The Chase of the Golden Plate
full of seven-column heads. He thoughtfully li
," said the
ull eyes and then went in and sat
told you," bawl
ed at the only other occupant of the car, a little girl. She was
ious to keep it quiet, and they won't say anything to anybody else until they know what really happened. I've got it bottled up, and don't know how to pull the cork
k Herbert. He was too self-absorbed to notice that the blinds of the house
rt here?"
servant, "but I don't know if he ca
well?" Hat
t he's sick, sir.
me Herbert's voice fro
Hatch
. "Glad to see you. I'm so lonesome her
up the steps and
ed for his right hand. "It's out of busine
matter?" Hat
this big house alone with Blair ever since. The doctor told me not to venture out yet. It has been lonesom
e seemed a little washed out, and there was a sort of pallor beneath the natural tan. He was a young man of family, unburdened by superlative wealth, b
professional capacity," the reporter began at
ression on his face. He didn't speak, but there was s
s?" the reporter asked-"that is,
es
e seen the stories abou
iled a
id. "Clever,
moment as he accepted and lighted a cigarette. "It doesn't happen," he wen
at I saw in th
ed his discomfort. "Remember I am here in my official capacity-that is, not as a frien
tion in his manner and went ov
t?" he demanded. "Wh
ere Miss Doroth
with a certain lowering of his eyebrows
ut her?"
she?" Hatc
o far as I
informed him, "and the Greytons b
Dick repeated. "S
ok for her, and they are doing so now, but quietly. It is not known to the newspapers-that is, to other newspapers. Your
he room several times, then sto
silly joke?" h
d to elope with her on Thursday eve
nswer that
invitation to th
es
you
g straight down
hat, either," he
n the evening of
l I answ
gotten that he ever knew Dick Herbert. To him the young man was now merely a thing fr
er the approved manner of attorney for the p
t answe
e nature of
that last one-unless I know what this is all about. Several things happened on the evening of the masked ball that I can't go over with you or
something else, then chang
l shot?" Hatch
ine as he looked at the reporter, and h
get that idea
dea; but vaguely it had some connection with the fact that at least two shots
r and Blair appeared with a card. He handed it to Dick, who glanced at it, looked a little surprised, then