Show alie ay WOW WOMAN NG author of Ghe AMATEUR chaa CRACKSMAN etc by 0 IN aa pa rf leprell fe SYNOPSIS agn cazalet on the a ate ninor kaiser Is aro homeward w dg bauni bouni f from australia it cries get I 1 in m his 1 I ICOD it that t g henry I 1 ay iy c craven who I 1 ten lara ce before mid ruined ills ile albl and le lest himself st 1 a dead d bud and 1 anja I s in that hll too ton to toye who shares the sto stateroom him 41 know w cla craden anil and albo W WG blanche G cau c a nor cormer c neighbor gabor and d playmate when ana daily papers come aboard re at southampton hout hampton toye reads that I 1 C craven I 1 me hn I 1 been more d and calls C I 1 dream c second eight t it he hicks it i doing a 11 little II am amateur or detective mok B on go the 1 case I h himself I 1 in in the D train t to I 1 to town dinv inv abe 4 a the murder I 1 r nelch lit VAS e coin at B old it I 1 home to toe beara from cazalet lit that Sr bruton uton who he had bad blen rg G III co casalet a r friend and the he iut or craven B bh to aas released hosed from act CHAPTER III Ill C Continued linued toye looked disconcert di disconcerted t ad and dla die but at the same t time me frankly r ay puzzled he apolo apologized apologised ged none ne u the i e 1 less read ll with mith almost ingenuous cour tesy and ad fullness but he ended by ex pla vla ining himself in a single son sentence tenc old and that told more than the rest of hta his ard eloquence put to gether th or if a man had don done you do down lik like that wouldn t you ant to kill him the very moment you came out Ca alet the creature of at impulse vas off at a tangent I 1 id it corsi borgne him if he be did it too he exclaimed id move heaven and earth to a saie him guilty or not guilty entity wouldn I 1 you in my place pines i 1 I don it know said hilton toye it depends on the place loura in I 1 guess and the keen dark else came drilling into Ca cazalet alt a skull hull like aug augere a 1 I I 1 thought bought I 1 told ion on he explained 1 impatiently P it kiy I 1 tte e were I 1 in the office I 1 together wg ther he was go good wera to t 0 we me inked at the bus business lutse hours hour I 1 me was inclined to keep let we me donn lighter in every dav a than I 1 deserved you may say by it was part of his game but I 1 take people as 1 I red find the them and then as I 1 told tod you scruton me ft as to ten thousand times more a sinned against the than blueing binning are ie i on aura a it you knew it at th the toa time I 1 didn dian L t I 1 told you so the last night V ft ell I 1 I 1 ask questions 1 I said hilton tole and began folding up his bis newspaper with mith even more than his usual deliberation oh III I 1 tell you tried cried cazalet on gao graciously BIT mitody II 11 s my own lault tor tell ins ing ou go so much it oas in a letter from scruton himself that I 1 heard beard the ft bole hole t thing h ing id britten to hun him toward tit th the e end suggesting things he managed to get an answer an r through that would cold never have bale P passed bit the prison authorities and and that a why I 1 came home borne just when shell I 1 did concluded cazalet that a why by I 1 doln t wait till after showing shearing he s be been through about enough and ile I 1 ve had bad more luck than I 1 deserved I 1 recent meant to ilk take him back with me to keep the b cooka ok on our station if you want to know the brusk loice tre trembled to toe let his hia newspaper ali slide to the floor but the that waa one fine e he ex all claimed simply that as floa fine an ac tion till as I 1 is e heard board of in a long time it if it comes off oaid baid cazalet in a gloomy voice a DOU dont 1 3 iou on worry it 11 come oft off Is be out vt vet for sure I 1 mean do you know that he is scruton GG YA Yea Y A since ml you yen press it 1 lie he u wrote rote to tell me that he be was waa corn com ing out even sooner than le he expected then he can stop step out tor for me said hill klitou tole toe I 1 guess nee I 1 in not dot r running or for that reward CHAPTER IV driver down the he at waterloo the t hi two twi men parted pith aus a to fair exchange ba g a of if flug fitting B ipe echea ahe none does of which ring really false alse and yet cazalet found himself emphatically unable toma to make keany any plans it all tor for the next its fw days day ill also he so seemed me d in two e I 1 minds minda now about a jerma n str street t hot hotel pr previously men adit I 1 tinned it a aa h hia i immediate destination and his step was aa indubitably lighter as a C ye he went ott off first ot of all to the loop line 1 to make ilk sure r of borne a train or I 1 ther other that he might have to take tahe afe the al ald me was out I 1 in the he event elect he did not at aks the that t train or any other ill lot for the new in a I 1 I 1 I 1 of r I 1 the h new traffic clotho the saw new gmell melt I 1 of the h less streets and ad the ch newer joys of the new newest t of new taxi rate cabs all worked t together geth or and ad ao seat ly IY upon agal organism that he had it a little it colloquy with his hia smart young ug driver I instead lead of if paying him in jermyn jermin