Show THE RETURN of ANTHONY TRENT by WYNDHAM MARTYN by BW hopkin CHAPTER XI continued 22 the delivering the third arranged itself with the ease trent had come to associate with ibis campaign against the grants one evening after dinner kathryn holland had complained of a bead che and be had taken her tor a spin aina the lakewood pines As the ironwork gates to the house were at as closed trent got out of the ma chine at the curb on his return and opened them V hile he was doing i stranger passed and asked him ID tat ahnelt hall was 1 thought it was a holdup said kathryn holland gaily what did he irant she saw that her escort was looking curiously at an envelope he held his excuse was that he wanted to know where ahnelt hall lay but 1 think the real reason was to get me to give this letter to grant I 1 wonder hy he coulden couldn t deliver it himself when he bad put hla car in the garage and joined the rest in the ball room trent saw grant from a door ay beckoning him grant was look lug wretched kathryn holland says some one gave you a letter for me anthony trent put it into his trembling hands grant did not even him furtively he took it and disappeared ID the library where he could be gore 0 being alone and yet within the comforting sound of human bolies payson grant read the letter it was sutton s writing a be had feared you escaped that time through the unconscious intervention of one of your friends cut for that you would now be on your way to buenos alres in la belle alliance it you doubt it bring up the matter in court I 1 shall gee you on the seventeenth you have one way of escape and that Is full confession r w sit was albert thorpe who informed anthony trent that mr grant was overcome by the of the heather and had tainted in the library mr grant would like to see clr trent 9 U possible tor a few minutes t III go up at once said the i ing trent 1 l its about that letter grant said 1 l cant quite make it out be con W essed 1 I suppose you dlan t get a rd good look at the man s face brit i gaw t quite distinctly trent an ya shered readily w grant looked troubled that s funny be murmured 24 2 4 kathryn eald she coulden couldn t recognize urn at all she only saw he was a big ton an miss holland was in the machine and could not see him 1 saw him 1 clearly because he was in the circle of juit light made by the lamp on the top of the gate post anything wrong about tw the note black hand threats or any 1 thing like that 1 ia grant shook his bead and tried to alir mile li nothing more than curiosity he kity answered after a pau as though jt nerving himself for a shock he asked w hat the stranger looked like rill he was a man a little taller than cos you and a good bit broader in build t bather a pale face sort of broken u cose and sharp little gray eyes 1 noticed he bad a V shaped scar over at B Ms left eye gave me the impression lop trent went on confidentially of being 17 dentally en tally unbalanced looked as if be i e seeded a good square meal and a baar clit ic through a mirror trent watched tt ganges tear brought to the others ii face that grant suffered pleased alm but that grants heart might be orf baad vaguely uneasy there old be greater strains than this to bear ald ta recognize the man trent ed 1 l 1 wanted to see 11 1 dd grant sr sald vely it was a begging let rf td t and the police t to let peo i nita pit be annoyed like that what s the bed date today abe rold trent any S I 1 can do for you you might send thorpe in li tt when in his employer bared at him sullenly do you still e the grounds searched every stil he snapped yes sir thorpe answered also the bouse from basement to root onre too d d careless to suit lae giant grumbled see you take caal care tonight send mrs gram re at once and get this number on e long distance natica came tn almost at onic all e knew wai that a letter had been en elthier to kathryn holland or u trent and on receipt ol 01 it her is band disappeared she read it slowly it was frank s riling and he was near ibero try she might she could not tight off a eeling aa yet vague and nebulous it events were at bond which threat d the fabric ot her arcaro dr caro oi course you must call the po ctr she bald or I 1 will ite had enough ot this place ant said every man I 1 lookyat i nt 0 o be sure isn t frank in disguise god 1 nat what ue are he police they t can t catch halml ue I 1 was with n two hundred yards 0 me a ew bours ago and may be nearer than that now he looked about the big room apprehensively 1 I m through think of what an escape I 1 hadl that d d ship was got just to kidnap me I 1 tell you frank must have money at the back of him the police go look ing tor a seedy broken down tramp when he a probably living as well as we are and driving down here in a limousine don t make any plans until tomor row she said it it ft make you any easier change your room tonight not because she had sympathy or als malaise but because she was not sure how unwisely be might speak to the police batica saw the authorities