Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1924, Page 42

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1924. He began to bustle about, and I re- | “London now? Aye, and no bad ‘dea|bidding me not to be afrald during | we had cleared the town was hard | ment's car. Instead, T found myself| 1td bridie. and sazing curiously mained on the sofa, idly watching|either. If there's a blace in the world | his absence, he went up the stair and L and fast asleep. lying on a bank of heather, on the | my startied « Renad aonsly k¢ him, I saw at once that he was a|Wwhere a man's safe let himself out. He was not away| I woke suddenly, with a great start, | topmost helghts of a far -stretching | somest girl T had ever scon jhond- methodical man, and also a man who | He broke off, turning to me— more than ten minutes, and his first [ imagining that & yellow-faced China- | down. There was the full glory of & | twents-thiee yinrs of pec" I @y was particular’ abouj the way In| IYou still wint to get to/London?" | action on returning was to take down | man had tnrust a knife into my ribs, | springtide dawn all round me, ind = = which he ate and drank. From af “By the first train I can strike as|two heavy overcoats, and to hand one | But I did not find myself in Holli- | at my side, holding a smart cob by| (Continued in To drawer in the center table he pro-|soon as I'm out of this, I answered.[to me with a nod which signified . duced a clean white tablecloth and| He picked up his knife and fork | that all was right. Then he turned even napkins, with carefully cleaned|again, and began to eat steadily. out the lamp, led me out, and up to and polished’ knives and forks; he|, “Look here!” he said, after a while. | the hall of ‘which I have already took down plates from a rack and|“I'll take you to London myself, and | spoken. We got out of that by some clear glasses from the sideboard, and | I'll go there myself, too! Best place.| means known to him, and then had prosently arranged his tabie us|As long as that damned Chinaman is | through alleys and courts to a yard neatly and deftly as If he had been|alive—if he is—and you might as|where, in the darkness, stood a car. RIPPLING RUBY A Thrilling Mystery Story By J. S. FLETCHER ¢ . 1924, by G. P. Putoam's Sons. &/ P L) A8 9! ST ) iainel parioe igaif | cAnd] well tey to poison the Close ' by was a half-open _door, having brought from a sort of lar-[be no but v !| through which a light showed—Holli- . sme me Jerking out his disen-| der-cupboard in the further recess|London's ‘tne ticket N . I've | ment went within this and presently d hand in a fashion which sug- ound of Geld becf, & | & cir_not new, but good—not far | came back with two glasses in his Ain pId honse 5 ce a good| &eSted a knife-thrust. And again he i bread, butter, and | from here, and plenty of petrol hand, one of which he handed to me e o i drank, and it seemed to me that for|ga jar i “wainuts, he drew | her, too, all ready. When we've fin- | with the remark that it was a drop ouse; carved balustrades; moulded cond iime the glass rattled a|the corks of two bottles of als, pour- | ished supper, I'll just take a careful | of whisky to keep the cold out. We ceilings; evidence of architectural|littie against his teeth. T stared in-|ed out the contents, and with a nod |10ook round, and if things seem clear, | drank—and then he bade me get in- taste: Some old. prosperous mer- | credulously at him. to me to draw up {o the table, laid | we'll slip out, get to my car, and bé | side the car, and, if I liked to g0 to ghant’s house once upon a time, no| “You mean—those fellows " 1| hands on his carving knife and fork. | off, what?" sleep; he himself would drive, und I doubt. And no doubt, either, that |&sked 11 be hungry by this time—in | “Nothing would suit me be obeyed his bidding * ¢ ¢ and before nobody had lived in it for ye and | “Such of ‘e haven't broken | the natural cour: Holllinent s T answered =T = ————— 3 Years: fifty, SINty, Seventy year: e cks, or legs, rms,” . “Long past anybody “Then it's done, and make a e rlhk Protect yo\u'Health 3 & w kK, ruin, dirt, dust, everywhere e d 3 A e or dinner time, what supper, for it'll b a coldish ride Silent, too. with the sort of silence | s A c: —such devils' - vy, Mr. Holliment,” I through what's left of the night,” he that vou never find but in deserted | spawn always do! But the rest'll be Id,m””l “And’ the sight of your|said. 5 3 houses, and a smell about it like nd about, and I'm going hu{ nmk\'n me hungrier.” We \-n”v I good supper—a that I") Bet H‘\ deep vaults under ;“[ run no more risks f(‘n this Inu.hl; “Alway » snac! of some-| hearty supper. we tidied up > some old church. We got at last hey can’t get in here—but, as I said, | thing down her he said, carving| his table, s the plates and . into what was evidently the hall of | outside—ah! Qelicate ces. “Comea 15 handy | things at F butting them| Just Drive It; That’s All > house, abig, kloomy pla “But the police, Mr. Holliment?"| But you got your dinner all right,| all in place ax 1 after that, i Loould Ge re | 1 said. % .m..x.d\ch By At e 2 : > the | ‘And tea, thank you,” 1 replied. than Brolen Ao0or ,,nm Fhabatraets v ®ood and plentiful. The glimp 3 the rest of it? I should think they'll | ma f the ~Admiral ~Hawke be on your premises by now.” brought, them—as you sald he woul 11" he answered. Jim,” he remarked, nodding. “Aye, e n think of would be et the quality products of e? Take a drop more brandy, tion or two from your friend Mr. : to pass | “This i & deserted district, in a way |a civil, obliging fellow, Jim." Becn Its tharoughly aged ~ not " - i1 2 Kk —not many folk about o'| potman there a goo many years. e b ! e eedt oliceman | You don't know ‘this part of the . e- - green or unfinished. Consume b € ¢ ter of an hour ago. J said 1. “But I found your ::drm ‘that light k!~ Besides, what ai sily enough—on a simple di- [ e—there's vayne.” Just the House ¢f h ) a little at that, E us of his carving knife $ e v et that good old barring ¢ o e St baeh ¢ - "for the ;;;«x‘n'.l’l—'l’ D neiate Btabvay. | b . L witl p 1 And—youll excuse 2 . peppemint_ e wonder, was . ' what were vou doing when you a snug and o nite o . h Vo : ki r 5 hed. (e e il g R e S ams to, ok Mr. /NI x it’s BULLY! old stufr ¥ ! s on the Clarence pler, Sanal 1 Jighted awn on al st 1 replied. “I'd been g t s ar the : lime anded hers: Portsmouth for two p of that fire that U reatized that T wa| Sars,near Endediners i onmouin or ny e Y . 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