Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1929, Page 25

THE RAG PRINCESS Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News _(Continued from_ Yesterday's Star.) _ CHAPTER XX. and all trace had vanished. “I hope I haven't kept you from bed,” he said apologetically. UDREY was waiting for him in A the lounge of the Palace Hotcl All the way down Regent street he | The e: was hoping most devoutly that he had. She was reluctant to return to her unpleasant experience of the evening, but he was firm on the point. “No, I'm not going to make any fur- ther trouble.” She silently noted the word “fur- ther,” but wisely did not press him for an_explanation. “Marshall has a pretty bad pri reputation and had I wuoown that you contemplated meeting him I should have stopped you.” “I thought he was married,” she sald ruefully, and he shook his head. “No. ‘That is his famous ‘safety first’ stunt. It prevents his lady friends from resting their hopes too high. He is an unmitigated scoundrel in spite of his wealth, and I'd give a lot to deal with him—adequately! Audrey, you've got to leave Portman square severely alone.” “Audrey? I don’t mind really, though 1 feel I ought to be a little more grown up. In Halloway they called me ‘83, or, if they were being more than usual- 1y kind, just plain ‘Bedford'—I think 'I refer Audrey from people who aren't ikely to hold my hand and get senti- mental.” He tried hard to be annoyed and failed. “Youre quaint. Il call you Audrey, and if ever I grow sentimental. just say ‘business’ and I'll behave. And you will leave Portman square.” She looked up quickly. @ “You mean Mr. Malpas?” ‘He nodded. “I don’t know how many of his hun- dreds you have spent—-—" “Sixty pounds,” she said. “I'l give you that, and you can send him back his money.” He felt her resistance to this proposal before she spoke. & “I can’t do that, Capt. Shannon, she said quickly. “I must make my own arrangements. When I see him on Saturday I will ask him to specify | the wage he is paying, and tell hlmi frankly how much I have spent, and that T want to return the balance to | him. When that interview is over—" | “And it had_better mot last_long. princess” said Dick grimly, “or I'll be | stepping _into his grisly ~drawing | rooms—" | “Why do you call me princess?” she | asked with a little frown, and he went | red. “I don’t know. Yes, I do! I | change my habits and tell the truth! I think of you as the—as the ragged | rincess. There is an old German jegend, or maybe it is Chinese, about # princess who was so beautiful that she was by law compelled to dress in rags to prevent everybody from falling in love with her to the disturbance of domestic peace and lugplnua. and the first time I saw you I was reminded of the story and christened you so. “And that ends our interview,” she 2i4 severely. was by no means annoyed, he did not know this. In the v of her rooms she laughed long 4 softly at the story and the com- pliment it held. She was preparing for bed when she saw A note wh%h n left on | her dressing table. awléd writ- jng she knew at cnce and tore open th"renve]cpe.mh i x % “I _congra you your es- cape” it ran. “You should have used the knife.” She gasped. How did Maloas know what had happened behind the locked doors of Lacy's sanctuary? Audrey had left Dick Shannon in no doubt as to her real mind before he took his departure, for she was a bad actress. Walking home, he arrived at the door of his flat a little after 11 o'clock, when the theaters were turning out and the streets were lively with rushing cars, and just as he was going in he was aware that, standing on the edge of the sidewalk, was a man ‘whom he had met before that evening. He walked back to the motionless loiterer. “Are you still lost, Mr, Brown?" he asked pleasantly. “No, I'm not” was the cool ly. “It occurred to me after I left you that I would like to have a little talk with | ou.”™ v A moment's hesitation, then: ¢ “Come in,” said Dick, and ushered his visitor into his bureau. “Now, Mr. | Brown,” he said, pushing forward a chair. into which his visitor sank with | 8 sigh of relief. | “Standing about or walking is a little | painful to me.” he said. “Thank you, | Capt. Shannon. What do you know about Malpas?” | The directness of the question took | the detective aback. | > “Probably less than you,” he said l!: last. | “I knew nothing” was the uncom-| promising reply, “except that he is & gentleman who keeps himself very much to himself, doesn’t interfere with his neighbors and doesn’t invite inter- ference from them.” Was there a challenge in the tone? Dick found it difficult to answer the question. “The only thing we know about him is that he has strange visitors.” H “Who hasn’t?” was the reply. “But is anything known to his detriment”” “Nothing whatever,” said Dick frank- | ‘except that we are constitutionally | suspicious of elderly people who live alone. There is always a chance that some day we shall have to force an entrance and discover his tragic re- mains. Why do you think I know any- thing about him at all?” “Because you were watching the| house before the young lady came out | of Marshalt's and distracted your at- | tention,” was the cool reply. Dick looked hard at him. “You told me you had just walked into the square and .out again,” he said. “One has to prevaricate,” was the calm reply. “Even in your business it s not possible to preserve an even can- dor. The truth is, T was watching the watcher and wondering what you had against Malpas.” “You weren't watching from inside the house by any chance?” asked Dick dryly, and the man chuckled. “It would certainly be the best post of observation,” he replied evasively. “I've been wondering, by the way, what happened to that unfortunate girl. Mar- shalt had a reputation for gallantry in the old days. One supposes that he has not wholly reformed. Have you ever seen anything like this?” He went off at a tangent, and, put- ting his fingers into his waistcoat pocket, produced & small brown pebble to which was affixed a red seal. Dick took it in his hand and examined it cux;;)lus.l t 1s that?” he asked. “That is a diamond in the rdugh and the red seal is the mark of our corpora- tion. We merk all our stones of any size in that way, using a special kind of wex that hasn't to be heated.” Dick passed it back. “No, I've not seen anything like it. Why do you ask?” “I was _wondering,” The old mag was watching him closely. “You're sure nobody has brought that kind of stone to you—the police come into pos- session of curious properties.” “No, I've not seen one before. you lost a stone?” The old man licked his lips and nod- Have of her distress - home-made looked at the diamond nnd‘s;nngy hair gleamy, soft, easy to! By Edgar Wallace GED of a man called Laker? I see that you haven’t. An interesting person. I'd like to have introduced him to you. A clever man, but he drank rather heavily which meant, of course, that he wasn’t clever at all. There is nothing clever about booze except the people who sell it. Laker, sober, was a genius; drunk, as the biggest kind of a fool. You aw him?” the question. “No, I don't know Laker,” confessed Dick Shannon, “which means that offi- lly he is unknown.” A “Oh!" pointed and re sat down. “You e as abruptly as he had will begin to think that I'm something of a mystery my- self,” he sald, and then in his brisk . nything happen to that oung “Nothing, except that she had a very unpleasant_experience.” Mr. Biown showed his teeth in a ! mirthless smile. | “How could one meet the Hon, Lucy and not have an unpleasant experi- | ence?” he asked dryly. “You know him, then?” Brown ncdded. “Very well?” ws anybody very well,” “Good night, Capt. Forgive me for intruding the oth: Shannon. want to find me. phone first, because I spend a consider- able time in the country.” Dick went to-the window and watched the limping man pass out of sight. Who was he? What feud was there between Marshalt and him? He almost wished he was on speaking terms with the | South African, that he might satisfy { his curiosity. 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