Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1929, Page 23

23 | example, he had thought it an excellent | idea to marry Lila to Siniford . . . Well, |he'd changed his mind. Lord Siniford | was dead. And he'd thought it a |xood idea to humor Aikness—all the time he had a ship. He hadn't a ship any more—but he was distinctly useful. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1929. who was, Alkness knew, & notorious| In the underground garage, behind in and were shown to their rooms. They | gangster, and it was through him that | the steel doors of what had been de- were furtive, suspicious-looking men.| Golly communicated with his queer |signed as a petrol store, was a very They spoke in monosyllables and studied | crew. The captain was taken around | complete armory. Golly took the cap- time-tables and the shipping lists of |and introduced, and he reported his|tain down and showed him its treasures. | companies that had their port of de- |impressions late that night to Oaks. ’Most of them were still wrapped in parture in Italy and the South of “Of course they dope!” said Golly con- | oiled paper, and a man sitting on a | France. ‘Mmptuo\my. “Ordinary men couldn’t |stool -in one corner was engaged in There was one man called Ambrose, | do what these men do.” unwrapping them. “Once you decide on doing a thing.” | panion—especially in view of the trip said Golly, “do it big. That's my guid- | that he hasoplnnned, Funny he hadn't ing principle in life thought of that before. He had paid several visits to Lila's| But then he had so many things apartment and was gratified to see |to think about. He was always plan- that the undgrstanding between the ning, planning, planning. girl and her old nurse was growing.| The trouble was in getting fixed ideas | This was entirely to his satisfaction. |—in being bound by old decisions that The girl ought to have a woman com- |no longer fitted the situation. For Toward 10 o'clock men began to drift The Wolves of the Waterfront By Edgar Wallace. (Continuad in Tomorrow's Star.) (Copyright. 1929, by North American Newspaper Aliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service.) Bynopsis of Preceding Instaliments. A former lodeing house slavey. Lila Smith, who is believed by Inspector John ‘Wade of the London police to be Delin Pattison. an hefress, is sbducted. feels that there is a connection between her captors and a gang of criminals known as the india rubber men. held prisoner Golly Oaks, one of her cap- tors, brings an old woman to see her. _(Continued From Yesterday's Star.) TWENTY-FIFTH INSTALLMENT. OMETHING stirred faintly in Lila Smith’s memory as she heard She did recall— something. But the recollection went almost as quickly as it came, leaving her more bewildered than ever. Very gently she disengaged her- self from the trembling woman'’s arms. “Sit downswon't you?" she urged But the woman clung to her tear- fully. ~“Don’t you remember the old house. and that dreadful night of the ‘fire, and her ladyship? Her ladyship's dead, Lila” The girl strove hard to think, but her memory would not function. She Jooked appealingly at Mr. Oaks, and he nodded. “It's quite right, my dear. She did know you, years ago. She was your nurse i “That's true.” sobbed Anna. “God bless you for telling her that. I was her nurse, and they told me that she was dead—that she had,died in the awful fire. They showed me the little pleces of her clothing. But I said she was alive, and I told her ladyship so She believed me. I knew I should find you some day. ‘I knew it—was sure of it! But it was dreadful to have to wait. Sometimes I got tired, and then they put me away in that big house, and they wouldnt let me go out.” She fell into a fit of shuddering that was painful to witness. But it did not seem to pain Golly. “Crool to be kind.” he murmured. “That's me, Lila. Nobody can ever say I wasn't gentle with a female. If I had to hurt ‘em it was over in a second, and it was all for the best.” Now something of the past seemed to return to Lila. Anna began to emerge from a haze of memories, to become a Teality. “You'll let me stay with you?” the woman_was saying. “I must stay with you, Ill look after you—get your Clothes for you, darling. I suppose I mustn't call you ‘darling’ now, because you aren't a baby. And I must tell her dyship.” “She’s dead,” murmured Golly. * dead. Of course, shell Anna’s voice. you two together,” said Golly, and went out, after making a polite bow. It was his boast that he knew how to behave. He locked the docr of the little room and went down thé uncarpeted passage to a rather cheaply furnished dining room, where Capt. Aikness sat, a glass of whisky at his elbow, the stub of a cigar between his teeth. “She’s all right,” said Oaks. Capt. Aikness rose and looked into the mirror and dabbed a scratch on his right cheek with his handkerchief. “I told you these balmy people had long memories.” “She’s