Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1929, Page 22

MARCH 20, 1929. When he finally made his disappear- D. C., WEDNESDAY, “ and not too savory night club in Soho, ivc'ais a “tslpomr.“dn hg:;herer of tv:l.\ulblle e(ti E’llck. d"‘she'f1 got Plolmillwnlgnmr; |2 more fashionable club in Coventry | Information, an e | O O b e a is life. Keeping to the company of |she’s divorced.” later. At 2 o'clock in the morning a | street and so on, to & point where he | jalets ‘and servants. he located rich| “Thas right—I thought T had this|tramp chuffled into the alley at the | else there is something confoundedly | vanished and left no trace. Night after | pockets for other men to mine. on my own.” back of Portman Square, and half an | wrong." | night exvert watchers from Scotland| “There's a fellow from the north| “It will be in the papers tomorrow,” [hour later Dick Shannon was called| “what has happened?” | vard had missed him and always staying at the British Imperial. He's | said Slick. from his bed b): telephone. They were in the hall and the door the same spot—on the corner of Picca- | An ironmaster and has stacks of money. | It was curious how little was the in- | “Steel, sir. I'm speaking from 551.|ywas shut. Steel lowered his voice, | dilly Circus and Shaftesbury avenue, the | Today he bought a diamond tarara——" | terest taken by professional circles in|I wish you would come downwlthel “It started at midnight—the sound of | best lighted patch of London. “Tiara—yes, for his wife,” said Slick, | the Portman Square murder. Never queerest things are happening here.” somebody walking up these stairs. I, Then there floated up to them & muf- |~ He had reached the Soho stage of his |still watching the dancers. “His name |once did he hear it mentioned, and| “Queer? How?" and the constable were in Malpas’ room; | fled laugh. % wanderings on the night that Audrey | is Mollins; he paid twelve huntred for | when he introduced the topic they| “I'd rather you came than explain|I was teaching him piquet. We both Shannon crept to the foot of the | had made her adventurous journey to|the jewel—it is worth nine. He carries | wandered straight away. over the telephone.” came out on Sxe landing, expecting to | stairs. Above on the landing and out | meet Malpas, and, seated at a little | a gun and his bulldog sleeps on the| “It's like getting a cinema star to| Dick knew that his second would not | find either you or the inspector from of sight a solitary light was burn | table at the far end of the room, he|end of his bed—he has a great mistrust | talk about some one else,” he said to|call him from bed at that hour with- | Marylebone lane. There was nobody.|and as he looked there passed mcrs | listened to the efforts of three instru-|of Londoners.” an acquaintance. | out good cause and he dressed quickly.| We "couldn't both have been mis-|the wall the shado® of a monstre: | mentalists who were doing a bad best to| The spotter sighed patiently. “They naturally dislike crime.” said | When he got to the house Steel and |taken—'" | head. He reached the first landing - 7~ | keep time with the dancers WNO| .rpatc all T know,” he sald, “but|that worthy, and had the laugh to|a policeman were waiting in the open| “Did you hear it. too?” asked Shan-|a second—no sign of head or owner. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) |front door like a law-abiding citizen. | thronged a floor as defective in quality | 1y have a good job for you in a day | himself. | iy 2, aidiroiie the SIS Sollossinc Ty DA Comtmed e e ¥ : | And he could return the same way al-| as fl‘f.fimm"hh a thin, vicious face |OF two. There's a fellow coming from CHAPTER XXXV. [ most as easily. Therefore he endured | ogpeq o the watcher's side, | South Africa with a fortune. He's been | Sucx SMITH lived in lodgings in | the cistern and the low roofs and the|drew a chair slyly forward and ,ag}hm before.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. “The fact is,” confessed the sergeant,| “Yes, sir; it .air gave me the creeps. ance he was without news. That came | “gjther T have an attack of nerves or | A sort of stealthy—" He turned his head and stared un the bare staircase. Dick heard it, ani for a second a shiver ran down h's spine. It was the sound of slippered feet cn stone steps. “Sweesh, sweesh.” By Edgar Wallace THE RA PRINC Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News GGED | ESS Bloomsbury. He had the first| {wicting stairway where you bumped?down, beckoning the waiter. “Let me know about him.” sald B | Slick, & hanged tone. “I've heard floor of a house which had been | vour heaqd against a 300-year-old beam _ “Same as him,” he grunted, indicat- | 3/ck i & L_fly":‘g; Dt o ;e't Bettr | acquainted.” He laid his hand palm downward on | the latest thing in dwellings |jr vou were a stranger. And though ing the bock before Mr. Smith, who did | B b ‘;5";" the smoke of the kitchen fire occasion- | not even ook round. Untib= i | George II was swearing in broken Eng= v e up to him via the open win-| “Slick, there’s a dame at the As i 5 Jish &t his ministers. Now. in spite of | A0 O Jis Heeping npartment. he told | with a carload of stufl. ' French and the table and moved it carelessly in DMR improvements introduced by the land- | the apologetic Jandlord that on the | divorceg. You could straghten the SLiee pdve i HETRAC geite | lord, 204 Doughty street was a little yjole he preferred smoke to the more maid for half a monkey i asy ol L S e B e . out of date. delicate perfumes “Cease your gibberish, child,” said | was grateful. | 10 11" F axp G STREETS In some respects the archalc ar-, Nobody in the house knew his busi- | Slick, wearily. “What is half a monkey?| Scon after this Smith left. But at rangements suited Smith remarkably ness. He was generally regarded as|And which half? ._|every stage of the journey the same well, There was, for example, a cistern | one who had more money than duties.| “Two hundred and fifty. The maid’s | thing happened. Sometimes the spotter . outside his bedroom window, and the He spent most of his nights away from | a Pole | was a woman; once it was a hard-faced constant drip and hiss and gurgle of | his rooms and slept the greater part of | “What more appropriate for a | young girl—and they all told him about Water would have driven a more sensi- | the dav behind a locked door. He had | monkey than a Pole?” asked Smith.|the French woman at the Astoria and | five man to madness. Smith, being|few visitors and those usually came at |“Or even half a monkey and half a|the ironmaster at the British Imperial. | heither sensitive NOT & martyr to nerves. | the hour the landlord dined and were Pole? Tempt me not. You mean Mme. |and he listencd courteously and helped i found the moise soothing and the cis- | admitted by himself, They did not|Levellier? T guessed so. Her stocks|them out when their information was tern itself a handy getting-off place.|knock or ring—a soft whistle in the | worth 20,000—nct! And dollars at that. | deficient. | Through the window to the cistern sup- | street brought him to the door. | She carries most of it appliqued to her | “Listen, Mr. Smith.” This was at his port was a step, to the top of a wall| When he went out, as he did every person. . And every cheap grab-it in|last place of call, and the informant was another. An agile man could get evening. he was usually in evening | London knows all about it. You're as|was an overdressed young man who from Slick's bedroom to a side street in | dress, and. almost as though it were interesting as Jast year's book of wore a diamond ring. “I've got it for | Jess time than it would take him to de- (part of a ritual. ho followed the same | Omens and Prophecies.” you. There's a dame at the Astoria—-" | scend the stairs and pass through the route. A bar in Cork street, a small The informer was not abashed. 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