Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1930, Page 27

D. C. TUESDAY. MARCH 18. 1930 passage that connected the ju-|that recently & man had lived there,| small as to be scarcely seen, but . by nch the h‘llfl‘fll. slept there; evidence, too, | there! to test old Clamp,” he t there, cm that he had hwrriedly. And—one “What was that?” asked Engleden. “The ifth panell T s Dalf-eater; ything to do With—" — . —_— e ed. And he had arcely that,” replied Mallison. “Ex- ‘had To increase the use of Swedish temala, - ‘the siiding | an district. | household and ornamental glassware | dioren ane coarorala, where he pre hout the world, 15 of the largest | - Vasconcelos was not accompanied by facturers in Sweden have formed ' his family. He was defeated for the ! & mark so|a promotion organization. | presidency by Pascual Ortiz Rubio. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, -| Prediots Revolution in Guatemala, — LOS ANGELES, March 18 (#).—Jose (To Be Continued.) Vasconcelos, défeated candidate for the - Ezuldmcy of Mexico in the last elec- m, on the liner lvania Mallison. But I reckon 'twas |locked up and in our hands. By-the-|to [ * bye, I made a queer discovery there the | dicial be: o ‘What are you suggesting about these | other day.” two men, Sanderson and Hewitt, e ns By asked Mallison suddenly. , ‘tain’t & very pleasant idea. | 5 pt perhaps as anything relating to J. S. Fletcher i, Mallison,” replied the Gud |Sadier has to do with it. ~No. this: | panel’ of _the secre themselves in that stairway or in that |Sadier to my knowledge had a very |down, and were in the room itself. Toom I'm telling you of and couldn't get |fine stock of diamonds. He'd often show | Empty—but there Were sure Marlk Oopyright, 1020, by North American ¢ Ne Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan jewspaper Service. SYNOPSIS. Col. Enpleden, formerly governor of Bouthmoor prison, fs murdered. An in- Sestigation by a nephew, Sefton Encieden. and his law clerk, Johnson, reveals that during the polonel's time gt Southmoor two prisoners, Snelling and Hardle. escape. The theory that the colonel had found these men and that they killed him is substantiated when it is learned that Sanderson, the man on whose estate the colomel's body was Jound. {s Snelling. and his dutler. a man mam (i Hewitt, is Hardle. When an atterlot is made to aporenend the men it is found that thev have disappeared. A townsman, Francis Silverstein, ftells Johnson that Sanderson, with Sadler, the town jeweler. and Bratten, a merchant, had vervetrated a figancial swindle, which had been discovered by the colonel. This fact was the cause for the murder, Re says. He also states that a farmer mamed Beckelt, who had known Sander- ®on intimately, was one of the former rison ouards through whose ireachery the two convicts had escaped. He be- lieves that the missing men may be found at Beckett's farm. Investioation shows that Beckett is really Settle, the Jormer prison guard. Johnson sets out Jor the jarm. where he finds Settie and Bratten — dead. Sadler appears and attacks Jonnson, who is rescued by Malli~ son. Sadler escaves. Injormation con= eerning Sanderson’s past {s given by his wife, who insists that he was Sadler's tool. When the eflort to locate the miss= ing men seems most hopeless Mallison Peceives a visit from an old workman. TWENTY-NINTH INSTALLMENT. ALLISON was alone that morn- ing and occupied with matters | other than those relating to | the Barowsburgh mystery. The Barowsburgh mystery, indeed, was bidding fair to.join the ranks of the company of nine days’ wonders. Not a trace of Sadler could be found. Sanderson and Hewitt were still missing. Shoreham had returned to Southmoor. Johnson was still in the hospital, recovering from his wound. And Mallison was resigning himself to accept this case as one more of those extraordinary things which are hard to understand and are not seldom capable of a subsequent single explanation. He had certainly no expectation of getting help from the old fellow who was shown into his presence. “You'll be knowing me, Mr. Malli~ son?” said the visitor when he had been accommodated with a chair. Mallison gave his caller a good- natured look. “John Clamp, isn't it?” he asked. “And what can I do for you, John? Somebody been offending you?" “Tain’t that, Mr. Mallison, This is about them gentlemen disappearing— Mr. Sanderson, you know, sir—and that man as was his butler.” “Why, what do you know about that, cllm];’?" Mallison' exclaimed. “abye Mr, “Well, what's being said?” “Some_says one thing, some says t'other. But the main thing is that Mr. Sanderson and Hewitt was seen in ‘Town Hall there at th’ end o’ them pro- ceedings again the two they was never seen to go away, and nobody ain’t seen ‘em since, mor heard “I knows what's being talked about, | Mallison!” n the | could m: saldiers, and | Mallison looked his bewilderment. “What do you mean, Clamp?” he asked. I tell ‘ee something, Mr. Malli- son! “This here great mass o' bullding in the middle o' the town, 'tis like all of one piece