changed,” said Aikness. “She used to be a fairly pretty girl.” Oaks grunted something, poured some whisky into a glass, and turned in the contents of the syphon. ~ “You used to be a pretty good-look- ing fellow, too, didn’t you, Aikness?” If you hadn’t been, you wouldn't have been told off to make love to nurse- ;mlds. ‘We haven't got a good-looker eft.” “She was good-looking,” mused the captain. “I got quite soft with her. By the way, what are you going to do about Lane?” Golly lit a cigarette and smoked for & long time in silence. ‘Get him out,” he said finally. “Do you think he’ll squeal?” asked Aikness, but Golly did not reply, and, thinking his question had not been heard, Aikness repeated it. # “He won't squeal” said Golly, star- ing out of the window, “but I know others who might.” Capt. Aikness forced a smile. “Not me, Golly. too deeply in- volved in this thing. “So was ‘Mum’,” said Oaks briefly; “yet she was ready to squeak.” Another long and painful which the captain finally broke. “Lila’s becoming a bit of a problem,” he said. “Is she?” asked Golly coolly. “There’s no problem about Lila. She'll marry and settle down. But she won't marry a sea-faring man. Ill see to that.” He leaned across the table and look- ed steadily at Aikness. “I've humored you, Capt. What's- your-name. I'm always willing to humor anybody. I've let you play papa to that kid, give her little outings, dress her up in nice clothes. And you're going to stay papa. ‘Mum’ thought this idea of letting the girl go out to dinnen, with you, when you came back from a long sea voyage was silly, but “Mum’ never had foresight—that’s why she's dead. I have foresight.” He * tapped his chest gently. “I never knew that there was any money coming to Lila, but I always knew she was a lady born and br and I thought that, sooner or later, she was going to be silence, While Lila is | | very useful, and that we couldn't let her start learning swell ways too soon. | But she’s not going to marry any papa, {and that million dollars ain't going to wade | be used to build pallaccios for you at' Rio.” | For a second the two men looked at each other. There was a glare of ! hatred in the gaze of Capt and he did not attempt to disguise it. eyes were cold, emotionless, “I don’t know how this thing is ‘go- | ing to finish up,” Golly went on, “but ‘Aikness, | I'm aiming to teach these police birds |a lessen that, they'll never forget. I| | could slip out of London easy enough! if I wanted to, and so,could you; but that's not my idea of being great, Aik- | ness,” He tapped his chest again. “I'm big! I always have been big. I fenced | little things for 10 years to get the t this. I opened up at the | ns single your ship. I've organized London liki a general would organize it. I know every way out and every way in. I know close to three thousand coppers by | sight. I'm going out with a bang, and | when this is over you and me will seitle the question of Lila. And’if you think that it can be settled before, or sottled | any way that I.don't like, I'll give you| a word of advice—pull your gun and get me before I get vou! Aikness shrank back into his chair, his | | | mouth_twitching painfully. There was a streak of yellow in this big man. body knew better than Golly Oaks, | who lived by his knowledge of men. | | “Thats that. Captain,” he said, with “We're all set. I can tell you | v organization is like. I could tell you the ship me and Lila are leav- ing by and the number.of the cabin| -and the name of the parson who is go- | ing to marry us—" Aikness came to his feet with an oath. | “Marry you! You!" Golly nodded. “I'm nearly 10 years younger than | you and me ‘and Lila understand each | other. And T've got every document that’s needed to prove she's Delia Pat- tison. Siniford gave me most of 'em and I got the rest from the bank.” With a tremendous effort the captain ered his rage and sat down. You're & funny fellow,” he sald. “The thing I can’t understand about | you, Golly, is why you allowed that old lady to bully you.” | “Speak well of the dead.” said Golly. ! evenly. “That was her privilege—I gave | her four hours every day when she | could roast the life out of me, but the | other twenty she walked on tiptoe. I'll | tell you something, Aikness—she slept | behind a locked door many a time and | she always had a loaded gun under | her pillow. Did you know that? And do you know why she had a loaded gun? | It was in case she said something that | hurt my feelings. She cast reflections on my voice once—and had a servant | sleeping in her room for a menth after- | ward. ‘Mum’ knew me.” He smiled, as | though he were recalling a pleasant | memory. “People who get to know me | don’t make any mistakes. I hope you know me, Captain. “Sure T do, Golly,” said Afkness, but the geniality in his voice was patently | assumed. i There was & great deal of work to! be done that night. 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