Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 42

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 'FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929. MONEY FOR NOTHING By P. G. (Copyright, 1920, by North American Newspaper Alllance and Metropolitan Newspaper Bervice.) Synopsis of Preceding Installments. John' Carfoll and Hugo Carmody and their vncle, Lester Carmody, are in line for flec although they dont sus intentions. by tendering a proposal of ohn's) benalf to Patricia Teiected. A aus rr d “Patricia’s father widens . (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT MR MOLLOY watched Ronnie Fish disappear with benevolent the right wa: approval. He said to Mr. Carmody that that young a certain lack of responsive enthusiasm on the other's part. Ronnie Fish's head was not one of Mr. Carmody’s favorite subjects at the moment. said_Mr. Molloy, .resum- ing y' man that goes into oil is going into a good thing. Oil's an right. Say, listen, Mr. Carmody, 1t jsn't often I give up any of my hold- man had his head screwed on | . and seemed not to notice ing: me, inviting me to your home and all, and I'd like to do something for you in return. solid block of Silver River stock at just the price it cost me? And let me tell you I'm offering you something that half the big men on our side would eye teeth for.” e is no anguish like the anguish | of the man who is trying to extract cash from a fellow human being and suddenly finds the fellow human be- ing trying to extract it from him. Mr. Carmody laughed & bitter laugl “Do you imagine,” he said, “that I have money to spare for speculative in- vestment “Speculative?” Mr. Molloy seemed to suspect his ears of playing tricks. “Silver River spec—?2" “By the time I've finished paying the bills for the expenses of this in- fernal estate, I consider myself lucky, if I've got a few hundred that I can call my own.” e There was a pause. “Is that so?” said Mr. Molloy, in a thin voice. Strictly speaking, it was not. Before succeeding to his present position of head of the family and squire of Rudge Hall, Lester Carmody had con- | of his labors in the world of business. | but you've been mighty nice to | ‘What do you say to a good, | | concern. “Why, you've alwhys told me| }s-ngulne temperament, could not bring it's the biggest thing you've got.” “So it is. But. ing smile, “seeing it's Mr. Carmody. them.” cerely. “But he can't afford to buy.” “What!” “You_tell her,” said Mr. Molloy. | i i ! Mr. carmody 'told her. Wodehouse nglish land found himself. | “Well, I don't get it.” | shaking her head. “Oh, well,” said Doily with a charm- “Nor would 1" said Mr. Molloy sin- |averse to speaking of the unfortunate | position in which the modern owner of said Dolly, “You call yourself | Mr. Molloy, though ordinarily & man of himself to believe that a hard-boiled bunch of trustees, most of them prob- I|ably lawyers with tight lips and sus- wouldn't mind Mr. Carmody having | picious minds, would ever have the sporting spirit to take a flutter in Silver River Ordinaries. “Shucks!” said Mr. Molloy, with a good deal of feeling. Dolly linked her_arm in his with a He Was Never | pretty gesture of affectionate solicitude. “Poor old Pop!” she said. “He's all broken up about this.” ( Mr. Carmody regarded his guest sourly. “What's he got to worry about?” he | trived to put away in gilt-edged securi- | a poor man. How can you be poor, when | goked, with a certain resentment. | ties a very nice sum indeed, the fruit those gold coins?” But it was his whim to regard himself | “Heirlooms. as & struggling pauper. “But all this.” . Mr. Molloy in- dicated with a wave of his hand the, smiling_gardens, the rolling park and | the opulent-looking trees reflected in the waters of the moat, ‘“Surely this means | 8 barrel of money?" |~ “Everything that comes in goes out | again in expenses. There’s no end to | my expenses. Farmers in England to- day sit up at night trying to think of | new claims they can make against a landlord.” There was another pause. “That's said _Mr. Molloy thoughtfully. ir, that's bad.” His commiseration was not al: for Mr. Carmody. In fact, very little of it was. | | Most of it was reserved for himself. It | began to look, he realized, as though in | coming to his stately home of England | he had been simply wasting valuable time. It wes not as if he enjoyed stay- ing at country houses in a purely aes- thetic spirit. On the contrary, a place like Rudge Hall afflicted his town-bred | | nerves. Being in it seemed to him like | living in the first-act set of an old- | fashioned comic opera. He always felt | seldom given said Mr. felt bitter when ancestors. To a man, ironical about lcoms. much | thing painfully | wealth which | s0 potential to anybody. had that feeling very strongly. vere the home of his ancestors and look forward to its possession as sacred_trust. son of a second son, it a thought. lagets and Tetainers might dance out &nd when, start a_drinking chorus. Yes, sir,” sald Mr. Molloy, “that must grind vou a good deal.” “What must?” It was not Mr. Carmody who had spoken, but his guest’s