Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1929, Page 27

THE EVENING THE VICARION (Copyright, 1928, by Public Ledger) | merely uncovered his cyes, seared white las a fishs belly, and said, “Look what B ] | you done to me, Cheff!” and dropped | . g | thudding to the floor. | | Spike Honer died from blood-poison- Garclner | ing. The details were horrifying. And H o B | Brainard lcamed that Jeffry Honer esé! 2 icaped afier arrest. But he caved | unting. nothing for that. He had what he | | wanted. He recorded it again and again | sion the improtements on the movie. faces ruin. but whe I ds of the eompany. call on him, are con- uid llis Norman. siration of the looking on. A stran in the operator who made record. but gains no informa- n him. He orders Van Winkle to ate the maxing of the bomb Brain- ard profeets one of the three rer n bembs eontaining the woodia which the girl with whom he is & appears and decides the records were v Jeffry Honer, a criminal whom he has emploved. (Continued from yestercay's Star) INSTALLMENT XXIIIL RAINARD had long ago dreamed of reaching beyond the earth atmosphere and looking upon what might be oecurring, or have occurred. in other ~—Mars, Venus, Mercury, the moor he had found that no answer ca his broadcast calling. he could 1at gauge exac o enormous d.clances involved or because records in any atmosphere which sur- pheres than the earth were le of dupli g selves across intervening s be picked up by his present crude densers. He did not give up hope tha he might one duy stand vicarious! upon whatever surfaces there might b of the North or Neptune, but all he succeeded in getiing as records of their affairs were photographs from upper ranges of the earth’s own atmos- phere. He could record what sun and moon and stars would look like to the eye from there. Wonderiul enough, but paltry achievements compared (o his hopes. He had not even anncunced | them—to a public sufficiently interested | in terrestrial doing to let heavenly fairs alone for a time. | Terrestrial matters sufficiently ab- | sorbed him now. Anything else would wait till he should find Jeffry Honer. As he had told Phylils. the man had disappeared. H2 had simply not come to work on the morning following that | on which he had met Brainard in the hall—and smiled. He could be followed | a little w to and from a recent | boarding place— beyond, through a brief stay at a small hotel-—back of that| through an arrival in the city from a | railway train. But in the train itself, | at its various stopping places, all the | way back to its siarting point, he was | invisible. That arrival in Santa Monica | was recent—but many of his movements | since then were lost in darkness of the | nights when he chose to move about. | t was only two or three nights after Phyllis’ visit, however, that he stum- bled upon a clue. He had shut himself | up persistently in his studio and worked over the condenser till he was nearly austed, and this n he had ropped back in his chair and fallen | into a doze. He woke th & curlous | memory before his mind's eye. He was | seeing Honer as he stood the private office on the day he had come to ex- plain the unlabzled bombs. Van Winkle | had ushered him in. He had told his | little story and was awaiting Brainard's | reaction to it. Brainard now recalled | an cdd action of his; Honer had glanced aside to where Van Winkle | and had almost immediately put | hand to his own chin, rubbed the | new beard there and looked subtly relieved. ‘The movement had meant nothing to | Brainard when first cbserved. Now it instantly suggested an assoclation of ideas which transformed his indiff ence to Van Winkle's little mystery | into keenest interest. The train of thought, once started. was like a broadcast vibration; it caught everything that it touched to which it ‘was keyed. Brainard found himself re- membering the robbery scene in the Norman library, and how Honer had Iooked into the glass bow! containing the miniature from Van Winkle's lost career. The man had been frightened. This fact Brainard had previously set down to his seeing the liitle scene itself—enough to terrorize most men Ferdinand Mortimer and Jerry | »2 | rection. - | persistence he % |backward the course of the boat to an that meeting between the brothers ! at the house door. And after studying Honer’s habits for a time he took Ushigi |one night and they motored together out a rough mountain trail. They | found the cabin locked, but they forced | the door. When they left, Brainard | fastened a note on the door with a pin. It said: “Don't be sore I busted in thinkin® be sick what. Will be up| night. Hence his fright had some deep- er origin. Curious how one could overlook such a thing: but there had been other things to think of then. Now Van Winkle's story, which had scemed a | commonplace Tepetition of its kind, of- | | fered endless possibilitles for associa- tion with