JUNE 13. 1953

THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

PAGE THIRTEEN P

Exit Tony Blount

CHAPTER XIX

Continued

It was old and slightly faded, and from the fact that a grinning black fellow's face showed dimly mm inside an open window to me right of the photograph. it mum appPM' that it had been .,.xen soniewliero in Australia.

"That's supposed to be you in the middle." the captain observed. .F,ut it's about as much like you ,5 I'm like the Prince of Wales."

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build, for the man was partly bald and his face was swarihy and slightly saturnine. and even in the imperfect print it was possible to see that he had been badly scar- red with smallpox. "Well, he wouldn't have got far on this evidence," Btrang remark- ed dryly. "What about the letter, though? Have you read it?" "Here it is," the captain return- ed, passing it over to Thui-low. "Yes. I've read it. It was that that made me take him on - but I'm blamed if I know what to think of it nnw." It consisted of a single sheet of cheap notepaper, and as

end with large sprawling writing -evidently the writing of an un- educated man.

It was addressed from 12, Harbour View Terrace, Auckland, and it ran -

"Dear Jimmy, - Just a line to let you know that they've fixed up for me to sail on the Mauwaii next Tuesday. so you won't be seeing me in Apia after all. Tough luck but it can't be helped. The best.

you are for a bit and take the last steamer to Apia. that will con- nect you with Borenson's old tub. He Ilill Around the end of July, so you've got plenty of time. May- be, it's better this way because will give me time to get shook down and have' things fixed up for you when you show up.

"Keep your pecker up, old er, and don't let the quacks you down. They don't know erything and I'm hoping when you've been on Arafui for a spell and seen the way the Kanaka girls shake a leg you'll be going all young and skittish again. a Your old pal,

tim- get ev-

MATT." "P. S. -- I saw Charlie His other day and he sends his bi-st." "O' course, it don't prove iioih- in'," the captain observed slowly. "An' Iought to ha' thought n' that at the time. 'Matt' might be snybody. But he does talk about

Arafui. don't he?" Thuriow was silent. the letter with unseeing

atiidying eyes.

Thurlow ; unfolded it he saw that it was coy-'

thing for you to do is to stay wiiere:

it,

was damning evidence to his mind and he could think of nothing to say at the moment. Things had gone beyond the point where bluff would serve him now.

And then, to his amazement, strang came to the rescue.

"I don't see what the idea is be- hind it," he said abruptly. "But I ishould say you'd been taken in, Skipper. It's pretty evident that this letter is a forgery. It isn't in I'I'hui'low's fist and you'll notice there's no envelope with it to show that it was ever posted from Auck- land. And the man in the photo- graph isn't Thurlow, either. That much is clear at any rate. It was I try-on of some sort, but now the idrip's dead I don't suppose we'll ever know what was at the bot- tom of it. What do you say, Thur- low?"

"It stumps me completely," Thurlow iidinitted. "But then 1'in 'lll a position to be easily stumped. After all, I didn't know who I was myself till somebody else told me!"

in spite of the trader's unex- ppected support, he felt the posi- :tion to be so precarious as to ne- ccssitate falling back on this last line of defence, and from the cap- tain's next words it becme evi- dent that he was only half con-

vinced by Strange confident ss- sertion. "That's true." he said slowly.

;"An' it set me uoiidcriir it me an' ythn doc hadn't made a bloomer in ithe first place. But when we pick- pod you up in the Mauwaii's boat yand found that warrant with you, lyre took it for granted that you lwns Thiiriow. Who else could you iiiavc. becii. aiiyiiay?"

"Exactly," Strang put in im- ipatlently, "Who else could he be?

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iapart, from the warrant. he'd got Thui'low's name on his clothes and .you'd have had to be a pair of -fools to think he was anybody ielse! No; what this chaps game !was is a lll)'SiPl')'. but it sticks out a mile that there's no mistake at ithis end."

' "Well, I'm glad you look at it in that way," the captain returned im a relieved voice. "But I don't gniind iellin' you I've been a bit

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you see, if we'd slipped up: would an” put the wrong man into a job senses than one. He's already gotibusiness, Mr. Resident? The skip-pa regular report about it, and F hl. took the mp H” "A 0. course, "kc um," I. better grip of the Job than For-,per will haveto report the death of'that'il take some time." He pained. V nobody could blame you. mister. ”Weil. you needn't worry about 80" "er Md m End I Workeduwnh course. but do you think there'”Not that I can see any good serv- mem, you did!” know who youpthat Part D, W. Smmz mid mm the old boy for a few years. He ought to be some sort of inquii-y,ed by it now," he added. "i"or mad was yourself. but it would be a with a short laugh. "He's thepturned to TlliJl'l0W. "But what do into the chap's past history? Be-jot bad, the man's (is-ad." mighty serious thing if I'd gonejright man all right - in morel'you propose to do about this queerlcause if so, you'll have to draw llpi To be continued

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