Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1929, Page 44

THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGTON, o B Ca: XIARCH 1929-PART % THE RAGGED PRINCESS By Edgar Wallace. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER XVII. EW servants enjoyed the freedom and comfort which were Jim Tonger's. The top floor of the house in Portman square was his own. There he had a bedrodm, a sitting room, a bathroom, specially fitted by his indulgent em- ployer, and here it was his wont to spend long periods of the evening, en- gaged in endless mathematical calcula- tions with the aid of a small roulette ‘wheel; for Tonger had occupied the greater portion of his life’'s leisure in perfecting a system which would one day strike terror and consternation into the hearts of those responsible for the management of the casino at Monte Carlo. He was otherwise engaged that night when the bell over the doorway shrilled, and he went out of the room hurriedly, locking the door behind him, and cam into presence of Lacy Marshalt, who was awaiting him in his study, with greater haste than that gentle- man imagined. “Where the devil have you been?” growled Lacy. “You rang for me in my room—so 1 must have been in my room. I was playing solitaire,” said Tonger. 'm‘ glad you called me, because I've tried | the darned thing thirty times and it hasn't come out. That means bad luck | for me. Have you ever noticed, Lacy, that if you can't work out a game of solitaire nothing goes right with you? 1 remember the day before I found that diamond patch on Hope River I got 2 “demon’ Ppatience out six times in suc- “I want you to let in Mrs. Eiton at 7:45" interrupted Marshalt. “She’ll drive her own car. Be waiting for her and take the machine to the Albert Hall; there’s a concert there tonight. Park it with the others, and after the shn'”u over bring the car straight isn't it, after the you?” Marshalt's eyes narrowed. “What do you know about the letter @t Elton wrote me?” he demand “Oh, you left u{& &b:ut: servant coolly. from leaving it about, I in the drawer of my desk. - Suppose you took it out and read it? 1t doesn’t matter how I saw it—I saw 1t.” said Tonger, “and { tell you that it's dangerous! You don't want | to figure in any court case.” ‘'With you as a witness,” sneered the other. z‘onnr shrugged his thin shoulders, | 'You know I'd never go on to the stand and talk sgainst you, Lacy,” he sald. “That's not my line. But if a fellow like Elton wrote and told me that if I saw his wife again he'd shoot me, why, I'd be interested.” | “Mrs, Elton and I have certain busi- | ness to discuss,” said Marshalt shortly, | ‘The thing is I want you to be out- side the yard gate at a quarter to 8. As soon as Mrs. Elton gets out of her machine you get in and drive off.” ‘So that, ?!odged- being foll i she’s g followed and Wwatched, there's the car at the Albert Hall to prove she was there all the time!” Tonger sald admiringly. “What a brain! Lacy, what did that busy Iellgw w-_l"xt‘.‘k" “I can' eep track of your slang. ‘What does ‘busy fellow’ mean?” i “I'm talking about the detective. I | take naturally to the argot of the country where I'm living. I wish we were in New York,” he sald regretful- | ly: “it’s a richer lan e.” i Marshalt’s lips curled. | “He came to inquire about that crazy man next door,” he said. “Apparently is an enemy of mine.” “Who isn't, Lacy?” asked the other with a sigh. “What have you been doing to him?” | “I don’t know. I haven't the slight- | est idea who he Is, and I'm not wor- ried, I assure you,” said Marshalt care- lessly. “Why did you think he called?” | “Over Mrs. Elton,” said the other coolly. “She's a crook: so is Elton. | Everybody knows that. You cen't touch pitch—not that kind of pitch,without getting your hands black, so black that no Oojah Magic Cleanser can clean it.” | A pause. “I suppose Elton is a crook, but Mrs. Elton is quite innocent——" “So innocent,” broke in Tonger, | “that angels turn down side streets so | )Ill not to feel small when they meet Marshalt checked th: angry retort | that rose to his lips. “That is all,” he said curtly, and then, as Tonger was going, with unex- pected meekness: “I am dining at home tomorrow, and if I have any luck I shall have rather an interesting | guest.” | “Who is she?” asked Tonger, himself | interested. | “I didn't tell you it was a ‘she.’” | “There ain’t any other kind of in-| feresting guest,” sald Tonger coolly. “Have you found that girl?” he asked £uddenly. “The girl you set the private detective to find?” | Marshalt started. | “How did you know?” “I'm a wonderful guesser. Is she | to be the belle of the ball tomorrow?” | “I'm hoping she'll come to dinner. And, by the way, you needn’t be so much in evidence on that occasion, my friend. I want the parlor maid to be | very visible and to wait at table.” “Thus inspiring confidence in the | heart of the young and