Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1929, Page 29

THE RAGGED PRINCESS Copyright, 1925. oy Chicago Daily News (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) | CHAPTER LVTIL TH’E visitor who called at the Ritz- | Carlton was expected, and \no sooner did he give his name than the clerk called a page. “Take this gentleman to Mr. TTorrington's suite,” he said, and Mar- tin followed the boy to the elevator. Daniel Torrington, in slippers and dressing gown, shot a_ keen, inquiring glance at the man as he came in, and without any great show of cordiality motioned him to be seated. “I have an idea I've met you before, Mr. Torrington,” said Martin. “I'm as certain that we haven't met, though I know you very well by re- pute,” said Torrington “Take your coat off, Mr. Elton. I had your request for a private interview, and there were | many reasons why this should be| granted. You are, I believe, the bother- inelaw of my secretary?” Martin inclined his head gravely. *“I have that misfortune,” he said. “Misfortune?” The old man's eye- brows went up. “Ah, I see what you mean! You're thinking of her criminal past?” He did not sneer, but there was an undercurrent of sarcasm in his tone, which Martin, sensitive to such things, detected immediately. *“That must be a great sorrow to you and your wife. This unfortunate girl was concerned in a jewel robbery, was she not? I'm not sure whether she was the miscreant who held up the Queen of Finland in Green Park or whether ahe planned the theft.” “She was caught with the jewels in her possession,” sald Martin, The interview was going to be much more difficult than he had imagined. “She was caught with the jewels in her possession?” repeated the other. “Well, now, isn't that too bad! Of course, I knew all that before I engaged the young lady, though I presume you came here with the object of protecting me from her machinations?” Again Martin felt that cold chill of disappointment. The old man was laughing at him, despite his set face | after you were taken to the Breakwater Walla ce I came on & very much more intimate matter,” he said soberly, “and one which touches you nearly. You will forgive me if T refer to something which must be very paimful to you?” Torrington noeed, The eyes behind the powerful {m were fixed immov- ably on Martin's face; his whole atti- tude was antagonistic. Martin felt it more keenly at that moment than he ludubel;re.l ik e “Mr, Torrington, many years ago you went to prison in South Africa for m!m diamond buying." ‘Torrington nodded. “Yes, there was a frame-up, organ- ized by the greatest scoundrel in the diamond flelds, one Lacy Marshalt, who is now, happily, deceased. I was cer- tainly the victim on that occasion, and, as you say, I went to prison.” “You had a young wife——" Martin hesitated, “and a child, a little girl, Dorothy?” Again Torrington nodded. “Your wife was greatly shocked by your arrest and never afterward for- gave you for the shame, as she thought, you had brought upon her. And soon she left South Africa, and since then I think it is true that you did not hear from her?” “Once.” The word came like the snap of a whip. “Once, my friend, she wrote —yes. once!” “She came to England with her baby and an elder daughter, changed her name to Bedford, and lived on a small income—" “Annuity,” interrupted Torrington. Whatever emotion he experienced he did not betray by so much as a twitch of muscle, “An annuity which I purchased for her before my arrest. So far you are right. Go on.” Martin drew a long breath. Every word was an effort in this atmosphere. He felt like a man striving to pick a hole in a granite wall. “Your late wife was rather eccentric. For some reason, best known to herself, she brought up Dorothy”—he empha- sized the word—"to believe that she was the daughter of her first husband, and " THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO au mind of the woman——" began “Don't,” sald Torrington. “Well all these things may or may mot be true, What then?" Martin Elton took the plunge. “You are under the lon, _sir, that daughter Dorothy died. That is not true. She lives; she is in Eng- land now and is my wifa"” Daniel Torrington was looking at him; his eyes seemed to pierce their way into the secret places of the vis« i very soul. that the story you havs to tell me,” sald Torrington at last, “that my u%ie? Dorothy i still alive and is your wife?” “That is the story, Mr. Torrington.” “Ah!” The old man rubbed his chin, “Is that so?" A long and painful silence followed. “Do you know the story of my arrest —the circumstances? I see that you do not—I will tell you.” He looked up at the celling, licked his lips and seemed to be reconstructing the scene in his mind. “I was sitting on the stoop of my house at Wynberg—I always came down to the peninsula for the Summer—and I remember I was nursing my baby. You know what a stoop is, I suppose? It is a broad, raised porch that runs the length of the house. I saw Mar- shalt coming round the shrubbery and wondered what brought him until T saw the two detectives who were following. He was scared of me—scared sick! As I rose and put the child down in her cradle he pulled & gun and fired. He said I shot first, but that is a lle. I wouldn't have shot at all, but the bullet struck the cradle and I heard the child scream. It was then I drew on him, for the agony of mind T was the child. As it was, I missed his second smashed my leg. you know that?” Martin shook his head. “You never heard about the shot that it the eh?" e " “No, sir, that is news to me.” . thmm;lt it would be. The child wasn't badly hurt; the bullet just nicked her little toe and broke the bone—I wonder your wife never told you,” he drawled. Martin was silent. . “My little Dorothy isn't dead—I've known trat for a very long time, I've been looking for her and, t!u.n friend Stormer, I have found her!” “She knows?” sald Martin, his face ghastly. ‘Torrington shook his head. “No, she doesn't know. I didn't want her to know. I wanted to keep that from her until my work is complete. And I've pretenc to everybody about me, except one man, that she is s stranger to me. Ask the innocent Mr. Willitt, who almost begged me on his knees to make her my aecrenrx&" 4 His cold eyes did not leave Martin's face. “Your wife is my daughter, eh? Ask her to come here and show me her left foot. 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