Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1925, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ( ONCE UPON A TIME MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1925. e sess0000s THE WRATH TO COME One of the Best 1 Storie: -11: . T * By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Copyright. by Little. Brown & Co.) 0000000005000t 0 O 00 b0 ‘ontinued from Yesterday's Star.) | " |[the New York now. You know the Not precisely that. Where are|power at the back of the greater part You dining?” | of our press. They want to make bad | “With 2 oo coing | Plood Vetween Great Britain and this | ith you, anywhere. I was golng| country. You can guess why. They're up to the Lotos Club. Stoneham gen-|at it already, and the British press, erally drops in there. | quite naturally, is beginning to take it “I'm tired,” Hodson confessed. “I'd up. Use all your influence with | Hke to hear so and look .,(’ rd Yeovil. ‘Tell him the truth Some pretty women. ¥ go round him to take you to see his own and have a bath and chanze and cail | big newspaper people and try to keep | for ou in half an hour. We'll get the feeling down. Beg him to dis- corner table at Sherry's. I think, as|regard any attacks upon him person- we've saving empires, we can afford | either before he comes or di- | ) some terrapin and bottle of | rectly he lands. It's all part of the B S e e e W I Sespaxne 2 " jeame. Tewill sfl§e over, tall him, in . HEN NOON CAME GRETEL SHARED HER BREAD HANSEL PUT HIS ARM AROUND KIS SISTER WOOD HAD BEEN HUNGRY TOO AND HAD EATEN D EAT BUT THE BERRIES THAT GREW IN THE R o i Tave. o] What youl ‘caw th'tby froiible WJTPE HANSEL WHO HAD SCATTERED HIS SHARE | | ANDTOLD HER NOT TO FEAR FOR WHEN THE ALL THE CRUMBS AND THOUGH THE CHILOREN | |WOOD.ON THE THIRD DAY AS THE MIDDAY SUN o ”Y‘,“.k":'- 4 i o FEp areainibi RILY Grant. aromised ALONG THE ROAD, NO ONE CAME TO FETCHTHE| | MOON ROSE THEY WOULD FOLLOW THE TRAVELLED ALL NIGHT LONG ANO THE NEXT WAS SHINING BRIGHTLY THEY SAW A SNOW 1 i (GO Aoy 16 | VT tmed ik hiave ' osttain amount of POOR CHILDREN SOASTHE EVENING- CRUMBS AND 50 FIND THEIRWAY HOME. DAY YOO THEY COULDN'T FIND THEIR FATHER'S WHITE BIRD SINGING SO SWEETLY THAT nswer, “Youll be the | influence with Lord Yeovil” | SHADOWS FELL THEY WENT TO SLEEP. e g Al i AT WHITE BIRD SINGING S0 & n the wheel for the next | “That's why we're sending vou ten days. You won't miss anything| One reason, at any r Then— here, either. I'm gathering up some | Hullo! another farewell I see. wonderful threads, but 1 am doing it| Why farewell”™ Grant as . look- silently T'll come round in half an 2 curiously t the newc hour I'm on your floor. { “I hadn’t come to that nelius )f restlessness seized Grant.|Blunn is sailing for Enziar sake do scent. He'll probably come back by | these people I honestly believe 1|fact of it is, § tery, that ridicule suggestive. The two great steel men, | faith in Blunn's or; tion If he | beamed upon Grant and shook hands your steamer ought to have raided his private room |is a much more powerful factor in | Pottinger, the new editor of the New | considered your presence in England | with Hodson cordially, reminding hin he takir 1+ casket with him, 1| with a dozen picked men, broken open | our daily lives than we are willing | York: Admiral Purvin—he's all right | likely to prove inconvenient, I think |of a previous meeting at Washington »mor- | wonder,” Grant reflected his safe and casket and shot myself | to acknowledge. A great many men | but inclined to be talkative—and Doc- | it's very doubtful whether you would am giving a little farewell party hiz servant the necessary |ToW. He'll be your fellow-passenger.” | “I may consider some day.”|if I found nothing. I believe it was | are susceptible to ridicule who are |tor Sinclair Forbes, the great Jewish | reach the steamer in time. Now he's | he announced. *I have decided, rath viewed the travel man-| [ Where the devil is he off to? Hodson said, deliberately, that |a fair risk. Honestly, Grant, it wasn't | immune to fear. educationalist. A respectable party, |seen us. Wave vour hand, Slattery.|er at the last moment, o accept an - in the hotel and secured the best | “A dozen of the most astute brains |within the last few hours I have|that I funked it. It was just because | “All the same,” Grant proposed a | but a dash of the Teuton about most | Play his game. Love your enemies | invitation to visit London possible on the in the States, besides my own. have | made the mistake of my life.