foolish,” said ‘Tonger. “All right, governor. What time is this woman coming tonight? “Mrs. Elton is coming at a quarter to 8; I told you before. And T'd like you to refer to her in those terms, my | friend good to me.” “You're too sensitive, what's wrong with you,” varting shot. Lacy, that' | roust you, Lacy, because évery man's “This woman’ doesn't sound | was the valet's ' | He was waiting in the dark when the | little car came bounding over the cob- | blestones and jerked to a stop before the door. He helped the slim, muffled | passenger to alight, and, contrary to | his usual practice, did not speak to| her, taking her place in the machine | | and sending it through to Baker street. | | ~As he came out into the main road | his sharp eyes detected a watcher | square and he grinned to himself. It | | may have been a casual party to an | | assignation, but there was something | in the patient pose of the figure which | suggested a_private detective. Possibly | Mr.” Elton was not satisfied that his | | threat would produce the desired effect. . At 11 o'clock he drew out of the | | phalanx of parked cars and made his | rapid way homeward. Almost as soon as he stopped before the back gate of | | 551 the door was opened and the | | young woman came out. | " “Did you sec anybody?” she asked n a low voice. “Anybody you knew?” | “No, ma’am.” said Tonger, and then: “I don't think I should do’ this again | if T were you.” She made no reply, slipping into the | | car and taking her piace at the wheel, | | but Tonger stood with the open door | in_his hand. | “There are some things that are not | 1 “Did You See Anybody’ worth while, ma’am, and this is one of | them.” “‘Shut the door,” she said curtly, and he obeyed and watched the car until its red tail lamps turned the corner. Then he went back to his master. Lacy Marshalt was in his study, standing betore the fire deep in thought. | “Want me any more?” Marshalt shook his head. “Think you’re being clever, Lacy?” ‘The other looked up quickly. “What do you mean?” “Do you think it's clever to fly in the face of Providence over a girl you don't care a whole lot about, unless I mis- understand you?” Instead of the lnflry reply which Ton- ger expected Lacy laughed. “There is such a thing as wantin, the forbidden because it is forbidden,” he said. “These things are not very palatable without the salt of risk.” “Ever tasted salt—neat?” asked Ton- ger. “It’s rotten! I'm not going to got his own idea of what's worth while. But Elton’s the kird that shoots. You can laugh! T know the talkative ones, and I know just how Elton feels, be- cause I've feli that way myself—" “Get out!” snapped the other, and | ‘Tonger went without haste. | Lacy Marshalt's study and bedroom | were on the first floor and were sepa- rated from the rest of the house by a door which cut off a portion of the passage and gave him that complete privacy which his peculiar temperament required. There were moments when he was really unapproachable, and Tonger was quick to recogmze the! symptoms of that particular mood and sufficiently wise to leave his sometime friend in peace while the fit was on. He went back to his room to con- | tinue where he had left off that game | of patience which would not come out. Dora Elton got home to find that her husband, who had been out to dinner, had arrived before her. “Well, was your talk satisfactory?” she asked brightly as she came into the drawing room. He looked up from the sofa on which | he lay at full length and shook his head almost imperceptibly. “No, we shall have to close the es- tablishment. Klein wants too big a share, and he's holding the ‘black’ up as an inducement. I don’t take much notice of that.” He pulled at his cigar thoughtfully. “Klein knows that there isn't much money to be had out of the police for shopping a gambling house. There are too many of them. Still, I'd hate to close Pont street, because it brings steady money and big money, and it’s got the kind of clientele that makes a straight game profitable.” He looked at his watch. “I was expecting Stanford. Do you want to see him? He's returning from Italy.” She was taking a cigarette from a silver box on the mantelpiece. “I don't care,” she said indifferently. “Do you want a private interview?"” | “No,” he said after thought.. “I saw | Audrey tonight.” “Where?” She looked at him in as- | tonishment. “She was dining at the Carlton grill.” | The match was half way to the ciga- | rette and stopped. “With—-2" “Shannon—and very cheery. needn’t be afraid. kind of a girl away.” “I wasn't thinking of that.” “Maybe you were worrying about the mpropriety of her dining without a chaperon; and if there was a chape- | ron there I did not see her,” suggesied Bunny. | The girl shot a quick, suspicious | glance at him. | “I like you least when you're funny,” she sald. “Was she—well—dressed?"” He nodded. “A most prosperous looking lady. And, he added, inconsequently: “I never realized she was so beautiful, Shannon | hardly took his eyes off her.” | “Apparently you were smitten, too," | she said with a little smile. “T enjoyed | the concert immensely, Bunny. Kessler | was wonderful. I don't as a rule like fiddlers—" & “Kessler didn’t appear,” he said even- You Audrey’s not the who would give you {1y as he blew out a cloud of smoke, | He was not looking at her. “He caught a cold and was unable to perform—the fact was announced in the late editions of the evening newspapers. 