Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1928, Page 27

THE EVENING OO AT OO O 0000 OO AR RRATOO NI THE FORTUNATE WAYFARER By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM PUHTTTIT Star) (Continued from Yesterday INSTALLMENT XXXYV! The Web Tightens. HEY met, accidentally, as seemed, in the lounge of the Ritz at 12 o'clock on the fol- lowing morning. Mme. Mendora, notwithstanding her perfect self-composure, welcomed him with a smile which was half deprecating. half embarrassed. Gerald was looking as gloomy as was possible for him when | : accosted by a really beautiful wom: “Tell me,” she asked quickly, were unlucky? Yes? You stayed? He nodded. it ) da | wistful earnestness. Copyright by E. Phillips Opperhetm chair. Gerald, his hand forced, accept- ed the inevitable. “Uncle,” he said, “I want to present [to you my friend, Mme. ¢# Mandora, | who wishes to meet you " “I ought to have known you long ago, Lord Ardrington.” she said, looking at him all the time with an air of almost “When I first ar- rived in England this season it was my | intention_to come and see you, and | then—well, T put it off and it became | more difficult each day. g he inquired in hough_ you have often | heard my name. it is really a little | difficult for me to tell you who I am,” 000000000 A the present | “He is over here at declared, time,” Lord Ardrington | speaking with some excitement. “He | has tried to rob me of Laurita. He |sent me lawyers' letters. He abso- | lutely tried to abduct Laurita from my | house in Norfolk. Fortunately, I saw |a way out. The next time we meet I | will tell you about it.” o | “You will let me see Laurita,” she begged. “I promise that I will make | |no_claim to her.” “You shall see her most certainly.” | “Is she like me?" Lord Ardrington shook his head. “She is like her mother.” Mme. da Mendora glanced at her- |self in a little gold mirror. “We were different types, of course,” STAR. WASHINGTON, | erally mixed up.” ruptly, as the young man resumed his former seat. “Can’t remember. One meets people and sees them about and gets gen- allowance comfortably. “Do you see her with people who are_known?” Gerald reflected. “Yes, I should say so. She goes about rather with the American set.” “She is. very wealthy, I under- ‘Look here, uncle,” Gerald replied enviously. | “you're too hard on me. 's mouth water to look at|I'm lazy, and I know I'm siifil but, damn it! I'm not a wrong I tell you I'm fond cnough of La to marry her if she hadn't a pon ed. had a that £80,0002" gain strength. her pearls. Lord Ardrington lit one of his fa- vorite cigarettes. His fingers were trembling. The encounter, with all its reminiscences, had disturbed him. “Did you know, Gerald,” he in- quired, “that Mme. da Mendora was Laurita’s aunt!” “No!” the young man exclaimed. “Laurita’s aunt! “Her mother’s sister. She says so and I have no reason to doubt her. I knov that her mother had a sister, who was also on the stage, whose name was Rosita. She appears to have mar- ried and to have been left a great deal don't want to live this hanging-about town life. to say no of the 80,000 you gave | i away. wgm:‘nuld live on that mfl‘:ny “How long has this brilliant idea dawned upon you?” his uncle demand- “Since you discovered that Laurita very wealthy aunt as well as he_protested, | ous—romantic, too, and Give me a little house in with Do you worry when it rains D. C. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1928 country, a thousand acres of shoot- ing, a of and a month abroad in the Winter, and I bet you I'd make Laurita as happy as I should be_myself,” v of view,” Lord “From’ your 3 Ardrmxwxz .dmftmund, “that sounds all very well, but what cbout Laurita? I Gerald for a moment looked almost| had some reason to believe that che a man. His cmall features secincd (0| wi fond of Martin. “Laurita i3 passionatc and impetu- full of tem- | perament. The ccremony turned her head. Then Martin's rescue end fight vith those men carried her off her feet. Of course, she had a feeling for him. If he had returned it no one “lse would have had o chence. He didn't, and it is passing with Laurita just as aquickly as it came. She is ! happier ct this moment with me than ny one else. I'd almost dare to ask her to tell you so herself,” he add- ed, turning around. as Laurita and Blanche entered the lounge. Lord Ardrington laid his hand upon his nephew’s arm. “You have given me something to think about, Gerald,” he said, “but remember this—not a word to Laurita —to any one—until Martin is found.” Two Watches Reported Stolen, Charles Sperling, 2104 Pennsylvania venue, told police a gold watch valued at $40 was stolen from his pocket some time last night. A $35 watch belong< ing to Wayman Turner, 1709 Eighteenth street, was stolen from a locker at his home yesterday. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) Bolivia's first mining congress was recently held at La Paz. Bbe Foeniig Htav . In two years more than 1,000,000 pounds of reindeer meat were shipped out of Alaska, and the demand is still growing. ADVERTISENENTS “"They got me all right,” he admitted. | she went on, “unless you can guess.” she reflected. “Laurita used to hate!of money.” “I've just come from Vine street I've got to face the music with my uncle.” She looked nervously around. “Come and sit in that corner with me and have a cocktail.” “There is something I must say to you. He glanced at the clock and assente willingly enough. Notwithstanding his depression, Mme. da Mendora in h simple but obviously Parisian costume, her general air of smartness and her | the stage. and pen sympathetic tone and manner, was to even his fastidious taste a very attrac- tive personage. “First of all,” she said as soon as the | alone. order had been given, “I want you to | Laurita,” she sighed, “she would find | bassy—afterward promise that you will never breathe a|a very warm welcome from me.” e word to any one about my having been | at that place last night.” ~Of course I won't,” he agreed rue- | must please not suggest such a thing. “I'm