Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1928, Page 35

= 8 BL NOPSIS. | an adventurer With an| is summoned’ by his | Sir Ian Taverner. high up in the Lon- @on secret service. Corlitt, Sir Ian's deputy, has been killed the baronet's home by a new chemical | Weapon, the invention of Ahlborg, a chemist. and when Dighton arrives Corlitt's corpse is rapidly disin- tegrating. leaving behind it a blue powder Sir Ian explains that every country in Europe is trying to get control over the new weapon. and to this end he is Lrsing | to_get in touch with Emile Daudot. While Alan is left alone, in the house he finds a hat with the ini- tials “E. D in it and while examining it | "an intruder whom he Alan Dighton, exceliont v i Sl chjey, " Tecord to es ed Corlitt's deat | club with Sir Ian and the bar-| e | Greta Have While there he meets Marnes. an American and Sir fans right- | hand man Alan makes a great impi Sreta, but he tells her he is leav- e nome of Daudot's sweet- % "“While he talks with the | ) ‘there 15 & knock at the door and | Fienion is 'shoved into another room. A | few moments later he hears the sharp hiss | t The mrl is killed ist as Corlitt was. = Alan flees from the houge in the wake of a man whom he loses | i ‘the crowd He takes a train for Turin | 3hd 'finds Marnes in his compartment. | &hes discuss the killings and decide Daudot | ha vicHim. = Alan goss to Rapalld. | and in his hotel elevator he meets an, a Pasquall, a woman Marney told en _the two men parted. As <ing with her on a seaside | heart in Par M him to meet he was conv clitt The Lizard. a supercriminal in control ©of the Pocket Death. stalks them. Dighton | Tapples with the Lizard, gains posession of ceapon _and t sea. ng that Depmann, the Gel sgent. is staging a raid on Ahlbors's estate, hrows the man into the | an an and Marney horn in on the party. INSTALLMENT XVIL (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) OFMANN was uneasv. Marney | knew that. He was looking ap- prehensively round him in the direction from which the bark- ing came. The American crossed to the other | side of the road and took up his posi- | tion by the stone pillar on which a gfl!e, was hung. He had caught some of Dighton'’s fever now; he was just itch- ing to do something. Dictates prompt- ed by long experience barely managed to hold him in. He would have liked to have plugged Dopmann, if only | for the cold-blooded murder of the lodgekeeper. There were servants inside that house, three of them at least, and all men. Marney knew that as well as he knew the geography of the There were two assistants—chemists or something of the kind—lodged in a kind of offshoot behind the laboratories. They had tasted raids before; Langley, Dighton’s predecessor, had made one estate end there had been other less success- |* ful attempts. Waiting out there in the night, trying to follow Dighton's cours!' through' the rooms in his imagination. | his enthusiasm for an invasion on his | own account waned. From an ordi- | nary house with ordinary outbuildings the Villa Sabino had built itself up un- til it resembled the rock of Gibraltar. | He kept pulling out that great gun | metal chronometer of his and pushing | it away egain. So little time had elapsed between their arrival outside and the time when he examined it | that he held it to his ears and listened, believing that it mist have stopoed. Another five minutes found him del- uged with perspiration. If something did not happen shortly he felt he should go stark, raving mad. i Dopmann was moving along the side ! of the house now, trying to find a| shutter that would yield, still apprehen- sive of those hounds. A dry chuckle | escaped Marney's lips. The windows were top high up and the German's| efforts to obtain an entry by them were | as graceful as those of an elephant. | Another figure, appearing round the side of the house nearest the German, | came suddenly face to face with him. Dopmann was on him like a 'shot and they rolled to" the ground together. There was a ‘prolonged 'struggle this time, for the newcomer had been half prepared. In the midst of it an upper window flew open and & ‘head and shoulders were thrust out.” Some one was shouting in Italian.' Marney was beginning to get anxious. | The alarm was Taised with a vengeance, | they would have telepharied * Ahlborg | by this time—unless the astute Dop-| mann had found means of cutting’ the wires. Half the palice in Rapallo’would be on the scene presently. And then a climax came which he | had almost forgotten to expect: The| . German had mastered his man and re- | . treated from him, apparently undecided | whether to make a further attempt at E have bought you $1( MURDER 'y Edmund Snell. Thrilling Stors 'of & Young Secret Service Man's Battle With Crime and Rescue of Girl in Peril. | there, for it passed its intended victim | ground in a crumpled heap. | entering or retreat while the road was | clear. Something fired at him from| the upper window—a revolver which| spat twice and missed each time. And then a stray Alsatian, separated by the | nois> from the main pack, came at| Dopmann like a long, avenging shad- | R Marney caught his breath. The brute was in the midst of its) spring _when the German loosed his| shot. The impetus that had launched the creature from the path was Su"l by inches only and floundered to the | Everything began happening at once. Dopmann was running toward the gate, | white-faced and panic-stricken, with a wounded thing as savage as a wolf loping on three legs after him. Marney had never seen so much fear in a} man's eyes before. A crash of glass from one of the outbuildings hailed the re-appearance of Dighton, carrying a bulky elongated object in his arms.