Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1929, Page 40

The Wolves of By Edgar (Copyright. 1020, by Nerth Ameriean the Waterfront Wll]ace. Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service.) Ssnopsis of Preceding Installments. Inspector John Wade of the London police ®hile tracking a criminal gang known as the india rubber men. sees Lila Smith, a ev in a lodging house, gorgeously dressed For a second Wade was so dum- founded by the sight that he could not Do you wish | speak. Finally he said: “Well, Lord Siniford. in_the company of an elderly man. |to see Mr. -Brude?” nd Afterward she goes to a deserted house and Tesumes her Cinderella garb. A Chinam: seen by Wade in the same house, is mur- dered.” Tne india rubber men descend on Wade and seize a ring found on the dead | man._ A minor matter takes Wad the captain of whi mysterious woman named Ani He rec nizes the captain as the man who was Lila's escort, and is satisfled that there is & con- neciion between the ship and the indin Tubber men. By chance. he meets in Lon- don a river-front idler. Golly Oaks. who ac- €ording to his wife, had gone to sea. Fur- ther irvestigations link a nobleman named | Lord Siniford with the gang. The police raid the Mecca. a river-front hangout, and Wade barely escapes with his life. _(Continued From Yesterday's Star.) _ TWELFTH INSTALLMENT. OHN WADE was so sure of his conclusion that Lila Smith was| the lost Delia Pattison, heiress to the Pattison fortune, that he was already planning the investiga- tion that he would make to establish it as a fact “Why did you want to see me?” he| asked Mr. Brude. at has happened | since I was here last Mr. Brude had resumed his seat at | his desk. Now he swung around in his | swivel chair. | “My office was entered last night,” he said, “and the deed box relating to | the Pattison estate was opened and searched.” He got up and walked to the end of | the room opposite the window. Here was an iron rack filled with deed boxes. Some were new, but the majority were old, and the names painted on them were barely legible. The lawyer pointed to one of them. It was labeled “P. T. and E.” “Pattison trust and estate,” he ex- plained, as he put the box on the table. “Look!" Wade examined the box. The lock had been forced, and the box was now worthless. “Whoever did the job came through | that window,” Mr. Brude said. “I found | that a pane of glass had been cut and the catch forced back. Curiously enough, 1 did not notice this until I had occa- sion to go to the box this afternoon.” “Has anything been taken from the box?” asked John Wade, looking into | the interior, which was half-filled with bundles of papers tied with red ribbon. “Nothing,” was the reply. “These are leases and deeds of little value to any- body. The personal documents are at | my bank.” ‘Wade examined first the lock on the box and then the window. The work had been done by an expert. The hole in the glass was an exact circle, and the piece removed was still lying on the ‘window-sill. “No, nothing was taken,” said Mr. Brude again. “We have checked over all the documents—a rather compli-| cated system of double entry, as it| were " “Was Lord Siniford here yesterday?” “The day before. He had been rather unpleasant. He wanted to see the con- tents of the Pattison deed-box, even though I told him that there was noth- ing in the office that could interest ould the contents of the other box interest him—the one at the bank?” Mr. Brude took time to consider the question. “Possibly. In the other box are arti- cles personal to Lady Pattison and her granddaughter. There is a portrait of the child—" John Wade heard a smothered excla- mation behind him and spun round. Lord Siniford was standing in the doorway. His face was pale, his eyes starting from their sockets. 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See you another time, Brude. . . | The door slammed behind him, and the two men were left looking at each other wonderingly. “Funny fellow! asked Wade. “I'm blowed if I know,” said Mr. Brude, becoming unususily hum “Bless my life, he gave me a start.’ ‘Wade smiled. E “But not the start that we gave oy What scared him?” hi He looked at his watch. He had ar- ranged to meet Inspector Elk at 8. “I gather that you don’t wish me to make a report of this burglary.” Mr. Brude shook his head vigorously. “If 1 do, it will be left to the local inspector,” continued Wade. “I shall have to make a confidential report, of course. When can I see the other box?” “Tomorrow at 11. I'll get it from the bank.” Brude looked apprehensively at the door. “You don't think I am in any dan- ger?” he asked nervously. “You wouldn't think, for example—well, that the in- dia rubber men, as they call them, had anything to do with this busi- ness?” “Why do you say that?” demanded Wade, sharply. For answer, the lawver pulled open the drawer of his desk and drew out a glove. It was of thin rubber and designed for & right hand. “There it is,” he muttered, as though a weight were lifted from his mind. Wade picked up the glove and ex- amined it. “When did you find this?” he asked. Mr. Brude settled himself in his chair. “I did not notice the glove until my clerk drew attention to it this after- noon. It was lying under my desk. The thief had evidently taken it off to make an examination of the papers—" “That is the time he would have kept it on,” smiled John Wade. *No. he took it off to write. He used his own fountain pen, and he was making a note of the contents of the box. Probably the second burglar was read- ing over these titles. Did you notice that your blotting paper was fresh this morning?” Mr. Brude frowned. “Yes, I did—now that you mention The lawyer’ THE- BEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €. THURSDAY, MAY. 2. 