Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1930, Page 34

THE WRIST MARK | ;s & Oopyright. 1930. by North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspapér Service. . SYNOPSIS. Col. Engleden. formerly the governor ©of Southmoor Prison, is found dead. The volice Dbelieve that he has beem mur- dered. A laborer reports having seem three men on the might of the murder @t a spot close fo the stretch of river twhere the dody was found. Sefton Emgle- dan. the colonel's nephew, beoins an in- vestioation 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 conricts from Southmoor vears before. They also learn that the colomel, just prior to his death. had sent @ message to the authorities at the pris- on asking whether any of the warders Who were at the prison in his time are till there. Johmson adrances the theory that the colonel may have encountered the escaped comvicts and that they killed Aim. Mallisor. superintendent of police, does ot know of this development. He tells Enoleden that bank notes that were known to have been on the colonel's per- son have been traced. and that it has Been established that they were changed by a soldier from a mearby barracks Johnson and Enoleden decide to ask the Present governor of Southmoor to semd them the name of an ez-warder who may possidly give them aid in unraveling the #ituation. They receive an answer sug- esting that they retain Millwaters, ome of the warders in charge of the comvicts who escaped. SIXTH INSTALLMENT. HEN Engleden and Johnson walked into the Harlington Hotel that night, a little be- fore the appointed time, the smoking room was almost empty. An old gentleman read his paper by the hearth: two men of the commercial traveler type whispered tc- gether in a corner. At a writing table a tall. burly man. who looked like a farmer, was penning a letter. Eight o'clock came. nobody of the expected sort appeared. But, as the last note of a chiming timepiece on the mantel shelf tinkled out. the man who looked like a farmer folded up his letter, clip- ped it into an already addressed envelope, licked up the flap, and, dangling the letter in his fingers, came straight across the room to Engleden and his clerk. “Millwaters—at your service, sir,”” he said politely. Engleden looked his surprise. “You know me, then?" he ex-| claimed. “Seen you in court once or twice, | sir,” replied Millwaters. “I occasion- | ally drop in at the Law Courts, if I'm passing that way.” He glanced at | Johnson, half smiling. “Know your ¢lerk, too, Mr. Engleden—Mr. Jehnson, | I think. Used to be with Mr. Pen- | feather, I believe, Mr. Johnson.” “You seem to know a good deal!” | remarked Johnson. "‘yhlt might your | led. “‘Oh, I've a bit of business that takes me into what we may call legal gurlieus now and then, Mr. Johnson, e answered. “But it won't affect our business | here. And what may that business | be, gentlemen, if I may ask?” | Engleden was attempting to size up the ex-warder, and made no immediate | answer. But Johnson became direct in | manner. | “I reckon you've an idea of it, Mill- | waters!” he remarked. “You wouldn't | be long in getting at it, either. Pretty nearly everything gets into the papers, nowadays.” Not much left out, certainly,” re- plied Millwaters. “Yes, I've an idea, of course. Col. Engleden, eh? That's lhbcrut it, gentlemen!—I've read Bllé‘ there’s been in the papers. Buf —what am I wanted fory" | Engleden checked Johnson's reply by a shake of the head. He gave Mill waters a glance that implied secrecy. “My uncle had a strong belief in your probity, Millwaters,” he said. “I hap- pen to know that you were one of his most trusted men.” “I had that character, sir, I believe. Col. Engleden certainly had a good—I may say, a high—opinion of me. I've got that in black and white. I left before he resigned; he gave me a | testimonial of the best sort. Never failed in my duty!—that's what he said. And he never said what he didn’t mean, sir.” “Well, I'm going to trust you,” said Engleden. “You're aware t my uncle was murdered and you've read | the newspaper accounts. Johnson and myself are endeavoring to trace the murderers. The police have a theory Wwhich may be a correct one, but we are in possession of information Which, for reasons of our own, we haven't yet communicated to the po- lice, though I suppose we shall have to do so in time. Now, Millwaters, as you've read the newspapers, I want to ask you a question. Have you formed any opinion about this murder?” Millwaters hesitated while, fingering the letter he carried across the room. “Well,” he said at last, “I don't know, Mr. Engleden. On the face of it, it may have been a murder for the sake of robbery. You may find it was just that! Or—had the colonel any enemies “I should say, emphatically, that he | badn't an enemy in the world!” re- plied Engleden “I should say so, too, sir! No kinder man ever lived! Well—there's an- other idea that occurred to me. Per- haps it's far-fetched. Still, it is an idea. His presence here, sir, in this district may have been—eh?_highly inconvenient! He may have made the mistake of—recognizing somebody! Do you take me, sir “I take you well enough, and from certain facts that have come to light— only known to Johnson and myself, so far—I think he did recognize some- body! I think, -too, that whoever it was that he recognized, knew that that recognition had taken place and that he, the recognized person, was no longer safe. And so—" “The colonel had to be silenced, sir | —removed!” said Millwaters, “Pre- Glsely! And the robbery was—mere Wi Possibly it was as you say—mere bluff,” agreed Engleden. “But now— can you think of any one to whom the colonel’s presence might be, as you put | i, highly inconvenient? Any cne— | with a past?” | Millwaters smiled. “There are a good m: men, Mr. Engleden—and some in what you'd c high or, at any rate, high-ish quarters —to whom the colonel's presence wouldn't be exactly welcome!” he answered. “It would remind 'em of— I think you know what, sir? A time when. they were decorated with the | | burgh, and wanted one of his former warders to identify the man beyond doubt. Oh, yes!" “But why should he wish to identify, to interfere with an old convict, if the man had served his sentence?” asked Engleden. “My uncle was not the sort | of man to bring up a man’s past| against him!” | “Last man in the world to do that, | sir!” agreed Millwaters. *“No!