Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1930, Page 11

Mark Copyright, 1930, by Nerth American Newspaper SYNOPSIS. ol eden, formerly gove o rardered. An investigation By leden, and his law clerk, at during the colonel's . reveals 1 ) risoners, Sneliing H time at’ Southmoor two and Hardle, escaped. ¥y the colonel had found the men and that him. A former warder, Mili- den recalis that Sanderson. on whose the ‘colonel's body was ‘found, wes broad bracelet on his right wrist. The tion arises—is Snelling Sanderson? d that Hewitt, *| tion ‘of the place. - | ing two men. L | I, myself, Xett. who had known Sanderson ver. well, is one of the former prison '8 through whose treachery the two convicts escaped Capt. Shoreham sees the man and identifies him as Settle, the ex-warder. John- | ;:gmlfll out for Starrick Priory, Settle's | TWENTY-FIRST INSTALLMENT. FTER he stepped from the train at Barowsburgh station, John- | son was lost to_his associates | at the Castle Hotel for the space of 24 hours. Of his where- abouts, of his doings, Engleden knew nothing; nobody, indeed, knew anything but Johnson himself. And later, when these events were matters of the past, and Johnson was forced into an un- desirable leisure, he wrote down W] did happen to him during his disappear- | Here, then, is Johnson's story: | was 14 minutes to 8, Summer time, when I left the station at Bar- owsburgh. I went through the woods to the edge of the moors that stretch away to the northwest of Wraisdale. It was 8 o'clock when I came to the moorland, and I had more than a good hour’s full t before me and another hour of twilight after it in which to cross country ‘that I had never seen | before. Even reckoning the distance at seven miles—a very liberal allowance— I had two hours in which to reach Star- rick Priory before Settle, supposing he left Harll punctually at 9 o'clock, could get there. That suited my plans —I Jnnu_-d to make a preliminary in- spection of Starrick Priory before its tenant came on the scene. “Why was I going there at all—and alone? Because I had got it into my head; immediately after Shore- ham's assertion that Beckett, the farm- er, was in reality Settle, the ex-warder, that the solution of our problem would be found at this farmhouse. The sudden revelation of Beckett as Settle seemed to me the one thing which had been lacking, the one thing wanted to fill a certain gap. Settle was, with- out doubt, the man who had been| fetched, it seemed possible to discover, but I fancied it had something to do with Col. Engleden—possibly Settle had a hand in that affair, might be the actual m And I hadn’t a doubt that :Settle was the man whom Mill- ‘waters had come to see in Harling- | ton; the man with whom Millwaters had business—probably he was the man who murdered Millwaters. “I figured it out like this: Settle, Setive part i arranging the active pai g pe Snelling and Hardle (Millwaters I con- ceived to be an absolutely innocent g::ly in that affair) and had, no doubt. n highly paid for his services. But here he was again, in close proximity | d helped to set free— ai Sanderson, or had s-m&:mn hel as part payment for., had afforded Sander- son in the past? Anyway, there was n the fact—Settle was here, and Silver- | stein had seen him and Sanderson to- THE EVE NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, ings abutted on the ruined tower on one side and on what had probably ; they were lof considerable size; , 1 | thought, for a small farmer to live in. | And after I had¥iooked long and care- | fully at them, 1 came to the conclusion | that just then, at any rate, there was either no one in the house, nor any one anywhere abou. it; that if there were | people down there they were keeping | strictly hidden. | 7“1 1 had not known anything about | this matter, T should have said that Starrick Priory, as a farmstead, was at that time untenanted. There was no 5 smoke, ot even & wisp from any of the gether, more than once; n sme way |queer,’ twisted chimney stacks. The was mixed up in this affair and | windows had that black, blank look 1 was going to know how. | which you only see in empty houses. I ‘But I had another notion—that San- | could see right into the fold at the side derson and Hewitt had made their es- | of the house; there was neither cow nor - vhere | tance I could see that it was empty of they '“"lnwfl away? I|the straw that accumulates in such a R e N s | pleos wiwe wied. e was & prGSSok Hl’:- ::e ] to é © | beyond, but not a horse, nor a donkey "’wm TNt Thes had @ e aved Ly | in it; & strip or