Colony Courier (Colony, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1916 Page: 3 of 8
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SYNOPSIS.
Casalet, on Iho steamer Kaiser FrIU.
homeward bound from Australia, crfca
•ut In hla alaap that Hsnry Craven, who
Ion years before had ruined Ida father
And himself, la dead, and Undo that Hil-
ton Toye, who aharea the atateroom with
him. knowa Craven and alao Blanche
Macnalr. a former neighbor and play-
mate. When the daily papera come
•board at Southampton Toye reada that
Craven haa been murdered and colls
Caaalet'a dream aecond eight. He thinks
Af doing a little amateur detective work
on the case hliuaelf. In the train to town
they discuss the murder, which waa com-
mitted at Caaalet'a old home. Toye hears
from Caaalet that Scruton. who had been
Caaalet'a friend and the scapegoat for
Craven's dlahoneaty, haa been released
rtom prlaon. Caaalet goes down the
river and meete Blanche, Toye alao
cornea to aee her and tella Caaalet that
Scruton haa been arreated, but aa he
doaan't believe the old clerk la guilty he
■ going to ferret out the murderer.
Caaalet and Blanche go to Caaalet'a old
pome and meet Mr. Drink water of Scot-
land Yard. Caaalet gpea with Drink wa-
ter to the library where the murder waa
committed, ahowa him a aecret paaaage
fie knew aa a boy, and leada the w
through It. In town Toye, talking wl
Caaalet about the murder, auggeata linger
grlnta on the weapon found In the aecret
haaaage aa a means of trapping the mur-
derer and aucceeda In aecurlng a print
fasalet's hand.
that Caaalet bad not been on bla way
home from Australia at the time!
l.lke many deliberate speakers, Toy*
thought like lightning, and bad reached
tbfa point before he waa a hundred
yarda from the hotel; then he thought
of gomethlng elae, and retraced hla
hla Italy overland Rather a good Idea.
I thought, eapecially aa he raid he
had friends in Rome; but we never
heard of 'em beforehand, and I should
have let the whole thing strike me a bit
soouer if I'd been Cazalet Soon
enough to take a hand-bag and a
toothbrush, eh? And 1 don't think I
should have run It quite so line at
Genoa, either. But there are rum
birds In thta world, and always Will
be!"
Toye felt one himaelf as he picked
hit way through 8t. James’ square.
If It had not been Just after lunch, be
would have gone straight and had a
coektatl, for of course he knew tbs
only place for them. What he did was
to alue round out of the square, and
to obtain for the asking, nt another
old haunt, on Cockspur street, tbs
latest little tlme>table of continental
trains. This be carried, not on foot
but In A taxi, to the Savoy Hotel,
where It kept him busy In his own
room for the best part of another hour.
CHARLES E. HUGHES AND HIS FAMILY
n-wr-
steps. He retraced them even to tbs _________
table at which he had sat with Casalet But by that time Hilton Toy# looked
not very many minutes ago; the wait-1 more than an hour older than on nit-
er was only now beginning to dear
sway.
“Say, waiter, what have you dons
with the menu that was In that toast-
rack? There was something on It that
we rather wanted to keep."
"! thought there waa, air,” said the
English waiter at that admirable ho-
tel. Toye, however, prepared to talk
to him like an American uncle of
Dutch extractlou.
ting down at hla writing-table with
pencil, paper and the little book of
trains; he looked horrified, he looked
dletreeaed, and yet he looked crafty,
determined end immensely alive. He
proceeded, however, to take aome of
the life out of himaelf, and to add still
more to hie apparent age, by repair-
Ing for more Inward light to a Turk-
leh bath.
CHAPTER VIII—Continued.
Now the only Turkish bath, accord*
“You thought that, and you took It | Ing to Hilton Toye’s somewhat exclus-
ive code, waa not even a hundred
yards from Cazalet's hotel; and thero
the visitor of the morning again pre-
sented himself before the afternoon;
now merely a little worn, as a men
away?"
"Not at all, sir. I ’appened to ob-
serve the other gentleman put the
menu In hla pocket, behind your back
aa you were getting up, because I
passed a remark about It to the head
waiter gt the time!”
Casalet excused himself with deci-
sion. He had a full morning In front
Of him. He waa going to eee Mies
Macnalr's brother, eon of the late head
«f his father's old Arm of solicitors,
«nd now one of the partners, to get
them either to take up Bcruton’e case
themselves, or else to recommend a
firm perhaps more accustomed to
criminal practloe. Casalet was always
•pt to be elaborate in the first person
Aingular, either In the past or In the
future tense; but he was more So
than usual In expiating his consid-
ered Intentions In this matter that
lay ao very near his heart.
