Show E at wow WOMAN W NG alaor of CRACKSMAN P RAFFLES etc it i T to 0 biffi ua WIN aberi M 5 SYNOPSIS 6 cs on no the a fik b 1 end I 1 aull I 1 his 1 a it lica wil ten jars rs before H li had d ruined irs ills father ana hi I 1 la a dead e and rinds find that H I 1 1 won histo a 0 him o kno anona craden and ad IBO so inon in on M aou a foi i irr neighbor and oil I 1 male tt nna hen dully papers come aboard d si at so southampton toe reads that craven IS I 1 haa a a heen murdered and i ina a drell second blehl he thinks fit doing a nole amateur tur d detective work on the case h hlina elf I 1 in in the mriln r I 1 to t town tn n they discuss I 1 I 1 e or I 1 amill wan corn cloo nod no d at cast a old ad I 1 1 home 1 toye 1 11 0 from c thit cint scruton iri who III he had d b beai amael a f friend frd rd and a lie 1 l go I 1 or I 1 craven a lu tv PHS lias I 1 bien hshi f from prison illo I 1 cazalot t 1 boes 11 dow 1 the and in meets 1 in 1 l tn toye dilso nt comes to see hs her an aej euh C at s a b ln rid r id hot as h ace decent I 1 in bellee I 1 ahe e 1 boltl I clerk Is san kullay he I 1 is groug I 1 to ferret out the murderer arr cit C I t and ad BI blanche biem em so go inah to I 1 a a old be home CHAPTER VI 11 C continued 37 ciery or inch of it he be eaid did bitterly but IS so I 1 ought if anybody does doeg but these rho rhododendrons it odo ml w beret at ahr here in sour time ahr re the one an improvement deal don t vou vol remember how the path ran around to the other end of th the ard this gate into it nas I 1 abade do 1 no moie it was said aid cazalet casalet es as gle they Y came cam u up I 1 to the is new gate gale 0 on the right it t aper was open and ad 1 looking g en through throng 1 they call could e it see bee where there t the h old I 1 d go gateway easy had been bir bricked eked the deu drons a us topped the yar yard wall at that hot point maing maii king it fr from the I 1 lawn and making on the whole bole an improvement of which a anybody boda but a former son eon of th the a house in might bild lild ha hae a laen taken more no ac count ho he said he be could see no other the r change but for the tact fact that these thee windows affeid were wela aid wide a 0 pen open the whole hol a 1 place I cs seemed as didd dI d seated td aa little ford but just past the windows and flush with them wag sas the t tradesmen a it door or and the lea tw 0 trespassers trespasser w ere re barel abre abreast it ot of it w h ben in this door opened dmn and addis dis gorged a man the man was waa at first eight bight a most in incongruous congruous figure for the back prom prem aes of any house bouse especially in the an country mr he w as tall rather stout fsr very powerfully b built oil I 1 bad and rather hand baud some in his ly y yet not dot for one moment was saus this personage in I 1 the he pro pic ture tare in the a sense a in which hiton hilton torn tora had stepped into the he L littleford it cleford plot picture a my may I 1 ask what hat iou re a d doieg g here ere be demanded bluntly of the he male I 1 in trader no ho harm I 1 hope replied C cazalet let smiling much to his I 1 companion IT iann nn a re lief she had done him ham an injustice heir er in d dreading ding an explosion whom when they were both obviously by in athe the wrong rong and fl she h D etly admired e d the tone he took so BO readily I 1 know knew weve a v a no busin business ano inne heie whatever but 1 1 I 1 I 1 may I 1 ask W what h at youre doing here 7 he bluntly asked it helps happens to be say my old lone home and ad I 1 if only landed from AS australia aral IS last night ish I 1 in on the river tor for I 1 the b a first time and simply had bad to ba have ve a look as around d mano the other big man lad hul looked ad tar far from propitiated by the earlier carill of these remarks but the ben fences bences had bad worked a change aie ae in iou loung as mr air C cazales he be relod cried I 1 am or rather I 1 I 1 was HS laughed Cice cazalet alet still on his hia mettle lou on ve read all about the case then I 1 line don I 1 mind lt bettin attan fc ex exclaimed c lanned the tr otner with still a H jerk of his topper to ward are the IS ho house behind him blia I 1 I 1 ve to read all 1 I 1 found in the papers 1 last night and this his morning ding and such arrears aa I 1 i b been able to lay in be bands do on said aid C cazalet let but at so as I 1 tell tali you my ship only got in from aus ADS aalia last las t night and I 1 came round all the he 0 way or in her there thera was waa nothing I 1 in the E h paper ah when we a too touched bed at gone genoa I 1 see I 1 see the man was still looking him up and down dean well es 11 mr C cazalet 11 my lance names D Dnn k kwater ter and ad I 1 in fro from sea scotland t land yard I 1 happen to be 1 in cha chaido ige ot of the case I 1 anea d as a much eaid aid CS ind d this ell blache he more has au any hills else s e from him yet must nothing as beat about him wua day any longer like iks the cap of other days day or of any ay oua par part of that very afternoon and this aa an also 10 lo easy to understand on im reflection for it he meint to tend stand by the less art scruton guilli or not of imah 10 he could not perhaps begin bet ter than by getting on good t with till the tha poll police but bet his hia r ready tact