| Show ANS WHOp NUNG ST abhor of Ghe AMATEUR COWMAN kaffler etc I 1 T ll 11 lv l v 2 03 w LN 4 AWER SYNOPSIS on the bleamer r X kaack r feltt it to bound from australia claca out I 1 in in his al 1 ep e UI that henry n traen who 1 as ton years gerore had a ruined cd c d ull ills rather r and himself I 1 I 1 la dead are anil and that HI ton toie 1 ho 0 shares the idill stateroom 11 w walli it him in knows conven and alao so blanche afefa il a former cl erbor and play mate W V hen the dally rin papera inea como aboard d it at southampton sv toe reads iid that t cliv craven as has been i norl burdt hild red end rail calla clat cazalet a dream dite 1 od he do thanna aunt S of elite doing a hills amateur dincol work on the caad himself a in the I 1 train to town low IZ tb chev sl the ru murder wh walta w was ine corn milled at 1 l a old hours home th toye hears fro rom ah uit scruton who had bc been c mc he d sei lugt 0 craven n a dish I 1 ha as bl been released ile from or C boea down no iha ilver and mecan CHAPTER IV continued 1 I wonder w who he can he have do done it so do the india police c and they don t look much like finding out it must have been tor for his big watch and money don I 1 you think thick and yet they say aay he had so BO an many Y enemies do cazalet CA z ant kept hept silence but ehe he thought he ft meed signed of course it must most have been bee th the a man who ran out of th the dri arhe she concluded hastily VI ft here her were you when it happened sweep somewhat hoarsely he ha was recall in ing g the mediterranean movements of the e katen kaiser fritz when at the first mention turn of the vessel a name its he va waa firmly heckled beki it sweep you don t amete say you tame call by german steamers steamer a 1 I 1 do it we was the first going so and why should I 1 waste a week ask besides beside you can so generally get a cable cabin to your sef belt on OD the german line airman so bo that s why by you re a here before the ite end of the month said eald blanche vi ft s ell 11 I 1 call it most unpatriotic but the be cabin to at yourself elf was certainly some albu excuse that reminds me be exclaimed 1 1 I I bade I 1 it to myself all the way there th was another fellow in with me from genoa C and the last right night on board it earn came out I 1 that hot I 1 bo be knew you yen who can it hae been C TO toie a his name was allton hill toye toy an american so man an oh but I 1 tad ehnow it him ht very Y well said blanche la in ft 4 tone both strained and cordial he B great fun mr toe with his bis delight rut fill amerl ol 01 unisee and the perfectly da delightful way he sas so them cazalet amal I 1 puckered like the primitive V anan an he was when taken take it at all 11 by sur or title and that anybody yb it much less blanche should think toye toy of all pon peo via either el ther it delightful B or great tun fen was van certainly c ertain ly a surprise to him it it was nothing else of course it was nothing else to his I 1 immediate knowl andy to edge still he rather ready to think that blanche was blushing but forgot g it if indeed he be had been in a fit abata sta te to see it at the time the that t she he n bad paid himself elf the same high corn no an out across the gate on the whole it may be DO said that cazalet was rut fled without feeling seriously disturbed as to in the I 1 a essential dal issue which alons alone leaped to his bis mind whom did you meet it the fellow he inquired w with ith the suitable imitable admit drill turn ture of confidence nes and amusement 1 I in the first lost w at engelberd Eng Urit elbers alborg engelberg who where a th tatt it only one of those places in swit garland where e eiery everybody body gun goes now adaya do ya for what they call winter sports she was not even smiling miling at his or ar gan ignorance she was merely or ex pi pla aming ining one geographical point and it south another a r of granual information A close observer 1 serVer might have thought he her almost anxious not to identity identify her self too closely with a popular craze 1 I dare say any you mentioned it said bald cazalet cacide but rather a as though he was sas wondering why she had put not 1 I dare say I 1 dian didn t everything won von igo t go into him a an 1 annual I letter it was the winter inter be before m last I 1 went out with betty a and and her hustled husband and after that be took a place do down wu hat heie yea Is th then it I 1 met him on the river the ithe following Ima summer turner and it found flood be bed it got rooms room in one of the a nell gwynne cottages if you call that a place I 1 1 I see a but there was no more to see there over never had been much but now blanche Blan clia waa a standing up and gazing tz out tt 1 tha ball balcony only but tolo the halt belt ot of singing flinging sunshine liffie liLt between woun the opposite side ilde of the road and the invisible river acres ore way away why A by should I 1 we go do down to lit tl told eford and get out the boat beat if loure on to realy really going to make an aftem afternoon oon of it itt she ebe said but you imply I 1 aee