Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1929, Page 22

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY JUNE 10, 1929. MONEY FOR NOTHING | By (Copyright, 1929, by North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Bervice.) Synopsis of Preceding Installments. | John Carroll fs in love with Patricia Wy- vern, who, until recently, has looked upon him’ with scant favor, "A guarrel between | John's uncle and Patricia’s father has com- | John has just Te- ned _from London, where he and his cousin Hugo were sent by their uncle, Lester 5 er to get them out of | “Good morning, Sturgis,” he said affably, as the butler appeared. ‘“You might give me some more coffee, will you?” The butler of Rudge Hall was a little man with snowy hair who had been slacidly withering in Mr. Carmody' be- | service for the last 20 years. John had e burglar He does not_know which are these: Dolly and ““Soapy v have converted Uncle Lester to the {dea of & fake burglary to explain the disappearance ot valuable heirlooms that he wants to turn and revented by law {rom ‘wist, & spoils the plot by appearing unexpectediy, Uncle Lester sends both YOung men away. s0 that the coast will be clear for the next | try.” John returns ahead of schedule (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) TWENTY-FIRST INSTALLMENT. OHN woke late next day with a feeling_of extraordinary happi- ness. For some reason the world seemed suddenly to have become the best of all possible worlds. Then he remembered and sprang out of | bed with a shout. Emily, lying curled up in her basket, her whole appearance that of a dog who has come home with the milk, raised a drowsy head. Usually it was her custom to bustle about and lend a hand while John bathed and dressed, but this morning she did not feel equal 1o it. Deciding that it too much | trouble even to tell him about the man she had seen in the grounds last night, | she returned to her slumbers. Having dressed and come out into the | open, John's happiness swelled into a feeling of universal benevolence toward | all created things. He looked upon the | birds and found them all that birds should be; the insects that hummed in | the sunshine were, he perceived, a quite | superior_brand of insects; he even felt | fraternal toward a wasp. And when | the Dex-Mayo rolled across the bridge of the moat and Bolt, applying the brakes, drew up at his side, he thought he had never seen a nicer looking chauffeur. “Good morning, Bolt," said John ef- fusively. “Good morning, sir.” “Where have you been off to so| early?” # | “Mr. Carmody scnt me to Worcester, | sir, to leave a bag for him at the Shrub Hiil Station, If you're going into the Thouse, Mr. John, perhaps you wouldn't mind ‘giving him the ticket.” John was delighted. He took the ticket and put it into his pocket. “How are you, Bolt?" | “All right, thank you, sir.” “How's Mrs. Bolt?” “She’s all right, Mr. John.” “How's the bab: “The baby's all right.” “And the dog?” “The dog’s all Tight, sir.” “That's splendid.” said John. “That's great. Th: fine. That's capital. T'm delighte He smiled a radiant smile of cheeri- ness and good will and turned toward the house. However much the heart may be uplifted, the ani: insists on demanding breakfast, and, though John was practically pure spirit | this moshing, he was not blind to the | fact that a couple of eggs and a cup of coffee would no bad thing. ‘The morning room was empty and there were signs that the rest of the party had already breakfasted. John was glad of it. A man who is about| to picnic on Wenlock Edge in perfect weather with the only girl in the worlg wants to meditate, not to make con versation. So thoroughly had his predecessors breakfasted that he found, on inspect- | ing the coffee pot, that it was empty. He rang the bell. known him ever since he could re- member, and he had always been just the same. “Why, Mr. John! I thought you were in London. “I got back late last night. And very glad,” said John heartily, “to be back. How's the rheumatism, Sturgis?” “Rather troublesome, Mr. John.” John was horrified. Could things be on such a day as this? “You don't say so?” “Yes, Mr. John. 1 was awake the greater portion of the night.” “You must rub yourself with some- thing and then have a good rest. Where do you feel it mostly?" “In the limbs, Mr. John. on in sharp twinges. “That’s bad. Perhaps weather will make it better.” “I hope so, Mr. John.” “So do I, so do 1,” said John earnest- ly. “Tell me, where is everybody?"” ‘Mr. Hugo and the young