oarn and in I 1 that hot I 1 case so names cunning were car I 1 1 a revelation to one all who had known krar him resl marvelously Y so as buy boy so and it 3 bouth auth I 1 austn I 1 ask questions he co con ahm H d but I 1 see oure care still search ing im for far things thing mr mc drinks drink ater still minding our car own job sol said mr dorok tor genially broadly they ba had d sauntered on with still him to the corner of the he h house I 1 us and seen a b bowler hot hat b bobbing blong I 1 in it mhd the all shrubbery r down the drive CHi cazalet laughed like a man well I 1 boldn I 1 tell you I 1 hn know ev ery cry inch of the old place he said thal 1 Is barring alterations lart I 1 as 11 blanche caught his el ee a but I 1 expect th this is search IB narrowed rather rather said aid mr DrInk drinkwater oater standing still 1 in the drive he HB had bad also 1 so 1 taken ilk he out a presentation gold aib half hunter hooter on suitably I 1 y inscribed 1 in trona mem ory of 0 one of his more a bloodless vic tories but cazalet could always alays be obtuse and now he refused to look an inch loner loader than the detect inspectors bright brodies brown theres there a just one place theta that s oc do burred to me mr air drinkwater Dnn kwater that perhaps may not at have occurred 1 to you hecea that hart mr r cazalet in the room w here the room itself mr drinkwater a long aare ended 1 in an indulgent smile you can show me if out ou ilk like said he in indifferently differ illy ceif but 1 suppose apo iou on know wove got the man CHAPTER vil VII after michael angelo I 1 aa waa thinking ot his 1 cap said old asaf they cazalet hut but only as they r returned to the trades tradesmen s door and just its as blanche put in her bar word ahat about me mr drink drinkwater ter eyed the trim white figure standing ng in the sun the more the imore the na merrier his grun grim humor home b had d it I 1 dr dare sav a you 11 be able to to teach us no a thing or two tao as well 1 I 1 I 1 she could tot not help nudging cazalet in re recognition on galation gal tion of this shaft but caza let did not dot look lack round he had bad now set bet 11 II foot lp f his hia old he home it was as all strangely sr angely still and inactive as though domestic animation had be been a suspended indefinitely let the op open kitchen do door revealed a female term form in mufti a sullen face looked out a of the pantry as they passed and through through the old gh green door only now it ft waa as a red one they found another bowler bawler hat bent oer a pink paper at the foot of the stairs I 1 I 1 here her we was a glitter ol of eves under the bowler bier a brim as air Crink c conducted coc ducted b his friends into the library the library was as a square squar room of if respectable bize hot but very close and dim an with ith the one fr aich window 11 e closed it and ad lural curtained id mr ter shut hot the dor door as well wall and ad I 1 switched on ell all the electric 1 lamps P the ele electric light had been put in by the cravens all the other fixtures in a I 1 the ift a room were ere a as a cazalet remembered them but the former son of the house hous e gave himself no tum time e to waste in 1 gentl sell mental comparisons comparison he H I 1 tapped a pair fair of mahogany doors door like those these of a 1 wardrobe let in into to the wall all have you yen looked in here do de bcd minded C let NN hat the use of I 1 looking 0 king 1 in a of cl gar cupboard up board drink t made ad mild haild inquiry C i gir cupboard echoed cazalet I 1 in di disgust gut did he really ant onh use it tor for his cigars A cigar cut cu board repe repeated td drink k water at and locked up at the t time 1 it happened what waa I 1 it it I 1 may mk ask in amr mr cazalet s time I 1 remember came suddenly from blanche labach but cazalet only said aid on oh well ea if you know it waa a locked there s an end of it drink ater ter went to the door and ad summoned his subordinate to just ft fetch th that chap fr from the poetry tom said old he but the sullen sufferer fro from police rule took his time in spite of the them had and was sharply rated who when he appeared I 1 thought iou on told me this was a ciar an cupboard continued drink water I 1 in the bell browbeating ob cating to tone of his first words id to cazalet outside S so it is so said id the man T b el I 1 icis the he kill hev view how should 1 know ineer I 1 neer kept it masl cued the iho butler buller erig crowing over his op oppressor for a change he ha would keep it on his a own bunch find his watch h and it Is all the be other ili things I 1 go that hot were anre intine in missing tinn irato from bis iaal pockets ret who when bour our men went seat through lon em and ad you may find hill hia ke acs to too drink drinkwater B gave av hl hie man a do double able hegdal the duo door clammed la md ou a petta ltv triumph tor for the baranas ba barli rants tut hall bell but now both invaders Invade rB remained within your h old ind on it to tom said d ol 01 the superior u officer im in IS a atiee 1 lance ip oh be here ha explained hied somewhat super to the it others bars as an I 1 lorn am applied himself to in the look loch I 1 in one on mahogany door mo mans been drinking I 1 should say aay hed had better be ba careful lus noti I 1 don on bilk t