Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1929, Page 37

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929. twice impersonated the mysterious Mr.| Varchalt to make a dramatic reappear- Mal, and got away with it. It wasa| 000 ¢ 2. was very nearly too dramatic, Hobby of mine to be M, Mulpds wikn- | jo; me’ tell youl:' He %08 {nto the we- S e gt 4 !'d. 98Y | ter under the pler, locked the hand- Would come when he and I would meet | qufrs himself, and with the key of the tered from o wek hosee U seared | CUTS In one’hand and a gun in the o Todty all righto he other, waited for you to turn up, as he one young lady all right.” he sald and | knew' you would, within a _specified “That is the joke,” he sald. “You won't see it because you're English! But do you mind if I indulge in one private laugh? Ha, ha!” (Copyright, 1925, by The Chicago Daily News Co.) nudme n':e'fal’z mhohuttdovn your lamp wo shots at you, dropped the fmm in the water—I've since recovere: t—and the rest you followed. If he had killed you—there was the proof of his innocence—he couldn’t have done 1t. “And now, Miss Torrington, I'll thank you for that badge.” morning —I understand he was artis- tically draped round the pedestal. That nearly completes the story. Anln we must guess what happened between Stanford and Marshalt. probability is that Marshalt only found then that the young lady was concealed on the premises, and, knowing that the game followed you in his car and engineered an accident. The honor and gl of recovering the bag goes to Stanford, who was still in the flat when you found your man knooked out. “The money retrieved, Marshalt’s first thought was to get the bag away. : He took it to his flat in Greville Man- i THE RAGGED | =~ || PR Copyright, 1925. by CHAPTER LXX. €¢] 'VE never been quite sure whether you took me at my own valuation or whether you were one of these reserved English- man who believe nothing very much, and only then to oblige a lady,” said Slick Smith, a magnificent host, sitting at the head of a dinner table that night. “I came into this case nineteen months ago, when I had a letter from Mr. Torrington, giving me all the fact$ he possessed, and asking me whether I could trace his wife and verify the story of his daughter's death. Inci- dentally, he told me a great deal about Lacy Marshalt that interested me both detective and a human being. “I've got some experience of the un- popularity of private detective services, especially in England, where they are regarded as a joke, and a joke in bad taste at that. And I knew that, if I was going to do any good in this busi- ness, it was vitally necessary that I should pass into the underworld with the necessary credentials. I therefore communicated with Capt. Shannon, in my capacity as Stormer, telling him that a notorious American crook was expected to arrive in England almost any minute, and favored him with a very vivid description of what this hideous scoundrel looked like. I got the usual warm-hearted ‘Your communica- tion shall receive our attention’ from headquarters, but I happen to know that the moment Slick landed he was picked up, trailed to London, warned, cautioned—in fact, all the things hap- pened to him that usually happen to the imported article. “Fortunately, very few people in Lon- don know me. I've always made it a rule, since I established my agency in London, to come into no case personal- ly, and only three or four of my staff would be able to identify me on oath. | But those three or four are mighty use- ful, for they not only can identify me but they can't identify me, and that is valuable! “Another important advantage was | that, as Slick Smith, I could always have one of my men with me without | attracting the suspicions of the criminal | classes. You remember I was invariably | trailed by one of Stormer’s men—he'd have lost his job if he hadn't! “My other job was to discover the | whereabouts of a very large number of diamonds which had been stalen from Mr. Torrington's mine in the last few | years, and which both his police and\ the South African force were certain had been brought to England. And I was able to unearth a very considerable ‘traffic. In South Africa, as you know, Capt. Shannon, it is a penal offense to be found in possession of a diamond, unless you can account for it to the satisfaction of a magistrate—I'm talk- | ing about uncut diamonds now. For | years Lacy Marshalt has been such a | INCESS | Wallace Chicago Daily News to see her pretty badly, so badly that he wouldn't put off the engagement. Then Tonger