Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1928, Page 22

THE EVENING Q"F\T‘ WASTINGTON, C.. TUESDAY, n. AtaUST i 1928 HI”‘l|I'!Hll|lllllll||1Illlflllllllml"'"II!I!IlIIIllmIlllllll|lI|IlIIIlllIIIlI|IIH|lIIIIIIlIIll"llIIlIIlIIlIlmlmflfllfllll"llmllflllIll|llIHIII|I|IIlIlIlIIlII|lIlI|I|II|II|ll|ll|l|lllllmlllll"lllll"lllll! ! | THE FORTUNATE WAYFARER By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM g I !ll|llI|IIlllllllIllllIIIIllIllIIIHIlll"“IIIIllIllIlIIIlII!lllml"lllmlllm“"lllmmlllmfllmllIlillIHI“IIll||llillI||||u|||1|lll||||lIllll|IHIIHI!I‘W“H'"II“ han. stop. Coprright by E. Phillips Oppenheim | declared. “You know the whole thin “I think the whole thing is a ridicu- lous farce.” she answered. “I hope | I'm about when the villain of the piece | claims his daughter and you do the | Drury Lane hero stunt.” “You don't believe very much in the ¢illain " Martin asked, curiously Not to the extent that uncle seems 18 from a firm of so. olns Inn—good people requiring me to hand | over the custodv of Laurita to hrxl | father upon application. I should h'ur‘ been compelled to give her up. Legally, | I shouldn't have had a leg to stand upon.” Martin glanced and laid it down “This [ read it leitors in they are, too! through the n | letter | hear | ool enough, “I do. I'd llke them to know the truth, I'd like to know for what other purpose they have followed me here. They cheated me, and I cheated them. They robbed me, and I robbed them. Victor Porle can't want to shobt me, or he wouldn't have walted all these years. T'm tired of lying awake at night listen- ing for them, fancying every time I a strange voice that they have come at last. I'd like to get it over, Martin. If T have to fight well, I've done it before. T'd IIkP them |\l'lr‘ today, as soon as possible.” “You're sure that you mean it,” tin persistes Lord rdrington shoulders. “Look at me.” a c'n! 1?2 Mar- shrugged his * he answered. T am Laurita is safe Nothing else n Then let me gu and fetch them.” or my life, | road, Mr. Barnes swinging that little key in your hand, I sald to my friend Solomon, ‘Here comes a message at last’ An invitation, perhaps. Am I right?" “You are,” Martin admitted Ardrington would like to see vou, “Lord He me now. “Lord Ardrington would like to see Porle repeated. “Dear me! Quite sing!” us, surp: denly. Solomon Graunt ob- served “I know nothing of that,” Martin re- plied. I am simply his’ ambassador. He has sent me down to take you back with me, or to make an anpointment for any’ time you prefer during the i Chis 1s a matter,” Victor Porle an- it seems,” proposes that you should return’ with | “He has made up his mind very sud- | old days. We've robbed a mall coach, salted a mine and relieved the idle rich of their poker money in a way known only to experts.” “Come along and renew quaintance, then,” Martin enjoined, pa- tiently. “I have a key in my hand and I can take you straight to Lord Ard- | rington. T wouldn’t let a chance go by if T were you." Victor Porle sorted his cards and leaned back in his chair “Our friend Fozzy, as we used to call him—T beg his pardon—was pleased to make sport of us on one occasion when we were seeking an interview with him—an occasion which you, sir, know all about,” he remarked. A humorous matter, no doubt—but shall T call it a little one-sidedly humorous? Rightly or wrongly, we were annoyed. We have in fact, taken offense. Our position vour ac- MRS. FAWCETT STILL BELIEVES MATE LIVES Mental Telepathy Tells Her Ex-| plorer Is Alive in Jungle, She Says. By the Associated Press. AULIEU, France, August 21.— Her confidence in what she terms telepathic knowledge that her husband still is alive is so great that Mrs. P. H. Fawcett, wife of the lost British explorer, scoffs at re- ports of his death ments. These reports are totally up-) founded. My personal bellef is that he is being kept prisoner by some Indian ribe. " LONDON, August 21 (). —Comment- ing on the report that Col. Fawcett was killed by natives in the Brazilian nte- rior in 1925, Sir Charles Close, president of the Royal Geographical Soclety, clared today that he has not giv hope. “Even now 1t Is not wise to as Col. Fawcett is dead.” Sir Charles saj “Since his disappearance we have had s0 many reports of different character that it is not really safe to come to a definite conclusion.” PARALYSIS FOUND HERE. “Now that the danger is over for the | moment, - Martin.” Lotd _Ardrington | (‘Ull(\l\!l\'d with a new note of gravity in | his tone, “I don't mind telling you that | I had firmly made up my mind to keep | here within my promise fo the dead at all costs Risobiiee Move i 6he (Gae: Sooner than have parted with cib S LAY MM T EDEALTY Tiave ‘Al him. | _Victor Porle and his friend, Solomon S A T e o™, | Graunt, were seated at & card table tragedy, you see . You Know quite well | dravn through the low windows of the that 1 do not talk of such matters | Dar parlor on to the