Show WOW W NG author of CRACKSMAN RAFFLES etc 0 g jewus SYNOPSIS SIS 8 V I 1 on a if the it kaiser am homeward m b bound d fi tiam A australia amle out aut in alb lap that at henry armon who ts ten years before had miika lue his w fatter r and himself la dead a and a finds on thai but hll a ton im twe toe who shadrea 1 m it the stateroom with him craven and rc also is aar blanche a cormir neighbor tind sea 0 play n ato a hm the L P papers aa come aboard e 1 male southampton toye reads that her za 7 V im craven has bs been uld and calls L laillet a dram sight he I 1 thinks hin a uv ft iff ol at di little lu amateur detective I 1 work a on ue the case le led himself D I 1 in the a trai train 1 to town alim u ci ue the ae murder r which b corn n air at io l a old eld he home toye hears from lazaret let that ee T scruton n who had been 7 the czaley a f friend fd d and ellb pm p ter for era craven B al leal has been bee r reissued rd d I 1 flom re an prison C cazalet ill roea z new down ah the a aler ad blanche T tove also cornea wc to BCD hr her and tell sli C cat camlet at tant at flouton fl lot ruton hea has abse been n arrested d bu but KB as b he c com om t bau believe the 1 ole old alk r I 1 IB guilty he do Is a chur to te ferret out th the murderer d lazaret and blancho go to I 1 cazalet 1 1 E old ld home and m meet mr arl of of scot land ad yard vale alose boea with tor to the alb library v where h the he murder woe was committed avows him a secret passage abib he 1 knew as a a boy and us leads a te the way ilam lt it in tawn a T toye with beset cazatt about t attic a p prenta on w the 1 weapon on W found d in the tha beant as a of 1 I trapping le the mur 1 arrer r and eda ed succeeds a in a g a print liia or of cazalet a hand CHAPTER vilt C continued cazalet excused himself with drel at abton ee he tied had a full fall morning or ir in front of f him he be was going to bee am miss macnair a brother son BOH of the late head of him hia rat father let a old firm of solicitors and ad now w one no or of the partners to get them etler either to take up scruton scrota a case homes or else to recommend a thin firm perhaps wore accustomed to criminal crimin at PI I 1 ties cazalet we wae always apt pt to be elaborate I 1 in the first person hingular Bin th gular solar either in the past or in too the f future tense faces hot but he was more ore a so a than usual sea Is in ape explaining his bs consid ered amil anten intentions t eme in this thia matter its that toy lay so very vr near 11 hia heart hear going to see 8 scruton orm too eaid amid to toye y not necessarily we was the short hurt re a ply 07 but it also in was elaborated bv cazalet on a me moment B consideration the th f ft fat t sa hat be wanted first to know knew Z it t it were am not possible by the tha into intervention I 1 of a really influential law yer to obtain bud the prisoner a immediate release at any my rate on me bell bail it if imps ID libl bible he be ht b hesitate a to farin force him self elf on sermon scrotum in the prison prime but be bould see it aa B K perfect scandal that he should be the there re at all id cazalet star he be rose first and ushered T toya eye out into U the lounge 0 only nry think our old gardener gada saw new him run ran out of the drive at half past seen when ahen the g gong aehl ent whet the real murderer m must u t be atoe bel been shivering in the michael bit th she angs aagelo I 1 a cubb cupboard ogot it wondering metering how ahti devil dell he was a ever er going if to get out again th then an iou think old man an craven be begging gins his him poor pardon waa ae g getting sit I 1 of out of rome bome eiges cigars when the ma man who b ever v or he was came te in and knee knocked ked him on the hand headd C cazalet balet nodded vigorously there that the likeliest thing of all 1111 he cried then the gong went am t I 1 there here may my even bais wine come a knock at the dd d door and d the there u waa a that cupboard captured standing pon at his at elbow w with a he bole I 1 in the flow floor that might ha have ve b been an made ad for far him A aa it luapo happens e he yes he bed it search every r inch like a rat I 1 in a trap you yet me bee and ad there that it if I 1 was 0 an a I 1 id if left it twenty lears ear before well wall it its a wonderful yarn ex as claimed hilton toye term and he lighted the cigar that cazalet casale had bad given give him I 1 think thick it may be thought me one it th the police ever own man how they made ad th their it f ind find aam agm agreed hi d e cazalet let alo laughing gh lad g and looking at his u watch toye G h bad no never heard him laugh so 60 otte often by the way ay drink Drinka drinkwater star ater dowan decant I 1 want any of all this to come out until bell he s dragged his bis man before the beak back again which you mean to prevent prevents 7 it if I 1 can I 1 more or Is less or prom mad not to talk however sad and I 1 in sure dr you won t you knew so much site already daw y you 0 may y lust as well ko know the rest this week as well wall as next if you jon don t mind keeping it tr joe our self nobody could have minded his par eucalar embargo barge less than hilton toya he aaa as cazalet off with a smile emhe the that a was yet merely puzzled and not net unfriendly ill he had bad time to recall miss