Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1931, Page 25

By Percival Christopher Wren, Author of “Beau Geste” (Copyright by Prederick A. Stokes Co.) CHAPTER XXVI. MARJORIE'S ESCAPE. 8 John Waye watched, the storm | passed; and, half-turning from the body; the father asked quietly, coldly: “You did this?"” A “Noj ‘Poisoned. . His head is bleed- lng.x tg(:i Who struck him?” Dr. Charters turned agatn to the body | of his son, embraced it, one arm be- hind and beneath it. Suddenly he whirled about; but, ere his extended hand could come to rest, John Waye | struck from it the pistol it had just | drawn from the dead man’s hip-pocket. | Dr. Charters sank back beside the body of his son. “And now you'll shoot me, too?” he said. “Well, go on. I've had enough,” and he took his son's dead hand be- | tween his own. | “No! Not yet, Half-hung Simon. Not | here and now! But some time; never | fear.” | “My son,” groaned Charters, “The only thing I ever loved.” “Yes, Simon. D'you know now how | it feels? And if a hound like you can suffer 5o at the loss of a poisonous cur | like that, what do you imagine a man feels at the loss of the loveliest, the sweetest . . ., " “You dev Who are you?” cried Charters, springing to his feet | “Who am I, eh? You shall know | when the time comes, Charters. . . .| And listen, Simon. Spider Schlitz is | gone, the life choked out of his lying throat. Chick Dorson is nearly gone, Jor he hangs in four hours’ time. “Gunman Gryde is gome; your son James, the son whose feet you put upon the path that led him to that death. All gone, Simon, and youTe being kept for the last. “And, meanwhile, clear out and take these two she-devils, your wife, Fanny, and your son’s wife, Louze; and wher- ever you go, I will punish you there, sugon, and you shall have a fiithy John Waye backed from the room, locked the door, and having first visited the doctor's bedroom and consulting yoom, hurried to the walting car. “It's_almost unbelievable,” said the Rev. Laurence Weldon as he sat opposite John Waye in the vicarage sit- ting room, an hour later, while up- stairs, his sister gave tea and comfort to a slightly tearful Marjorie. “Do you still believe it, by the way?” asked his guest. “Your own story? Oh, absolutely,” answered the ‘vicar warmiy. “Besides, doesn't Marjorie's actuel personal ex- erience confirm all ycu've told us? 11 happen there now?” “They’ll all bolt the moment they know I've cleared out like this—for fear T'll put the police on them. . . . ” | “But the police ought to be called,” interjected the vicar. “I feel very | strongly that we . . . " “Yes,” interrupted Waye. “But you remember, when I told you the whole story, you agreed to take no action. Do you realize that, in spite of all this, the place is a perfectly run nursing home and it's crammed full of sick pecple. What's to happen to them? Surely the right thing is for Dr. Studley and your sister to carry on. with the highly quali- | fied and sable staff that they've got. The moment that Charters, Machado, and | the two women are out cf the house | there isn't a soul there wno fsn’t abso- lutely above suspicion.” “I hate the idea of letting them go,” #aid the vicar. “And that Lauderdell woman.” “Not a shadow of proof,” said John | Waye. “Not Charters himself could | prove anything against her.” | “There’s one certainty,” observed the | vicar. “Marjorie mustn't go back to that vile woman’s house.” “Good heavens, no! Charters having failed her, she'd find some other instru- ment.” | “But suppose Charters & Co. don" bolt?” Ppo: don't “There's no need for haste,” con- tinued Waye. “There’s no real reason why they should be arrested at once, if they bolt. I only beg of you to let me get well out of the country first. I am very much in hiding myself. “As I sald, the gang had retired from ! business and had ‘got away with it,’ Mving blameless lives in a lucrative job and a safe retreat in a new country. { “Charters, a clever doctor, had roped 4n Machado, a minor crook whom he picked up in Chicago as the ideal part- ner for his scheme. And Charters' wife, 'Prisco Fanny. could deceive the devil hims w the other fiend, his daughter-in-law, actually was a trained nurse before James got hold of ber in America. “'No, I firmly believe that, but for this Eauderdr]l woman, that gang would ave been safe.” | “And what becomes of Marjorie now?” | “If I looked 10 years younger than I @ . . . and