—if your | uncle recognized one of his old charges it Barowsburgh and wanted him posi- | tively identified, you may be sure that | he'd discovered that there was some- | thing wrong, that the man was en-| gaged in some nefarious transaction, in | practice, or the like. That's been it! There'd be a reason and a good reason! As I say, Col. Engleden would have | n_ the very last man in the world | to interfere with an ex-convict who was | going straight. It's been this—he's| lighted, accidentally, on some man who | was at old game—probably under another name.” Engleden produced the dead ma: '8 | dairy. He opened it at the pase at| which he and Johnson had found a| ll::;’: and thrust it into the ex-warder's “Read that passage, Millwaters,” he said. “We—Johnson and I—have proof that Col. Engleden referred to it, and bowels open. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 23, “Fve just had a_ telephone messaze from the nolicr 7t Wa-tingtonr ™ Mollison burst out. “There's a man been shot dead there . . . who has in his pocket a letter written by you from this hotel! » placed that scrap of paper in it, on the afternoon on which he sent his | telegram to the governor of South- moor.” . Millwaters read. slowly, nodding his head, as if in affirmation, at various points. At the end he smiled, nodded again, and handed the diary back. “‘Clear as the noon sun, sir!” he said. “He’s recognized Snelling! Or Hardle! Or—perhaps both! That's it!" “You remember the escape, course?” suggested Engleden. “As if it were yesterday!” exclaimed Millwaters. “One doesn’t forget a thing like that in a hurry.” He smiled grim- ly, as at some unusual reminiscence. “I'd give something to know if I hit Snelling,” he said. “I fired twice at him! ~Settle always stuck to it that he hit Hardle he was mounting the car!—I don't know. They got away all right. Remember?—oh, yes! Made sensation enough at the time.” of “Nothing more was ever heard of | those men?” said Engleden. “As far as I'm aware, sir, nothing— from that day to this” replied Mill- waters. “It was the most cleverly con- trived escape I ever heard of—must have been engineered in the very com- pletest fashion. Money, of course! Col. 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Oh, yes—the of that escape, sir, thought of it, the more I'm convinced that it was all very cleverly and cun- | ningly arranged, at considerable ex- penditure, and that somebody on the staff at Southmoor, either official or ‘warder, netted a nice little sum!” “Do you know anything of the antecedents of the two men, Snelling and Hardle?” asked Johnson. “No more than what's in there,” re- plied Millwaters, pointing to the diary. “Snelling was a solicitor; Hardle was a man he'd employed in some viay en who'd got mixed up in Snelling’s criminal practices—fraud of some sort. But you can find all that out by go- ing back to the trial—it'll be in the newspapers of the time. The thing now is—what do vou want “I want you to go to Barowsburgh, look about you, and see if you can identify anybody—not necesarily Snell- Southmoor when my uncle was gover- nor there,” replied Engleden. “And to go there alone—and not to know us, if you meet us,” added John- son. “Go as a tourist—it's a well- known tourist center—simple job! Go there. look around, keep your eyes open!” “And—your ears!" said Engleden. “Yes,” replied Millwaters, after a pause. “But not so simple as you seem to think, gentlemen! I haven't changed much in 12 years, be recognized. But between a clean shaven, close-cropped convict and wh such a man may be after some yea of civil life—ah, you don't know wh: a difference there is! Not at all a sim- ple job, Mr. Johnson!" “Col. Engleden was evidently quick at it anyhow,” observed Johnson, crily. “Col. Engleden may have been’ gifted with quicker powers of observation than I am, Mr. Johnson—or he may have known something that I didn't know,” retorted Millwaters. “You may be very in convict style and attire at Southmoor 12 years ago, you'd not be very quick to recognize him again in a well fed, Established: 33 Years Specials Monday and Tuesday Genuine Toric Glasses Far or Near Complete With him—but some, or at any rate one of the rders, or perhaps one of the officials, must have been got at. Every- | thing, you see, came off at the exact | moment. Where the men got to, how they got there, how they were able to make a complete disappearance—ah, well, that's beyond me!” “The escape took place about 12 years ago,” observed Engleden. “How old were the two men, Snelling and Hardle, at that time, Millwaters?” “As near as I can recollect, sir, they'd be, each, about 40 years of age,” re- plied Millwaters. “Thereabouts, any. way—I can't say to a year or two.” “You knew them weli, I suppose? | “They were in my gang. Well be- haved fellows, both. Snelling, of course, was—well, what's called a gentleman | | nowadays. Hardle was a—I was go- |ing to say a highly respectable sort of |man. They gave no trouble whatever | while they were at Southmoor. What we_call model prisoners.” “You can describe them, of course?” “As they were then! But you must remember that a man as you see him in_a convict prison preseats a very different appearance to what he does in civil life. 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And— another fact, though nothing to do with your affair, I've a little business of my own to attend to here in Harlington— two birds with one stone, eh?" | Presently Engleden and Johnson went away and back to the Castle Hotel, and, in due course, to bed. 'Engleden was | fast asleep and it was just past mid- | night when a continued knocking at his | door roused him from his slumber—to find Christmas in the corridor, and at his side, Mallison eager and excited. “I've just had a telephone message from_the police at Harlingto son burst out. “There's a shot dead there, an hour ago, who has in his pocket a letter written by you from this hotel! Name on the en- | velope, Millwaters!” (To be continued.) Established 33 Years $3 .50 and Cleaner Included Toric Best $7 .50 General Heating Co. Celebrates lIts ANNIVERSARY Special Anniversary offer, together with UN- USUAL LOW TERMS feature this great sale. Why not “junk” that worn-out furnace and in- stall a new modern plant during this sale? 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