Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1925, Page 17

- plated a golden water l1ly. TheAstonishingAdventure of Jane Smith By PATRICIA WENTWORTH. (Copyright, 1025, by Small, MayoarG & Co.) CHAPTER I The dining room of Molloy's flat had not been built to recelve 25 Buests, but the delegates of 25 afli- ated organizations had been crowded into it. The unshaded electric light glared down upon men of many types and nationalities. It did not flatter them. The air was heavy with the smoke ©of bad tobacco and the fumes of & very indifferent gas fire. There was a table in the middle of the room and some dozen of the men were seated at it. The rest stood in groups, or leancd against the walls. Of the four who formed the Inner Council three were present. Most of the delegates had expected that the head of the council, the head of the federated organizations, that mys- terious Number One whom they all knew by reputation and yet had never seen in the flesh, would be present in person to take the chair. But the delegates who had enter- tained this expectation were doomed o disappointment. Once again Num- ber One's authority had been dele- Eated to the other three members of the council. Of these, Number Threa was Molloy, the big, handsome Irish- man who rented the flat. He sat fac- ing the door, a fine figure of a man in the late 40's. Number Two teaned forward over the fire, warm- ing his hands, his pale, intellectual face expressionless. his eyes veiled Belcovitch, who was Number Four, was on his feet speaking. They were large, bony feet, in boots which had most noticeably not been made for him. He spoke fluently, but with a heavy foreign accent “Propaganda,” he sald, and laughed; he had a very unpleasant “propaganda is what you call rot, rubbish, damn nonsense. What elso have wo been about for years— no, generations—and where are we today?” Number Two drew his chair closer to the fire with an impatient jerk. Number Four's oratory bored him Stiff. The room was cold. This gas fire was like all gas fires. He pulled his fur coat together and spoke sharply: “Molloy, this room's most infer- nally cold, and where in the world @oes the draught come from?" “Propaganda is dead,” said Num- ber Four. He looKed over his shoul- der with dislike at Number Two, and mopped his brow with a dirty hand- kerchief. Molloy, just opposite him, turned a little and laughed. “You bring the cold with you, Num- ber Two,” he said. “Here's Number Four as hot as his own speeches. You've got all the fire, and the door's shut, and a screen in front of it, 8o what more do you want?” “Propaganda is dead” repeated Number Four. He stood with his back to the door. Only the top panel of it showed above the black screen which had been drawn across it. The screen had four leaves. On each leaf a golden stork on one leg contem- The light shone on the golden birds and the golden flowers. Number Four thrust his handker- chief back into his pocket and rapped sharply on the table. It was covered with a red cloth which had seen bet- ter days. Number Fourteen had up- Set the Ink only a few moments be- fore and a greenish-purple patch was still spreading amlidst the crimson. Belcovitch leaned forward, both his hands on the table, his raucous voice brought to a dead level. “Instead of propaganda, what?” he said. “In- &tead of building here, teaching there, what?. That is what I'm here tonight to tell you. Tomorrow you all go to your own places, each to his post; but before you go, I am authorized to prepare you for what is to come. It will not be today, but it may be tomorrow, or it may not be- for many tomorrows yet. One final stage is lacking, but in essen- tlals the process is complete. Propa- ganda is dead, because we no longer need propaganda. Comrades’—his volce sank a little—"there are enough of us. Every city in the world has its quota. What the process will ef- fect’—he paused, looked around, caught Number Two's slightly sar- donic expression, and struck the table with his open hand—"“what the proc- ess will effect is this,” he cried—"in one word, annihilation of the whole Fuman race! Only our organization will be left. “Now, what T am instructed to tell vou Is this"—he spoke evenly, swift- ly, statement following statement— never had the attention of an audli- ence been o fully his: and then sud- denly the thread was broken. With a loud grating soumd, Number Fifteen, sitting next to Molloy, pushed his chair back and sprang to his feet “The door!” he shouted. “The door!” Every man in the room looked where Fifteen was looking. Above the water lilies and the storks, Where the top panel of the door had shown, there was a dark, empty space. The door was oben. Number Four whipped out a re- volver and dragged the screen away. The door was open, and in the door- way stood a girl in her nightdress. Her hands were stretched out, as If she were feeling her way. Her eves, of a greenish hazel in color, were widely opened and had a dazed ex- pression. Her brown halr hung in two neat plaits. Her feet were bare, Molloy pushed forward quickly. “Well, there, if that wasn't the start of our lives,” he said, “and no reason for it when all's sald and done. It's my daughter Renata, comrades, and she's walking in her Now, I'll just take her back er room and be with you again.” minute, I think, Moll sald Number Two. He got up slowly out of his chair and came across to where the girl stood motionless, blinking at the light. “I said there was a most infernal draught. Will you come in, Miss Molloy?” he added politely, and took the girl by the hand. She vielded to his touch, and came inta the room, shivering a little. Some one shut the door. Molloy, shrugging his shoulders, pulled the crimson cloth from the table and wrapped it about his daughter. The ink-soaked patch came upon her bare shoulder, 'and she.cried out, cast a wild look at the strange and terrifying faces about her and burst into a flood of tears. Molloy, standing behind her, looked around as she had looked, and his face darkened. Number Four had his back against the door, and his revolver in his hand. There was only one face in