Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1923, Page 20

THE EVIL SHEPHERD By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Copyright. 1923, by ; (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) ; “Well, there Isn't much clse for Jou to see” Sir Timothy said thoughttully. “My gymnasium, which 18 one of the principal features here, i closed just now for a special per- formance, of which I will speak in a fpoment. ' The concert hall T see they @re using for an overflow dance room. Fhat vou have seen. with the rounds and winter garden, comprises most everything. ¢ They moved back through the hall Wit “difficulty. People were now cfowding in. ~Lady Cynthia laughed softly. it is like a gala night at the ir Timothy!" she exclaimed. v dare you pretend that this is Hohemia!” % “It has never been I who have de- seribed my entertainments,” rinded her. “They have b eyerything—orgies, debauc thing you can think of. Ventured myself to describe them.” 3 Their passage was difficult. Every now and then Sir Timothy was com- lled to shake hands with somé of s newly-arriving 5 At las however, they reached the little sit thg room. Sir Timoth¥ turned back t§, Wilmore, who hesitated. “You had better come in, too, Mr. Wilmore, if you will,” he inv “You were with Ledsam, the first We met, and something wh now may inte am not Intrudin itered the room. still jeal- iarded. Sir Timothy closed the door behind them. CHAPTER XXXIV, ;The apartment was one belonging te the older portion of the house, and Med been, in fact, an annex to the &reat library. The walls were oak- Paneled, and hung with a collection ©of old prints. There were some easy chairs, a writing table, and somo well 18den bookcases. “There were one or ‘o bronze statues of gladiators, a Wonderful study of two wrestlers, no inor ments. Timothy nlunged at once into what he had to say -1 promise you, anail You, Ledsam," 1, “to divulge e ¥ the truth as regards these much 1 of entertainments here Dresent cire interested sam’s fr Ybu happen to have i this particular party. Therefor am glad to have you ail here to- Bether. The superfi part of my entertainment you seen. The Part which renders it nec v for me to keep closed doors, 1 shall now explain. I give prizes here of con- skderable value for boxing contests, which are conducted ur olr own. One is due to fery few m T ry in character, but I ma the” chief officiais of th Sporting Club are usually. to be '#re, only, of course, in an apacit Tho differe: contests arranged by r ! that my men are here uBe sometimes an illeg: mlove and they somet amother. If any two boxin ‘faternity have a grudge azainst one ipother, ‘and that often happen are permitted here to fight under the strictest control as dirness, but _practically without Ioves at all. You heard of the acei- ent. for instance. to Norris? That ned in my ymnasium. “He was d out by Burkin. It wa venderful fight oA have rere is an- which fre- Two box- ervedly in The details of the matc anged without their kpowl- ¥ come into the ring with. & whom t nis t ometimes the 10w for my men wear ma Then we have private matche. There is one to- night. Lord Mexdowson and I h Wager of a thousand guineas. He has brought tonight from the East End a boxer who, acc rding to the térms of our bet, has never before en- gaged in a pr slonals contest. I have brought ateur under the . e con fons. weight is w in a few pounds g Gither o ever seen the other, only’ | e fight is with under Quecnsbe g Il see the your promise o attemnt in any wav to interferer Wilmore rose to his feet. .“Do vou mean to tell " he de- that my brother has been oyed here, kept here agalnst his ;‘tl”‘tm' rovide amusement for your s Mr. Wilmore, T beg that vou will reasonable,” Sir Timothy evpos- t ed. "l saw your brother box at hfs gymnasium in Holborn. My agent made him the offer for this fight. One of my conditions had to be that he came here to train and that whilst he was here he held no communica- ton whatever with the outside world My trainer has ideas of his own and this he insf Your in “the end acquiesced. He figst dificult to deal with a t8is condition, ana he believe, r. Ledsam, v your office, with the object of asking Ygu to become an intemedi e- teeen him and his retativess > © ‘He began a letter to me, efs interposed, “and then ously disappeared ‘The mystery is easily explained Sfr Timothy continued, ".