Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1929, Page 24

+ real Cousin John Merryweather, coming + several days with the pseudo-archeolo- ' Roger Pell and her ward, the escaped | * repeated. Death Treasure : By R. A. J. Walling (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) SYNOPSIS.' Cousin John returns! But this is the at Mrs. Grenofen’s urgent request to ama>* flng;um]wnd the 0fessor- detec ton. Cousin John spends gist, visits the Fotherbury excavations with him and finally leaves Larton thoroughly puzeled. Tom has another | nothing, meither of the mystery of convict, nor of her entanglement with them. She reassures Tom, however, that no moral wrong is involved jn their thrilling escapade and he is satisfied !0’ ask no questiols. TRe serenity of Woodcot is disturded the next day when a visitor is announced—to Tom's sur- prise—Parson Marling. CHAPTER XXVIL MISSING EVIDENCE. S T was showing Marling into the studio, very wary of him, I noticed that he was paler, more solemn, more owlish than when he last sat in this room. “I seem destined to meet you only on unpleasant business, Mr. Grenofen,” he began. “The last meeting is all washed out by what's happened since,” said I. “Could we be just candid?” sald Marling. “It might be better. T've come under a strong sense of-—com- pulsion, I'll say I have a purely friendly motive.” . . 1 made same sort of acknowledgment of Marling's friendly motive and put on a double guard of caution. I signed to him to go on. “I was wrong in supposing that Pell would evade the meeting at Newplace,” he said. “Better for him if he had stayed away. But what I told you about Pell was right. Now, Mr. Grenofen, for some reason you have got yourself mixed up with a complicated and very dreadful business, which does not stop at the murder of Pell. And what I came to tcl} you, ‘lgra Grenofen, is that you yourself are anger.” “In danger of what? And from whom?” I fired at him. Marling hesitated. I watched him closely, this man who had probably escaped death only because Pell stopped the bullet intended for him, who seemed %0 be at the base of the whole mystery of Roger Pell. He was greatly disturbed, in deadly earnest. His eyes burned in his pale face. “You spumbled into this,” said he. “You have no real responsibility. I came to warn you.” “Of what, or of whom, padre?” I “Of an_arrest—at an: whom? Of several people, but of Lax- ton in particular.” “Why should any one want to arrest me? And Laxton, of all people!” I sald. Marling made a gesture of weariness. “We needn't beat about the bush, need we?” he asked. “You must have redléed what Laxton is and what he wants.” “What does he want?” “To discover who killed Pell.” “But, my dear padre, you for{ Laxton was interested in Nezgn be- fore anybody thought of 'k Pell. 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Let us suppose for a|my ment, that | done with under any|wore when he arrived. pretext and he left behind him any plece of evidence which would enable won't arrest you himself: but he'll have | them to establish his identity—well, I you arrested simply because he doesn't . In believe you stumbled into it. He thinks you were in it from the first.” ° T looked steadily into Marling's eyes as he spoke, wondering why he had come to me with this warning. W “You'll admit, padre,” said I, “that on the face of it I'm opportunity to see Veronica, dut learns |skeptical. Why shouls body else attack me about the death of Pell rather than any other man who had anything to do with Pell?” “I don’t know that it's a good rea- son; but I know the reason such as it 3 eyebrows went i “You've got a “Don't think of me as a padre now, | rema: 1 implore you—but merely as & man who sees you in peril and wants to help you.” I could get no more out of him and he seemed to want nof from me. (DOW. “Brain works Then I did not stay to ponder Mar- I went straight to to ask her what she had the clothes “Oh—you can’'t want those Tags,’” said she. "'rhedv were put in my in- cinerator the day after and they're now supplying potash to my apple |yaxton to find trees. hasn't been there ided. “On a shirt.” my safe, Som " she mod “You think of everything” I said. At least no telltale prison marks re- mained to supply Laxton with the bit of evidence he wanted. After lunch I went across to Passage and saw Somerfield. I told him about Marling's visit. His safe of mine. Somerfleld me. rked. “Yes, isn't she?” * by electricity. But | the yours hasgn't been making Grenofen,” or you vg‘uldn‘z be t d° mean, Somerfleld?” “You've said nothing about the piece of evidence Laxton's a bag! Didn’t you say that, when Laxton said he thought he'd met your cousin, he mené}:nf a black bag?” “And as he'd never seen any’ cousin at all, he must have known about the black bag. Let's get on with it quick. There must not be any black “Good lord!—he erfiel “You thihk not?” “Well—I wouldn't trust him with a And if I were you, Grenofen, I wouldn't lose a minute.” ulled me across in the punt and walked - 1 had never really faced the ques- and higher. t-class mother,” he contact, here contained no evidence of deceit. But I was afraid. I made Somerfield come into the studio with me. His company was a fortification. “It's in there,” sald I, pointing to the little safe in the wall. wh:?'m we do with it?” “Do? Take out what's in it and burn the wretched . “Oh—but it's a trust for Miss Sea- broke.” “You mean to say we've no right to open it? Why—for the very of V!I'e.nlcll" “Veronica? Yes, I suppose 're ol oor: sy ocl e studio door, opened the safe and took out the bag. It was extraordinarily heavy. That weight, fter—the. black for at Woodwb:? he already.” ;gmdn‘t break open sald Somerfield. to the fear I felt. I lifted it to a table in the window. 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