THE SECRET OF LONESOME COVE (NOVEL)
Adams, Samuel Hopkins
The Secret of Lonesome Cove By SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS (Copyright, 1912, by the Bobbs-MerrM Company) CHAPTER I The Body on the Beach LONESOME COVE is one of the least frequented stretches on the...
...there is poetry in your study of teat imaginary fay...
...um-hum...
...You seem to be something of a dah in black and white too...
...Last month I redeemed tho promise...
...Murmurs of disappointment followed...
...What do you think has happened...
...Tell you who did if he didn't," said another man...
...Presently he was scanning the tangled debris that the highest tide of the year had heaped up almost against the cliff's foot...
...I really do...
...said Sailor Smith, who still had his eyes fixed on the scarified neck...
...What do you pursue...
...I could see the money gleam in his eye...
...Who, then...
...Why, professor, you must have turned foolish...
...He was risin* the hill beyond the Nook—that's Sedgwick's place, the painter feller—when she came out of the shrubbery—pop...
...Escape is perhaps preferable to defense, but not always so practicable...
...There's nothing so important in this world...
...I like to flatter myself that my pursuit is science...
...But this—well, it spoils at least one phase of my theory...
...asked Kent as he moved among the little masterpieces...
...Where was it found...
...i'll tell you as soon as i've mulled it over a little...
...The gymnast paused, poised like a Mercury on the high coping...
...You perceive there the basis of my theory...
...i suppose this is an imaginary hairpin too...
...But kindly finish that 'even up here.' I recollect your saying that you were waiting fur me...
...Those...
...he'd be sure to interpret it as a confession before the fact...
...imaginary...
...Washed up- on a grating last night or this morning...
...While you was trapesin' around up yonder...
...As he spoke he was standing two feet from the other to his right Sedgwick did as he was requested...
...Invention...
...Send him up...
...Like as not," said Jarvis...
...Pursuit...
...You couldn't have come at a better time," said the local man eagerly...
...The muscles of his mind had become flabby...
...then, with a change of tone, "when did you finish this picture...
...Then he bade the group farewell and set off up the beach...
...The' ain't been no storm for a week, an' this body ain't been dead twenty-four hours...
...Would you mind telling me what you are doing on my wall...
...Oh...
...The professor's tone was positive...
...The left side was unmarked...
...And you like my picture of The Rough Rider?' " "Five hundred dollars' worth...
...pleaded his visitor, "and look at yours...
...Sign here...
...Utility," he explained...
...Is that sufficient...
...Look at him now...
...In common with most Americans...
...just let me cool my mind down with some more of your pictures...
...The bearded one nodded...
...asked Professor Kent "Iry...
...No secret, dark or light," sighed thu other...
...Some time ago the department of justice borrowed me on a few cases with a scientific bearing, and more recently offered me incidental work with them on such favorable terms that I resigned my other position...
...He seemed to be pointin' at a necklace of queer, fiery pink stones thet she wore and tryin' to get somethin' out of her...
...Then I knew you in college...
...inquired Kent "Gansett Jim," answered Jarvis...
...Who is it with him...
...Has the village gone picnicking...
...He rose on one foot with an ease that made the artist stare, descended, selected from the roadway a stone of ordinary cobble size and handed it to Sedgwick...
...Two or three of the group, as it parted before him, greeted him...
...For that reason alone the Japanese system is highly effective here, not so effective in Japan...
...Always...
...The old hands fumbled expertly...
...Then she ran away up the road toward Hawkill cliffs...
...For instance, moonlight on white water, a thing I've never been able to approach either in straight oils or water...
...And here I am...
...Presently Francis Sedgwick was telling his friend the story of his feverish and thwarted ten years in the world...
...As his hand took position there was a twist of the bearded man's lithe body, a sharp click, and the stone, flying in a rising curve, swished through the leafage of a lilac fifty feet away...
...The rest was infinite clarity of distance and desolation...
