Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1929, Page 43

The Wolves of By Edgar (Copyright. 1929, by North American N Newspaper Synopais of Preceding Instaliments. Lila Smith, who is really Delia Pattison, &n helress supposed to have perished in & fire. is abducted and held prisoner. One of Lila’s captors, Golly Oaks, brings her old nurse. Anna, to see her. ' Anna also IS & prisoner. pector John Wade of the Lon- n poiice, who loves Lila and attempts to | Tescue her, believes thai there is a connec: tion betwéen her captors and & RADE* Of criminals known as the india rubber men. (Continued From Yesterday's Star.)_ TWENTY-SIXTH INSTALLMENT. OLLY Oaks’ own room at | Arbroath building was very | large and would have been | airy, if the windows had been opened and the heavy velvet curtains drawn back. It contained only a bed, a chair, a table, and a strip of old carpet, ludicrously inadequate. ‘The table was of the type that is to be found in architects’ offices—a large, plain unpainted board, supported on two trestles, Neatly stacked upon it were scores of plans, survey maps, books of reference, time-tables, and pages of memoranda compiled in Golly’s almost illegible handwriting. He was now studying one of the three bank books that it was his invariable custom to carry with him by day, and take to bed with him at night. It was a record of his deposits in one of the | greatest of the Brazilian banks and it showed so satisfactory a total that he could truthfully say that, even if he could not lay hands on Lila Smith's fortune, he could still live in luxury &1l the Test of his life. ‘The other bank books afforded him ialmost as much comfort. He closed the little blue-covered volume with a sigh of contentment, put it and its companions in an inside pocket of his coat, and flve himself up to con- sideration of a bothersome problem. . Raggit Lane was in Brixton Prison, idaily hoping for a miracle, for he had | ® great deal of faith in this little| scheme; and in Brixton Prison, Golly had determined, he would remain until | the law took its usual course. Lane was happily ignorant of his khief’s lack of interest in his misfortune. And yet Golly had planned, and had intended, a ular rescue, should any of his lieutenants fall within the reach of the law. On his table was a carefully prepared plan of operation that was as detailed and as exact as any drawn by a staff officer on the eve of battle.” But Golly had another scheme, more grandiose, more spectac- ular. He was never bound by his first program. Even_ his late wife had never sus- ted him of keeping & most elaborate k in which were pasted clippings glving the details of every successful Tobbery he had planned and executed. | Yet he had spent days in gloating over these clippings. He had grown livid with rage when what he considered some extraordinarily clever move of his had gone unrecorded, and several times he would have written to the frels, luprlylng the omitted detail, if it had not been for the fact that he knew by heart every great crime that had been committed in the past 50 years, and this very knowledge had taught him that vanity brings some of the cleverest criminals to punishment. ‘There was once a murderer, a whole- sale poisoner, who wrote to the coroner, inquiring into the death of one of his victims, and it was that letter that had brought him to the scaffold. Golly never forgot this. He had just settled himself for an hour of meditation when there was a knock at the door, and, getting up, he pulled back the bolt and admitted Capg. Aikness. The captain had shown of nervousness all afternoon—something very unusual for him. Perhaps it was the little tiff they had had earlier in the day that had upset him. Twice he had asked Golly for some information as to his immediate plans, and that was ALCOHOL -3 PER AVegetable Preparati Mineral. NOoT Worm Sood r Glaratod Suge Censtipationand and merish LOSSOF S hs Themw)’mmotmg Diees(i}m Cheerfulness and Rest Contait® i ium, Morphine nof neither Opi NA 1c NARcOT Wintergrren 7t e A helpful Remedy r?:m ness 80d resulting therefrom-inin Facsimile Signature of fo THE CENTAUR €O NEW the Waterfront Wa“ace. spaper Alliance and Metropolitem Tvice.) . not like the apathetic Capt. Alkness, who, hitherto, had been content to ac- cept whatever instructions Golly had given him, Golly bolted the door behind his vistor and waved him to a seat on the bed. He never kept more than one chair in his workroom. He found that the prac- tice kept down the number of visitors. “I'm going to tell you something that's very important, Golly,” said Alk- ness, but Golly held up his hand. “You're rattled,” he said. know all about that.” He searched his waist- coat pocket for his cigarettes. “All the afternoon you've been making a noise like a tin can full of peas.” “I'm no use whatever on shore” growled the captain. “I'm a sailor, and I feel like a fish out of water. Why can't you let me go over to Holland and buy that boat? They want £60,000 for her, but I know very well that they'd take less, if we were to offer cash. She's on the Dutch register—I could sail her under their flag, with a Dutch crew. 