Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1930, Page 20

REAL ESTATE. The Wrist Mark Copyright. 1930, by North American THE EVENING By J. S. Fletcher Newspaper Alllance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. SYNOPSIS. Col. Enoleden. formerly the governor ©f Southmoor Prison, is found dead. The police believe that he has been mur- dered. A laborer reports having seen three men om the might of the murder at a spot close to the stretch of river where the body was found. Sefton Engle- den, the colorel's nephew, begins an in- vestigation of his own, with the aid of his law clerk. They find in the dead man's diary an entry that tells of the escape of two convicts from Southmoor vears before. They also learn that the colonel, just previous to his death, had sent a message to the authorities at the Prison asking whether any of the warders who were at the prison in his time are | atill there. Johnson advances the theory | that the colonel may have encountered | the escaped convicts and that they killed him. Mallison, superintendent of police, does mot know of this development, FIFTH INSTALLMENT. NGLEDEN made a gesture of de- spair “And how on earth are we going to find that out?” he ex- claimed. “Not a single clue so far—at least, that's worth anything.” “What are we here for?" demanded Johnson. “Anyway, what did_ you fetch me here for? Wait a bit! Seems to me that the first thing to do is to find out all that we can about Col Engleden’s doings while he was here.” | “How are you going to find out what | people he saw?” asked Engleden. Pprobably saw lots of people.” “Very goed.” agreed Johnson im- perturbably. “My theory is that he | saw one or both of the men who | escaped from Southmoor when he was governor. Of course, he did! Other-, wise, why did he send off that tele- gram to the present governor?” “I'm pretty well versed in all he did,’ said Engleden. “I made full inquiry into that before you came. He arrived here on Sunday evening and put up | at this hotel. He kept himself to him- | self—Christmas, the landlord, didnt | see him in conversation with anybcdy. | ‘The only person I knew of with whom he had any conversation worth men- tioning after coming to the town was Sadler, the jeweler, to whom he took | his watch for some slight repair, and | wth whom, Sadler evidently being an | antiquary, he had some talk about the | antiquities of Barowsburgh. As to where he went, that's pretty well ascer- tained. He was seen about the Castle, end in the neighborhood of two or three other old places, such as the church and the Friar's Tower, and so | on. However, he certainly did go into | one public place in which he would see several local notabilities—I heard of that only this afternoon, and haven't had a _chance to mention it to vou be- fore, Johnson. I find that on ‘Monday morning, presumably by mere chance, and as, I imagine, he was on his way to the Castle, he dropped in at thé town hall, where the magistrate’s court was sitting. Johnson manifested renewed interest. “Good!” he exclaimed. “That’s the | sort of spot where he would see people! | Excellent!—now I wonder what he | saw?” | “What he'd see, Johnson, would, of course, be the local magistrates, two or three of them, at any rate, a few local solicitors, some police officials, and the complainants and defendants concerned, together with the idlers and the inquisi- tive in the public part of the court. ‘Whether ‘he recognized anybody there—" “Which he no doubt did!—in my opinion.” “Well, if he did, why didn't he make a note in his diary? You see, he cer- tainly referred to the diary.” “Yes—to refresh his memory. But probably he was in the habit of writing up his diary late at night. I think he did recognize somebody, and I think he would have made an entry to that effect . . . if he’'d come back to this hotel from that moonlight walk. And once more the quegtion is—who was the man, or who weré the men he recog- nized?” “Is it likely it would be—men? Pos- y—a man! But—men?" ‘There were two men escaped. They may have been pals who'd stick to- gether. That's a detail, though. What I want to get at is—what man is there in this neighborhood who is likely to have been one of the two men who got | away from Southmoor 12 years ago? For, | sure as my name’s what it is, the cnly | meaning of Col. Engleden’s telegram to | the governor of Southmoor, taken in | conjunction with the entry in his diary He‘\fi | “What about telling Mallison all we | know?” asked Engleden. “No!” exclaimed Johnson, with em- phasis. *“Not at present, anyway. Mal- lison's a policeman! I have my own ideas about police methods. I've also got my