...Well, this corpse ain't got no pink necklace," suggested somebody...
...Say, heard about the body on the beach...
...Looking up from his painting, Francis Sedgwick beheld in the glare of the afternoon sun a spare figure rise alertly upon the wall, descend to the road and rise again...
...to Be Continued) * * * bereft he came home and found his young wife dissolved in tears...
...He looked just like that when he brought in that half wit peddler, thinkin' he was the thousand dollar reward thief last year...
...Come now, Kent, open up and tell me something about yourself...
...CHAPTER II Professor Kent Makes a Case HJ EGGY...
...Back came Kent's eyes...
...there were landscapes, genre bits, Btudies of the ocean in its various moods, all the varied subjects handled with a deftness of truth and drawing and colored with a clear softness quite individual...
...The straggling pathways along the edge afford the only suggestion of human traffic within half a mile of the spot...
...Professor Kent bent closely over it...
...I'm the woman of it...
...Oh, that'3 an imaginary face," said Sedgwick carelessly...
...A heavy knock sounded from below, followed by the Chinaman's voice Intermingled with boyish accents demanding Sedgwick in the name of a telegraph company...
...But look at the hand...
...Unless my charts are wrong...
...they're all of one size, of course...
...Withdrawing to some distance he paced up and down the shore...
...Let me forget my work for a little while...
...That's Sailor Smith," explained Jarvis...
...Say," said Sailor Smith, "what's them queer little marks on the neck under the ear...
...he said, smiling...
...Judgment came forth presently...
...I left the cage open and our canary has flown away...
...the rough Rider!'" murmured Kent...
...Bodies sometimes get robbed," said Sailor Smith...
...she cried...
...Nobody's called me that for ten years...
...Ah, but you see, I had planned to swim out to the eddy and make some personal observations...
...Lucius Carter, the botanist, drew me into the criminal line, and since then that phase of investigation has s :emed fairly to obtrude itself on me, off cially and unofficially...
...This couldn't be that woman," said Jarvis...
...And as you have some very interesting sea currents just here, I thought I'd have a look at them...
...Not sca'cely...
...Pshaw...
...No more...
...then gathered in a frown...
...An' he watched her go...
...Within a year of his graduation his only surviving relative had died, willing to him a considerable fortune, the income of which he used in furtherance of a hitherto suppressed ambition to study art...
...Keeled him clean over...
...Probably she thought me too much absinthe soaked to hear or understand as I sat half asleep at my table...
...Is that so...
...Iry thought he seemed su'prised when she bespoke him...
...That is what life does to us, mon ami...
...The fact is, that an ing< nious plot of get rid of a very old frieni, Dr...
...Haven't traced any scientific crime to my door, have you...
...But frankly, Sedgwick, there's a matter of more importance"— "Importance...
...I paint on copper, make one impress and then—phut...
...something occurs cc me, an article in a French journal about a wonderful new American expert in criminology who knows all there is to know and takes only the most abstruse cases...
...Thereafter he seemed to lose interest in the center of mystery...
...Well, what are you doing...
...Men and motives.' Sedgwick's intelligent eyes widened, "Wait," he said...
...Lies over yonder...
...He come and give a look at the body...
...You don't practice tb;>t for drawing room exhibitions, I take it...
...Just now he's np to Cadystown...
...Well, I ain't any too dum sure thet he's as big a fool as some folks I know thet thinks likelier of their-selves...
...After the signature had been duly set down and the signer had read the message with knit brows, the urchin lingered, big with news...
...It's a species of grain moth...
...Not until you've stopped long enough to get reacquainted," declared Sedgwick...
...there's a streak of superstition in all these New Englanders...
...Why, even as a boy I was taught"— "We were not speaking of child's play," said the visitor coolly, "nor am I concerned with the rules of the prize-ring as applied to my theory...
...He was walking from east to west quite fast and every third pace stepping upon the wall...
...The eyes were closed and the mouth was slightly open, showing a glint of gold amid very white and regular teeth...
