Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1928, Page 26

4 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MONXDAY, JULY 30, 1928, star) | INSTALLMENT XIX. wrist llke the great claw of a bird. Semething clutched her by the shoulder and spun her about with a_strength much greater than hers and she found herself star- | ing stupidly into the eyes of Ana Lyoff —strange and dilating eves of an awful | triumphant shine. “You!” the woman said in a whis- ike the drive of a saw through wood. “Yoli!' And I never suspected u! Where did you hide it? Quick!” I didn’t hide it.” Esther stammercd “Ana, don't! You hurt.” per 1 u | throat. never reiaxed. Esther. watching | tascinated, SOMmmo fastened to Esther's |frenzy had passed from her eves, and | Veo de Water | 2222222/ 2 777 day Borls landed in America. All things were made ready.” She swallowed dryly and the claw like hand tightened over the jewel it |clasped to her breast. She shook her |head impatiently as though some tor- | ment buzzed about it. “It was Boris' plan,” she continued in a dull voice Levine and his beast, Chaplinsky, when We were to be in Mr. the other, pressed against but her | marked that ~the black | that they were friendly now and almost beseeching. “I am {11, the woman began. “You must help me. Therefore, listen, so | you may understand why T ask it “Levine and Chaplinsky seek this stone. They brought it to him and | they came. S0t Levine had it from Tiytch, who | Strake's house. We were to wrest the 1 its true owner——" thing they stole from them and return fon crept into her voice like the it to him who shall vet rule our land. -off storm. It was Boris' plan. He forgot the price Siberia, they killed him," she |of the Eye. And Levine, the fool. did said, her voice a deep and vibrant con- | not even know it was the Eye. \ralio, “him and his—wife and his| “The price of the Eye Esther re- “We were to meet | laxed and her volce rose dryly again. “Mr, Strake owed me much. He admired the great Duke whose heritage is the Eye. But they came,” she whis- pered, “an hour before the appointed time. He forgot his pledge to my brother and me, to the family that had made him rich and powerful. And he bought the stone. I called him on the telephone. He lied, saying they had not come. But he told Levine its name —and punished himself. “Thereafter, having its price and | knowing at last what he had sold, | Levine returned and killed him for the stone. No man relinquishes the Eye willingly, and there are those in Europe who would give for it thrice what Mr. Strake pald. Levine had |learned from Mr. Strake that the stone |was the Eye. The curse——" A shudder shook her hard. Her | voice trembled when she resumed. The girl sat pleating her apron with nervous, unconscious figures, half believing, half convinced of the madness of her guest. “It had rained,” Ana Lyoff went on. “There was but one road by which they might leave town. We reached this before them and a policeman interfered. “Boris struck him down and dis- guised himself, but they were weary. They saw his face when he bade them halt. There were shots. They escaped. It is their car that u_have in your garage, Esther. It your stepfather stole the Eye they had hidden. “They believed Boris had it and they killed him. Wounds had crippled Boris. from this that | He was a child in the hands of Chap-| well, Please sit down and quiet your- self. The doctor—" “When,” the woman interrupted, “is the doctor to come?” “At 8, or a little afte She smiled with a ghastly triumph. “I shall have gone by then,” she exulted. “I shall be on the way to New York and the friends who walt there. And I shall carry the Eye of Lucifer.” She spoke directly to the girl in a hissing, chanting tongue. Esther con- trived to twist her dry lips into the travesty of a smile. The faint clatter |of dishes came from the kitchen. She | clung desperately to this homely sound and looked about the room, at the pic- | ture of her mother on the wall, at the | rumpled covers of the sofa, at the win- | dow with paper pasted over the shat- tered pane, at the spire of the fir tree, | incrusted with harmless gems, normal | heartening things, reassuring in their | stability, enabling her to face the wom- an again with a shadow of assurance. “I don't understand you, Ana," she said. “Please rest a little.” For an instant the transformed face of Ana Lyoff became familiar and bewildered. Then it reassumed its bleak austerity. “I am to leave, when it is too dark for watchers to see,” she ordered, I shall take your car.” “Y aren't going to do any such | thing,” Esther contradicted with a false show of confidence. “You're too T to be anywhere but in bed. Now, na——" She halted her attempted placation at the white fury passing over the “You have seen the Eye of Lucifer, Esther, and your manner ci g can no longer trust you. But you will do as I bid and say nothm to any one. Now 80, and prepare fc and get Molly . “Molly?"” the girl faltered, her palms sticky and cold. “What do you mean?” “Molly is to go with me,” the mad woman declared. “1f I can no longer trust you, you will keep silent for the sake of your sister. No harm will come to her, unless—" The uncompleted sentence sent a chill through the girl. “No!” she half screamed. “No!" “Yes. Ana Lyoff higsed and struck down Esther’s outstretched hand with a numbing blow from the pistol. “Oh, you imbecile!” she cried, “If I stay here, do you think Levine and Chaplinsky will remain away? They know now the history of the Eye. They appreciate it is worth threefold the price they gained for it. “They will come” she mumbled. “They and the stinking men of the red guard. The cheka of blood!