So when I heard
that Weston was still a puzzle to him I knew that Six Stars had a
mystery. For Six Stars to have a mystery is unusual. Occasionally we
are troubled with ghosts and such supernatural demonstrations, which
cause us to keep at home at night, but we soon forget these things if
we do not solve them. But for our village to number among its people a
man whose whole history and whose family history was not known was
unheard of. For such a man to be here six weeks and not enlighten us
was hardly to be dreamed of. Robert Weston had dared it. Even Tim
regarded the matter as serious.
"It is suspicious," he said, shaking his head gravely.
He was cleaning up the supper dishes at the end of the table opposite
me. By virtue of my recent return I had not fallen altogether into our
household ways as yet, and sat smoking and watching him.
"It's mighty odd," he went on. "At noon one day, about six weeks ago,
Weston rode up to the tavern on a bicycle and told Elmer Spiker he was
going to stay to dinner.
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