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"An hour and a half after receiving your code telegram! I came by car. The car is at Manton now." "Why this disguise?" "I will explain in a moment. But meanwhile your own story." At that, although consumed with impatience, I quickly outlined my movements from the time of my arrival at Upper Crossleys, the Inspector following me closely. The tale concluded: "Now, Gatton!"
Phelps produced one, rather grudgingly. Kennedy promptly went over to the window, as though seeking better light. Thereafter he avoided Phelps. Soon the banker had forgotten the incident. Some time later Manton rushed in from the office.
Snatching a light blanket from the floor, she swung the pack to her shoulders and without a word dashed again into the forest. The events incident to the wedding of Bill Carmody and Ethel Manton are indelibly stamped upon the memory of every person present. The day was warmer than any preceding one, with a lowering, overcast sky.
Because Manton, fortunately, had trained the studio staff through frequent fire drills, there was a semblance of order among the men actually engaged in fighting the spread of the blaze.
A Japanese butler, whom Manton called Huroki, took our hats and retreated with a certain emanating effluvium of subtlety such as I had known only once before, when the Oriental attendant left me on the occasion of my only visit to an opium den in Chinatown. A moment later Millard, who had been waiting, rose to greet us.
In the reception room a rather pretty girl, young and of a shallow- pated type I thought, was busy at a clattering typewriter. She rose and closed the door upon Manton, so as not to disturb him. "The next office on this side is Millard's," volunteered Werner. "He's the only scenario writer dignified with quarters in this building." "Manton has other writers, hasn't he?" Kennedy asked.
"How many times must I tell you not to pull your mustache, dear? Now, listen; I have a plan. There will be Mary Sheridan and Ross and Ethel Manton you know she promised us a visit this fall, and I expect her any day now. A trip into the woods will do her a world of good, poor girl.
Cornell went with me to various leading editors in the city of New York, and we explained the whole matter to them, securing editorial articles favorable to the university, the most prominent among these gentlemen being Horace Greeley of the ``Tribune, Eras- tus Brooks of the ``Express, and Manton Marble of the ``World. This did much for us, yet when the vote was taken the old cowardice was again shown; but several of us stood in the cloak-room and fairly shamed the waverers back into their places.
We are in the morning hours. 'But, my dear-Oh, dear, what is to be done with him? That was the crucial point for discussion. They had no servant to give them aid; Manton, they could not dream of disturbing.
But the effect was the same. A hurried call of some sort took Manton away from us. Kennedy turned to me with a whimsical expression. "Let's go!" he remarked. "What do you make of it, offhand?" I asked, outside. "We're going about in a circle," he remarked. "Strange group of people. Each apparently suspects the other." "And, to cover himself, talks of the other fellow," I added.
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