in trouble enough about it | I am an old man and not very strong, myself.” “Now there is another thing I want you to do for me,” she continued. want you to present me Ardrington.” He looked at her half doubtfully, | her mother and you made her happy. | he half_surprised. “But why on earth?” he fering from an attack of nerves. young protege of his is missing and some of his old pals from South Ameri- ca are leading him the devil of & life. [t her father or permit her to have |are dining here. why not then? 1t will | gy intercourse with him.” | Lord Ardrington drew a decp sigh “Never mind,” she insisted. be quite easy for you and I have a very special reason.” “Do you know anything about him in his younger days?” curiously. “I myself have never met him,” she the curse and dread of my life. acknowledged, “but I know those who have—one, indeed, who is very deeply interested. As soon as I have met him and talked for a few minutes, the next time you and I come together I will tell you everything.” “Oh, I'll present him, of course, if there’s a ghost of an opportunity,” Gerald promised. “Perhaps we could dine ther one night soon, eh?” She looked at him out of her won- derful eyes and the acceptance of his half-casual invitation became a thing greatly to be desired. “My dear boy, of course I will dine with you, if you like,” she assented, “on my first free evening, but you realize, I hope, that I am old enough to be your mother.” “I don’t believe it,” incredulously. The cocktails were served. Gerald drank his at a gulp and ordered an- other. “Jove, they gave us a doing at that beastly police court this morning,” he confided. She stopped his impending recital. “Lord Ardrington has just come into the lounge,” she pointed out. “Look, he is quite glone. He is coming this way, too. You will never have a better op- portunity.” Gerald rose a little hesitatingly to his feet. His uncle was now in fact within 8 few yards of them on his way to a he declared Now | she whispered, | incredulity. ! T thought—" “I|da Mendora reassured him. to Lord | never take advantage of my legal re- began. » 2" UTje Ol hoy scarcely speaks | time, and she shall become—as she is |acknowledged, rising to her Teet. to any one nowadays. Besides, he's suf- | at present—my heiress. S. A | condition.” Gerald asked s a condition which you need never | He shook h “In the old days, Buenos Aires, I was Portur His when I lived at |me for being so tall in the days when called Rosita | we were at school together before things broke up and we had to earn own livings." eIl me of your life over here, But | invited. “Do you know many people | I[ g0 dout as m\llrh as I care to. - N n {My friends ar s vith us, of course,” she interrupte ) 4 “That is quite na 1, too, was on i%?;;fisk{rmm e but I was for-| ““And' my nephew? May I ask how tunate enough to a very rich |jong you have known him?” man. He died recently. Now I have | «A ‘vear or so, I fancy—very slightly. nothing to do but travel and I am we met at a dinner party once- If ever you wanted a home for |think it must have been at the em- at a dance—one comes across people. I have never |told him who I am. It was only when |we were talking together this morning that I had the sudden idea of taking ,my courge into my hands and asking | to meet you.” p “Laurita and a triend of hers will be here directly. Perhaps we might |induce you to lunch with us,” Lord | Ardringion suggested after a moment's itation. She shook her head. “That is very kind was my sister.” amounted almost to OUr B | o “Laurita's sister?” he rcpeated. “I could not possibly spare her,” Lord | Ardrington declared hastily. “You | and Laurita is very dear to me.” fear,” Mme. “I shall | *“You need have no | lationship. You did what you could for | You have brought the child up and | she shall stay with you for your life- she “of But on one course, I do not know how well Lau- | rita remembers her mother, if at all, but I think it would be better if you pid ym; |have a box at the opera. We might 7o on, perhaps. I shall leave you now. of relief. It has upset me a little, talking of “My dear lady.” he confided, “that|these things, and I do not feel pre- >y pared to meet Laurita suddenly.” She rose to her feet and turned very gracious and self-possessed. Ardrington looked after her curi- He beckoned to Gerald, who ring in the background. cf you,” | ez “That you never either hand her over | spoke to her first about me. Her father is He was, the curse and dread of dear Laurita’s life.” Mme da Mendora shivered. “From all I hav: heard he is a very “How long have you known Mme. terrible person.” da Mendora?” he asked, a little ab- O Morning” “and—thank you!” That’s the cordial and appre- ciative attitude of this Bank toward its customers., Glad to see you; anxious to render every service efficiently—and “Thank you” for giving us a share of your business. Can’t we have you for a cus- tomer? Washington Savings Bank 4 Tenth and Grant Place Thos. E. Jarrell, Pres. J. D. 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The young man was for a moment shamefaced. He made no reply. “Not, I regret to say,” Lord Ardring- ton continued, “in the manner in which some of our distinguished an- cestors have contrived to do so. I see at no time any mention of your su easses in politics, any form of scholar- sMp, or even sport. The last cccasion upon which, I think, the Hon. Gerald Garnham, nephew to the Earl ‘of Ardrington, graced the columns of the 40 shillings with costs for being drunk and disorderly in Leicester Squarc. This morning, for & slight variation, I see that you were bound over in the sum of £100 not to frequent the low gam- bling hall where you were arrested by the police last night. “One must do something,” Gerald muttered. “You should have let me marry Laurita instead cf that other fellow.” Lord Ardrington looked across at his nephew in amazement. “Are you serious, Gerald?” “Perfectly. I believe Laurita's very fond of me, and I'm certainly very fond of her. 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