gentleman went up to London. “Of course, yei; I was forgetting.” “Mr. Molloy and Miss Molloy finished their breakfast some little time ago and are now out in the garden.” “Ah, yes. And my uncle “He is up in the picture-gallery with the policeman, Mr. John.” John stared. “With the what' “With the policeman, Mr. John, who's ome ahout the burglar: Burglary?” “Didn't you hear, Mr. John, we had a burglary last night The world being constituted as it is, with fate walting around almost every corner with its sandbag, it is not often that we are permitted to remain for long undisturbed in our moods of ex- altation. John came down to earth wiftly. “Good heavens!" “Yes, Mr. John spare the time . . . Remorse gripped John. He felt like a sentinel who, falling asleep at his post, has allowed the enemy to creep past him in the night. “I must go up and see about this.” “Very good, Mr. John. But, if I might have a word . . .” “Some other time, Sturgis.’ He ran up the stairs to the picture- gallery. Mr. Carmody and Rudge’s one policeman were examining something by the window, and John, in the brief in- terval before they became aware of his presence, was enabled to ste the evi- dence of the disaster. Several picture frames, robbed of their contents, gaped at him like blank windows. A glass case containing miniatures had been broken and rifled. Elizabethan salt cellar presented to Aymas Carmody by the Virgin Queen herself was no longer e. . It comes this fine And if you could in a man |in its turned. & “John! I thought you were in Lon- on.” ‘I came back last night.” “Did you see, or observe, or hear any- thing of this business?” asked the po- liceman. Constable Mould was one of the slow- est-witted men in Rudge, and he ha eyes like two brown puddles filmed over with scum, but he was doing his best {to l;nk at John keenly. “Why not? “I wasn't here” P. G. Wodehouse Rlues lying about all over the pllce,! shouting to him to pick them up. But how to recognize them? He awoke from a reverie to find Sturgis at his side. “Ah, Sturgis,” sald John absently. “Might I have a word, Mr. John?" John supposed: he might, though he was not frightfully keen about it. He respected Sturgis’ white hairs, but the poor old ruin had horned in at an un- fortunate moment. d | thought it showed a good spirit. ou sald you were, sir,” Constable 1d pointed out cleverly. mean, 1 wasn't anywhere near the | row_on the moat.” Bn,‘lr"hlng?" Constable Mould subsided disappoint- “It is impossible to say,” replied Mr. | Carmody. ~“By a most unfortunate ly after dinner. Hugo @ as you know, left for London yesterday morning. Mr. Molloy and his daughter play. And I myself retired to bed early. ‘The man could have effected an en- trance, without being observed, almost midnight.” “How did he get in? “Undoubtedly thro by means of a ladder.” John perceived that the glass of the window had been cut out. “Another most unfortunate thing," proceeded Mr. Carmody, “is that the objects stolen, though so extremely | valuable, are small in actual size. The man could have carried them off with- out any inconvenience. No doubt they | are miles away by this time, possibly even in London.” “Was this here stuff insured?” asked Constable Mould. “Yes. Curlously enough, the reason my nephew here went to London yes- terday was to increase the insurance.| You saw to that matter, John?” “'Oh, yes.” John spoke absently. Like everybody else who has ever found him- self on the scene of a recently commit- | ted burglarly, he was looking about for clues. “Hullo!” “What is the matter?” “Did you see this?” “Certainly I saw it,” said Mr. Car- mody. | I saw it first,” sald Constable Mould. | “The man must have cut his finger | getting in.” “That's what I thought,” said Con- stable Mould. The eombined Mould-Carmody-John discovery was a blood-stained finger- print on the woodwork of the window sill; and, like so many things in this world, it had, at first sight, the air of being’ much more important than it really was. John said he considered it valuable evidence, and felt damped when Mr. Carmody pointed out that its value was decreased by the fact that it was not easy to search through the whole of England for a man with a cut finger. | T see,” said John. | Constable Mould said he had seen it | right away. “‘fl_\e only thing to be done, I sup- pose,” sald Mr, Carmody resignedly, “is to telephone to the police in Worcester. Not that they will be likely to effect anything, but it is as well to observe the formalities. Come downstairs with me, Mould.” They