marthd first at and while she e milk male tog lug herself fit to be seen man you must take something Bom ething tor for the good of the house hens bring it to you on an a lordly ty t Y sh she brought him biro siphon bottle a dilver biscuit be box of ancient memo memorie so fl and loft left him alone with them some borne little time for the young mistress ube like her old retainer in im an other minute was waa simply dying to t bank herself ance presentable tone Y yet at when aha he had done does BO and ad came back like snow in a shirt and ad skirt just juat union tome from the laundry she ehe saw that lie be did not tit see a the diff diffin mn hla his de cling pouring yen shoos ali neither more mora nor well but ho he had atso also devoured every biscuit 1 in the be box though he be had bad be gun by vowing that he bad lunched in to town id and no stuck it to the fable ethl ble old did ads martha th a b bad ad known him all jau hlll life bubb but beet at the period when he be used to come to bumry tea at little ford she declared she aba would have known him t to any anywhere wh r S as aa he be was but clail she be simply p y hadi recognized him 1 in that photograph with his be beard ard I 1 can see where it s b been cs said aid Alart martha hn looking him in the lower tern lent perot zone B but u t I 1 1 m a so coglad glad you V ve h had it it oft off mr illi Caz z ateL there ou on are blanchie ill crowed chalet you yen said she d he be disappoint ed ad b but t martha 5 got better vista taste it van bent t that bar or said aid martha ear nest nestly y its it a because the dreadful man who waa an seen been running out of the drive at in r old home he had a b beard it I 1 it t a in all the notices notice about him and thata bats put pot me them and makes we me glad you ve va had you yours off blanche turned to him with to too ready a smile emile but then the she va was really not act such sch a great age as she pretended a and nd she it a hid bid never be been to in better spirits spirit in her life you hear bear saw sweep 9 I 1 I 1 call it rather lucky for you that lou on wera but just the then she saw his face and remembered mare the things that had bad been said about henry craven by the coza caza let lets friends even awn ten years ago ft he hen she realty really had been a r girl irl CHAPTER V an untimely visitor she really was one still for in these days day it la 11 an 11 elastic in term and it in blanches blanche S cabe there was on no B apparent pint reason mason why by it should ever cease came to apply or 1 to be applied by every decent tongue except her own much blech the best beat tennis placer mil miling among ing the badiea of the neighborhood she drove an almost unbecomingly long hall ball at golf and never looked better than when paddling her bar old canoe cano or P punting pono ono g in the old punt and yet this hondr wonderful fa september afternoon she did so bo look even better than at 4 9 I 1 it whom did Y n u meet the he 1 either or sol ani of those congenial pur per suits and that long before they reached the river in the empty house which c it had known h her er no as im baby by child and grownup grown up girl to the companion of some part of till all three these stages she ehe looked a more lustrous lust roua and a lovelier blanche than he remembered even of old but she wait waa not really loiel loel in 11 the least aaa that albo must be put pot belond the h apale pale of misconception her hair waa von beautiful and perhaps her ski skin and in some lights light her eyes eye the rest was not it was van ill yellow lair hair not gold so en and it C isa would cold have given all it ho had bad about him to see are it down dow again a as I 1 in the oldest of old days daya but there was more go gold h it in her skin for so BO the S sun had tra treated aed it and there them was as even ii hot hint t or 1 glint in certain lights be it repeated of sol gold it mingling with the pure pull h hazel I 1 of her eyes but in the dusty shadows had of the empty house moving big like b seen across it ita blo bare boards board standing out against the disco ored walls in the place of remembered pictures not to be compared with her it was waa there that she was waa all golden and still girl they poked their noses allies into and they had a laugh in every corner and it EO 0 out von upon the leafy lawn shelving abruptly to the river last of all there was wan the summer burnier scho schoolroom over ever the boat house quite apart from the house bouse itself scene of such buch safe et at tec leck leea klees revels revel in I 1 it tta very cry aura late into victorian it lay hidden in ivy at the end of a now low neglected path the bow win down overlooking the river were wera trained in ivy like lika three matted whiskered dirty 19 happy fee faces one with its to lower bash h propped prepped 0 pen open by I 1 broken broke plant pot might have been bee grinning toothless mothes welcome in to two once leading spirits of 1 the I place caim ca im whittled a twig aud and wedged that sash flash up altogether the then he ha tit at self on oa the at