Show THOU AM Y WOW WUA aln WH akujor of RAFFLES etc W rh by 0 0 TYERS dy rr r terrall CO comply APly P SYNOPSIS 5 C 1 on an the inc trainer is tell P alt arme word a bound ad arini a australia rons arle out ut in a I 1 I 1 19 bleed in ahat t I 1 hanry 1 craven n or who ten years or before nod had ra d ilia III to father emr and 11 1 Is sao and ad red it hll I 1 X I 1 ton T tove klio ela alearea erva eb the stateroom acl len with him know craven and also 1 blanche macnair a former and P biml alio dally papers c aboard at nih southampton ma ati toe reada 1 tl at cube has 0 and 1 calls I 2 11 B al iram m it eirl I 1 I 1 he thinka talk nt at dang c t its amateur m S work a 1 on I the lie anae S hm if I 1 in ine irnen 1 lo 10 tow town the 0 alie murder which ih was corn ml d ni 1 old home loye hears from ahre XI that it 1 scruton I wn who lind ad been C cazalet to a friend bad and the scapegoat so t for ballu 1 lax has b been r elcas i B d ome prison go goe a don down tho us river and mccaa e isla lis CHAPTER V continued d he had floundered to his feet sa as well ell he was sea at standing IT oiling over ever her feel I 1 tug g his bla ay y it like k a great fatuous cow I 1 brel GO 60 some borne be might ight hane haie thought but it to really fly looked as a t though be gh blanche blanch we was not attending a ding to what he did say bay vet neither it er was waa she ehe watching itching her little anglers angler stamped in an jet iet up upon the sil 11 very vary air stream nor even seeing sealing ony any more of nelly potts poll in the australian ver er anda she bad come coma home from aus ana andia aral aralia and come in from the tile rier and fahe he I 1 as wet batching ching the up open door at the ait other t I 1 er eod it ot of the old 14 schoolroom hl 1 listen aten best ing to those confounded step stepa coming nearer tind ad lle nearer ur and ii rd cazalet as go gazing it at her as though he be really had old bald something thing that deser descried ill an an ewer a why mine blanche cried A voice and your old lady in a ailing figured I 1 dw should ind lou dow flown hilton toe as flaa a all already body a lead lands in man bud and a londoner Lo r from top to toe ir wilme he aa p orteal dressed tor for bond street at and h hia IS native simplicity 1 ad pluitt ot of b g and led add address res P placed I 1 aced him bim as surely and firmly in the present pic lure he did not look the least bit out of it but cazalet casalet did to in an instant life his old bush clothes changed at once me into a merely shabby salt it of big cut the romance it dropped out it ot of them and their wearer we r r as he be stood food like a true trussed a d fork jes ck and it jibed matched a beach of both hothouse flowers III presented dented to the lady with a little turn gem of a natural natura courteous and yet char racy speech T to a the led lad mark you for she ebe was one no on the spot and calet ca let was man age again and me making k ing a mighty effort to b chace behave himself because the hour beef of boy bay and it girl 1 was I or mr ca cazalet alet said toys toye 47 1 I guess you yen want nt to know what in thunder I 1 ra in doing on y your or tra tracks k so BO soon its it s bog beg luck sir air because I 1 wanted to see vou quite quit a lot butIu but I 1 never eer thought ait I 1 d strike birk lou on right here did you be bear the news no let there was no need to inquire as to the class of news the immediate past classe had bad com come back bith fill to let into caza case let e life and ore even 1 in li he s u pres pace C een I 1 in her schoolroom the old days had sown flown into their proper place piece and sive ale in the perspective made an arrest aid toie tajo and cazalet nodded as though 4 A 0 I 1 me co it said tye 1 I a yo want to know what im doing on von be had bad quite a expected clad it which set blanche or off trying to remember some thing ba bad stud said wt at the other house bouse but she alls bad not net succeeded when she noticed attend the curious pallor of hla his chin life an fand d fetch forehead d scruton ull he last just asked you yea sir it this thin ow morning big said hll bit ton I 1 T toye ya lyl you delt don t 11 mean n the pt poor 0 ma roana cried ad blanche blanch a I 1 looking gar from 0 one ato to the of other her yea b he it does said IT cazalet gloom aly he stored stared out at the river seeing nothing 1 in his turn though one elks of the angilera gi wait waa actually aitu ally busy basy with hla his reel but I 1 thought mr section scruton was itai at till ills suche blanche remembered him 1 re m baud dancing with bi him she he lid did not of ilk like 1 to ady 1 in prison nt he came out the other day sighed cazalet dot but how like the police all ail over our G give ise ft a dog a bad name came and fr trust at ibea he I 1 to bunt it down and shoot 11 at algat 1 judge in ita wa not BO a bad wo ae all that in he this count country bald hilton toye that a more mora ilka the tha police theory i she about I 1 scruton I 1 guess gues bar drawing biml the head when did you hear of it ita said aid C II T it t was waa on the tape at the savoy wh when an I 1 got there them so I 1 