Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1925, Page 22

TheAstonishing Adventure of Jane Smith _(Continued from Yesterday's Star.) About feet from where she stood, and exactly in her path, was the hiack mouth of an uncovered well. Jane looked at it, and quite suddenly, she had no idea how, found herself sitting on the floor with hot wax running down her hand from the guttering candle. It seemed to be quite a little time before she could make of walking steadily enough to skirt the well. She went by it at last with averted hewd and fingers that, regardiess of slime, clung to the wall. As ran she sudder expected, the passage into the main corrido the headland exit, and unknown ground. round to the slope downhill high and looked ¥ step, but there were no more She quickened her pace al- most to a run dreadful thought came bher Ember might fol- low Molioy and more. Finally there were steps smooth, worn and damp, that down, and down, and down. At t ot the steps a vard or two uliarly slimy passage, and then < stone wail. Obviously Jane rived ookeéd at the wall presen blan on swung nd began to 1d her cand that Th stone wall, and ness She she looked down, she to the left. and she looked to the right, she gazed.at the ceiling and she gazed at-the floor. Nowhere was there any sign of cateh, a knob. a spring. or a lever. Ther t be one. but wheré was it She tap the wall and stamped or the floor, but with no .result. ..The door In the paneling opened from In- side with an ordinary handle. 8hc had not been close enough to Lady Heritage to see what she did to piv: the stone behind the Bemch on the headland. In any case, this exit might have been quite differently planned A most dreadful sense of discour- agement came over her. To have £oL so far. to have heem, &s It Were, Ralfway to safety and-Henry, and to have to turn back ‘again! Then for the first time 3t occurred to her that, even If she had got and got away, shé had no and no hat. She looked down maroon_ slippers and pletured herself descending ticketless upon & London platform in hedrdam slippers | whose original color was almost ob. scured by green slime. Jane wanted to lgugh. and wanted to cry. She.did not know which she wanted most, but presently &he found that the te@rs were running down her face. Shy Kept winking them away, because it' s not at all easy to climb slippery’ stone steps by the light of a guftéring candle if your eyves keep filling with tears. The tears magnified the candle flame and sometimes made it look like two or three little flames, which was dreadfully confusing. Jane stood still, wiped her eves with.determined en- ergy, and then climbed up more steps and back along the way that she had come. At the headland exit she stood still, taking breath and theught. Nothifg would induce her to pass that well again. She would keéep to the main pessage, -and, horrid thought, she would have to put out her light in case Ember should suddenly emerge from the side passage. Thinking about things makes them worse, not better,” said Jane to her- self. t's perfectly, .beastly, but, then, all perfectly beastly.” She blew out the candle and moved slowly forward 1t scemed ages before.she came past the opening where she had rum into Henry to the foot of the steps. She Went up three steps, raised her foot to take the fourth and felt a hardly perceptible check. Iustantly she drew back a shade, set her foot down beside the other, and put out & tenta- tive, groping hand. There was a thread of cotton stretched from wall to wall at the level of her waist. If her movements had been less gentle, ghe would have brushed tiirough it without noticing. Then, as she stood there thinking, the thread between her fingers, something else came to her. The last yard of passage just at the stair foot had felt different— dry, gritty. Jane descended the three steps backward. and, crouching on the bot- tom one, put down her hand and felt the floor of the passage. There was sand on it, dry sand, which had no been there when she came down, and in the dry sand her footprints would be clearly marked. Obviously, Mr. Ember had his suspicions and his methods of verifying them. “Though what on earth he'd make of cork soles 1 don't know.” said Jane. She decided not to worry him with this problem. It was horribly dangerous, but she must have a light. She set her can- dle end on the step above her and struck a match. It made a noise like a squib and went out. She struck another and got the candle lighted. The sand was vellow sand off the beach, but nice and dry. Two and @ half of het footprints showed plainiy on its smooth surface. Jane leaned forward and smoothed them out Then she blew out her candle anc felt safer. Feeling for the thread of cotton, she crawled beneath it, thei very, very slowly up the rest of the steps, her hand before her all the way till she came to the door In the paneling. through