1929. of half a dozen sheets of thick blot- ting paper. Wade drew out an under sheet and placed it on the desk. “That was the sheet?” Mr. Brude peered down and nodded. “Yes. There's my date stamp. I al- ways test it on the pad. You can see yesterday's date” John Wade was scritinizing the blot- ting paper Evidently it had been in use at the office for many days, for Mr. Brude was not the careless t3 that utilizes a blotting pad for scrib- bling. “Is that your writing?” asked Wade. He indicated a long, narrow column of words that stretched diagonally across the sheet. The older man shook his head. | Wade_procured a mirror from the outer office and examined the writing. | “That was a good guess of mine,” he said. “I take it that this is a list of the documents in the box.” The lawyer's careful inspection con- | firmed the statement. “There’s nothing that we can do to- I night,” sald Wade. “By the way, you .| can give me your private address and telephone number. In case I want to | communicate with you later. But, in any event, I shall be here at half past 10, and, if you could have the other | box ready for me, I should be very much obliged.” He paused at the door, deep in thought. “There i no doubt at all in your mind that Delia Pattison is dead?” “None,” said the lawyer. Wade was half way down the stairs when he remembered a question he wanted to ask, and returned. “When is Delia’s twenty-first birth- | day?” 'l‘On the twenty-first of this month,” | was the reply. “After that the property will be handed over to Lord Siniford?” | "*'A long time after. There are cer- tain legal formalities to be gone | through, but, to all intents and pur- | poses, the inheritance is transferred {on the twenty-first or twenty-second.” Wade went straight back to- Elk's room in Scotland Yard and told him of the lawyer's experience. 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And, try as we would, we never could find out whether they'd been pinched. The house was burned to the ground and only a few of the stones were found. But the old lady was so upset about her granddaughter’s death that she wouldn't give us any informa- tion about 'em. Humph!” He crouched back in his chair, clasp- ing and unclasping his bony hands, his eyes fixed on his desk. “The emerald woman,” he muttered. “Of course! It's one of the doubtful cases in the india rubber men’s file! All this happened before we knew these birds as well as we know ‘em today. The only thing we could establish was that the servants were gotten out of the house with theater tickets, and the maid who was in charge of the child was lured by a telephone message to meet some feller who had taken her fancy. It looked like a well planned job at the time, I remember, but, as I !l,y. we couldn’t get the old lady to talk.” “The body of the child was found?” asked John Wade anxiously. Elk pursed his lips. “Well,” he drawled, “I don't want to go into gruesome details, but you couldn’t find anything after a fire like Oh, yes. I that—anything you could swear was |was laid for three. | HAVE NEURALGIA IN MY FACE SO BAD THE PAIN IS DRIVING WOMEN TELL US DRUGGISTS THAT SLOAN'S LINIMENT HELPS NEURALGIA PAINS AT ONCE. SLOAN'S LINIMENT 1S ONLY 35¢ A BOTTLE. NEURALGIA ¥ the long-lost heiress is one w'humnn, Why the fire was so fierce it burnt the brickwork into dust!” Suddenly he got up to his feet. “We'll take the chance of looking | foolish. You'd better post a couple of | men at Tappitt's house and see that | nobody interviews your young lady— | that is, nobody but me. I'm going to see her tonight and find out what she can remember about her past. Il see that the chief cancels the order to return her to the Mecca.” “I could see her—" began Wade. “You could do nothing,” said Elk calmly. “You're sweet on her, and that means that you've lost your judgment and your fine police touch.” They intercepted Sergt. Tappitt, Lila’s host, just as he was coming off duty. He demurred at EIk's suggestion that two men should be posted at his house. “The missus won't like that,” he said. “She’ll think it's a slight upon her. And I don't think there's any danger. If it was a cottage like Mr. Wade's there might be, but we live in a block of flats, with people coming and going all the time—anyway, come along and see the young lady.” His home was situated within a stone’s throw of John Wade’s house, on the first floor of a block of artisans’ apartments, recently built. When he opened his door the tiny hall was in darkness. . “My old lady's getting economical,” he said, as he switched on the light. Leading from the hall was a narrow passage. 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