Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1928, Page 35

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928 Miss Brown of X.Y.O. _(Continued from Yesterday's Star.) Miss Fdith Brown. pretts stenographer. whose life has held so hitle bevond the dull routine of ev v its down u 4 quiet Hoormic en she finds he Suddenly @ently a house servant @s he catches mght of her portabl sriter case. asks her whether she will o and take some dictation, and his mai licates that the job is one not wit dventire—probably tisk. | Eagerls W ne a peep into the land of h her whole hife has been starving. | e throshold and | Tdav teping. D to gei her bearngs lost i a dense fo laa’ Brown' steps ac within finds & wound. who turn he ‘Col. “De | revowned explo @nary story 1o h ¥ afler a varn- | ng that her whole life may be affected by | et taking dowa these Rotes—a story of world adventure. portent of which the lastnote is he i 0 her gaze th ead man Iving behind a iter_has Killed as Bim a mortal wound ways he will not recover * caution “nd by conducts . _The next morning. when she starts 10 the hank to place her precious documents I a_safe-deposit box as in attacked by rufians and sav tim She sately deposits ber pa cessfuily rebuffs an imposter reporter W comes 10 worm out information. = She fin. her acguaintance eageriy souxht after by Com- al moere e restaurant where 1 out a bare Iving o instructions ing Rrown alos Arriving the reason for her invitation 1e sood e meets Mr. Penmington. M. P, ne to argie Miss Rrown intd secret for the hest intereats “ountrs. But she realizes that it's Tealls the Commumist parts for which he's piesding. and remains obdurate. _An urgent Wessage summons her to her bank. STALLMENT IX. 1SS BROWN presented herself in due course on the follow- ing morning at the offices of the Central Bank. She was red at once into the where the manager wel- h an air of some relief. took a paper from his desk and passed 1t across to he: “Is at 3 Aiss Brown?" he asked. She read the few lines written on a plain sheet of paper dated from Bhepherd’s Market: Kindls hand_hearer the packet deposited b you on November EDITH BROWN. She shook her head. “A wonderful imitation.” she admit- “but 1 never wrote it. Don't! she cried with sudden terror, | u have parted with the| signature, ted, tell me.” ver hastened to reassure your own,” he said, “and we failed to find the slightest divergence any- where. Fortunately, however, from your point of view, your instructions were definite not to hand the packet over to any one, whether they pre- sented an order or not. We kept the order and asked the bearer to call again in an hour. This was terday. | Naturally, never returned.” Miss Brown drew a little sigh of | relief. The manager coughed. | “We always endeavor,” he said | *to carry out our clients’ instructions to the letter. I asked you to call this | morning, however, not only to men-| jon this occurrence, but to suggest to | you that perhaps it would be as well | for you to withdraw your packet and place it, say, in the Chancery Lane Bafe Deposit Vaults, or with a bank with vaults somewhere in the heart of | the c d | ” t vou want to keep it anyi Miss Brown asked, a little | The manager pressed the tips of his finzers together. | “The last thing in the world we| desire.” he assured his visitor, “is to seem disobliging. We welcome clients. We welcome business of every sort, and we are always ready to be of any assistance to our customers, but this packet of yours—you wouldn't care to treat me with confidence, 1 suppose, and tell me what it contains?” T am not in a position to do that. Just 50, Well, as I was explain- ing. it seems to me, if you don‘t mind ving %o, rather a troublesome | on. Since we had it my atten.- ! -| nerves. and we would rather you re- 0| these people have been after—to make By E. Phillips Oppenheim. Covsricht. 1927, by E. Phillips Oppenheim. tion has been called on a great many occasions to the number of suspicious- looking people hanging about the place. Then we've had at I self-declared civil engineers ferent pretexts, trying for per to examine our vaults. One ver Iy did succeed in getting downsta my absence. He presented a | an enlargement of the vaults, which we have been contemplating for some time, at such a ridiculously low price that my deputy here was on the point of allowing him to do down and taks some measurements, when fortunately 1 returned The care of your packet, if you will forgive my saying so, Mi: Brown, is getting st a little on our move it.” Miss Brown looked, as she felt, both perplexed and anxious. “Don’t you see.” she pointed out, hat probably that's exactly what you uneasy and to get you to ask me 1 very nearly to remove the packet. “I can assure you that you are mis- taken.” “I am not mistaken, and you know that 1 am not.” she replied, angril “I get tived of it. It is so stupi 1t you follow me any more 1 shall - |apweal to the police.” The man smiled. He was a stolid- ¢ [looking person who might very well have been self in p ever, was a manner, n e of ‘mock “Madam,’ permit me to remind vou that if there is any question of police in the matter it is the young lady who addresses a man without an introduction who usu: ally finds herself in trouble. 