The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1929, Page 6

1 { | L | 1 ; THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1929. e £y Re. Ax o, WALLING s - SYNOFSIS: Pell's past the murder! Grenofen &nd Semerficld, now allied with Taxton in solving the Pell ; m Bruges to . inguiries at 3 given thom fore they can t, Miss Vande- tt the house, y a warning @afainst their visit. They learn fittle from the haughty mis- ¥fess of the house but bank- wotes loocon the u> of the building cuperint The $itar that the Sc erly lived there whose description o 1y labels him as Pell, and a eompanion called there several times some years ago. Pell's friend was in love with M Vandenessen but after a furi- bus scene, Commander Sea- broke ordered Pell's friend from the house. A clue—a lead —but no connection with the mystery of Blackwater! Chapter 36 THE SEVEN COUPS It was not easy to find anot line of approach in PBrussels with 80 little to work upon, and we re- turned to the hotel. There we found W letter from Laxton, written at Ostend late the night before | “I have had a busy evening— | fruitful, too! I'm half inclined | to stay over. But I want to | make sure of Marling, and I | am going back by the morning boat. “You will not discover much at Brussels. Anyhow I want you | to take on the inquiry I'm dropping here. “You will remember that the prisoner, Eugene Richard, who escaped about the same time that your cousin arrived at ‘Woodcot, was convicted for an Again and again the gambler won—f |nad been staked once morc {till he reached the issue of July {23rd. It contained nothing that interested us. | The issue of the 24th of July {had a s e. It looked |as if w a blank. | Then a caught my eye— y , tall, with a monk to the head of the « consisted of para- s of news, comments and im- pressions. I traced the topic back to its beginning, and afterwards I made | this rough translation “A dramatic episode took place {last evening at the Kursaal. The (hero of the occasion was a tall | Englishman, who took his place a the table in the I salle to- | wards midnight. He played with small counters at first and won 2| Ipetty sum in half an hour. Then| nding b like | at his lebow, was another | an m, grey-eyed and [cold, who seemed to be his friend. | Nemesis touched him on the shoul- signed to him to leave the player a curse, {shook off the touch, and staked the { whole for with an impetuous 8 The gray eyes of his monitor gleamed like steel. The n play “Al 1 that monitory touch upon the shoulder. Again the muttered curse. Again the impulsive gesture. The mass of counters remained on the table. The whole winnings “All eyes were centered on the tall man who sat with head in hand ring at the table as though he would hypnotize the ball by some mighty effort of his personal mag- netism. “Hundreds eyed him curiously and | whispered to one another—the play- ers who had ceased to play, the inally he left—with a million francs. offense committed at Dover. It was alleged he had attacked a clerk belonging to the firm to England with a large sum of money July 23, 1925. “come down here and search the files of the Ostend paper “some days before and after that date—and see whether they eontain anything to show light. Anything, mind! If you draw blank, you can take up Brus- gels again. If you get a winner, wire me at the Lord Nelson and follow across at once.” “The professor's getting warm,” said Somerfield. “But Ostend?” ““But something must have hap- pened at Ostend that's given Lax- | ton a hint” said I. “We go, of course?” ¢ “On your life! Next train.” There were no more boat trains that day, and the next was an om- mibus train that dawdled along and Janded us in Ostend at nine o'clock in ‘the evening. We avoided the $20-a-minute places on the digue and found accommodation in a small house in a straight and nar- row street not far from the har- bor. “To pursue our quest that night was impossible. In that paradise of stone the thing to do is to visit ‘the Casino. Somerfield and I passed into its glassy halls at 10 o'clock and found it chock-ablock. A concert was going on in one of the larger halls, & dance in another one, roulette in one saloon, and ‘oule in another. ! We wandered through till we found ourselves in a quiet, almost deserted room—a sort of reading and writing room. We were about to wander out again when Somer- fleld said: _ 1 %Half a minute! T've got an idea.” He walked up to the official and spoke. I heard the man say: ~#Mais parfaitement, monsieur. Par fcl.” ‘Somerfield beckoned to me, and the man led us into an adjoining room. He unlocked a cupboard. i ‘#What year?” he asked. . %Second half of 1925, said Som- i mpuefimtbemnhld’dux:s: out a large volume, the of “ca.rmnn for July to December, | so