Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1931, Page 11

THE EVENING MYSTERIOUS WAYE By Percival Christopher Wren, Author of “Beau Geste” i (Copyright by Prederick A. Stokes Co) CHAPTER XLIL t, 80 ' RETMEL | ™ But"X nevertheless took every possible ORELY was I tempted, at times, | precaution and exercised the most un- to take the risk and Ro out of | feasing vigilance. Among the former hiding—taking Marjorie with| were efforts to sow mutual distrust me—without waiting for the|among the members of the gang, to | arrest, trial and condemnation | muctity and frighten them and to find ot Chick Dorson. TAlthful friends and a safe refuge for But I resisted the temptation partly | Marjorie, because the police were scck!fig & man | This Jast T contrived to do after mak- answering to my appearance (on the | ing one of those ridiculous mistakes the evidence of the etationmaster at With-| memory of which makes one blush with erby .End), pertly because 1 had not|shame, known Marjorie 1ofig erough to ask her | Having jumped—too guickly—to the to trust herself to me and partly be-|eonciusion that the chief nursing sister cause some weeks at least must elapse| was none other than 'Frisco Fanny and ere I could receive from Uncle a suffi- | the wife of Charters, I soon discovered clent’ sum of mondy for the purposes | that she was one of the noblest and of safe and distant flight as well as fof | finest of women and that her brother, the payment of Willlams H, Willlam | who Vicar of Herepath, a neighbor- and his wife, who had to leave the ing village, was in every way her twin Monastery suddenly, for one night, we| At my wit's end I paid a to this three having a rendezvous in his wifi man, summed him up for what he was room, William informed me as I e and then, having revealed myself to tered that he had caught sight of the ugly face of James peeping round the | end of the corridor. “He'll have séen come in, too sald William, “and he'il wait for some | time to catch you going out. So well| “I do believe postpone this conference and slide out| “Then d T. y 3 of the window. When ‘Jimmy' gets |sister everything that I have told you tired of waiting, he'll butt in here and and that you are absolutely convinced get_the surprise of his life.” | that every word of it is true?” ‘Whereupon he unwound his strong.| “I will. . . . But why not do that knotted cord from baneath his dressing | yourself?” he said gown, slipped its steel hook over the| “Because,” I replied, “she would listen inner window ledge and led the way to | with patience, pat my hand with kindly the turf, 20 feet below. sympathy and see that I had a good Mrs, Willlam then dropped the cord | bromide sleeping-draught that night. and_then asked “7 you believe me and will you help™” His reply was him, laid before him the naked truth| started telling me your history. "};?;xu'n in no doubt now,” I smiled in turn. “None whatever. Nor will my sister be when I've finished talking to her. It will be & most frightful shock to her when she realizes the truth about Ohar- ters, She has the greatest respect for him. Her work in that nursing home | 18 her life. . . . By the way, 1 suppose | Dr. Studley is all right?” “Absolutely. He's in ths dark as to the past history of Charters, MacAdoo and Mr. James. Studiey is one of the nd with a blameless record.” | ure of it, but how do you know that, eo long as I was alive, Marjorie | “Oh, I have a splendid chap who has | | been working here—under the name of | Campball—for a very long time, and | who has looked up his record pretty carefully. There'’s nobody there who isn't exactly what he or she seems to e, except Charters and his son, their two wives and MacAdoo. . . . When you've told Sister Weldon and convinced her that I'm no more insane than you are Tl tell her all I've told you and | When the | convince her cf my sanity. time is ripe I shall get Marjorie Lauder- del out of the Monastery and as you have suggested bring her straight here.” “It won't be easy to get her away” mused Weldon. “No,” I agreed, “it won't. But I'll get her away, all right, when opportunity offers—provided your sister will help me, which, of course, she n."” "But, hang it all, man,” he exploded, “why not go straight to the police at once? We can . . “We