that of a crook like Honer. | And Brainard began making records on the beach, all around the index of that one he had called Van Winkle's resur- He spent hours, and more [hours, at it. But at the end of long wrenched out of the gloom of that night a burial scene—in which three d: figures put a fourth iimp and unconscious, into the sand from which Van Winkle afierward had been seen to rise. Here was something normal enough. | rsistently he followed | {you mite ‘l[lfi“l"' | “That night in his studio once more {he set his condenser for Honer's cabin {and 9 o'clock. Then he waited till 10 |and made a record. He found Honer just coming in with a sack of supplies. scowlin the note he had taken off | his door on as he had made a light by which to see. He saw the man shrug | presently, toss the note into the dead | fireplace ‘and take & bottle out of his bag. Pouring a drink into @ tin cup, he i g d | was about to swallow it when he stopped s away down the beach tll| g gqenly, listened, then took a back- | 4 d into the lights of a street | yarq step away from his door, as if h 5 ted. One of them Was|jcarq approaching steps there. Next | Honer-—without his beard. Then Brain- | jngtant however, he dropped his slop- rd went back and patiently recorded | ping splashing cup on the table and nd watched the arrival of a boat oil|yrabbed at the back of a chair, his beach. from which the burial party S 0PRE S 0 AR GELD and his what they seemed to cousider | gl o ‘gui,m gray with fright. And corpse. Beyond that he followed | pn : Rl it onine release-timing device, ghosily echo of the! cord as the dead | ain Lo the broger | oyed him, “Lock what e, Cheff!” and thudded took ihe | thene ! devious W by motor down_from the finally 2 looked once mo r faces b Jamplight in a cabin hidden far bac among the rocks. | He dropped them instantly here, | O the floor. shutting off his projector and rushin; Brainard, alone in his studlo, felt the T his condenser. "1ie hod leaped to the | icy chill as if the other man's terror conclusion {hat such a hiding place as|had spread out to him like a frasen this, once frequented. would ‘unques. | Wind. He had himself only partially lionably be sought again by a man who |Tealized the power of the weapon he Wanfcd nomugaiment. {used. In the instant he watched Honer Having the location index, he set his Atanding there, staring into the empty timer within the present hour, and | freplace in ol h g he gaw | found Jeffry Honer now once more in [BOW rightly men have believed in| as he had guessed, ¢ man who saw and heard | cter, famillar as he was with new trick by which a man might |look into another's life, having experi- himself. |enced & taste of the whip it put for 'd and | him o an enemy’s hand, was not i o e parts of & © prepared for this. He was alone in an had actually been carried off plecemeal | Lolated spot at night, miles from an- from a Storage Toom downstairs, and |Other Luman =~ belng. two vears after | that Honer might actually have in his | 1is brother’s death. And what he sa possession much of the material to &nd heard was not so much something make his enterprise a success. Brainard | Bramnard had made; perhaps for the exulted. He exulted in this first test of |first time in his life he was victim of his weapon. He did not trouble to trace | that older trick nv which a man looks the aethod Wwhich he had been |DACK upon & record in memory's mys- robbed. He could do that at his leisure. | He had well in mind the meihod by | which he hoped to reach the man, and | he cared little for the machine, ‘The | game was exciting enough to make him forget his weariness and nearly every thing else. For days then Ushigi had to foree uvon him things to eat. Night afier night he awoke to find that he had | fallen asleep over his machine. But | day after day and night afl ight he | worked on. He began by searching the | little mountain cabin, among the effects | of the man who sat there absorbed in work and utterly unconscious of the forces in movement around him. He | found what he wanted at last—a clue | to a past career—in an old letter bear- | ing a postmark of a Nevada town.| Broadeasting there, he at last picked | up Honer again—the Honer of two!]