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e £y Ree As o, WALLING smmemmncs ““SYNOPSIS: Sanctuary in Belgium! Tom Grenofen and Somerfield flee to London, where they are disappointed By Mrs. Fairfax’s lack of Know- bout Veronica, but she give them an address in . Belgium. The next day encssen, Veromica's But Miss Van- on can not—or will not— where Veronica can be found. The two fugitives arc 84 their hotel, when suddenly they spy a familiar {igure on the sireot—it is Laxton, the de- tective, who has a warrant for Gicoofen’s arrest! They im- mediately plan an escape when an ominous voicc booms out behind them—Laxton's — they are captured. Chapter 33. AN IMPORTANT DATE “What ‘a small place the worid is!” said Laxton, grinning at the two most astonished men in Eu- repe. 1 never heard that fatuous platitude with more disgust. “Who'd have thought of blowing into a res- taurant in Bruges and finding two Jost friends like you?” “Don't overdo the irony, profes- sor,” said Somerfield. “And don't draw out the agony. #Tut, tut! Irony—agony? What words to describe a pleasant meet- ing! Is there any place here where we can talk at our ecase, Mr. Gren- ofen?” I opened my eyes wide at Lax- ton’s tone. Whatever police job he had to do he was going to do it like a gentleman. j.Quiet conversation was the last thipg you could get in the Lion aQr. . “Well, suppose we go around to my hotel? Would you mind?” o “Very nicely put, professor,” said Somerfield. + “T'Il do without the compliments, thanks,” Laxton observed. “I'll take & truthful answer to a question in- stead. Mr. Grenofen—did you bring a certain black bag with you from England? Or things it had eontained?” . “No.” “Is it still in England?” I hesitated to answer this. Som- erfield broke in . “Yes, professor, it’s still in Eng- “You might as well put me out of my suspense,” said I. “Are you going to arrest me?” Laxton looked me up and down. «It would be a pity to arrest so fine a young man. But it all de- pends. Mr. Grenofen—it all de- .J:s! Follow me, gentlemen.” Laxton had taken up quarters in a big hotel near the railyay sta- tion. He led us to his own room, and there he read,us a long and severe lecture. We were, according to this ac- cotmt, very decent but very fool- i8A fellows. We had, probably without intending any harm, com- mitted an enormity. We had put 4 spoke in the wheel of Scotland yard ‘and brought the machine to d standstill. What could be more ehensible than that? Eddentnlly we had connived at escape of a convict, and in the p'r'ocess had complicated the job of discovering the perpetrator of a wicked murder. How about “SWe listened to this, admitting denying nothing. He supposed we could not con- test the fact that the murder of Pell was a diabolical thing. We fnight have disliked Pell. |missed it. | “As soon as it was evident that |Miss Seabroke had been mixed up| |in your escapade in the boat we {had to find out everything that |could be known about Miss Sea- | broke. Naturally.” “Then you didn’t field and me?” | “Only to the end of the wood {And, by the way, I've got some property of yours. You are care-| less. track Somer- of notes and handed it to Somerfield burst into a laugh. “Shall we tell him? he said We did. Laxton listened to the account of our temporary burial | with mixed amusement and aston- |ishment. Then he repeated his ‘qutsuon. me. “Why have you come (5 Belgium? | Not for the beautiful e of Miss Vandesomething—don't tell me.” | B wondered how far I might go/ without compromising Veronica. ! | *“Come—candor!” said he. “In exchange for candor I'll drop the little business of the motor boat escapade, Mr. Grenofen.’ That fel- low's got off into Europe and to search for him would be like look- ing for a needle in a haystack. | You have the proceeds of the bur- glary?” “What burglary, Somerfield put in. “The burglary at Mr. Fother- bury's. That's the one I'm think- ing of at the moment. If you know |of another—" [ “I'l ask you another question. Has Fotherbury missed it?” Laxton kept silent for a moment. Then he said: “Why do you ask that?” “That's answer enough,” said |Somerfield. “Fotherbury hasn't Fotherbury doesn’t keen stuff like that at Newplace if he owns it. Museum stuff. Old stuff. {I'm no great judge, but I'll give ia quarter of a million dollars for | it, professor. Candor for candor, you