own ideas about my methods. | Let Mallison take his own line—let us take ours.” | _“What 1s our line to be?” demanded | Engleden. | “I suggest that you send an explan- | atory wire to the present governor at | Southmoor first thing tomorrow morn- | ing, asking him to supply you, as ‘qulrkly as possible, with the name and | address of an ex-warder who was there under Col. Engleden 12 years ago. Fol- low up the telegram with a confidential letter. down here and give carte-blanche in the way of expenses and so on to look | round and sce if he can identify any- | body. | tle’s ' fought! Then—why then, half the bat- If anybody round here can be identified as one of the escaped convicts, that man immediately falls under suspicion!” “Well, let's draft the telegram, then.” agreed Engleden, pulling up his chair to a writing table. “And afterwards, the letter. Of course, by this time, the governor at Southmoor will have heard of my uncle’s death, and he'll be all the more ready to help. Here's a telegram form. Now- ” Just then the door opened and a waiter appeared; behind him were two gures. “Mr. Mallison and Mr. Sadler, sir,” announced the waiter. | ome in, come ini” said Engleden. He motioned his callers toward the two easy chairs of his private sitting | room. “Good of you to call,” he went on. “Am I to take it that you've some —news?” The two men took the offered chairs and glanced at each other. Mallison | spoke. | “Mr. Sadler's chairman of the| watch committee, Mr. Engleden,” he said. “So he's a deep interest in any affairs of this sort—and then he's a | magistrate, too. Mr. Sadler is ex- | tremely anxious that the murderers of your uncle should be brought to jus- tice.” 5 disgrace to the town until they | are!” remarked Sadler quietly. “No stone will be left unturned.” | “Yes?” sald Engleden. “And—have you any news?" Mallison looked once more at Sadler, | as if inviting him to speak. But Sadler | only nodded and Mallison replied to | Engleden’s question by putting one of his own. | “Didn’t you tell us, Mr. Engleden, |hac been somewhere here in Barows- | the church yard of Wraisdale, within a | | that your uncle would have a fair sum | burgh longer than they ought to have | hundred yards of the place where he of money on him—a couple of hundred | been, and were returning to camp by | had been’done to death. And, return- or s0? Yes?—well, I suppose a good deal of that would be in bank notes?” “Most of it,” replied Engleden. “I believe you told us, too, that you ‘ got him that money from his bank, | lhfi day before he left town—you, your- | e ————————————— A A e R bl isecsccesibs AR IlllllllllllllllllllfllllllIIIlIlIlIIllllllllmllllll!lIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIYIHIIIII"IIII|I|II1lIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllI"IIIIIIIIIlIlI|IIII|I||||IlllIIlIIIIIOIIIl“IIIlIIIIlII1I|I|IIIII|IllllllllllllllilIlllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIX“I'III|II | lllllllllllIllllllllillllllllIIIIIIIIIIlIIIII!IlIIIIlI(IllI|I1IIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIlIlIIIIlIllIIIIIIlIlIIIlIlIIlIIIIIIIImlllllllllllllIIIII1IlIlllllllllllmlllllillIlIlI|I|I!IlIlIlIlII||I|||||I|IIIIIIIIII|Illmllllllllllllllill ! _—_ Park Yo Let us get such an_ex-warder | | with keen attention. | “I did! Cashed his cheque for him. | As you say—I, myself.” Mallison dréw a deep breath. “You didn’t happen to make any memorandum of the numbers of those | | notes, Mr. Engleden, did you?" “Well, 1 did!”’ replied Engleden | sharply. “For I always do—on such occasions, in case the notes are lost.” He pulled out a small pocketbook and | turned to a page. “I have all the num- bers here” he continued. “The notes | were of small denomination—some tens, | but mostly fives.” Mallison produced a slip of paper. “Have you this number on your list? | he_asked. “XB-C 897,163" There was a tense mement of silence; ‘thsr\x Engleden rapped out one word. “Yes!" | He looked up as he spoke: Mallison was already drawing something from a pocket; an envelope, from which he extracted something else. | “Here's the note!" he said | see?—XB-C 897,163." * | Engleden and Johnson started for- | ward, staring. They looked at Malli- | son; Mallison nodded at them. They looked at Sadler; Sadler, resting his hands on the gold-topped handle of | his ebony walking stick, was staring | | steadily at the clock on the mantel- picce and made no sign. | _ “Where did you get that?” demanded | | Engleden. | “It was changed at a public house at | Harlington, 15 miles away, last night, | | Mr. Engleden,” replied Mailison. “by— | |a private soldier! Now listen!