The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 182, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 19, 1916 Page: 2 of 4
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SYNOPSIS.
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Caznlet. on the steamer KalPor Frit*.
hoiMVird bound from Australia, cries
out in hla sict p that Hoitry Cuviil who
ten years before had ruined his father
and himself. Is dead, and finds that Hil-
ton Toye. who shares the stateroom with
him. knows Craven and also Blanche
Macnalr, a former neighbor and play-
mate. When the dally papers come
aboard at Southampton Toye reads that
Craven has been murdered and calls
Caialet's dream second sight. He thinks
of doing a little amateur detective work
on the case himself. In the train to town
they discuss the murder, which was com-
mitted at Caialet's old home. Toye heura
from Cazalet that Scruton, who had been
Cazalet's friend and the scapegoat for
Craven's dishonesty, has been released
fiom prison. Cazal.-t go* s down the
river and moetd Blanche. Toye also
comes to see her and tells Cazalet that
Scruton has been arrested, but as he
doesn't believe the old clerk Is guilty he
Is going to ferret out the murderer.
Casalet and Blanche go to Casalet's old
tiorvie and meet Mr. Drink water of Scot-
land Yard. Cazalet goes with Drinkwa-
ter to tin library where the murder was
committed, shows him a secret passage
he knew as a boy. and leads the way
through it. In town Toye. talking with
Cazalet about the murder, suggests finger
prints on the weapon found In the secret
passage as a means of trapping the mur-
derer and succeeds In securing a print >f
Cazalet's hand.
CHAPTER VIII—Continued.
Cazalet excused himself with deci-
sion. He had a full morning in front
of him He was going to see Miss
Macnair's 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 Scruton's case
themselves, or else to recommend a
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 more so
than usual In explaining his consid-
ered Intentions In this matter that
lay so very near his heart.
'Going to Bee Scruton, too?" said
Toye.
"Not necessarily," was the short re-
ply. But it also was elaborated by
Caialet on a moment's consideration.
The 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
•elf on Scruton in the prison, but he
would see. ■
"It's a perfect scandal that he should I
■be there at all," said Cazalet, as he !
rose first and ushered Toye out Into
the lounge. "Only think: our old
gardener saw him run out of the drive
at half past seven, when the gong
•went, when the real murderer must
have been shivering In the Michael-
Angelo cupboard, wondering how the
devil ho was ever going to get out
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
him on the head?"
Cazalet 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 standing open
,at his elbow."
"With a hole In 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; and there it was as I'd left it
twenty years before."
"Well, it's a yonderful yarn!" ex-
claimed Hilton Toye, and he 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 his watch. Toye had
never heard him laugh so often "By
the way, Drlnkwater 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 be had time to recall
Miss Blanche's part In the strange
affair of the previous afternoon.
Say. weren't they rather Intimate,
thOBe 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, w hat 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 blm, and culminat-
ing in his actuil'y finding the imple-
ments of the crime in his Inspired ef-
forts to save the man of whose inno-
ceucj be 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 else, 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
we 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, rfir. 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 time!"
CHAPTER IX.
Pair Warning.
It was much more than a map of
the metropolis that Toye carried in his
able head He knew the right places
for the right things. He gazed criti-
cally at his boots He was not so
dead sure that he had struck the only
man for boots. There had been a
young fellow aboard the Kaiser Fritz,
quite a little bit of a military blood,
who had come ashore In a pair of
cloth tops that had rather unsettled
Mr. Toye's mind just on that one
point.
Captain Aylmer had said he would
like to have Toye see his club any
time he was passing and cared to look
in for lunch. He had Bald so as
though he would like It a great deal,
and suddenly Toye had a mind to take
him at his word right now. The idea
began with thoBe boots with cloth tops,
but that was not all there was to It;
there was something else that had
been at the back of Toye's mind all
morning, and now took charge in
front
Aylmer had talked some about a job
ti the war office that enabled htm to
lunch daily 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.
"Never want to see It again, or Ge-
noa either," said Captain Aylmer.
"Tho smoking-room's this way."
"Did you say you were there two
days?" Toye was cutting his cigar as
though it were a corn.
"Two 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 I 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 bis left thumb.
"I bay, you ve cut yourself!"
"1 guess It's nothing. Knife too
si.arp; please don't worry. Captain
Aylmer. I 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 I 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 his host
had listenod 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 fault"
"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
after 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-
rner'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 I should
have let the whole thing strike me a bit
sooner If I'd been Cazalet. Soon
enough to take a band-bag and a
toothbrush, eh? And 1 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.
