Show thousandth ay jakor r of CRACKSMAN flea 5 etc tc I 1 ily t 0 ff coryn r 0 wo Y SYNOPSIS en on the teamer steamer kalser 1 frit rats bound und non from n on australia Au crien cries iMo that henry craven crave who before had ruined his hl athy th if li is dead and finds th that at 1111 H who haree shares the stateroom tate room with we J crave 3 and also blanche a former and play then hen the dail PAWN come t southampton oye read reads that been murdered and calls ca I 1 i dream second second tight lie ilia think thinks t little amateur detective work is himself in the train to town which wa was corn com 0 the murder chalef a old home toye toys hear hears liet that scruton who had been friend and the scapegoat for dishonesty anty has he been released relea aed son on cazalet goes down the meet meats blanche toye to aire also cazat at see her and tell tells that h IM been arrested arre eted but a as he 1 eve the old clerk in I 1 guilty he to ferret out the murderer nd blanche go to casalet a old did d m met e t brin Awater of scot d casalet goes with DrIn Kwa e i library where there the murder waa was i 1 how shows him a R ecret secret passage of 0 as a boy AFTER APTER VII Continued hit that was as its easy as pie id flored them do you remain row I 1 got into blanche for you ou with sith me once and aim 0 our frock track member the frocil said a her last contribution to the lion immediate develop tt ot only put an end to the fur ch hange inge of ancient memories dered it presently impossible ving oving cazalet from the scene 0 two detective detectives almost with ruing all three disappeared ie e makeshift trapdoor trap door cut by III em as a schoolboy in his floor ardly even knew know bow how it dap hap the little place was 00 small 9 never saw the hole bole until it lied two of the trio the third mr bir drinkwater himself bad arteo turned her out of th before tore following the others tad iad said so very little before ir r her to bear hear and so quickly ed d cazalet from saying any I 1 all that ehe she simply could dot not W hat any of them were doing he floor door r her iery 7 feet aha abe heard them as she waited a bit in the hall a e left the house by way of the a git quarters arters ot of course without any communication with those rs and only indignant that adwater should have requested to do so s i a long half hour that followed che but she passed pasted it arned her wholesome mind to bleb in some ways she knew ind and trusted lurther than men as a dog at uplands and aa as had seen nothing of him be he i a large kennel in the yard as a large dog and rather is se but blanche knew him by ind nd bad had felt always sorry for large kennel was just outside k loor ioor which was at the top cellar steps and at the hot bot two or three leading into the r but blanche of course want by Y ho the garden she found the 11 dog quite disconsolate ib in a one kennel in a corner of tho it at ae really worthy of the there was wag ign of at his being treated as the ius us dog that blanche indeed ird rd he wae was the outer bare bars were protected by wire rating lot ting stretched tr etched like ft 4 canopy canoy over ole cage but blanche let lot her alth ith as little hesitation as she led ed to beard the poor brute inner lair and ho he never oven even at it her be just lay lair whimpering is tearful nose between bla his two ws as all though his dead master t lett left him to the servants nil all he coaxed and petted him un almost wept herself then sud tod nd aitho without ut warning the dog his worst side aide out he leard learid sanctuary almost knock r down and barking horribly at blanche ghe she followed his bin ed eyes and tho bait door mad a I dusty aad A ilak alewe p I 1 sure abing into full length the lairs which blanche had some y in tit Identify identifying irig with that of 1 YC i really are a she hen she had bad slipped out just and nd the now dow savage dog was wa t log and clawing at bis his bars did id YO you COMO a out and where enemy old way he answered answer od 1 I 1 lett left own there hat abat did you firidl tell you later I 1 cant hear my or that infernal dog ire adful barking followed them the Y yard a rd and round to the rast the door to of the drive here they met aly MID ln in 9 tremendous nondous nen dous hurry burry table dotard rho net antly ta whatever eteter ho he had bad and came to anchor chor la front trout with dulny er and inki skiff r if U tut hiss dancull Dan cual he quavered I 1 do you hear bear our roy miss I 1 bant hant heard that go on like that since the night that then cazalet introduced himself to the old gardener whom he had known all hie his life and by right rights the man should have wept outright or else emitted a rustic epigram laden with wise humor but old savage balled from llly silly suffolk and all his hi life he had belled his surname but never the alliterative libel on hie big native county he lia took the wanderers return very much as a matter ot at course very much as though he bad had never been away at all and wa wai was s demonstrative only in his further use of at the east anglian pronoun a long time atnee we fared to see you mus walter said he be a right long time and now heres beres a nice kettle of fish for you to findl but I 1 seen the man maa mus walter and well bring that home to him never you tearl fearl are you sure that you saw blot him asked blanche already under caza lets on this point savage looked toward the house before roi relying ying then he lowered his voice dramatically sure miss blanche why I 1 cea see him that night aa as plain as I 1 tare fare to see mus mul walter bowl 1 I should have thought it aa as too dark to see anybody properly said blanche and cazalet nodded vigorous vigo roua ly to himself dark mien miss blcnche why there was broad daylight and if it that wain wasa t there were the lodge lights on to see htiu byl ills ilia stage voice fell a ahral som semitone itano but 1 I ma him aguin arain at the station this very afternoon I 1 did I 1 promised not to talk about that you 11 keep that a secret it I 1 tell a e eo so methin but I 1 picked him out of half halt a dozen at the first time of jn ravage savage said this with a pleased and grin looking cazalet full in the face his rheumy eyes were red as the sunset they faced and cazalet drew a deep breath as blanche and be turned back toward the river I 1 first time of at prompting I 1 expect i he whispered but theres hope it t babage Is to their strongest witness only listen to that dog said sald blanche as they passed the yard CHAPTER VIII dinge prints allton toye wae als the kind of at amert can who knew london as well as most londoners Lon doners and some other capitals a good deal better than their respective citizens of corresponding intelligence his ills travels were