...One of the group presently detached himself and ambled over to the newcomer...
...continued Kent dryly as he stooped to the floor...
...He stepped to the open window and watched a curious progress...
...You can have that and any other picture in my studio except this one," he indicated the canvas with the faec, "If you'll find out for me who she is...
...kent went slowly around the walls, keenly examining, silently appraising...
...Sheriff's on the case...
...The younger man scrutinized him...
...An' what kind of a seaman'd be putting of 'em on a lady's wrist...
...paper would have been all pulped up by the water...
...It was interested, but unmoved as he replied: "Na...
...Not washed up there, surely...
...Spoilt...
...Then she allowed she guessed she'd go there...
...something to do with the government work...
...Lectures...
...I see," said the other, adding with distaste, "but to kick an opponent...
...Interesting, but unsatisfying," retorted his friend...
...Marked handkerchief, maybe," suggested another...
...Kent caressed the maligned whiskers...
...Defense, I said, not escape...
...Just ten years ago that you graduated, wasn't it...
...And it's a corkerlno...
...The dress was expensively made...
...It's the best there is In me at least," said Sedgwick...
...he ejaculated, "if it ain't Professor Kent...
...You certainly obtain your effects...
...asked Kent...
...It's a very lovely face and the most wistful i've ever been...
...Did he see the body...
...Exactly," answered the other, transferring his trove to his pocket...
...said the artist to Kent...
...said the boy...
...Musses and moves around like it...
...All by virtue of a woman's laugn...
...The sheriff's heavy figure appeared on the brow of the cliff, moving toward the village...
...From some distance away a lone man of a markedly different type from the others observed them with an expression of displeasure...
...Yes," agreed Jarvis, "they mostly come in at the other end on this tide...
...Do you do that often...
...She turned away an' he started to follow, when all of a sudden she grabbed up a rock an' let him have it—blip...
...Sedgwick nodded...
...It was the fuzzy cocoon of a small and quite unimportant insect...
...On a still day such as this there would be no danger to an experienced swimmer...
...Sounds more reasonable than romantic," admitted the artist...
...Good afternoon," said the stranger, in a quiet, cultivated voice...
...I hope you won't prosecute for trespass, Mr...
...By this time, having reached the end of the wall, ho turned and came back, making the step with his right leg instead of his left...
...From the threshold Chester Kent de-liVered an opinion after one approving survey, "Vcu really work, 1 see...
...Lives there all alone with a Chinese cook...
...Why, those are, one might suppose, such indentations as would be made in flesh by forcing a jewel setting violently against it by a blow or strong impact...
...The body lay twisted 'slightly to the right, with the left arm extended...
...Im sure they need you at tie office to help circulate the news, my son," said kent...
...The stranger continued his performance silently...
...ah, George," she murmured in a choking voice, "now i've only you left"—Argonaut...
...Them's cast iron cuffs," he announced...
...It is a fortunate circumstance for me to find you here—possibly for you too...
...Here, indeed, was the astounding feature of the tragedy, the aspect that brought Kent to his knees, the more closely to observe...
...It's curious how they all come in here, isn't it...
...h-m...
...This is a dead woman...
...All over the place...
...Body was all chained up, they say...
...see here...
...That is all...
...They passed a few remarks, an' then they had some words an' the lady laughed loud an' kinder scornful...
...Nothin' in pertic'ler...
...Dennett...
...Comes from down Ama-gansett way and gets his name from it...
...It is the special development of such muscles as the sartorius and plantaris...
...Just now you happen to be in my immediate line of interest...
...has any one else seen it...
...Kent turned quickly to see Sedgwick's face...
...No...
...It's the first one I've given a name to...
...Poetry as well as mystery...
...There is no settlement near the cove...
...Ain't you heard...
...Yv'e shall see...
...Then he says, 'An' I'll need somebody to help me...
...Is that Francis Sedgwick, the artist...
...Won't let you" Am I to infer that you've become a famous person...