blanche a part in the strange e affair ol of the pro previous afternoon fh bay 93 t the they rather ee intimate the two er even if t they th sy had known human each other all their lives live he bad it from focus blanche with her second record I 1 re fasal that ehe be was am not and never ever had been ega engaged fid and a fella fellow who still wrote arme to her on once 1 in a Is year abik th tuey must at bla have been n darned in y T almate and ad this funny a flair affair would bring ethem them together again quicker than anything at I 1 ing than bay my what a to tunny my affair it as waa who when you term came to thing of it F funny y all 11 through it now track toye toy begin ding on board ship with that dream of casale Cai aleta about the murdered man leading to all 11 that talk of at the old grievance against him and 1 tut nor 1 lii h bis a family actually fwu 9 the field ments at of the crime in his bis inspired d et at forts fort to a aade aba man of whose lina inno ecca be 0 o positive say tf if that C cazalet abat had bad not been on his way y be home from australia at the time like many deliberate bakr epe toy toya thought like ilko lightning and had bad reached this point before lie he ASS a hundred yards from the hotel then he be thought of something else and retraced him hia steps he retraced them a even an to the table at which he had bat at with C cazalet let not verv many minutes ago age the wait left er a waa only duly now a begin beginning in to cle clear at away S say Y waits waiter what ahat nave have ou on d done etith the h a menu in that hot waa 1 in 1 t that h at toast inner at lack there we was something b g on it that we me rather wanted to keep 1 I thought there was am sir air enid sat the english waiter at that admirable b ho tel let toye however hoever prepared to I 1 talk fit to him like an a american uncle ot at D dutch I 1 ob Bs traction 1 I oil u thought that and you yen took it aw at not it at I 1 all I 1 air I 1 appeney apposed to oh ob sere Is the other t ar s gentleman ableman put the menu I 1 in his him pocket packet behind your year back as you were getting up because I 1 passed a remark about I 1 it I 1 to the head bead waiter after at the time CHAPTER IX fair W warning in it was as much more th than a map of that 7 s arrild le ads the metropolis that toye oya carried in bis able he head d he has anew the right eight via places me for far the right eight things he gazed cratl call at him bla boots boats he was A not art so dead sure that he had struck the only man for far boota boats there them had a ung fellow board aboard the kaiser fritz quite a little bit of a military blood who had come ashore in a pair of cloth tops that had bad rather unsettled M mr toes mind just on that one point captain aylmer had bad said he would ii like it a to have tole toie see him hie club any time he was als passing and eared cared to 0 look 1 in tor far touch lunch 11 he had bad said d BO as though he be would like it a great deal one and suddenly dd audy toye bad a mind id to take a him at his bis word right now th the idea began with alth those boots boom with cloth top tops but that was not net all that there si was to it there was mom something at else that had bad been base it at the back of to boea a a mind all ow morning ag and ad now took charge in 1 front I almer had bad talked some same about a job in th the a war or office all that enabled enable him to law lunch c h daily at I 1 the is rag b but t w what but his him job had bad been board aboard col german at steam er at toye did not know and was not no the in man to inquire it was waa no business of hla him anyway reference to a card traded for his own I 1 fo southampton 0 o water and ad duly filed in him bis cigarette case reminded him of the rog os s prop er at style and title and there ha be we was eventually Y entertained to a sound a workmanlike lk rat rather her expeditious wool meal say it did it you e m see the cemetery it at genoa games and suddenly d e aly inquired the via 1 bar on their way back through tb the hall A martial bust had been an ad mired extravagantly before the ques goes thim no never want to see it again or go ge oa either said aid captain aylmer th the smokane ln room a this way mok gro yon 1 did it you u say you were there two do daia to toie was cutting his hie cigar as trough though it were a corn care two tao whole do dab and wed had bad a aid night lit 1 la the 1 eai of naples I 1 at be fore fare Is that so I 1 only came aboard at go genoa I 1 guess I 1 so was wise added toy toye as though he was thinking of cometh something ng elsah else there was as no sort of feel feeling ID 1 in his voice aa but he we was sucking his him left thumb 1 I say you ve cut yourself I 1 I 1 guess it 8 nothing knife too inara rp please dont worry captain ai liner I 1 was going to aay I 1 only got on at ge genoa and they coulden couldn I 1 give me a room to welt I 1 had to go in with cazalet that a how I 1 saw so a much of him it was toye B third and separate in dependent attempt to introduce the name dome and ad fame of cazalet C abat as am a natural topi topic of f m conversation arsu twice him hie host beat had ister eed with adamantine pouts nesa mass this time he was am enjoying quite the second best liqueur brandy to he be had at ar lp ajie