came back. “There was no need for Marshalt to explain the disappearance of the wom- an, as he knew nothing about her; she might have gone out herself. You | may be sure that she went out by the back way—the way a certain lady used to come in when she paid her surrrepti- tious visits to Lacy. It wasn't likely that Tonger would learn that very eve- | ning that his daughter was dead, and | 7 yet that is exactly what did happen! Tonger made his discovery at the very moment Marshalt was walking in Mal- pas’ room for the arrival of Audrey Bedford. “What Marshalt intended I don't know. I guess he would have produced the letter making an appointent in that arpartment, but that is mere specu- lation—we shall never know. At any rate he did not meet Miss Torrington. Maddened by his discovery, Tonger, who knew the secret of the mantel- piece and had fashioned a key to it, opened it, passed into Maipas’' room and confronted his treacherous employer. He was, I think, armed with an old- fashioned pistol and Marshalt spoke the truth there. He fired twice and Lacy went down. The bullet-proof shirt he wore—not because he had been in the Balkans but because he was scared to death that some day Torrington would come on the scene—saved his life. While Tonger, half-demented, was searching | the desk, Marshalt recovered, staggered | back to his own room and shot Tonger | in his tracks. “The controls in Malpas’ house are fixed in many places. There is a switch on the stairs, there is a set of switches | below, one on the desk and another in Lacy's study. “What happened immediately after- ward is also a matter of speculation, | ? unless Marshalt spills it. He was going | to make his escape when he heard the servant scream and probably saw Capt. Shannon run down the area steps. That was his opportunity; he slipped out. If you remember, the door was open.” Dick nedded. “Now Marshalt had already prepared a hiding place for himself. In the character of a lawyer or something of | the sort he had a gorgeous flat in Gre- | vile Mansions, where he was called ‘Mr. | Crewe. I happen to know, because I have occupied an adjoining suite to some purpose. He got there that night, nursed his bruise—he had a slight wound, too—and then came back to| get the diamonds—I know, because I've | seen_him.” | “Who was the man whose face I saw through the skylight on the night of the murder?” asked Shannon. “Mine,” said Slick Stormer, calmly. “But your men on duty on the roof said—" | Slick laughed. “Why do you think they were on | sions; this I know, for I found it there when I broke in to look for Miss Tor- rington. ‘I didn’t find her, but I saw the bag, and only gave it up whep I saw I could turn it over to good hands without being arrested myself. “Now, Marshalt is a suspicious man. He found that the bag was gone and naturally he suspected his confederate. The shooting of Stanford, you'll find, occurred just before you arrived this was up and the fortune was lost, went to have his revenge on the daugh- ter of the man he best hated. Unfortu- nately for him, I have made a practice for a long time of being in that house when the people that came in from the Cape brought their diamonds. there once in broad daylight, tapping the walls and Marshalt heard me—Miss ‘Torring!on heard me too—I wanted to know all about that pivot door. I have Au e “I screamed, didn’t I? she said rue- fully. “I didn't hear you calling my name for a long time.” “I scream myself sometimes,” said Smith, “or want to!" “There is only one thing left to tell you, and you know that already, Shan- | drey could smile at the recollection. I was summons to Foulds wharf. pound box of Mammy Lou Nut Rolls. S A Pound Box of Milk Choc.-Covered Caramels Delicious caramels made of pure sugar and dipped in velvety milk chocolate, which blends an unexcelled flavor. 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Climbing is my specialty, though | idea of coming to London, establishjng | I'm not such a good climber as Martin | himself in a big house and arranging | Elton, who didn’t have a rope lowered a regular courier service to bring the | to him as I did stones over. But obviously he couldn’t | “Marshalt’s job was to scare every- do this as Marshalt, because, sooner or | body out of the house. He hated like later, somebody was going to squeal. | Poison that police guard, because he | And’ the day the squeal went Wwanted to get at the diamonds that| up to heaven Lacy Marshalt, who in the | Were in the idol's tummy, and naturally | meantime had scraped into the South | he could only do that by