Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1929, Page 39

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY 'J UNE 14, 1929. 39 MONEY FOR NOTHING (Copyrisht, Synopsis of Preceding Installments. Lester Carmody. tradition. looms, buf wants to o By P. G. Wodehouse 1929, by North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan e wipaper Bervice.) family heir- law from doing | crooks who { his notice out of the corner of his eye values money above and he saw in the window beside him a - head and shoulders. “Hoy!" observed the head in a voice “You know what young lady, sir. ‘The young lady what brought you here to leave you in our charge. That young lady.” “That young lady?”" | ir. The one who brought you here.” “Brought me here?" “And left you in our charge.” “Left me in your charge?"” “Come, come, sir!” said Mr. Flannery. “Are you a parrot?” The adroit thrust made no impression | lon John. His mind was too busy to | recognize it for what it was—viz., about | the cleverest repartee ever uttered by a | non-commissioned officer of his maj- | esty's regular forces. A monstrous sus- | picion had smitten him, with the effect | her myself driving off in it some hours almost of a physical blow. Suspicion? It was more than a suspicion. If it was at Dolly Molloy's request that he was now locked up in this infernal room, then Dolly Molloy must be connected with the nefarious activities of Twist, “You mean——" he gasped. “I mean your sister, sir, who brought you over here in her car." “What! That was my car.” “No, no, sir; that won't do. I saw ago. She waved her 'and to me,” said Mr, Flannery, caressing his mustache | and allowing & note of tender sentiment to_creep into his voice. “Look here!” John cried feverishly. “You must let me out of here. At once!"” “No, sir. She | 1 promised your sister—" my sister!” I haven't got a sister! Good heavens, man, can’t you understand—" “I understand very well, sir. Artful- ness! I was prepared for it.” Sergt.- Maj. Flannery paused for an instant. “The young lady.” he sald dreamily, “was afraid, too, that you might try to bribe me. She warned me most par- ticular.” “Well, you can make your mind eas said John between his teeth. “I haven't any money. ‘There was a moment’s silence, Then Mr. Flannery said “Ho!" in a rather short manner. And silence fell again. It was broken by the sergeant-major, in a moralizing vein. “It's & wonder to me,” he said, and there was peevishness in his voice, “that a ng fellow a lov sister like what you've got can bring himself to lower himself to the beasts of the fleld, | as the saying is. Drink in moderation is one thing; mopping it up and becom- ing verlent and a nuisance is another. It you'd ever seen one of them lantern slides showing what alcohol does to the liver of the excessive drinker maybe you'd have pulled up sharp while there was time, and not,” said the sergeant- major, still with that oddly querulous | note in his voiee, “have wasted all you! money on what could only do you 'arm. If you 'adn’t of give in so to your self- indulgence and what I cail besotted- | ness, you would now ‘ave your pocket | full ‘of money to spend how you fan- | sighed. “Your cuppertea’s | he said moodily He withdrew eautiously down the lad- |and up the drive, tolling painfully, came der and, having paused at the bottom | Mr. Molloy in person, seated on & bi- to shake his head reproachfully, disap- | cycle. peaged from view. | As John glared down the rider John did not miss him. His desire mounted and the bicycle, which for company had passed. wanted now was to be alone and to think. Not that there was any likeli- | hood of his thoughts being pleasant | cnes. The more he contemplated the | iniquity of the Molloy family the deeper | COuld see his face. id the iron enter into his soul. If ever | CTimson face. and e set eyes on Th 4 | twisted in anguish. 7 omas G. Molloy | yohn went back to the fug and with its left pedal. It was a its features set eves on him again, oddly |another lonz drink enough. at this very moment. From | Just presented to him he had where he stood looking out through the | Elimmering of consolation. bars of the window there was visible to | h erable section of the drive, | (To Be Conti: a fake bur- and they crgok poses as carrs’ out the details s is seen by the butler, Who tells John Carroll, Carmody’s nephew. John. knowing nothing of the plot, goes to Twist's sanitarium to question Twist, and Dolly goes. foo. She net only has’John drugged tnd Jocked up. but also gives knock- out drops 1o Twist ien she phones 'Soapy"’ to seize the lon!. which 15 supposed to be concealed in Carmody's house, an met her in London. “S0ApY encounters ong oObstacle. The loot is not to be found. TWENTY-FIFTH INSTALLMENT. | (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) T_had been the opinion of Dolly Molloy that John, on awaking from | his drugged slumber, would find | himself suffering from a headache. Events proved her a true prophet. John had been all his life a rather absteminous young man. But, on cer- tain rare occasions