rag and ad he be leoned leaned back in his bis meet I 1 you a were at a rather author impressed limpl ed with him vou said bald captain AI er well wall fre 1111 I 1 s I 1 but it ft lay a I 1 hava ve been my fault 1 I BE 4 only going to oak ask I 1 iou a one Is thing about mr me cazalet tye toye said aid rodigo and I 1 guess I 1 ve a reason for eking asking though there them e no time to state let it am now whit ia hit did you think 0 of him captain aylmer on the whole ali ah there iou am be have me 1 0 on the wh whole ole I 1 la just the difficulty said A aal ayl met mer an answering big the freight que question stio readily enough I 1 thought he was a very good chap a as tar far as aa naples but after genoa ho he was another being I 1 ve sometime wondered what ahat happened in life hla three or four days nab ashore ore three or tour four did you may bay and at the last moment to toye Y a would iad d 1 have played wedding guest to ay I 1 a rs B ancient mariner yes yea you bee a he knew am these gar ge man boats waste 4 couple of days day at ga genoa 10 a be landed at naples and ad did di hla him italy overland rather a good idea I 1 thought especially a he be old eald he had bad frienda friend in rome recie but we never ever heard of em am beforehand and I 1 should mould have let the whole thing strike me a bit at it if I 1 it d been cazalet casale soon sam ab to re take is held hand be bag a blak and toothbrush eh andiron and I 1 don t think I 1 should her have run it gul quite t eo flue ral at genoa either but B t there tb are r rum I 1 barda la in this mis world sold and ad albam od will bud toe f felt I 1 t one himself as he be picked biami hla way Y through h st at james square it it bad not of been just after lunch 2 ba aft would cold have lu gone go straight tr R and had h ad a cocktail tor fee of course he knew th the only 0 place for them the what he did we wa amly 0 d to slue round out ot the aguare der and ad attain to for the baking asking at another other old 14 haunt on an cockspur Coch spur street the latest little time table tabla of continental train this he carried not at OR on foot feet but in 1 a text taxi to the savoy hotel otel where ahem it kept hept him busy in hla his own 4 room mom for far the beet beat part of another hour but by that time hilton TO toys a looked than 0 on sit ill ting log 1 if down at t b hip 1 writing rift table tabi with it pencil pearil paper and ad the 1 I little ill book ol 01 1 traina he be looked he rid horrified ha looked i fuer distressed ed and yet et be looked c crafty re it determined and I 1 immensely ty live alive he proceeded howel however r to in take aoma or ol the life out of himself and to add still more to his apparent age aee hy by repair log ing tor for more loused inward light to a turk tark ish fall bath now new the only turkish hath bath seem accord d ing to hilton toye a mom somewhat exclusa iva code W as not even a hundred yards from carale Caa letB hotel 1 and the there mo hoing the visitor of the morning again p pre acted himself before the afternoon now merely a little worn am aa a man I 1 ill A ii did d I 1 tell you I 1 if any friend the there I 1 will look atter t losing a stone an hour on a warm aft afternoon ahneen rod and A bit blue again about the hin chin which of course looked a little deeper and stronger strong at on that account cazalet case was I 1 not of in hlll hi friend would we did int wait a it and in tact act f waited we ad over r an hour in I 1 n the little lounge an evening paper was a offered to him he took it listless limits ly IY scarcely looked at it at first then tore term it in him anxiety to find something h he had bad quite forgo forgotten baas from ram iti the h a newspaper paper sad end but be waa w waiting if I 1 aa stoically as aa before when osten a arrived rr ived in it tremendous m duo mirits stop and ii dine h be tied cried out at at once ance sorry I 1 cant can t got to go and see no somebody said hilton toys toye thu then you yen roust most have a drink no I 1 thank you yn sidd cald toye with hank the d decisive R uty courtesy 0 of a true total ab b you look a BB if you on anted one you do don t look it bit fit said aid cazalet most not III d ay nor am I 1 sir W exclaimed claimed toye I 1 guess muse london a no place for far me tn in the the I 1 fall 11 just aa as well too I 1 judge af since I 1 ve got to 1 light Q out u t again straight raight Bt aa away ay you haven iles II I 1 a sit sir this very terr night that the worst of a business that takes you to all the tha capitals capital of europe 1 in turn it takes mite you so a long to flit bit around that you never know when youve bouy got get to start in I 1 again gal which capital I 1 la it this time said old cazalet ills his exuberant geniality had bad been dashed very visibly for the we ino ment but ready already his him high spirits were reasserting then usell indeed a cynic with it if an ear might lumie hae caught the note at of sudden consolation in the question that cazalot asked eo a briskly gt got to go down to in rome said maid toys toye watching the effect affect ol 01 1 him bia words word but you ve just come back from there cazalet looked no worse than puzzled no sir air I 1 rome ram out that was waa my mistake and heres 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