If 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, an<
to obtain for the asking, at anothef
old haunt, on Cockspur street, tbt
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 hlB 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
pencil, paper and the little book of
trains; he looked horrified, he looked
distressed, and yet he looked crafty,
determined and Immensely alive. He
proceeded, however, to take some of
the life out of himself, and to add still
more to his apparent age, by repair-
ing for more Inward light to a Turk-
ish bath.
Now the only Turkish bath, accord-
ing to Hilton Toye's somewhat exclus-
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
SOCIETY WOMEN ADOPT ROPE SKIPPING FOR HEALTH
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Rope skipping as a healthful exercise Is nothing new; but rope skipping Indulged In by prominent women
on top of fashionable hotels Is a new pastime In New York which threatens to become almost as popular aa lea
ikattng. Tbe photograph shows a rope-skipping class on the root of a hotel. The women say the exercise Is fine
for reducing.
HARVARD BOYS ENROLL FOR MILITARY TRAINING
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Harvard having fallen In line with other universities and colleges which have adopted a course in military
training, the work of getting the students into soldierly condition is rapidly going on. It Is promised that when the
students have graduated they will be in a position, whenever the day should come that they may be called to take
up arms for their country, to act as officers in the army. The photograph shows some of the Harvard students
in the "Ball cage" lined up ready for drilling. Some of them'are in the uniform which will be worn by all of the
men when drilling.
"Did I Tell You I'd Any Friends
There?"
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 would
wait, and in fact waited over an hour
in the little lounge. An evening paper
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 quite forgotten—from the
newspaper enrf. 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 i
don't look a bit fit," said Cazalet. most !
kindly.
"Nor am I, 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 j
to all the capitals of Europe In turn
It takes you so long to flit around that
yon never know when you've got to
start in again."
"Which capital is It this time?" said
Cazalet. His exuberant geniality had |
been dashed very visibly for the mo- j
ment. But already his high spirits ■
were reasserting themselves; Indeed, |
a cynic with an ear might have caught j
the note of sudden consolation in the I
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, I mlBsed 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,
whethor I like it or not, and I don't
like it any, because I don't have any
friends there And that's what I'm do-
ing right here. I was wondering if
you'd do something for me, Cazalet?"
"If I can," said Cazalet, "with pleas-
ure." But his smiles were gone.
"I was 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
face. ,
"Did I tell you I'd any friends
there?"
The sound of hla voice waB perhaps
less hoarse than puzzled. Toye made
himself chuckle as be sat looking up
out of somber eyes.
"Well, if you didn't." said he, "1
guess I must have dreamed It
| (TO BK CONTINUED.)
BOY HERO OF SERB ARMY
BELGIAN
MR. WILSON
Konstantine Prolich, a thirteen-year-
old hero of the war in Serbia, enlisted
during the German-Bulgar drive and
was captured by the Teutons, who
gave him to Dr. Harriet Cockburn of
tbe Serbian Rod Cross. She brought
him to New York and the photograph
was made on his arrival. He still in-
lists on wearing his tattered uniform,
but says the boots he wears belonged
to a German soldier whom he killed.
DIG UP MAN-BIRD FOSSIL
Remains Found In Montana Show
Head Like Human Being, With
Body Like a Fowl.
A strange fossil, which some credu-
lous persons say was a creature that
was half man and half bird, was
placed on exhibition at the Billings
(Mont.) chamber of commerce. It
was found near Fromberg in the foot-
hills and is composed of the sedimen-
tary rock of the Mosozoic period,
which has furnished most of the geo-
logic data on which the Darwinian
theory of evolution is based.
The fossil is about 2V4 feet high
and the head Is shaped like that of
the human, with a well-developed pro-
jection over the base of the brain, a
larger forehead than that of tbe ape
and a prominent jaw. The body Is
shaped somewhat like that of a peli-
can with large projections at the
sides and the well-defined breast of a
bird. That the fossil, despite Its hu-
man suggestions, lo that of a creature
half bird and half reptile is suggested
>>y students.
President Wilson has JUBt received a token of the gratitude of the
Belgian children for the relief sent their country by Americans. It came
in the form of a belated Christmas box delivered at the White House by
Philip Hemenway Chadbourn of New York city, member of the Belgian
relief committee, who has Just returned from Belgium. The box contained
a variety of presents made by the children themselves. They range from
completely dressed dolls to hand-decorated sofa cushions and represent
many weeks of patient work by the youngsters. This picture of Mr. Chad-
bourn and the gifts was taken In the cabinet room of the White House.
PLANS MEMORIAL TO THE SOUTH
\
Gitzon Borglum, shown In the lower part of the illustration, has under-
taken the task of carving Stone mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., shown in the
upper part, Into a memorial to the South. Across the face of this mass of
granite he will carvs a frieze 2,000 feet long and 50 feet wW*. The mountain
is 700 feet high and the figures will bo in proportion.
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