Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1929, Page 23

KEAL ESTATE. The Door of Death By John (Copyright, 1929, North American Ne Newepaper SYNOPSIS. ! = ; days his body is fou . & police | him down!” arl's influence nor is evil, and in this belief he is 1o her old servant. The woman begs to be taken from Greyhouse and wants Fleanor to g0 with her. but Eleanor refuses to leave. Norse shows Ames an iymo Ietter in feminine handwriting that purports | fo establish an alibi for Francis Ballion. and | ined by is to Norse. and \ to Grevhou: with' Al | wher Esteven ewspaper Alllance and Metropolitan Bervice.) trample him.” And then everything submerged in a fusillade of shots Into the room now burst a number But here voice dom- “Tjse your flashlights! Redshy. guard the door—Roose, the ludder. And now at him, you others! Beat A voice Tose in the darkness urbancly modulated in contrast the fever and confusion. “Oh, so easy! On Here T am—Carl Ballion!” If what followed were not personal experience, a report of it would seem to me incredible. There commenced in the flickering succession of rays and shadows an obscure battle of one against many, a phantom combat. as if this were indeed a place where ghosts continued the rage and violence of life A surge of pent-up sound, a leaping and shifting of forms, a face lightning- sharp and then gone, a fist lifted to trike, gasps for breath, oaths of baf- fllement or pain. 3 Oddly enough, the advantage for Bal- lion lay in the very numbers he foug against. Although armed, ants could not use their we out greater risk to themselve: h of his blows scored. ver, he had the advantage of The flashlights tossed here in the melee, uncertain and with apons wit Mo the dari and there futile. Some were broken, your lights on him and close in a stroke or twoly than him, | And, when | | T groped along the wall to where T had | TWENTY-SIXTH INSTALLMENT. ND then a sound came, Shrill,| inarticulate, a scre b vault with a soulless @ Tose three times, loud, inhuman, and was still. It was an un- bearable sound, the sort that unhinges thought, that makes one cringe from its repetition. It resembled a call of de- spairing madness that summons- death to strike and have done. And a moment passed before the mind could hazard a realization of what it meant—that it was the scream of a woman, but so demoniac and anguished that one shrank before superstitious imagining. Then I believe something gave way in me. I cricd out “Eleanor!” T tore myself from Norse's grasp and leaped headlong into the darkness, without thought or fear, toward the motionlcss figure beyond. “Eleanor!” Frenzy, of course. I might have known that I could never cross that room. In an instant I found myself linked to a body that bore me down. But frenzy lends strength. Somehow 1 had gripped his wrist and. for a mo- | ment, was able to hold back the mu: ! that surged against me like steel coils. It was enough. As quickly as he had | sprung he released me and was gone. | And I understood why, for Norse's | voice from above asked if I was hurt. | Ballion had not dared expose himself to _that attack. | But now a fifth shot rang out. I| heard a low cry from Norse as he sank | down upon me. It seemed that the | hour of despair had indeed struck. | But, almost at once, a breath at my | ear murmured, “Keep still.” | What the effect of this ruse would | have been I don't know, for at that | moment came a confusion of voices and shouts from above along the tun- | nel. Norse fired, I believe, at random. | There sounded a ringing of feet on | the steel bars of the ladder, rays of | light shot from the mouth of the pas- sage, a hurry of people above, descend- ing and nearing us. | “Look out in the Norse. The warning was not superfluous, but It came too late. A babel of noise, in- tensized, as if in a megaphone, roared suddenly—cries, oaths, scuffie of feet, vociferation, every tone of struggle at | close quarters | We were up now and, in the vague | penumbra of light from some electric | torch, gained the impression of a knot- ted mass blocking the passage and swaying back and fo “Let him _through.” called Norze; | “nail him when he gets to the ladder.” | But his voice mingled without effect in the growing tumult. “Here!” he shouted at me. “we must get Eleanor | Graham from in front of that open- fng | e found the pillar; the cords yielded somehow. I felt the limpness of her body as we dragged it back into an | angle of the place, but whether alive or dead there was no time to learn. For we had acted none too soon. Another reinforcement was now de- scending. Whereupon a figure, a dark- er blot in the almost complete obscur- 1ty, shook himself loose from the serim- | mage and bounded back with such vio- lence that he sent Norse reeling against | me | ‘Then once more, but this time into the tunnel choked with men, Carl Bal- | lion fired. | There followed somewhere a ecry, | long-drawn, an explosion of voices, | ! yells of “He's down! Look out, don't | tunnel,” cried ‘A REAL HOME In “Marietta Park” With 4 Bedrooms, Built-out Pantry, Colonial Front Porch, Deep Yard and Brick Garage. ~ *9350. for SAMPLE HOUSE OPEN TO 9 540 Madison St. N.W. Built and Owned By THRIFT BUILDING COMPANY For Sale by Your Broker Easy Terms 'APLE & JAMES Inc. Specializing in New Homes 1226 14th Street Nnrt‘h 0962 V For Rent Near Western High 2303 Tunlaw Road N.W. (Intersection 37th St.) Open Daily Until 9 P.M. 