street he nearly did ply pay him a off J fand and with something met more than his s sual at impetuosity a aa either a liar or a fool 0 with ith no sense of time or space but B t t thata I 1 at as aa quick as the thain my Y go good it lellow fellow blustered cazalet quicker said eaid the tha smart loung III arl low without dipping his cigarette it you we were going by the old ern era the very man and especially the manners that made or marred him we wax entirely entirely new to cazalet na be a P product due of the old country but he had bad come coma from the bush and lip he felt tb as though he might have been back the there but tor far the smell it of petrol petra and it the my cry of the ont motor horn from end to end of those teeming of bricks brick an and it mortar he had accompanied his hia bagga just as A far aa the bar bureau of the JY J Y street hot hotel any room they liked mid bud ho be bould b be a back so some time before midnight that was his hia card they could enter his hia name game for themselves he departed pi pipe aia I 1 in mouth open knife in one hand plug tobacco la in the at other her and ad remarks were let CIA passed d 1 tn let jermyn street ag the test taxi bounced put at west 1 in bilat ballast but indeed it was waa too fine a morn ing fag to waste another minute indoors indent even to change one am a clothes it caza caba let had possessed any better thin the ones one he wore were and ad did not rather glory in his hia rude attire he was simply and comfortably Im forMbly drunk with mith the tha delight ot at being back he 14 had aber or dreamed ot of its getting I 1 nto into hia big head like this at the time lie he d did id not net realize that it had that was the beauty of his bout NO he knew well bell enough what he be was waa doing and seeing but inwardly he waa nee lit crail orally y blind yesterday let erday was left be him hind d and forgotten like the albert memorial and to tomorrow morrow was still as distant as the sea aea if there were such things as to morrow and the sea meanwhile what vivid miles ol of daz aling life what shot a subtle autumn flavor in the air how bow cool in the shadows b dome how warm in the sun what hat a spark ling old ri aher or it was to be sure and let at it 11 the those er t the first of 1 t the be ilece fint an autumn t am tints on go t the ile hiees in C cantle nau ban there went ant a fi funeral merall on its way ay to mortlake morblake Mort lake the taxi gi overhauled er hauled it at a callous callon speed cadlet just had time to tear off his great sott hat bat it was waa actually the first funeral he had bad seen since his bis own all fathers father B no wonder his radiance suffered a brief eclipse but I 1 in another moment he was waa out on go parties barnea common it had been the bicycle age when he went away now it was the motor age and oil the novelty and contrast were enoe fia to lo a simple mind under the influence of forgotten let at increasingly 1 familiar scenes but nothing was vas lost on cazalet that great morning even a milk float entranced him itself on en chanted with it ita tall can turned to go gold it and silver in the tha sun but now he vas v as on all but holy ground it was waa ble go not t BO AD holy ay with these infernal el elec trams trama still be know every inch J 1 T 44 V J L I 1 as V 11 av 1 ta 1 Y A young woman had appeared appealed 1 one of the wooden porticoes coes of it and now thank goodness he be was as off the linea in at last at slower he be shouted to hla his smart young man ho he could not say bay that re no notice it us atas A is taken he of th the A I 1 command mine ad but a wrought iron gate on the left with it b a covered 0 way by leading up to the h house was past and gone la in a v veritable twinkling g file or bix I 1 minutes later the smart young man was mm driving really slowly along a narrow road between patent wealth and blatant semi gmt gentility on the ift good gold gio grounds ads stride shaded by cedar do and chestnut and ad on I 1 t the h B ri right feht a row of nl dons little houses bouses as pretentious as aa any the that ever let for forty pounds mi within th 1 att forty y minutes iuta of waterloo this can cant t be it shouted calet ca let it cant t h tie a here her estop stop I 1 tell you A aing woman emmin tied had appeared bcd I 1 in I 1 I 1 one ot at the overpowering arms wooden coes coca two or three swinging 0 strides o were loin blinking hing her down dean the eilly billy little path gain to im tho the wicket milk t bate abt I 1 with bin the idiotic dime me there lie we was no 0 time t i a to open it be 1 fore fore cazalet alund blundered e r it up and shot his bis hand items i to but a g grasp p as fir arm slid and friendly as s he gave gale BUnc Diml ble biel S sweep BP they ere their two tea nursery tame names hers bar I 1 no ICo on tho the proper monosyllable and his a rather dubious token of prial pristine proclivities but out it both came as if they were childr children cu bull bud and children who had been just long enough ugh part apart to start with wilh a good honest mutual at stare dr you aren I 1 a bit altered declared the man of thirty th three