Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 10, 1913, Page 2

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THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., DEC. 9,1 e v e Jolernoster R 1972 - ACMCLIURG & Ca SYNOPSIS. Book I. CHAPTER JI-Rudolph Van Vechten, 8 fyoung man of leisure, is astonished to | see & man enter No, 1313, a house across the street from the Powhatan club. The | house has long been unoccupied and spoken of as the House of Mystery. CHAPTER II-Several persons at regu- lar intervals enter No. 1313, CHAPTER III-Van Vechten expresses concern to his friend, Tom Phinney, re- garding the whereabouts of his cousin and tiancee, Paige Carew. A fashionably atthed woman is seen to enter the House . of Mystery, A man is forcibly ejected from the house. Van Vechten and Tom f(:llo‘tv the man and find him dead in the street. CHAPTER IV—Van Vechten is attract- ed by the face of a girl in the crowd of onlookers surrounding the body. Later he discovers the girl gazing at him with | a look of scorn from the windows of the l mysterious house. | | The yovng maun shrugged his shoul- ders. “Sit down,” he curtly bade, re- fsuming the seat he had occupied ear- . lier in the day, while Mr. Flint sank | into the one lately occupied by Tom Phinney. “If you can make anything I of what I bave to tell you, you are { welcome to it.” | He began with as much of Number | 1313's history as he knew, and, with but two reservations, recounted every- " thing down to the moment that he and Tom rushed from the club to overtake the man killed at the alley intersec- tion. i ' Thodctective listened with a marked but respect{ul attention, nct once in- terruptinz the recital. And when Van Vechten lLad finished, Mr, Flint asked a single question, His preoceupied look rer upon Number 1213. “Has it occurred to you,” he said, with thou utful deliberation, “to wea- der where the murderer came from?— and whither he fled?” Van Vechten sat silent, unmoving, his face a mask. Involuntarily now, his mind once more fashioned a map of the neighborhood—one that carried the fatal alley straight behind the house across the way. “I mentioned,” Mr. Flint was pursu- ing, “that this case offered some rath- er extraordinary features. So far, quite the most extraordinary is that a man was struck down on a populous thoroughfare, in broad daylight, and nobody saw the actual deed. Besides the newsboy, there was a lady almost directly across the street from the alley, who witnessed from a window the man sink to the walk. But she saw no one running from the scene.” lined —*“perhaps no one did.” “Ah—to be sure,” observed Mr. Flint, smoothly., “A crowd gathered very quickly, I believe; than to remain and mingle with it? An old trick, Mr. Van Vechten.” That young man did not meet the swift oblique glance that swept his immobile fcatures, Mr. Flint rose slowly, and stood irresolutely finger- ing his hat. He was again absently contemplating the Silent House. After | a moment his eyes crinkled in a smile. ! He said softly: “I see, Mr. Van Vechten, that the same thought has come to both of us.” And before departing he bestowed a final reflective nod upon Number 1313. | | | CHAPTER VI, Tom Phinney's Adventure. Tom Phinney was so accustomed to | what he was pleased to call his friend's “aberrations,” that at Van Vechten's intimation that he desired to be left alone, Tom stalked off to the billiard room without a word. t Unluckily for his peace of mind,' he intruded upon two of his closest cronies, and interrupted a desultory 'game of billiards. And the instant he | appeared he was assailed by a bom- | bardment of questions, all prompted | by eager curiosity respecting Number | 1313's tragedy. ’ “Say, you fellows, cut it out!” hel cried in desperation. “I'm not golng{ to tell you anything at all. I'm not | going to talk about it.” At which they were all the more curious and eager, concluding that Tom himself was in some way in- volved—or, at least, that he really possessed some inside information. | | | | “I don't know a d—— thing about it,” Tom shouted, beating the air| with his hands. “1 saw a lot of fel- lows going into the house, and & wom- an— Confound you chaps! Why | can’t you let a fellow alone when he wantg to think by himself!” ing him for expregsiog a desire to put his mental proccsses through an unaccustomed exercise. This made him gloomier still. And when he re-| flected that, after all, he had men- | tioned the mysterious woman in the taxi, his depression became acute. He droys the balls around a de | :gél }?