Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1926, Page 16

16 The Law of the By Louis Trazy SYNOPSIS. Hudson Bas Co’s agent is greatly disturhed by a news item {n an English paper announcing {he coming, marriage of Alistair Spencer Panton to Fileen Grant and referring to the lmul‘es(lvc bridegroom as tha heir presump tive of Lord Oban, whose only son. John Bridgnorth Panton.’ disappeared some years k0 ‘and whose drath is about to' be pre. law. * Parke decides to leave Moose Lake and go back to_England In the meantime Eil London to Alistair_Panton lim Parke, at Moose Lake Immediate!y tor“owardice under fire and drunk and that he ic unable o forgive Eileen 'g0es 0ff 10 Iiverlachtie with AlStair ‘as planned. but tells him that she will not Tive with bim as his wife until the matter ahout John 1x settled to her Ratiafaction Tobn. accompanied by his dog. Spot. ar. rives in England. ~ He carries’a letter of introduction to Mr. Leslic. a lawyer lving At Wimhledon. “The Leslies fnvite him to Ith them and Ke accepts their hos 1a walking throush the streets of Johin ‘meets an o1d army friend Sir Arthur Frensham. who tolls him that he has rvidence that e had been drugged by one non The fatal dav ha refused o Yard. his assistans ford. fudse of the am Fileen reads letters which come from John confirmed in She quarrels ee to John ehtie n Eileen in the village and she r faith {s unshaken at night - Aliatalr walks down to the lake and he 1= hardly out of sight of the house when a police whistle disturbs the nelghbor. hood. Alistair 1= found dead on the boat hoigs pier. and presumahly has been mur. Connington is snspected of the crime and Aftar & long search he is found wounded A4 near death INSTALLMENT LXIIT, A Complex Affair. _(Continued from Yesterday's Star.) GOOD deal of time was con sumed in making temporary arrangements for Conning ton’s disposal. Nominally he was a self-confessed criminal in the cusiody of the police, whereas actually he had to he regarded as a belpless cripple who ought not to be moved for In a bed The inspector be taken fn Malla com’s farmhonse from doctor and hut Betty refused emphatically to per mit of any delay in geitinz the man i rm Dlanket him T omile ear now and yon will il “He think he's t in any eve him into F pain there unti tor and a nurse. there are nn stores or available. He weeks nnee he had heen pit ppliance. iy will un tand.” The inspector zave in. What conld he do? Beity assumed there was no more to @ trolled over to the zronp of m Inverlochtie I think von got tonight nearly all the evidence vou wanted, John.” she 1id. “Conninzton may live. and tell < more. On the other hand, he away in delirinm At any r all those i vou should saon he cleare Sir Regi naid, vour wife tells evervhody vou're Be one, then, and send, your chauffeur b with the ecar and my rlothes. Dor let Mary or about me. 1 1 be here for But I'll try and turn up for kfast. Has ar thought of giving that marvel <omethir to eat?"” Furneaux lea m hook, sighed most wearily. “Will =ome one take me home and turk me into a oft hed?" =ajld dismally head tells me. Miss Rr was feasting on in hetween hewls hreakfasted, lunched a more reg As for me, land--never. It's a wonderful eountry and Inverlochtie wonderful p Tt will live in my memory alway A safe distance of 500 miles, 1 s cerely hope. But 1 feel 1 harely my life drug-soddened sort that She from worry the boat nice keeper Iy than any of us to URELY, there are 100,000 Washingtonians who will giadly send one dollar or more o honor the living and the dead of the 26,000 from the District of Columbia who served fheir country In the armed forces in the Great War. Send to John Poole, Treasurer, District of Colum: hia Memorial Commission, Federal-American Natlonai Bank. S —————— The Hecht Co. The Hecht Co. The Hecht Co.| The Mecht C o. en Grant is married | -| There w Eileen | he | < “physic” 1 shall never forget Seot- | | These souther: | variably that way at first, | before they've heen here a week they are wearing kilts and learning to play the pipes, whereas we poor H landers seldom do either.” For once, Furneanx The little man had r of his tether. Durin: had slept about &, and that .very day he had ridden and walked over some 30 miles of the roughest country which even Invernessshire can show So he let the woman have the word. Being a philosopher in way, he knew she would secure it any- how. Furneaux recovered rather speedily. He had to. When the expedition drifted back to the glen—a slow jour- ney owing to the scurrying sheep, in whose anxieties Spot was deeply inter- ested—both the village and the great house on the hillside were wide awake and vivid of news. Eileen and May did not return to Glen Inver until the mountain tops wei aglow with the erimson and gold of a magical dawn. many things to be told while a quite happy and joyou - man aged to forget that a man was lying cold in death under the same roof But Mr and the repre sentatives of the criminal investigs tion department gave heed to that quite pertinent fa An inquest was | to be opened within a few hot | the newspapers of th already devoting the columns to the lochtie, would pul able dets It ws of keeping back a si on Alistair's death capture. Far too many heard and eves seen the | things which had happened. Al that tha representatives of the law couid do was to devise the hest means of Jet ting the British public know the trath The truth! But truth? ‘That was the ecrux whole matte Alistair was dead, o human nature, being what it is-a compound of hardness born of experi ence and of emntion horn of longings for shadowy bheatitudes is apt to resent any whitewashing of the as silenced. ched the end 48 hours he had SN ) 'l'l"(‘:\' ME INTO A NICE SOFT | living at the expense of the dead Moreover, there was that in the man ner of his death ch cried aloud for the charity cal matter how i of his life, it which moment hi shocked by hi Alistair could he ing when weaith he eould laid them bare friends imely end cious and charm With increasing fford kindly actions, policy mand he chos ' the law had - | not - [readjust their pers on's | vague | THE EVENING even henevolences. | Jority. of those who knew him would ! scout any ill repute attached to his name. Long and earnestly did the officlals debate this aspect of A most complex and difficult affair. Ultimately it was decided that the inquest should be opened formally next morning, ‘and only such evidence recorded as would permit of the burial certificate being issued. Then, the man pot only suspected of the ime but admittedly responsible f it in a degree which et to determine could be brought to trial for weeks, there must be an indefinite adjournment. = That would give everybody time to al views to the new condition: nd,, with the funeral, much of the excitement would vanish. Of course, there need be no great delay in putting John's case bhefore the au- thorities. Departmental action can be none the less effective because it is not accompanied by the blare . of | trumpets. To secure linanimity in {this vital matter John himseif and Mr. his [ Leslie were called into the conclave. In the law, as in life generally, it is ever the first step which counts. It was then nearly 2 o'clock, and Spot was stretched in luxurious re- pose on the drawing room. rug, but {he did not fail to Lft an inquiring | head when Sheldon tapped on the door with a request for the presence of the two men. John called to Eileen, and asked her to tell Spot to lie down. “Spot,” she smile, “lie down He obeyed i | slightest “heed when' his master | the room. not _to good dog!” ing not the left an extraordinary instance ted authority,” commented | Sheldon as the three went downstairs 1- [to the morning room. | 5 “It's not at all remarkable when one s for the peculiar conditions of ryday existence in the northwest,” explained season, when 1 was often neces absent, Spot was taught to obe manner of people, half-bree Indians and the like. He fully under- hat they we eputies. Tt | using to watch his air of hlank indifference i they gave him an order after I had returned. Things may he different with the voung lady now left in charge. 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