Show M he colfax bookplate BY AGNUS MILLER THE STORY 1 L ioa I oa 00 a eruan mom love mota laff ulu miss constant Cont nf rul 1 r and seller allt at 0 rare book at marrowl nw now ami and secondhand booksh jp an a lowr lower fourth AT due nu nw now tork notices ht that the arst customer who ho nan enters the tb store tor at t call halt pat past atins is a white virtlo barad old bo entert re into th h 0 dicov O 1 medoc tl works after a it w wall h its peter burton one on of the employees a br his been out on ft a ba buy inc 1 trip come comes la fit with ft a pathetic tz tr i of wo CHAPTER 11 reter emie amazes con lance stance by tiling telling her b be he paid at in auction tut lur an oh law book contain ing i A colfax bookette bookap te suddenly a of murdart Murd crt ring rings out in the store III the th lirly elderly customer I 1 on the h floor boor with his hi whit clashed laih td just bet ebors orth the shrieking all tumble stumbles and alii falls ID in a faint the ih catli tails oat out to peter whom the ih seems to reco rf inise as the man who bought the th nr rare book in richmond V ft fw few day before keep III keep baj I 1 it for me the elderly nan man and the tb kirl if both unald are ar taken to a goad no I 1 lan stir a sister nancy bearin that morning working at t furrow Varro wm con stance takes lir her to lunch at san son ont i a restaurant 14 normandy terrace nanay tells constance Con of 0 her dope elope ment with grandon tower a shorthand bort hand teacher teach tr an sit elopement which wa was cut hort short when tower attempted to oak make ott off with witt nanchi suitcase aul teai continued from that mat s v bat the TN traveler arelers aid lada autv au 1 observed hancl complacently the citation piard tot got tier her ft fill avoy away bebau ib I 1 cried and brandon rant she for cleter to ki came come for no mo late la in the eling I 1 vas woo wo eo o o slad glad to see liml him I 1 and ajen s be he md the travelers aid lady and I 1 were clowar crossl nr the station to the new york train ill you believe mia there wa was brandon again ce aln snooping behind a bench vl like uke a fool I 1 suppose oppose bw bec I 1 was as so gervous a 1 creamed bj by dif dlo i L 9 come tack I 1 help ruz zilar aboul 1 I give vy u confessed nancy did lie think thick I 1 would eer ever ever lj JA thi this world or m 1 next foreve him for trying to get ria rid of me after hed asked me ine to go off ath him 1 clit 11 anyway there he be ane wae ahat hat did he dor kan ran of cobrae course aad I 1 suppose peter rave gaie chase chaser res he overtook hia him and they lid a dreadful fht right there in the station bet but Brani IS randAl lei got away and reter cot got incited and came I 1 ome only this doming the Travel cra aid lady brought me home and c cu the train whispered nancy ancy in an awe struck tone as 93 thelast fragment of pastry vanished nhe u queerest thing of all happened I 1 what was lou you ece sm I 1 cried aie so much I 1 had bad to hare have a clean handkerchief I 1 opened my fult rul tease casa to get one and inside erra reter peters fray gray meed suit and nd collars a id razor and things and a crumble crumbl old leater law book ancyl nancel U us it really peter peters suitcase all the time and cot not yours you get the point at once I 1 noticed it before because I 1 been carrying the bags anyway the two suitcases are just ordinary black leather ones nuch alike I 1 had time yet to 10 face ure out how they got changed but at att least I 1 changed them back ogain again when I 1 got home come on ls Ks go 0 o and look at that flat I 1 summoned Ernp itu and explained to him that miss burrou was desirous of inspecting bis his vacant ismat apartment by the happiest of coincidences alie ue ind and her brother were now seeking new living quarters and shared his contempt for the subway ernesto raptly leil led us forthwith up two steep flights of pf stairs and into a sunny front froat state of three emcil room made by muning partitioning out of one former enormous non apart apartment mets eyed with cool coot appraisal the ic fr the laving room punched the mattresses rattled the pot i in the kitchenette asi 1 d d eissed f torn 5 with 1 erneto she had bad lct 1 ept house for a 11 nod g poor widowed father for nothing Flix finally illy ill ft ho else urea lives eror sue jibe inquired in the mar apartment just be hind bind mel replied arnesto Fr nesto 3 my tife my four eb children ildren never will yon you be lonely I 1 below he be paused with an air of climax mr chos be bet de demanded mandod ulsa man hattan