Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1926, Page 42

By Louis Tracy SYNOPSIS. Jm Parke. Hudson Bar Company's agent at' Mooss Lake. is greatly disturbed by a slish ‘paper announcing S the heir presumptiv . John_Bi n. ppeared some rears RO death ix about 1o be ‘presumed 8%, Barke dociicd 1o leave Moose Lake #nd %o back to England Arrived at Fdmonton. he tells Mr. Leslie, tha teraporary head of the Hudson Bay Com- Any at he fs John Bridgenorth Panton. ane. Teslie's daughter. 18 & sympathetic <taner to the taie. and father to heln voung Pant: In the meantime. Eilern Grant is marred in London to Alistair Panton _Immediately altar the ceremont #he fianton is alive and is on his E and 10 ¢laim an inheritance ialt him by his sunt._ Yord Oban. John Panton's fa leen that his #on ha rom the army for cowardice under fire and egoess and that he s jinable to forgive ileen koes On to Inverlochtie with as planned, but she tells him that ot live with him as his wife until it John is settled to her satis- dog. Spot. ar- hn, secompanied by his e carries a letter of in- 1! wyer Hy G ¢ triend. Sir o him that he has bad been drugged by he fatal day he refused o B3, sastatd £omd. 'tudse of the laan reads letters which come from John Dl Yaiver sad ta’ Aliealr, and ste s 0 onfirmed in_her belief in his innocence. £Re quarrels bitterly with Alistair. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) INSTALLMENT XXXVI. A Friend's Advice Is Heeded. ONNINGTON scowled at all three, swung on his heel and walked out. At that moment he recovered a little of the Jauntiness of the once smart company-sergeant major. “And now,” cackled Furneaux, “we'll test that liqueur. If it's poor stuff the word for vou, Jim, is ‘Miz- pah,’ which means, ‘The Lord watch between me and thee.’ “It's all right, sir,” sald the barman confidentially. “Here's the bottl Sinking his volce to a whisper, he added, “It's the only one I have in the whole bally place.” wa remain hers much longer?” he said, seeing that the de- tective was not quite =0 eager to con- sume the spirit as he pretended to be. *No,” purred the other. like to appear polite—that is all. You are seelng things as through a glass dark- 1¥, or you would have realized by this time that a zood many people took a chance in admitting us here to- night. You even took one vourself. Connington mizht have pulled that re- volver in his fright “Connington’s face would have been amashed to a pulp if his hand had traveled another couple of inches.” “No doubt. I was wondering whe o | that. |was the nebulous person ! Shattesbury avenue with bean dismissed . 08, . ru‘:n Ofies. would maul him first, you or Spot . . . Wel, if you won't drink we may &s well sample the fresh air e Jim. this is a rotten hole. Clear out, after tonight.” The barman pricked his ears at Possib) too, he did some hard thinking. When the proprietor, s tary, attendants and frequente! the Gamma Delta Club were taken away'in vans by the police a few eve- nings later Jim missing. So, also, known as Tkey. Nor did any Connington or Walker figure in the charge sheet at the police station. “I can't be sen walking down Spot,” an- nounced Furneaux when they stood in the street again. “The appearance of two such attractions on the same stage would be recorded in the news- papers. Do you care to drive me as far as the yard?" “I'l go anywhere to escape from this locality,” said John, in his uncom- promising way. The detective hailed a passing taxi, and they got in. “Don’t be unfair to Soho,” he sald, after nodding casually to a nonde- script pipe smoker leaning against a corner lamp standard. “Its palaces have become slums, but it claims a glorious past. Even yet it may be re- deemed by its restaurants. Places like Pucci's are wholesome germs of new |life.” , but left his glass un- His hearer, however, was not to be begulled by such fantasies. “I feel 1 want to speak plainly, Mr. Furneaux,” he hegan. “Go right ahead! That is the ortho dox opening for many a foolish speech. Look at Spot! He never says a word—but does he err in judgment? Didn’t he size up Conningfon in one sniff “That is exactly my point. What possible reasen is there why I should remain in London? What purpose have I served by meeting Conning- ton? TYou and others have been ex- traordinarily kind, but I tell you can- didly T have never seen any prospect of upsettin L.C Smith the finding of the court- ‘' THE ' EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, martial, and Connington's attitude to- | night only confirmed my opinion.” “Go on! I like to hear you talk.' “Am [ being ‘foolish,’ to use your own word?" “O, no. Seventy and seven years in the wilderness would not change your mentality, which is that of the army officer plus the country gentle- man. Spot and I sense a rogue at the first whiff. You cannot do that, ner ever will. For heaven's sake, get Mr. Leslle to tle up vour hundred thou- sand in such wise that you yourself will never be able to touch more than the accrued interest, or some smooth- tongued rascal, more likely an adven. turess, will wheedle the lot out of you i Now, I suppose you want me to dircourse and persuade that stiff Scottish neck of yours to hend meekly under the yoke. I'll do nothing of the sort. Your case has complexities which appeal, so I'm not going to drop-it. But I'll give you a word of advice. You have just bought a two- seater car, you say. Why don't you and Spot hop into it for a fortnight's tour? England 1s quite beautiful, I'm told. Naturally, I never see a genuine landscape, be ise in my rare trips “HOW LONG WILL YOU BE AWAY, JOHN?" out of London my mind is occupied with something of more immediate tm- | portance than the loveliness of the | Thames Valley or the blended tints of |the New Forest . . . Well, here we are at the ‘Yard.” Don't come in. | 1t would give you the pip. There are times when my brain reels at the mere sight of it, yet I resemble those poor wretches at the Gamma Delta Club, who when driven out from its tamiliar gloom will seek another precisely similar den of iniquity. It's a disease, of which the symptoms vary. They | hanker after drugs and crime. T can't even pass a country police statien Cleans T er Type with Carbona. ‘.'.'."..:::y"l:i and dust that ‘type. Makes writin | tstantly” without wiping. 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They counted on some action on his part that would betray a guilty con- science. If he had wilfully encom- John Panton’s rut= he would see the uplifted hand of remorseless retribution n the alliance between his victim afd the . 1. D. In literal fact. Connington did hehave like a viclous-minded criminal in his treat D. C. TUESDAY, ment of a former superior. Suppose the procedure was reversed? Suppose John had met a disgraced Connington in Canada—a reliable and experienced non-commissioned officer utterly brok- enfor one lapse—would he have spurn- ed and insuited him? Weigh the two men against each other in that bal- ance, and John's end of the scale fell with a clang. Panton missed a good deal, if not all of this. Nevertheless, the notion of an uncharted run in the car through rural England struck home. Spot and he would have the time of their lives. They could halt where they liked and live' as they llked. Before they veached Wimbledon the acheme was decided on. 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