Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1928, Page 28

Rescue of SYNONSIS. Alan Dighton. an adventurer with an ex- llent war record, is summoned by his old jef. Sir lan Taverner. high up In the London an's deputy, has been killed ome Service. Corlitt, Sir in “the baronet's he e invention of bors, & chemist, and when Dighton ar- rives Corlitt's corpse is rapidiy disinte- grating. leaving benind it a blue powaer. Sir lan expjains that every country 13 Eairope is trying to get controi over tne new waapon, and to this end he is trying to set 1n_touch with ‘Emile Daudot. While Alan is left alone in the house he finds a with the initiais “E. D.” n it, and while examining it he is econfronted by an intruder. waom he knocks downstairs and flees {rom the rooms just me 0 escape the fumes which caused Corlitt's death. Alan goes o a night clul with Sir Ian and the baronst's miece, Greta Haye. While there he meets Marney, Sir lan's right-hand mai makes & great impression on Grei he tells her he 1s leaving the next day Ian s send im s and disc of 1 lizard, in sold f Daudol's sweet- s Da (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) INSTALLMENT VIL IGHTON'S brain was working very quickly now. dot were two distinct entities. Daudot, driven to desperation by the fruits of his own extravagance. had become the tool of the masked assassins, had engaged in some gigantic robbery and gone to London to dispose of the spoil. Hearing of his intended visit to Tav- Lizare erner, the had suspected & scheme to double-cross him. Some- where between Paris and London Dau- | dot had met his death; then Corlitt, | who had been a visitor to the Rue des | Acacias, and now this Laroche woman. | He had many motives for removing Corlitt, and it was possible Daudot’s mistress knew too much. He waited for some seconds fo. that | got, door to open, waited with his finger on | jnjtials would not suggest anything. | the trigger and every muscle in his| body tense. | A revolver shot would disturb the | entire building, bring the concierge | flying up the outer stairs, send a score | of shrieking tenants to their windows, but Dighton nad no intention of hold: ‘hl ing his hand for that. He knew only too well the temper of the man he had to deal with, and the value of getting his round in first. | Still keeping his eyes on the door, he | stepped bec] across the room and | threw open the French windows. They opened onto the same balcony es those of the next room, overlooking the main thoroughfare. His action gave a second Eolm by which he might be attacked, ut the fumes that filtered in through every crack had to be dispersed by the first means available. In a little while his hiding place was wrapped in a blue mist, pungent, as- flvxhum. Driven to the outer air, he & glance in at the next win- dow. His first attempt, screened by curtains and volumes of tinted vapor, revealed little. A second look assured him that he had witnessed a repetition of the Park lane tragedy, and that save for the prone figure of Mile. Laroche the room was empty. Something attracted his attention to the street. A figure was in the act of leaving the huilding—a dapper man in a gray hat and dark, belted coat. He glanced upwa:d as ton peered over, 80 swiftly that the adaventurer felt that he must have seen him. Crossing the road, he made off in the direction of -Grande Armee. his way back to the . di) &' towel in the water and tied it over his face. A minute ter he had invaded the death chamber By Edmund Snell. Thrilling Story of a Young Secret Service Man's Battle With Crime and by a new chemical | The Lizard and Emile Dau-; I Girl in Peril. Ji !lered the concierge. casting his eyes | around him and sniffing suspiciously. “A strange smell, msieur,” he com- plained. “Like chemicals.” | Dighton, itching to get away from ! him, sniffed, too. “Something passing in a cart out- ide.” he sugzested. t would go up | these stairs like a flue.” Leaving the other still pondering | over this possible soiution o a m) |tory, he hurried into the road. ~His | quarry was no longer in sight. He toi- | lowed the trail into the avenue, strained | his eyes seeking for the gray hat in the crowds that throngsd the pavements, and gave up hope altogether at the | Etoile station. | The thing that was uppermost in his %% [mind as he reached his hotel was the importance of leaving Paris as soon as possible. He had left the concierge hot l‘on the track of those fumes. From his ]hrlei conversation with the fellow in | the hall he had adjudged him a prying | busybody, ready to jump to a conclu- | sion at the least suspicion. If the police | were not already in Mile. Laroche's flat, the discovery of the crime was only a matter of hours. Late editions of the evening papers would have it in | glaring headlines, together with de- scriptions of himself and the other | visitor. {nothing _incriminating _in ment. ! s0. |w | from Taverner's study. | of his interview with! | the hatier’s maneger was rather