New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1922, Page 17

B .3IN HERE TODAY The :eformed cracksman, MICHAEL LANYARD, known to the police as the LONE: WOLF, s attempting to re- cover the stolen jewels of EVE DE MONTALAIS, the he loves. Lanyard, who met Eve in ern France, where he rescued her from robbery at the hands of the brutal Parision Apache, DUPONT, belleves that the jewels were stolen by a motoring party consisting of the American, WHITAKER MONK; his secretary, I'HINUIT; the latter's brother, JULES, and the COUNT AND LORGNES. De Lorgnes {s murdered by Du- yont, and later, in Paris, Lanyard finds the countess, He learns that her real name f{s LIANE DELORME and believes she has the jewels, GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XV The Vampire and the Jewels, Lanyard lett Athenais at her epartment and immediately followed Yer directions to the house of Liane. It stood four-square and massive ©n a corner between the avenues de Friedland et des Champs-Elysees. a solid stone plle of a town-house in the most modern mode. Heavy gates of wrought bronze guarded the frent doors. The single side or service-door was similarly yrotected {f more simply. And stout grilles of bronze barred every win- dow on the level of the street. Tomorrow night would be too late. Tonight, if there were any warrant for his suspicions, the jewels of Eve de Montalajs lay in the dwelling of Liane Delorme: or if they were not there, the secret of their hiding was. But tomorrow Liane would be on the wing; or Lanyard had been sore- 1y mistaken in seeing in her as badiy frightened a woman as he had ever known, when she has learned of the assassination of de Lorgnes. He must adventure the conse- quences . . L Poised to leave his shelter with his point of attack selected, he checked and fell back into the shad- ow. Something was happening in the house across the way. A man had opened the service-door and paused behind the bronze gate. Following a little wait, it swing slowly out, perhaps eighteen inches, the man advancing with it and again halting to peer up and down the street. Then quickly, as if alarmed, he withdrew. Listening intently, Lanyard heard no click of latch, such as should have been audible in that dead hour of hush. Evidently the fellow had neglected to make fast the gate. ‘What was he up to? Why this turtive appearance, why the retreat 8q abruptly executed? By way of answer canre the drone of a high-powered motor. Before the corner house it stopped. A lackey alighted with an umbrella but Liane Delorme would not wait for him. The car had not stopped when she threw the door open; on the instant when its wheels ceased to turn she jumped down and ran into the house. Now if only it were true that the man at the service-door had failed woman south- COUNTESS DE soft L . fbévsefll %%ég €07 International wxhu Company : Aasiiiigy bourg by midnight," Lanyard slipped like a shadow to the floor below, and took shelter be- hind a jog in the wall, The mald came down, carrying an electric candle, Its rays {llumined from below- one of those faces of crude comeljness. She hesitated, looking up toward the room of her mistress, as if lost in thought. But some secret thought amused the woman, a shadow deepened In the visible corner of her full-lipped mouth. One fancied something sar- donic in that covert smile. She went on down. Lanyard came out of hiding with a fresh enterprise abrew, Liane would be at least another half an hour busy with her jewelry, HER EYES BULGING FROM THEIR SOCKETS. and the thought presented itself that the library, immediately beneath her room, should be worthy an investiga- tion. The library was furnihsed bulky old Italian pieces of oak, but suitable enough with one exception ,a ponderous buffet, com- pletely out of place in a room of that character. But—this drew a frowning stare— there was a key in the lock of the middle door. “There’s such a thing as too much luck,” Lanyard communed. “‘First the service gate and door, and now this, ready to my hand—!" He swung sharply round the searched every shadow in the room with the. glare of the portable lamp. Placing the lamp on the floor and adjusting its hood so that it focused squarely upon the middle section of the buffet, he turned the key and discovered, behind the door, a small safe. The combination dial was with {ll-grounded confidence in its own inviolate fintegrity. Still (Lan- yard told it) it could hardly be ex- pected to know, it had vet to be dealt with by the shade of the Lone Wolf. Amused by the conceit, Lanyard jaid hold of the knob with steady, delicate fingertips that had not yet, in spite of years of honorable idle- ness, forgotten their cunning. The dial whirled, paused, reversed, with carved swung NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBIR too much to compromise him Lord! what vanity is man's!" He selected a pigeonhole at hazard, and emptiel it of several bundles of letters ,all neatly bound with tape or faded ribbon and clearly docket- ed, His eye was caught by a great name endorsed on the face of one of the packages; and reading what else was writen there his brows rose high while his lips shaped a soundless whistles, Liane had kept such documents as gave her power over others. Lanyard wondered if it were possible he held in his hand an instrument to bend the woman to his will, Suddenly he put out a hand and switched off the light, a gesture aulte involuntary, simple reaction to the muffled thump of a chair over- turned on the floor above. 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Just below a Janding he paused, crouching low, his head lifted just enough to per- mit him to see a section of glowing, 108e-pink wall—it would be rose- pink! He could see nothing more; and Liane had already reduced the mald to responses feebly submissive. “And why should you not go with me to that America if 1 wish 17" Lanyard heard her say. “Is it likely I would leave you behind to spread scandal concerning me with that gabbling tongue in your head?"” “1t is well, madame. 1 say more. 1 will go. “Fetchvmy jewel-case—the one.” “Madame takes tlien?” the maid bout the room. v “But naturally. I shall pack them ht, before I sleep.” tm;’“‘l’)nmnall:'m!"~—Irom Lanyard, be- neath his breath. More delay!) “And we leave tomorrow, madame, at what time 2" 1t matters not, so we are in Cher- DANCE Friday Evening, at State Armory. Music by Mark’'s Melody Men srom Waterbury no large jewels, gll her moving inquired, Given by Willlam Temple. aim was the recovery of the Mon- talais jewels. 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