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Before he was through the light was close to his fingers, and he held another match to the flame, taking care to light the wrong end. At last the lock clicked, and Harvey opened the door a few inches, then he whispered to Mattison, "If I whistle, you get down and I'll drop the books." He swung the door open, but stopped bewildered. Before him was the steel gate with the clanging bell.
Now go down and measure one of those prints by the borders of the pool." Mattison took the ruler and complied. As he bent over the marks on the lower border we could see by the light of his candle the look of astonishment that sprang into his face. "Well, what do you find?" Terry asked. "The marks up there are nearly two inches longer and an inch broader." "Exactly."
Then, when we want them again, it is a good deal easier for Mattison to find them than for any one else. Sort of accident, you know." It was finally agreed that before attempting to get the books, Harvey and Mattison should make a bona fide tour of inspection, by this means finding out where each man was located.
I hope you'll lick the tar out of him! I'll be watching through the window," he added in a whisper. He ran out. Big Jack took the centre of the floor. "I'll referee this affair if agreeable to both," he said. "Suits me," replied Sam briefly. Jack pointed out their respective corners and called for a second for each. Several volunteered to help Joe. He chose young Mattison.
Mallory has orders to keep out of the vault room. He's over in your office, Mattison." "I suppose," suggested Harvey, "that unless we are actually caught with the books, we can throw a bluff about a tour of inspection or something of that sort." "And if we are caught," said Mattison, "I suppose we can run like the devil."
"His dead body was found in the cave, and circumstantial evidence points to you." He seemed too dazed to grasp the words and Mattison said it twice before he comprehended. "Do you mean he's dead?" Rad repeated. "And I quarrelled with him last night and wouldn't make it up and now it's too late." "I must warn you," the sheriff returned, "that whatever you say will be used against you."
Presently young Mattison appeared in the doorway and asked her to come in and dance, but she said that she was tired, and we three stood laughing and chatting for some ten minutes longer, when a step suddenly sounded on the gravel path and Radnor rounded the corner of the house. As the bright moonlight fell on his face, I stared at him in astonishment.
They stepped into the hall and stood watching him a moment without saying anything. I tried to tell him but the words seemed to stick in my throat. "A a terrible thing has happened, Rad," I stammered out. "What's the matter?" he asked, a sudden look of anxiety springing to his face. "I am sorry, Rad," Mattison replied, "but it is my duty to arrest you."
We had not been settled very long when, to my surprise, Jim Mattison strolled out from the bar-room. What he was doing in Luray, I could easily conjecture. Mattison's assumption of interest in the case all along had angered me beyond measure.
"Well, I never said it afore," added Union Mills, "but when that one of the Mattison boys came over here to examine the claim with an eye to purchasin', it was the Old Man that took the conceit out of him. He just as good as admitted that a lot of work had got to be done afore any pay ore could be realized.
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