...When one is in danger one uses knife or gun, if at hand...
...Smith, will you take a look at those lashings and tell me whether in your opinion they are the work of a sailor...
...I've just come out of the woods, Jarvis...
...Chester Kent...
...said Jarvis...
...At all events, she answered, full voiced, her companion's question, 'Who is the drunken foreigner?' by saying: 'He was an artist...
...countered Sailor Smith...
...Come and see for yourself...
...This is the third this summer...
...that old fraud of a plumber...
...said the other, turning to look at the curving bulwark of rocks over which the soft slow swell was barely breaking...
...You remember me, don't you...
...I used to drive you around when you was here before...
...the barer the room the more work done in it" He walked over to a curious contrivance resembling a small hand press, examined it, surveyed the empty easel, against which were leaning face in a number of pictures all of a size and turned half a dozen of them over, ranging them and stepping back for examination...
...i got yer," he said and was off...
...Good work," pronounced Kent quietly, and in some subtle way the commonplace words conveyed to their hearer the fact that the man who spoke them knew...
...Soon afterward I was put on the 'deodorized meat' enterprise and succeeded in discovering the scheme whereby it was hoped to sell spoiled meat for good...
...Between the roadway and the broad front lawn of the Nook a four foot, rough stone wall interposes...
...You remember I got into trouble my senior year with the college authorities by proving the typhoid epidemic direct against a forgotten defect in the sewer system...
...You have distinctly the advantage of me," said Sedgwick, with a frown, for he was in no mood to welcome strange visitors...
...asked Kent...
...You're a sort of detective, aren't you...
...Professor Kent advanced and bent over the manacled corpse...
...At the end of the chain was the companion cuff, shattered, evidently by a powerful blow, and half buried in the sand...
...You bet that Len Schlager figured it out there was somethin' in it for him anyways...
...Then you think it was the worn"— began the old seaman when several voices broke in: "There goes Len now...
...Len's appointed me special dep'ty till he comes back...
...It is in pursuance of a theory of self defense...
...Blood had clotted thickiy in the short close curled hair...
...he may have left for a trip to Hadestown for all i care," stated Sedgwick with conviction...
...Thet's him," said Sailor Smith...
...I call it 'the Rough Rider.'" A full moon, brilliant amid blown cloud rack, lighted up the vast procession of billows charging in upon a near coast...
...In these Kent did not join...
...As she nestled against his shoulder, a new access of sobs convulsed her...
...The sheriff tells me to watch the body...
...Nobody really knows anything about coast currents, you know...
...Mostly...
...The Frenchman made you out a most superior species of highlalutin detective, working along lines peculiarly your own"— "Rot...
...That's strange—very strange," he murmured...
...the laugh of a woman without virtue," he told Kent "It was at the Moulin de la Galettc—perhaps you know tho dance hall on the slope of Montmartre —and she was one of the dancers, the wreck of what had once been beauty, and, one must suppose, innocence...
...An expression of deadly terror distorted the face...
...No," contradicted Sailor Smith...
...To return to my theory of self defense," said the other imperturbably...
...he turned to the wall border again and faced another picture out 'What's this...
...Inquired Kent...
...A sharp cut ravine leads down to the sea by a rather treacherous descent...
...Once in the department I found myself with a sort of roving commission, I worked under such men as vViley, Howard and Merriam and learned from them something of the infinite and scrupulous patience that truly original scientific achievement demands...
...Postgraduate science...
...When I sat down they said it was the best thing I ever did," was her reply.—Canadian Courier...
...Woman...
...What is it...
...Trust the elder for that But he didn't get much out of her until he mentioned the Nook...
...He looked seaward where the reefs were now baring their teeth more plainly through the racing currents, and he sighed...
...Wot ye got there...
...I recall now that the article called him le Prolesseur Chetre Kennat' That would be about as near as they would come to your name...
...Leaning out of the window, he called: . "Hello, there...
