Show aw woh ATM L e c d in 1 PTER VIII continued 1 12 P I 1 benotish elin tigh 10 lo draw 11 pun gull lina ip with n fow faw 4 1 it t it t eliut ive ie thought troll till alir tt t tin nn neel dental ilig but bill to 0 which the wol liall anim ull nil other primed tit ti OR g und and the mrs nira stokes rot got on to tn that old aid and brills in III jand abid theres only v our ont person tte to could have bion beell alth tt ts s nerves were alth till TI tills 11 s rel leril ib rendezvous st olits annl alm ilm till t coulat coult lt linae bevil been ive io told know miss well I 1 hilt bile felt about tile cunn files I 1 hilve the tl vi if caps that sit alio in ruy I 1 III she i could 11 tilio an all tip nt it to tn civet elnel 1 11 an all tip with r of tile men mei bilm ailin allent wits WIM linare od ed formed a bligh opinion of tho s candor and ciul truthfulness und and Is with lull i it n good fletta by what you tny n sott ott find ns to this of if in convinced it wua dont know willialm here hem 0 e up ills inland atilt and worked out I 1 dont abreo with will I 1 irs stokes Is telling the truth lie he mys lincks together KOtlier tO ull till lint slit may know jle bit but I 1 dont Eh ull you must think its stokes stoker lanis with some I 1 tout there theresi s else ise it could ile be n considered before lie spoke it t see ceo stokes na im ig the woman lie was in love lints generally tin nn net of lin lilt addell and there impulse here careful pro pre on in lie stealing of the re luring tier her to this lip IP or raw rage when sli that fiade her fly its niora morp working out of revenge athali of wind passion stoke ook look to me ine tile the kind of ninn uld id kill so carefully lies iles too who la Is it williams william 4 ex somebody killed her n i ninver moved toward the doorway a about nebout nil all im will ig to nt present nut but id 11 like lie to jo ies s ngali R no ile and ills alft ow iw moro more than they sity I 1 ny y that alint but ashes pot got a bet e than lie lins ling well pet get hlin library and have a whack nt lit CHAPTER IX it was to find g win to tn the ll hrnry A shiw in i the director would have till nn informality formality which might put M lila ills guard t found flora and shine on pony ny and heard that tant 0 to tits his room to try to gel 1 ep p tic HP knocked on the dw dow a gruff rome come in entered to kea s lying on the lie hed bed tie he roso rop exhibiting the saine bame alacrity had nd shown w her fler in the day our lie he still salil vin im re ready ady i whenever they want nw me tit in ife P been lying here berc expecting 1 back h hicls over last hust evening try will if anything I 1 inay have ell ed that nil rl help i was a willin in pair ri r till nn do chrit wits hiked risked of him mel vot rot fillice nii ni 4 to tilde the nerv of it a person in ills hla position un nn lilt easy chair before titi issett buck back of liy fly alir lit noticed that hill lilt 1114 lit tilds were ivere bing divid putting nt at lit i settling ills tie tic despite lili hia lio lie tin nn atti attitude tudo of if tax x attention gravely 11 avci from fro on one thier tic iio might rea tilly have guilty man jor attack one on william hy by tho ali un lilt lit in which he ons ns manner w waa ts friendly an kiil 1 liik aig they wanted to go w till nil information tin the alove of f the tile llie evening they would like ilke it fi know just i find done triine brorn the ali lii ho tit chimile to chonge lit hi 4 to tile tho onto when tic lie lid haid hear ln ciril I t t I 1 wah hn haisl directness went to 0 o its his rophii I 1 his clothes lit ld oo on the bett for a while then oat ant oil tile rending the cuiper tie he wits avns sitting there more sitf a must have parsed tit he eni en I balcony by the vath that him ltd led I 1 lust hiv div but he had not seen een tk ng occupied wirt ills ill paper lie he while in the bohiw it heard her votee ft lid id not lie he hud had no nn idea sin ie in IP P seen big hi wife alfo ito Ws I 1 tier her for a ninin n tile tho hall hair 1 I fanial out anni affer arl ald no tiling to you yon ngoat misi ong in n tile tho house i sno no III know it af elltion alias seiti I or w tit ni nil I 1 wj mir ale ih had IM ixta vill a ct f by GERALDINE BONNER service copyright by tho bobbe co N t 7 I 1 e N 5 just leave our business Su siness to Us M r stokes quent subject of conversation between