—1I don't | | know if you're aware of it—the place | | mayn't have been in existence when | | you were up here before—but between | here and Harlington, at Wraisdale | Moor, there's now a big military camp. | There are 6,000 men in that camp, Mr. | Engleden, and, though we've had very | little reason indeed to complain of any | bad conduct, there are, of course, black | sheep in every flock! At any rate, I'm convinced that it was a man from this | Wraisdale Moor Camp who changed | that note.” “How did it come into your posses- | sion?” asked Johnson, who had listened | “You “In this way—the landlord of the inn | at which it was changed happened to | read in the morning’s paper certain | particulars that I'd given to the press, replied Mallison. “I mentioned, for one thing, that bank-notes had been taken from Col. Engleden's pockets, and that they had. been issued from a London bank. Now this note bears the stamp of a London bank—the landlord noticed it, on recalling the fact that he'd changed a note the previous night, and he immediately came over to see me. Mr. Engleden, this is a clue!” “Can the landlord identify the man?” | asked Johnson. “He thinks he might,” replied Malli- | son. “That's the weak point! He says | he has so many soldiers coming into his | place that he takes no special notice of any particular one. But—he might!” “What was a soldier doing in the | neighborhood of Wraisdale Abbey: at 11 o'clock ‘at night?” asked Johnson. “Ah—that's just where I see a chance of getting hold of the man, or, rather, men!” exclaimed Mallison. “My theory | is that there were two men—men who the riverside. Whether they could get | into their quarters unobserved I don’t know—a camp isn't a barracks, after all. | But, if they were pulled up by sentries or | patrols—for they must have been a long | time over their proper limit—I can trace them pretty readily. And, fur- ur Car At Your Door... 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This beautiful new apartment building is a community of private homes, every room of which is an outside room and so designed that n unobstructed view of the countrys Representative for Inspection Daily Until 10 P.M. ther, I'd heard a rumor, or a suggestion, that soldiers were involved in this. Anyway—there’s no doubt whatever, is there, now, Mr. Engleden, that this is one of the notes you got for your uncle?” “No doubt whatever!” replied Engle- den. “But—isn't it possible that this note may have been paid away in the ordinary course by Col. Engleden and have come into possession of this soldier who changed it last night in quite legitimate fashion? For instance, he Mallison smiled; Sadler, still sitting and statuesque, moved impa- | tlently. | ut | “Possible, Mr. Engleden, possible, not probable,” said Mallison, - made inquiry today as to what pa: ments Col. Engleden did make in Barowsburgh. He made just three! He spent three shillings at the booksellers, | on a guide-book. He paid a few shil- lings for a telegram and some stamps at the post office. He paid Mr. Sadler here two-and-sixpence for a small re- pair to his watch. All these payments were made in sliver—he didn't change any five-pound note in making them. Of course, he hadn't paid his hotel bill, &s his stay here hadn't come to an end. | No, sir!—that note was taken from your | uncle’s dead body No doubt of it!” said Sadler, softly. “Murder, for the sake of robbery.” “And now my job is to comb out that camp of 6,000 men,” continued Mallison. | Then he went away, and Engleden rned to Johnson. “So that puts an end to schemes!” he said. “No need—" “End, eh?” said Johnson. “I thought we were just beginning! But, of course, those chaps interrupted us. Well, let's get on with the telegram. | You were going to say—" “But—this police = discovery?” Engleden. “Don't tun our | ex- | you think—" “I don't think enough of what I've shouldn’t attend to our own business,” said Johnson. “Let Mallison attend to his job and we'll attend to ours. This telegram, now—-" Engleden drafted a lengthy telegram, mainly at his clerk's suggestion, and early next morning Johnson dispatched it. ‘Before evening came a reply giving the name and address of an ex-warder. ‘The name was Millwaters. “That's one of the two warders in charge of the men who escaped,” said Engleden. “The other was Settle. My uncle spoke highly of both. Millwater. is probably the very man to hel What do we do now?” “Send him the money for his fare and promise him good pay for his serv- “Impress se- crecy upon him and tell him to put up at the Station Hotel at Harlington and | await our arrival there in the smoking | room. 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