...But to his terror and self loathing, he found the power ot application gone...
...My wall exercise serves to keep limber and active certain muscles that in the average man are half atrophied...
...Even up here, where I hoped to enjoy a month's re.it—do you know," he said, breaking off, "that you have a most interesting inset of ocean currents hereabouts...
...Now my opportunity is spoiled...
...Suppose we lift this grating," Kent suggested, "to see whether a ship's name is stamped somewhere on it" He heaved the woodwork up on edge and held it so, while eager eyes scanned the under part...
...Who is this Dennett...
...Professor Kent stretched out his hand, disclosing a small grayish object "I should take it to be a cocoon of ephestia kuehniella," he announced...
...Eh...
...What in the world has wall hopping to do with self defense...
...have you found or founded a new system of coloring...
...As Kent leaned over the corpse a fat, powerful, grizzled man with a metal badge on his shirt front pushed forward...
...You got a theery...
...Yes," said he, "otherwise I shouldn't be able to do it at all...
...Sometimes," confessed the scientist, "I have found myself at close quarters with persons of dubious character...
...What kind of a ship 'ud be carry-in' 'em nowadays...
...Gosh...
...Her Best Stunt "How was your big aria received...
...Followed then two years of dissipation, a year of travel to recuperate and the return to Paris, which was to be once more the taskmistress...
...The left wrist was enclosed in a light rusted handcuff to which a chain was fastened...
...my chinaman"—began sedgwick quickly, when the other caught him up: "Don't be uneasy...
...Senior to your freshman," said he...
...Yep...
...While I specialized on botany, entomology and bacteriology, I picked up a working knowledge of other branches—chemistry, toxicology, geology, mineralogy, physiology and most of the natural sciences...
...said he softly...
...I guess not...
...With a grin the boy took the coin...
...Then your system consists in stepping up on a wall and diving into obscurity on the farther side perhaps," suggested Sedgwick ironically...
...Professor Kent nodded...
...From the land side the sheer hundred foot drop of Hawkill cliffs shuts it off...
...He mapped out for me a three years' post graduate course, which I had just about enough money to take...
...However, Elder dennett left this morning for a trip to cadystown, that's so much to the good...
...elder dennett, saw me working on it yesterday when he was doing some repairing here and remarked that it gave him the creeps...
...Swanny...
...bare bright studio...
...He's a sort of a harmless scientific crank," explained Jarvis...
...Oh, is it as bad as that...
...Dressed swell...
...The conditions are ideal except for this crowd...
...What on earth are you doing behind that bush...
...Kicking side-wise, either to the front or to the rear, I can disarm a man, break his leg or lay him senseless...
...Near the mouth of this opening a considerable gathering of folk speckled the usually deserted beach at noon of July 6. They centered on a dark object a few yards within the flood tide limit Some scouted about, peering at the sand...
...a fairy prisoned on earth by cockcrow might wear some such expression of startled wondering purity, i fancy...
...How'd she come to he washed ashore from a wreck anyway...
...Judiciary department expert...
...But he didn't say nothing...
...The artist had whirled Li at the name...
...if you did i give you my word of honor i couldn't tell you...
...You say a man named Sedgwick lives at the Nook...
...Of course...
...Agricultural department job...
...Oh, my ruined theory has reference to the currents," sighed the other...
...Kinder loony, I think," conjectured a little, thin, piping man...
...H-m...
...The somber repute suggested by its name has served to keep cottagers from building on the wildly beautiful uplands that over-brood the beach...
...Everything about the body indicated wealth...
...The printing seems to refine the color...
...no draperies or fripperies or fopperies of art here...
...Sedgwick rose...
...The shoes were of the best type, and the stockings were silk...
...don't tell me...
...Then he straightened up and began pulling thoughtfully at the lobe of his ear...
...Just after the sheriff got whatever it was from the pocket Gansett Jim hove in sight...
...At shoulder height," he explained, " I could have done the same, but it would have broken your hand...
