Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1928, Page 19

THE EVENING TUESDAY. AUGUST 28, 1928 9 1& STAR. WASHINGTON, 1. straps of Martin's bag. “We shall be H ] i ] H S stop- ous door In_an un mes the prineipal acior Lord Ardrington, he W davs to live. pre man with #0.000 n his doe- scape- steps passed his doo. tunate Warfarer.” fiv Lady Blanche B o the life of ‘aisturbed anche & Promise to P as hi ¢ was that Porle oAth-—to take INSTALLMENT XXV On Vacation. ARTIN gazed around him with /] an air of lazy satisfaction as the blue-jerseyed. sandy-haired ficherman. who was his sole companion, threw the ancher overboard and produced from his locker ® of bait new marked Lynton A ground, Burgess.” he re- Have we caught all the fish — uldn’t e to say that, sir” the man repl but it's a good spot this, and always was. You'll get dabs here when there bean't a smell of ‘em d the shoals. n =at up in the boat and looked Tiks d. Jandward. They were anchored in 2 Jittle bay. the sandy shore of which w ely deserted: high above him woods led to one of the There was use on A overhead, but no other habitation or presence “That's a nice beach, Burgess. o be empty at this time of the year,” he re- marked The fisherman nodded. “A cruel shame that do be. sir.” sdmitted. “Yon house there and the 2t of way to the s°a belong to a man as has barricaded evervthing up and kept people from bathing. ar pic- icking. or landing nohow. It be that of thing that do make Socialists 1 of a gray. plateau sign of he What's the idea®" Modern Tudor Style Three more days. R A P A SO P THE FORTUNATE WAYFARER By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Copvright by E. Philline Oppenheim e L T spinner, sir The fisherman was at once mysteri- ous, as beeame his calling ‘There's some as do hint at he confided, “and there's others smug- of Plymouth. The | E W Put on A re's mackerel about.” . lotuslike exist It was a very pleasant - | where he lay like a doll's house. light of her free, graceful movements and natural speech. Al these things were knit into his vision. Then in| the midst of it he remembered Lord Ardington's kindly warning, the folly of his dreams, and a wave of depres- i sion swept over him. He rose to his feet and gazed gloomily downward | Through the trees he could see a| | woman walking on the deserted lawn of the manor—probably its mistress. He could distinguish nothing except that | she was tall and graceful. The house itsclf, indeed. seemed from the height He Martin passed | The flag w whose emptiness little dreary crowd of young people | phere of brooding mystery. of fear and apprehension which the place appeared to have altogether vanished. new conditions scemed to Martin more | depressing than the old. was Laurita and Lord Ardrington, who were a late in the afternoon. |tin followed the servant who had on possession of his bag. It was only s fiying from the roof of | 10 PEPCSION By Thimeelf: but it was| “Mr. Gerald has the room vou had | housekeeper the house. the lawns and those gardens | navertheless a disappointment to find | when vou were here last. sir.’ the had seemed always | (hat instead of occupying his former | "atman ohserved Be undid the i) tak- | quarters, he had been relegated to al mall room at the back of the house. quite full up for the week end, the us tells invaded by a The atmos- were had hung about Yet, curiously enough, the | His reception pleasant, but not enthusiastic 0 f)l\‘::‘v:’m‘ Ay as it-s musterious folk that | cnce into which Martin had drifted | iyieq 1o interest himsell in speculations | hoth playing tennis. waved their hands have taken the houss there and want | Since his arrival in Devonshire 8 month | concerning her, wondered why she orfas he drove up. but did not interrupt it kept solitary.” ago. Some days he fished, on athers Ne | poar men kind owned a yacht which | their game. Blanche detached herself looks deserted enough. Are they | (00K long tramps across Exmoor. The | hoy “nevor apparently visited and a|from a little group around the tea ® in residence?” ov of his liberty was still a new bk | house which they so seldom occupled | (able and came