New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1923, Page 5

THE HONOR OF M. LUTARD BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Gopyright, 1922, by E. Phillips Oppenhelm , Arrgt. NEA Seryice, Inc. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Sir Norman Continues, - Monsleur Lutarde searched his ht‘:};-o :v‘ :mr:-a him grimly, u not " o ou i find it," 1 told him, “What shall we do?" he asked, “Keep her walting for a few min- utes and then go to the address she gave you, but nowhere olse,” I de- c!ded. “I am golng to telephone to Ennison, and I shall be there before you. If we see this thing through, we may find out who is at the bottom of it. I will see that you run no risk.” The two drove off together after a brief delay. Ennlson, to whom I had telephoned, picked me up in his car, We made one more brief call, and reached the hotel as the taxicab con- taining Monsiur Lutarde and his companion was turning into the oth- er end of the long street. Madame, from behind the glass windows of her bureau, eyed us a little suspiclously as we entered. I engaged her.in con- fidential conversation, however, re- specting a suite, and she did not even “notice the three or four men who had followed us at intervals into the hotel and who disappeared in various direc- tions. Presently I heard the taxicab stop. I made an excuse, and we hur- ried into the salle a manger. Janet, followed by Monsieur Lutarde who, although he had taken off his hat, held it in front of his face, crossed the floor swiftly toward the lift, Madame held out her key, which Ja. net accepted with a little nod. They passed into the lift, and we heard it ascend. I returned to the bureau. I allowed myself to show much inter- est. “But surely, madame,” I whis- pered, ‘that was Monsieur Lutarde, the great statesman, who entered with the lady?” Madame smiked at us knowingly. “In effect it is he,” she admitted. “Madame is the wife of an old client, an American gentleman who left this evening for London.” “A love-affair?” I queried my breath. Madame shrugged her shoulders. Her glance was eloquent. “What can one do?" she mur- mured. “Only I hope that Monsieur will never discover. He has a vio- lent temper, Ah! The merciful heavens! It is Monsieur himself who returns! Now there has tragedy arrived indeed!" Into the hotel, with his coat-tails fiying behind him, came a man whom at first I did not recognize. I myself had stepped back out of sight, and I watched the scene. The newcomer acted his part well, “My key, madame,” he shouted, banging his fist against the counter. Madame pretended to search for it. She too had been schooled in her part. So had the guests, who, with a little crowd of reporters, came clos- ing around. “But I have it not, monsieur,” the woman faltered. “Madame her- self—"" under LR ‘The newcomer strode toward ' the lift, which I imagine was willfully delayed. He shook the gates and pressed the bell furiously. Madame leaned over the counter. - “But what ails monsieur?” she de- manded. “What ails me?” he replied at the top of his voice, speaking now in broken French, now in English with an American accent. “I tell you that not three minutes ago I saw my wife enter this hotel with a man— she who saw me off, as she thought, at the Gare du Nord not an hour ago! A curse upon your lift, ma- dame! This is a plot!” He turned and run for the stairs, followed by a little crowd among whom I easlly escaped detection, We reached the second floor. The man, who now, to my amazement, I real- ized must be Stanfleld, was banging at the panels of a closed door, and shouting. “It is locked!"” he cried. ‘I knew it! Locked! Open, Suzanne! You gain nothing by this. I come if I blow the hotel about your ears!” The door opened. A few of us were almost pushed in. Janet, with her face buried in her hands, turned away, Monsieur Lutarde, not wholly at his ease, stood there with folded arms. “Who are you, sir, and what are you doing in my salon?” Stanfleld demanded fiercely. “I am here at your wife's bidding to recelve a message which she as- plck It up as ghe passed.” | ) ———— brought from London,” Jutarde plied, “It is a lle!" Stanfield shouted, *I am her husband, and I know nothing of you, It is years since my wife was in London, These are subter- fuges, —Tell the truth, woman?" Janet threw herself on the couch and hid her face. “‘He I8 your lover?" Stanfleld sisted, “I could not help it,” Janet sobbed. ‘You have been so cruel lately, Why did you come back?" There was a little murmur amongst the curious crowd In the background. A thin, dark man with eyeglases, ob- viously a journalist, was on the point of stealing away. The time had come for action, 1 disentangled myself from the group. Stanfield looked into the muzzle of my automatic, “Hands up, Stanfleld!” I ordered. “Close in behind, Ennison. Pass the word down to bolt the doors of the hotel."” 