Show THOU thousandth ff ST W WOMAN WH aalok of CRACKSMAN RAFFLES etc illustrations by k 2 0 AYERS y ra B fan CHAPTER 1 A 8 small W world orld cazalet sat cat up BO suddenly thit him held heid hit bit th the woodwork ork over the upper b berth a rth his HB own voice abill rang long in his eta tied led eara cars he ha wondered bow much h ha hid bd eat eaid d and ad how far it could old he have carried ried ab aboa 0 the throb gavin of the liner a we and it the tha mighty pounding of the wile water gullet against her plates platea and ben as I 1 he remembered sow how 11 he had bad lus been tell left behind at na caplea P Is and rejoined the kaiser fri antz tal at genoa only to find th that it he be no longer had a cabin to him self air A sniff assured cazalet that he was neither either alone at the moment nor yet the tha only one awake he be pulled back the swaying curtain and there on the settee series sat bat a man with a strong blue chu chin md and the quiz quizzical ical solemnity ot of an an n i mated split sphinx a x I 1 it was bi afa cabin companion an american named hilton to toe a and Cal casalet adde addeses sed him with nervous familial ity y I 1 a bay rare have I 1 been talking 1 in my bleed bleep fre why yes replied hilton tove tom and d broke into a smile that made a fau human be being 11 g of him cazalet ot forced a responsive grin what did isay t eay he ha asked with A an unused amused curl curiosity a it Y at varion variance with his shaking hold and sh shining an ing forehead toye term a bolf hime him in train from crown to k fingertips tirs with something thin deep behind his faia kindly embie t 1 I judge said he be you were dren dreaming ing of borne a dromm drama you ve be been an boeing ashore here mr mc C caza ca a let Dr dreaming euring said eaid cazalet wiping OIB has face it we was s a nigh nightmare tom I 1 must have turns turned d i in too boo boon after dinner lm put I 1 should like to know knew 1 hat I I 1 said aid flad 1 I can tell you w word ord for far word it lou I 1 an gaid HC henra cra craven dead and then ou an smal eaid dead dead henry cra van benl as if on oud it got to have it both ways to make our cure it a true said a it Coin cazalot alet shuddering 1 I saw him lying dead 1 in try my tire dream hilton to toie a too took k a gold vatch th fro from his waistcoat poc pocket kat thirteen min was to one in th the a ma morning fig he sold said and ad now its september eighteenth take rake abote a note of that mr air cazalet it may be another case of B second commit a sight IA it for or lour psychical psych cal ireae research rah society 1 I don dont it care car if it is cazalet was mot ing fiction fic furiously rion V meaning mean ing it was no great friend you yoa dreamed so waa dead deada iso I 1 friend at A all dead or al ache j is I 1 m mad kind of I 1 w said bald toye toy winding binding his him watch eth slowly if he be I 1 a by way of being a friend of mine ke I 1 know now a henry ahenry craven over in eng land lives liles along the river down kingston way say in a big house called find uplands upland yes sir it that a the man A little world rid I 1 tent it if T the it man I 1 in the upper berth had to be hold id on bat as liis his curtains curtain swung clear the man tilted if it back on the settee sette all aits ack attention all th the time me was more than ever an effe effective foil to him with V ith out the tha lend kindly 11 smile it that w ent eat BE as quickly be aa IL 11 carre came hilton toye tale was somber subtle and demure cazalet ion the other hand was of sanguine alexion complexion Pl exion and impetuous looks he wae tanned a rich bronze about the middle of the face but it broke backe off his hia forehead like the coloring of a inner meerschaum an im pipe both me men were in their early at I 1 y prime and ad each tood ad roughly it tor far his bia race bud and ty type e the traveled ed amer american man who knows knew the world and the elemental who she has made some one im loose be en end it of it bi BIB own I 1 thought of my henry C craven cen en continued m ut i tined to toie a as aa soon amut as 11 ever you m came a out at with you yours as but it 11 seemed ad a kind of ordinary name I 1 might int hae known it ona the social earne if i I 1 it recollect hurt ed ad the name of hla his alums flums ism isa I 1 it cris cra a en cazalet casalet the stockbrokers stock brokers down to in talk Token bouse house yard yarda gliatti but it said aid cazalet bitterly but at th there a be have a been none of us in Z it sitter since my father died ten yeara year ago but I 1 ou on re henry craven arold s old part an inderb at a son riv I 1 m his bia only holy a eona then no wonder you dermat about henry ile ry cn C n ailed to toye cull and no mr wonder ader it 11 wouldn t break your insert hearl it your year adreain it c came m true a it said cazalet through his hl tee teeth th he a baan t white leck man to allbia me or mine I 1 w whatever you may b have found hint him I 1 had a little place placa near fl his one an eummer mar 1 know only what I 1 heard bean dos down there what hat did you hear asked coca let at 1 I ive ve been away ten yeara year ever tince line the crash that I 1 ruined aimed