up to him as one of Not as I've heered on. Not a soul \‘l};k‘:;w“ =t ot "N'l':“_"";m: e iktle Ijrr:ll\;'hr (lk:r‘nedv away. ?udr(‘is;ll_\' re- | the footmen was (aking his luggage on pointing to the rather ill-painted, | (e Bouts 0 L0t SO A hile | hing_he desired to.do, and that was | iemarked. as they shook hands. “You ill-conditioned-looking schooner which 2%V 4% he wis "' cob d“\”"r;i"""‘mm to return to Ardrington. He |radim\,_g' find it hard to recognize this lay at snchor about half a mile away, Wit its dull vubine SRf SQEIC T Blanche's letter again. _After all. why | piace.” that belong to the people. Theres Was & JWME o 100 PRUC. P, Shinge, | not? ith other people there the " ‘I do, indeed,” he admitted. glancin 1x or seven men on her with nothing | WKW OV L IS Hich he most ap- | fnsion of the situation between him | around. | o and Laurita would be relieved. ~He ou'd hetter change into flannels.” | to do all day but hang about On the morning afte olayed with the idea of an unexpected Who are they Martin asked, ac- excursis the lonely bay copting A tod and casting the Line over- R o I e tert’ for. | Arrival and found that it gave him a i warded from his rooms, the first letter | tingling sense of pleasure In. k] I do have hecred the name.” Bur-| with the Ardrington postmark. He was moment he abandoncd the harmless gess admitted. “but the memory of it | ot stating fof a tramp, and he thrust | Self-deception in which he had In-| has slipped me it mto pocket and kept it there [dulged. "He realized the cause of his | Londoners? s Tenched his destination, on the | Immense unsettiement, no longer thrust | edge of a strip of moorland, a precipice it - into the background The great had 1 am doubting whether they're not it e below. with glimpses of the sea through |Stroke of good fortune which Artins cuisaity svhgorated for the | (he hiskly growing §ike twes. The | fried B Bsin ks Tahers had be moment. He fished and dreamed. had | writing was bold and large, vet femi- ) come bound up with an impulse ‘M} B hinh aud Siesdaesiet Presently | nine, He vebl and woiend five lotier | UhiBMGIR Oy, He e elioeed Burgess watched the water close at | With meticulous care, as though striving what should have been a momeniary | Rar L Aaronna thaisont T find in it something more than the fancy. a passing infatuation. to become | The cbb be coming. sir.” he an- | mere words a vital part of his life: before he had nounced, “We'd better be moving on % time to spread himself in the sun- 5 A Letter, shine of his new prosperity he had Martin nodded and wound up his Pl " AivAbEsiiarin mortgaged his chances of happi- Let's speak to the vacht.” he. st I wonder what you are doing with | Ness rested, They haulad up anchor and took yourseii? We miss you very much, but | His impulse of self-acknowledgement nd. coming within A few | my cccentric uncle has now developed | once vielded to opened the way fo vacht. A man leaning 2 en penchant for society. Our flag | frosh avenues of thought, which kept | over the side waved his hand to Burgess and the gates are open. We him engrossed all the way @ Barn- Are you the captain®” Martin asked a dozen people staying here— | stable, on the first stage of his hastily 1 am that. sir.” was the answer in whom you would be undertaken journey. He admitted with | I hear vou're having a slack time g ed except Gerald, whom, for | gratitude the compensations of hi: me reason or another ¢ uncle seems | folly—compensations which bore fruit | Do vou ink vour Martin continurd, toward the | zover: woul art o fo to be tolerating every day in his attitude ) W3 FOlMAbEERagU THOY e You wani 1o hear about Laurita. of other sex. perhaps even in his daily | The man withdrew his pipe from course to be frank I'm rather | conduct toward life. The hotel at mouth worried about her. ~When she heard [ which he had stayed had been full of | T ain‘t ever heard him sav as he'd | !hat you had gone there was a moment | the ysual holiday crowd. with the | 2 o e Teplied. “Hes | i which T feared an outburst. Thal | ysual preponderance of young women only just took us on is all past now { it were possible. T | ye had no longer found it amusing to “‘Where can 1 write to him? should say that she was very bitter {ampark upon cheap firtations. nor had e A T trte e Tshook his | About_what she terms your desertion of {1 feit any inclination to take ad- head. her. She and Gerald are gefting on VeIY | yantage of *the opportunitics offered | well together—too well, T consider. but |y “a¢ an unattached young man of | I don’t know as he’s willing to char- ter her. sir.” he said shortl Well, there wouldn't be any harm in my asking him, would there?” Martin persisted. “T'd just like a fortnight’ cruise, that's all, if it could be arranged. The man had recommenced to smoke He had the air of one who is indulging n an unprofitable conversation. | “It wouldn't be worth your while try- Lauw at the fact Uncle has heard no more from those He, (00, to be quite frank ems in a way to resent your departure houzh not (o the same degree as Lau- ym- terrible men pathetic T alone remain_thoroughly I do reelly fecl that you wer impossible situation it in an utterl only laughs at me when I hint personable appearance and the owner of a much admired motor car. Hi slight but kindly aloofness invested | | him. too. with an’atr of dignity. which | he felt had come to him for life. The possibilities of London. with its gaveties and night clubs. falled to stiv his imagination in the slightest. “Larking | about with girls.” a< | . ‘ he and Perey | ing. sir. We're Iying here under orders— | 100 I am glad that you had the cOUra8® | quiijang had frankly ealled - it—once | might be off anv dav " O and o A e here any time, I|R pastime indulged in—had become ‘So that's that!" Martin murmured | (nink you ought to come back bfore | Suddenly distasteful and impossible. It as he gave the signal to Burgess and | {he Summor is over. You would find the | T¢ally seemed as though some honest. | they swept away, “Bastly dreary-10ok- | situation much less difficult now. Very ' internal chanee in his own outlook and | ing place that house for & man who can | cincerely, yours. stes had followed his change of | i fortune. afford to charter a vacht.” The fisherman. who had started his petrol engine, siood up and looked be- |t wava of hind him. He pointed in a semi-circle around the house “That do seem to us folk at Lynton to be a most mysterious place, surely.’ he said. “There be a wall round the back there and them three ways folks used to come down to the sea—they're all barred and built up now. It be un- natural secluded, that's what it be. And what with no one coming and the yacht lving there idle. folks do get curious hereabouts. ‘I don't Yonder.” Martin assented I'm surprised he wouldn't tell me his master's name.” That's what few people have heard.” Burgess replied, “and there's some as do say as it’s a woman. The agents as list the vacht were Ulrick & Cogden's ed country old-fashioned flowe: rington where he lay He tried to think of Laurita. delicate oval face, her searlet lips and | her eyes lit with fire only imperfectly fashioned her always Blanche who took her place— | Blanche with her frank. challenging but hated, half pro- the perfee- the de- oves. ‘BLANCHE BANNINGHAM." Martin folded up the letter and pu car~fully away in his pocket something of h theatrical beauty He felt lanes, a the wooded park. gardens It for was a place His though! mouth always beautiful. which at times he voeative. half supereilious tion of her, the self-assurance For the Last 3 Days of The Hecht Co. Half-Yearly Furniture Sale which was equiv- alent to homesickness had seized him The almost |immediate surroundings suddenly pall- longing for the quiet the of Ard- dreams and he Welded to them. with her | It was that night at Wells, fas- cinated by the quaint, old place and the glamour of its wonderful cathe- dral. Anxious though he was to reach his journey's end. it was midday be- fore he could tear himself away and | 8 o'clock before he reached his rooms in town. There on the table he found a reply to the telegram he had sent from Lynton. He tore it hastily open “Certainly, Pleased to see you any day. 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