un- | settling. He would read of the tragedy | |in_the papers and remember— | Dighton breathed again. | He had given him the other address —the address of Daudot's home. | 'The memor would never occur to him that he knew } of the ex-detective’s liaison with the dead girl. The police would soon dis-/ cover—even if they were ignorant al-! | ready—that the rent was paid by Dau-i The presence of a hat with his Dighton packed the hat and coat he | had worn and substituted a cap and Burberry. It was not until he glanced in the mirror over his dressing tabl> that he noticed that his hands and lnrellxend were tinged a delicate shade ol us! In the little office on the first floor he found a railway time table. The De Luxe train wes due to depart a 5:10. Glancing 2t his watch, he di covered he had barcly 25 minutes to reach the Gare de Lyon. In a little more than 12, hours he would be across the frontier. He decided to bolt for it. | The crowd at the booking office ! seemed endless. He looked at his watch | a dozen times beiore he reached the | guichet and pought a first-class ticket, | with suppplement, from a leisurely booking-office clerk. { It was the porter, however, who! caught him that train. A little, sturdy fellow blue-smocked and numbered, with pieces of baggage hooked all over him which he applied to the crowd by the barrier after the manner of a bat- tering ram. ! Five minutes later Dighton, gulping for breath, was standing in the corri-| dor of a swiftly moving train, sur-. rounded by suit cases that had been pushed o1 somehow. Blue-smock had | trotted him from one end of the plat- form to the other to achieve this miracle, not omitting at the very limit | of the course to shout his thanks for | | the handsome tip that had heen passed | to him in a kind of ferewell handshake. | “Bon voyage, m'sieur!” he had velled, | end the smile which accompanied this utterance was expansive. | A sleeping car attendant, suddenly aware of the - Englishman’s . presence. bore down upon the scattered pleces; Barring Daudot’s hat, he had left the apart-| He made a kind of hasty in-| | ventory to assure himself that this was| The paper with which he had| pped the hat was a plain piece taken | partment to himself. waterproof and sat down. Rinsing his il | hand 10 minutes later, he discovered || | that the coloring had provoked a myriad ,of tiny blisters, which, encouraged by the application of warm water, set up | an itching sensation that was the re- | voicing the gruesome details of his An exactly similar | discovery for the benefit of his friends. | verse of pleasant. ‘rflsh showed on his forehead, most of | They would be looking for a tall Eng- which was hidden fortunately by his!lishman and a little man in a blue, f hair. He returned to his srat and dug out ‘nne of the magazines Greta had given !him. But he did not read. He was| ! gazing out ‘of the window at Paris, | Dighton accepted a slip of pink paper | with night creeping over it: Paris, like land pushed it away into a walstcoat |a ghost city wreathed in haze. ~The | !strings of Lghts that indicated the | | thoroughfares hung like fairy things. | idi suspended from nothing. | | apparently | ing, and Dighton had a two-berth com- . He removed his|newsboys ci whether hoarse voices were shout “Horrible murder at Porte He could belted coat and gray -velour hat, The attendant glanced pocket. i3 | They were rattling through the suhurhs,‘Turln. pre ntly and the gloom had deepenet 2/l He wondered whether the sheets the arried bore scare headlines, iting Maillot!” icture the concierge of the house in tge Rue des Acacias standing in the Yoad, wild-eyed and unshaven. in at the doorway to announce that dinner would be served in the dining car at 7 He turned the pages of the magazine would report to Taverner from It would be news to him to learn that Daudot and the lA::hM m ug- l;.l:“ merle—duu noise of & newspaper over the whole ad- ed coming from somewhere venture in cold blood, Dighton could Rt 1 o complices. Turnin, not see that he had achieved much. was satisfied that the ex-detective was dead, although he could not produce proof even of this. He had established that the Lizard’s agents might existed for the purpose of loot. report would assure his chief that bandit’s weapon carried only three maining charges. His memory jerked back to Her end was as tragic as realized that sorry for Mile. Laroche. found in the most unexpecied places and occupations—and that the gang had not been idle, and that the arch- alle. La- roche, the little, painted brunette, who had been so frightened when he called. his own might have been—if the Lizar' had he was there. He was A sudden sound aroused him from THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1928.° almost at his elbow. He be | corner seat. a smile. His e he re- exclaimed Dights (To be continued tomorrow.) lanta Constitution. PIDILIBRIBILIBILIBRIBIBIBL Regularly $39.50 denim cloth. 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