Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1928, Page 29

JVENING STAR. WASHINGTO D. C. THURSDAY. JANUARY 1928 Miss Broun of X.Y. | By E. Phillips Oppenheim. Covyright. 1927, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 1 have a gift of understanding pean. and before this ‘Miss Edith Brown. pretity 'IH\I\erhe ¢ the Oriental mind. srhose, life has held littie hesond the dull ro fine ot everyiay troin. aite down on a quiet doorstep to get her bearings when she finds Tersalf Jost in a dense fog = Snddeniy the foor opens and a man, evidently & house servant, confronts her and as he catches wight of her portable typewriter case. aska her whethe: she will come in and take some tation. And his manner indicates that the OB 8 0fie Hot Without adventiire —probably 1.k Eagerly welcoming a peep into the land of romance. for which her whole life has been starving, Miss Brown steps acro: the threshold and within 3 ‘man suffe ing from a serions wound. who turns out to ba Col. Dossiter. renowned explore: o i Tat xtraordinary story to her—but only ‘warning that her whole life may be by her tak down th notes—a ry of world adventure. intrigue and con- racy the portent of which handiy pene- tes her consciousness before the last note et down Then Col. Dessiter. hia story calmly announces that he is going . (Gontinued from Yesterday's Star) T work. We kept that always in the foreground. What people have never known, what even now only you and vears all these activities have ‘been greater work She tapped her satchiel reverentiy “It is not finished,” she reminded him ‘But 1 am, alive o joined. “There isn't world in which our lished where their a are mot warned against me. [ shall never again be able to wander across Europe fat will. Even here —in London —well dead.” e re a city in the 1emies are estab er 1 ected TALLM *All the same,” Miss Brown insisted. | ought to have a doctor and vou | st remember that as yet you hav given me no instructions. | Ring the bell, please,” he enjoined obeved. and the man servant who had let her in entered. i Some brandy for me, and a glass of port aud some biscuits. for the! young lady,” he directed i The Mystery. she knew him bette to refuse A= a matter of fact, though "she was conscious of no fatigue, she was glad of the wine. He moved himself a little and rested upon | his ow. look: at her “What do you think of all that” he asked, motioning toward the satchel. She touched her forehead with her Alveady tha a vet, I can't think about it.” she | ed. "It is all here—every sen 1 feel that it is going to live with me for the rest of my life.” He nodded approvingly. { I am not a braggart,” he said, “but | eve is no other man who has lived wough what 1 have lived through. who has seen the things I have seen, #nd come back alive. They've got me | now, though. 1 made one slip in War-| saw, of all places. I lost my temper. You must never give way to any hu- man feeling, Miss Brown. when you're g your life in your hands, and the lives of other people.” | The ‘wine was brought. He sipped | his brandy meditatively; she drank half a glassful of her port at a gulp. So you smelt the gunpowder?” he asked abruptly. I smelt it dis room.” “'Observant.” he remarked approv- ingly. “As a matter of fact, though, + was 1 who shot him, not he me His long trek is ended anyway. He is_dead.” i Miss Brown did not flinch. She| locked around the room, and her eves | conjured up the horror which must rest behind that heavy leather screen. She stared at the protruding foot. “The best man they ever had,” Des- | siter continued. “It has been a duel between us since I left the East and | began to get hold of the threads of this horrible business. I had scoffed at the whole thing before. I never be- | lieved there was anything definite— anything to be really feared from this | generation of madmen. I obeved or- ders. though. Perhaps it's lucky for the world I did. The alarmists were ght for once.” ‘And this man?” she reminded him. “A genius” Dessiter muttered. “The most wonderful of all the black #hadows who have been doing their work through China, India and Af- ghanistan. in every British colony, in every civilized country. It was his ask to hunt me down.” Sometimes we missed one another by minutes in a race across a continent, sometimes we were in the same city, the same cafe. same hotel, and he never knew. his last time, though, I played my first false card. Since then he's never left my heels. They generally hunt in packs. He outdistanced the others, and he paid. Have you ever seen a dead man, Miss Brown?”" “Never in my lite,’ edged. “Are you afraid?” “Not now. I'm afraid of nothing." ~Go and look,” he invited. Bhe rose to her feet and crossed the room with unfaltering footsteps—she, the daughter of a country lawyer, who never seen men fight even in merely quarrelsome mood: whose ways rectly 1 entered the They're kill "all you see what has happened. cowardly kiliers, but they right.” He sipped some more brandy. Out- side the sound of traffic seemed to have died away. Little wisps of fog had penetrated into the room through the tightly closed windows. A yellow shaft of it hung from the lamp to the curtains. “Go and look out.” he directed. “Be careful that you are not seen.’ he pushed the curtains inches on one side and looked toward the square. “I can see nothing.’ she reported. “The fog is, if anything, denser. The world seems dead. Even the traffic has ceased.’ 00d"™ he murmured lease, and come .. g the 1o your she acknowl. | She did as she was told. The same ! man servant at once presented himself His master addressed him in a lan- guage which Miss Brown had certainly never heard before, and the origin of which she could not pretend to divine. She judged it to be either Russian or “zecho-Slovakian, and looked once | more curiously at the servant. Not- had lain always along the humdrum | W!thstanding his smooth face and per- thoroughtares of life, boarding school | 1°ctlY trained manner, she decided that and tennis partics, genteek poverty and | there was after all something un Kng- work, always respectable, always do.| [#h about him. He listened to all his ing the correct and ladylike thing,|Mmarter had to say without change of Bhe passed the overturned chair whicy, | ©Xpression, replying often, fluently but spparently marked the spot where the Fe8pectfully. Presently, with atruggle had taken place, glanced at|X€¥® which Dessiter produced from b the tablecioth and smashed vase of | 1TOUSers pocket, he opened a drawer flowers 1ying upon the floor, and with | @0 took out a linen bag of cigarettes her hand upon the screen peered round | 8nd a thin packet of letters which, in behind it. To her it always remained | 2Pedience to a gesture from his master, a tragic memory, although at that|he Jaid before Miss Brown. Dessiter moment she was unconscious of feel. | Ut One of the clgarettes and waved ing the slightest emotion., The dead | DIM away. man lay there, smallish in stature,| MY servant, like you,” he explalned, dark, an undoubted foreigner, witr,| ' WANS me (o Ko to the hospital. Wil blue chin, jet black hair, clothes of | YOU listen carefully now, please, Mins Erglish cut, with a small, round | Brown” hole in his forehesd, waxen pale, a| 1 &m listening she assured him. thin cambric handkerchief over hin| ' The mechanical wide of our work eves. One knee wax a little doubled | OVer. Will you accept a trust from D and the collapse of death had re. | ™" 1azed hin featurcs, ‘There was an sy | Bhe looked across at him of whrunkenness ahout the | Were Very blue, her 5% Brown Jooked at him long | ™" @04 thoughttully, placing him in those| 1 Will" she assentcd long Juurneyings through that strange, | ,, 1t 1% possible *¥magoric mtory. Khe came back | that it may entail ¢ 10 her place with steady footsteps, re. | AWOURt of personal rikk’ sumed her mest end finished her gla o1 am not afraid.” of wine “It may interfers with “What are you going 1o do whout "cheme of life to wum *whe saked calimly. . “Youll have] WEnt on, after & mor 1o ring up the police or somethin, “My present schen wOn't you” You can't keep him in the | 197, Bothing room. " {1t detestub] here was a gleam slmost of admira- in Dessiter's eyes a8 he looked at questioner Mergen will arrunge something later on,” he watd. “You wee, I whall aie myself bLefore widnight, and al 1hugh thin 18 London 80 not Bagdad, 1 con useure you nothing that hap. | pens in this house will be lked about | Gictated €ry much .’ e mecre ing plices and the Bhe could huve cried ot i nares of the principal conspirators Ble protest sguinst his calm mccept. | ames we hive 10 fight in most of 1he € of Lin fate, have reminded him | larke towns of Lurope. There a Haly that a man who Lad lived his! two orlgital letters une of which Wte & eved whiat he had | explains the the Chinese ety even death could | mOvement which it it fallen upon ber knees and fm.