you on 7 his 1114 4 el ayea es looking kill at HIM son repined to harden tind grow bjore ateo W had tallied talked of her natu naturally rully heans 11 in the ho smile same comp company tiny 11 your wife mid miss saunders Sm inders were not very ery frIel friendly lIly A fierce neilt rose in tile tho fixed eyes the nostrils wid widened enod what are you petting getting tit at mr raw haw so fioril I 1 I 1 our business lysness mr stokes were here to dinv inv a murde r and WP we spare Ie oples or shut eliut our oyos eyes to alsan rp filets clave ilave I 1 shown tilly signs of expect ing rk that ive put myself tit nt your its DS my wife lins has were really to kle give you all anny help belp wo we enn but im not ready to back up tiny d d suspicions that alint lieve bren been put into your our inland were not asking you to haild Itaw soll kut we know what wn going on here before tile shoo bassett spoke soko up lit im the per on n that told them aleek aleck I 1 it had to lie 1 done they had to be with tile the whole situation I 1 ant and they kit git it from nie me but they heard no lies no nn you know you ou can trust tile me far for alint stokes glance shifted to hlin bilm through its defiance det lunce bassett Ilas sott could detect the torment of his soil soul despairingly betrayed to the one person lie knew billew would ile he just jim ott oh im ill not blaming you tie he answered you do anything else abd they cnn ann hear it nil froll froin nn ine ile he looked tit nt tho the two nien men ini im willing to tell I 1 wits was in tore with her ber madly 1 like n fool hounded lier her do dogald giLd tier her footsteps footit eps youve lipnic that and nty my wife ans jealous so sn feulou Jeu lou they nil could re bee youve herd lienard tillit too tile the lon of ills hn passion re I nerveless in III its bitter horrible ilka the tearing it of froin a raw wound yes ei weve heard it in uttered wll wil alluin slie site hated me I 1 dont know whither youve tini vf heuel too but ill toll tell ing ui oil and perl nii belleve believe alint hat I 1 say MI lr if itt at illy 1115 self slip hated me ille alad I 1 lt let tier aone my wife hiis w jealous do YOU kcf is IH it clear oil oh were lit in d d had in illy wife tv and 1 hut but were not in su bit hal ns its youre trying loin to make out il he e tr tip ills lil att the shine of sweat till in ills 1 od 1 I 1 dunt dont mr Stol ces mald itaw HUM suri still yuett where you get ct eliut we e alti nt inide blinde mit yet it oil it I 1 call see we t nie tile the only people tile house flints en jilg to to build at theory on it and mu it 1 will lio 1111 hail 11 that 9 tile aly you MIU KO go to work vind I 1 ind it 11 motive lit ouie olle to it my MI gift had it 11 nn illo t clr jt tillit clent dont what ant kind of f silo she lit Is dont took look any una furill r iu allive to get gel oni eone und and the pa apalit lit clr stokes it if loud take till tills ulin colln ly IY it ai I 1 SO what alint you ou nd where w licit youre ii ire 10 ing to to land us but bui As t lot me ile it hsk sk you vou some thim ito I 1 to ou to there vere alv people till n tile the island abill any adv kind of nf person could have hav luu here or on tiny any li hind ind of I 1 erril lid with fl a slight daw jurt jairt leave our wild of mr all Stok ta youle youie here nets net s a to ll 11 to gunj answer questions oh bhuta phieu 1 all pointing k ix e wily 0 but t there were other pt opec 0 on tile ali besides that crowd r UW ui ali llo might have hild it MAW linger it n ejaculated 11 1111 tinis anger allger I 1 elicio tant tonie come dinv inv in 11 ll ja 33 hull lull Isla island ill 01 oh bevo we hud lefile cute t efti ai rage ulla falte will 1 rat R taftt 4 a e yu buur r oyed M olt ny MY gift and pie for ir a actie look else auw snowed io ao surprise inscrutable lint but quinin WU Inin wan lankly kly wheeled lu in hla chair an and turned un e of startled tart led inquiry on oa bite aliett riv lt in his hl luw was wa in ut lit stelzer nn art you kaimin at nl unit lilt lie he mid d lav and spite do you melin nir nii 1 I ikenn jov jou tracy was the an iwer ioe io trin vaguely labout 11 in 11 luelf lul lf til if li lemory chos Vl ios lie j 1 soil od aleck 1 alit zett tv u forward jet it a hold on oil your aril of f whit wh it fourr miyong liv lie lirra lie 1 I artt ft tile ilk hi fmc fm c yi niile ile s it no attention