take to him tin drunk a or taber sober I 1 m not act at hla his master ter not at tru trusting H flog him it a just possible that the lb ili place tax was open he might have bava bell been getting out at his hia cagara Is hot batora dinner hut but I 1 a can I 1 say I 1 think there 1 much in it mr ca cazalet calet let I 1 it I 1 w waa open again broken open before many minutes i and cerni bull there ws was not much in it to be seen except cigars garl no boxes ot of 11 were stacked on im what hilt might have been meant ant for far a shallow dk desk the whole place aa shallow hallow as a the wardrobe drobe t that the boora suggested d but lighted high up at caora one e buan e end efe iry by a little hill b barred red bighan window plat ot an ita own amilt a and ud according H caud to a d dealt es it bad im really till been hla his V poor our father ought light never v 11 r to ha hava I 1 been a 1 business man 11 he ought t have vb been so a poet act C cazalet let slid hilt 1 now I no as simply a py so as ha be had said it to hilton hilt TOYS toye on board the aads kaiser r frit arltz only Y he went rather further tor I 1 the he benefit of the gentlemen from be scot at load land I 1 lard it who took not the faintest interest in the late mr MI C cazalet I 1 be biond and poking their noses into b bis id dl orion iva sanctum and ad duty duly tarot turning no the them up on at what they saw he used to complain that he was never v left in peace on saturdays saturday and ad S sundays day which of at course were b his N A III x 11 ya II 11 k 16 or you yes ought to have been a so burglar rill sr sir said mr drinkwater only quiet times tor far writing s said aid the so son elaborating 1 his tale with ili filial piety let so once when I 1 d been tr tang ing to die of scarlet fever fees and my mother brought im me back from flom hastings tings after shed ehe d had me there thIr some time the nam old governor told III ua he be d got a place where shere he be could cond d disappear from the district ata at a moment its s notice and yet leftrict b be bar babli I 1 tn another moment if we runs rang the seek gong I 1 daucy sao he all d go got to a tell tel I 1 her bar s where here it was as pretty quick b but ut I 1 only found out art for myself by sent accident dent years afterward rd he told me he it got the idea f from jo jod jean D i ingelow a place 1 in italy somewhere it a 1 tn florence said hold blanche laughing iva I 1 ve been there and seen sea it and I 1 ii fl a the exact same thing but you mean michael angelo S sweep cepl oh do dop I 1 I 1 he said eald ser serenely sallY W well 11 I 1 shall never forget how I 1 found out its H existence dimce no more shall I 1 you told in me all 11 about tt it at I 1 the h a time as ai a terrific se cret and I 1 I 1 may tell you yen that I 1 ve kept kepi it 11 from that lot day to this thin lou in would he said aid simply but buil P th HB n of having the nerve to pull up u the govern governors or a floor it only he what hat a hoy boy will do I 1 nd wonder it if the holes boles there detill till now all the time the planetary r Y d de teed v had bon been watching his it batel eal lite ait engaged in I 1 on an attempt to render read the damage done to the mahogany doors a little less conspicuous nei ther appeared to bo be taking any further lot I 1 in I 1 the cigar cupboard clipboard or pay ing the slightest inu attention eb to caz caza ling let is a reminiscences but mr fir blink water r happened to have heard every word 0 and ll in the last IS sentence inui tec there here dd achl him was a one I 1 that b at caused him to prick up his expert ears instinct instinctively i ely hata t that bout about a imin bolo ead aid ophir he turning round I 1 ras reminding miss hit macnair ni I 1 how he the place first cameto came to b be yes yes yea but what hat about some bole in the floor I 1 made one m self ell with one ot those these knives thit contain all sorta 1 of I of bingo including a saw it was one sat saturday it ay afternoon fhern on I 1 in the summer he hoi ida s I 1 came ame in I 1 here from the gar den as a my father went we n I 1 out by that door into the hall leaving one ot at these mahogany a y boora or open by I 1 take ke it was ahe I 1 chance chial ot of my lite life I 1 I 1 clipped to lille a look he H came c e back lor for something saw haw the hie ver very y door dolt loump on brkl standing landing is li aj r and shut but it Hit without hoult look hoohing ing I 1 in so there IS I 1 WIB as in 1 a ties nice old trap I 1 simply barent th ent call out at and d give myself away ay there them so was IS a b bit I 1 of loose a oil oilcloth loth on abr fl floor 0 there Is still said the hotel satellite pausing pa 1 I g in I 1 bis I 1 I 1 task k I 1 the a oilcloth to in the end hawked up one a e end ed of I 1 the board I 1 I 1 luck un lly ily they 1 goe and to tongue ogue sawed through the next one to it had bad it up too and ad got through into the foundations leaving everything much no so aa I 1 had f found 0 it the place 1 la im BO small mall that the oilcloth a was obliged to fall all in place if it anywhere any here but I 1 had plenty of f time it because be my people had bad go gone in ID to dinner diuver you ought to bai have been a burglar air eald aid mr 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