} years previous—in jail. It was easy | then to learn the accusation that had | put him there, and Brainard came upon | a piece of unnaturdl cruelty that chilled | even his accustomed nerves. It appeared at length that Jeffry | Honer and a brother of his, most fre- quently called 8 had been rivals to for the favor of the same girl--a pretty little brainless thing she was, happler | when her flirting with the two had | Ward" Off hkrungluI its hlfi_r*ous refiun xt,mm’ ewgrl u&i 1 1 - their ovemaking, thou 4 P, an, she hud| ERQH uenza seemed partial to Spikz. This was @& rough, hard- decent- | spoken chap, to an outsider’s eye and | ear at least—an outsider who luoked upon and listened to his doings and his words some two years after ihem and some hundreds of miles away. The story was long and fragmentary as Bralnard got it, but it ended in a night when Brainard watched Jeffry Honer leave a tin box in the path by which his brother would came home from calling on the girl. And he saw Spike Honer later pick it up and open it to look inside—and explode a charge of flashlight powder in his eyes. Afterward he saw the scene in which within Spike Honor who had d | you done to and ard condenser. He could hardly contain Even after he had S’trenq_tfi OVER 73 YEARS OF SUCCESS ENTERPRISE SERIAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION Tth St. & La. Ave. N.W. 61st Issue of Stock Now Open for Subscription .Money Loaned to Members upon coming upon it unawares. Bul Honer had al known something | when | Norman home—he me of its bombs tha he had come to th had even stolen KNQ L3 Spike Honer came home, nearly deliri- ous with pain, staggering, fumbling | along familiar ways till he reached his | door—and brother. And| rainard heard what the stricken man on Easy Monthly Paymeats James E. 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He went to his condenser and that made his own heart slow in its|set it to record more scenes in beating and then pound heavily till the | mountain cabin. e It was not & | He had alceady spent half (he night the over the task. other's fate might some time be de-|in his chair, again exhausted, and s tected and traced by the same terrible |rushed over him like surf over a pr means he had used to strike. not that he newly recognized the fact |told him it was 3 in the morning. that his grasp of world sway committed | purr of his condenser had auiomati- him to viclence as a constant future|cally stopped. It was the certainty | bomb from the machine and put it into the 8u Iy d4? heart. dead? But it pulse gur danger factor in that he I lay only o | covered " dials, and in this one ma brain? Here was Viecarlon! his multi] within But a things! th ga Sc m, man ‘The very liquor such men now: days bought | Buch terror might easily rupture a spent | solved, r Suppose that estimating the very forces with which | | he dealt. {he mean buried the madly Auother thought swept in upon him. the little six-square realm of three dimensions. NGTON, ips. Then he wavered and some vital weakness un- It would scarcely be surpris- and diank was poison. were | Jeffry Honer | was not the idea that his re- man gled in his ears. his own hand in his life. had crudely bungled by under- | the projector. looking again into that other lonely, Then they faced each other. sald Mortimer, | won't butid a Brainard condenser for Had he sealed the very lips t to open? coveted secret that| ridiculously in those something out of reach of the | air. Out of reach! He had sud- |cabin door. denly touched & boundary of his power|else had been there. “the power he had begun to think was (had already come and gone. Timiticss, With all the mighty range of |else had come and looked at the man | ural death plica sense he was still bound (on the floor and left him there. Why | up with dissipation. sirong as he looked. | ad the condenser not Tecorded thal? | Natural enough with his sort.” | Brai i Mortimer stood stil, looking down at | of this apostrophe, cared not a all—now! | The commisaion is g After a moment he shook his . | S e S et “Now we'l 11 men were so D. C., TUESDAY, become his heart's desire—that also lay |and another had already begun. The that envelope he gave you" he sug- within this realm—his realm! to fend off panic He would make a means to find her. If {u Honer were dead, he would waste no| time on him. would take her where he found her.| It was | trate bather. quiet_room so_ intimately, significantly | Had he forever |linked with this “The body of Jeffry Honer still lay on cloth- | the floor of the cabin as it had fallen. | n's | The kerosene lamp which the man had |lighted on his table still burned there. But iis blaze flickered in & current of | He's not marked?” Brainard looked Instantly at the | |1t could only be because, in the rayth-| bound—all | mic separation of even And the ihing that had newly fo reckon with. that e FREEZE ANUARY He tried | door was open th bold declaration. |to return? He would find his wood- | outslde He must find her. 1T thery b he had re-| there could be but Belter to caaterize than tering wound. Boldly re g. comforting! He rose from car, lard of the Eehind him e cregseless clothes hat | in Lis power! It would take lard on stiffly with Ballard put man's breast and “He's throug He threw himself dow: ole When he awoke his walch The | litely little steel He took the In A& moment he Wwas pushed and rolled “Well,” us now."” ‘ln\ld It was open. Some one | over. Some one else | amined. e had learned | the body. sode was erd>d head slightly. There is no machinery to this really modern refrigeration. A tiny silent gas flame does all the work No MovVING PARTS No VIBRATION No SOUND No WEAR O DD how time changes things. It wasn't very long ago that e best homes were lighted by s. Then in came electric lights and out went gas. Today, gas is again on top. sience has found another job that it can do best, in addition to providing heat. Strange enough, the new use is to provide cold. Thus you can now cook food or cool it, boil water or freeze it, simply and economically with gas. And the product that has ade this paradox possible is Electrolux, the gas refrigerator. 