Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1930, Page 23

The Wrist Mark By J . S. Fletcher Copyright, 1030, by North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Servics. SYNOPSIS. Col. Enpleden. formerly governor of Southmoor, s murdered. An investiga- tion by a nephew, Sefton Enpleden. and, Ris law clerk, Jonnson, reveals that dur- ing the colonel's time at Southmoor two Drisoners, Snelling and Hardle, escaped. The theory fs that the colonel had found the men and that they killed him. A former warder, Millwaters, who was engaged to help in the investipation, fs also murdered. Capt. Shoreham of Southmoor ofves a description of the escaped convicts. Sneiling had a birth- mark on his right wrist. Young Enole- den recalls that Sanderson, om whose estate the colomel's body was found. wears a broad dracelet on his rioht wrist. The question arises, iz Snelling Sander- son> Johnson thinks he s, and that Hewitt, his butler, is Hardle. When an attempt is made to verify this beltes it is found that both mem are missino. John Oates, Sanderson’s chaufleur. tells 9f taking hs master and @ man un- known to him on a mysterious drive the night of the murder. A townsman. Francts Stlverstein, tells Johnson that Sanderson, with Sadier, the town few- eler. and Bratten, a merchant, is perpe- trating a financial swindle, and suggests that the colonel was murdered because he threatened to ezpose the fraud. He is also convinced that a farmer mamed Beckett, who had known Sanderson very well, is one of the former prison warders through whose treachery the two victs escaped. Capt. Shoreham sees the man and {dentifies Atm as Settle, the ez-warder. Johnson sets out for Star- rick Priory, Settle's farm. There he seas Sadler and Bratten, apparently prepar- ing to make o getaway. He hides and iUstens to their conversation. TWENTY-THIRD INSTALLMENT. PT1 HETHER it was that the three men were un- usually sharp set, or that they snticipated a long interval between that and their next meal, they talked little, and what talk they had was disjointed,” Johnson’s story continued. “But I made out certain things from words thrown out from one or another —chiefly from Sadler. They were off — as soon as they had supped. I heard laces mentioned, one or two of which knew to be on the range of hills to the west—small places, through which the only hroad of those parts d. ‘Then mention of better-known pm eventually of Carlisle, Glasgow. I got an Inkg then, of what they were aff bly they were going to board some steamer at Glasgow. And present- ly there was a word drugoped by one of | them, Bratten, I think, about New York. | “I waited, anxiously, to hear if any | mention was made of Sanderson and | Hewitt, or if any reference to recent con- chink of went on, and the dis- jointed went on, but I no more information and heard nof very de- finite until, in the midst of a sudden silence, Sadler asked a question:— s the car ready?” ‘The affirmative reply came from Bratten, but I paid little heed to it, except to note that it was in the af- firmative, The car! What car? Was it possible they had & car there? If 80— “Within that minute I was wriggling l“& from beneath the window, pretty much as a fox-terrior wriggles out of an earth, backwards way; within the next I was upright, in an angle of the | old house, looking round me at various lines of gable and roof. If there was a car there, on these premises, ‘where was it? From my va post on the opposite edge of the ravine I had made a very minute and careful in- Invisible spection of the old priory and its sur- roundings before daylight and twilight faded, and I had certainly not seen a car anywhere in the open. It must oused in one of the farm hed, a barn, a stable. If I could “I am not quite sure what it was that I designed to do with that car | when 1 began my hunt for it, but the | , vague. was no doubt of murderous nature. If I could find ft, | and get at it, and damage it so that | the three would-be travelers could make | no use of it, I should have accom- | plished somethlnf really useful. And since Bratten s) all ready, it must somewhere close at hand. 5 % “While I was speculating this fashion, I was hurrying, as swiftly as | T dared, and with every pre- or heard, | caution ' against being seen , | from one part of the old buildi to another. I came at last after looking into all sorts of queer places to & square-built, high by, which I had r.nm | ing place in thi | taken as a pigeon cote: one of those | large pigeon cotes, found here | there, which are almost as strong and | as capacious as the keep of a castle. And it was a pigeon cote, as far as its | upper stories were concerned, but the (grvund floor one was & sort of coach | house and saddle room, and there, be- hind folding doors, unlocked, and easily opened, I discovered the car, a big, werful thing, capable no doube of a igh tone of speed. | “It occured to me as soon as I saw it (the moon had now risen well above the high ridge of moorland on the other side of the ravine, and its light poured full on the coach house when | T opened the door) that I had seen | that car more than once: suddenly | I recognized it as one of Sanderson’s. And I began to speculate then on the | chance that somewhere, perha not | far away, Sanderson himself, and Hewitt with him, lay safely hidden, { and that the design of Sadler and the other two was to pick these men up in their retreat. “But that had got to be stopped, and 1 was going to stop it. I was not sure_how. Although I had ridden a GIVE-IN TO COLD? NEVER! No one need stay home to conquer a cold, or wait days to be all rid of it. Pape’s Cold Com- pound will take away that achy feeling and sore- ness in a hurry! e | Take some of these harmless little white tablets and break-up your cold before it has a chance to make you miserable, Pape's Cold Compound is handy to carry, and pleasant to take:; every druggist has it for 35c. Why go about with eyes watering, and nose running, or a head that's stuffed-up with a cold? 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NEW YORK - MEMPHIZ - 74N FRANCLICO SAovgle's a\/,;\N ISHING CREAM THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, t deal in automobiles, T knew noth- whatever of their maemln“‘! strong knife. But I had an idea, possibly erroneous, that if g' shoved that h:l:. into a tire it mi cause a - losion; what I 'wnnud to do must done noiselessiy. Well, there was the mecahnism, if Ikcvxld get at that and damage it, wreck it. . . . 5 wuuon the point of laying a hand on the hood when I heard a cautious footstep behind the outer wall of the coach . It came again, and again: clearly, somebody ~was prowling round there. I slipped be- hind the door and peered out throuj nothing beyond little stream close by and the sighing of the light wind amongst the trees whose cover I had just left. So we both stood for another moment; he out- side, I inside the half-open door of the coach house. Then, seeing & sign of movement on his part, I whispered: “ ‘Silverstein!” ‘He jumped as if a hand had been id on him and looked sharply around. a man I mfiwfllh the dale farm talking me. true that Sadler of Barowsburgh was being sought for by the police and if D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1930. ‘Go on,’ said I. ‘What else?’ T told him to keep his tongue still. .| Then I thought—pretty hard. And real- izing that if what he said was true and you'd come here and found Sadler and Settle together you might be in a gmy tight fix, and want help, I got into my car and came here by a very round- about way, avolding the high road in 3 e car's up 're—hidden a dip in the heather. I'Nl tell you. This yw—chap who has He asked me if it was Now—' «‘Sedler is here’ I e s that had [him, and so's Settle, snd linen draper, Bratten. all in there ping, they're off, I believe, to Gk as soon as they've finished eating. !fl::. is their car—one of Sanderson’s—and I've an idea that they're going to pick up Sanderson and Hewitt somewhere on their way. I came in here to put | c: the car out of order, but I don't know | how to do it. 2 “ ‘Leave that to me,’ he said. that in two seconds. They'll not get that car out of here when I've done with it. But—what then?" “‘We must have help’ I answered. useless. ‘One of us must get to the policeman | at Starrick Village and—' | ‘Half a minute,’ | that right—or ‘T fix [w the car, lifted thing the meaning of which I, 3 fl_ll%n.: understand and came back to me. o ‘went on. Now—what?" 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