know.” There was another pause. Lax- ton looked at us in a meditative way. “We'll come back to it,” he said. “At present I'm waiting to know why you are in Belgium.” I had made up my mind by this time. “All right,” said I, “we take you \at your word. There were two |reasons for coming to Belgium. |One was to get away from you. The other to try to strike the track of the mystery of Pell.” { And T tolé him how we had |worked out our plan, the suspicion | {we had of coercion applied by Sea- | |broke to Veronica, the certainty |that the puzzle of the tragedy in | Newplace Abbey could only be solved by discovering the identity lof Pell, the nature of his preyious relations with the Seabrokes, and the reason why they all found themselves in Blackwater. Laxton listened attentively. He did not speak till I had done. !Then he said: “If you could get at Miss Sea- broke, you think you could find a light?” “We might. That is if . . .” “If there was no danger to her pet refugee? I sce. Well, now, Mr. Somerfield, you shall have can- | dor for candor. I did not learn of the burglary from Mr. Fotherbury. 1 worked out the burglary from data, and I had no idea of its re- sults till you kindly obliged me with them just now—" “Well—!" Somerfield exploded. | “T1l tell you how my attention | jwas first drawn to Pell. Last May I had to arrest a familiar friend of | professor?” And Laxton pulled out my bundl= | "y remarked that I did not dis-|mine. We had a liftle amicable like Pell: T rather liked him. talk and he not only gave me ""In that case, he said, I ought t0}reminiscences, but told me I'dkept | have given him all the aid I could ihim out of a good thing. He had | in discovering and punishing theyngertaken to go to a man named murderer of Pell instead of trying|pej) at the Lord Nelson Inn, Black- to hoodwink the police. We had obstructed the police at a time when, for reasons we did hot grasp, they could not very well prevent it. But we had got a con- Viet away. And we had removed or concealed vital evidence. Where- @s if the police could have laid their hands on the convict and the vidence the murder of Pell would have been cleared up by now. And that was where we were. iHe had in his pocket a warrant fof my arrest which could be quite well executed—even in Belgium. And he would be quite justified in \pping the bracelets on Somerfield well. So—how about it? " Somerfield leaned over to where Laxton sat on a hard little arm- thair, and held out his hands. “Put ‘em. on, professor,” said he. “But you won't! You want to do & deal. IT tell you. You wan't to know—" i““Now, Mr. Somerfield.” Laxton gald, pushing his hands away. oo | do want to do a deal, but on my @wn terms. You see I have the trump in my own hand.” i ®That's a bluff,” said Somerfield.|" UWe hold the straight flush. We $how where the boodle {s—and you man smiled upon him indul- tly. mou forget that you've committed @h offense and there’s such a thing as law, Mr. Somerfield. But if Mr. fienofen will answer a few gques- $ions, Il make a proposal. Why sire you in Belgium?” ¥ came to see a lady,” said I “Miss Vandenessen? Yes, I know —through Mrs. Fairfax.” _ #But how did you know anything i?‘uwmmr water, and give him a date, and the date was June 24th. There was to be big money in it. He was vague about the source of the big money; but he had the name and the date pat enough. “You can imagine my interest in the matter when I saw the names of Pell and Blackwater and the wealthy proprietor of Newplace Ab- bey in the Times. And, believe me, we were in the middle of a most interesting affair when Pell's death dropped a wrench in the| machinery.” | A date! And the 24th of Junc! My mind flew back to that strange | insistence of Pell on the immediate | publication of the Newplace dis- | coveries; that was just before the | 24th of June. (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) 1 Laxton makes a start toward solving the mystery of Roger Pell in tomorrow’s chapter. | e NEW SHEET MUSIC | At the Anderson Music Shoppe. adv | GET A CORONA For Your School Work | i | 1. B. Burford & Co. | | “Our door step‘is worn by | 1 satisfled customers” ‘l‘ CARBACE | HAULED AND LOT CLEANING E. 0. Davis Phome 584 Tehi3 < Z0 DOUGLAS 4 NEWS HUNTING PARTY GOES OUT A trio of hunti composed of O. M. 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