attractive young wife, who, having returned from the village, had come up from the direction | of the Tose garden. From afar she had | observed here husband spreading his | hands in broad, persuasive gestures, and | from her knowledge of him had gathered | that he had embarked on one of those high-pressure sales talks of his that did | o) so much to keep the wolf from the door. [ "'¢Y7" Then she had seen a shadow fali| ‘“No . athwart his fine face, and, scenting a|long to the estate, | hitch in the negotiations, had hurried | up to lend wifely assistance. | “What must grind him?" she asked. mody’s soul. “They're heirlooms,” can't sell them.” “How come? governing heirlooms, there descended bride. “I was offering our host here a block | of those Silver River shares. o | River!” "cried Mrs. Molloy in pretty | inve that gallery place you showed us Tound | yesterday is jam pull of pictures Worth | pa able to buy all this stuff,” said Dolly. a fortune an inch and tapestries and all| fro was telling me only this morning Car- he thought of the Rudge Hall heirlooms. He looked upon them as a mean joke played on him by a gang of sardonic lacking botli reverence for family traditions and appreciation of the beautiful in art, who comes into possession of an ancient house and its contents, there must always be some- | heir- To such a man they are simply being allowed to lie idle, doing no good Mr. Carmody had always | Unlike the majority of heirs, he had not been trained from boyhood to re- He had been the second and his chance of ever succeeding to the property was at the outset so remote that he had | He had that, at any moment. a band of vil-|gene into the business at an early age, in middle life, a series of accidents made him squire of Rudge Hall, he had brought with him to the place a practical eye and the commer- | cial outlook. The result was that, when he walked in the picture gallery and | thought how much solid cash he could get for this Valasquez or.that Gains- borough, if only he were given a free hand, the iron entered into Lester Car- he said. “I They're yours, aren't nid Mr. Carmody, “they be- things without the consent of trustees: i | while even if the trustees gave their | Oh, you aren't going to sell Silver | consent, they collared the money and (at Rudge & man who combined with ted it on behalf of the estate. And |a bottqmless purse a taste for antiqui- “Why, Pop was sort of hoping he'd | that, if you felt like selling, he would write you out his cheque for whatever you wanted, without thinking twice.” Moodily scanning his wife’s face dur- Mr. Molloy had observed it sud- light up in a manner that sug- law, denly passing through her always agile brain; but, presented now in words, this thought left him decidedly cold. He could not see any sense in it. “For the love of Pete Mr, Molloy. His bride had promised to love, honor and obey him, but she had never said anything about taking any notice of him when he tried to butt in on her moments of inspiration. She ignored the_interruption. “You see,” she said. “pop collects old | junk—I mean antiques and all like that. | Over in America he's got a_great big %0 | museum place full of stuff. He's going 2 to present it to the Nation when he | hands In his dinner pail. Aren't you, | pop?” It became apparent to Mr. Molloy that, at the back of his wife's mind, there floated some idea | handicapped by his masculine slowness of wit, he could not guess. It was plain to him, however, that she expected him to do his bit, so he did it. “You betcher,” he said. “How much would you say all that stuff in your museum was worth, pop?” Mr. Molloy was still groping in outer darkness, but he persevered. “Qo,” he said, “worth? Call it a million . . . Two million . Three, maybe.” “You see,” explained Dolly, place is so full up, he doesn’t really know what he'’s got.” Mr. Carmody’s always rather protu- berant eyes had been bulging farther and farther out of their sockets all .! “began is On Mr. Molloy, as he listened to his | through this exchange of remarks, and host’s lengthy exposition of the laws now they reached the farthest point & | possible. and. stayed there. His breath M. Molloy kept nothing from his | deepening cloud of gloom, You couldn't, | was coming in little gasps, and his fin- |it appeared, dispose of the darned gers twitched convulsively. He was suffering the extreme of agony. The thought that he had as his guest Lasting Gifts - for the BRIDES of JUNE . ] ECAUSE of the many delightful things in this great store of Sloane ~ Rugs, Furniture and Lamps that, through the years, will bold the charm and beauty they now have < their. selection as appropriate gifis for Bride and Groom becomes indeed, a simple process. 