Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1923, Page 18

THE EVENING ©f stairs ® crack of light showed under & door, and & murmur of veices ©ceme down. to them, Greg whispered to Ectuban: “Creep Up astuies and listen. It may be val- ;‘nl. to ms. I'll call the other 'lell‘ n."" H With infinite caution Greg un-| ghalned and unlocked the two sets ofyf doors and stepped out on the stoop.| The block was empty. But there were eyes out. - F v’ Greg prearranged signal three figures ap- from the shadows opposite and nolselessly hastened to him. He drew them insidc the house and shut the doors. Hickey was sent to help Bull be- cause there were two wavs out from the basement to be watched, Blos- som was left at the front doof; Greg and Ginger wtol: Estuban at the turn of the stairs.| Putting his 1ips t0 Greg's ear Estuban | breathed: i + ill (Continued From Testerday's Star.) i CHAPTER XXI. H Tpstalre and Dewn. 1l Leaving ull cubs at home this time, hey proceeded in couples by diftereat had expectad. There was a longi tudinal fence separating the yard of all the howses on 17th street from 1 those on 16th. Thix fence was topped by ! a three-inch plank nlong which Greg| @nd Estudan were able to walk it. ! Buil, less sure-footed, straddied it and { henched himself nEg. At one of ftreets to w rendezvous at the north- {the back yards a cautious house- bhst corner of nt Sqaare. | holder had set his fence with great{ing up here. There are not moure l’,‘ = - ikes against cats and marauders.;than four men with de Socotra in Srop mud Estuban walked up 1st ave- | fare tney had 1o drop down and ®0]there. The rest have already scat- filie to 17th, then west to the meeting around. The sky was overcast and ! tered. Hes giving th¥se their final e. thus passing the house that}il was very dark. Few lights showed | instructions mow. L 1in the back windows. Greg whis; . = their objective v I Theyzenched he atith Greg, Whizpered back: “Is the o i, Their examination ' of it ‘Tevealed!ana silently dropped to S i ] these salient facts: " There was no|back of the houre facing”them atiy, "\l e e e al by llght in any window; the basement up 3 i first glance showed no gleam of lght, : Jindows were protected by dron bars, {IL, Uben locking closer " they saw Ries > ek mwlopFTHIy the Bkn: e basement door by um iron gate, {that the principal Toom on the second | 1 ¢ gy oor was lighted. In two of the! ~“Walt a minuté. Front and rear avy omk storm doors were closed— § I1hT®e Windows on this floor cracks bedrooms im these houses usually thoshort, & wholly umpromising pros- § 07 MEht showed around the edges of | Communicate. Ginger, go in_the front 7 H oPague biinds that-had -been|Tcom and stand guard. Take my| into this,” ] Pulled down. Two windows amd | flush.” | door gave on the vard. The windows | were barred, 5o they could be leftig { opem in hot weather, but the door had ! N0 OUtET protection, and glass paned | had been let in the upper panels. | yard at last | Tth. The before the front door, | . SWe ‘need an ax to it nid Estuban dejectedly Fatuban vielded fcst place o We'll have Greg. Greg wicd the door. It gave Slamming it open the two entered the room with their guns before them. “Hinds up, gentiemen,” said Greg. There were four men: three seate murmured Gree. various attitudes about a tab 2 jnear the window, and the Tourth, d ¥ wrapped a handXerchief | Spcotra, arrested in the act of pacing arelind the tool to teaden the sound|back and forth. The table was lit- as far as posaible. Nedrest to thejtered with papers. Jock’ of the door Greg traced a equarc | stood about the Toor. The three big enoueh to admit his hand. There | sitting men, Nbanez and Alleri were | a5 nothing to do but let the plece|two of them. flung up their hands; fall inside. X without a sound as if impelled by an | 1F the sound of it brings them well | electrical current. Not #0 de Socotra 1 already be In” said Greg grimly. | His nerves were under fron control He stouck the outllned square a|He actually laughed. With his : light Blow with his fist and it tinkled | fixed on Greg’s eyes he coolly dre s got his eye on me ! to the floor within. Thrusting his arm | cigarette case from his waistcoat , 1 dow't know where to g0 throwgh the hole, he drew the bolt and | pockel, took a cigarette, tapped it | turned the kes. They stole in. Greg{ finically on the 1id, and stuck 1t be- | gave his pocket