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. She told him about Roy Buck
ham, and then, "But there's some
tiling more."
"What more?''
VMr, 'Terriss, maybe I'm crazy,
maybe I oughtn't even to think of
. ' this, but Holbrook tried to borrow
money from the a few days ago and
- tena tells me he's borrowed money
from both her and Towers until
v they wouldn't lend him anything
more." .
The answer that came back was
o amazing she could scarcely be
lieve her cars. ".j.'-jV
"Well, at lastl I'd been waiting
and wondering, to see if you'd never
catch oni I've been dead certain it
was the tray all along. Now we're
going places! Come on, give me the
whole story, how much did you slip
: Mm?". v
"I idldn . give , him anything!"
Quickly She described the; whole in
cident, ending with '.'Why didn't you
let me know you -suspected the son,
I'd have watched, him lots more
. closely." :.jv...'.v
"On account of Mr. Cayne's atti
tudeif I'd told you to keep an eye
on the kid and you'd spilled It to the
old man, then you and I both would
have been in a spot. Don't tell me
you haven't seen how unreasonable
Cayne is about his family!" :
'"Yes I've t seen. . Mr. .Terrlss,
what am I to do? I can't tell him
that it might be Holbrook, I can't
dolt."
"Jeez, no! Don't you peep one
word - nor bat an eye unless , you
,- catch the kid with the goods, and
even then, don't you do it You
- call me up end I'll get right over
there and-we'll .See the old man to
gether,'. You've got to have the evl-
- dence, evidence he can't go back of,
or he'll 'never believe it."
' ' "But what short of evidence, what
do you mean?"
"Three minutes are up, deposit an
other nickel, please," warned the
- operator.
"The kid most likely is hocking
that stuff with some crooked pawn
broker. I've watched the police re
ports on all pawnbrokers and noth
v teg's been turned in, so that proves
that whoever' got it Is crooked,
one of the kind who breaks up Jew
elry, 'melts the metal and sells the
stones, see? Or else maybe the kid
has stolen the stuff to give to a girl,
-. but the operator I've bad on him
sayi no."
' , "You've been having Holbrook.
followed?". ..v .
"Of course I have, ever since the
' last piece of Jewelry was taken, I
mean the spoons, Just before you
went Into the' house there. ..Mr.
Cayne' don't know about it, though."
' Bachel was thinking hard. "Mr.
Terrlss, if Holbrook did It, couldn't
you cevddn't you talk to the boy
and warn him and get him to stop
I - it? And not let Mr. and Mrs, Cayne
I; know? .They're so so fond of him
' he'i ,the otuj chfld--; V'i
.'"No, Miss YlhcehV? fluffs ' bad
dope.,' t can't lay anything about
the mother, because the old man
keeps her wrapped in cotton wool,
lut his father'd have to know It
Iff vp to him then to take the boy
la band, see? And he can tell his
wife or not But if the boy's, the
fclef, a I've thou.t all along, bet-
Ut his eld man shouZi lean it now
before the boy starts lifting some
body else's stuff."
'"But the boy. may not be the
thief."
."Dotft give me an argument, just
search his room like you were hunt
ing for chinches, Miss Vincent, and
report to me soon's you've fin
ished." Rachel rushed back to the apart
ment, her head whirling. Mrs.
Cayne had come in And was wait
ing impatiently, so there was no
chance to speak to Mr. Cayne, but
Rachel took time to write on a
piece of paper, "Have notified Ter
ries," and slipped it under, his door
as she ran to answer the impera
tive beO.
"I'm sorry, madame," she ex
cused herself; "I had a stain on my
uniform and was changing." She
thought grimly, "I'll never believe
a servant again on oath after hear
ing myself ten such slick lies," as
she addressed herself to the ritual
of getting Mrs. Cayne ready for din
ner.,1 This minor drama did not
proceed well, Mrs. Cayne was nerv
ous and Jerky and waspish and Ra
chel was absorbed in her own
thoughts. She managed to run the
bath and perfume -it and to lay out
the lingerie and slippers without
mistake, but at the dress closet she
stopped, she could not remember
which. of the 30 or more gowns had
been chosen. Rachel looked at the
slippers, the were dark blue satin
strapped with gold kid. "Probably
that dark blue mousseline," thought
Rachel, and arranged it carefully on
the bed.
Elinor Cayne came in, warm,
rosy, perfumed, pulling about her
one of the loose robes of wash vel
vet she used as bathrobe. She flung
it down and Rachel advanced with
girdle and slip, then dropped on
one knee to slip the thinnest of
stockings over the brightest of red
enameled toes. Over Rachel's head
Elinor noticed the dress and the
storm broke.