everybody every bod but the man at the bottom or of the whole thing it would be a fi ad to 0 o tell me what you heard beard well A ell I 1 guess you bouvo said aid it t your year belt if now that man basam to ia have v everybody all around except t himself that thata how bow I 1 make it out eaid aid hill hallon toyo TOY i ile he did a said end cazalet through his bia tell teeth it lie he killed my arun prun po lather orather he ban banished 1 h ca we me to the wilds of As au and 1 h be bent 1111 a bell baiter r man an the than to PL a tor for four fourteen t mm years I 1 toye toy opened his bia oark dark eyes tor far once ciar la Is t that at EG a no I 1 never color heard that said ad he you hear it now he did all that indirectly and ad I 1 imbt alda t realize it 11 at the time I 1 was too ta soung loung and it the whole thing laid to me a out too flat but I 1 know knew it now and I 1 ve known it long enough it was worse or s ethan than a crash it was a las seen scandal a T that h t was what fl finished hed us off all 11 but henry craven there d been bam a gigantic swindle special 1 in vestments recommended hi b the firm bobis certificates and all the rest ot of it we were all to blame ot of course M my Y P poor a or father ought neier neer to have been a poet even 1 I 1 I was sea only a young star 1 in the off office a but bat I 1 ought to have known what was going on mi but henry hell craven did know he w was as I 1 in it up to the neck though a fellow called bar ecru ton did the actual job arut scruton got to fourteen u arteen years year mid and criven arwen got our old house on the river and feathered it pretty w well ell I 1 said tol toe a nodding I 1 les ea I 1 did hear that and I 1 C can tell teil ou u the they don deal t think thick me adv better of at him I 1 in the neighbor h hood ad for going to it live ve right there but how th did it he stop the other man mans a moat it and an d how 1 do yoa 1 it knowd limi biever N av or mind mild how I 1 know eaid ind ca 11 let S scruton was a in friend or of mine ma though ph an older man he be was waa good to me a though he was a w wrong rong un himself he rud tor for it paid tor far two that I 1 can bar fiad but he was engaged to ethel craven arenen at the ti time was going to be ticket taken let into pa partnership tn a on their marriage and you can C put two sm and it I 1 two together gether M for yourself old did ehe he w wait all for him I 1 about as aa long as aa you it expect of the breed she was her fathers daugh ter I 1 wonder you didn dian t wine come across tier and her husband I 1 dlan n t sea eee so BO much of the craven crowd replied hilton toie title 1 ausent baan t stuck stock on A them the either say caralt Caza Ca leti I 1 I 1 abe be that old man when ecru to ton comes a out would youa you but cazalet showed that he could hold bold his tongue when he be liked and his grim look was w as not so legible as some that had bad come and gone before this one me tuck stuck until toe title produced a big flask fro from his grip mad and the talk shift cd bit to less ile painful ground it 11 was the last night in the ba eav of f biscay and it cazalet told how he had been be in it a j fortnight on his way say out at by sailing ailing ve vessel I 1 ile he Is even e told tt it with consider ible able humor bud and hit ott off sundry pulse sera gar of is ten years year ago be aa though they had b been B an aboard the german geram boat beat that night and tole toe drew him out about the bush until the shadows passed tor far minutes train from the redbrick fredbrick red brick face with the w white hill brick forehead I 1 remember thinking I 1 would old dig for or gold said cazalet that a all ail I 1 knew anew about australia but you can am hat awe e adi dentures ot of sorts to if you yen go far enough up country for a em it still ull pas to know how to use your fists date out aut there them I 1 remember a once at a bush shanty thel the dished up fili such fruity chous chops that I 1 said I 1 it fight figh t the oak cook it if I 1 1 I say have J been talking in my sleep illey it send him up and I 1 im in if I 1 it wa gasn wasn t a ratio fellow I 1 it been at school aith ith and wortA ined as no an mad end ot of a wall swell at ait games I 1 potts his name was A old ve venus potts pods the best beat looking chap in the school among other things ind and there h he wit was cooking king carrion of at is twenty livit bob a week call instead of fighting we joined forces force got a lm burr c but cutting ahng amb job ud OH a good station then than a letter i t one over le r shear cul and after tha hat t I 1 wormed domed my way in a as book keeper and my pal became one of the lead head A a seera r now we were re our own bosses with a share ashare in I 1 the cahow and ad the owner cornea out up only once a year to see sea how bow things are looking I 1 I 1 hope home he hid had a daughter said ta toe off and ad that you re going to marry bearry her he it you baen be a t yet C idt laughed but the shadow hart bad car returned N no I 1 left that to my pal I 1 he Is said eald ile ho it did I 1 it that all 11 right th then I 1 adilee dl iou to go 90 and do likou likewise fin rejoined he his new friend