hattam rith unshaken morale molt Centle gentleman mant 1 ile owned this boum long ago alio it was his fathers father a ile fell sell to me I 1 rent him one floor door so all his Ns life be lire live la in one honse hunte think for new yorka Is he be nicer inquired nancy sure sural I 1 I 1 tell yen a most distinguish I 1 bif grosvenor Gros renor aho alto they are verr ery quiet lady end and gentleman and flost most h I 1 imbody 1 else live bere there everybody eliel vell I 1 guess it ft my brother and I 1 will do ill fl come decided nancy and wata ltd her breath breathtaking speed snatched a ten dollar bill from her purse md thrust it at ernesto ha bustled down stain ahead of us to make inake out the receipt tor for the deposit nancy vancy I 1 remonstrated feebly wouldn t it be better to wait ani rol let peter come and re suppose be J he b wu witt ilk like it hes kot pt k ot to I 1 took it oo 00 his account 40 convi convenient right la in wr our ball bottne tess I 1 im am perfectly pod pow tire live it li Is coin to be jut just the rubt place for ce 01 1 so they were coming there them bet roost of mucus ancy previous lou judgments tilled cited me with a curious apprehension that it was coin going to be just the wrong aroc place tor for them ay my luncheon enterprise had certainly ben been sue suc la in convincing nancy that all if is not necessarily over it at sey seventeen totem it had bad filled me with OD an inexplicable staking heling which even the godspeed god peed of ernesto failed to divel djel CHAPTER iv exit bookplate it we was very quiet la in the ate roop daisy abbott toting my 07 entrance artole forward loaded to the guards with important news tat poor pr old gentleman I 1 tie Us died at one ur mr cae case told ue m without recover rec overine coo coiscou nasr I 1 inquired optea ding out ay my index cards ai as a crotle hint that I 1 would he be alone yes yc and nobody know knows who ho he li Is and employees are fire cot not to talk about the accident mif jim fuller and oh that cirl girl who gave the ai alarm am I 1 shea still ancon conscious the this hospital people uy any lent this thi the mott most exciting nod bad awful thins thing yop ever had to youl I 1 agreed fervently and dally daisy evaporated giving 1 me a chance while ft lobInS my eidex to reflect on the tw many trance strange event events connel connected ned with witt that mysterious old law book now up in mr darrows Darro wi office ollice how many kerpon had shown in terest in ill it I 1 reter peter barton hie his unknown ral bidder at richmond that met dri erl whoever bad had broken om suitcase la in the hotel and now the polite and handsome brandon tower for under whose auspices it if not hie him had nancy nancys suitcase suddenly become reter peters at F elopement for or lie ile bad had not had even the degiso her I 1 lib pro dosal to elope waa was nothing bat but a pretext to enter the durton burton house for nancy with her artless narrative of peters Ir teri Illch mond trip bad informed him exactly where the law book was of ribose hose existence exie tence and value be he was evidently somehow aware already then in the number cumber of the book fanciers was wait the poor old fen sea bleman of the law alcoe let yet was it sensible to jam arume that out of the hundred hundreds of books there he had specially pec lally wanted Clarl beves notes but if not why rby was the eirl girl who had a ital interest in that very boot book so extraordinarily upset when slie she found the old man dying why did she cry keep it for me I 1 uw ow abate whatever reir value 1 it had was as an antique and for law book collector tom As the book itself waa was not a valuable trophy could there be anything about tho the plate that might have the searcher of peters reters suitcase I 1 resolved to presume on the fact of being one of the employees sir darrow pole to to ascend to his office and to ask his secretary to let me see Clarl hews no ee incidentally I 1 intended to get a look at that footplate bookplate myself I 1 rane rang for the elevator down it clanked with sith unheard of promptness prompt neos and out stepped mr case and a tall oung man a stringer tt ranger al ah miss fuller 1 said mr case of course you re unfailingly readi raad for us this Is captain ashland mr darrows dephew he a been looking us over for an hour or so already and by the way of it climax has come to see your famous card index ulsa MIN kuller sir air can give yon YOU more exact information than anyone else here re barding our cataloguing methods continued wednesday |