| Twenty paces from the main building he drew up abruptly, disintegrating a punch of wolfhounds that had sprung from nowhere with a fresh weapon he had just unearthed. Marney was stamping to and fro with suppressed excitement. The weapon he carried was pitifully obso- lete, us: against the odds that were multiplying themselves momentarily on the other side of the gates. He had made up his mind what he was going to do. Cold-blooded murder was ab- horrent to him, but there were more reasons than one whv Dopmann’s body should be found in the vicinity of the Villa Sabino. The German agent had conceived this raid, conceived it and carried it out—up to a point. It was up to Digh- ton and himself to divert attention from themselves. If they found Dop- mann dead in the road, they would | think that one of the shots from the window had been responsible. Dighton had disappeered again, pur-| suing the same tactics, no doubt, as he had tried on entering. There was only the German in view; with the lone dog gaining on him. Marney's finger was on the trigger Dy S 6 RADIOLAS 229 R Another Nationally & Known Product %fi 2 ST G RET T S ENUF : in out of the wet! BUT even Noah couldn't keep his roof dry! We have that advantage over him! 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C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1928. 25 T when the hidden batteries of the willa| A blue ray, gigantic and dazzling in, its intensity, swept the drive from to end. It was a mircie how it missed | Marney. He knew, rather than saw, that Dopmann had fallen and that th dog had found a sudden end to its mis.ry. He had witnessed something veal, something that had cleansd up two living forms as if they had been merely shadows, that put the Pocket Death into the veriest chade. The hidden battery fired on2 hissing reeking round and was silent. Dazad and choking, Marney stumbled the ditch on the far side as th> note of an electric horn smote upon his ears and Ahlborg's white car drew to a standstill outside the gates. Marney had been right police. The white saloon w with them. An officer of c2 on a motor-bicycle arrived bafore chauffeur had time to cpen the gates headlights flashed all along the road. the main traffic-way from R2pallo. Moving cautiously, h» worked his way along the ditch, going back ovei the ground by which he and Dighton had come. There was a lump in his throat as car after car parked outside the villa emitting an ever-swelling throng of armed men. It had been a chance of a lifetime—and Dighton had taken it It was a thousand pities that, afte magnificent an effort, the hero of evening seemed doomed to find lodg- ing in an Italian jail. The police, who had entored the gates in_a body, were backing out again. There was a hitch somewhere A sudden frenzy of barking announ-ed that they had encountered the re- mainder of the pack. Ahlborg war bellowing at the top of his voice, shout- ing to somebody to tis them up. Marney shuddered. He wondered if the brutes had outmaneuvered his colleague before turning their atten- tions upon these fresh invaders. Orders were being shouted cn all sides. The officer whose motor cycle was now propped against the gatepost upon which the American had been leaning had brought half a dozen men back into the road and was giving them instructions accompanied by ges' their Marney read meaning without difficulty. They were to examine the ground in the vicinity of the estate, to challenge anybody they found lurking there and to fire if any wayfarer sought to elude them thos2 | had got to trek! end | som=t to re- | of men, ken, athlet intc | | he could find. | it was th= taller of Dopmann’s Marney | knew those carabinieri, knew| hing of their sclection and train- | ing, and the amount of money they| had to lodg> with the Government as guarantea ¢f good conduct. In the imation of everybody who knew tham, they stood out as a splendid body ic and dependable. | Marney wanted to wait until all| hope of finding Dighton had vanished or until he had joined him in the lane and they were able to get away togeth- er. That the little American’s personal wi However it might have | appeared to an outsider, it was duty to the country he had elected to serve that prcmpted his headlong flight. To hiove lost so valuable a man as Digh- ton was had enough: for Taverner to ave lost two agents in a single night would have been a tragedy. A quarter of a mile from the villa, with the leashed hounds still barking | in the dis‘ance, and the voices of the| guardians of the law inaudible, h2 sat| down at the foot of a tres, gulping for | breath. There was something strangely famil- iar about the spot, and presently, as his breathing became more normal and | > was able to think rationally, he rec- | cenized th» low hedge opposite and| the gap in it through which Dighton | and h- had passed when the real raid- ing party came up the lane. | He was safe here, he thought. was beyond the zon= of operations for a tims at least. He would smoke in tha shelter of the bushes and wait Dighton, if he came at all, was almost beund to retreat that way. He had brought out that amazin- wallet of his and was in the act of celecting a eigar when something mad- im tuck the thing away quickly and culk into th= blackest patch of shadow | A man was runni down the path with the speed and awk- | ward gait of a stampeding rhinoceros. | Marney reccgnized him in an 1nstantl, col- | leagues, hatless, disheveled and more breathless than he himself had been. He stopped dead opposite Marne; and pressad a hand to his side. “Ach! Himmel!" he muttered locked round him for cover. Bv an awkward stroke of chance he chos> Marney's patch. The American might have been part | of the hodg2 and th2 other did not see | him. Dropping on his hands and knes he crawled inward until hot| finzers touched Marney's face. At this There was no help for it; He He and | \y'\:” '/‘Ql,‘//&v/ NN NN S 2200 NN 2 » oS . & 2 N % @ S S5 % % . 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