getting rid of | African Parliament and had been | the police. Wearing his evening dress | | scraped out again when the electors and a made-up face, he appeared—as | | came to their senses, would go down | himself. The poet says that we can | | to the dark hulks where the bad men | rise on stepping stones of our dead | | go. | selves to higher things. Tennyson, was | “He bought the two houses in Port- | it, maybe Browning? It's good enough man spuare at a time of great depres- | for Longfellow. That is how Marshalt sion in house property and they were |figured it out—that he could rise on bought in different names. No. 551 was | that stepping stone to handle all those purchased through a bank. Engaging |good and sparkling gems. He got despe- 2 good continental firm to fix the elec- | rate after the hiding place was dis- trical fittings, he left the principal and, | covered, and with the help of Stan- to my mind, the cleverest piece of mech- | ford, who had to be taken into the anism to the last. secret, he cleared the idol under your Lacy Marshalt is an engineer. 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He lived alone in his house—| ‘Tonger at that time was still in South | Africa acting as his agent—for four | months before the work was completed, and then he brought his man home. And just before he came Malpas ap- | peared in the London directory. Mal- pas, the buyer of diamonds who could never be caught! “Tonger is the real tragedy of this story. He married rather late in life a youngish woman who died and left him with a daughter, of whom he thought the world; and it was real bad luek for Tonger to have her come into | contact with Lacy Marshalt. You'd | think that Tonger being his friend and helper would make a difference. No, sir! Nothing ever made a difference to | Lacy, and when the inevitable happen- | ed and Tonger wanted to know certain | things Lacy seized on the arrest of | Torrington as a heaven-sent opportuni- ty for shifting the blame, persuaded the girl to name Torrington as her lover | and got her away to America, where he | allowed her a reasonable sum a week, | threatening that, unless she did as he | wished, which was to write to her fa- | ther regularly and tell him how happy | she was, he would stop the allowance | and ruin Tonger, who, as she believed, | held some responsible position in Mar- shalt’s office. | “New York is mo worse place for a | woman than any other big city; that s my experience,” sald Slick thought- | fully. “I guess the same old devil | perches on the top of the London mon- | ument as sits on the fifty-fourth floor of the Woolworth building. The girl | went her own way—drank a lot, got | into debt, but dared not tell Lacy. Then one day, in a panic, she jumped the boat and came to London. I think you saw her, that day you had your first interview with friend Malpas?” Audrey nodded. “She was the woman who knocked at Marshalt’s . door.” “Yuh. Poor Tonger must have near- | ly died when he saw her. At any rate, as I have reconstructed the matter, he took her in, hurried her up to his apart- ment and kept her there for days, prob- ably trying his best to induce her to tell him the truth—he may already have guessed it. Then one day Lacy found out she was in the house and knew that, once Tonger got on his track, he was doomed. “He decided to act then and there. Tonger was sent to Paris with a letter that meant nothing—I've seen it. It was to a man who did business for Marshalt. While he was away Mar- shalt the girl out of the room and probably told her to go to the park and ‘wait for him. Consider . this"—Slick raised his finger to emphasize the poin seen in Lonmdon and ‘we've got evidence from the servants that, the week before he died, Tonger had an extraordinary amount of whisky in his room—he who hitherto had never taken a drink. It was she who soaked—not Tonger. “When Marshalt found that she had this craving it ;u easy tow ;:;Jlg her a flask with cyanide a reg- into the A that move further. But he tried to do too much. He inf that night seeing Miss -Bedfos He wanted all the lights and incidently brought the statue round into the room. He must have had the bag in his hand at the time and put it down in a fright on the pedestal, and naturally, when the | statue turned again it took it back” “What was it burned my hand?” asked Steel. “The fireplace. out the thing had revolved and you'd put your hands on the hot bars of the | grate from which the coal had only | recently been removed. You recall, | Capt. 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