|[ knew all the time how Cornelius |little doggedly. “glve me a dozen men |of them. A farewell party that|on the surface. He glad to see the Didn’t 1 once hear vou say tha tried to solve that quest Hodson | That girl's sper to you was prob- | Blunn would have laughed at me if [and a plan of campaign and I'll run [amounted to anything would have | people you wish were at the bottom | vou seldom visited England?" Gran 1o think deliberately, opened up the | replied t present 1 frankly | ably the vital part of the thing had been a fake. how the ' the risk | been given in his rooms. By the |of the sea. It's a great game as |queried closed ch ers in his mind, wel.|@dmit that we don't know. I e a|had to te I honestly department would have laughed at me, | As a last resource,” Hodson de. | way, Grant, if you speak to Blunn on | Blunn plays it. How he must hate | comed reflection and memory. He|theory. He's gettin » shaken |the key to the whole c how the press would have poked fun, | clared, “it Is always open to us. Per-|the way out, don't tell him vou're|to see us together. And vet. behold! | would see Susan. He would find out |UP in New Yo ot exactly and there is a great conspirac: and the novelists pointed to me in | sonally, I have some hopes in other | sailing tomorrow. I've arranged for | A great honor is coming to us.” | what her silence really meant, what | PUt nervy. He wants to re-establish | T'll tell you that—is in that casket, | triumph as one who carried the skein | directions. Now, let us see whom |you to be quarter of an hour late. Blunn had risen to his feet, with | Leaves of all species of oaks are she thonght or believed about him.|Confidence. There's a dinner of ¢ side by side, no doubt in affectionate | of fancy farther even than their |our friend, Cornelius Blunn, is enter- | They'll put the gangway down again |a word of excuse to his guests, and | poisonous when forming the sole ood In a sense. it was all very hopeless, Man bankers in London at which he | communion, with that letter from old ginative brains had ventured. The ' taining. H'm! A respectable lot but | for you. I'm beginning to have great | came across the room to them. He |of animals He had been forced into an accursed | i Advertised to take the chair. He|man Blunn, the present man's father, 0 . £ 'ane® position. He scarcely knew even now |imagines that his attendance at that | which we know he always carries with | Washington’s Fastest commodation steamer. Then he permitted himself (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) how fo appraise it. And vet the big | {4nction just now will put us off the | him. They'll risk a lot for sentiment. | thing remained u d and still | emed to tower over everything else | ~—he loved Susan here was not a | « grain of affection in his heart for gl else. She was his only possible | Was he so much less fit other of the young | \ she was su ded? | He tried to judge himself and his po- } sition fairly The trouble was that | it could never be represented to any one else in the same manner. He re-| membered and brooded with gloomy insistence over that slight vein of | prudery in Susan, something alto- | gether unconnected with the r- row ways or any unduly censorious attitude toward life, which sel- | dom i fact expressed itself in speech, but was more a part of her- self, a sort of instinctive and super- cilious shrinking from the small | licenses of a world which she never judged in words. Perhaps he 1| fallen forever in her esteem: pe-haps the one sin recorded against him wonld have cost him already what he had sometimes fancied that he had ‘won. Now that he was going to see her so soon, he wondered how he had been content to wait to know the truth Next Thursday he would be in London. It was the height of the yseason and vould certainly be there. Next or ¥ they might me He told himself that he would know in the first ten seconds whether his disaster had been irre- deemable The two men dined at Sherry’s in a retired corner. They dined. as Grant complained, like profiteers and gourmands. Hodson ordered caviare and lobster Newburg, terrapin, saddle of lamb, asparagus and chan “A dis; ceful meal,” clared, as he sipped his cocktail. you really think we shall get through " Growing Department Store “Of course we shall,” Hodson laughed. “To tell you the truth I've scarcely eaten anything for two day: They were a tough lot on the trains to Washington and back. I can man-| better in the cities What do you mean?” panion asked, curiously. “Well, the same powers that mur-| dered that poor girl and translated it | into suicide were out for mi son explained. “If they had known | that it was you who started me off, | 1 expect you'd be in the same position. | My own little crowd are pretty useful, | though. And Poynter's men are wonderful. There are two of them at The Dobbs Garland Snap down the brim in front so you can see “Bucky” knock a homer Tuesday. 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