with a note out not entirely r BY tactful t in 1 hla his admiring voice but his old chum only lalji finds fiddle ahe he cried but you re not net altered enough sweep I 1 in disappoint sit ed in ou I 1 where a your board beard I 1 ha had d it ft off the other day I 1 all always meant t to he before the end it of if the I 1 main baut t going boing to land ad ilk like a wild man of the woods wood vou know t lou I 1 call it mean liar her scrutiny be became severe ever but clota softened sit again at at t t the sight of his clutched hed wide vide am awake ake R and dd curiously shapeless hopeless igo I 1 ou cm may 1 well I look he be cried ds de lighted that a ehe be sh should I 1 they thay re aidt awful alil 1 duds dede 1 I know knew b but you yen would think th them a if you saw where tb they one came tr from I 1 m sorry to interrupt said blanche laughing but there a your taxi ticking up levy every ter of an c he hour or A and nd I 1 can t let at it go on an choca mit without hout warning are yo you I 1 where have y you on co come fr from 1 he I 1 told her with a w grin 0 was waa round ly re reprimanded prem tor for his extravagance gace but braz brazened ned it out by giving the smart young man a sovereign before her eyes after that am BOO said aid he be had better come in 11 before t the I 1 III neighbors g aber came out and mobbed him for mil hellfire lion holl alre fire and he be followed her indoors and ad upstairs into a little new do den or crowded diol with some ot of the big old things he could remember in a very different setting but it the room was waa small it had a balcony that was hard ly any smaller on top of that unduly imposing porch and ml out at there over looking king the fine grounds opposite were basket theirs chaira and a table hot mith the indian india bummer BIG T 1 I hope you we are not got eho acl cled at my 1 abode sold said blanche I 1 in afraid I 1 can t help it it if you are it a just big soon enough g h for martha and me you re mcm member ber old did martha don ayou t youa you 11 have to come and see her bu but t shell be h horribly ably disappointed about abou t your beard I 1 coming through tho the ron room stopping t to 0 greet great picture and it a book bookcase fill t ing a wall each as old friends C caza let h had de descried oll a photograph ph ot of him self if with ith that appendage he ha had bad threatened to take the beast beastly 1 thing way away and ad blanche had bad told him b he a had better not it but it did I 1 not et or occur to to cazalet cazabat that it was as the photograph a ph to which hilton toye had ref referred ered or that MU toys toye must have been in this very room to see sea it 1 in ill these few hours hour he had forgotten the man a 8 existence at least in so far as a it associated itself with blanche lamair the others all wanted anted me ma to live near them she be continued but as no two too ot of them are in the same county it would have meant a caravan 13 be sides aide I 1 as I 1 going to be transplant oil ed at my age here one has everybody one mer eier knew except those who escape by emigrating simply at ones merry mercy on go I a bicycle there a B more goll golf old and tennis tennia than the I 1 cou can find time to play and I 1 still keep the old boat in till the old boat beat house bims at littleford Litt Latt letord leford because a it h t let or sold old et at I 1 im to sorry to say so I 1 saw as I 1 passed suld said C caza let that hit me hard the place beng being in empty hita hitsma harder rejoined the last of the man maci n irs its it s going down in v lue aue every day like all the other property about here except this sort mind where her you throw that match sweep I 1 dont don t v want vt t I 1 lou to set AI fir fire to my pampas grass its the only tree I 1 ive ve got cazalet laughed she was malting making him hugh quite often but the pare pam P pas as grass like the rest of the colic ulous no little lie it garden a rd in ID front wag sea ob lit sells scared it if f no not t 0 overhung lerhu Is by the tha balcony on which they sat bat and the subject seemed one to choose change it was simply glorious coming do down n he said I 1 wouldn t swap that three qua quat itera ot of an hour for a bale of 0 wool act you can t think how every mor man tal cut thing on the way appealed to me the a only ly blot was waa a funeral at burns barnes it seemed such euch a sin am to be buried a on 4 a day like this and a fellow like itka me ma c coming g home to enjoy himself imse biah he had dul tur turned u ad grave hut but not net grave th alian an at the actual moment coming down indeed he was waa simply imply coming de down we a again gai I 1 tor for her benefit and hit 0 own we without an ulterior trouble until mall blanche blancho took him up with a long baca faca 1 I of her own NN eteve a no had bad a fees at here I 1 sup but pose vou know 9 Y yes I 1 know knew liar her char creaked as a she he leaned old forward w not with an amm enthusiastic in solemnity that bat would d have me made D he her shrink shriek if badami on she had seen een herself hei self but it had no such enact billet on n cazalet TO BE CONTINUED |