—The screams and the hoarse laughter——" Again she halted and her eyes be- came wary. “Either you do as I say” she said | slowly between clenched teeth, “or I d | shall” kill you—no, I shall kill your little sister. Wait!” she commanded, as the girl shrank away and then stumbled toward the door. “These policemen; none of them are coming back here this eveming, eh?” “No, no,” Esther stammered, and a sudden warmth grew out of her cold fear, as an idol with the pistol in her when Esther interrupted. d, “I'l tell, eron prof about 6. Her heart stumbled and missed while she waited. Guilt was plain upon her face, but the woman, her eyes on the clock, took no heed. | “Five-thirty,” shc muttered vaguely,| | and then with a resurgence of de-| cision turned upon the girl. | “Telephone him!” she commanded. “Tell him you are ill. Tell him anything you please, only do not let him come. | I shall stand beside you, Esther. You | had best obey.” | The girl opened the parlor door,| ‘flvlfl.ly to hide the quickening of hope {in her frightened cyes. | 7 (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) less hand Truly. A Ca tht"he would ride out ‘That all.” | In a plan outlined by representatives of 19 cities of England a number of new highways and bridges are to be built to help handle the crowds that attend Blackpool, the “Coney Island” of that part of the country. | | | Before You Leav —on your vacation you piace them in a can have the satisfaction of knowing that your valuables and securities will ba safe while you are gone if you Safe Deposit Box at the FEDERAL-AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK Where G Str s 4R “You are lying” Ana Lyoff said. | “Some one is mmlnt What is it? | Very well—oh, Molly dear!”| She lifted her voice and called, and | was about to call again, standing in| the center of the room, grim and merci- | It was Chapiinsky who broke|otner's face. There was scorn in Ana night, where the|ryoms eves and the dark beginnings of suspicion and hatred. “How dare you argue with me!” she stormed. “Have the car ready in an hour. I shall leave then and a sotni of Cossacks of the imperial guard—" She checked herself hastily and be- gan again in a firmer, quieter tone. linsky, open the safe last Eye was not hidder | She looked toward the darkening | windows with a filcker of terror in her eyes and the hand, resting upon the stubby black pistol, tightened sud- denly. “They will try again,” she said, with a faint quiver in her voice, and rose | “I shall have strength to reach the quickly to her feet. The jewel-clench-|city. ~After that, there are others ing fist pressed against her eyes an|whom I can trust. The Eye demands instant as she swayed, dizzily. Then|a life. But I shall have strength to she reccvered herseif and her voice | reach there before ! make payment. | |held its earlier ring of absolute au-| = | thority. | | “I have it she said. “I shall keep it. You are to ail me. Now. listen: ‘In an hour it will be wholly dark Meanwhile you are to get out your| stepfather's “car and drive it to the door. You are to prepare food for Molly and me. Do you understand?” In the great eyes fixed on hers the ter- rifled girl fancied she could see tiny fires burning, brighter even than the otesque spots of red on the woman's eathlike face. A shrillness had crept into Ana Lyoff’s voice, a delirious rasp- ing, strange and fear-inspiring “Ana,” the girl begged, “you aren't ltt-:hmgATorture_ ) Use Zemo, Healing Liquid There one safe treatment for itching first application of Zemo usually stops itching and gives relief. Tt will help rid the skin of Pimples Rashes, Blotches, Blemishes and similar annoying skin irritations. You will be surprised how quickly skin troubles will react to this clean antiseptic, soothing liquid. Easy 1 apply at any time. 35c. 60c and §10/ dependable skin. The is ERVED Iced is deli~ cious. Try it. Like the Drive of a Saw Through Wood. “You! And I Never Suspected You!" daughters and his one small son. Ilytch | peated, bewlldered, as Ana hesitated. took it. Levine and Chaplinsky got: it | The woman opened and closed her and did not know lts value, or history. | hand swiftly, revealing for an instant Boris saw them in Paris and knew they | the cruel splendor of the stone against had it. They wrote to Mr. Strake and | her pale palm. Her eyes were set in & offered it to him. I saw the letter. 1 |rapt abstraction, and into her voice the Whoever put it inghere? Where did it wrote the reply. He promised to ai | far-away thunder crept once more. come from?” | Boris and me, I begged so. You un-| “Life goes with the Eye of Lucifer, The bony hand that gripped her |derstand?” {she half intoned, her body erect and whist with eruel strength slipped down | The girl only half comprehended, but |rigid, *Through death the green dia- over the fingers that held the gold | she nodded assent. Ana Lyoff resumed, | mond of emperors travels from hand to chain. She cried out faintly and the |her voice again dry and lifeless: hand. Such is the legend. No man e olied on the table. The hand | “Mr. Strake meant to. I cabled Boris. | relinquishes it willingly." of Ana Lyoff reached out like a strik- Levine telephoned from New York the The gaunt passion of her face re- When Pain “ an's cheeks, the twin fever spots burned. Her eyes shone with a wild light, and | the thin, wide-skulled face bore a look : Two hours after eating once. You will never use at once desperate and - triumphant, mad and inspired. She held the jewel in her cupped hands toward the light and bent aboye it with a passionate murmur. Then, all at once, she reeled, groped for a chair and sat down, her eyes half cl her lips half open, but the hand that held the gem was white- knuckled with fervor @f her clutch methods when once you learr efficiency of this. Go get a bottle to try. X sur# to get the genuine Phillips’ of Magnesia prescribed by phy- sicians for 30 years in correcting ex- cess acids. 25¢ and 50c a bottle—any drug store. “Milk of Magnesia” has been the U. 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