Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1929, Page 26

Death Treasure By R. A. J. Walling (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) SYNOPSIS. Fugitives and pursuer become:partners to golve the mystery of Roger Pell's death. Lazton does not arrest Grenofen and Somer- leid in_Bruges, but enlists their aid and hey agree 1o deliver the comtents of the & on s amazed by the dis- ‘made—that the s intended for Parson Marling. But amazement turns to 2onateration when Grenolen tells of Marl- ing’s viclous story to the eflect that Pell was an ez-convict, the parson’s doudle deal- dng with Laxton by warning Grenofen of his impending arrest and finally Marling’s alarm when Pell threatencd to produce a host just a few minutes efore Pell's death. he enigma of Blackwater resolves itseli into a triangle—Pell-Marling-Fotherdury—a puzzle that the story of Pell's past alone can unlock. I tel Terminus, as we had agreed with Laxton. Having lunched in the hotel restaurant, we went out onto the Place Rogier and sat to take our coffee in front of a cafe bar overlook- ing the entrance to the station. We had just begun to lay- our plan of inquiry when' we plunged into the middle of it. I was looking at the crowd pouring out of the station when I saw a woman hurrying to the narrow street by the side of the hotel. She was in sight only a few seconds, but I recognized Miss Vandenessen. ‘We dashed after her. She turned to the right around the hotel, walking fast, and made for the dome of the church of Ste. Marie. Her pace did not relax and she never turned her head: she had the air of being on an urgent mission. We followed by a tortuous way until she stopped at one tall house and rang. Somerfield and I dodged into a doorway till she was admitted. Then we walked to the end of the street to look at the plaque on the corner. ‘It was the Rue Rogler—the eastern section of it. No doubt the house Miss Vandenessen had entered was No. 39 bis.’ “That cooks our goose!" said I. ‘When Miss Vandenessen had put No. 89 bis on guard, we were not likely to get much out of it." Having waited till she left, 20 minutes afterward, we dogged her back by the way she had come. We saw her go into the- station and leave by a train for the east. Little doubt Miss Vandenessen had under- taken a journey from Bruges to Brus- sels merely to warn No. 39 bis that two impertinent young men might be mak- mg inquiries and were to be told noth- g, CHAPTER XXXV. BANKNOTE DIPLOMACY. HE express next morning landed Somerfield and myself in Brus- sels, We took rooms at the Ho- However, here was a plausible excuse for calling. We could now ask for Miss Vandenessen. And when we rang at the iron-grilled door of No. 39 bis that was ‘what he did. ‘The concierge who opened was a little man with greenish-gray eyes and a rather obsequious manner. “We called,” I said, “in the hope that we might cateh Miss Vandenessen of Bruges.” vy i3 ‘The concierge said he was desolated, but Miss Vandenessen had called and departed already. Somerfield brought his diplomacy into action. He took out his pocketbook and began to handle the notes therein. The greenish-gray eyes followed the movements of his fingers with bright interest. e “Miss Vanderiessen came. -to call on Mme. — Somerfield began. onsieur, she called half an 8 “What a pity we missed her!” ex- claimed Somerfield. He turned to me. “Now we shall have to go to Bruges.” At this point we heard footsteps on the stairs to the right of the concierge and a voice calling: “Joseph!” A lady came to the bottom of the stairs. “Joseph—who are these gentlemen and what do they want?” “They called expecting to find Mile. ‘Vandenessen, madame.” “Tell them mademoiselle is not here.” This third-person treatment was amusing. The lady was within two yards of us, but pretended we were not there. Somerfield flicked the notes in his wallet and looking Joseph straight in his eyes, said: “Ah, well, we shall have an hour to spare. Let's go and sit in the Botanical Gardens on that terrace in front of the grande serre, eh? -day.” We heard the lady's voice saying: “Shut the door, Josepl and we were out in the Rue Rogler again. “No’ flles on madame,” said Somer- “But. I guess Joseph will fall He has the bump of acquisition all right.” Somerfield’s expectation was not dis- appointed. 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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1929. whiffing a cigarette as he strolled leis- urely round the end of the grande serre. He was, of course, sur- prised to encounter us. He raised his hat very politely. and passed along. “Joseph |” Somerfield called. “Monsieur?” said Joseph halting. Somerfleld made room between us on the bench and Joseph sat down, re- marking that the day made very hot. Somerfield was suddenly seen to be playing idly with a pocketbook stuffed full of money. He did not delay his dive into the cross-examination of Joseph. “You know Miss Vandenessen very well, Joseph?” said Somerfield. Joseph had that honor. Since long? Yes. Ever since the English captain’s family lived in the Rue Rogier? Yes. ‘They had lots of friends? No, only a few. Mme, Favaert, whom we had had the honor of seeing, was the owner of the house; she had an affection for Mme. Seabroke. And Mile. Vandenessen, an institutrice at the school in Bruges where Miss Seabroke was educated. Hardly anybody else. No English people? Well, hardly any English people. Somerfield slowly closed his pocket- book, having extracted one 50-franc note from it. But there were some English peo- |ple in the clrcle? Yes, one or two. The pocketbook opened again. Joseph had mentioned only ladies so far. Yes, that was true; but he did not know much about the gentlemen. What he saw was that one of the two had a love affair with Miss Vandenessen— oh, very serious, he assured you. An Miss Seabroke (a second note joined the first in Somerfleld’s hand) inter- ested herself enormously in this affair. As to the names of the gentlemen, Joseph could not recall them. But he could describe their owners. The lover a doctor knows ==% what a lavative should be most robust man. There were so many calls for this prescription and its fame spread so rapidly that druggists began to fill it in quantities; kept it ready for calls. 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Joseph eyed Somerfleld’s fin- gers as they extracted a third note from the wallet. No, it was not; be- cause English names were hard to re- ) member, and he had seen those mes- sieurs only three times, and he would not have kept them so clearly in his recollection as he did if the last time had not been so extraordinary, and— yes, so painful, When? About three years; perhaps more. A desperate affair—the English officer, monsieur the captain, who had come back from sea to live with madame and mademoiselle in the Rue Rogler, made a scene—and such a scene. He quarreled Miss Vandenes- sen’s lover and he quarreled the lover's friend. Again Joseph's command of portraiture was wonderful. Seabroke lived before our eyes. The captain was of a fury. The two messieurs never came to the Rue Rogier again, and in some months afterward the captain and his family went away. 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