The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 30, 1929, Page 6

‘FouL PLAY NONSENSE! IN A TWENTY ROOM PALACE. LIKE “GRAYSTONE' INEEWAH COULD EASY HAVE LOST HIM SELF! SYNOPSIS: surprise are ¢ Grenofen's face when he Amazement and amped on T rees Veronica's fugitive, whom Tom’s mother has named Cou- sin John Merryweather. But Cousin John's gged clothes, bair cropped close to his head, unshaven features, demands for utmost secrecy and his mysteri- ous black bag are not comp: ble to the shock Tom rece the following day. For morning paper carries an tonishing headline Escape of a Convict” and a description that leaves no doubt as to his guest’s identity. More disconcerting is the news that the convict’s accomplices in- clude a woman—on the very morning of Veronica’s une x- plained absence from the home of a friend, whom she was the as- “Daring visiting. Chapter 17 THE CUB TALKS Tuesday was a nasly day. Be- ginning with the shock of discov- ering the identity of Cousin Johr it included the fussy business of the Coroner’s inquest on Pell, it ended with two very disturbir incidents. I had been on very good te with Mr. Fotherbury He lik my drawings and I liked his gr selgnorial style: it amused me, and he was such a strange figure in the part He interested my and tickled my humor eye AR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, AUG. 30, 1929. &b Ly R Av Jo WALLING wommsmy Iplace. So that you will not mis- understand me when I say that I deeply regret and resent the vio- lence you used towards my son The m ntentious words con- vey no real idea of the air with which the old gentleman made this yronouncement—it s nothing jess. I told him he could hardly cxpect me to describe the details of the encounter or admit I acted wrongly from my point of view; how but I was quite willing to say ry 1 was that his own feelir {had been red. | He answered with ineffable gs dig- I put it all aside, Mr. Grenofen But I ar sure you will remember {in future that Mr. Fred Fotherbury {is my son.” We talked of other things, the ltragedy of Pell, the notoriety it gave N ce. Several times Mr. | Fothe eemct oi the voint of |a per lestion to me, but it 1 Never ¢ > to anythung more than I was going to ask—bhut never mind The cond incident—or rather jcbservation—occurred as I ap- proached the gate-house on my ’|way out of Newplace. Three men Iw d slo in front of me down the avenue, in close converse. Marling, the cub and Professor turned off by the church and went into Marling’s house be- fore T reached them and without secing me. | But not before I had overheard When the long inquest was ove and the jury had given the poll was a shade usual. "“Mr. Grenofen, do you know my son?” he asked, looking at me cold- y. "“Yes—and no,” I replied, feeling some embarrassment. “The truth s, Mr. Fotherburg, I hadn’t met your son till last night, and then we had a—well, a rather unfortu- nate introduction.” “I've heard about it. I am told the cause of it was a quarrel be- tween you over Miss Seabroke.” “Perhaps it might be so pressed,” I said. “He is a fool to quarrel anybody over Miss Seabroke. I do not approve of any advances by him to Miss Seabroke. I'll be quite candid with you, Mr. Grenofen. I have not a word to say against the young lady. I am aware that she has no part in the scheme—whose @uthor I need not mention—for making her the heiress of New- more formal than ex- with | two sentences—a question and an answer: “Most remarkable,” sald Laxton; no idea where he went be sure, because I was a bit foxed,” said the cub, “but I'm pretty content he went off along the cliff path towards Hollam Bay.” a clear field to run in anybody | they chose, Mr. Fotherbury took me aside into his study. I thought he Perhaps it was not surprising that by the second day I had ac- quired a certain distaste for Cou- sin John. T detest furitiveness of all sorts, and Cousin John made ime furtive. People learned— through Laxton, I suppose—that we had a relative staying with us, and remarked that they hadn't seen him. I lied glibly about the un- fortunate influenza that had kept him in bed. Laxton never saw me but he asked after my cousin’s health. This lasted three days. I saw Véronica only once during those three days. She said that as I had a visitor staying at Wood- cot, I must necessarily be much | preoccupied, and said it with a cer- tain undertone. I did not seck out Veroniea again. USE NANAIMO SCREENED Pacific Coast Coal Company H. G. WALMSLEY, Agent. PHONE 412 JusT ABOUT TO DISH ME SOME DIRT WHEN HE But I saw far too much of Pro | fessor Laxton, He I cot on any and every pretext Wednesday he was there twice Thursday he left us alo per time, and then suddenly peared with an invitation for to take an excursion with him on Friday to London. I politely declined his without giving any spi He seem sappointed I found it hard to divine what Professor Laxton was, but perfect- ly simple to divine he was not a professor of archeology. Some day I would discover real profe: sion. The scene in the cloisters >n that Sunday night and the sub- equent hobnobbing of Professor Laxton and Marling, when pup zether, gave me an uncomfo feeling that I had been fooled to he top of my bent. In the same three days, I saw z00d deal, also, of Cousin John. In the quietude of the guest-room at | Woodeot, he underwent a rapid| change. He lost some of his feroc- | ity. He civilized his appetite. He| softened his voice. When he had discarded the tramp | outfit and put on some my' clothes, Cousin John was a relative I need not have been ashamed to lisplay to the whole village. But he firmly refused to be displayed to anyone except my mother and me. He would not leave his room. He asked for books and read a good deal. pipe. was glag to talk to either of us,| and would talk intelligently about | everything but himself. On own identity, on his past, on his in- tentions for the future, he dumb as a turnip. i sugg ific reason.| | of out of him by accident came when | he let slip the fact that he knew| Blackwater and the district very well. Having seen that I_chewed was as|s (OFR P STERRET: g5 this over, he tried hard to confuse ful ign orance. nted Woocd- my impression by displays of wil- On| or He asked for the newspaper each the third day - /morning and studied it thoroughly. | If he read about himself, he made me [no allusion to it. It seemed on {though Cousin John had been liv- ing with us a century and was as ke- ly to be there for a millenniu: But ed in the total a burst of more intense. duration of visit was only three days and ¢ It had begun sensati exciter } (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morroy his bit ; it end- ment far Co) Cousin John's mystery black bag brings Tom Grenofen (ur- ther concern. Read tomorrow's chapt er. P DOUGLAS NEWS DOUGLASIT RETURN FROM TAKU OTHERS GOING Nels Anderson and Joe Simpscn left this morning for the Taku River coun to lock the distri {over and have a couple ¢ outing and prospecting. J. 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