1 had once come to the conclusion that, no matter how long our duel might continue, I should never see a sign of feeling in my enemy's face. Through ' his wonderful disguise, however, the real man at this mo- ment leaped out. He stood staring at me, viclously yet with the half- fascinated , amazement of one who 1coks upon a new thing in life. Janet e by Lt i A 2 S GRS Tk re- ine “HANDS UP, STANFIELD,” 1 OR- DERED. “CLOSE IN BEHIND EN- NISON. BOLT THE DCORS OF IHE HOTEL!" — B S SRSt was crouching back upon the couch, shrinking away from me as far as possible, her fingers tearing to pieces {some shred of antimacassar. Sud- denly she sprang like a cat between her husband and me. He saw his chance and leaped for the door. The crowd of stupefied people opened as though by magic to let him pass. I lowered my pistol and shouted a warning at the top of my voice. jThere was the sound of a shot be- low, and the trampling of many feet. A gray-haired, well-dressed man with a red ribbon in his buttonhole, whom I afterward discovered to be the editor of a leading journal, pushed his way through. “Monsieur,” he said to me, there any answer to this riddle?” “You will find it below,” I an- swered shortly. ‘“There has been a plot to compromise the personal honor of Monsieur Lutarde here, which you have seen frustrated. The injured husband is an English crimi- nal. His wife"—I hesitated—"is his accomplice. Monsieur Lutarde has never seen either of them before in his life.” Ennison entered, accompanied by Monsieur Lutarde's private secretary ond a personage whom I recognized as a high official of the French court. HOME I'LL HAVE S~ There was a great deal of rapid con-; DOINGS OF THE DUFFS NOW YOU MUST HURRY SO THAT You WoN'T BE LATE FOR SCHOOL, AND WHEN You COME R —— 4200 g T e NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1923, vorsation between the four, a min- gled outpouring of congratulations and wonder, Then we all moved to- ward the door, I touched Ennison on the arm, “What about Stanfleld?" I Yuired eagorly, “Escaptd for the moment,” the reluctant admission, *He through the back premlses of hotel, somehow." They were flling out of the room. I was the last, Janet rose to her feet, Bhe stood there looking at me, “What happens to me?" she asked, “There is no charge against you that I am aware of,” I replied, "'We needed money,"” she declared hardly, “He had spent everything, and I had only what I earned as a dressmaker, The people who stood behind this affalr were generous, It would all have been so easy and so safe if you had not interfered, I be- gin to think that you are my evil genius, Norman Greyes," ] “It you need money to get you back te England,” I sald, “you can apply to the British consul. I will arrange it for you."” . . was got the . A quarter of an hour later we sat among the most cosmopolitan crowd in the world outside the Cafe de la Palx, sipping our absinthe and watch- ing the ppssers-by. “A very successful evening's work,"” Ennison declared thoughtfully. “So far as it goes,” I acquiesced. “After all, though, a man with so many enemies can never be alto- gether free from danger.” “We have gone tonight farther than you think,” my companion as- sured me, “The agents of the French police who were with us ex- tracted confessions from the hotel proprietor and his wife, among others, which implicate some very well-known people. From this eve- ning Monsieur Lutarde is free from the danger of any attempt upon either his life or his honor."” “In that case” 1 agreed, ‘“our work has indeed been well done.” Many months afterward a curiously insignificant episode of those next few minutes was brought forcibly to my mind. Near us a very precise and elderly man, with a red ribbon in his buttonhole, raised his hat to Ennison as he passed us. My com- panion returned his salute, and 1 watched his dignified wandering among the chairs until he found one to his liking. The waiter, seeing himn approach, bowed low and hurried away without waiting for his spoken order. “Who was that?” I inquired curi- ously, “An insurance agent in the Rue Scribe,” Ennison replied. ‘“His aame, I think, is Gaston Lefevre.” “A type,” I observed. ““There are many here,” sented. AGA KHAN HAS HOPES OF ENGLAND-TURKEY ALLIANCE His Highness Speaks Optimistically About Settling of Differences. he as- Bombay, March 12.2-His Highness the Aga Khan, upon his recent arrival here from Europe, spoke optimistical- ly concerning the settlement of the present difficulties existing between Great Britain and the Mohammedan world, The Aga Kahn is the rec- ognized leader of Indian Mohamme- dans, and was accorded an elaborate ovation by the Moslum community upon landing in Bombay. The Aga Khan is- determined to serve the best interests of Islam. “But I am convinced,” he declares, ‘“that the majority eof Englishmen, those who form the backbone of the British Empire, desire a fair and final settlement of the difficulties that have gradually grown up during the last 30 or 40 years, and that they realize the inequity of the dead treaty of Sevres, “There are signs in England that the number of people desiring a falr| and final settlement Qf the Turklshi this | day our whole case about the Holy| Places has not been properly under-| question is daily growing. To stood by Englishmen, and we must SOME NICE COOKIES FOR You- Icontrary to the spirit of social co-op- andi continue to enlighten their speclal treatment, “International difficulties, especial~ Iy after the bliter memories of a dis- astrous war will take long to settle, and I entreat Moslems to remember that fact and not become impatient at delays, Iam a strong