1 wonder you didn't see it.” | Only for a second was she thrown | off_her balance. | “I don't know one fiddler from an- other,” she said carelcssly. “Anyway, the man they sent in his place plays sorgeously.” ‘Probably Manz,” he nodded. | thoroughly creamed Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News She was relieved to hear the door- | bell ring. What a fool she had been | not to make herself completely ac- | quainted with the artists who had ap- | peared that night! Tonger could have attended and made her acquainted with the program. Big Bill Stanford came in, a very | weary man, for he had passed 36 hours in the train, having come direct from | standing at the corner of Portman | Rome. He reported without preliminary. “The contessa leaves on Thursday. She breaks her journey in Paris and will be here on Tuesday night. I've got photographs of the tiara and the pearl rope. I think they can both be dupli- cated in less than a week, and if we can do that the rest will be easy. Stig- man got friendly with the maid—his Italian is grand. She’ll give him a chance of ‘ringing’ the stuff—" “I thought we weren't going to touch thi petulantly. “I'm not,” drawled her husband. “We take an outside interest; and, Stafford, if vou bring so much as a pearl into this house I'll brain you!” “Am I mad?” asked the big man contemptuously. “Did the last job pay so well? No, thank you! Not one link of one platinum chain comes this way. It is going to be easy, Elton.” “I don't want anything to do with it,” Dora broke in. cut this cheap thieving altogether? is making a nervous wreck of me. hate it!" He looked at her. “Why not?” he asked lazily. “What is ten thousand to you and me? We could live without this kind of work.” “I could, at any rate,” she muttered. “How? With your needle? Or possi- bly by giving piano lessons to the musi- cal bourgeoisic? Or perhaps by your art? I forget how much per week you were earning when I drifted across you.” She looked away from him, her lips tightly pressed together. “Was it £3 or {4 a week?"” he went on. “I remember that it was some fabulous sum. You were not particular how you climbed into the big type and the prin- cipal’s salary.” “You might discuss that when we are alone.” she said, with a resentful glance at Bill Stanford. “Bill knows all about it. I've known William longer than I have known Dora, and, speaking generally, he has played the game a little straighter.” She leaped up from her chair, her face white with passion. “How dare you say that!” she stormed. “I have stood by you through thick and thin. You pretended to let bygones rest and then you throw your beastly suspicions up in my face. Is that your idea of playing the game?” He made no reply, his dark eyes looking at her speculatively. “I am sorry,” he said, but without any great heartiness. “You see how absurd it is to talk about cheap thiev- ing. There isn't any other kind. I am a thief by nature, with talents be- yond the ordinary. It sounds as though I 'am being foolishly boastful, but it is true to say I am the cleverest burglar in London. There isn't a house I couldn’t get into or escape from. I can climb bare walls like a cat, but it isn’t necessary that I should. I prefer genteel robbery, which is just robbery, anyway. I stole you into prosperity, and even the price of the wedding ring goes back to a larcency. Lots of men would have gone honest just about where that ring had to be bought. Think that out.” She was about to say something, but changed her mind and stalked out of the room without a word. She was in bed when he came into the room and pretended to be asleep. She saw him gather his pajamas, dress- ing gown and slippers and go out. clos- ing the door softly behind him and the sound of the second bedroom door opening and closing came to her. Dora sat up in bed suddenly, a panic in her breast. Martin Elton had never done that before. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) Nut Buns. Dissolve two yeast cakes and one tablespoonful of sugar in one cupful of lukewarm water. Add three cup- fuls of sifted flour and beat until smooth, add six tablespoonfuls of shortening and half a cupful of sugar and three eggs beaten until light. Gradually add four cupfuls of sifted flour, or enough to make a moderately soft dough, and half a_teaspoonful of salt. Turn onto a bread board, knead lightly, then place in & greased bowl, cover and set aside in a warm place to rise for about two hours. Roll out in an oblong picce one- fourth inch thick. Brush with meited butter. Sprinkle with brown sugar, cinnamon and chopped nut meats. Either pecans, hickory nuts or English walnuts are suitable.” Roll up length- wise and with scissors cut off half-inch pieces. Place in greased muffin tins, cover and let rise for one hour, or until light. Just before placing in the oven, glaze with egg diluted with milk and bake for 25 minutes. Ice while hot with plain icing and sprinkle with nut meats. “Bunny, why can’t u;: I Birds Battle Above Liner. Hundreds of passengers on a trans- atlantic liner recently saw a fierce bat- tle in midair between a hawk and a seagull. As the birds neared the ship the hawk swooped down, but the gull dived and eluded its pursuer by “bank- ing.” Just as swiftly the hawk soared again, and the birds continued their life-and-death race. When immediately abave J:2 Jiner the hawk swooped once mors, and this time giipped the gull in its talons. It then settled on top the mainmast, where it devoured its prey, scattering the gull's feathers and bones | over the asionished passengers below. is kind of a job again,” said Dora, | L [\ District N All preparations have been completed | for the participation of the National Guard of the District of Columbla in the | parade tomorrow as a part of the cere- monies incident to the inauguration of Herbert Hoover as President. For the |last several weeks the officers and men | of the various units composing the local | militia have been working incessantly | getting the clothing and equipment ready. Much of the clothing and some of the equipment, such as web belts, had to be laundered, and rifles and other accouterments had to be shined. While the Guard has been prepared | for heavy weather by the preparation of i the overcoats, which are only issued to the men on special occasions, it will not be known until early tomorrow morning | whether the organizations will parade with or without this covering. All unit commanders have been instructed to communicate with the brigade head- quarters not later than 10 o'clock to- morrow morning for instructions as to these. Every unit of the Guard has been ordered out. The largest unit in the parade will be the 121st Regiment of Engineers, commanded by Col. John W Oehmann. The other units will be the 260th Battalion of Coast Artillery, com- manded by Maj. Walter W. Burns; the 20th Division, Headquarters Troops, commanded by Maj. E. H. Grove; the 29th Division, Military Police Company, commanded by Second Lieut. William F. Roy, and Company A, 372d Infantry, commanded by Capt. Arthur C. New- man. Altogether there will be about 1,000 District militiamen in the line of march. and it will be the first time that they have paraded in public in the streets of Washington for several years, They formerly were shown off to the local public at least once a year when they marched to their entraining points for their annual encampments, but not since the institution of the practice of sending them to camp in busses. The various units have been putting in some long infantry drill periods, so that they might execute the movements with ease during the parade and show tional Guard themselves off at their best. Fortunate- ly, the weather in the past few weeks has been mild, so that the troops could be taken in the open near the armory for the purpose of drill, for they have not one place where a company of in- fantry could do any drilling inside the unsatisfactory quarters which they oc- cupy under the misname of an armory. Several of the unit commanders have threatened their men with court-martial if they fail to present themselves for duty on the parade day, although the general order for the parade says that this duty will not be classed as an armory drill. All of the units armed with the rifle will be paraded with fixed bayonets, ac- cording to the order, and the coast ar- tillery unit will be the only one to have rolling equipment in the parade. It will have two anti-aircraft guns, drawn by tractors, Efforts were being made last Tuesday night to obtain permission for the ambulance of the two medical department units to be present, not only for display purposes, but for emergency use. Every unit will be dismounted. All officers will wear white gloves and olive drab shirts, and the enlisted men olive drab shirts. Every ‘one is to be per- mitted to wear all authorized decora- tions, medals and badges. ‘The units will be formed at their re- spective armories early tomorrow morn- ing for inspection prior to the parade, and will be marched to the rendezvous points, and during the parade this sec- tion will be headed by the band of the 121st Regiment of Engineers, the only musical organization in the local Guard. Officers at the brigade headquarters have been busy for the past several weeks preparing the details for the par- ticipation of the Guard, one of the busiest being Capt. Fletcher F. Berns- dorff, who has been looking after the preparation of clothing and the issue of overcoats. 