into the hall. The gray, uncertain light was fil- tering into, it. Everything looked strange and cold. Jane closed the door, and never knew that a loose strend of cotton had fallen as she passed. Neither did she know that at that very moment Jeffrey Ember was standing by the open well mouth, the ray from his powerful electric torch focused upon a little patch of candle grease. CHAPTER XXIL Anthony Luttrell caught a slow local train at Withstead—the sort of train that serves littie country places all over England. It dawdled slowly from station to station, sometimes taking what appeared to be an un- necessary rest at a signal box as well It finally reached Maxton 10 minute: Jate, thereby missing the London ex press and leaving Anthony Luttrell with a two-hour walit Waiting just at present was about as congenial an occupation as being racked. He walked up and down with a dragging. restless step, and tried unsucceesfully to shut off his tor- turing thoughts behind a safety cur- tain. The time dragged intolerably. Presently he ‘left tire platform and went up on to-the bridge which ran from one side of the statlon to the other. Here he began his pacing again, stopping every now and then to watch & traln come in or a train &0 out. From the bridge one could see all the platforms. When an express rushed through, the whole structure shook and clouds Zaf white steam blotted out every- thing. It was when the steam was clearing away and the roar of the receding train was dying dewn that Anthony noticed another local run- ning in to the Withstead platform. o bent over the rail and watched the passengers get out-—just a handful. There was a young woman with two children, two farmers, three or four nondescript women. and a big man with a sult case. Anthony'looked at the big man and went on looking at bim. Something about him secmed passage lopad more | d @ front of| she | She opened it and slipped By PATRICIA WENTWORTH (Copyright, 1925, by Small, Maynard & Co.) vaguely familiar. along ‘the platform and began to mount the steps that led up to the bridge. Half way up he put down his suit case, took off his hat for a mo- ment, as if to cool himself, and stood there looking up. Then he replaced bes hat, shifted the suit case to the other hand, and came up the rest of the steps. He seemed hot He passed Anthony and went down the steps on to the London platform. | Anthony followed him When the big man stood still and looked up elght years were suddenly wiped out. Memory is a queer thing and plays queer tricks. What An- memory did was to set-him down in the year 1912 in the gallery of a hall in Chicago. There was a packed and rather vocifesous audi- ence. There was a big man on the | platform—a big man who seemed hot | His speech was, in fact, of a sufii- | ciently infammatory nature to make | any one feel hot. It breathed fire an: | 1ts rolling eloquence must have |involved a good deal of physical ex- | ion. Suddenly, affer a period, the ker stopped and look up at the ery for applause. It came like a veritable cycione m The man came The remembered th s name was Mollo Molloy had come from Withstead, }occurred to Anthonv that his destina- | Hion would probably be of interest. | “The Lendon train was due in 10 winutes. When it came in Molloy got into a third-class carriage and An- thony followed his example, It was at 7:30 on Sunday morning | that Mrs. March's cook, who was sweeping the hall, was given what he afterward described as a turn by be arrival of an odd-looking man | who would give no name and insisted | |on seeing her master. | “Awful he looked with that ‘orrid | | sear and his ‘air that wild, and nct tving me a chance to shut thé door in his face, fer he pushes in the mo- ment I got it open—that's what give me the worst turn ofs all—and \\'llks1 Into the dining room as bold as bras: and says, ‘I want to see Capt. March— and be quick, please. " | When Heriry came tnto the dining | {room he shut the door behind h!m‘ very quickly and looked as if he also | had had a turn. | “Gred Lord, | pened?” he said. “Nothing,” said Anthony, with non- chalance. “Then, In Heaven's name, why are | vou here?” Tony, what's - hap- | | “Im through, that's alL You can't Isay T didn't glve notice.” “It's not a question of what 1 it's what Piggy'll say.” “Oh, I've got a sop for Pigey. Pve| been doing the faithful sleuth. I've trailed a man from Withstead to a highly genteel hoarding house in South Kensington, and as 1 last saw the gentisman addressing an I. W. W meeting in Chicago. 1 imagine Pigey might be interested.” “Who was {t?” said Henry quickly. “Molloy. “You're su “Absolutely. { *Good man! You're in luck. Mol- | loy, -under the interesting alias 'of| | Bernier. has just been - selling the-| | government Forfnula ‘A’ He was trailed over here with the swag and | then lost sight of. For dead cert he's been to Luttrell Marches by the | back way and seen Ember. | Anthony turned away. “There's ‘the devil there,” he &aid. “No, no, the girl's all right. This is something T ought to have told you when you were down. I ought to have told you the whole thing. 