lul but henl on gaill ilig fill it mv 1 itsu talve A d ild dd d of if at boy with ti rec oril ask til lit Polli led tu to lit issett iiii il alint klail I 1 lie wilt vas uli liow in hole it 1 I hint 11 Illon illig tit lit tile I 1 L hed amne struck her if 11 nis KIH MII intel I 1 vied vi ed eliut lit wal was tit altis I 1 doll doii 1 l t anuw I 1 dollt pretend tr to but I 1 ulius bild little I 1 ste leck A youre your friy S t ewt wits risked rui iLl it in euleil lit in lert gone 1 l lit lie votice back arent clivi 0 fitiuta to lo lie ile hired ut at llo lie a to lu 1 I 1 dont tic u v ww libin ini nul 1101 like you von I 1 dont lit ald nud sty nuy gilleres Il leres tile lint hut i hunt it lout deal unit I 1 wont set get it till 1111 you iopu vu looked tit up joe Ti iti cull call your duys dogs buck back front tho the dicent un oil I 1 and d put alln fiew in on oil tits his justice oliata till I 1 usk ask loi fur justive justice for iny wife for myself ill self 11 ho stopped illy ills seemed suddenly to lu tile die JIB ILA looked old and wearied lila ills body rt rd lit ned ived tile lit UK in ills stint brinken en eyes e d in ill it profound gloo loom lil it doe wt mutter matter what happens to ine ru ive thrown everything uway and sibila there was ia it alight pau pause Itaw hudson soll brula broke it clearing lily his throat and rising from ills chair 1 enough for tile tho time thile being mr stokes yuu you call gu go now it if we fallt boll well full call on oil on lii terl without a word ord stokes turned nud anti left the hit when the door hud closed on oil bassett iles heh out of tits ills inlaid joe tracy caien lie knows lie here 1 williams yue gave a bearish stirl stirlie ig oli oil pshaw tile the nutter matter with litins enay easy to size up nil breaking down losing ills his nerve whether lie knows lila ills wife did it or not lie sees bees every thing points there and lies hes just laying built of anything to murk time tile the y go like that re ive seen ern em before who had been na 1 with ills litinas deep in ills pockets at and I 1 d ills 1111 eyes fixed un oil the lh floor bloor movel moved t to the chair lets leis hear about this boy mr bussett bassett all this angor and hute hate business lies been buzzing round lie sat but down and lit it a cigar through tin tile smoke lie watched bussett with n nai glance ns as the tha dl rector unfolded ilie ia story of joe jo tin the quan quarrel e und and sybil accusation when it wu wais over oer rawson knocked thi ash from tits ills cigar meditatively looking at the crumbling rray gray heap are aie you ou under tile impression mr bassett that tier her story atory wits was trul true that tile the boy had been spying biding on tier her 1 I dol dont ailt know of course she wasi was lit in it high keyed emotional state that eliat might engender unjust suspicions on oil tin ille other bill ennid you nt trust tits hla word und mid there W was as big il money lolley offered and when you returned to new nev york you would have found wout yes I 1 told will him and lie would have realized thui that it would go hard with bilm where you were con consented vented und and with will the rest of 0 the profession hed know slie bile wati very pop poll ular und tind there wua wits a general ayin pathy for tier Wil williams lains stretched und haid rose brorn ills his chair well its ita till nil right to gather up lull but ll it net get us ua ua tin if abe boyd been lore lere see ing what it lie wits und and how lie he fell fel there itil ni nilion liln Flit le bv in it lint hill us ns lii ile gol go out lifford file shojii 11 ll leavec us just where wu we avre before to do you think aboul going up nil ellid limU mookini loo kini ilig OMI that top story routine we ive ought to get cl through gli not nol now DOW moved tu to till alie I 1 loor doop ilu going Ite rosis io 0 o the halll tl for loik tip mime things th liiRi that bayh for one ill hike I 1 and I 1 id tile lie laul ieli atud bend blin right imek collie down to 11 he ie dock wath ant und tell me ine which ille lie sir mr 1111 wiy wily trucy tracy wun wits going went delit with will bilm feeling for alio llio ile llant time timit tie he could alf lit in with tilt the tranquillizing tranquill izing us its aurance it would react ott oil tio lody liei lie bert Itaw soll ut I 1 lie he dock lit li v tut to tit look lock for niec linne TO DO |