with a lac geniality to take amiss I 1 t wonder new nowr if there a some girl gil you left behind you cli cazalet C l I bk b his him lead head none N who would old look a on he in I 1 that hat light be interrupted etith it was all he ha said but bat onca m more ore T toye ye was waa regarding ancoli him as shrewdly as when the night wee waa younger and the littleness of the we world 1 it had boil not mot let at mal made the them I 1 bonfi dell dant and boon companion eight bells bell actually struck before moir their great 11 talk ended and ad C cit cazalet it aware that he be biml missed sed the eat watch chal ci art aft air r 1 of f the bailing vessel 0 ten tee I 1 ears 11 b before f sai but I 1 exclaimed ill haton ton toye knit ting ties hla his brows 01 or er some nebulous rec of 11 his hia 11 own 1 I seem to have are heard board a of ou and it some Is of your 38 im before lou a spend nights in a log ing hut but miles is and miles from any hu bit man being it we waa BB the they were set turning in at al a last but the question AU spoiled led a yawn sun tb tor ter cot cazalet sometimes at one ona of our car out oat sta eta eions said he too looking king puzzled ignazi it I 1 ve a seen lour photograph so said it to toye Y s regarding him with a mar cratl rt h cal A I 1 stare but it was with a beard r I 1 1 I had it oft off w when hen I 1 we was albora bar tb tho other day said classier cazalet I 1 alwa meant to before the end ad of at the tha toy Y age I 1 see it be aa st a ml sa maamar showed me ma that photo photograph ph M miss blanche Mic macnair ermi lives live 1 in a little atlle in house down there near lour at old d he home I 1 if is ir r j second he ejaculated a though it were the night before judge hers bers la Is mother another old home that a been broken up since your day they ve all got worried married said caza case h let except all misa blanche you write to her some mr all cazalet Caz alef once a year regularly it was wag a promise tt ve e were kid to together felber h he explained as he ha climbed if b oil back I 1 into at a the upper borth berth guess you were a lucky kid said the voice in below she a one in a thousand miss alleg blanche macnair CHAPTER 11 II bec second ad sight southampton water was sea an orns orna mental lake hilm dotted with fairy lamps it was a midsummer night lagging a whole season behind it its fellow but bat bead already it was so late to that the english f passengers arn on the kaiser fritz had gerson abandoned b a all t thought of catching the last train to london they tramped the deck 1 in their nois shining binning shore going boots they manned I 1 the he rail in lazy inarticulate cpr appreciation let ion of 0 the nocturne in blue stippled with green and red and count less yellow lights but achilles in his bis tell ent vaa as to no more c absen able tee ee than cazalet in life hla cabin as athe the kaiser caiser fritz steamed sedately up Sout southampton hampto water aster he had finished packing the state to room floor r was sea with the geMat bagga baggage that cazalet had bad wanted on the fie fiNa weeks seeks voyage there was scarcely room to sit it do down but I 1 in what there a as a sat ciet cazalet like a soul seat 1 in tc all the ault vult vultures or of the night might lefore before of at his him it dreadful end fat dea dream and ad or of the he poignant reminiscences to which hla his dream had led might have been gnawing at his him 1 I late itala as he be sat there waiting to set toot foot once more in tha mhd land and from which a bitter blow had driven drive h him yet t tha he bitterness have hare been allayed by the consciousness that it he 0 at any rate had turned it to brou account at it t had been indeed the making ol of him aba thanks ks to that beorn toi incentive live even some of the sweets sweet of a deserved success were already his has but ther the was no hint of complacency in caz caza lots ets clouded feel face and ad heavy sit attitude lt do his face was pale even in tha that it to tor rid zone one between betres the 1 latitudes ti taid protect sit ed in the bush by b beard eard and wide awake and he be Jun jumped tread to his bis tiet ft ti et a as suddenly ia as the screw topped stopped for far the first time the same thing happen 4 again and yet salt agile as often a as ever car the engines glass pulsed paused before the end cazalet would spring up a and ad watch his hia st ettero stateroom tero do door with clenched cuts and b haunted ted eye eyes but it r wan sea some nome long time before the me do door flow flew open me A and it the then slammed behind hilton toye toy toye toy so was 1 in a state of excitement even more alm abnormal ormial than cazalet a nervous despondency which indeed it for prevented a vented him from observing it was instantaneously clear unit that t toy toye was wa out astounded ded thrilled almost t rim p 4 but as yet just juat drawler drawing the line at that A newspaper fluttered IA a hi hla head hand second sight he be ejaculated as though it were the night before and cavalet still shaken by his hia dream I 1 goes you 1 ve got get it ft 1 in full measure mea auro pressed down and running over mr air ca cazlet calet let TO BE contley |