dotted through the Yyears of his sojourn at Oxford, he had | Permitted himself to relax. As for in- | stance, the night of his twenty-first birthday . . . boat race night in his freshman vear . . . and, most notable | of all, the night of the university foot | ball match in the season when he had first found a place in the Oxford team and had helped to win one of the most | spectacular games ever seen at Twicken- | ham. To celebrate cach of these events he had lapsed from his normal austeri- ty, and every time had wakened on the morrow to a world full of grayness and horror and sharp, shooting pains. But ! mever had he experieneed anything to { compare with what he was feeling now. { ,, He was dimly conscious that strange | things must have been happening to | him. and that these things had ended * by depositing him on a strange bed in , & strange room, but he was in no con- dition to give his situation any sus- tained thought. He merely lay perfectly £till, concentrating all his powers on the ! difficult task of keeping his head from splitting in half, When eventually, moving with exqui- site care, he slid from the bed and stood up, the first thing of which he became aware was that the sun had sunk so considerably that it was now shining " almost horizontally through the barred window of the room. The air, more- over, had that cool fragrance that in- dicates the approach of evening. Poets have said some good things In their time about this particular hour of | the day, but to John, on this occasion, it brought no romantic thoughts. He was merely bewildered. He had started out from Rudge not long after 11 in the morning, and here it was late after- noon. He moved to the window, feeling like Rip Van Winkle. And presently the sweet air, playing about his aching brow, restored him so'considerably that he was able to make deductions and arrive at the truth, The last thing he could recollect was the man Twist handing him & tall glass. In that glass, it now became evident, must have | lurked the cause of all his troubles. With an imbecile lack of the most ele- mentary caution, inexcusable in one who had been reading detective stories all his life, he had allowed himself to be_drugged. It was a bitter thought, but he was not permitted to dwell on on it for long. Gradually, driving everything else from his mind, there stole upon him the realization that, unless he found something immediately to slake the thirst that was burning him up, he would perish of spontaneous combus- tion. There was a jug on the wash- stand and, tottering to it, he found it mercifully full to the brim. For the next few moments he was occupied, to the exclusion of all other mundane matters, with the task of seeing how much of the contents of this jug he could swallow without pausing for breath. This done, he was at leisure to look #bout him and examine the position of lfl’;hirs'.‘ h at he was a prisoner was proved directly he tested the handle of the door. And, as further evidence, there were those bars on the window. What- ever else might be doubtful, the one thing certain was that he would have to remain in this room until somebody came along and let him out. His first reaction on making this dis- covery was a feeling of f{rritation at the silline: of the whole business. Where was the sense of it? Did Twist suppose that, in the heart of peaceful Worcestershire, he could immure a fel- low in an upper room of his house? And then his clouded intellect began to function more nimbly. Twist's be- havior, he saw, was not so childish as he had supposed. It had been im- perative for him to gain time in order to get away with his loot, and, John bl d, he had most certainly gained it. John became active. He went to the door again and examined it carefully. A moment's inspection showed him that nothing was be hoped for from | that quarter. A violent application of his shoulder did not make the solid oak so much as quiver, He tried the window. The bars were firm. Tugging had no effect on them. | There seemed to John only one course to ue. e shouted. It was an injudicious move. The top of his head did not actually come off, but it was a very near thing. By a sudden clutch at both temples he man- aged to avert disaster in the nick of time, and tottered weakly to the bed. ‘There, for some minutes, he remained, while unseen hands drove red-hot rivets into his skull. Presently the agony abated, He was able to rise again and make his way feebly to the jug, which he had now come to look on as his only friend. He had just finished his second non- stop draught when something attracted Prominent Washington Attorney “Before using PILE-FOE I had tried hundreds remedies without gal more than momentary fort, but after the ve) application of PILE-] experienced amazing relief, far beyond my expectations. I continued using this velous remedy for about two That has been six months ago, since ‘weeks, wihch time I have not discomfort or pain. PILE-FOE to any person suffering from piles.” Ends Agony of Pile-Foe acts lke magic for blind. es. protruding