Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 29, 1913, Page 2

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MANAGER The PHOENIX BARBER SHOP bolmht so carefully that their selling price Hats cleaned and blocked. \ ASKELAND, +'LA. OCT. 29, 1.13. SYNOPSIS Matt Broughton leaves the mervice of John Mort on a Paciftc island to return to America. Mort gives him a valuable ring, Broughton promises to say nothing about the mysterious Mort and his woman com- panfon. He 1s shipwrecked and must realize In San Francisco on the ring. Raislng $1,000 on the rlng to be repaid, Brolighton returns to his old nome at ‘Manaswan. He thinks of going into the mule business with Victor Daggancourt, a colored garage keeper. Broughton is visited by the loca) aditor. who calls him “king."” The “king” is due to a "fake" newspa per story about Broughton's adventures in the Pacific. At a church fair he meets Christine Marshall, daughter of a local magnate. ‘Matt falls In love with Chris, who usks him to call on her. Dagguncourt is anx. fous to make the start in the mule busj. ness in l\emucky On s way to the Marshalls' Matt fs | detained by an importunate stranger, but Mautt is late and cannot listea to him. He tells his love to Chris, “Chiris also loves Matt. The stranger, who calls himself Kay, shows Matt an old portrait of Mort and offers him $50,000 for information about him, but Matt re- mains loyal. CHAPTER VIl The Private Car. HATEVER misgivings Matt may have had as to ‘their real desti- nation were set at rest by the clang of a locomotive bell and ’Q‘ the noise of heavy freight cars being moved and shunted. What was there to fear with such men all about them, busily watchful, and likely at any time to dart up from the unlikeliest places? Nor was there anything alarm- ing in the elz..ht of the side tracked car. Mr. Kay hegged Matt to wait at the steps while he went inside to announce their arrival. It was a good ten min- utes before he returned, and then, in a state of such’discomposure that Matt knew not what to make of it. Rasping out something that meant to follow him, he turned again. apparently con- fident that Matt would obey. Matt found himself in a narrow passage. bordered on one hand by a row of staterooms that ran balf the length of the car. The door of every onc was closed, and the passage itself end ! in darkness. In imagination he -aw crouching figures behind their d:ors: hushed and stealthy figures, mutecly signaling from room to room, :and ready to leap forth as soon as he was well within their power. Mr, lay paused at the last door, opened it :ind beckoned Matt within. Tt was #u or dinary Pullman stateroom and bc "¢ no sign of any recent occupancy. There was no break in the serried white tow els overhead. The racks were empty. and the pegs supported nothing, but the fact that the blinds were drawn struck oddly on Matt's attention, He seated himgelf and watched Mr. Kay drawing the baize curtain across the open doorway. That the latter did not shut the door, but was taking par- LLOYD OSBOURNE Zepyright, 1911, by the Bobbs-Merril) Company. | have had a loaded revolver in his pock- et. Mr. Ray's ill concealed agitation and his almost terrified glances at the' curtain were disconcerting, to say the| least of it. “Would it help at all,” continued the | latter. “‘or give us a possible hasis for agreement if I could prove to you that! * you do know the seeking gentleman we are “But you umldnt" cried Matt. “Oh, yves.” said Mr. Kay. producing something from his pocket. this, for instance.” Matt, in utter astonishment, gazed at' the ring lying in Mr. Kay's palm. With a cry, he picked it up and examined it. | Tt was John Mort’s ring—the ring those rascally jewelers had filched from him. “What do you say to that?" asked Mr. Kay, gently, but firmly regaining possession of the ring and slipping it over his little finger, “Nothing!" exclaimed Matt furiously. “Who gave it to you?”" 1 shall not tell you.” Matt had risen. He was in a white heat at the way he had been victim- ized, at his own helplessness, at the deliberate villainy of the whole pro- ceedings. Had these people robbed him of his ring for no other reason than to make him penniless and to place him, as they thought, at their mer- cy? God only knew how they had got the ring from Snood & Hargreaves, but there it was, glittering on that smooth scoundrel’s finger, and as like as not an international provocation to a violence they would craftily turn to account. But they would learn their mistake—learn. that all the rings or ®lood money in the world could not swerve him an inch. “I've finished with you,” he said hoarsely. *“Goodby!" He turned toward the doorway, no longer afraid, but in the humor to fling back the curtain and stride right through the eavesdroppers. If they blocked him so much the worse for them. Ile was a powerful man. He could hit like a sledgehammer when his blood was up. He welcomed the chance to land some smashes on those unseen faces and drive them before Rim like sheep. But he had scarcely moved before Mr. Kay, with incredible agility, had leaped in front of him, slamming the door shut and locking it, confronting him as he did so with a stare of ahject terror. “Don’t, don’t!" he screamed out in- coherently. “They're crazy! They haven't any sense! I won't be a party ticular pains with the curtain, increas ed Matt's uneasiness. The action was significant and again suggestive of stealth and mystery. Even after he had settled himself opposite Matt Mr. Kay had to jump up once more and again adjust the curtain, as though his previous efforts had left him dissatis- fied. “Now, tell us what you want,” he said in a volce that shook a little. “Ask for the moon—anything—and we'll get it for you." “In return for something I haven't got?" inquired Matt. “Can’t you get it Into your head once and for all that I don't know the man you're after?” “Broughton, that isn't true.” “Oh, yes. it is.’ “You positively refuse 8100000 for this information?" “I tell you once more I haven't got it “But I offered you $100,000 and you refused it?" “Yos " A rustle of the green baize made Matt feel that the question was less for Mr, Kay's benefit than that of some hidden person, The sensation was disagreeable. He would have slven a great deal at that moment to “Get out of my way or I'll strangle youl” to it! It's criminal, and I won't be a party to it! 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