New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 15, 1922, Page 5

(Continued From Our Last Issue) Antony tried to put himself in Cay- ley's place—Cayley, when Antony had first discovered him, hammering at the door and crying, “Let me in!"| Whatever had happened inside the office, whoever had killed Robert, Cayley knew all about it, and knew that Mark was not inside, and had not escaped by the window. But it was | necessary to Cayley's plans—to | Mark's plans if they were acting in concert—that he should be thought so | to have escaped. At some time, then, | while he was hammering (the key in his pocket) at the locked door, he must suddenly have remembered— with what a shock!—that a mistake had been made, A window had not been left open! And then Antony's sudden appear- | ance: Here was a complication. And Antony suggesting that they should try the window! Why, the window was just what he wanted to avold. No wonder he had seemed dazed at first. Ah, here at last was the explana- tion why they had gone the longest way round—and yet run, It was Cayley's only chance of getting a start on Antony, of getting to the windows first, of working them open somehow | tefore Antony caught him up. Even| if that were impossible, he must get there first, just to make sure. 8o he had run. But Antony had kept up with him. They had broken in the window together, and gone into the office, But Cayley was not done yet. There was the dressing room window! But quietly, quietly. An- tony mustn't hear. And Antony didn’t hear. Indeed, ke had played up to Cayley nplendmy Not only had he called attention to the open window, but he had care- fully explained to Cayley why Mark had chosen this particular window. And Cayley had agreed that probably was the reason. How he must have checkled to himself! They were outside on ugain now, Bill and Antony, and Bill was listening openmouthed to his friend's theory of vesterday's happen- | ings. It only gave them another mystery to solve. “What's that?"” said Antony. “Mark. Where's Mark? If he never went into the office at all, (th‘ where is he now?" | “I don’t say that he never went into the office. In fact, he must have gone. Elsie heard him." He etopped and repeated slowly, *‘She heard him—at least she says she did. But if he was there, he came out 4gain by the door.” “Well, but where does you?” "“Where it led Mark. The passage.” “Do you mean that he’s been hid- ing there all the time?" Antony was silent until Bill had re- peated his question, and then with an eftort- he came out of his thoughts and answered him. | #We'd. better make certain. Could you be a sleuth-hound Bill—one of those . that travel on their stomachs very noiselessly? I mean, could you get near enough to the pond to make sure that Cayley ls still there, with- out letting him see you?" . “Rather!"” He got up You wait.” the lawn that lead eagerly. have made a mistake, Bill? hear him?" oand—well, one can't {rattled these words | rather P Antony’s head shot up suddenly. b 'Why. that was what Mark sald,” he What Elsie heard him say.” | ‘Oh, that.” R 7 . 1 suppose she couldn't She did his “She couldn't have mistaken voice, if that's what you mean." LONZ “Mark had an extraordinary char- acteristic voice."” “Oh!" “Rather high-pitched, you explain, know, byt—" es?" g “Well, rather like this,\you know, or even more 8o if anything.'" He off In Mark's monotonous, high-pitched volce, and then laughed, and added in BAID BILL, TURN- WITH A START, GOOD LORD! ING ROUND “CAYLEY!"” his natural volce, really rather good.” Antony nodded quickly. like it?" he said. “Exactly.” “Yes.” He got up and squeezed Bill's arm. “Well jyst go and see about Cayley, and then we'll get mov- ing. T shall be in the library.” “Right.” Bill nodded and walked off in the direction of the pond. This was glorious fun; this was life. The in. mediate program could hardly be bet- tered. To Antony, who was older and who realized into what deep waters they were getting, it did not seem fun. But it was amazingly interesting. It was like looking at an opal, and dis- covering with every movement of it some new color, some new gleam of light reflected, and yet never really seeing the opal as a whole. His brain could not get hold of it. But there were moments when he almost had it . . and then turned away from it. life than Bill, but he had never seen murder before, and thits which was in his mind now, and to which he was say, that was “That was afraid to listen, was not just the hot- | klooded killing which any man may come to if he lose control. It was something much more horrible, Too horrible to be true. Then let him lcok again for the truth. He looked again—but it wgs all out of focus. O flies or insects can con- taminate Domino Package Sugars. They are always pro- tected by sturdy cartons and strong cotton bags. They are weighed, packed and sealed en- tirely by machine, never ex- posed on the way from our re- finery to your home. Ask for Domino by name. 