or_itching and the roothing, days—then ¥ Past or money refunded $1 PILE-] Co at all DRUG [In the matter of tea-drinking John was healing our pile sgony will be a thing of the aers Piles PEOPLES | 1ike 'a lorry full of steel girders passing | over cobblestones. “I've brought you | 2 cuppertea.” | The head was red in color and orna- | mented half way down by a large and | impressive mustache, waxed at the ends | The shoulders were broad and square, | the eyes prawnlike. The whole appari- tion, in short, one could tell at a glance, | was'a sample or first instaliment of the person of a sergeant-major. And unless he had dropped from heaven—which, fiom John's knowledge of sergeant | majors, seemed unlikely—the newcomer must be standing on top of a ladder. And _such, indeed, was the case. Sergt. Maj. Flannery, though no acro- bat, had nobly risked life and limb by climbing to this upper window to see how his charge was getting on and to bring him a little refreshment. “Take your cuppertea, young fellow,” said Mr. Flannery The hospitality had arrived too late. handicapped by the fact that he had just swallowed approximately & third of & jug of water. He regretted to be compelled to reject the contribution for lack of space. But as what he desired | most at the moment was human society | and conservation he advanced eagerly | to the window. i “Who are you?" he asked. “Plannery’s my name. young feilow. “How did I get here?” “In that room?” oy ayit “I put you there.” “You did, did you?” said John. “Open this door at once.” The sergeant major shook his head. “You just drink your cuppertes, nn'd don't let’s have no nonsense. 1f you'd made & ’abit in the past of drinking more tea and less of the other thing, you wouldn’t be in what I may call your present predicament.” “Will you open this door?” “No, sir. I will not open that door. There aren’t going to be no doors opened till your conduct and behavior has been carefully examined and we can be sure there’ll be no verlence.” “Listen,” said John, curbing a desire to jab at this man through the bars with a teaspoon. “I don't know who ou are . . i “P’l’(:lnery'n the name, sir. as I said before. Sergt. Maj. Flannery.” “. . . but I can't believe you're in his business . . . 2 "Indue!eg.el am, sir. I am Dr. Twist's assistant.” : “But this man is a criminal, you ool. . . .” Sergt. Maj. r'llyn:;ry seemed pained, ther than annoyed. “"Ceorme. come, sir. A little civility, if you please. This, what I may call con- tumacious attitude, isn't helping you. Surely you can see that for yourself. Always remember, sir, the voice with e smile wins.” Lh"This Twist burgled our house last night and all the while you're kee‘;?mz me shut up here he's getting away. “Is that so? What house would that be?” “Ru Hall.” "Ne\;‘e'r' heard of it.” “It's near Rudge-in-the-Vale, 20 puen from here. Mr. Carmody’s place.’ “Mr. Lester Carmody, who was here taking the cure?” 5 “Yes. I'm his nephew.” “His nephew, eh?” “yes” “Come, come!™ “What do you mean?” “It so 'appens,” said Mr. Flannery, with qulet satisfaction, removln, one hand ?rom the bars in order to fondle his mustache, “that I've seen Mr. Car- { mody's nephew. Tallish, thinnish, i pleasant-faced young fellow. He was over here to visit Mr. Carmody during the Jatter's temp'ry residence. I had him pointed out to me.” Painful though the process was, John felt compelled to grit his teeth. “That was Mr, Carmody's nephew.” “Other nephew, eh?” “My cousin “Your cousin, eh?” “His name's Hugo.” “Hugo, eh?” “Good heavens!” cried John. you a parrot?” Mr. Flannery, if he had not been standing on a ladder, would no doubt have drawn himself up haughtily at this outbburst. Being none too certain of his footing, he contented himself with looking offended. “No, sir,” he said, with a dignity that became him well, “in reply to your question, “I am not a parrot. I am a salaried assistant at Dr. Twist’s estab- lishment, detailed to look after the pa- tients and keep them away from the cigarettes and see that they do their exercises in a proper manner. And as I said to the young lady, I understand human nat: and am a match for ar fulness of any description. more, it was precisely this kind of art- fulness on your part that the younr lady warned me against. ‘Be careful, sergeant-major, she said to me, clasp- ing her ’ands in what I may call an agony of appeal, ‘that this poor, mis- guided young man don't come it over you with his talk about being the lost heir of some family living in the near neighborhood, because he's sure to try it on, you can take it from me, ser- geant-major,’ she said. And I said to the young lady: “Miss,’ I said, ‘he won't come it over Egbert ' Flannery. Not him. I've seen too much of that sort of thing, miss’ I sald. And the young lady sald, ‘I wish there was more men in the world like you, because then it would be a sight better place than it s, sergeant-major.’” He paused. Then, realizing an omission, added the words, “she sald.” John clutched at his throbbing head. “Young lady? 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