Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1929, Page 23

THE RAGGED PRINCESS Copyright, 1925, by (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER LVL MAN engaged in_the peculiar work which was Martin Elton’s specialty necessarily accum lates in the course of the yea: quite a large number of aoc ments which must be kept in a safe place, where they cannot attract the attention of the curious. For such things cannot be destroyed without risk or exposed without danger. Martin relied very much. upon the igeonholes of his brain for data, and this respect he was well equipped, for he had one of those extraordinary memories that never forget the smallest detail. In turning over the pressing problems that awaited treatment and in searching his mind in all directions for the necessary assistance and the in- ducements he could offer to obtain that help he recalled & four-page memoran- dum written in the neat handwriting of Big Bill Stanford. Stanford was sométhing of a paper strategist. In the old days it was his delight to work out to the last button the “combinations” of every contem- plated coup. Most of them had been destroyed, but there was one which had struck Martin at the time as being so 4bly compiled that he kept it, partly as a curio and partly with an eye to the future. Papers such as these, with other intimate papers, were kept in his safe deposit vault. That afternoon Martin paid a visit to the vault and ent half an hour examining and de- stroying much that was no longer of value. When he came out he had in his Preast pocket those four single sheets of Tote paper which might very well prove to be a powerful lever when it came to influencing Bill Stanford to his way of thinking. Reaching home, he sent for a dis-| trict messenger and dispatched him with 3 note to Stanford, and half an hour Iater his telephone bell ran By Edgar Wallace Chicago Daily News ered from the quality of Stanford’s| sister?’ voice that the man was annoyed. “See here, Martin, I can’t run about like a pet dog every timé you send for me. What do you want?” “I wish to see you. It is really important. Stanford growled something then: “You'd beiter come here tonight and see me.” “I'd better do nothing of the kind,” sald Marfin. “You take your instruc- | tions from me, Stanford, whether you'ré Marshalt's nominee or not. I want you here before 5.” “What's the idea?” Stanford’s voice was sharp and suspicious. “I told you I was not free for anything.” “Come and tell me that,” said Elton a touch of his old impatience. ‘Don’t say it over the wire, with half the busies in London listening in. You don’t suppose I would send for you if |1t wasn't urgent, do you?” ‘Theére was a long silence at the other énd of the wire, and then Stanford spoke in a milder to “All right, I'll come. you've got me so that I'm obliged to take orders from you, Elfon.” You've | got to get this right—-" Martin Elton cut him off at that point. He knew his man too well to allow him to get started on a telephone argument. A few minutes after five Stanford came, and he came in a cold temper. Martin was lying on the setfee, a fa- vorite posture of his, and looked wup from a book as the man flung into the room. “What do you mean by sending for me as f I were a coolie, Elton? You ve | got_a merve—" | “Shut the door,” -said Martin. “You're a bit of & loud speakér, my friend; if you want to tell your sor- Tows to Curzon street I'll lend you & But don't think as usual, | j LT T,V e and not y absent from. more law-abiding people, an ity, which was easily hurt when his own dignity was threatened. Martin waved him down, quarreling.” he “There is no sense in said. is serious; otherwise, I shouldn’t have sent for you.” He got up, took a cigar from the cabinet and Iit it. He offered the ctbinet fo Stanford, who sulkily ac- céptéd. Then Martin his bombshell. ‘Audrey Bedford has gone to Storri- er's, and that child is a fast worker. You mean your wife's Martin nodded. b Stormer's? I should Those people mean nothing to me—or to you, either. And if you've brought me from Portman square, neglecting my dutfes, to tell me this, you're wasting my time!” “1 tell you she's a fast worker,” said Elton slowly, “and she's a k a too, Stanford. You'ré nof forget- are you, that she did 12 months stolen—" “Don’t say ‘you, say ‘we’” sald | Stanford angrily. “We won't split hairs” agreed Mar- tin. “She did the time. How do you think she’s feeling about it—sore, eh? I guess you'd feel sore if you did 12 revolutions of the moon in prison for a crime you don't commit.” Stanford was eyeing him suspi- clously. “Well, what about t?” he asked, when the other paused. “I suppose she now and doing fine. Why do you think Stormer’s took her?” “I'll tell you—because she's been to them and ggilt all she knows about the robbery, and they've set her on to col- lect evidence. Don't forget that Storm- er's act for almost every eémbassy in London.” ‘Willlam Stanford laughed contempt- uously. “Well, she can collect all the evi- dence that is collectable so far as I'm | concerned,” he said, “and_ she can| start a muscumlnnd then I shouldn't all?” said Martin. “Do you remember you wrote out a little plan of campaign for that queen of Finland job? Do you remember how you sched- uléd every possibility, even drawing a little plan of the place in the park | where the holdup should be, with de-| | tailed instructions as to how the geta- | immense van- | eoolly. work- | in followay for carrying stuff you Had |y does feel sore, but she's got & new job |~ was to be that sing new songs of . Freedom from dull rooms. Freedom from stains and spots and bothersome care! as a new skyscraper AY songs of welcome freedom rise from the NEW Armstrong Floors that proudly. wait your inspection ip 4 spring display at local stores this week! Freedom —for you— from stupid, dull old floors . . . that is one song from bold modern motifs, dashing color ef- fects, prize-winning patterns. Freedom for you, too, sing these new- type floors . . . freedom from stains, spots, after-marks of spilled things, of tracked-in mud, and the scars and scratches that make ordinary floors such a worry! Every Armstrong pattern in this spring display wears a lovely lustrous surface produced by the Accolac ikt oot it i Geatroge H as " " aenit destroyed saia. Mastin . “It was such & !mp.cc-ff work that 1 very {ool kept it. Audréy was_here two days ago—she came while Dora and 1 were otit, and werit up into Dora’s room to put her hair straight. the key of my safe deposit in her bureas Stanford was looking hard at him. “Well?” he said. “Today I went to the deposit to get out some money that I had there. I found the money, but all my papers are gone.” Stanford went white, “You mean that my lit{le plan went with the rest?” Mértin nodded very slowly. “That is what I mean,” he said. “Now don’t go up in the air,” as he saw the blood come up to the man's face and the impotent rage gleam in his eyes. “I know I was a fool to keep it; it should have been destroyed at once, especially since, if I remember rightly, you used names. ¥'m as much this as you are and in as much dan- ger—moré, because she's got something on Dora and me that she hasn't got on Stanford was rubbing his hands to- gether, a nervous trick of his. “You've let me down, you swine!” he :‘a‘ldt Iin & fury, “Keeping a thing ltke at!” “Who wrote the names on the paper? If they weren't there you couid snap your fingers at them,” interrupted Martin. “The real fault was yours. 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