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Billy went iain Then he noticed the roll on the floor, stooped for it, and replaced it upon the tray He looked at Miss Cornelia for instructions

"Take that tray out to the dining-room," she said mechanically But Anderson's attention had already been drawn to the tiny incident

"Wait--I'll look at that tray," he said briskly Dale, her heart in her mouth, watched him examine the knives, the plates, even shake out the napkin to see that nothing was hidden in its folds At last he seeht--take it away," he co-rooht of the tray had hts return to practical affairs

"Lizzie," she coo out in the kitchen and hed

Lizzie bristled at once

"Go out in that kitchen alone?"

"Billy's there," said Miss Cornelia wearily

The thought of Billy see little solace to Lizzie's heart

"That Jap and his jooy-jitsu," she muttered viciously "One twist and I'd be folded up like a pretzel"

But Miss Cornelia's ed herself kitchenward, yawning and pro the saints repentance of every sin she had or had not corabbing at her ankles in the dark corner of the hall

When the door had shut behind her, Anderson turned to Dale, the corner of blue-print which he had taken froden," he said tensely, "I have here a scrap of blue-print which was in Dick Fle's hand when he was killed I'll trouble you for the rest of it, if you please!"