Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1928, Page 23

(Continued from Yesterday's Star) INSTALLMENT XL. this! seconds ago I feared might have been postponed. It is fortunate that I am able to offer you my protec- tion.” The words were the last that ever ‘left his lips. From some unseen place | have been an undercurrent of discon- ! came the crack of an automatic pistol, | ‘and Victor Porle spun around and fell, & crumpled-up heap, upon an over- turned table. Solomon Graunt, amaz- ingly quick, ducked and fired in the direction from which the shot had| come, only to fall a moment later, face downward, by the side of his partner. Three mecn who had been creeping through the shadows of the place to- ward Laurita turned and disappeared. | There was the sound of banging of doors, stified moans and shrieks in the distance, then a curious silence. Ger- ald, still gripping Laurita, found her| now a dead weight in his arms, her | eyes closed, her cheeks more colorless than ever. He laid her gently on a divan and afterward stooped down and picked up the automatic which lay close to Solomon Graunt's right hand. He stood in the middle of the sanded floor peering around and listening. There was no sound whatever inside the lace, which was apparently deserted. ith the pistol in hand, he felt no longer helpless. He stepped back to the door through which they had en- tered and shook it vigorously, only to find that it was locked on the outside. He bent over Laurita for a moment, fancying that he saw signs of returning consciousness. Then suddenly he be- came tense again. From the other side of the door labeled “Private” there came the sound of a faint groan. He crossed . the room and threw it open. The body of Freddy, the proprietor, which seemed to have been propped up on the inside, fell with a dull thud on the sanded floor. Hideous in life, he seemed in death to_be more than normally gro- tesque. Gerald stared at him until he felt his senses beginning to reel. He cried out at the top of his voice, heed- less of the fact that so far as he knew there was no one to hear . Even the silence was not more terrifying than that unexpected response from the dim | ;5 die. recesses of the place—a response in a woman's throaty, drunken tones. “What's wrong, dearie? Hold on a bit and we'll have some light.” Amazingly then from the gloomy eorner of the room came & horrible and incongruous sound—a little hiss and the discordant rufi:‘ of a cracked record upon an ancient gramophone: “Way down in Tennessee, ‘That's where I love to be—" Lights unexpectedly shot out all around. Gerald stared about him wild- ly. The room, clearly visible now. a |dignifi scene of chaotic disorder, with over-| turned tables, counters, scattered upon | the floor, broken glass, thin streams of liquor sucked in by the sawdust, was empty save for a drunken woman seat- ed by the side of the gramophone and to its strains, “What a night!” she called out. *Eve! s dead, and I can't stop this b—y instrument!” Exhausted with her. effort at the switches, she collapsed across the bench upon which she was seated. The : gramophone continued wheezing out its appalling melody. Suddenly from -outside came sounds of blissful promise —the tramp of heavy footsteps. fragments of face gleamed in the background. Gerald welcomed both hystericalle The sense of relief iwas almost overpowering. % “You're too late” he called out—"too late! Three dead men and a crazy “woman! Can't some one stop that ‘blasted instrument?" They paused for a moment at the top of the narrow, cobbled street, im- <perfectly lit, leading as it seemed into ipools of darkness. Above the warehouse and the house beyond, the spire of the cathedral, clean-cut, more than ever impressive by reason of its near pi fmity, stood vividly out in the c ‘Winter twilight. There were stars in the clear sky, a suggestion of frost in the air. The warmth of the city, whose main arteries they had just quitted, with its crowded pavements, its brilliantly lit electric cars, its ©of humanity, had Jeft themt with little glow. “So this is where you the lighted ways, Martin, in search of romance?” Bl che observed, for a moment behind and then forward into ohstcurlzyA . . “What possessed me I can' e, he reflected. “Three nights out of four the other tmnr would have contented me. On the fourth there was always something that wanted to escape.” “I don't suppose you could have really been satisfied with your life,” she ob- served. “I don’t suppose I was,” he admitted. “On the other hand, it is amazing what ‘philosophy .can do toward reconciling us to al . As soon as & thing is .or becomes : inevitable we it. Somet {nside us seems automatically to be wor toward adaptation.” “You've‘carried out your own theory pretty well,” she remarked, “with the second development in your life, I mean, not the first. * * * Don't hurry. ‘like to walk slowly down this qualut street. I like to try to imagine the thoughts which must have bern passing through your brain vhen the door you were admiring flew open and you were ! mmmmmmmw The Fortunate Wayfarer§| - By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Copyright by E. Phillips Oppenheim AR | Y daughter, 1 belicve,” he said, bowing to Laurita. “A momentous meeting, | One which a few | ojoan “collar—I'm not sure that it The | for?” he asked. It had seemed simple enough In that| moment of inspiratios seen uttered his eager exclamation seemed to | bring things to a sudden crisis. ! preciate the metaphysical side of it.” ie assured her. “I must have looked a priceless idiot when I wandered into that dining room. I was smoking a fag which your uncle hated and I was w ing the clothes I had worn all day pull- ing my samples about. I hadn't even wasn't a flannel one “You