\lynlrnlner. Roger Hagon, a v y blue, and the best heavyweight of his year, oécupies the chambers above yours, u[ say from the window the arrival of Reginald Wilmore—which was ac-" cording to instructions, as they were t6 come down to Hateh End together ~went down the stairs to meet him, apd, to cut a long story short, fetched kim out to your office, Ledsam, with- ot allowing to finish his letter. This absolute isolation seems a_cur- fqus condition, perhaps, but Hagon insists upon it; and I can assure you that he knows his business. The mys- Fran- mysteri- tary, as you have termed it, of his| disappearance that morning, is that he went upstairs with Hagon for sev- eg.l hours to undergo a medical ex- afpination, instead of leaving the byilding forthwith.” +“Queer thing I never thought of Hagon,” Francls remarked. “As a tter of fact, I never see him in the Temple, and I thought that he had left” SMay I ask,” Wilmore Intervened, “when my brother will be free to re- tdrn to his home?” $“Tonight, directly the fight is over,”.| Skr Timotky replied. “Should he be !rmwful, he will take with him a sdm of money sufficient to start him im any business he choses to enter.” ¥Wilmore frowned slightly. i“But sureiy” he protested, “that mould make him a professional pu- st SRR at all” Sir Timothy replied. “for one thing, the match Is a private ofe in a pfivate house, and for an- ofher the money'is a gift: There is ne purse. If your brother loses, he ts nothing. ‘Will you see the fight, . Wilmore?” +Yes, I will see it,” was the some- what reluctant assent. 3“You will give me your word not to iterfere in any way?" <"l shall not interfere,” Wilmore pfomised. “If they are wearing reg- wnjation gloves, and the weights are about equal, and the conditions are What you say, it Is the last thing I should wish to do.” “Capital!” Sir Timothy exclaimed. “Now to pass on. There Is one other fdature of my entertainments con- cerning which I have something to s&y—a series of performances, which thkes place on my launch at odd tlmes. There is one fixed for tonight. an say little about it except that ¢4 unusual. Iam going to ask you, adaoe . Little, Brown & Co.) Lady Cynthia, and you, Ledsam, to witness it. When you have seen that. you know everything. Then you aml I, Ledsam, can call one another's, hands. I shall have something else to say to you, but that Is cutside the doings here.” “Are we to see the fight in the gym- nasium Lady Cynthia inquired. Sir Timothy shook his head. “I do not allow women there under ! any conditions,” he said. “You and Margaret had better stay here whil that takes place. It will probabl be over in twenty minutes. It will, be time then for us to find our way to, the launch. After that, if you have any appetite, supper. I will ord some caviare sandwiches for you Sir Timothy nt on, ringing the ! ell, “and some wine."” Lady Cynthia smiled “It {s really a very wvarty,” she murmured. 4 Their host ushered the two men ! across the hall, now comparatively | deserted, .for every one had settled down to his or her chosen amusement —down a long passage, through | { private door which he unlocked with % Yale key, and into the gymnasium. {There were less than fifty spectators { seated around the ring, and Francis, | | &lancing at them hastily, fancied that | {he recognized nearly ‘every one of| !them. There was Baker, & judge, wonderful | : l couple of actors, Lord Meadowson, the | ¥ (most renowned of sporting peers. and | B n who followed in his foot- | epera itthe man who had onge been iamateur champion in the ban{am class, and who was now comsiders the finest judge of boxing in the world a theatrical manager, the pre e oxing champion, a =) ;‘ln{t E’\(x(\llik.\c‘rn. Sir Timothy and his companions took their chairs amidst ‘-(v buzz of welcome. Almost immediately | the man who was in charge of the pro- | cecdings and whose name was Harrl- se from his place. Ol Gentlemen,” he said, “this is a sporting contest, but one under usual rules and us conditions. = teur, who tips the scales stone seven, who has never engaged a boxing contest in his life, is matched | against a young man from a different sphere of life, who intends to adopt th ring as his profession, but \\h:) ha I never as yet fought lic. Names, | gentler you v, » seldom | | me °d here. 1 will only say that| the first in the ring the nominee of our friend and host, Timothy Brast: | second comes the nominee of l.unl‘ Meadowsor 1 1 | i Wilmore, notwithstanding his pre- knowledge, gave a little gasp. The young man who stood now within a few yards of him, carelessly &WIHK‘\’!K{ his gloves in his hand, was without a | doubt his missing brother. He looked | well and in the pink of condition: not | jonly well, but entirely confident and at | se. His opponent, on the other | a_few inches | awkward, his ease a sturdier man, nervous and er, was | though none the less determined-look- ir Timothy rose A whispered arrison’s ear. The ter