believer that a powerful Turkey will be a source of great strength to the British govern- ment, and that an alllance between the two nations will be an effective means of securing the future peace of the world,” them apout CAPITALISH 1S IN HORAL BANKRUPTCY Says Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of Gommons Labor Opposition London, March 12—"Labor should do itself the justice of ceasing to be negative, anti-capitalistic, thinking only of its shares' writes Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the Labor Oppo- sition in the House of Commons, in the February issue of the “Socialist Review."” His article is called “The Outlook for Trade Unionism."” “Every counsellor who advises labor eration is misleading it,"" continued Mr, Macdonald. “The bullding up of| an organization devised exclusively to| fight capitalism is an error . . . The fight agginst capitalism has to be car- ried on by applying a better spirit than that of capitalism to social and industral problems and difficulties.” After stating that political and moral weapons alone: can undermine| the walls of capitalism Mr. Macdonald adds: “Organized labor, trade union exec-| utives, parliamentary parties, should each in their own way and in respect to their own trades and jobs make the conspiracy of capitalism against the community—not always against the labor party—clear. This has to be accomplished by a persistent explan- ation of the work of capitalism, its watered stocks, its flotation expenses, its useless payments, its methods of keeping up prices and such like.” In conclusion, Mr. Macdonald says: “Capitalism is decaying owiiwg to its moral bankruptey. It is at war with social nroduction, with common well- being, and with the spiritual ‘ove of liberty. If the labor struggle is con- ducted in the same spirit as the capi- ta) have shown, and on a class ba- sis, the decisive battles will be fought wth economie weapons alone and la- bor will gain no great vietory; but as #soon as labor frees its mind so as to come under the Influence of the spirit of its historic role to create a social economic organization .that will se- cure liberty and make a single-mind- ed pursult of commonwealth interests practicabie, it will equip itself with weapons and hold a position which will make its final vietory certain,” USE HOME FOR SCHOOL Eight Women Students of Economics Practice Lessons By Running Presi- dent's Houschold, Mitchell, 8, D., March 12,—Eight young women students of the home economies department of Dakota Wesleyan university here have been ‘“running” the home of President E. D. Kohlstedt for two months as a part of their regular training. One of the requirements of the state law giving state atd to high schools with home economics courses is several months experience on the part of college graduates, looking to positions in these high schools, in the actual condfict of a home, Dakota Wesleyan has no home practice cottage, so President Kohl- stedt offered the use of his home for the two-month period. Everything in connection with man- agement of a home is handled by the young women, They handle the finan- clal end, contributing their own share for board and room, a# well as “as- sessing” Dresident XKohlstedt for maintenance of himself and family. /‘ Rheumatic pain j Sloanaubmlu s tion~the basic cai Sloan's Lintment-Filks pain/ sheumatic pain. For sheumatism, bruises, strains, chest colds Perfect Shor.tening The — BETTER HURRY, JIMMY- Absentmhded Teacher DANNY DUFF,WHY WERE YOU ABSENT FROM SCHOOL TwO DAYS LAST WEEK ? COLD 10 LEAGUE New Administration Will Adhere to Policy to Keep Aloof From Alliance With World Powers, Buenos Alres, March 12,~The ad. ministration of President de Alvear will follow that of President Yrigoyen in respect to keeping Argentina aloof from the League of Nations, Argen- tina withdrew in 1920 because of the rofusal of the assembly to consider amendments to the covenant volun- tarily incorporating all nations as members, In a statement published in La Na- clon Foreign Minister Gallardo says: "Our attitude toward the League of Natlons will undergo no modification whatever for the time being, This government - fully concurs with the Argentine thesls expounded at Geneva by the ex-foreign minister, Doctor Honorio Pueyrredon, and it is more- over, ready to uphold it, for it con- siders that the league, to be a reality, should include all countries and have a democratic organization with no distingtion between large and small powers, “It may well happen yet that the Argentine thesis will be adopted in practice by the incorporation in the pact of the United States, Germany, Mexico, Austria, ete, Then there would be no reason for an attitude of aloofness, which would be without ex« planation, justification, nor any real motive," RADIO IN APARTMENTS Bullding HWas Every Room Fquipped With Wircless Set—In« terest Great in St. Louls, §t, Louls, March 12.~~Probably the most startling indication of the great Interest being mantested in radio was glven here this week when a large advertisement appeared in the local papers of a 64 apartment bullding just being completed in which every apartment is supplied with complete radio equipment, . 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