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Antony took a torch from his pocket and flashed it down into the blackness. “Look,"” he whispered to the eager Bill. “The steps begin down there, Six feet down."” He flashed his torch up again. There was a handhold of {ron, a sort of large iron staple, in the bricks in front of them. “You swing off there,” gaid Bill ‘At least, T suppose you do. I won- der how Ruth Norris liked doing it.” “Cayley helped her, I should think It's funny."” “Shall T go first?” asked BIl, viously longing to do so. Antony shook his head with a smile. “I think I will, if you don't mind very much, BilL” “Righto,” he sald. “Go,on.” “Well, we'll just make sure we can get back again, first. It really wouldn't be fair on the Inspector if we got stuck down here for the rest of our lives. He's got enough e, do trying to find "Mark, but if he has to find you and me as well—" Antony sat down on the ledge of bricks, swung his feet over, and sat {there for a moment, his legs dangling. He flashed his torch into the darkness again, g0 as to make sure where the steps began: then returned it to his pocket, seized the staple in front of Lim and swung himself down. His feet touched the steps beneath him, and he let go. “Is it all right?" “All right. I'll just go down to |the bottom of the steps and back. ob- ATIGUST 15, 1922, From Our AUGUST FUR SALE We Offer Tomorrow French Coney FUR COATS $25.00 Big roomy coats of French | 10-in. with | a sweep of l/l/ew Britains Shopping Center I L STORE (RAPHAELS DEPARTMENT STORE | /\/( wBritainCr o to oM (/ ) e [’/om/r Lverybody T o wednesdaY Morning Shoppers e WE HAVE MADE BIG SLASHES ON HUNDREDS OF ITEMS | G870+ THROUGHOUT THE STORE--SO AS TO MAKE WEDNES- | DAY MORNING DO THE WORK OF A WHOLE DAY. YOU WILL DO WELL TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE SLASHES. THEY SAVE YOU MONEY. PREPARE NOW TO GET THE CHILDREN READY FOR SCHOOL — GETTING THER RE. QUIREMENTS IN THESE WEDNESDAY MORNING SPECIALS. 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To close the secret door safely but noiselessly, to make sure that the books were in the right places, to| move away to another row of shelves —the difflculty was not to decide | what to do, but to do all this in five |seconds rather than in six. “Ah, there you are,” said from the doorway. “Hallo!" said Bill, in surprise, look- ing up from the fourth volume of {“The Life and Works of Samuel Tay- |1or Coleridge.” *“Have they finished 2" “Finished what?"" “The pond,” said Bill, wondering why he was reading Coleridge on such ! a fine afternoon. Desperately he tried to think of a good reason . verifying a quotation—an argument with Antony—that would do. But what quotation? “Oh, no. They're | Where's Gillingham 2" The Ancient Mariner''—water, | water, everywhere—or was that some- thing else? And where was Gilling- ham? Water, water everywhere— “Tony? Oh, he's about somewhere. |They aren't finding anything at the pond, are they?" “No. But they like doing it.| Something off their minds when they can say they've done it.” Bill, deep in his book, and said "Yes," |again, He was just getting to the place. “What's the hook?" said Cayley, coming up to him. Out of the cor- ner of his eye he glanced at the shelf lof sermons as he came. Bill saw that glance and wondered Was there anything there to give away the| secret? “I was just looking up a quotation,” he drawled. “Tony and I had a bet |about it. You know that thing—| about—er—water, water everywhere, | and—er-—not a drop to drink." (But | |what on earth, he wondered to him- | gelf, were they betting about?) | “'Nor any drop to drink,’ to be ac- | curate.” Bill looked at him in surprise. |Then a happy smile came on his face. “Quite sure?” he said. | “Ot course.” | “Then you've saved me a lot of trouble. That's what the bet was |about.” He closed the book with a, slam, put it back in its shelf, and be- |gan to feel for his pipe and tobacco. |“I was a fool to bet with Tony,” he |added. “He always knows that sort of thing." | | So far, =0 good. But Cayley still in the library, and there was Antony, all unsuspecting, in the passage. When Antony came back he would not be surprised to find the | door elosed, because the whole object lof his going had been to see if he could open It easily from the inside. | At any moment, then, the bookshelf -mmhi swing back and show Antony's head in the gap. A nice surprise for | Cayley! 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