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Beller, Company C, 121st Engineers, has been ordered hon- orably discharged from the local Guard on his ovn application to permit him to | enlist in the United Sfates Army. Corpl. John T. Linkins, Company D, | 121st Engineers, has been ordered re- | duced to the grade of private, on rec- ommendation of his company com- | mander, according to regimental orders | filed in the brigade headquarters. ‘Two units of the local Guard not only reached the superior classification in reached the top notch with 100 per cent of the men on their rolls present, | according to figures on drill attendance | compiled and made public by the bri- |gade headquarters. They ‘were the | Headquarters Detachment, 29th Divi- sion, Special Troops, and the Medical | Department Detachment, 260th Coast | Artillery. Another unit also reached this class. It was the 29th Division | Military Police Company, which has for Imany weeks been dragging the bottom | classifications. ~Last week its report {showed up with enough men to reach a percentage of 95.55, and it was the |first time since the beginning of the | present drill year that it has reached |this group. The Headquarters Detach- {ment, 29th Division, has been in the | superior class 10 times since the cur- rent drill year began, the report states, and the figures show that its nearest is the Medical unit of the Coast Ar- tillery. It has been there seven times during the year, but the latter unit, ac- cording to ‘the compilation, has never been lower than the very satisfactory rating, while the other top-notcher has been at various times in all the groups, including the bottom one, of “very un- satisfactory.” ‘The other units of the Guard, in their respective classifications, with attend- ance percentages, follow: Excellent—Band, 121st Engineers, 88.57; Headquarters Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery, 88.00; Headquarters and Service Company, 121st Engineers, 85.11. Very satisfactory—Headquarters De- tachment, 29th Division, 79.31; Com- pany C, 121st Engineers, 76.66; Quarter- master Corps Detachment, 75.00; Com- pany A, 372d Infantry, 70.42. 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For the first time in the two years that the practice of grading the at- tendance each drill night has been put into effect, no units were in the very unsatisfactory group, which indicates a general improvement in the drill at- tendance, which is pleasing both to officers and men. The practice of transferring to the Reserve Corps of the Guard all men who cannot attend drill becaus: of business or educational in- terference has helped to raise the per- centages of attendance at drill of men kept on the active lists. Officers of the most of the units are | bringing much pressure to bear on their | men for a regular attendance at drill, | some of them even going so far as to put the men before summary courts-martial for fines for dereliction in this respect. In several of the organizations only pleas of demands of civilian employment or illness, properly certified to, are now being accepted as excuses for remaining away from drills, ‘While other units of the the Guard are lamenting the fact that they have no recreation space where the men can loaf away their time after the regular weekly drill, the newly formed D. H. Q. Club of the 29th Division Headquarters Troops are taking the best at hand and making the most of it. While the club has only been formed a few weeks. preparations now are being made for fitting out a clubroom in the armory that is inviting to the men and will en- courage them to look on their military training as something more than a weekly routine, to be gotten out of the way just as quickly as possible. With a substantial fund already in the treasury to be used for recreation purposes, some appropriations already have been made for the purchase of equipment in the way of floor covering to make the quarters homelike and in- viting. ~ Sergt. Kecttler donated some furnishings for the quarters, for which he was formally thanked in a resolu- tion passed at the last meeting. To make the club doubly inviting, a reg~ ular weekly appropriation has been made for the purchase of “chow,” on drill nights, with the stipulation, how- ever, that it is not to be served until after the meetings. Some complaint has been made to Guard organizations of the delay in re- ceipt at the Militia Bureau of reports of strength of various units, with the re- sult that the compilation of data from them for use of the general staff of the War Department is seriously handi- capped. 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