light a swift flash | tween his grinning lips. Returning | around. T WETe in a Kitchen, a|the cigarette case, from ahother | sed Kity i the range was gray | pocket he produced a match, struck ) dust; the shelves empty. it on his sole, lighted the lgarette and ‘ait here & minute UN We see IF {'flicked the match away. {they were alarmed by the wound,®! N, our good friend N whispered Greg. “Keep on this stde |again” he said mockingl: : away from the windows.” ir. Parf, you ought t ok wall of this building from the | ‘They waited. holding their breaths | pictures, OF perh: le wall of the first dwelling. '1'hls"D listen. t a sound was te be offered ihe onl ~ [Reard through the datk house except o = e , | the rats scurrying behind the plaster. anhe Douge they were secking 10| Satisficd at length that the broken ! e e o ey ST | &IRas had pasced unnoticed, they Bro- SR SIX ] cepded to investigate their surround- ’ S ngs. Four doors faced them: two = £ave on cupboards, the third on a fhort passage eading in the fromt bastment room, while the fourth opened on the stair hail. The other {room on this floor was as empty as ak in the back way, | the Kitchen. Though =o far there was !no sign of humAn usage they were e other fellows hidv yourscvess | and down the block here, but|Strack by the warmth of the house. | ey donm't stint themselves oose places where you can watch 4 v ho 1T anybody comes out] Whispered Greg. “Let's Mou are to jump on him and frisk ; @VeTCOAts. | m for the little black book, see?| A door under the stairs gave on )? it isn't on him let him go. 1f we A gas- 10 try the rear,” said oK. The question then how 1o get ound to the back. The whole block esented an unbroken b tront from{ “Here's where the glass-cutter: ue 10 The squarc 1 comes At the sguare thex joined the ather | en and Pa Simmons, who was there his cab. The latter reported that Socotra had not left the house. Damn glud you come,” said ‘he: §'m at the end of my wits how to! Wwithout the Jlice force getting wise 1o me cad, watches from ihis corner for a . then runs around the block and a stand down by Ist. Then 1 Bul there's @ cop in hand: 3004 0ld Bessie Several valises, ut,” said through | 11 signai?d i mobile Dri w an be o Greg. | “Keep moving. @i block every minute -,}mx if we need you.” they stopd 1 Simmons drove off. there was & modern apartment house. At the corner where Bait space of three foet separated the | Reall n moving To THE ONLY CAP WITH THE RED | FLAP ATTACHED on climbing f somebody will hold me to one of the fellows +d 1 will go over the L arop steps leading to the cellar. t in the rear all right and want {li#ht had been left burning down ur help one of will come to]here. They saw the furnace that e front door. and saw his arm upjsupplied the heat. but thete was no | down so, like m semaphore.” per=on in the ceitar. | here was & flight of steps down| Greg left Bull on guard on the the rear basement-door of thefbasement floor. “If anvbody gets| artment house. An eight-foot] PAst us upstairs, don't let him get separated narrow by you without frisking him for the from the vard of the first dwell- | book. If they come too fast for you, Greg and Estuban boosted Bull)call for help.” » on_ top: 1 Greg_and Estudan « the main floor. Two long parlors front then the and rear opened off the hall. They hed Greg a hand. Once up they were dusty and empty like the rooms nd the way was-eusier than they below. At the head of the next flight The Flap s made of heavy paralined Spruce Stock aps 1n and out of bottle meck and NEVER TEARS. ALL RS American Dairy Supply Co. MAKERS WASHINGTON, D. C. the stole up to the | “We're just in time. They're broak- | S ! were two other rooms on the foor; STAR, -WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY AU GUST 28, 1923. wha call i If he expected to rattle Greg he mistook his wman. Greg saw a tell- tale bulge over the man's right breast, and that was al{ he wanted. Matching tae other's tone, he said: “You're a remarkable man. Semor Socotrm. 1 didn't want to lose uch with you. h ought old acquaintance of yours with me." De tra for the first time looked at Estuba, and his eyes changed. The emile became a thought strained, dut the voice was as as ever. “Ah, }':7:‘4“'! How dWd you get out of it tuban was incapable of this grim Jjesting. It was his first sight of the man_responsible for the murder of his best friend. and his eyes burned. Ho answered de Socotra in Spanish. Whatever it was he said, it bit rough_ the elder man’s veémeer of De Socotra xnarled at him. up vour hands.” mid Greg shall not tell you agal . De Socotra obeyed. But his expres- sion altered. He Jooked beyond and botween Greg and Estuban and sud- cried: ze them both, Milio!