can't,” T smiled. “As far as Mar- one shred of evidence . . . and that nursing home is a place of unblemished reputation, approved by some of the most eminent doctors in England . . . And as for myself—going to the police would be an easier matter than coming away from them. . . Remember, I am a hunted criminal. . “But get your sister on my side, and I'll save Marjorie—and deal with Char- ter: ward “Yes,” agreed Weldon. “Admirably | conducted as the Monastery is, and with a splendid staff that includes Dr. Stud- jorie’s case is concerned, there is mot | James, MacAdoo and Co. lfverA‘ STAR, WASHINGTION, D. C, WEDNESDAY, Sister Weldon's position was difficult | forever, Marjorle and Sister Weldcm‘ and rather terrible for, if my tale were being safely outside its walls, I spared a | true, her world was crumbling about | few minutes for an act of justice, of | her. punishment to the arch-rogue of this | Her attitude increased, if possible, my | {m& and, I belleve, of benefit to man- | | admiration for her, for ‘uhe éle'gldedm hmf - | murend judgment, to wait and to watch, and then to act with the utmost | | promptitude in the event of a crisis, and | the confirmation of the truth of my | | story. | Should Charters, MacAdoo, James, | the matron and Nurse Jones prove to be what I accused them of being. noth- ing should prevent her immediate de- | nunciation of them, nor induce her to work another day 'I;lnd!r bo;}leirl direction. Meanwhile, neither eving 1nor— | Gamp Cor | in_deference’ to her brother'’s admired | a¢ Edg'c‘wgt::?y ‘.’Suri?a&'fiflfi‘ffi‘l | judgment—wholly refecting my story. | Young Men's Christian Association of | | #hedecided to watch and to Wait: 0| Baltimore, will be turned into a recre- | | increase, if that were possible, her Vigi- | ation colony by the Workmen's Circle, | 1ance, and to view any strange happen- | Branch 92, of the District of Columbia. | ings, if not with suspicion, at any rate | In announcing the purchase, Marx in the light of what I had told her. Liowis, attoraoy 1or the Wikiinglon se- | Again to shorten my story, the arch- | ganization, declared the camp has 18 enemy, the one whom I had hated 10 | buildings, including a large dining hall. | times more than I had hated Charters |dancing pavilion, tennis courts, picnic | | himself, the one who had sinned most | grounds and a 700-foot stretch of | against Rosemary, was now the one who | beach. The camp fronts on South sinned mos; against Marjorie, and, in | River road, leading down to South | | so_ doing. met his death. | River. | The man of them all whom T would | At & meeting last night of the com- most, readily kill with torture, but whom. | Brighter, even, than Waye's re- ed Unsetting Sun is the glow of gl‘:r“’ork’- affection, I'cd in Tomorrow's concluding instaliment. —— CAMP AT EDGEWATER \TO BE RECREATION SCENE | MAY 6, 1931. mittee in charge of operating the camp it was decided to formally open the camp on Decoration day. Tentative plans were discussed for developing the camp into a public recreation center. On the board of trustees managing the camp are Max J. Raine, Abraham Botkin, Marx Lewis and Samuel Green- span. A picnic will be held on the grounds May 17 to celebrate the ac- misition of the camp. Start the 7ugh bowel actio: ‘when yor ‘eel dizzy, headachy, bilous, fake NATURE'S REMESY - Tubies. Ite e, irely vegeta! and far berter qxn. erdi- f TO'NIGHT nary laxatives. Keeps you e, ROW fooling right, 25c. .mw" The All-Vegetable Laxat goracidindigey tion. "The ach, heart e 10c. softened by my love for Marjorie, I would have spared, brought about his own dreadful punishment in trying to kill Marjorie. Charters, his father, broken-hearted and fearing exposure and arrest, fled, taking with him his partners in crime, his wife, his daughter-in-law and the man Machado. ‘What became of them I neither know nor care. Of the four criminals who kidnaped Rosemary, three have died dreadful deaths in consequence, and I am now content to leave the punishment of the | fourth, their leader, in the hands of | God. | " Nevertheless. in the very act of leav- ing the Monastery in urgent haste and e Pays 5% | { No Commissions Charged Columbia Building Association 716 11th St. N.W. 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