"I aever saw a girl so inattentive
and stupid in my life, I tell you
over and over again, you simply
don't listen"
Rachel looked up and lightning
flashed between the two women. For
a moment Rachel thought her moth
er was . going to slap her across
the face and she made an involun
tary movement to catch and hold
that slender little hand, then re'
membered and drew back. But it
was her expression that stopped El
inor. -.They stared at each other.
there was revelation, held immo
bile for a long shocking instant
"What U the matter?" asked Ra
chel, at last, rising.
"That dress Isn't the one I told
you the blue and gold brocade with
the velvet flowers."
-Tm sorry, madame,", said Ra
chel. . She picked up the mousseline
and hung it in the closet,, laid out
the brocade in Its place. Still under
the spell of that venomous ges
ture which had been so near, she
turned end, went out Of the room.
Dazedly she went back to her own
room, closed toe door end sat down
In the darkness. "She was going to
strike ms," she thought, over and
over, ''she was going .to strike m.
She's my mother. My own mother,!?
. It requited an her will to re-enter
that room and to her relief Elinor
was concentrated on her make-up
and took no notice of her. The si
lence was ominous, but Rachel pre
ferred -It -Rachel put the bath
room in order and returned to lift
the brocade, and hold it while Eli
nor stepped into it., The two women
avoided ; looking at one another, -but
at the last moment, powdered
and tinted and resplendent In the
rich sown, Elinor flashed a resent
ful glance at' Rachel and said, "I'm
going to speak to Mr. Cayne about
this," and went out so Quickly that
Rachel could have smiled. "She's
afraid of me,' she- thought "she
feels something different And she
isn't allowed any freedom with the
servants. I suppose," She granted
with unwilling Justice, "that's
enough to make any woman peev
ish." . I oughtn't to blame her too
much. Mr. Cayne's sweet, but he's
an old-tyrant, too. Oh dear, I wish
they would be definitely one thing
r, another, all these shades and
varieties are too hard to deal with."
She had a moment of revolt. "I'm
getting old too fast, I shouldn't be
so reasonable about these people,
I'm as tolerant as Anne,., it's not
llk meV And then, thankfully, so
berly, "If I only could be like Anne!
If I needn't be a bit like this this
mother I wanted so much!"' More
soberly still, "I must stop wallow
ing in these hysterical ideas and
make up my mind what I ought to
do."
This was not easy, she found her
self pulled in too many directions.
To follow Terrlss' instructions and
search Holbrook's room, and then,
If the boy was guilty, to reveal it
she didn't want to do it, she had'
too profound a conviction that Hol
brook was guilty. When his father
knew, how it would beat down his
pride and affection! Yet perhaps
Terrlss was right, to know it now
might save knowing worse later.
But she didn't want to stick her un
practiced hand into human lives
with a chance of marring them. It
was too much responsibility. Bet
ter, perhaps, to walk out of the
house and never come back, she
could take a boat and go to Anne,
she could cut the whole tangled mis
erable business away from herself.
Yet that would be shirking, too.
And then the thought of Curt Elton
came to her, there was the one per
son who might be told and who
would understand and advise. To
morrow was Thursday, her day out.
She would tell Terriss she had had
no opportunity to search Holbrook's
room until after she had talked to
Curt
CHAPTER XI
They lingered over dinner togeth
er in the quiet restaurant where
they had lunched the first time and
he had brought Rachel a quaint
round bouquet of red and yellow
carnations set In circles, spicy
sweet
"I couldn't afford orchids, and
anyway these look like you," he had
said.
"I like these better than orchids,"
Rachel replied. "They're fascinating."
She laid the Sowers at the side of
her plate and now and then, as all
flowers do, they drew her eyes and
attention. They, helped to normal
ize her strained and acid thoughts.
Curt's presence helped much more.
Once more she told aU except the
essential fact of her relationship to
Elinor. He sided with Terriss.
."But, Curt." she objected, T
have this awful hunch that it's Hol
brook and if I find it out his father
has to be told. It win be horrible.
Mr. Cayne'n suffer so."
,"Youre too sensitive and your
imagination's running wild. Look
at it from the other end if you
can prove Holbrook didn't, do it,
then you've freed Mr. Cayne for
ever from the danger of having a
criminal .child. ' What you tell me
about the boy sounds as if he was
spoiled and silly , and effeminate,
but he doesn't sound exactly like a
coTLwv.fW .r v "
"All right, all right maybe not,
but what does he do with his allow
aneef Lena says he gets at least
a hundred and fifty e month."
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