when they came they had combed the neighborhood and found no vagrants whom they did not know this confirmed grant in his new bellet that sutton was not an outcast but one protected and therefore doubly you are lucky in having asal friends grant said bitterly dangerous because trent had saved him from a deadly peril he felt a tain sen of safety in being near him trent was one of those reckless tools who liked dangers if danger came near to grant he might rely upon ahli guest to repel it he was talking to trent when a footman brought a telegram toward them grant shrank back as though here were another message from the man he had wronged it wi a relief when trent opened it it s from weld he an nou nied me to go up and bhend a week or so in his adirondack camp 1 suppose you dibe bored to death at it bayson grant turned a reproachful took on the speaker bored to death in such surroundings 1 fie could imagine what it was like not a stranger could get past the keepers and guides one might be as truly secluded there as any place in the world today s the fifteenth he beard front say 1 I think start tomor row my visit Is up ve had a very pleasant time here mr grant I 1 you t looking so out of sorts tomorrow ane the sixteenth A sentence of suttons note wag graven on his brain I 1 shall see you on the seventeenth there would be no an abony trent to rely on then you are lucky in having real friends grant irald bitterly begot to stay here whether I 1 like it or not I 1 tell you trent I 1 m a very sick man much to bouc a it doean doesn t mean very trip to the eld camp an invitation liaf that to me would mean tuy reason arent simulated growing astonish mant you really mean it he asked III tell you what III do ak eld if but could along too I 1 may bring iou you leae he added doubtfully vur s nothing to stop me before dusk the wire came back as scheduled by all means bring grant it read but be will find it diaday dull here as there are no other guests WELD nation grant was even more pleased than her husband although or vastly different reasons she could imagine the joy of telling those who asked where her husband had gone thai he was staying at the famous weld camp la the adirondacks payson would have the opportunity to get to know his host thoroughly it pleased grant to think he was stealing a march on his enemy you II 11 see me on the seventeenth he mut all right im leaving on the sixteenth he waa in excellent ealr its at dinner grant had no fear that his wife would suffer at buttons hands no did not think anyone could frighten natica supreme dwarfed all her other emotions be learned from trent that the week might lengthen into two it the weather kept fine in two weeks time payson grant come back a different man he assured his wife just now he was shot to bits with worry and unwise indulgence in stimulants and every day brought sut ton s ultimate capture nearer parson grant left his splendid home in deal beach in highest of good humors 1 I ve never been in the adaron dacks he confessed to trent tola Is going to be a revelation to me it wouldn t surprise me at all anthony trent agreed CHAPTER XII the murder in the forest weld met them at and drove them up the long trail to the camp payson grant had never felt more wholly at his ease remote from atlea staying in the center of a vast acreage long held by A trespass bating landowner he was conscious as he had never been at deal beach of immunity from danger at night there were no servants in the camp there was a smaller build ing for them a quarter mile distant and connected by telephone the dla covery rather alarmed him in effect it meant that his room which was on one end of the building left hm far removed from those of the two men at the other ue began to bint at possible dan gers from bobbera attracted by the booty to ba obtained in such a place as this lot a chance of it weld declared trent s contribution to the subject was not reassuring teats because nobody has ever wanted to get in here badly enough to set about it skillfully if I 1 were acx lous to get in here to murder lets say swear it would be easy to begin with a camp like this would be a you or 1 weld could limb up these rough walls and get in any window we wanted i you re frightening ur grant weld remarked not L hes used to things like thai after having a burglar with him for a week I 1 don t suppose anyone likely to come here tor the reason we are not marked ou for vengeance if grant were a defaulting banker like the man in the pavilion on the links there might be a chance of some fun fun I 1 great tied testily im d d it 1 get your sense of humor the idea of being marked down by any criminal isn t a funny as you think he was conscious that his was to men ignorant of the tears their idle chatter engen acred he sought to appear at ease 1 I m afraid 1 shall have to disappoint you he returned ive no more thrilling story than trusting a criminal tor a week and thinking be was a detective that makes me a bit sore of crooks TO BE CONTINUED |