Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1928, Page 37

RO The Fortunate Wayfarer By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Copsright by E. Phillips Oppenheim lllllllmllllIllIIlIlIIIIIllllIIlll||l|lIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIlllIIlllIIIINIIIIIlIIlIIlllllllmllllllllllll"lIIlIHlllIlllllllllll“lllllllfi _ (Continued from Yesterday's Star) INSTALLMENT XXXYV. At Freddy's Night Club. HE taxicab drew up before a small shop in a gloomy little street, one of the backwaters of the district between Soho and lhc‘ Tottenham Court road. »Pay the man and send him awa. the barman whispered. Porle obeyed and their guide, with a gesture to them to remain where the; were, plunged into the tobacconist’s shop. He emerged in a brief space of time and led the way to some huge ad- joining gates of what was announced as a furniture emporium. After a mo- ment’s delay a postern door was opened from Inside and they passed into a yard —a square, untidy, cobbled place, in & corner of which stood one rickety-look- ing furniture van. They descended some stone steps to a lower level. Out- side another formidable looking door they paused, and their guide, taking a small electric torch from his pocket, flashed it three or four times in front of a narrow window. A moment later the door was slowly opened by an enor- mous man, obviously an ex-prizefighter. “Come in quick.” he ordered. *“Get your toffs in and the door closed, Harry. The boss is nervous tonight.” The barman nodded. “This way.” he whispered. He pushed aside a curtain and they entered a large, oblong room, utterls destitute of any attempt at luxury. with sanded floor and bare wooden chairs. There were a dozen tables where men and women sat playing cards and drink- ing, end at the farther end a negro band was thumping out popular jazz On the left and right were two additional rooms, one of which was taken up by a bar, and most of the other by a large bacarrat table. In the space between the two a few couples were dancing. From the entrance to the baccarat room a man hastened for- ward to meet the newcomers. He was a thin, weedy personage, virtually bald, with a cast in_one eye and a mouth the under lip of which seemed to have been permanently drawn sideways. He stared at the two visitors at first doubt- fully, but the longer he stared the stranger his expression. “Don’t I know you two?” he asked. “Freddy’s club in Nt York,” Porle reminded him. 'You're Freddy. I should have known you anywhere.” The man frowned in warning fash- fon. “That's all right,” he said, “but don’t get chucking my name about too freely, please. There was some trouble when I quit yonder.” “I remember. One of the detective was shot when they raided the place. “Served him right,” Freddy multfl‘ed.i under his breath. “He was double- crossing us all the time. Took a hun- dred dollars a week from me and then sold us. He got his, all right. What are you boys doing over here?” ‘Seeing life,” Solomon Graunt grum- bled, “and not succeeding very well. London’s a bum hole.” “It's the rottenest place on this rot- ten carth,” Freddy admitted. “There’s only one thing—we've no competition. This is the only joint of its sort in the town.” “Are they on to you?” Solomon Graunt d. “They're on to us all right. but they're Victor | mosphera, There were shouts of laugh- up to them. She laid her hand on Freddy's shoulder. | “Go away. Freddy,” she enjoined. “You have not the time to show these | gentlemen the place. It is I who shall | explain everything.” one of your tricks, then,” Freddy | warned her. “These guys are my | friends. The woman laughed, but not unmusi- call “I have no tricl she declared. | She led the way to her table. Victor | Porle ordered champagne and a bottle | of brandy, and they studied their sur- roundings with interest. Save for themselves there was scarcely a man in evening clothes, scarcely one whose | linen even could have stood a close | scrutiny. There were a good many Easterners, a_ sprinkling of Americans and an English element which appeared | to consist, according to their compan- jon, chiefly of racing men or prize fight- | ers. There were a few good-looking | women, but the almost flamboyant sor- | didness of the place seemed to have set | its mark upon their fac Even the laughter, and there was plenty of it, | was’ shrill_and unnatural. A woman who had slipped off her skirt and was doing a solo dance came and kicked a | glass from their table. A waiter picked | up the fragments and, apparently, every one considered it as a matter of course. Freddy, however, leaned over and as she came near again smacked her on the cheek. She shrieked, but the peo- ple playing cards scarcely troubled to look around. For a moment she scemed as though about to fiy at her aggressor. Then she shrunk back. He threw her skirt at her. “Put that on and sit down” he snarled, “unless you want the chuck.” . re frightened to death of Fred- very one of them,” the Russian voman confided to her companion. ‘You can really do just what you like here, but Freddy hates that woman. There will b2 trouble between them some day It was curious how, notwithstandi the difference in their clothes and ex- ternal deportment, Victor Porle and Solo- mon Graunt seemed rapidly to sink into accord with their surroundings. In less than half an hour they appeared to belong to the place. The habitues no longer regarded them wtih suspicion they had become part of the sullen at. ter somotimes, but there was no real tempt at light-heartedness. The place ccmed devoted to the earnest and con- centraied pursuit.'of vice without any of its redeeming features. Victor Porle | took a bank at baccarat with moderate success and afterward strolled into the bar. Solomon Graunt abandoned a | game of poker precipitately, being him- self too great an expert to be deceived by what might seem the good fortune of others, and returned to the company of his R dy. Victor Porle joined them #nd presently Freddy, in response | ignal, drew up a chair. “I've been looking 'round your joint, Fredad; Porle observed, leaning t ward him and dropping his voice a lit- tle. “You've got some bad men here, all_right.” .Freddy showed his yellow teeth as he glanced carelessly around the room. | “You's i he admitted. “That little, dark, unshaven chap over in the corner, for instance, who can't sit still—that's the man who put Jimmy Andrews, the bookmaker's, light out a @ soft ot and they don't like firearms. 1 keep this show going with a little gang | of my own—most of them have a grudge | against the cops. They might get inio | the place in time, but I guess there| ain't many would get out alive. It | would e a hundred to raid us, and | then we've seven ways of getting clear.” | “It's the toughest crowd I've seen in London,” Victor Porle admitted. Freddy accepted the compliment with “You're right and then some,” he ad- mitted. “We get a few of the sight- seeing nobs here sometimes, though. There was a lord and a duke here last night. What're you counting on doing?” “We'll look around.” Victor Porle de- cided. “I shall play a bit presently. 1 see vou've got a room there which looks interesting.” ou've got to show the ready first.” e've got that.” “I'll answer that they have” Harry intervened. “I brought these guys on | from Jimmy Dowell's. You heard what happened there?” “Nope,” Freddy replied succinctly. hey're raided. The cops are taking them away in wagons. I got these gents out my back way. Freddy laughed long and mirthlessly. “A swell show Jimmy runs, too,” he remarked. “That's the sort of crib the police like. No trouble—scarcely an un- kind word. 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The young man addressed looked up He was of a different type to suit, with clean linen and manicured hands. 5 “I like myself better than the com- pany here tonight” he observed. NN “That's why I'm alone. trouble here before morning if you don't look out, Freddy. | all red hot for mischief, and if one of Daniel’s lot comes along, he'll get his.” “I've telephoned them to stay awa Freddy answered brusquely. do more. Come into the office with us. 1 want_you to know my two {riends There may be something doing.” The young man abandoned the game of patience upon which he-had been engaged and rose to his feet. “I was just going to leave this pit hole, anyhow,” he declared. “Moving on to the Carlton, I sup- pose?” Freddy sneered. The new addition to smiled as he lounged after them. SEPTEMBER 7. 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