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Dolly, misinterpreting his silence. “How much would you have given| “The stuff isn't doing any good, just Mr. Carmody for all those pictures and | lying around the way it is now. And things he showed us yesterday?” asked | it isn't as if it didn't really belong to | Dolly, twisting the knife in the ‘wound. | you. All what you were saying awhile Mr. Molloy spread his hands care- | back about the law is simply mashed | potatoes. The things belong to the “Two hundred thousand . . . .. . we wouldn't have quarreled about the price. But what's the use of talking? He can’t sell ‘'em.” “Why can't he?"” | ‘Well, how can he?” | “wel, “I'll tell you how. Fake a burglary.” him?” i | Mr. Carmody was not. What he was “Sure. Have the things stolen and | worrving about was the practicability slipped over to you, without anybody | of the thing. Could it, he was asking knowing, and then, you hand him your | Bimeelf, be put safely through without check for two hundred thousand oOF |the rick, so distasteful to a man of whatever it is, and you're happy and he's | sensibility, of landing him for a and evervbody’s happy. —And. |lengihy term of years in prison? Tt fore, I guess all this stufl is | was on this aspect of the matter that . Jsit it7 “Well, then, Mr. Car- | ne now touched. mody stick to the insurance mone gl e e :: and he’s that much up, besides what UL o L L G O et R Gt fromyohe | men since the world began have ev et as” Mlenie spoken more wistfully. “We would b2 her say, and Mr. -Molloy felt, for the ’”!E;“dl"“' I moment, incapable of speech. That he | 50 ‘,,“‘(""C.‘f» : had not been mistaken in supposing | AD¥hing? You're mot. that his wife had a scheme -at the back of her head was now plain, but, | as outlined, it took his breath away. | Considered purely as a scheme, he had | not a word to say against it. It was commercially sound and did credit to the ingenuity of one whom he had al- | ways regarded as the slickest thinker | of her sex. But it was not the sort of | scheme, he considered, that ought to | have emanated from the presumably innocent and unspotted daughter of a | “Exactly. Somebody would have to substantial oil millionaire. It was cal- | take them. It would be necessary to culated, he felt, to create in their host's | create the appearance of an actual | mind doubts and misgivings as to the | burglary. e sort of people he was entertaining. | " “Well, there'll be an actual He need have no such apprehension. | gla It was not righteous disapproval that| “But whom could we trust in such was holding Mr. Carmody dumb. | a matter?” It had been laid down by an acute | “That's all right. Pop's got a friend, thinker that there is a subtle connec- another millionaire like himself, who veen felony and fat. Almost | would put this thing through, just to ers, for instance, says this oblige pop. You could trust him.” are fat men. Whether this| “Who?” asked Mr. Molloy, plainly is or is not true, the fact remains that the sensational criminality of the sug- gestion just made to him awoke no horror in Mr. Carmody’s ample bosom. He was startied, as any man might be who had this sort of idea sprung sud-| “Who,” asked Mr. Carmody, denly on him in his own garden, but | Chimp?” he was not shocked. He had to & re-| “A friend markable degree that specious charity [ wouldn't know him. " that allows a man to look indulgéntly' For a long minute there was silence so where's the harm in your selling them? Who's supposed to get them | after you?” Oh. My nephew, Hugo.” you aren't worrying about Dolly had said Who's going to say I'm not. Pop's You bet you as- serted Mr. Molloy, Mr. Carmody gazed out over the waters of the moat. His brain, quick- |ened by the stimulating prospect of money for nothing, detected another doubtful point. “Who would take the things?” “You mean get them out of the house?” E: life pop’s not,” bur- be trusted. “Chimp.” said Dolly briefly. “Oh, Chimp.” said Mr. Molloy, his face clearing. “Yes, Chimp would do it. of mine. T More than a quarter of a million « three | house, and the house belongs to you, | surprised that any friend of his could | lin the garden. Mr. Molloy looked at Mrs. Moll Mrs. Molloy looked at | Mr. Molloy. ' Mr. Molloy closed his left eye for a_fractional instant, and in response Mrs. Molloy permitted her right eyelid to quiver. But, perceiving that this was one of the occasions on which a strong man wishes to be left alone to commune with his soul, they forebore to break in upon his reverie with_jarring speech. “Well, Il think it over,” sald Mr said Mr. Molloy. Carmody “Atta-bo; You take a nice walk by advised Mrs. Molloy, “an: “Sure yourself.” : then come back and issue a bulletin.” | (To Be Continued.) GERMAN SOU.ND MOVIE HALTED BY INUNCTION Infringement of Patents Charged Teutonic Version of “The Singing Fool.” By the Associated Press BERLIN, May 31.—What had been intended as the first complete tone film production in Germany, with the Amer- ican film “The Singing Fool” as the medium, was last n'ght halted in a court injunction. The writ was served half an hour before the performance was due to begin. The film was to have been presented at a picture house controlled by “Ufas,” one of the two big German film com- bines. It was stopped by the Tele- funken Co., which sued out an interim injunction on the allegation of in- fringement, of patents, STUDY INHERENT TRAITS. COLD SPRINGS HARBOR, N. Y. 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