...They ain't a man on this coast would take a chance like that...
...Others pointed first to the sea, then to the cliffs...
...From behind a cloth he drew a square and set it on the easel...
...It has nothing to do with dead men as such...
...a sponge across the copper makes each one an •riginal...
...Where do you see it, though...
...oh, I see...
...Come upstair s," he said, and leu the way to the big...
...Does a little plumbin' an' tinkerin' on the side...
...If it were the other end of the cove, now, I could understand it...
...Special from the ' village," announced young Mercury...
...Wonder if Len knowed the corpse...
...Didn't know you at first under them whiskers...
...i only wish i knew...
...The head was marred by a frightful bruise which had crushed in the right side and extended around behind the ear...
...That's the man of it' I staggered up, made her a bow and a promise and left her laughing...
...How'd she come to be washed ashore from a wreck between last night and this morning...
...Elder Iry Dennett...
...Kent, you grow and expand on acquaintance...
...I don't perceive it at all...
...I'll take you, Jim.' So he an' the Indian goes away together...
...he undertook to give what consolation he might and took the poor distressed lady in his arms...
...Fifty year of it, man an' boy, has put me in harbor...
...Still frowning, Professor Kent suffered himself to be led to the spot...
...he said...
...asked some one in the crowd...
...exclaimed the liveryman, his pale eyes alight...
...The lashin's a passable job...
...The Washington scientist, seated on a bowlder, opened up the cocoon with absorbed interest, pricked it until the impotent inmate wriggled in protest, and then cast it aside to perish...
...asked one oratorio star of another...
...That might be done...
...cried the artist The other showed a slight indentation on the inside of his right boot heel and then swung his right foot slowly and steadily up behind his left knee and let it lapse into position again...
...What are you, anyway...
...A system of defense is effective in proportion to its unfamiliarity...
...When did he arrive...
...Imaginary face studied from various angles," commented Kent...
...demanded the sheriff...
...Seafaring man, aren't you...
...Paris, his mecca, was first a taskmistress, then a temptress, finally a vampire...
...Very good...
...Well, the lady went down the hill," continued Jarvis, "just as Sedgwick come out to smoke a pipe on this stone wall...
...Didn't none of you hear about his meetin' up with a strange woman yestiddy evenin...
...the wall merely served as a temporary gymnasium while I was waiting for you...
...I shall expound," said the stranger in professional tones, taking a seat by the unusual method of letting himself down on one leg while holding the other at right angles to his body...
...Let that lie on the palm of your hand," said he, "and hold it out, waist high...
...cried Jarvis...
...Old interests sprang to life and speech between them...
...The Secret of Lonesome Cove By SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS (Copyright, 1912, by the Bobbs-MerrM Company) CHAPTER I The Body on the Beach LONESOME COVE is one of the least frequented stretches on the New England seaboard...
...He found himself looking down on a corpse clad in a dark silk dress and stretched on a wooden grating, to which it was lashed with a small rope...
...growled a formidable voice, which Kent, looking up, perceived to have come from amid a growth of heavy white whiskers, sprouting from a weather furrowed face...
...yesterday...
...Len went over to him quick, an' said somethin' to him...
...I suppose you haven't any dark secret in your life...
...Yes...
...ordered Sedgwick, and the boy arrived, but not before Kent had quietly removed "The Rough Rider" from its place of exhibit...
...I've been off in the wilds and am—or was —going back presently...
...Theory...
...He's more Indian than anything else...
...The terms include liberal vacations, one of which I am now taking...
...Only grunted...
...Have to ask you to stand back, per-fessor," said Jarvis...
...In the foreground a corpse, the face bent far up and back from the spar to which it was lashed, rode with wild abandon headlong at the onlooker on the crest of a roaring surge...
...He had inserted a finger In a crevice of the splintered wood and had extracted some small object which he held in the palm of his hand, examining it thoughtfully...
...What spare time 1 had I devoted to experimenting along mechanical lines and patented an invention that has been profitable...
