Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1931, Page 29

By Percival Christopher Wren, Author of * Copyright by Prederick A. Btokes Co) ‘Beau Geste” CHAPTER XXI. “A SCRAP OF PAPER.” R. CHARTERS paused for & moment and %crutinized the menacing face of Mr. James before he resumed. “An/old friend of mine"—he began “Maudile Lauderdell nowadays, who knows a lot about me—in fact, T worked with her once—saw a clear chance of big maney, and came to me as the right | man :. . . trustworthy, sagacious and with the id-al facilities for the job. 1 fell for it at once lutely safe job. Now, does it occur to your bright” brain that this nice safe £10.000 job was all the safer for th~ fact that not a soul in the world could possibly know that it was a job? . . .| s “The idea had come into Mau brain, and Maud had got it to m with & ‘wink to a_hors> that's never been blind. Why, she diin't even men- tion the fee in words “Do you see any good reison why I | ehould ‘shout_about it to MacAdoo and Fanny, and Louie and you? Not that I suggest that any member of our spl-n- did team would ever be careless, but accidents happen in the best regulated | families. A remark overheard—and then two and two put together and made into five and then the fat's in the fire, @8 I trust myself. but if six people | know a thing. th-re’s three times as| much chance of an accident as there is if only two know it i | The face of Mr. James retained its | unpleasant expression, and kis skeptical silence gave no consent to th> doctor’s platitudes. | “And.” continued Dr. Charters. *“might T now ask how you presume to | think you know that the 10,000 wasn't going into the poor?” | "Oh?” sneered Mr. James. “Oh?| Then how was 5000 of it going into Manosl's pouch, as soon as he got wise | to the game” ‘All going into the| P 3. Like hell it was."” | “Ho! Ho! So you've been talking to Manoel, and you've been thinking again. But thinking isn't your strong point, Jimmy.” “Can the funny stuff and answer a plain question,” growled Mr. Jam-s. “Where did it come in, if Manocl was to go 50-50, because he caught you | ot “Do you want to sit there and tell | me you think I'd reward him with | £5,0002 Like hell I would.” | “You stopped his mouth, eh?” in-| quired Mr. James. “Put him off with | an abso- | | “Of course, T trust each one of you | his chair. “God bless my sinful soul.” he con- |cluded explosively, “I begin to think the man's from Scotland Yard—or else the_Archangel Gabriel.” “Bump him off, I say,” growled Mr James. “It would do us a lot of good. | wouldn't it, if a detective from Scotland | Yard disappeared here. Better for us if |it was the Archangel. Less likely to be missed.” -“Put wise on. the whole anyway.” continued Mr. James. “What's | the Maud female get, that she can slip for $50.0002" “Well—Maud ropes & steer called | Lauderdell. Not much to him except | that he's ‘going to be Sir Something Lauderdell when the old guy dies | Maud's sick of the racket and wants story, | to retire in the cdor of sanctity among the London four hundred. | “But there’s not more money than The doctor threw himself back in |y | will keep up the old Tudor place. Then | what does Maud find? “Lauderdell's brother has died nndl left Lauderdell this girl Marjorie for | keeps and a £100.000. Marjorie can't touch this until she comes of age. If| she dies before she’s 21, Brother Lau- | derdell scoops it." | “And if she marries?” | “Nix till she's of age,” replied the | doctor. “What a wicked will!” observed Mr. James indignantly “Didn't the guy want the poor girl to live to be 212" Dr. Charters smiled. | “Well, vou he trusted Brother | | Lauderdell . . . and rightly. There isn't encugh money in the world to make him hurt a hair of the girl's head “Soon Maud comes to see me. She's worried about her husband's niece, who lives with them. Such a lovely girl . . . 8o rich, if she lives to be 21 Quite sad to see her health failing like this. And, mind you, Maud might have sald it to Sir Bernard Matthieson like she said it to me. Well, as Maud de- scrives the symptoms, the illness scunds like recurring attacks of arsenic. And so they are. “Maud and Lauderdell bring her and put her in Manoel's care for special treatment. She’s to be the one case we lose, after deveted care. That's all Manael knows—that she’s to get a quite complete and final cure for all her aches end pains. “Second or third time Mand and Lau- derdell come Maudie reminds me how dreadful it would be if the poor child | died within a few weeks of her birth-| day when she would come into a £100,- | 000—and I tell you, Jimmy. we talked as though reporters were in the room.” | “Anyhow, she offered you £10,000 in the sum in figures. She passed it to me, and, with a glance and & nod, Maud and I had made a solid contrac because our word to each times as good as our bond." “And what did you do with the plece paper?” “I chucked it in the waste-paper basket.” “You chucked it in the waete-paper basket. And, you blasted fool, that's how W got the . . * “What would a liitle plece of paper figures on it tell him, by clever my?" interrupted the doctor. ‘Then how did he get to know?” he of ed 'You tell me that and you shall have whole £10.000 for yourself, Jimmy." “But 1 thought you're giving the whole thing up?” ~expostulated Mr. James. “I am, It's far too dangerous while Waye is here ose out now—now that I've made good. Not for £10,000—nor for a million. I'm never gcing back to the crook-life, Jimmy—now I'm out of it and safe.” “You're losing your nerve.” Better than losing my life. I've had a rope round my neck once, Jimmy.” James' present wife seems a slight barrier as he plans a rich marriage to- morrow. 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