™ In spite of themscives they looked behind them. Even as he turned, Greg was half sensible that it was a , but the subconscious impulse as irresistible. There was no one there. of course. They turned back De Socotra was In the act of sprin ing toward an opem door in the co ner. Like a flakh Estuban’s pistol sought him. Greg knocked hie hand and the bullet went through the t do 1 owe the pleasure of this de tor ng. De Socotra disappeared. The !other three men, green with terror, or moved, “Keep them covered,”. Greg shouted. hall _and nto the front room, crying: “Hold him- Ginger!" ; But he and (‘(n%:‘r only collided with each other fa the emnty room. . “He didn’t come this way,” gasped Ginger, At the xame moment back in the hall a door banged open. They ran out. An open closet door betv@'h the two rooms showed the way he & d escaped. There was no SIght nor sound of him. There a bathroom presumably and a hall room, but he had not had time enough to get door open and closed agal have gone downstairs, for there was sound from Blossom at the foot. At the instant Greg made up his mind gone up. @ emall brigat shed athwart the upper n that he had beam of light » nor could | fiight and threw a circle on the side wall. From above. & voice 'said Mmock: ingly: “Yes, I'm up here, Mr: Parr./ Come oA up.. When you cross that light I'l | give you something to bring with rou. “The voice did not come from the spot whence tl light issued. KEvidently he had latd his light on the floor and re- treated from it. .For an instant Greg hesitated. Then came to him what to do. Extending his body on the steps, pressing close to the rail where one on the upper landing could not see him, he snaked hi a time until he of the lizht. Taking careful atm, he fired. The light went out. MRS. COMISKEY ROBBED - A!D,LOCKE‘D IN CELLAR Daughter-in-Law of Base Ball Magnate gnd “Big B4 Walsh in $10,000 Holdup. By tho Aseociated Press. CHICAGO, -Atgust 28.—Grace Com- iskey, daughter-in-law of Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, and “Big Ed” Walsh, for- GREECE AND TURKEY - OFFICIALLY AT PEACE Decree Ratifying Lausanne Treaty Is Promulgated in Athens, ATHENS, August 28.—An official de- cree ratifying the treaty of Lausanne and the conventlon annexed to it was publiehed here. Another decree. pro- claims the cessation of the state of war -{mer pitcher, were held up in the yard | with Turkey and the return of the At the same moment he let hig body | ©f the Comiskey home here Sunday]army to a peace footing. relex and slid back down the no answering shot came, as he expected. Nor was there any sound of ruaning feet above, De Socotra as ubwal was . But | night by two negroes, robbed of jewelry| All valued at $10,000 and locked in a cel- lar of the home while the bandits es- the extraordinary legislation passed during the war is rescinded, but the state of slege and the censor- ¢t Jay on the|caped, according to reports to the|ship are maintained. Listening in- te y Greg Jittle sounds from the fourth and top story of the noute. Snatching his. dight out of Ginger's hands, he sprang up the stairs. Ginger followed at his heels. .. In the hail on the top Hoor =tood a {adder jeading to a scuttle in the roof. * heard de Socotra upon it working desperately to raise the seuttle But they were too quick for him. As they mounted the last flight he Jumped down and ran into the back room. There all sounds ceased. Greg pnused at the head of the etairs. 