mad made an ad 1 in aulry slid and I 1 figured to look 1 in at the kingston court on III my way to call upon miss blanche you see a I 1 we was miss kind of interested in all you it told ou me about t the B I 1 case W well that w was as my end of the till a thin As luck inck and in management w would old d have it between them I 1 we was 1 in time to hear br to your or man not net my man please you thought of him jou jourell hourselt lour relf eaid it amt sharply well anyway I 1 was as in time to hear bear the proceedings opened against him dim they w were ere all olor in about a radule minute H was I 1 remanded amended till fall next week how did he look and had be a b beard S rd demanded cazalet casalet and it blanche am simultaneously at Y ikei he looked d ia like a sick ick man I 1 said to toie with something more than his use deliberation in answering or selling asking Qu questions estl les I 1 as miss blanche ho he had sd a beard worthy I 1 arthy of a free CAI ten T they I 1 by let the them grow grew one if they it like ku before they he 7 co caroe out of said aid caza cate let with h the nod of 0 knowledge then the a ig 1 guess ia be was a wise I 1 man not to take it off rejoined hilton toa toie a that would only prejudice he bia case if it s going to be one ere of identity with that head gal gardener n lead in the w witness stand land old Sa savage snorted t C cazalet let IN ft by he was a dotard in our or time they couldn coulden t hang a dog on his bla evl evi flence deare still said blanche ho I 1 it rather have it the than circumstantial evidence wouldn t you mr me to toa 01 no blanche I 1 would not at re plied toye with wall unhesitating condor candor th the worst ei evidence dence in the world in my opinion and I 1 ve glen the matter some thought i is s the evidence of iden tty lie he turn turned e it to cazalet who had bad bonva d in quickened sickened interest in his hia views Is shall I 1 tell iou why think than h how often ile sou at re not of so be sure Bs it if you yen h lave ve seen I 1 a man before or it if i ou an anler aei er have you yen kind of shrink fr from nod ding or else you nod wrong wring if it you jilin t ever hae that I gitig then ibex vou van re not like say any other man an I 1 in know aws I 1 have cried cazalet lie bad it t all my life even in the wild wilds but I 1 never dever thought of it before think Th fill of it tew now said aid to tose and aad 3 boull on 11 see sale there may be blaze flaws in I 1 the best aest ell evidence do nee of identity that money can buy but circumstantial evidence can cant t lie miss luns blanche blanch it if ou on get enough 0 of it ft if the link fit in to ufah roe 0 I 1 that hat a certain person per we was 1 la a certain cartel place at a C certain M time I 1 guess that worth all 11 the oaths oath of all ail the the eyewitnesses ia that ever saw do daylight 3 light cazalet C let laughed harshly we aa for no apparent reason he ha led vw the liay y into the garden mr toie toe a made a study or of these things he fired over his shoulder ho 11 should boak have been a sherlock holmes and rather wishes he was bluel on glie give me time said eaid TOYS toye laugh ing g I 1 may come coma along that way we et at cazalet faced him in a frame of w tangled greenery you told me you would ai t odid I 1 did sir it let but that w was as before th they BY put u t so salt ou on this poor old track crook if yo fight you n re right and he a not the man should it you say that rather altered I 1 the situation 7 CHAPTER VI volume voluntary Y service arl and w why by do ou think think he cant in ave do dona it cazalet had trundled the old canoe 0 over be the rollers millers and blanche was hardly paddling ing in this the glassy trip strip along alongside do the weir wait below the ills look lock there ll had been something to do and it blanche had done it deftly daftly and it silent ly with aguot equal capacity and grace it had given her a homing charming wish flush old and sparkle and shot with the suns dole baie hand band on list her lellow allow hair ban she aha now dow looked even esell dennis bonnier the than 1 in doors yet not quite quite such euch a girl but the then every cery bit ot of the boy had gone out of cazalet so that hour stolen tl from the pa past t was up louver forever why do the police think the other thing he be retorted what M hot have h they the got to go on that what I 1 want at to know knew 1 agree with TOYS toye to in poe pile thing blanche looked up Is quickly tily I 1 wouldn t trust old savage an inch I 1 11 ve b aten thinking about him and his previous slide evidence do you yen realize that it quite dark now DOW BOO soon I 1 after flat sale seven it was am pretty thick saying his bis man I 1 waa we either hot hat nor r cap left behind to prove it yet now it ft adema a he be a put a beard to him and next nen re e ahall have the color of bis big by eyes blanche laughed at his bis vigor ligo of phrase this was more ilk like th the 0 old bottan Diled sometimes rather over bearing sweep something had made do him jump to the conclusion that ecru to ton could not possibly have killed mr me craven whatever else he bo might be