little strip of lawn Hantiy | dutside, when Martin prosented himself 7 ' r o some ha an hou a ey were He opened a drawer of his table and | Some half an Bour jucr, RCY MO fingered a revolver for a monient. Al | ; chambers were loaded. Then he| “';"‘: Dok oy and drinking brandy thrust it back “This was the last alternative, but 1| Our friend. Mr. Barnes!” the former murmured. glancing up for a moment can assure you that if the necessity had arisen I should not have hesitated. You | but without pausing in the play of his cards. have probably saved me from the gal lows, Martin. It is a poor ba Beyond a slight Of cou he doesn't want Laurita. He | vou, but if Laurita should need made no comment. They continued the want noney. and I can't think that | band's protection, promise that you will playing of the hand. Martin stood by you young people were right in | give it to her lence until the scoring was con- | a milistone around your| “I promise.” Martin acquiesced d and written down. Then with | has the shelter of my name. She sl ards in his hand, as though about | had reached the terrace, and |have all the portection I can g | to shuffle, Victor Porle addressed him him a little abruptly. Martin,| Lord Ardrington sighed cor in ng aimlessly and somewhat de- JHl‘ tore the lawyer letter into small 'So you have become an inmate of | | the House Mysterious,” he remarked | “My young friend.” he said. jectedly to its further end, was hailed | shreds by Lord Ardrington from the morning| “At last” he declared. “I can look | “T am staying at Ardrington Hall for [mean well, but you're & nuisance. Am- | = } My days,” Martin acquesced. “I have | bassadors between ourselves and our utside my walls without shivering ate partners can pay me their threat ht you both a message from Lord |old friend Lord Ardrington are unnec- med visit as soon as they like.” ngton.” | essary. Why, bless you, we three have | “You mean that?" divined the | done all sorfs of things together in the to," she acknowledged. “To me it seems like & piece of ordinary blac " | mail. After all these vears he cal mn,\ want Laurita, even if he is in| a tion to support her. He'd set about the whole business differently if he did.” “Well, T don't happen to agree with vou” Martin pronounced. I might have felt just like you, only that I have scen_the man. I hate spoken to him s friend. I'm not an imaginative | person, vou know, Lady Bianche: but they gave me the creeps, the hor. rors—whatever you like to call them. They're barely human. They are ter- | rible “But after all these years” she ar- gued, “surely you can't imagine that | the man has been storing up elther his | affection or his desire for vengeance. nounced, “which requires consider- ation.” “Why should it?" Martin demanded ‘Only a day or two ago you oficred me a hundred pounds for my pass. You can't pretend that you are staying down here for any other reason than to pay a visit to Ardrington Hall. Well here's your chance.” Solomon Graunt lifted a tumberful | of brandy and water to his lips and dis- posed of the greater portion of its con- tents Martin proposed. Unless thev've changed their minds very much since 1 talked with them last, T'll have them alf an hour.” “My husband, Col. Fawcett, is not dead, despite publication of reports to the contrary,” the elderly, gray-haired woman declared today in answer to report that the explorer, mis more than three vears in the Brazi wilds, had been killed by hostile nativ “For years I have followed his wand ings in South America by mental te athy and I am sure that I would know immediately ‘of his death. “My husband has been reported dead | before, also mad, running & harem of | here such as has oceurred Indian beauties and afraid to return to | Ninety per cent of the c England because of financial entangle- more are among children now is that we shall wait upon Lord Ardrington when it sults us. Am I right, Solomon?" “You are right,” sent (Continued in Tnmnrrnv\ CUBAN UNDER KNIFE. Infantile to | Five Health Five case: been reported Cases Reported Board This Month. of infantile para to the District Health De- month, making & total of 1 | was the prompt as- is ha Dr. authorities do not expec Emnl.\nunl Rallo Reported Re- covering at Rochester, Minn. ROCHESTER. Minn., August 21 (#).— Dr. Emmanuel Bello, president of the Cuban Senate, was operated upon here | vesterday morning for the removal of an infected gall bladder and appendix. Dr. Charles H. Mayo performed the operation. | Senora Bello, husband, said comfortably n Baltimore. in Balti- Your cards, Victor, mencing to deal. “Why not_postpone your game until | you get back?” Martin suggested a lit- | tle impatiently. til we get back from where?" Victor Porle inquired, picking up his cards one by one “rom wur Ardrington.” Solomon Graunt finished dealing Before collecting the cards, however. he furned to Martin. 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