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His increased pallor served to betray the intensity of this newly awakened emotion. “Suppose the police catch us this time—the whole crowd of us? What's going to happen then?” He made a gesture as i he were tugging at a rope around his neck, drawing it tight with a suggestive “click” of his tongue. “What then?” he demanded. “Can we buy our way out? We can't. Is there any way of getting a free par- don? Yes, by putting the black on ‘em.” “The black on them?” repeated Alk- ness. “On whom?” “The government!"” Oaks pounded on the table to emphasize his point. “We'll give 'em something at a price, and we'll show ’em what we're capable of doing before we start in on the real thing. There's two real big jewelers’ stores in Bond street where you could lift a hundred an’ fifty thousand without any trouble at all. We'll take that to start with. 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You thought I was touched when I put up that bank job in St. James’ street; you thought I was touched when I said we could get the manager to open the bank in Lothbury, without any fuss.” Suddenly his exuberance left him and he looked at the captain glumly. “I'd like to get Mr. John Wade, though—get him fair and square, in a room like this, only me and him— pegged out on the floor, and hundreds and hundreds of big sheets of blotting- paper to catch the blood.” He laughed shrilly, and, frozen with horror, Atkness for the first time really understood this odd little man who quoted Greek and Latin and occaslon- ally scraps of Arabic. “What's your scheme of blackmail- | ing the government?” Aikness asked. He was anxlous to turn the conversa- tion into more pleasant channels. He knew that the fate designed for John Wade would be his, if Golly Oaks sus- pected for one moment the scheme at the back of his mind. It was much more than half-formed. It was complete, except for one im- portant particular—he had yet to de- cide the moment when he should turn his companion over to the police. What was the moment to strike? ‘Perfect timing, eh?” chuckled Golly, and Alkness nearly jumped from the bed at what he thought was a remark- ble plece of mind-reading. “That's % The figures quoted have the secret of our success—timing! ¥ou keep your eye on me!” He jerked a watch from his ket. “I ‘wonder what them girls are doing?” “Are they sleeping in the same flat tonight?” asked Aikness, glad to es- cape from the nerve-racking subject. “I had a bed set up for Anna,” said Golly. “She’s no more dippy than I She talks rationally. Now let me down at his table, took a sheet of paper, and began to write rapidly. He had an extraordinary knowledge of London and he frequently mentioned places that were unknown to Aikness, but it happened that the captain was | well acquainted with the district Golly had in mind on this occasion. “Here's a pretty good place—Ionely, and you can see the river,” mused Golly. “Practically in Greenwich, and nobody will notice you've parked a car there. Anyway, you'll see a lamp signal.” He looked thoughtfully at Aikness, “The question is, when will there be |a dance?” “A what?” asked the astounded cap- “A dance, or a doing of some kind. But I'll find that out.” He scribbled something on the paper and studied the pages of a little book that lay on the table. “If it's Friday, we'll make a wonder- ful job of it. It will be Friday.” slapped his knee excitedly. feeling it'll be Friday—what doing in the war, Captain?” ‘The question took the man's breath away. “You know what I was doing in the war,” he growled. “I served two years with the navy.” “Jennett and Mortimer served with you, didn't they?” Alkness nodded. “Jennett and Mortimer are looking 4alk of dances, and Jennett and Morti- | after the Chinks now, ain't they? Good sallors. They know how to load a gun, don’t ‘they?” “What are you driving at?” asked| Aikness, impatiently. “What's all this mer, and guns?” Golly smiled blandly. “I must go and have a chat with that girl,” he sald, nodding his head | significantly. (To Be Continued.) QUAKE SCALE SOUGHT. Engineers Are Not Satisfied With Descriptive Adjectives. 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