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Show MED i HOUSE AmM (Continued from Our Iast Issue. l The minutes went by slowly. To Antony, lying hidden in the undergrowth under-growth at the foot of his tree, n new-problem new-problem was presenting itself. Sup- i post Cnyley had to make more than one Journey that night" He might come back to find thorn in th ho;it. one of them. Indeed, In the water. His eyes were fixed on the boat Mi ho considered thene things, and aud- denty. ae if materialtecd from no- where, Cayley was standing by the , boat. In his hand was a small brown bag. Cayley put the bag In the bottom of the boat, stepped In and lining an oar as a punt-pole, pushed slowly off. Then, very silently, be rowed toward the middle of the pond. He had stopped. Th oars rested I on the water. Ho picked up the bag from between hla feet, leant over tho noBe of the boat, and rested It lightly light-ly on the wator for a moment. Then he let go. It sank slowly. He waited ! there, watehlng; afraid, perhaps that 1 It might rise again Antony began to count And now Cayley was burl; al hlfl starting-place He tied up, the boat, looked carefully round to" Bee that he had left no lr;iees behind him, and then turned to the wator again t""r a long time, as It seemed to tho watchers, he stood there, very blp. very silent. In th- moonlight. At last he seemed satisfied. Whatever his secret was, he had hidden It; and BO with a gt-nti.- sigh, as unmistakable to Antony as If he had heard it Cayley Cay-ley lurn-.l away Mid vnnl '1 n.T.'iin B4 quietly as he had conio. Antony gave him three minutes. ;md stopped out from the trees He waited th'-re for Bill to Join him su." whispered Bin. Antony nodded. "Good," smiled Antony "Mine was the eighteenth a little way past It Better hang your coat over the tdxth post, and then we shall see It nior-easily nior-easily I'll put mine on the igh-teenth. igh-teenth. Are you going to undrew hero or In the boat?" "Some here, and some in the boat, j You're quite sure that you wouldn't like to do the diving yourself?" "Quite, thanks." They had walked round to the other aide of the pond Coming t the sixth post of the fence. BUI took oil his coat and put It In position and then finished his undressing, While Antony went off to mark th-eighteenth th-eighteenth post When they were ready, they g"t into the boat Antony taking the oars. "Now, BUI. tell me as soon as I'm in a line with your two marks. " Ho rowed slowly toward the mid-die mid-die of the pond Vou're about there now," said Bill ot last. Antony stopped rowing and looked ! about him. "Yes, that's pretty well right." He turned the boat's nose round until it was pointing to the pine-tree under which Bill had loin. "You see my tree and the other cont "" "Yes," said Bill. "Right. Now then. I'm going to r.iw g.-iuu along this line until n dead" in between the Ovo. Get it is exact as vou can for your own s. "Steadv!" said Bill warninglv "Back a little ... a little more a little more forward again Right " Antony left the oars on the fl ti and looked round. As as he cou 1 tell, thev were In an exact line wlln each pair of landmarks. Now then. BUI. in you go." Bill pulled off his shirt and trousers, trou-sers, and stood up. "Yon mustn't, dive from the boat, old bo." said Antony hastily "You'll Shift Its position. Slide In g.-ntly " Bill slid In from the stern and swam slowly round to Antony. "What's it like ! ' mild Antony. "Cold. Woll. here's luck to It " i He gave a sudden kick, flashed for B moment In the water, and was p. in Antony steadied the boat, and took another look at his landmarks. Bill rame up behind him with a loud explosion. "It's pretty muddy.' he protested. "Weeds?" "No. thank the Lord " BUI gave another kick and disappeared. disap-peared. Again Antony coaxed the ! boat back Into position, and again I Mill popped up, this time In front of him I feel that if I threw you a sardine." sar-dine." said Antony. Wlttl a smile, "you'd catch it in your mouth quite prettily " "It's awfully easy to be funny from where you are. How much longer have I got to go on doing this?" Antony looked at. his watch. "About three hours. We must get back beforo daylight But be quicker I If you can. becauao It's rather cold for mo sitting here " BUI flicked a handful of water at I him and disappeared again. He was under for almost a minute this tlrne, and there was a grin on his face when It was vlslblo again "I've got it. but it's devilish hard to got up. I'm not sure that it isn't too heavy for me " "That's all right " said Antony. Ho brought out a fcall of thick string from his pocket. "Get this throueh tho handle if you can, and then wo ran both pull." "Good man " Ho paddled to the