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No one could hear him, no one singly could resist him. His quickness, strength and re- sourcefulness seemed inexhaustible, And it became apparent that he took a fierce pleasure in this fight, even welcomed 1it, exulted in it. From time to time he would call out phrase, his voice and I although ringing ominously, “Here 1 am—Carl Ballion!" It was a lure as well as a boast. | Flinging themselves in that direction, Fagtory Prices 830 13th St."N.W. the same | THE. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, B C, SATURDAY, raking the blackness with their torches the men would find nothing; but, instant later, some one straggling from the others would be beaten down by his fist or revolver butt “Here I am—Carl Ballion!” It became a taunt, a refrain; it ac- quired the significance of a battle cry. And fear began to spread among these men, who were trained to such work. One could feel, as it were, the ap- proach of fear, a growing hesitation of movement, an increasing Slence. man near me was panting and mutter- ing to himself. A groan echoed some- where, Form a circle,” shouted Norse. “Get Ar you going to let yourselves be beaten?: But that circle was never formed, A yell of pain echoed under the vault, fol- lowed by the thud of a body. A rush, less spirited, began in that direction: but then, not far from us, Ballion' call. 3 ' I heard Norse say, “if my left Ol SUAve. hand wasn't broken!” And then the worst happened. ‘There sounded YOAr upon roar, the crash of a revolver. A bullet flattened itself next to me. Some one fell bring- ing one of the remaining stands to the pavement with a splintering of glass The reason was evident. Ballion had been able to get possession of one of the police automatics. And panic swept down like a wind. Crics of men utterly inerved, feet stumbling toward the passage-way. Here T am—Carl Ballion!” Somewhere I heard Norse's above the scuffie; he had managed to rally his men at’ the door. A ray of ght, like a fleshless arm, stretched here' and there across the deserted room, above a tangle of bodies and broken wood, flashed upon and held fixed the form of a man who, at the very moment, tossed away an empty revolver. his time it held his face showed white, eager, smilin ruffled hair had formed in curls al the forehead: singularly youthful face, for all its hawk-like intens Stretching out one hand, he laughed, | springing full at the light and the group confronting him. Norse fired. I saw him swerve to but his momentum carried. 'd then came darkness once more, and his voice choked off in a smother of bodies” . . . Carl Bagion!” In the dark, thick air, hard to breathe and heavy with the stench of vowder fumes, I felt a growing weak. which also the wound in m: contributed. Hence, the re of that ene, until emerged in the room above, has left a dim impression. 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WINNIPEG, Manitoba, September 28 | (N.AN.A)) —Volunteers all—the five pi- {lots who flew into the silent North | { from Stony Rapids Thursday in an at {tempt to find two Dominion Explorers’ | | planes and eight men lost since Sep- | | tember 8 and now 10 days overdue at | Fort Norman-—had not been heard from | at a late hour last night. Their sl lence should have been broken some time ago. The area they are searching is an Arctic desert running 900 miles, east { west, from Baker Lake to Fort Norman | jand 300 miles north from that line, | 270,000 square miles in all. Spence of Dominion Explorers, one pilot, has accepted the high hazard of | 2 to quote base ball Expected to Find Trace. Lake, his Wasp Fairchild plane w |to be accompanied Thursday by Sutton | in another p Fairchild, Broach or Kelly in a Wright Whirlwind, 1 and Menyon in super Universal y they expect to notes, from the thelr next | destination. | ‘Then Brown and Kenyon were to| accompany Spence to Pelly Lake, each plane thoroughly refueled for the 300- mile hop. From Pelly Lake, flying solo |and depending solely on his machine to | pre his life, Spence was to make | the final “squeeze” flight of more than 400 miles to Bathurst Inlet Meanwhile, Brown and Sutton were Ito return to Dubawnt Lake and stand | by with re: e fuel, awaiting the re- iturn of Spence, while the other two | pilots return to Stony Rapids It is a gamb) the which moments count. The lost Mc- Alpine party had provisions for one month. ~ These they could stretch out lfor two months, or even more, since they had fishing tackle and guns, and | | caribou are said to abound in the | | country. 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That no word had as yet come from the North was to be expected, though there was a forlorn hope that word of success could have been fla Bathurst verifying Spence's arrival in time to reach Winnipeg last night. Meanwhile, other daring pilots are risking life and limb from the Western Arctic front. C. H. “Punch” Dickens and Andy Cruikshanks, tried and safe West- ern Canada Airways pilots, have the grim task of sliding down the mighty skyways of the Mackenzie, from McMur- ray to Fort Smith and Fort Norman, flying back along the route which the lost planes should have taken. No word of their progress has as yet been received since their departure from McMurray. It is thought that they may have been held up by weather, Qualified Pilots. these daring pilots know their s. That's why they are there. 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