1t was a tickiish job to follow an armed man Mto a, dark room. He tried to figure out what de. Socotra would ex pect-him to o, ko he could do the site. He had left the door open behind him: was It to tempt Greg in? Greg de termined to try to tdke him in the rear. Lekving Ginger crouching at the turn of the stuirs, he stole along the hall and ever mo carefully opened the door of 4he front room. In case his man wePe in< side Nre flashed his light in to draw hii fire, but there was ho sbund, He. weft in, hollling fis teht off to one sda ofi hig body. The room was empty. Abso- lute silence pressed on the house so full of men. 3 - doors in the back wall of this room. Greg cautiously opened the first. This floor was planned Aiffer- ently from the second floor. He found himself in an_extra middle room with a wkylight through - which stowed th fow-hanging cloude faintly rosy with the { reflection of the lights. tinued in_Tomorrow S Four .hundred and six applications for patents were made by WOm@n,in- ventors In Great Britain layt year. There were two Star.) l Youth Renewed Anybody can afford new clothes if they -have any clothes at is needed to make coats and furs as fr. all. No magic wand last year's fall' suits, esh and attractive as new purchases. Just-bring them to The Hoffman Company, and repairs. for ¢leaning, dyeing Call Main 4724 CLEANERS & DYERS 720 13th Street N\W. Easy Terms Will Prevail During This TRADED-IN PIANO SA Quality Instruments From Washington’s Best Homes WE ARE GOING TO MAKE QUICK WORK OF SELLING OFF THE PIANOS AND P LAYERS WHICH HAVE ACCUMULATED DURING THE PAST MONTH. During our Baby Grand Sele we - were forced to trade in many used instruments, others have been traded in on Ampico re-enacting pianos ~and some slightly shopworn instruments have also been put into this sale. We want to sell them all off in a few ddys and have priced these beautiful instru- ments at figures which should cause you to purchase a piano immediately even though you had not intended to do so for many years to come. We must sell these pianos at once to m: ake room for incoming stock. Just think of buying an almost new player piano for only $265. On easy terms. Call early. This player only $175! We will place this used player on sale at ‘the price listed, including bench. This is the choice bargain of the many used players which will go on sale. If you have ever thought of buying a player piano this is your Don't delay. Last Call! This Beautiful Brand-New Baby Grand chance. « In order to sell off these used pianos in two days we have cut the ‘price of- this used Upright plano to a3 will also arrange special terms of a small down pay- ment and the bal- ance at a $1.28 a Act quick if you would secure this bargain. Another of the many bargains which will go on sale Moaday. This used instrument will be priced at the ridiculous low figure of §85.. Confidential tertmns will be ar- ranged; small down payment. $150 a week, 397 You Must Hi to Secure This Bu:rr,znin! Easy Terms! Act Quick aand Save Money! 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On thelr return to the Comiskey place the bandits held them up, and then lock- ed_them In the cellal Mrs. Alice Ready, & wister of Mrs. Comiskey, who was in the house at the time, released them. ARRESTED, KILLS HIMSELF BENTONVILLE, Ark., August 28. Achfe King, twenty-five years old, b coming. {11 shortly wfter he had been arrested at Rogers "on” a charge’ of breach of the imitted to a dep- uty sheriff that he had swallowed poison just before he was taken into éd half an hour after he had county Jall. In dis- name Colgate's Ribbon Dental Cream contains no grit. 1t washes and does ot crat —_—— It is no good having strong de- ‘llraa it you have a weak will, | Newest and One Downtown Ready Oc Two and Three A Naumber of Apartm The F. H. Downtown Immediate Rooms and One Bath; Resident The F. H. | CONSTANTINOPLE -PORT By the Associated Prew. CONSTANTINOPLE, August gradually. Interallted naval contro of the port was abolished Saturdav and authority transferred to th., Turks. Three blasts of a siren in the cent s of the city on the iast day of evacus tion will mark the final departure. o¢ the allied forces. The mom-Tumk however, are mot walting for 'th farewell whistle to depart. The paliic. have been visiting from fifty to on. hundred passports daily for them. All decorations and civil grades of the old Turkish government hav. been abolished. Only the independ ence medal of the Angora wovernmen: will be recognized in the future. The Jefferson Sixteenth.and ‘“M’’ Streets of the Handsomest Afpartments tober First Rooms and Bath ents Will Be Furnished and May Be Leased With or Without Hotel Service ¢ Smith Co. SMITH BUILDING 815 Fifteenth Street The Presidential Sixteenth and ‘L Streets One of the Newest and Handsomest Apartments Occupancy Several Apartments Still Available Five Rooms, Foyer and Two Baths; Four Three Rooms and One Bath; Porches Manager Smith Co. 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