29, 19 . Was some one about | Bralnard's gase fastencd n it and his ears strained for sound:. e heard a step scuff on the gravel outside on that mountain path, For | 20 miles away, four hours ago. within appeared, carrying in his hands a green s0, he |automobile robe, which he was shaking out, as if he had just taken it from a 1t concealed his face momentar! He was Jerry B late Complete Tiusiol Moving spirit of & d:funct monopoly. me his partaer in his These two obscure, rough mountain cabin, at mid- night, according to his timing, in obvi- ous relation to the affairs of the man who had tried to hold Radley Brainard ‘Then he lowered it. ‘They bent over Honer together—Bal- his knees, hand on fingers on hook his head. " he sald aloud. Mortimer swore softly, smoothly, po- in a voice which had probably never rasped in his life. Balluti spread the robe, the body upon It.| Mortimer “Soniebody else wilL" returned Bal- “You think he—just died naturally? | “Not so far as I saw In lookin, We'll have him pretty well es-|throat any longer, you also know that | But looks to me like & case we have!” Some one | of heart collapse—Iif you call that nll-‘ He was probably all shot T And Mortimer, who had bly never gested. before used his muscles to such An ex- “I've been wondering." réturned his tent, carry the inért figure wri in partner. “You remember what elab- | the automoblle out of the it inty orate precautions he took in writing | the mountain midnight, and saw the his memorandum? In the da-k - sealed | Jittle inlerior fade AwAy inbo Mvisibility in the dark. It he was so afraid that | Then he got up from his -chair And Brainard could read it the tustant light :tod for & long moment considering. fell upon it, how are we going to read hen he laughed. He stretched his it without Brainard seeing it?" arms wbove his head and let out all the “ER?" Mortimer frowned, T big muscles ot his toreo in & mighty thought of that. But Bri weliel. And laughed again. The aserst - {have to find the exact time and place | was not lost. Somewhere it lay record- in which the thing opened and | ed, where Mortimer and Ballard could | read in order to make a record of it | put their hands upon it. If they could, “He found the time and place in so could he! which we discussed buying him out." Astouishing, ludicrous predicament! “Yes, but he was forewarned and we Would they be ingenious enough to find were nol, then " a method for looking at any memoran- “Don L you ihink he is trying to watch dum writien by human hand wichout Honer now?" osing It to his gaze? And if so, “Of course. But fancy the detail in- ‘They had no eondenser in watching us all the time! o ho operator now. Brainard had you could go and get that en- oniy to send for the stolen machine: e taey colld not p him without in- ctiminating themselves. And he would find means of warning operators of his machines inst disloyaity. 2 Once again he laughed. ‘Then he in turn burst into apostrophe to an invis ay will be—-use insi v ble auditor. Al right, Mr. Mortime: ch?” said M mer ugain. Then | he cried. “I won't try to put into ysur he laughed mellowly. ‘Turning half | lives any ghost that you can sée. Il away [rom his partner he looked to- | merely haunt you with one that een- ward the open door as if thinking of | tinually sees you. An unséén ghest | an unseen auditor hiding there. (hat sees!™ he raised his voice in apostrophe: - vight, Mr. Bralnard,” he deciaimed (To be continued tomorrow.) . A man n an leanin the table the prostrate | velope But Ballard held up his hand. “Listen, Mottimer,” he said, smiling his frost smile. “It occurs to me that ard ever looks in upon this s 15 going on here now, everythi ‘The two ! “this fellow “What's said is said. Bul we still hold | your secret- Honer'’s secret. If you him | know that he hasn't got vou by the| Named on Water Commission. MEXICO CITY, January 20 (). They cared as little for the accidental | FOreunato Dozal, Gustavo P. Serrano death of the mere tool who had served | 8nd Ignacio Looes have been Appointéd | ihelr purpose as Brainard did. And | as delegates of the Mexican section of | Brainard, in his atudio, unseen auditor | the International Water's Commissien He ed cut the remainder of the | garding the distribution of waters Ballard | the Colorado and Rio Grande Rivérs. n_the cabin. 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