"Going to see Scruton. too?" said
Toye.
"Not necessarily," was the ahort re-
ply. But It also was elaborated by
Casalet on a moment's consideration.
The fact waa 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 eee.
“It's a perfect scandal that he should
fie 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
fiave been shivering In the Michael-
Angelo cupboard, wondering how the
devil he was ever going to get out
again.”
“Then you think old man Craven—
begging bis poor pardon—was getting
out some cigars when the man. who-
ever he was, came In and knocked
film on the head?”
Cazalet nodded vigorously. "That’s
the likeliest thing of all!” be cried.
“Then the gong went—there may even
fiave come a knock at the door—and
there was that cupboard standing open
at his elbow."
“With a hole In the floor that might
fiave been made for him?”
“Aa 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 wonderful yarn!" ex-
claimed Hilton Toye, and he lighted
the cigar that Cazalet bad given him
CHAPTER IX.
Pair Warning.
It waa much more than a map of
the metropolis that Toye carried In bla
able head. He knew the right places
for the right things. He gazed crltl
cally at bla boots He was not so
dead sure that be 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 topa that had rather unsettled
Mr. Toye'a mind Just on that one
point.
Captain Aylmer had aald he would
like to have Toye see his club any
time he was passing and cared to look
In f6r lunch. He bad aald so aa
though ho would like It a great deal,
and suddenly Toye bad a mind to take
him at his word right now. The Idea
began with those boots with cloth tops
but that was not all there was to It;
Lhere «mdhan I again about the chin, which of course
morning, and now took charge in
You I'd Any Friends
There?"
will look after losing a stone an hour
on a warm afternoon, and a bit blue
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Thla photograph of Charles E. Hughes, Republican candidate for the presidency, and hie family was made a few
days ago at hla home lnvBrldgehampton, L. I. Left to right are: Mr. Hughes, Elisabeth, Catherine, Helen and lire,
Hughes.
SOCIETY AT NEWPORT ON PARADE
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front
Aylmer had talked some about a job
in the war office that enabled him to
lunch dally at the Rag; but what hla
Job had been aboard a German steam-
er Toye did not know and was not the
man to Inquire. It was no business of
bis, anyway. Reference to a card,
traded for hla own In Southampton
Water, and duly filed in his cign^tte-
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 aee the cemetery at
Genoa?" suddenly Inquired the. via-
Itor on their way back through the
hall. A martial bust had been ad-
mired extravagantly before the ques-
tion.
"Never want to aee It again, or Ge-
noa either.” aald Captain Aylmer.
"The smoking-room’s this way."
“Did you say you were there two
days?" Toys 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
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 end. But be was watting
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 aee
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," aald Cazalet, most
kindly.
"Nor am I. sir!" exclaimed Toye.
"I guess London's no place for me In
the fall. Just aa 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 la turn.
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The society folk summering at Newport hud a patriotic parade, the largest division of which waa fornad of
matrons and debutantes all dreaaod la white.
SEARCHING REFUGEES FROM JUAREZ’ D0,NQ THEJ!AN’S '"om
grievance against him, and culminat-
ing In hla actually finding the imple-
ment! of the crime ta hla Inaplred af
torts to save the man of whose Innw
tinea ha waa ao poaIMffi. Mag,
of feeling In hla voice, but h
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 1 only got
on at Genoa, and they couldn't give
me
with Cazalet';
much of him."
It was Toye'a third and separate In
dependent attempt to introduce the
name and fame of Caaalet as a natural
toplo of conversation. Twice hi* host
“I think it may be thought one If ,,oinethl e,Be. xber6 WttB no Bort
the police ever own how they mado nt t
their find," agreed Cazalet, laughing
and looking at hla watch. Toye had
never beard him laugh so often “By
the way. Drlnkwater doesn't want any
of all this to come out until he's
dragged hla man before the beak
again."
“Which you mean to prevent?”
“If only I can! 1 more or leaa prom-
ised not to talk, however, and I'm
lure you won’t. You knew ao much
already, you may juat as well know
the rest thla week aa well ac next, If
you don't mind keeping It to your-
self."
Nobody could have minded thla par-
ticular embargo leae than Hilton Toye.
Ha aaw Cazalet off with a amlle that
waa aa yet merely puzzled, and not
unfriendly until he had time to feoall
Mlie Blanche’s part In the strange
affair of the previous afternoon
Say, weren't thoy rather Intimate,
those two, even If they had known
each other all their Uvea? He had It
(rom Blanche (with her second re-
fusal) that aha waa not, and never
had been, engaged. And a fellow who
jnly wrote to her once In n year—
(till, they must have been darned In
llmate, and thla funny affair would
firing them together again quioher
than anything.