| were publ VUt mean b 1o hiave his wound dressed | ot instant nower. They u bim feer upon the earth-but | 10 be kept with your awaiting #he 014 none of these 1hings. my Istructions. No one must ever 1 cunnot mee any reason why you | Know that they ure in your pos m #1000 Aie.” wie wald, 1 ber ordinury, | They Bre for the kuldunce of the per miatterof fuct 1on You should give | bon who comes after e yourself a chonce, wt any rate, by| one ehall sencing for a Qo ond a nuree If [ promised J will not, § think 1 could errange| 1 am that bandage 1yl worthy,” he contined He whouk bis heas | ple nre ciever “There 18 1o them on the hee “Je wor Just a se beiind the wo He'n cut the teiephione snd b knife | (08 they would | found wa Wil &1 my chest Just ax | waw Graw- |0 sumehow or other, dealt with i g AN Whet im necersary now in 1o {and helped Giemmelven to these fette ve Jong enough 1o tell yuu what 15| You iy wel wately toniht AG with VLuse 1tes, After that enpecially e the fog tn really 1hicker reully Buest’t matter very much Lt Ihelr uwn meciel mervice i e carcer in ended snyway. You see, | than equal W ours, which here in Fay “for Aftesn yeurs the world vl ey e Bald Lot Lo exint ot all baw known of 1ie only os Dessiter, the wxplorer, the tinveler, the tuan who be cuse he knew every languuke could vikit countries the frontie uf which 1o one elee Gared cross. ‘They have credited e quite correctly with en occamons! commission fiom the Goy ecnment 1 the rulers of these o 1ries, and lurely | hmve coooursged it side of mny repulstion. | have dined with kings and chiefts s Yy Seier even KpUkE L w1 Hure Her eges tone altmost wole her, tional our present he ton of life counts she declared I find Blie wan surprised at Ler own worde Up to an hour ago it seemed to her { that wie had plodded nlong the level waym, if not Joyously, at least with a vertain measire of content “The lettorn which you have ther he confided, “nre nlmost an important u the subject matter which 1 have There are the addresses of D passior whiole andane o 1k Firope P v " bk | i i | | i ever know . convinced thsl you ure St Ui fousts wers more of of our ke friend and bt for the There tie " he deisred nA L, k0N Tur e " e Ouly, 1t gaust be Jate Thin s wist | want you 1o do. Miss Brown You will sleep tonlght with yuur locked snd the book under pillow. Mave you a banking ot Bhee wlion I have ui and tiwt b ¥ 24 pounds (RS e " e a few! three others do know, is that for some | merely subterfuge, camoufiage for the | count | | \ “It is not finished.” she reminded h | | | { | | | | f ! They'll i you out in the long run | | You She obeyed and discovercd a sealed nyelope Wiich she held out toward other greater thing came 1 did good |Ah Iherve Rank o Fomorrow South ral You 1 thos fhe ban You do; notes, ave 500 England maornin Audie there in he said you will to treot Dy a 1 open an Wil deposit your note - letters in the vaults pounds notes,” o neh m i wis to transcribe then?" she Not for the momer I want vou to wait until the man wiio takes up my work appears How shall 1 know about him” You will subscribe to the Times old her. “Every n vou will the personal coin my ol he veplied i “But | am, alive or wait until there is & Edith* from ‘Algernon me mentioned in the m It will probably sound ridiculous. You must not mind that. Most of those foolish- looking advertisements you See, ap parently from young people who have met in busses, or from wives who are terrified of jealous husbands, are really code messages from members of the criminal world or from people in my position “What am 1 to do Miss Brown message for A tube will 500 prac with the inquired 1 count your fee for and the w your mann: t as part payment the work you have rk you may do. Don't of life, but spend as you wish. 1 am Koing to tull you quite frankly.” he went after Wt's pause, during which he nged his' position slightly n time to come you may con sider that 500 pounds a very inade You may find that from may become o more diffi- cult undertaking with you.” She saw the anxiety in his and did her best to reassure him “If it does,” she declared, with little confident smile, "I shall & I don’t think 1 knew it T was very tived of life as it was.' He guve of content, threw his and it another. were beads of sweat upon and his hand than e sought in “I do wish v arrange that bandage better, begged. It I8 abeurd to b up vour mind that you are die He smiled enigmatically. was stll firm and his eyes re clear, but shé realized from t he moved that he was in inc pain “Mergen will bring age in a fow minutes,” he told her He i» quite expert, If anybody can keep me alive, he will, but, after all 5 nod a head more to sh mad BOINE to His voice Ined 0wy sing a frexh band To brealk a cold harmle tablet, And for headache 100, 1N s of newralgn And there's no alter elicct; dn often infants genuine Baye AN druggists, with proven divecti Physicians prescri it does NOT a Aapicii o e (ede Wik ol Bayer Manule neuriis, Whenever there’ Acpirin has Bayer on the hox and on every tablet, lly matter—now. For @ kept ulike my nerve I have meen men interfering, women eath, hideous deeds © my eyes, simply v myself. 