have duos done tn in dab da gone by so it simply we was impossible nd it an anybody body who took tho be other bide aide would har have to reckon be henceforth w with swoop sweep ca 1 l sith M mr TOY toye already bud had reckoned with fth him 1 in a little debate begun outside th tha old it arminer scho schoolroom imam at little ford and action adjourned arned rither arthr the than 9 tin fiddled at tile the iron imn go gata t into the tha road ad 1 in her heart of hearts heart B lanche blanche could not say that cazalet had bad the best beat 0 of f the argument tod toie bad advanced d ced a 0 g gen 1 eral 11 1 principle CIP with 1 balm I ability but cist cazalet could not at be b shifted from the particular position he wai so eager to defend and would only enter let into all a tract questions to beg them out of b hand ad blanche rather thought that neither fiber quite quit understood stood what the tha other I 1 I 1 n I 1 but she could not blink the tha fee fact t that hat the old friend had neither tha he dialectical mind lad nor the unfailing conr courtesy toy of the tow new that being so BO with her perception she in might I 1 have ch changed aged the subject but bat she could see I 1 that C cazalet at we waa thinking ot of noth jog ing else a so and it no wonder since they were approaching ap pp albing the scene of the tragedy and his own old he home with each long dip of her bar paddle it had bad been his own wish to start upstream but she fahe could sea I 1 the list fill put pain 1 tn his ees aa they tell fall once 1 more upon I 1 tha he red rd to turrell total and it the tha since smooth th ore green on lawn iowa of upla uplands do and she neither spoke nor looked at bhim him izal again until he be spoke pr to be her I 1 see they ve got the tha blinds down still he slid detachedly what a happened to mrs craven 1 I hear I 1 she wont cut into a nursing home before the funeral I 1 ohp expect t we should led find lavaga sn uce somewhere S bhare would you very much e he clutched her hand but only as a he wight might have clutched a mans man mind blanche I 1 should rather like if it we was just setting foot with your you but even that effective final p pronoun mem failed to bring any buoyancy buo buoi ancy back into his hia vols voice for far it was not at I 1 in the tha I 1 least t effective as he said fit it and it he no long er at looked her in the face but this all seemed natural to blanche in the manifold and overlapping elm circum in stances time of the case she mad madec tor for the inlet it at the apper ap pp end of the lawn own and A it her prompt cinques unquestioning taig ac quiescence lare shamed cazalot cazalet into fan further at a and franker explanation before he could ii 1 t her lead land to please him you dont know how bow I 1 feel this hits he exclaimed claimed quite miserably I 1 mean about poor old scruton he hea gone gona through ih gl so much aa I 1 it I 1 is W wl whatever alIr be dl may has have done to it deserve it long ago Is ii it conceivable that he be should go and do a thing like this the very nan mo ment he be gets out outa I 1 ask you I 1 Is it even me conceivable ral ble blanche understood him and TOW now she showed herself golden to the our core almost as SO an earnest of her fteres for far the it time alrea bafo before her poor fellow she eha cried he ha be has a fu f friend u to la sou ell at any rate aud aad I 1 it T help you I 1 to help him if there s B BOY any way I 1 I 1 can he elitc clutched hed her hand but only be as he in might SIT he have a clutched eted man s Y you cant do anything but bat I 1 I 1 wont dool forget that b be almost choked I 1 meant to stand b by Y him I 1 in I 1 a very cry differ ent act way by lie he it been down to the Lo sills and I 1 id it come up a bit the then he be w was as good to me as a lad and it was my lather father a partner who was aa the ruin ault of him I 1 seemed to owe him some th thing ng and no now nw now stand by him whatever happens and wi whatever latevor I ii has i happened I 1 tion then oey iney landed in the old old in IS let I 1 C cazalet lut knew very every knot Is in the post plot to s which itch he be tied blanches blanche a canoe it IE was as a amy different place disco this uplands from poor old littleford on the tha lower reach the grounds were file or six some acres instead ol of about one and a house in quite another class stood further farther back from the river and very much farther from the road mad the inlet began the abe western bound ary which continued past the boat beat house home I 1 in the shape of S a high hedge a herbaceous border bolder not what but it had been in the old days and a gr gravel I 1 path this path we was screened mard from the law lawn by a bank of rhododendrons I 1 BB ot of cadue wera the back yard zd and kitchen premises past which w ell ft 1 led d it late into the treat front garden gallon eventually feel y d do into the dri drive u it t was the path aluni which coilet co ilet led the way this after afternoon and blanche blanch at his her heels W was so stuck struck by something that she be could not of be help ip telling him he know knew his hia way very well TO BE X |