New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1922, Page 5

ROBERT W CHAMBERS 91022 GEORGE K DORAN COMRANY BEGIN HERE TODAY It was QUINTANA and his band of interna- tional thieves who first stole that priceless gem, the Flaming Jewel, from the COUNTESS OF ESTHONIA. For love of the now beggared countess, JAMES DARRAGH sought the gem and traced it to the dlsreputable “hotel” in the Adirondacks owned by MIKE CLINCH. Under the name of HAL SBMITH, Darragh works at the Clinch hotel, where he meets Clinch's step-daughter, the beauti- ful EVE STRAYER, the one great in- fluence for good in the career of Clinch. Then Quintana and his gang appeared in the vicinity, and both Clinch and Darragh knew they would stop at nothing to regain the loot fliched from the royal casket. GO ON WITH THE STORY EPISODE THREE On Star Peak . CHAPTER I. % Mike Clinch regard the jewels taken from Jose Quiftana as legiti- mate loot acquired in war, He was prepared to kill anybody who attempted to take the gems from him. At the very possibility his ruling passion blazed—his mania to make of Eve Strayer a grand lady. But now, what he had feared for years had happened. Quintana had found him—Quintana, after all these years, had discovered the identity and dwelling place of the obscure Ameri- can soldier who had robbed him in the washroom of a Paris cafe. And Quintana was now in America, here in this very wilderness, tracking the man who had despoiled him. Clinch, in his shirt-sleves, carrying a rifile, came out on the log veranda and sat down to think it over. He began to realize that he was likely to have trouble with a man as cold-blooded and as dogged as him- self. Nor did he doubt that those with Quintana were desperate men. On.whom could he count? On nobody unless he paid their hire. None among the lawless men who haunted his backwoods ‘“hotel” at Star Pond would lift a finger to help him. Almost any among them would have robbed him-—murdered him, probably—if it were known that jeyels were hidden in the house. He could not trust Jake Kloon; Leverett was as treacherous as only a born coward can be; 8id Honey, Harvey Chase, Bloomers Byron Has- tings—he knew them all too well to trust them—a sullen, unscrupulous pack, partly cowardly ,always fierce— as are any creatures that live fur- tively, feed only by their wits, and slink through life just outside the frontiers of law. “And yet, one of this gang had stood by him—Hal Smith—the man he him- self had been about to slay. Clinch got up from the bench where he had been sitting and walked down to the pond where Hal Smith sat cleaning trout. “Hal,” h said, “I been figuring some. Quintana don't dare call in the constables. I can't afford to. Quintana and I've got to settle this on our own.” Smith slit open a ten-inch trout, stripped it, flung the entrails out into the pond, soused the fish in water, and threw it into a milk pan. ‘Whose jewels were they in the be- ginning?” he inquired carelessly. “How do I know?” “If you ever found out—" “I don't want to. I got them in the war, anyway. And it don’t make no difference how I got 'em; Eve's going to be a lady if I go to the chair for it. So that's that.” Smith slit another trout, gutted it, flung away the viscera but laid back the roe. “Shame to take them in October,” he remarked, “but people must eat.” “Same’'s me,” nodded Clinch; *“T don't want to kill no one, but Eve she's gotta be a lady and ride in her own automobile with the proudest.” “Does Eve know about the jewels?" Clinch’s pale eyes, which had been roving over the wooded shores of Star Pond, reverted to Smith. “I'd cut my throat before I'd tell her,” he said softly. ‘“‘She wouldn’t stand for {t?” “Hal, when you said to me, ‘Eve's a lady, by God!' you swallered the hull ple. That's the answer. A lady don't stand for what you and I don't bother about.” “Suppose she learns that you robbed the man who robbed some- body else of these jewels."” Clinch’'s pale eyes were fixed on him: “Only you and me know,” he said in his pleasant voice. “Quintana knows. His gang knows.” Clinch's smile was terrifying. “I guess she ain't never likely to know A CLEAR GOMPLEXION Ruddy Cheeks—Sparkling Eyes —onst Women Can Have Says Dr. Edwards, a Well-Known Ohio Physician Dr.F.M.Edwardsfor 17 yearstreated ecores of women for liver and bowel ail- ments. During these years he gave to his patients a prescription made of a few well-known vegetable ingredients mixed with olive oil, naming them Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets. You will know them by their olive color. These tablets are wonder-workers on the liver and bowels, which cause a nor- mal action, carrying off the waste and Ppoisonous matter in one’s system. 