the whole circle that was not stamped with suspiclon and fear, and behind the fear and the suspicion there was something icy, something ruthless. Number Tw. with a slightly bored expression, was feeling in his waistcoat pocket. He produced a small glass bottle, ex- tracted from it a tiny pellet, and proceeded to dissolva it in the glass of water which had stood neglected mber Four's right hand. ow, Miss Molloy,” he said, but Molloy caught him the wrist. ““What the devil—-" he stammered, and Number Two laughed. “My dear Molloy,” he said, “how crude! You might know me better than that.” He held the glass to Renata’s lips, and she took it and drank. When she had set down the glass, she felt her way to a chalr and leaned back With closed eves. The room seemed to whirl about her. A confusion of sound was in her ears, loud, angry, Wwith sentences that came and went. “If she heard,”—then another—"How long was she there? Some one must have seen the door open.” “Who did, then?” Then in the harshest voice of all, “I don't care if she's Molloy's daughter fifty times over, if she heard what Four said about The Process, she must go." Go where? > There was something cold and wet touching her shoulder. The cold seemed to/spread all over her. Now her father was speaking. She had never heard his voice quite like that before. And now the man in the fur coat, the one who had given her the glass of water: “Yes, certainly, elimination 1t it is necessary. We're all agreed about that. But let us make sure.” His voice had quite a gentle sound, but Renata’s heart began to beat with great thuds. “Miss Molloy,"—he was speaking to her now, and she opened her eyes and looked at him. His face was of a clear, even pallor. His eyes, light blue and without noticeable lashes, looked straight into hers. The veil was gone from them. They held a terrifying Intelligence. Renata sat up. The crowd of men had cleared away. She, and her father, and the man In the fur coat were in an angle formed by the table and the black screen, which had been drawn close around them. Her father sat between her and the fire. His head was turned away, and he drummed incessantly on the table with the fingers of his right hand. Beyond the screen Renata could hear movements, and it came to her that the other men wers there waiting. The man in the fur coat spoke to WMoodward & Lothrop “Now this is what I'call a common-sense shoe” ? Spoken by a real, old-fashioned shoemaker who makes shoes to measure, to a man who wears Glove- Grip Shoes: “I couldn’t make you a better-fitting pair of ghoes myself. These Glove-Grip Shoes of yours fit perfectly because they are cut to follow the lines of the foot.” ‘The shoemaker was right. There is no magic secret about Arnold Glove-Grip Shoes. They are made as any shoe ought to be made. But no other shoe is like them be- . cause the Glove-Grip feature is patented. Lacing a Glove- Grip Shoe lifts up the arch \ instead of pressing it down, her again. His voice was pleasant and cultivated, his manner reassur- ing. . “You are better now? Please don't be frightened. I am a doctor; your father will tell you that. Being wakened. suddenly like that gave you a shock, but you are better mow.” “Yes,” sald Renata. She wished that her heart would stop beating so hard, and she wished that the man in the fur coat would stop looking . Miss Renata, T am your doc- tor, you know, and 1 want YBU%O answer just a few questions. You heve walked in your sleep before?” “Yes,” said Renata—"oh, yes." “Often?" A “What was the first time?" “I think—I think 1 was five years old. They found me in the garden.” Molloy let out a great breath of relief. It she had forgotten, if her account had differed from his—well, well, their luck was in. There was a whispering from be- hind the screen. Number Two frowned “And the last time?” “It was at school. I walked into another dormitory and frightened the girls.” The man in the fur coat nodded “So vour father said.” And for a moment Molloy stared over his shoul- der at him. “And tonight? Do you dream on these occasions?’ Renata was reassured. Every moment it was more like an ordinary visit to a doctor. She had been asked all these questions so often Her voice no longer trembled as she answered. “Yes, T dream. I walk| in my sleep because of the dream; now tonight “Yes, tonight?” “1 dreamt 1 was back at school and T thought I heard talking in the | next dormitory. You know we are not allowed to talk, and I am—I mean I was a prefect. So I got up, and went to see what was the matter, and some one pulled the screen away, and there was such a ligt, and such a noise.” She put out a shaking hand, and Number Two patted it kindly. “Very startling for you,” he sald “So you opened the door and came in and heard us all talking. Can you tell me what was being sald?’ His hand was on Renata's wrist, and he | felt the pulses leap. She spoke a | shade too quickly: “I don't know.” “Perhaps I can help_.you. Your father, you know, trave! for a firm of chemists, a firm in which I and my friends are also interested. We were discussing a new anlline dye which we hope will capture the markets of the world. Now did you hear that word—aniline—or anything | like it? You see I want to find out just what woke vou. What tiresome | Questions we doctors ask, don't we?” He smiled, and Renata tried to col- leet her thoughts. They were in great confusion (Continued In Tomorrow's Star.) Vatican Pact With Poland Signed. ROME, February 11.—A concordat between the holy see and Poland was signed at the Vatican yesterday. e A fox can scent a man a quarter of a mile away. R r— That’s Why You’re Tired —Out of Sorts — Have No Appetite Your Liver Is Sluggish CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS will help put you right in a few days. They act quickly though gently and give nature a chance to renew your health. Correct — the immediate effects of constipa- tion, relicve biliousness, indigestion and sick headache. Small Pill—Small Doase—Small Price \ With all the comfort in Glove-Grip Shoes, there is no sacrifice of good looks. 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