his long 19 lega N v aida but his hi knife had bad reminded him bif of his plug tobacco and his flux tub tobacco con took him IS straight back to the bush as aa though the unsound four floor had changed under their feet fast into ft magic ag carpet lou ion imply hae it put down to the me man a account in the station books nobody keeps ready ad y money up at the bush bulk not I 1 even the be price of a plug ilk like this b but it the on chap I 1 im in telling you about 1 I can son him i in an now w w with h hi hta ad fiet great grant red heard beard and f freckled k d flats lie be a dwore I 1 was charging him 1 I so for naif half omil bho P pound more ore t than h he d ever r hd had 11 we fought for twenty tbt minutes behind the wood ne heap then ll 11 ne gave in me beat but I 1 had to turn in t till it I 1 I 1 could coul it flee I 1 g you don I 1 mean that h he blanche had bad looked r rather he disgust ed it the moment before now aha was sh aniz ir all 11 truculent loop suspense an and it indigena tion ri beat me mea he cried good lord no but there was none to too much in fin it fires fire died d down in her b hazel I 1 I 1 eye Is lay y 1 lambent inherit as oft bott moo moonlight oil d flick to it ir erad ed im into taught laughter before he had we een the firs fire I 1 in afraid you re a very dangerous person said bald blanche lou on ve va got get to be he be i assured her it B the only way dun don I 1 take word word from anybody unless you mean it him in to wipe wife his hig boots on iou I 1 soon eoon from found d th that out u t I 1 it have given to haera have 1 learned 1 the noble art b since before 1 I wool went out did I 1 ever toll tol 1 7 you on now how it wan waa I 1 first came across old venus puts potts he had told her at gre great at length to the exclusion of about every ot other her topic 1 in the second a 0 end of the annual let torn and throughout the series the I 1 in evitable evi tabie name of Vs venue P potts its b id ad net a item dom cropped up without within t a bome a allusion hiarm to the that t homeric encounter but it w was a well worth while hiving having it all over again with the intricate and picaresque embroidery of a tongue far mightier than the pen hitherto employed upon the incident poor bj blanche h had almost to hold held her rose nose over the primary cause of battle but the dialogue va was delightful and it C cazalet let himself made do a most gallant and engaging figure as he sat on the bill ill and reeled it out twenty ml minutes n I 1 ats later and old venus potts polls was waa till on the magic tasa though caroled had dropped his b bat ing tor for a curn curiously imly humble hubl eager and yet ineffectual vein old venus potts polls he kept lating you t he help in lilting liking him and he it like you my word tit la Is his wife nice blanche blancha wanted to know knew but she ene was waa looking so in whitly out her window at the opposite end of it the be how to C cazalet a s that s a man of the wider world might have thought of something else to talk taik about out her window she ahe looked past a willow that had been base part of the old 11 life 11 in the direction of an equally 1 typical silhouette of patient auglera such anchored red in a punt they bad not raised a rod red between ahn then during all 11 this time that blanche had be been out tn 1 australia but as a matter of fant at she over never saw the them since line vastly to the credit of cazalet a descriptive powers she ahe was out in australia still nelly nally suits potts I 1 he said oh a jouy d g good old sort eort you be awful palo pala should we said blanche just smiling at her invisible angilera I 1 know you would he assured her with immense conviction of course she cant do the things you do but she can ride my word I 1 so she he ought to when she cheb a lived there all her life the rooms aren I 1 much but the yet veran das 1 I owe are what count most they theyra m hot bet te ter t than he a any rooms S she a was waa still out there cultivating nelly 1 ly potts t s on a very cry deep jeranda islands gnout son the though u her e r straw raw hat and straw hair remained in contradictory evidence against a very dirty window oa the middle middlesex bank back ot of the thames it was n as a shame of the S september iii flun to show the dirt din as it was doing ret not only was there a great steady pool of mildine on no the unspeakable floor ficor but a doddering reflection from the rivet rival on the disreputable calling cazalet looked rather desperately from one to the other nell and both the calm pool and ana the rough were broken by shadow 8 one more impressionistic impressionist than the etli other er of a straw hat bat over a stuck stack of straw hair that had not gone out to australia alm yet and of course just then a step sounded outside somewhere on some borne gravel confound those caretakers hat were they doing PrOw prowling lilg about I 1 say blanchie Blanch lel he blurted out 1 I 1 do belie believe you it ilk like it out there sportswoman port woman like you I 1 believe you dt d take to it like a duck to water TO BE CONTINUED |
