Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1929, Page 24

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. U, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 1929, THE RAGGED PRINCESS By Edgar Wallace. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER XXVIL ARTIN ELTON looked up from the newspaper he was reading, | and for the twentieth time his - | of nerves all that day. and he had done fell upon up to the fire and sat. elbows on knees. her face in her hands, gazing moodily into its red depiths This time she turned with a start and met his scru- tiny 1 thought you were going out?” she gaid ‘T am.” He folded the pape The hands of the clo telpiece showed 20 1 rs after 7 What's the matter with you, Dor You ate nothing at dinn “T'm not feeling ver with a shrug. re tion of the fire. ba back?" “T don't sunpose.” “¥ou are going to see Stanford “I've seen swanford once today. don’t want to see him again.” A long interval of silence. Did he bring that money here?” she pcked without looking around at him. “No,” said Martin Elton She knew him too well to be con- wineed “He brought something in a bag: wa it the money that man Smith spoke ebout?" s time M. "'es. he brought Jt's good stuff and thers in it. Klein can get rid of it all profit.” r shoulders moved almost vd put it dawn “What time will you know—about midnight, I tin spoke the truth 3.000,00¢ franes. s no danger And it's imper- r funeral. Martin. 1f vou Mke to take the rick. it has o with me. I'm sick of every ““There is no risk.” said Martin and o0k up the paper again. “The Italian rand gloves, | him with a ma {her in his image. | he said well.” she said | porsolf, but for the man she loved. | her contempla- | , and with me it iz only a He was almost apologelic. | is a goni side line don’t intend making a hobby of put- ting phony money into circulation.” “Where is 162 I want to know Her volee was unuzually peremptory. She had been suffering from an attack his best to humor her, | t's in the mattress under my bed.” “But don't let it worry vou, | Dora. Il have it taken away tomor- row. He went out of the room and came back presently, wearing his overcoat “Will you go out?" h~ asked “I don't know—I may,” she said | She heard the street door slam and | returned to her unhappy thoughts. She was afraid of Martin: afraid not for |2 Martin had become an intolerable bur- | ¢ den. He was watching her all the time, ecting her, slighting her. In these | past few davs she had come to hate ignity which frightened | her. It was he who had dragged her | down, who had brought her into con- s tact with the underworld and molded So she thought, for- | getting conveniently all that he had done for her and the life from which {he had saved her and his many kind- nesses, his invariable gencrosity. If Martin were out of the way! Bhe sighed at the thought. Her un- conscious mind, moving like a magnet | beneath the screen of conseious thought. | a dragged in the path the idea. and after | {a while she found herself thinking de- | And | might she shake off the burden which | where! liberately, cold bloodedly. of a plan that until then she had not dared tell. even to herself. He would kill Lacy Marshalt. She nodded as she considered this certainty. And he was holding the threat over | her. She hated him worse. for that. | how was she to escape? How | Martin had imposed? There was only ' t | one way. ? she had been engaged in re | herself to the deed of shame. Bank of France. there. It is in room head of the bed. tross. jealous had name Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Dafly Neus ANl day long. all night long. | conciling Martin had been gone a quarter of | an hour when she ran up to her room, | put on her coat and hat and came quickly downstairs, | The sergeant in charge at Vine street “Good evening, M want, to see me?” Her month was dry; her tongue scemed to be in A conspiracy bote the man- | without looking around. 8 She nodded Rail Ies." she gasped a man in Italy"—her nd jerky-—“who fo ulation.” Gavon nodded “Yes, that's true. The Gavon ki rs. Elton. at last Why. do ve anybody who has his stuff?” She swallowed something. “There’s a whole lot in my housc. he said. “My You'll find it the there.” Gavon nearly cellapsed. “Your husband?" he Is it his property he nodded. ‘What will he get®" rm fiercely police station was” chatting with Chief | Petective Gavon when a pale gitl came | ey througn the doorway into the | e’ ine police a whole lot of trouble bare charger room and nodded pleasantly. new her Do you “There is voree was shrill | < notes on the | back s a lot—in cir- ou know husband brought it mattress in There's a little drawer near the | It runs into the mat+ his ald incredulous- She gripped h “They'll give him seve ears for that, won't they, Gavon? Inured as he was to the treachery’of women, Ga he dreamea would ou're sure? W 0, no. I must go,” must My servant he house. von was Dora ait here.” will let the shocked. Elton's seeret she said breath- RO somewhere- some- vou into I give you permission.” | In another second she was flying | down the street. | Fast as she went, some one followed | faster, and as she turned up a side | street was at her elbow. | She heard the steps and turned | with a scream | “Martin!” she cried. | He was looking at her, his eyes blaz | ing. and she shrank back, her han | raised as though to ward off a blow | “You've been in Vine street—why | ha asked in a whisper. “I-1 had to go, white as death. “You went fo money?” She looked at him, fascinated. “You were watching?” He nodded. e | “I'was on the other side of the street. T saw vou go.in and guessed. I've been waiting for you to do this, though I never dreamed you would. You can she stammered, squeal. About the by going back and telling_them that | there’s no money there. You've been itching to catch me for a week!” Martin!” she whimpered. You think that. with me ot of the wav." he went on remorselessly. “things { will be easy for vou as far as Marshalt is concerned. but you're wrong, my girl I'm setting with Lacy this night! Go and tell that to your police friends.” | iWhete are you going?* ACTI(;N I-Ei;HNgT PRINCE‘SSi |HELD RUSE TO OUST MATE i Bankruptey Proceedings Seen as| Move to Rid Her of Young Russian Husband. By the Associated Press. BO! Prussia, March 13.—The| bankruptey procecdings instituted here | yesterday against Princess Victoria, .’\|<-‘ jter of the former Kaiser, were scon in | some quarters last night as a ruse to | rid the princ | emigre husband, Alexand | who is 34 years her junior. i Some plausibility was lent, to this theory by the fact that the bank- | | ruptey order was for the nominal sum ! 0f 16,000 marks (about $4.000). The | extent of her obligations, however, will | not be known until April 4, when her | creditors must file itemized statements | of their claims. The court will con- | sider the case again on April 19, | The family of the princess never approved of her marriage, and the rscapades of her young hushand ana his emigre friends were believed to have cost her a considerable part of | her fortune, s of her young Russian SubkofT, She clung to him, but he thrust her | aside and strode along the street, leav. | ing_a half-demented woman to stage | to, the nearest, telephone booth, there | to ring in vain Lacy Marshalt’s number. | | (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) | PORTER NAMED TO POST. Elected Chairman of Engineering | Foundation, | NEW YORK. March 13 (#). -H. Ho- bart Porter, engineer and industrialist, has been elected chairman of the En- gincering Foundation, the research or-i He had seen betrayals before. but never | ganization of the major engineering so- that appear in squeal book at Vine street. cieties of the country. 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