1 should be careful to take the initiati I may add that the magis very severe on such cases Miss Brown turned flaming checks. She entered a taxi and drove back to Shepherd's Market for Frances, They took the taxi on member of the force him- His voice, how- “You shall do as 1 ask.” exclaimed the great musician as he threw the valuable ring on the ble, “and it is yours! Pick it up and look at it had it taken from me in Shepherd's Market when I brought it here, and 1 only just slipped by a man who vhased me in a taxicab to the very door. Now I shall have to go through all that again.” “We will endeavor to spare you any anxiety of that sort,” the manager promised. timation even of the nature of the contents of your parcel and we will arrange for an escort of police when you come to fetch it away with any shadow of risk.” Miss Brown reflected. “Will you give me a few da please, to think matters over?” she begged. “Certainly,” he acquiesced. “We'll let the matter stand over until, s3y, next Thursday. I'm sorry to have seemed disobliging, especially to a cli- ent recommended by the late Col. Dessiter. but I have the interests of the bank to consider.” Miss Brown took her leave a little | depressed. For the first time it.was necessary for her to make plans for herself. and the responsibility appalled her. usual, to look around and take note of any onme who might be following her. There was one young man who wseemed to be always at her elbow, and who somehow or other irritated her more than the others. She met his direct gaze as she hesitated upon the pavement, and in her somewhat dis- turbed state of mind she committed what was for her a foolish action. She walked straight up to him. “Will you tell me, please,” she beg- , “why you are continually fol- lowing me about? Who employs you to do it? What do you want from me?” The stranger raised his hat “My dear young lady,” he protested, “Give me the slightest in- | That would do | She did not forget, however, as | v, were driven insi Miss Brown looked disconsola of the streaming windows. “What a filthy morning: claimed with a little sigh. The Princess had been as good as her word. She welcomed them upon their arrival in a small, strange-look- ing room, whose hangings and walls were of black and white after the pass- ing futurist style, the austerity of which, however, was toned down by the masses of ers which seemed crowded into every corner. The re- maining guest had already arrived, a thin-faced, nervous man, with a black beard, masses of black hair and eager searching eves. The Princess intro- duced him as Mr. Serge Malakoff. “Mr. Malakoff, as I daresay you girls know, is living in the south of France,” she observed. “He has come over to conduct his own opera at Co- vent Garden next week.” “I had. too, another object in mak- ing my visit to England,” he explained to Edith. *1 a great friend of a dl!lh\lnuishrd Englishman, two days after his d . “That was very sad.” Miss Brown murmured, with a little sinking of the heart as she realized that once more she must be upon her guard. “You mean that his death was sad,” Malakoff continued. It was worse than that—it was a tragedy. Dessiter was a great man—mistaken sometimes in his outlook as men of genius often are, but_lion-hearted, a man of huge vision. I shall never cease to regret that I did not see him again alive— for many reason Cocktalls were brought in . 1o Mixs F 1y droppe was Standing makes back and legs ache How % of the workers in the Straus Silk Mills relieve tired muscles ... It's as good a job as any mill worker could ask —nice people to work with, good pay, fair conditions—but a factory job anywhere is bound to be hard work."’ | | LY the mill workers themselves know how legs and feet can &che and how lame backs can be efter a long day walking up and down a spinning frame. Something they must have to take the ache out—1o relieve the stiffness #nd fatigue which might otherwise make it necessary for them to miss many a day’s work. The workers in the Straus Silk Mills in Trenton sre a perticularly fresh, wholesome-looking lot of wo- men. And s we asked them what they do to prevent aching and strain from standing st e epinning frame #ll day. From three-quarters of them came promptly the answer, “I never use enything but Sloan's.” Fverywhere the leading remedy SJor muscular pain Everywhere you go you hesr the same story from people whose work brings @ strain on their muscles, Read the expericnce of this New York women— “J hed such & backache I didn't know what to do, I used Bloan’s Linisent, and in half an hous I was SLLOAN’S better. Now, when an pain, I say, ‘Use Sloan’ Another woman writes— “The pain in my back was like a knife stab and it left me helpless. Sloan's Liniment was given me to case the pain and I am now able to do all my own work.” has & Sloan’s Liniment is scientific—ab- solutely reliable because it works by the quickest, surest method known to relieve pain. It stirs up the circu- lation—~brings new blood right to the spot where the pain is, sweeps away the cause of the trouble, You can get it in any drug store, A bottle that will last you a long time for 35 cents. Use it for— Rheumatism Lame muscles Sciatica iff neck Lumbago Colds and mnfllla congestions Sprains and bruises e ——— e A company doctor who cares for hundreds of workers every year ““Peopls whose work exposes them 1o strain or to domp and «old wsually suffer from o good deal of mus- cular soreness. We find thot Sloan's tives them quich, positive relief. "’ One of the wo | { and the | rkers in the Stra the party of the night before, Malakoff explained his absence by telling them that while in London he lived almost the life of a recluse ex- cept for a little occasional intercourse with oneor two English musiclans. “Refore the production of a new work,” he conflded, as they made their way to the dining room, "I, as a rule, shut myself up for a fortnight. I am afrald_of losing the inner sense of what I must help my musicians to in- terpret. It is extraordinary how many difficulties a work of one’s own com- position presents if suddenly confront- “d with it when one’s mind has been veling in other directions.” I know a modest authoress,” the Princess remarked, as she waved them to their 1 who often forgets 1 “Your art, observed ncess,” Malakoft evertheless lives nearer to n mine. 1 mean that you can send your.mind more easily into the Places where your ideas Sometimes my music esca 1 think that it must travel into in- finity, for there are phrases wigch me to me sometimes in the night, ve vanished with the dawn and never reapy ed. You are in- ed in music, Miss Brown?” m ashamed to say,” Miss Brown ed, “that 1 am utterly and en- ignorant of it."” state which has its advan- " he declared, talking all the but making also astonishing in- upon the first course of his luncheon. “The bane of the musical world is the person with technical confe: tirely | knowledge and no appreciation—none of the finer sense of appreciation, 1 mean. It is torture to talk with such son. They speak with the words nding and with a closed dear Princess, what cavi- The Princess made a sign, and his plate was refill 1 he regrettable absence of he said, with a reproachful t his hostess, “I clamor for a glass of kummel.” The liqueur was duly presented, and he drained the contents of a large From then onward the chief »st which Miss Brown had In the heon was in watching her neigh- stronomic_exploits. He was frankly, almost childishly, aware ‘of them. “And now,” he announced, turning o Miss Brown abruptly, when the cof- fee had been served and the servants lett the room, “I will come to the ect of this little meeting. I do accept Invitations to lunch, as the s knows very well. I came here vou.” Miss Brown repeated, with a sinking heart. “Entirely. T am a man who likes lose himself. If 1 had reached here before the death of my friend Dessiter, he would, I know, have made me his literary executor. We had the same tastes; we detested the same in- stitutions. He had confidence in my judgment. He realized that sometimes he was too impetuous: that he would put things down on paper which must never find their way into print. He disclosed abuse, let ux =ay. People | sometimes doubted his facts because | [ of his adjectives. “Avery the Princess murmured. Malakoff ignor lle was en- grossed in what he was saving. His eves were fixed upon Miss Brown; the little wrinkles in his face seemed to have hecome deeper. He was nervous. | Iy clasping and unclasping his won- derful_white hands, with their long, | bony fingers “Young I he said 35 confidant. Now, flsten. This T demand of ‘you. Before you part with those notes you and I must go through them together, and the sooner the better. I will point out what it 18 wise to de- lete. That would have been my office it Dessiter had been alive.” Miss Brown never looked so gentle, =0 almost insignificant except for her blue eyes. Nevertheless, there was something curlously definite about the shake of her head. “What a pity that you arrived in England too late to see Col. Dessiter, Mr. Malakoff,” she said. “Now, of course, what vou ask is impossible. T am only a servant in this matter. T have no latitude. 