...The studios talked of him five years ago...
...he asked presently...
...What I told you, an expert in tht service of the department of justice...
...Well, what's wrong with the rope...
...Before succumbing he had gone far in a few years toward the development of a curious technique of his own...
...Looked to me like an envelope," hazarded some one...
...Only I don't know what just that style of rope would be doin' on shipboard unless it was to hang the old man's wash on...
...Mr...
...I prefer a less deadly and more effective weapon...
...Not in the least," replied the bearded man, rising buoyantly into full view and subsiding again with the rhythm of a wave...
...That's right too," confirmed the old sailor...
...i've been called so...
...Long-Lean-Leggy Sedgwick...
...You're a bug collector, eh...
...Then, by accident largely, I chanced upon the plot to bull the cotton market by introducing the boll weevil into the uninfested cotton area and checked that...
...There was silence between them for a moment, then the painter broke out with the air of one who takes a resolution: "see here, Kent...
...Took the 10 o'clock train last night" "Then it was early when he met this woman...
...When he rejoined the crowd it had suffered the loss of one of its component parts, the sheriff...
...I owe you this explanation...
...i'm not going to commit the foolishness of asking who she is...
...That kind ain't been used these forty years...
...You must have been before my class...
...Little after sundown...
...He's the town gab of Martin-dale Center...
...He quizzed her...
...The knots is well enough...
...Chester Kent stooped over the writhen face, again peering close...
...What about your forty horsepower kick...
...Patent, Impenetrable mosquito screen...
...and i'll bet you this quarter, payable in advance, that you can't get back in half an hour on your wheel...
...An Indian...
...At first my duties were largely those of minor research...
...he glanced at the heavy mechanism near the easel...
...They're color prints...
...Some time early this morning...
...Just at present you're going to stay to dinner...
...Sedgwick hurried downstairs and out into the roadway...
...The only lines a detective can work along successfully are the lines laid down for him by the man he is after...
...grunted Schlager...
...Paints right purty pictures...
...Professor Kent's eyebrows went up as he glanced toward the indicated spot...
...sent her the first thousand dollars I made by my own work and declared my debt discharged...
...asked the other aghast...
...Nearer and nearer to high water mark his pacing took him...
...Well, then, that'3 all up," said kent, as if speaking to himself...
...Another one's come in through the eddy...
...it's not paint, and it's not pastel...
...The old face puckered...
...He seen there was somethin' queer about thet rope, an' he ast me about the knots, right off...
...It plumb beats me," admitted Jarvis...
...Conjecture was buzzing from mouth to mouth as to the official's sudden defection...
...How about yourself...
...stepping, Sedgwick duly noted, not jumping,,the change of level being made without visible effort...
...Good heavens, man...
...said he...
...interjected Kent...
...You got good eyes...
...A scrubby bearded man clad in serviceable khaki was performing a stuut, with the wall as a basis...
...Can't you expand, a bit...
...Signed, Chester Kent.' Ten words—count them —ten...
...Do you know anything of jujutsu...
...Whatever it was he got from the pocket," Kent heard one of the men say, "it started him quick...
...He touched one of the surfaces delicately...
...The newspapers Won't let me have...
...You was going to swim into Dead Man's eddy...
...What's it all about anyway...
...Very little...
...Superstition," retorted the other curtly...
...Shucks...
...suggested somebody in the crowd...
...It should be peaceful...
...Possibly the one supporter of the absent would have wavered in his loyalty had he seen the trove that Professor Chester Kent had carried unostentatiously from the beach, in his pocket, after picking it from the grating...
...It nearly cost me my diploma, but it helped me too, later, for a scientist in the department of agriculture at Washington learned of it and sent for me after graduation...
...Monotypes...
...comes from Washington...
...But I thought you didn't know anything about the body till I told you just now...
...What gits me is the rope...
...How do you do that...
...Taking a little exercise...
Vol. 6 • November 1914 • No. 45