much excitement about so little, of Smithins, London, returning | spectators crowding around, an American doubtless wondering why a white-haired gentleman with the air of a predicateur of Geneva, slightly seandalized, beside him an- other Englishman, tall and gaunt, |looking like a tonsured monk, as- cetic and disapproving, a number of Frenchmen intrigued, our own compatriots injured in their sense of thrift. “All waited for the “ne va plus” |and listened to the rush of the {ball. It was as if the played “Again the warning hand. Again the contemptuous gesture. The player, staking his whole gains each time, won seven coups. “Then as though he had con- sciously exhausted his magic in {reaching the mystic number he rose—possessor of a fortune, and, (with his monitor, was escorted away. “It is said that his winnings reached the enormous sum of a million francs. The player is un- {known at Ostend and cannot be traced.” When we came to the end of the paragraphs, we looked up to find the official standing behind us. He looked over our shoulders. “Ah,” he said, “you are reading the report of the great seven coups of 1925?" “You remember that?” I asked. “Very well, monsieur. And the most curious part of the history is not there.” He pointed to the newspaper. “No, messieurs the most curious part of the history is afterwards. They go to their hotel. “They say to the manager, ‘Here is a lot of money. Count it. Lock it up. Give us a receipt for it. Do it now, without delay. We take a few thousand for ourselves. We |leave the rest in your care! Very well. “The next day, they go away. They have not come back. The | money remains still in the coffre- {fort of the hotel, waiting for them." (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) A million francs left un- claimed at a Hotel! And Pell a part of the puzzle again! Con- | tinue the story Monday. e — SPECIAL EVENT F. O. E. DANCE }hy Charles E. Naghel, census guided it by an invisible string. . .| WE POLLY AND HER PALS ) WEXT TME THIS DERN PITCHER SNAPS OFEN, LOOKS LR DOUGLAS . NEWS —— KILBURN IS APPOINTED CENSUS ENUMERATOR L. W. Kilburn this week received his commission as census taker for the Island, having been appointe visor for tne qistrict of Mr about October 1. —————— FEERO LEAVES FOR SCENE OF PROSPECTOR’S DEATH Deputy U. 8. Marshal Feero, ac- companied by Rangnar Kromquist, Ketchikan for Crescent Lake to visit the remains of Tom Wilson, prospector, who died at a point 14 word brought to town Donahue, partner of the deceased. Lue men as guide on the journey which is expected to take about a week. e THIRD CHILD BORN Word has come from Ventura, California, of the birth of a daugl - ter in June to Mr. and Mrs. Home" I. Swindle, former residents of Douglas. The little ohe has been named Kathryn Maud. e CARD PARTY TONIGHT Everyone is invited to attend the card partly in the Odd Fellows hall being given there this evening by the Rebekahs in celebration of their 30th anniversary. .. — AUXILIARY TO ENTERTAIN Next Monday night the Ladies’ 0. plans to give another of their popular card parties in the the Eagles hall. B TO LEAVE HOSPITAL SOON John Cashen, who has been con- fined to St. Ann’s hospital for tho past three weeks following an oper- ation for hernia, is expected home about the first of next week. in the hospital since the first of the week with pneumonia and pleurisy, but is slowly getting back to health. OGRS SRS | “AUNT BETTY OF BUTTE” Because Rangnar Kromquist, one of the leading characters in the IS = 1 Kilburn expects to begin his work left this morning on the Seaplnno' latter accompanied the two| Auxiliary to Douglas Aerie 117, F.| Neil Doogan has been quite m‘ | A Picture You Want to See a1 brary play, left today om the( | Douglas coroner’s: inquest trip to Crescent Lake, “Aunt Betty of Butte” has been postponed one week. The date of presentation will be Oc- tober 5 instead of September 28 as previously announced. — R “PAID TO LOVE” AT | LIBERTY, SUNDAY | George O'Brien, cast as Prince Michael in “Paid To Love,” Fox Films version of an original story by Harry Carr, declares he has at t discovered the world's loudest amer.” George says | Virginia Valli. | martre cafe scenes in ‘Paid To {Love',” said O'Brien, “Director How- iar(l Hawks told Miss Valli -he was going to bring her into a shot that was designed to shock the Middle | Western tourists who were clustered about the mean little tables, “‘You have just stabbed a man, |Hawks told Miss Valli, ‘and just be- |fore you dash the green baize cur- tains aside and confront the hor- ream that will rock this stage. you scream?’ “Miss Valli grinned but {nnthmg. ‘When Hawks got ready he yelled: ‘Scream, Miss Valli, scream! she do it? 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