mysteriously but en viably interwoven with business bo he had an air of enjoying himself hime elf and at the same time making money to pay for his enjoyment wherever he went ills ilia hotel days were much the same sume all over europe matty appointments but abundant As an bolever box ever be never spoke about his own affairs un leas less they were alio also those ot of the lie ila tener ten erand and not always then malthis balf hal this his acquaintances had no idea how he made his money and the other halt half wondered bow how be spent bis his time of his mere interests Inte reite which were many toye made no such secret but it was quite impossible to deduce a main maln in dustey from the by byproducts products of his level headed beaded criminology for example was an obvious by product it wa wais no morbid taste in hilton toye but a scientific hobby bobby that appealed to his mental subtlety and subtle bo he was yet with strange simplicities grave and dignified yet addicted to the espres give phraseology of bla his less enlightened countrymen naturally sincere and yet always of some in geanous duplicity the appeal of a blanch blanche macnair to auch a coul tout needs no analysis ale had struck through alt all complexities to the core such aa as it was or as an she might make it As yet eho she could only admire the ch character ameter the man had bad shown though it had uret her none tone the less at Ea engelberg gelberg be he bad had proposed to her inside of two weeks as he had admit admired fed without compunction at tha tho tamo it had taken him he raid about two to make up bit mind but the following sun sum mer he be had laid more deliberate siege in accordance with some old idea that she had let fall to soften her first refusal the result bad had been the same only more explicit on both sides she had denied him the aleut particle of hope and he had warned her that ahe she bad had not heard the lait last of him by any means and never would till she married another man this had incensed her at the time but a great deal less on subsequent rejection and such was wag the position between that pair when toye and cazalet landed in eng land from the same steamer steamer cn en this se ond day ashore as caba let eat sat over a lite breakfast in jermyn street toyo toya sent sen in his c card ard and was permitted to olow it rather to bis his surprise ho lie found his man frank ly IT divided between kidneys and bacon and the morning paper but in a hearty mood indicative of 0 amends for alv great beat heu in yesterdays argument A plainer indication waa was the down dow right yet sunny manner in which caza let at once returned to the talc topic well my dear TOC tole what do you think of it now I 1 thought 1 I 1 was as going to aik ask you what coq o 0 thought but I 1 guess I 1 can aeo see from our face I 1 think the police are rotten tor for not betting setting him tree free last scruton I 1 yea yen of course the amsell 11 bieak break down when hen it cornea comes on next week but they aughta t to wait vi aft for that no right to detain a man in custody when hen the bottoms out of 0 their case already but but the papers claim found the very things they were searching for toye toys looked non paused as well be he might by an apparently perverse jubilation over such intelligence telli gence they haven t found the missing capt cap I 1 crowed cazalet what they have found Is cravens watch and keys and the sliver allyer mounted trun cheon that killed him dut but they found them in a place whore they possibly have been put by the man identified as nt bay where was that asked toye with great Inte interest resL my paper only save savo tin the things were found not where no more does mine but I 1 can tell you because I 1 helped to find cm am you dont bayl say I 1 never grasp where contin aed cazalet in the foundations un der the house housel details followed in all fullness the listener might have had L s part il in the uplands act of at yesterdays braml might have played in the library scene with his bin adored miss blanou Bla nhu so vividly was every minute of 0 that crowd ed hour brought home to him he ile was not go sure that he had bad any very den deft nite conception ol 01 the foundations of an english house ours were like ever so many little tiny rooms said cazalet where I 1 stand nearly upright even as a small boy without giving my head bead a crack against the ground floors y led into one another by a lot of little manholes ma choles tight ott fit even for a bo be X or 00 0 0 rhoy 1 found the missing cal cepl cried cazalet but nearly fatal to the bosa boas policeman yesterday dayl I 1 allton toye edging la in his word bald said be he guessed he visualized but just where had those missing things been found three or four compartments from the first one under the ilbra library ry said aid cazalet did you find them I 1 well I T kicked against the trun cheon but drinkwater dug it up the watch and lays were with it say were they bur burled ledl T only in the loose rubble and brick I 1 dusty stuff that you get in founds eions I 1 say bad that murderer must have known something or elio else its a bally fluke in bis his favor I 1 dont follow you toye im thinking of finger prints it hed justave laid those things right dow dowa hed have left the print of his hand as large an life for scotland yard the devil he would 1 exclaimed cazalet 1 I wish explain he added remember im a wild man from the woods and only know of these things by tho vaguest kind of hearsay and stray paragraphs la in the papers I 1 never knew you could leave your mark so easily as all that toye toy took the breakfast menu and placed it fao downward on the tablecloth lay your hand on that pato down he said and dont move it for a minute cazalet looked at him a moment before col complying then hia his fins aln shapely hand lay still as an plaster under their eyes aunill toye WA tim he might take tala it t up of course thure was wag no mark whatever and cazalot laughed brou should have caught me ins when hen I 1 came up from those foundations not fresh from my rubt said he you wait replied 21 toy TOYO taking the menu gingerly by aa tb and putting it out of iams I ams way AT in the empty tA toast strack rack you cant so anything now but if you come round to the savoy III show you something tour your prints girl I 1 dont ear bar im scotland yard at the game garne but I 1 c do it well enough to show how you how ife its done you left your mark upon the paper but I 1 guess youve left the weal sweat of your babil if I 1 snow a little french chalk over it the ick fick where your hand band did and allow off easily everywhere else elso say come como round to lunch and III have your prints ready for or you I 1 id d like aw fully W u show you how its done TO DB as |