two of meadow behind T T e eer (a5 | that In the narrow bit of land where the e A e T eousinte | ravino widened to the valley, but no D A sy UL eheep there. And T Bafiond SRS TEL W aninther xolion’ T had:got | Sienificant fact—there were no fowls after Rearity Whers Seikls, ‘a3 Becksit,| suywhere about house, or yArd, arbufld lived, and getting Silverstein's descrip- | e PO . t was_out-of-the- [ SIS0, . ;. way. *Beckett lived alone. - There would, | -0, IUeh for the house a0d 8 imc doubtless, be ample opportunity for hid- | {1105 ext, how it lay in regard to the mn Jéii"’i?.;‘fiu’f&’ gmtg c’{ neighboring village of sufilck. in cane | clear away from Barowsburgh. I should | had need of pollce assistance. he- first have taken refuge in this wild | COrding to the map, LA e country, made my way through the | wildest part of the hilis to the other | side, met at some solitary trysting place a trusty friend with a car, and thence sped away to, say, Liverpool. And it was my strong suspicion that some such plan as that had been or was being followed by the two missing men, “It was a glorious evening, that, and | those moors were a delight to cross. From setting foot on the moorland edge until I had left at least five miles of heather and twig behind me, I never | saw roof or chimmey. But, at last, I came to the edge of a deep ravine. 1t fell right away from my very feet to | By J . S. Fletcher Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Service. the spot where I struck it, and one | quick glance into its depths showed me the place I sought. | “Lest there should be any eyes watch- ing from that place I dropped instantly | into the thick heather and took a long | look at the house. It needed but one glance to show me that this was just the place to which anybody wishing to escape observation or, indeed, cap- ture, would be only too glad to turn. Beneath me, as I faced due west, was a deep ravine running north and south; the southern extremity debouched on Wraisdale; the northern terminated in the hills. A wilder, more gloomy, sun- less place than that ravine I have rarely seen; it was so situated, and its sides were so overhanging and precipitous, that the sun’s rays could only penetrate its recesses when the sun itself was due south, and then, of course, only for a very short time. Its sides were thickly covered with masses of pine and fir: here and there rock jutted out; deep down in the innermost recesses a nar- | row stream made its way toward the | river in the distance. ; “But it was not so much at this ravine and its natural configuration that I looked as at the pile of buildings which rose on a spit of flat land in | its very gloomiest part. I knew that to| be Starrick Priory. It lay immediately | beneath me; I could almost have dropped a stone on its roofs. And my first thought of it was that this was the most forlorn and desolate place I had ever seen. It was a miserable, derelict thing; more forlorn, I think. than is the skeleton of a once brave ship found rotting on some lonely coast. There was & tower that had once been a notable landmark, but it was now half fallen; the nave of the church had lost its roof; the transepts were just crumbled masses of masonry; here and there tumbled and shapeless heaps marked where the conventual buildings had stood. i “My _impression was—and it was 8 ed when I presently came to closer quarters with it—that the farm- house been built, with masonry | taken from the.church and claister, very soon after the priory had been dis- | lmlved and dismantled, for it looked as | decrepit as the priory itself. Its build- eminent authority on relief. A Pedo-Graph Celebrating of what to the west of the priory, but from the east bank of the ravine there was not a sign of it—indeed, from that point, I could not see a trace or indica- tion of a human dwelling in any direc- tion. 8till, the map could not err; Star- rick, of course, lay about a mile from the priory, and straight in front of me. but hidden by the west,wall of the ravine. Searching that side of the de- pression, I eventually became aware of & track that led from a corner of the farm buildings and gradually rose along the shelving banks of the little stream until it disappeared ‘round the shoul- der of the high to the south. That, doubtless, was the 'l{ from Star- rick Priory to Starrick Village; doubt- less, too, it was the way by which Set- tle, alias Beckett, would come home. 1 was beginning—having got my bear- ings—to wish he would come and let me t to work. 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