook both have bank accounts. How do you kndw? "Lena showed me their books. They're in the Bowery Savings bank. He has eight thousand and she has over six thousand. They've each got five thousand dollars' worm or government bonds; I saw those, too. They save practically "Why Bother About Family ' Quarrels?" all their wages. They each carry thousand dollars' worth of straight life insurance to have real nice fu nerals, Lena said. I wrote down the numbers of the bank books after I'd seen them." "Have- they talked about the thefts?" "Towers not at all, Lena very lit tie and when she does it's in hints about the disgrace of being wrongly suspicioned and how, if it wasn't for Mr. Cayne, they'd find another place. They simply worship Mr Cayne. That I'm sure of." "But they don't' care so much for the missis, hey?" . "No I don't believe they do." ' "She's sharp, with them, makes them Stand around?" Rachel chose her words. "She requires a great deal of service and she doesn't realize how much Work a few extra orders can make.' , Terriss frowned. "Mr. r Cayne may be easy for his help to work for but he makes it hard enough for me. He wouldn't let me crack down on the servants,, and he's never let me say a word to Mrs. Cayne nor the young man. Either of them ever speak of the thefts before you?" "No,, not word. Mrs. Cayne Is very careless with her Jewelry, she has a great deal of it and leaves it about where anyone could pick tin a niece or two. The little safe where it's supposed to be kept isn't locked batt the tune. Mr. dajrae showed It to me one day when the was out If Joke, you could open It with a bent pin." "Do you think Mrs. Cayne even knows about the thefts? I asked Mr. Cayne, but he made me an answer that was neither yes or no, and showed that he didn't like the ques tion. So I was stooped there." "Why, I don't know. Mr. Terriss. I never thought but that Mrs. Cayne knew about them, but it's true she might not You know how the apart ment is simply Jammed with ex pensive things, and she has so many rings and bracelets and brooches, and as for the table silver, it would take a day to count it" Has the son any intimate friends, any young fellow he pals around with who's at the house very often? Or has Mrs. Cayne got any of these female hangers-on that most rich women have, in and out, familiar, getting presents of her old dresses and the like?" "Not that I've Seen. The son's had young people in twice for cocktails, in the afternoon before his father got home. Mrs. Cayne goes out a good bit, but it's usually to some big beauty establishment, she's she's awfully interested in keeping , fit." Terriss looked at Rachel with cu riosity. "Does she and Mr. Cayne get alone pretty good?" he asked. "They don't agree about the son, but I only get this second hand, Mr. Terriss, from what Towers and Lena say." Terriss considered. "The son don't go to school?" "That's the trouble between Mr. and Mrs. Cayne. Mr. Cayne wants him to go to college or at least to a business school and he wants to go to an art school and his mother sides with him, so this winter he's gone nowhere. He's awfully spoiled." "A rich brat, hey?" Terriss con sidered again. "If I could only tall; plain man-to-man stuff with Mr. Cayne! But he won't stand for it. You're doing all right. Mis Vin cent, you're not half as dumb as I'd expected. Now you fly at it for another week and concentrate on the family's friends, specially the boy's. Get their names and ad dresses if you can, the names any way. Don't let up on the servants either; they may be slicker than I think, and their having bankbooks don't prove anything. Ask 'em about pawnshops, tell 'em you've ' got something you want to hock, show 'em an old piece of jewelry or something to back it up. If they give you any names slip right out and phone me what they say. Ask the chauffeur and the laundress too. The whole four may be in cahoots. See if they've got any private phone numbers written down anywhere and copy 'em for me." "Then Rachel said something she had not meant to say, but which she knew, now, had underlain all her answers to his questions. "I don't like doing this, Mr. Terriss. I wish I needn't go back." "That's what I've been expect ing," said Terriss, slowly and gloomily. "I guessed all along it was just a kind of a whim. Ycung people nowadays got no guts, they don't want to do. a job thorough. Any little fancy they talce it's a rea son for quitting and letting you down. I've been leery of you all along, Miss Vincent, I didn't believe you could stand the gaff. But I did think you'd last longer than three weeks." "I'm sorry " she began, but he waved his hand and went on talk ing. "When I was young a job of work you undertook had to be finished, vhether, it was fun or not. Fun! I'm sick of the word. You thought all this would be a great big lot of fun and now you see there's some actual labor and thinking involved and that scares you. Okay, you can quit right now.; in fact you'd better quit tf you're that-way." "t didn't mean that," said Ra cHel, "I only' meant I .wasn't look ing for fun, and well I've tried hon estly to do what you want, but I don't think I'm any good at it, it seems so hopeless" (TO BE CONTINUED) Lime And Phosphate Are Aid To Orchard A good use for lime and acid phos phate in orchard managament has been reported by H. R. Niswonger, extension horticulturist at State College. A Yadkin County farmer had been trying to rid his apple orchard of broom sedrje and get lespedeza to grow in the orchard as a soil-building crop. But the results were discour aging. Lespedeza was sown on the orchard in 1935 as a cover crop. In 1986 it waa obvious that the broom sedge was crowding out the lespedezta. Then the grower applied lime and triple superphosphate to the land at the rate of 200 pounds per acre. These materials, however, did not reach all the wav under the trees. This year, the limed and phos phated area showed a good growth of lespedeza that had conquered the broom sedge. 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