1 couldn’t bring myself to." it down, Tony. What is it?" “No, I'can’t sit.”. He walked to the window and stood there, looking out. His hands made restless movements. He spoke, keeping his back to Henry, | “You didn’t go through all the pas: | sages? | o7 to pay down going to tonight.” “I ought to have told you. The big| place under the terrace, You know— they've turned it into a laboratory. Molloy may have,beeh wofking there, | for all T know. He had the name of | an expert chemist.” “Yes. Go on.” You'd have found it vourself to- | night, but I couldn’t let you go blun- | dering in unwarned. Ember might be |1l for THE EVENING neck in whatever secret enlerprl'el was being developed at Luttrell | Marches. He remembered the passion | in her voice when she said, “I should like to smash it all” and he remem- bered how she had sung, “Would .we not shatter it to bits, and then remold it nearer to tne heart's desire?’ Whatever the thing was, he belleved | she was in it up to her neck. So he was silent, and Anthony was grateful tor his silenc The silence was broken by a tap- ping and a rustling and the turning of a handle. The door opened very abruptly and Mrs. de Luttrelle March | made a precipitous entrance. She wore a pink sik neglige and a bou- doir cap embroidered in forget-me- nots, also an expression of extreme terror--the cook’s description of their early visitor having prepared her to find’ Henry's corpse stretched upon the hearth rug. When & living and annoved Henry confronted her, she clung to his arm and gazed round- d at the lon, thin man who h A THREE DAYS' | " COUGH IS YOUR | Chronic coughs and persistent | colds lead to scrious lung trouble. 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H Creomulsion is guaranteed ul.lhctnv:{ fo the treatment of chronic conghs and colds, bronchial - asthma, catarrhal bron- | chitls and other forms of throat and lung | diseases, and is excellent for bu.lding up | | the ‘sysfem ufter colds or the Su. Money | refunded if any cough or cold. no nuatier | of how long standing, is not relicved after | taking accord ng rections. Ask your | | druggist. Creonulsion Co., Atianta | | Aavertinem: . STAR, swung around at her entrance. Un- certainty succeeded fear. Henry was saying, “Do go back to your rpom, mother,” but it is doubtful whether ghe heard him. Gradually her grasp of his arm re- eyebrows that accompanled it brought a sort of broken gasp to Mrs. March's lips. She put out her hand, touched his coat sleeve with her finger tips, and said: “Anthony—it's Anthony—oh, Henry, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1925 a ghost,” sald \Anthony in his driest voice. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) Familiar Signs. From the London Telegraph. On his tour of the district an spector of the city high schools came ~ DANGER SIGNAL| ation ||! or Doesn’t hurt one bit! Drop a little “Freezone” on an aching cora, in- stantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fin- there—any one might be there. It's damnable, Henry, but I believe she's | up to her meck in it | Henry was silent. There seemed mi be nothing to say. He also believed | that Raymond Heritage was up to her | | | (Ch FleZeFior s CASTORIA MOTHER:— Fletcher’s Castoria is especially prepared to relieve Infants in arms and Children.all ages of Constipa- tion, Flatulency, Wind Colic To avoid imitations, Food; giving hcalthy‘ and natural sleep. fook for the signature of M—Ma gers. * Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of “Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the foot | calluses. without soreness or irritation. | and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Storuach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Absolutely H:rmkt:‘-zl Opiates. Physicians everywhere recommend it. laxed. She walked slowly across the room and stared with horrified amaze- ment at Anthony. He looked over her head at Henry, shrugged his shoulders just percepti- bly, and made as if to turn back to the window again. it's Anthony!” tion of the name, chairs burst into tears. she sobbed. “It's all right, Aunt Rosa. Either that shrug the faintly saroastic lift of the She backed a little at each repeti- looked wildly around, and sinking on to the nearest “Henry—oh, please, somebody speak!” I'm not before a class of girls.” He wrote upon the blackboard “L Then peering over the cims of his spec- tacles at a good-looking girl in the first row, he asked: roung lady, I'd [teli me what that | “Love ana kisse! Just 100 years ago (1825) the first a labor unien attempted in Boston also| resulted in the first association of employers. 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