1f you have a pale face, gallow look, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, head- aches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out of sorts, inactive bowels, you take one of Dr. Edwards’ Oliva Tablets nightly for a time and note the pleasing results. Thousands of women and men take Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets—the suc- cessful substitute for calomel—now and then just to keep them fit, 15c and 30c. nothing, Hal." “What do you purpose to do, Mike?" “8till hunt." “For Quintana?" “l might mistake him for a deer. Them accidents is likely, too." “If Quintana catches you it will go hard with you, Mike." “Sure. I know." “He'll torture you to make you talk." “You think I'd talk, Hal?" Smith looked up into the light- colored eyes. The puplls were pin points, Then he went on cleaning fish, ‘'Hal?" “What?" “If they get me—but no matter; they ain't a.going to get me.” “Were you going to tell me where those jewels are hidden, Mike?" in- quired the young man, still busy with BMRD “IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO his fish. He did not look around when he spoke. Clinch's murderous gaze was fastened on the back of his head. “Don't go to gettin' too damn nosey, Hal,” he said in his always agreable voice. Smith soused all the fish in water again: “You'd better tell somebody if you go gunning for Quintana.” “Did I ask your advice?” “You did not,” said the young man, smiling. “All right. Mind your business.” Smith got up from the water's edge with his pan of trout: “That's what I shall do, Mike,” he said, laughing. *So go on with your private war; it's no button off my pants if Quintana gets you.” He went away toward the ice house with the trout. Eve Btrayer, doing chamber work, watched the young man from an upper room. The girl's instinct was to like Smth —but that very instinct aroused her distrust. ‘What was a man of his breeding and education doing at Clinch’s dump? Why was he con- tent to hang around and do chores? A man of his type who has gone crooked enough to stick up a tourist in an automobile nourishes higher— though probably perverted — am- bitions than a <dollar a day and board. . She heard Clinch's light step on the uncarpeted stair; went on making up Smith's bed; and smiled as her stepfather came into the room, still carrying his rifle. He had something else in his hand, too—a flat, thin packet wrapped in heavy paper and sealed all over with black wax. “Girlie,” he said, “I want you should do a little errand for me this morning. If you're spry it won't take long—time to go there and get back to help with noon dinner.” “Very well, dad.” “Go git your pants on, girlie.” “You want me to go into the woods?" “1 want you to go to the hole in the rocks under Star Peak and lay this packet in the hootch cache.” She nodded, tucked in the sheets, smoothed blankets and pillow with deft hands, went out to her own room. Clinch seated himse!f and turned a blank face to the window. It was a sudden decision. He realized now that he couldn’t keep the jewels in his house. War was on with Quintana. The ‘“hotel” would be the goal for Quintana and his gang. And for Smith, too, if ever temptation overpowered him. The house was lable to an attempt at robbery any night, now—and day, perhaps. It was no place for the packet he had taken from Jose Quin- tana. Eve came in wearing gray shirt, breches, and puttees. Clinch gave her the packet. “What's in it, dad?” she asked smilingly. “Don’t you get nosey, girlie. Come here."” She went to him. arm around her. “You like me some, don't you, girlie?” “You know it, dad.” “All right. You're all that matters to me . . . since your mother went and died . . . after a year. . Tha twas crool, girlie. Only a year. ,Well, T ain’'t cared none for nobody since--only you, girlie."” He touched the packet with his forefinger: “If I step out, that's yours. But I ain't a-going to step out. Put it with the hootch. You know how to move the keystone?" “Yes, dad.” ““And watch out that no game pro- tector and none of that damn mil- lionaire’s wardens see you in the/ woods. No, nor none o' these here fancy State Troopers. You gotta watch out this time, Eve. It means everything to us—to you, girlie—and to me. Go tip-toe. Lay low, com- ing and going. Take a rifle.” “You shoot to kill,” said Clinch He put his left grimly, “if anyone wants to stop you. 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