were living,” she mused, “in ac- cord with your circumstances. The way | you have adapted yourself to the new ones, though, proves that there must tent.” f “But have 17" he queried, a little dubiously. "I sometimes have a most depressing feeling of not belonging any- where, of passing through the world as it were sufferance.” “Idiot!” she scoffed. They had reached with loitering foot- steps the long front of the house-with its great stretch of wall beyond. They st.od before the carved oak door. | Martin pushed the bell and in a mo- ment Mallowes made his appearance, and, recognizing them, stood on one side | with a deferential smile. Blanche led | the way across the hall. “They haven't commenced to lay the table yet for dinner, have they, Mal- lowes?” she inquired. ““Not yet, my lady.” the man answered. “In about half an hour we shall be be- ginning.” Blanche beckoned Martin to follow her into the room and closed the door. She turned on the lights in the some- what gloomy but impressive apartment, and led the way to the round table. “Sit exactly where they placed a chair for you,” she directed—"and where was uncle?” He explained and she seated herseif | in the host's place. i “I can see them all here,” she mur- mured. “Gerald at the other end of the table, sulky and ill-tempered, you looking absolutely bewildered and I ex- pect a little awkward just where you are, Mr. Borden by your side and Dr. Helsby opposite. You must have won- dered in those first few minutes what was going to happen.” “I did, indeed.” he admitted. “Why shouldn’t 12 I don't suppose anything lllke that ever happened to any one be- ore. “No, I suppose not. Uncle rather sur- passed himself in eccentricity that night. i He looked upon it as his last fling, vou lkenow. ‘_He really thought he was going “That's why I felt afterward I ought to have made him have the money back again, or most of it.” “Ridiculous!” she exclaimed. “Ard- rington can keep itself up all right, and Gerald and Laurita will have all they want even if she persists in refusing to touch her father's money.” “I shan't be obstinate abeut it,” Mar- tin said. “I don't really want to part with the money at all. "It isn't that I am exactly a lover of luxury. Poverty wouldn'; be so bad if it weren't so un- ed.” “I occasionally feel like that,” she: agreed, “when I have to make my last Winter’s ccat do. Still there are com- pensations. Great wealth, for instance, leads one just as far into the quagmure. Senseless extravagance is imiore undig- nified even then grovelin penur{i Not that I've brought you in here to talk of such things!” She leaned forward to smell the roses which filled a great bowl in the middle of the table. She had unfastened her fur coat and the dull scarlet of her gown formed a wonderful spot of color | in the darkened room. “What did you want to come in here “1 wanted to sit in the chair where my uncle sat when he christened you ‘the Fortunate Wayfarer,’” she con- fided—"“to have you sit by my side and ask you—-" . “Well?” ! It needed all her resolution to go on | . The seldom light in Martin's eyes as he had “To ask you,” she continued, “whether 1, too, could not contribute>” “More than your uncle a thou- sand times, more than any cne else in the world—but think—how should 1 dare—" 1 Those long arms which he had won- derad at and coveted for so long were around his neck. Her lips were close to his, her eyes shining with that whole and wonderful truth. Even.in the mo- ment of his ecstacy he seemed to live it all through again. For a single second he was the bewildered young man of the t listening to the words which re- leased him from hic bondage: a flash of the wheel of time and he was gathering greedily, passionately into his life the Greater Fortune. Lord Ardrington was seated in an easy chair in his very episcopal-looking library, reading the Times and waiting for the cocktail which was always brought to him with the dressing gong. “Shut that door.” he begged without looking around. “This house is full of | damned - draughts. Fortunately Ard- rington will be ready for us tomorrow." They came into the circle of lamp- light. ~He laid down his newspaper. “Well?” he asked. Blanche nodded. “I had to do it myself,” she confessed, | “but it's all right.” 3 Lord Ardrington held out & hand fo Martin and accepted his niece’s kiss.| Then as he rose to his feet a sudden whimsical eflmmn crept into his face. | Once more Martin fancied that he could see him in his place at the head of tne dining table—an elderly eccentric, giv- ing away a fortune for a caprice. His smile broadened. “A divorce, too! I'd love to be there invited to enter. The symbolism of it all is most attractive.” 1 wasn't of mind to ap- and Modernizing All The great demand for moderately priced first-class hearing aids cat a group of earphone experts to form a company and to engage in the ac- quisition and rebuilding of all avail- able discarded and shopworn devices. They are being rebuilt from the ground up and with the best material obtainable. The_finished product is equal to new. In fact, the instruments turned out cannot be distinguished from the ones put on the market by their re- spective manufacturers. The instru- ments are sold to the public at one- half off current list prices. Earphones do not bring about a cure. Their action, however. is bene- ficial because the vibratory effect B T ———e afforded the users causes the breaking up and pulling apart of adhesions. This has a tendency of retarding progressive deafness. The greatest difficulty, that is, the selection of the proper type an style, is largely eliminated when those in need of a hearing aid can test and compare a collection of practically all known types. 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