nodded. | |1n a very few moment the preliminarics :w. re concluded, the fight begun. CHAPTER XXXV Francis, glad of 2 moment or two solitude in which to rearrange his some- | what distorted sensations, found an | empty space in the stern of the launch | and stood leaning over the rail. l‘“b[ pulses were still tingling with the in- dubitable excitement of the last half- | hour. It was all there, even now, be- | fora his eyes like a cinematograph pic- | ture—the duel between those two men, duel of knowledge, of strength, of om heginning to | moment when | s looking on i more, preniacy written in his face and in t dogeed lines of his mouth: the budding champion from the East knd less grace- | ful, perhaps, but with even more | strength and at least as much determi- | had ¢ y done his best to! his sclection. There were mno ! points to be scored. There had been | no undue feinting, no holding, few of { the tricks of the professional ring. It ! fight to a finish, or until Harri- ave the word. And the better man But even that kuock-out | blow which Reggie Wilmore had deliv- »d after a wonderful feint had had little that was cruel in it. There was mething beautiful almost in the trength and grace with which it had been delivered- breathless eager- ness, the waiting, the end. Francis felt a touch upon h looked around. A tail. sad-fa woman whom he had noticed with vague sense of familiarity in the dapc- ing room was standing by his_side. “You have forgotten me, Mr. Led- sam." she sald. “For the moment,” he admitted. “I am Isabel Culbridge,” she told him, | watching his face. “Lady Jsabel?” Francis repeated In- credulously. *‘But surely—'" “Better not contradict me,” she in- terrupted. *“Look again.” Franeis | n. “I'am very sorry,” he said. * some time, 18 1t not, since we met She stood by his side and for a few | moments neither of them spoke. The little orchestra in the bows had com- menced to play softly, but there wa - of the merriment amongst the handful of men and women geners associated with a midnight river picnic. The moon was temporarily obscured and it seemed as though some artist hand had so dealt with the few clectric lights that the men, with their_pale | faces and white shirt-fronts, and the | three or four women, most of them, as | it happened, wearing black, were like | some ghostly figures in some sombrs | | 1 procession. Only the music kept up the pretence that this was in any way an ordinary excursion. Amongst the hu- man element there was an air of tense- ness which seemed rather to increas as they passed Into the shadowy reaches | of the river. “You have been fll. T am afraid?": Francis said tentatively, “If you will,” she answered, “but my illness is of the soul. I have become one of a type,” she went on, *of which you will find ‘many examples here. We started life thinking that it was clever | to despise the conventional and the | known and o eek always for the dar- | ing and the unknown. New experlences | were what we craved for. I married a ! wonderful husband. I broke his heart | and still looked for new things. I had | a° daughter of whom I was fond—she | ran away with my chauffeur and left | me; & on whom I adored, and he was | killed in the war: a lover who told me | that he worshipped me, who spent | every penny I had and made me the | laughing-stok of town. I am still look- | ing for new things.” “Sir Timothy's parties are generally supposed to provide them,” Francis ob- served. The woman shrugged her shoulders. | o far they seen very much like anybody”s else,” she said. “The fight | might have been amusing, but no wom- en were allowed. The rest was very wonderful in its way, but that is all. T! am still hoping for what we are to| see downstairs.” They heard Sir Timothy's voice a | few yards away, and turned to look at him. He had just come from be- low, and had paused opposite a man | who had been standing a little apart from the others, one of the few who was wearing an overcoat, as though he felt the cold. In the background were the two servants who had| gutirded_the gangway. “Mr. Manuel Loito,” Sir Timothy said—“or shall T say Mr. Shopland?— 'my invited guests are ‘welcome. I have only one method of dealing with tninvited ones.” The two men suddenly stepped for- ward. Shopland made no protest, at- tempted no struggle. They lifted him off his feet as though he were a baby, and a moment later -there was a splash in the water. They threw a life-belt after him. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) 1 Our Mail Order Bureau Will Fill Out-of-Town Orders Promptly A Sale! Imported W hite Ratines —Regularly $1.00. 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