the Town Hall, it fastens onto |-the Castle, like, and fastened onto the | Town Hall on one side, and to the old | church on the other is them houses and | shops which is some of the very ancient | architecture in_the place—you knows where I mean, Mr. Mallison?" “You mean where Sadler’s jeweler's shop is, for one?” said Mallison. “And Bratten, the linen-draper’s, for an- other.” “That's right, sir—them shops and the houses, of which they're part, is as | itself. But what I do chiefly mean is | Sadler's shop., Now that there shop, | Mr. Mallison, it butts onto the Town Hall, and me having learned a deal | about the place when I did a bricklay- 50 years ago, I can tell 'ee something that I don't believe another man in Barowsburgh knows. There's a way into Sadler’s house from the Town Halll” Mallison sat staring at the weather- beaten old face which regarded him with so knowing a smjle. And he was m;nkmgrox Johnson's fruitiess explora- tion of Town Hall and Castle. “Oh!” he said Jast. “Um!” So there’s,a way from the Town Hall into Sadler’s house, is there, Clamp? What sort, of way?” “Secret door, Mr. Mallison, in_the paneling of the passage that leads from the magistrates’ room to the back of the bench,” replied Clamp, zompuy. It is the fifth panel from ti door out o' which the magistrates walks when they leave the bench. You presses the lintel of it, Mr. Mallison, and it slides in.” it gives admittance to asked Mallison. Clamp smiled again. “Aye!” he answered. “But not into any part o' Sadler's house that's known to anybody! The fact is, Mr. Mallison, that in that there house there's a secret stair—a double stair—if you knows what that is. One staircase above an- other, sir-~they do say it had something to do with the wars in Charles the Pirst’s time, when there was a deal 0 fighting round the Castle.” b “Have you seen the stair, Clamp? asked Mallison, “I have, at that time I tell you of, more than 50 years ago. This door in the panel leads to it—on ‘to it—that is, at a landing. You go ug to a door that takes you out onto the leads of one of them buildings that connects the Town Hall with the Castle; if you go down, you come to a door, right down in the cellaring, that leads into & pas- sage. And that there passage goes un- der the market-place, and comes out— or did come’ out once—under the old Barbican, It was made in the old days so that folk oouldm ptnhs: i Mallison was beginning to suspect how things had been worked. Before he ‘E any further remark his vis- itor's face brightened at some sudden llection. “Ah, and talking about it, Mr. Mal- 1ison, puts me in mind o’ something else old as—-well, nigh as old as the Castle | | ing job for some repairs, nigh on to | gain. I've heard o' such things, Sir. Mallison thanked Clamp for coming to see him, promised him some reward for his information and when his visitor had gone did some more thinking. He had now no doubt that Sadler had en- gineered the original escape of San- derson and Hewit’, It had probably been an easy matter. All they had had to do was to walt until the passage be- tween the eourt ‘and the magistrate’s room was clear and then to slip through the secret door in the paneling. But, after that . . . . It was just then that Engleden came in. 've just had some queer news," said | Mallison. “Very queer news and from & queer source. Sit down and I'll tell you all about it.” He went on to repeat | old Clamp's story. “What do you think {of that?” he asked. Engleden gave him a look which ap- | peared to indicate immediate action. “you'll investigate that, of course?” he said. “We'll investigate, to be sure. But— | not this minute. I suggest leaving it until tonight. Then, if yowll join in, we'll do it in secret. I don’t want any- body else to know of it.” “you won't mind Johnson coming in? |T called at the hospital on the way to | the station. He's all right again and he's to be discharged this afternoon.” Oh, Johnson's alb right. And we shan't be overheard or anything. Tl things | turned out, he cleared out of the shop | caretaker at the town hall. them to me. Well, of course, as hurriedly. We went in. . But—no dia- monds there! All the rest of his stock—a valuable one, gold, silver, that sort of thing—intact. But—the dia- monds, pearls and so on had been re- moved.” “I suppose he could carry a lot of that sort of stuff on him,” remarked Engleden. “Well, what time tonight?” “I suppose Johnson will join you at the hotel?” asked Mallison. “Very well, come round here after you've dined— say, 9 o'clock. I'll fix things with the If we dis- cover anything helpful, I'd like to keep it to ourselves for the time being.” “Very well,” agreed Engleden. He lingered on his way to the door. “I suppose there hasn't been the least scrap of news of Sadler?” he asked. “Not the millionth part of a scrap!” sald Mallison, | “I had a talk to an official at Scot-| land Yard while I was in town,” said | Engleden. “He is strongly of the opin- | ion that Sadler is close at hand, in this | neighborhood. 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