1 cannot depart from my instructlons. Just as the were given to me I must fulfill them. Malakoff leaned across the table, There was fury in his . Sudden he tore from the third finger of his left hand the one marvelous ring he was wearing—a ring containing a huge and amazing emerald. He threw it across the table. “An express gave me that” he cried. “A Rothschild could not buy it from me. There was nothing so won- derful in Russia at a time when ¥ tersburg a storehouse for the je: els of the world. There is nothing to- day so wonderful under the skies. Women have begged me for it by the hundreds. It is yours. You shall do what I ask, and it is yours. Pick it| up.Look at it.” Miss Brown pushed it back without She did not even trouble to k: her little gesture expressed “Do 1 understand that vou refuse my request—you know who I am and 3 ©?” he demanded, strik- ing the table with his fist so that the beautiful glasses rattled and shook and some of the coffee from his cup was spilt upon the exquisite Floren- tine tablecloth with its inset lac “Of course, refuse, if you must put convince her. If you cannot, why, that must he the end of it.” “End of it Malakoff repeated, ris- Ing to his fect, his features twitching still with passion. “If she were a man 1'd strangle her. I would he one of history's heroes when they realized what 1 had done, As it is——" He glared at her, and Miss Brown was for the moment afraid, Then he turned away and marched toward the de The Princess rang the bell. M slammed the door behind him. denly Frances began to I Princess followed suit. Miss Brown | alone sat dumb and motion] “You mustn’t be frighte; her hostess enjoined 8 of course, h t geniuses ar The Princess became one charming and conversatio nd presently they took fter she had made an appoi pick Frances up at the Ritz th noon. On their way b the two girls spoke occ Iv of Serge Malakoff, but otherwise remained more silent than usual. It was only when F d packed | her bag and was preparing to depart | that she alluded even indirectly to the adventure in which her friend had be come involved. ! So, my little mouse, vou've wan. | dered off into a world where you can | fford to refuse rings worth a fortune, | and flout the greatest musician in the world.” Miss Bro mad. Al | more the ' ) n made no reply. She was quite le just then of ch. She had picked up the Times, h had arrived during her absenc nd her eves were riveted upon th it like that,” Miss Brown replied. | Malakof’s face was livid. The man | was beside himself with passion. | Even the Princess was alarmed. | “Serge!” she exclaimed. “Serge. be | careful’ You must not excite yourself like this." “But it is incredible’™ he cried. “This young woman's obstinaey will do incalculable harm. She will bring trouble upon the whole world if Des. siter’s last few months were spent a I have reason were, Is it to be borne with, Princ that T—Serge Malakoff—should ask for the confidence of this—this typist,” he spluttered out destroyed, see the wise schemes the world's greatest brains rendered null and void, see all Europe set in ferment becau son’s obstinacy “Serge, you are forgetting yvourself, besides which you are exaggeratin the Princess reproved him. “Miss Brown is my guest here and you must not be rude to her. I may regret “I gather ' that my friend Dessiter died so unex- | pectedly that he had not time to send for me or any of his friends. You vourself know how suddenly things were ov His eves seemed“to be boring their way into the back of Miss Brown's head. Miss Brown was listening at- tentively, With a puzzled frown upon i her forehead. “Well,” he concluded, “this is what I wish to ask you. You have by chance in your possesion Dessiter's last messages to the world—the result of his last exploit and explorations. What are your instructions from him? What are you to do with them?" “May I, before I answer, ask you gomething®” Miss Brown begged. He waved his hand in assent, and she continued. “How did you know t in my possession rom Dessiter's servant, Mergen,” was the prompt reply lergen is of no consequence. Already, I believe he has taken another position. What I am suggesting to you, Miss Brown, is that you tell me what instructions you have with regard to your notes.” “I am sorry,” Miss Brown replied, n a tone as colorless as her perso ality when she wished it to seem so, “but 1 cannot answer your question. 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