left the room, the constable, it seemed to John, taking none too kind- ly to the idea that there were higher powers in the world of detection than himself. His uncle, he considered, had shown a good deal of dignity in his ac- | ceptance of the disaster. Many men would have lost their heads, but Les- | ter Carmody remained calm. John He wandered about the room, hoping for more and better clues. But the difficulty confronting the novice on| these occasions is that it is so hard to tell what is a clue and what is not. Probably, it he only knew, there were edly. - lid this ) grettad it. hen, did this nappen?’, asked Jonn. | Ris braiu for this very delicate business | of clue-hunting, and it was maddening | combination of circumstances, the house [t0 be compelled to call a number of | was virtually empty from almost direct- | them off duty to attend to gossip about d his friend, | & butler’s swollen joints. any time after 8 o'clock. No doubt, he | The man actually did break in shortly before |through this window, and, no doubt, escaped the same wa! “My rheumatism was very bad last night, Mr. John.” John recognized the blunder he had house,” replied John impatiently. “Im- | 24e 4 bein; Ve g so sympathetic just now. mediately I arrived I went out for a| ¢"the time, feeling, as he had done, " that all Then you did not seen or observe |y others, to inquire after and display a keen interest in Sturgis’ rheumatism had been a natural and, one might mankind were his little ay. unavoidable act. But now he re- He required every cell in “I wished to have a word with you | | about this burglary of ours last night.” took the car to Birmingham to see a sald Sturgis, to John's surprise. | i This was more the stuff. John be- came hesrtier. “A mest mysterious affair, Sturgis. apparently climbed in “Yes, Mr. John." | “What did he look like?” ! “I couldn't say, Mr. John, not really definite.” “Why couldn't you?"” | “Because I did not really see him.” | ut you said you did.” but only in a man- ner of speaking?” “Well, it was like this, Mr. John——" Sturgis glanced cautiously at the door. “I was awake with my rheumatism last night, Mr. John, and, at last, it come on s0 bad I felt I really couldn't hardly bear it no longer. I lay in bed, thinking, and after I had thought for quite some time, Mr. John, it suddenly crossed my mind that Mr. Hugo had once remarked, while kindly interesting himself in my little trouble, that a glassful of whisky, drunk without water, frequently alleviated the pain.” John nodded. So far the story bore the stamp of truth. A glassful of neat | whisky was just what Hugo would have recommended for any complaint, from rheumatism to a broken heart. “So I thought, in the circumstances, that Mr. Carmody would not object if I tried a little. So I got out of bed | and put on my overcoat, and I had| just reached the head of the stairs, it | being my intention to go to the ccllar-i ette in the dining room, when what “Stottled? Oh, yes, I see. Well2" “I remained at the head of the stairs. For quite a while I remained at the head of the stairs. Then I crope—" “You what?” “I crope to the door of the picture gallery.” “Oh, I see. Yes?” “Because the sneezing seemed to have come from there. And then I heard another sneeze. Two or three sneezes, Mr. John. As if whoever was in there had got a nasty cold in the head. And then I heard footsteps.” “What did you do?” “I went to' the head of the stairs again, sir. And then out of the door came a man earrying a bag. He had one of those electric torches. He went down the stairs, but it was only when ‘he was at the bottom that I caught “Why? You mean he was somebody you knew?"” The butler lowered his volce again, “I could have sworn, Mr. John, it | policeman just now, and I wouldn't tell anybody but you, because it was only a glimpse, as you might say, and couldn't swear to it. So 1 dian't men- tion it to Mr. Mould when he was in- So I'd be much obliged if you would not_mention it to him, Mr. John.” “I won't you'd better leave me to ! think this over, Sturgis. | “Very good, Mr. John. ' John walked to the window. For the Jirst time since Hugo had come to him | pry + . . | 40 have his head repaired, ne began to | White Sewmx Machine Co. 1ealize that there might have been something in that young man's story. Taken n conjunction with what Sturgis just told him, Hugo's tale of find- Ting Dr. Twist burgling the house be- came _significant. | This Twist. now. After all, what about him? 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