Bay. what a funny affair It was whan
fou came to thing of It I Funny all
through, It now struck Toyei begin-
glng on bonrd ship with thnt dream of
Onaalet'a about the murdered man,
lending to all that talk of tho old
Genoa. I guess I was wise," added | It takes you so long to flit around that
Toye, aa though he was thinking
you never know when you’ve got to
start In again.”
"Which capital la It thla time?" aald
Cazalet. His exuberant geniality had
been dashed very visibly for the mo-
ment. But already hla high spirits
were reasserting themselves; Indeed,
were reasserun* . , A scene on the United States side of the International bridge at El Paso
"*vnlc with an ear might have caught allowing United States aoldlera searching Mexican refugeea who flee Mealco
consolation U» | <or prot.oUoa untott. <■» .MW,. .. wltk
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Toye, watching the effect of hla
words.
"But you've Just come back from
there!” Cazalet looked no worse than
puzzled.
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CHINESE PIE MAN WELCOME IN CAMP
had listened with ndnmuttlne polite-1 "N°- ,k,!"Vn)l her-*,°thu ,ittp
nD..- .hi. time he waa eniovlna oulte I waBnmyb “Jltl^“"plngbehind my
back."
"What situation?"
“Oh, why, It wouldn’t interest you!
But I’ve got to go down to Rome,
whether 1 like It or not. and I don’t
like it any, because I don’t have any
friends there And that'a what I’m do-
ing right here. I waa wondering if
you'd do something for me, Cazalet?’
"If I can," aald Cazalet, "with pleas-
ure." But bla amllea ware gone.
“I waa wondering If you'd give me
an Introduction to thoee friends of
youra In Rome!"
There waa a little pause, and Caaa-
let'a tongue Juat showed between hla
llpa, moistening them. It waa at that
moment the only touch of color tn hla
fa“Did 1 tall you I'd any frlauda
there?" .
The aound of hla voice waa perhaps
leaa hoaraa than pusalad. Toys made
himaelf chuchle as ha eat looking up
out of aombor oyoa.
"Wall, It you didn’t, aald ha, I
>uaaa 1 muat have dreamed It."
" (TO MM CONTINUED*
ness; this time he wee enjoying quite
the second-best liqueur brandy to be
had at the Rag; and he leaned back
in hla chair
'You were rather Impressed with
him, weren’t you?" aald Captain Ayl-
mer. “Well, frankly, t wasn't, but it
may have been my fault."
"1 waa only golpg to ask you one
thing about Mr. Cazalet," Toye said,
“and I guess t've a reason for asking,
though there's no time to state It now.
What did you think of him, Captain
Aylmor, on the whole?"
"Ah, there you have me. 'On tha
whole' la Juat the difficulty." aald Ayl-
mer, answering tha straight question
readily enough. "I thought he waa a
very good chap aa far aa Naples, but
after denoa ha waa another being. I’v«
sometimes wondered what happened In
hU three or four daya aehore.”
"Throe or four, did you say?”
And at tha laat moment Toys would
have playad Wedding duest to Ayl-
mor e Ancient Mariner.
"Yea; you 000, bn know thoaa dar-
man hoots waste a couple of daya at
deaoa, ao ha landed at Naplaa and did
A woman engineer oiling up an ongtno
In a London factory. No on* could
term thta garb frivolous. Thla angina*
woman means business, and looks it,
every Inch. She la but one of many
who are tolling In lowly capadtlai oar-
ing not how arduous or menial la tha
work. There are now naarly 700,000
women working In the war Industries
where before the war there were only
184,000. Tha labor problem In England
haa been solved to a great extant by
tha women who have stepped Into tho
places left vacant by the men going
off to war.
Thu Chlneae pie man and hie little eon are among tho moat welcome
vial tors at the camp of the United Mtataa aoldlera In Mexico. Pie la not
included regularly In tho menu prepared for the boyo, and when they are given
an opportunity to buy a few pita on the Eds they never let the ehanoe ally.
Advise te dpertamon.
When In doubt treat your guide like
a human being. Consult him from the
start oven In making up the grub
stake i it flattere hltu and you may
learn aomethlng.
Plan the next day's program with
him, and remember that ho la carry-
ing tha canoe and not you, and that it
Is hard work lb warm weather.
If any habit naeda correction, do It
aa near the start aa possible, hut In n
tactful, frank way.
Don't wait until your guide bnfi
turned In end la rapidly movlnf thtai
dreamland before asking him tfi |qj
down to tha spring for water.
Don't aak your guide to brash the
game and flatteries laws, or oncouraie
him to take n woo drapplo toe mueh
hsatherdew.
Make a chum ef him and you will
be rewarded. 4
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