side, took one end of the string and paddled back again "Now then " Two minutes later the bag was safely safe-ly In the boat BUI clambered In after It. and Antony rowed back. "Well done. Watson." he said quietly, ns tbey landed. He fetched their two coats, and then waited, tho hg In his hand, while BUI dried nnd dressed himself As soon as the latter was ready, he took hie arm and led him Into the copse. Thev sat down, and taking the bag between his knees. Antony pressi d tho catch and opened It "Clothes!" said BUI. Antony pulled out the top garsBont and shook It out. It was a wet brown flannel coat. "Do you recognize. It?" he asked "Mark's brown flannel suit." "The one ho is advertised as having hav-ing run away In?" "Yes." Antony put his hand in the breastpocket breast-pocket and took out some letters He considered them doubtfully for a moment mo-ment "I suppose I d better read them." he said. "L mean, Just to see" He looked inquiringly at BUI. who nodded. nod-ded. Antony turned on his torch and glanced at them. BUI waited anxiously. anx-iously. "Yes. Mark . . . Hallo'" "What Is It'" "Tho letter that Cayley was telling tho Inspector about. From Robert Mark, your lolng brother is coming com-ing to soo you 1 Yes, I suppose I had hotter keep this Well, that's his coat. Toot's have out tho rest of 1L" He took the remaining clothes from the bag and spread them out "They're all here," said bill - Shirt, tie socks, underclothes, shoes yes. all of them " J It -.nrik sIoWl Bo united. "All that he wu wearing yesterday yester-day "Yes." "What do you make of If" Kill shook his head, and naked another an-other question. "In It what you expected?" Antony laughed suddenly "It's too absurd," he said "I export. ex-port. .) well you know what I ex-peeted ex-peeted A body A body In a suit "f Clothes Well perhaps It would be sat", r to hide them separately. The body here, and the clothes In the passage, wher.- they would never betray be-tray themselves And now he takes a great deal of troubb- to hide the clothes here, and doesn't bother about the body at all " He shook his head Tm a bit lost f..r tho moment. mo-ment. BUI. and that's the faet " "Anything else there "' Antony felt In th. bag "Stones and yes. there .s something some-thing else." He shook It out nnd held It up "There we are, Bill " it was the office key. "By Jove, you were right.' Antony turned the bag gently upside up-side down on the grass A dozen large stones fell out nnd something else He flashed down his torch. "Another key." h said. He put the two keys In his pocket nnd sat there for a long time In silence, si-lence, thinking Bill was silent, too, not liking to interrupt his thoughts' but at last he said: "Shall I put these things back?" Antony looked up with a start. "What 7 Oh. yes No I'll put them bark. Yon give me a light will you ?" Very slowly and carefully he put the elothes baek In the bag pausing as he took up each garment, In the certainty, as n seemed to Bin that It had something to tell him if onlj the could read It. When the last of, 'them was Lnfllde, he still waited there' j on his knees, thinking 1 "That's the lot." Paid BUI. Antony nodded at him "Yes. that's the lot." he said, "unl that's the funny thing about it. You're sure It Is tho lot ?" i "What do you mean?" "Gle me the torch a moment" He took It and flashed It over the ground! between them "Yes, that's the lot J I' i tunny.' He stood up. the bag In his hands "Now let's find a hiding place for these, and then " He salrl no more, but stepped off through tho treen, Bin following him meekly As soon n they had got the bag I off their hands and were clear of the copse, Antony beoame more eommunl eatlve. He took the two keys out of I his poekot "One of them is the office key, I ' support, and the other is the key of tiie passage cupboard ko i thought that perhaps we might tiaii a look at I he enpboard " "I say. do you really think it is? ' ' Well, I don't see what elso It can i bc " "But why should he want to throw ! It away " ' 1 "Because It has now done its work, whatever It was. and he wants to wash his hands of the passage. He'd throw the passage away If he could. I don't think It matters much ono j way or another, and I don't suppose there's anything to find In the cup-board. cup-board. but I feel that we must lok." "Do you still think Mark's body might be there?" "No And yet where else can it be0 Unless I'm hopelessly wrong, and Cavley never killed him at all." r But tho eupboard hod not much to i ' that night. i77I?J eli. that's that,' Sfgl But Antony, on his kSi 3 torch ,n his hand. conn3 se:ir. I, for Momothing "1 ' What are ou lookup forJ Antony, getting up, and VuSJ queers And he locksd (Continued In Our xe,t lJ |