1 have never flinched until that night in Warsaw, T was my end. - As soon as it is possible, Miss Brown, vou shall be given an opportunity of those notes In safety. then of your truat. it doesn't T 17 years 1} and my temy tortured without baited alost to perpetrated hefe make me et nscrihing will he f ol | You can g ! and She I 1 think lity she said will. T don't will forget, and 1 know Il be faithful. It was a ance which brought you wpon my doorstep.” in 1 ocome and see how you are Tow shall | don’t i vou yo { tomaor You must ou no account come this house,” he insisted gravely. must look upon me from to 1< @ person who has passed out vour lif 1t ever there is need for v turther communication between vou can trust Mergen, and only | you receive the mes- on with vour everyday jnea N ni o us A id began to on mackintosh. She sked doubitf at the shaft ot fog, wd to have become denser. in ] I . rose to el ast nervous “I am only . because e, How to get with 1 liad better spherd’s Market \Il that I8 arranged,” he told her. v o it while we were at s waiting outside for vou.” mantaipieca back to e orner of \ Y dead—" he rejoined. was lying a trifie at which she had :d with fascinated eyes more than She leaned over and took it into her hand—a small but deadly- looking automatic, loaded in five chambers. “Will you give me this?" she beg- ged. “If you do, 1 promise I will use it sooner than have the book taken awa) He smiled quietly “The time for that sort of thing,” he remarked, “has almost passed. 1 remember when I had 1o use a revolver every w of my lite. I used that litfle affair this afternoon for the first time for a year. Yes, take it it you will, but be careful.” She reopened her satchel and slip- ped it in. She shivered a little as she remembered that the one empty barrel meant & man's life. Then she finished buttoning up her mackintosh, set her hat straight and looked down at him timidly. He held out his hand. Good by, Miss Brown,” he said. am very thankful to the fog for ing sent you here. And 1 mm thankful, t0o,” she de- clared forvently, “You will have your [ arranged at once if I go?" mmediately,” he assured her. Upon the threshold she gave a fare- well glance around the room. Its unre seemed wuddenly overpow- ering —a dead man behind the screen, a dying man upon the sofa, and all the throb and glamour of that mar velous story reproduced in cold black in the hook shie wus carrying. She 1 her half expecting to r open them and find herselt still sitting In the fog upon the bottom step out- mide the house. A a matter of fact, she reopened them fn the hall to find Meryen walting for her “Will you please come this mivs, and follow me closely begied He relloved her of her typewriter, and, gripping the satchel In her hand, she followed Lim out of the back door and down a fllght of steps into an way, he v and in a hurey try a Bayer Aspirin The action of Aspirin s very eflicient, 5, even theamaticm and lumbago! tors give Aspitin o children s pain, think of Aspidin, - The he Bayer Aspirin; ffect the h cluse ol Mousacetivaillisior of Balleplicasid ar ¥inding his way by hugging [her side. The van started off | “Are you a policeman” the wall, he opened another door |Through the window she could faintly | He smiled down pon which led into what seemed to be |discern another fgure seated by the [committal fashion o mews. ‘There were two lights burn- | driver i in the ordinary sense ing flercely yet dimly through the e, | w i, replied fog from wome veilcle, the nature of {mics, | vou, a which she could scarcely distinguish They blunderéd wa Mergen whispered for a moment |Lad cmerged Into a wider thorougi- | strects, climied the with a vaguely seen figure. Then he ' fare, e opened the window and ce ar Hyde Park Corner turned back to his companion, peated it to the driver. ling n clearer patch “I am afrald you will find it a little | Afterward he resumed his place, [rattied along at o qu uncomfortable, miss.” he said, “but |standing by the deor and holding on |speed until thes It will not be for long. Do you mind | to the handle with the air of ofore the getting in?" {tendant guarding a_prison van. {iouse, squeezed They let down some steps. Miss | Brown, whose stock of curiosit s | tioner's and Brown climbed into whal seemed to|almost exhansted, nevertheless od | was Mids Fr Ibe a furniture delivery van, empty |him one question. Notwithetanding | ieliped jwave for a single chair A man | his piain clothes there waa certainly |ty scrambled in after her and stood by |something oficial his manner ot “ rd, he going to look after I me your address companion begged il told him, and, ag soon as tire their and respe in uhabby etwean a wiich | spring aia whiop Krippin stand about about o a stancutili sed. 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