‘QWE is Tom’s income did not permit of what was easier” | with a rapidity t! 913. gerted table with vicious jabs of his 'cue, the while he too bewailed the | fate that kept him away from the g For he could not '; Carterets’ yacht. 0 think of availing himself of this pleasure unless Ruddy were along. | his owning yachts or motor-cars; but what he did not know about them was not worth anybody’s time trying to find out. He was thus reminded of a catboat over at Rocky Cove, belonging to a friend who was in Europe, and which | he could use whenever he wanted to. He threw down his cue, hunted up a time-table, then hastened home to toss a battered but wonderfully com- ; fortable negligee outfit into a bag, and hie himself over to Long Island. As he passed through the lounging- room—it is worth recording—Van Vechten was brooding in his corner, and so did not see him. Tom sur- veyed him a second or so, then con- | cluding that he had better not break in upon his cogitations, hastened away. While it was yet daylight, Tom found the sail where it was stored in his’ friend’s boathouse, shipped the single mast and rigged it up, then went up into town after a box of pro- visions. the Sound for a day or two, thus giv- ing Ruddy plenty of time to think, He meant to cruige around | and perhaps learn something definite | about his Cousin Paige's movements into the bargain; afterwards they | might find time to join the Carterets. | He was profoundly disgusted that a girl’s caprice was depriving him and Ruddy of a jelly good time, That night, aftcr a couple of pipes, he went to sleep in his little craft's cabin, and before daylight he w astir and taking advantage of a light off-shore breeze. All day he loafed around the lower Sound, enjoying himself immensely and incidentally emptying the provision locker to the last crumb. He viewed this circum- stance with a rueful laugh. “Moses and green spectacles! And I thought I was laying in supplies { for a week’'s cruise!” Then he laughed again—light-heart- edly this time—and trimmed about for home. Dusk was falling when he drifted close in toward Rocky Cove. He was possibly two miles off shore when he heard the muffled exhaust and | warning pipe of a motor-boat. And said to have begun. Glancing back, he made out the | craft bearing down upon him under a smother of spray of her own kicking up. She swept by so close to port that, despite the half-light, he was afforded a distinct view of several of the boat's occupants. There were five men and three | women. The latter were half-hidden in their wraps and kept their faces averted, but the men all turned and stared at him with a fixedness that surprised Tom conei'crably and made him not a little curions, So he re- turned the scrutiny with an interest which normally he would not have felt. His own regard sharpened. And then his jaw dropped, and his pipe clattered upon the grating at his feet. He recognized one of the men—the aged, white-haired servant whom he had scen once or twice emerge from Number 1313. glance at each of the others in turn; but he had never seen them before. In a flash they were gone, and it was not until a vagrant puff heeled him perilously astarboard that he recovered his wits and brought his boat round again into the wind. By then the motor-boat had been all but swallowed in the gloom. However, Tom reflected, they were heading straight for Rocky Cove; if the breeze held he would have his own craft tied up at his friend's pier iwllhin the half-hour; then a quick change of attire in the boathouse, and he could put in the evening reconnoi- tering. It would be queer if he failed to turn up something in a little place | like Rocky Cove, But after he had dined at the one | hotel where he felt free to go at this season without evening clothes, he wag put out to observe that a storm was brewing. The sky wa ! 3 already thickly overcast, the night suffocat- hy.:ly close, and off to the west light- ning was flickeri and ap ng | “A woman!" ho was quickly taken | While Le st ‘)‘ promised a equall. { up by both. “Who was she?” AR SO £ s as to | But Tom relapsed into an obstinate | taken wnexne : A ter w gilence, He was angry and morose, Am . ] his har and bis two fricnds left him in a bhuff, | rupiy e came calling him lmpolite names and guy- ¢ 3 g and en- m the hos- and win He it was who had be controlli B en coatrolling the Tom now had an opportunity to ob- serve several particulars about him mn he had previously missed or failed to note—that he was a 1 (Continued on Page §.) opea aoor “Perhaps,” murmured Van Vechten | here is where his adventure may be Quickly hé darted a | roaching | PAGE 7. C. OWENS s, gs. 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