were on firmer ground . . .” said John Wave . . . #Do you know—I am but 40 yet, al- #hough I am so gray-haired | Meanwhile. t “Now you just settle down, Sister Weldon in the room above, | nd realize that you're as safe as d where | kissed her. arise yet, surely. Have you no other relations but your guardian and his wife?"” “Only one; and he's in India. I think I'll go there.” “A near relation?” “Not too near,” “Nobody knows but us. We've laughed Marjorie. been only indirectly, I'm sorry to |secretly engaged since he went out to|ports! India a year ago. He's a soldier. Capt. Lauderdell, Bengal Lancers. We were only waiting till my twenty-first birthday, when I shall be my own mistress. I couldn't marry until then, without my guardian’s consent; and he made it clear that there wasn't goin to be any consent for anybody. But of course it was his wife who told him what to say.” Sister Weldon promptly arose and “You monkey!” she said. “And never a word all this time. You'll have to send him a cable.” “Yes. Then he'll meet me in Bom- bay and we'll be married quietly in the cathedral there. Il go by the next boat. I shall be 21 before I get there.” “My dear, what a hustler! 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That aunt of hers is clever enough to be on board Marjorie’s boat, if she learns that Marjorie is on her way to India.” “T told Marjorie you'd sign her pass- port application,” sald Sister Weldon to | the vicar. “Gee!"” exclaimed John Waye. “Pass- | T've left mine in the coat in arrived at the nursing | T wonder if you'd secure | it for me, sister, when you go back. Its| a real work of art—cxecuted by the | best forger in Now York.” | But when Sister Weldon went to look for it the passport was not there. Without much difficulty John Waye rocured an English passport enabling Bim %o g0 to Indla, and thither h went, accompanled by Marjorie Lauderdell. | A new scar on Charters' face tomor- | row. And, with it, a new life—or per- | haps a return to the old. which I home . . his chest and face. . Hospital attend- Alxl\:; t&Lm his chances for recovery were slight. Justice of the Peace Campbell R. Overstreet returned a verdict of suicide in connection with Reed’s death. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO BE PLEA ON JULIAN Laredo Prosecutor Will Invoke New Law in Trial on Kidnaping HOUSTON, Tex., April 20.—A colored porter killed his servant wife and Charges There Today. wounded three white persons in & fash= [ poyp o acoo vl p 0l lonable_residence section here late last | °y WBURS" L UL 1 50 john Valls, SERVANT KILLS SELF AFTER GUN RAMPAGE Colored Porter Shoots Wife and Wounds Three White Persons. By the Associated Press. VENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1931. BEAU WITH TORN PANTS SHOT ON VISITING GIRL His Pal Fires at Sweetheart Who Refuses to Mend Rent, but Hits Him and Trousers. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 20.—Sam Basgiorno, 29, and were, pals.. ... .. So chummy had they been that Frank invited Sam to go calling last night on Mary Warnus, but Sam de-| murred, on the ground that his ap- pearance was not of the best, in that Nemeclk are, or rather night before a self-inflicted shotgun | 4, cAREDO, Tre = 'y, sald he would invoke wound ended his rampage. N mew Temis Tow Mlias Riptig & Sonny Reed, 31, the porter, who was | capital offense in the trial of C. C. shot agnin for resisting arrest, and Lola | Julian, California and Oklahoma ofl Reed, 29, his wife, died early today. His | man, docketed to start today. other victims were David Harris, 35- | Julian, accused of kidnaping Lamar year-old_attorney; Mrs. George Leach, | 8. ‘Bolling of San Antonio and attempt- 46, and Miss Janct Arendale, her niece. | ing to rob him of $50,000 April 2, faced Thelr condition was critical. indictments charging kidnaping, con- Unable to determine a motive for the | gpiracy to rob, assault with a prohibited attack, police accepted the dying state- | weapon and unlawful carrying of arms. ment of Reed’s wife that he was sub- | Indictments alleging the first three ject to nightmares from which he awoke | offenses also confronted his secretary, “acting crazy.” C. C. Boren, and Clay Mann, another Reed shot his wife three times as she | employe, lay in bed and then fled in night| Julian arrived yesterdsy by plane clothes to the basement, from Oklahoma City. 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