New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1923, Page 10

THE NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 192s. WINDS OF DEATH BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Copyright, 1922, by E. Phillips Oppenheim Arrgt. NEA Service, Inc, s e — BEGIN HI Vendetta begins MICHAEL 8/ and SIR NORMAN ( Secotland Yard, when tiful housemald, JANET, saves him from 8i by shooting dead an ofic L ml to arrest him. Janet becom Sayers' wite and accomplice. While Sir Norman is living at his country house the police appeal to him to help run to earth a criminal | whom they belicve to at thel head of us gang On his way to London, G is stopped and he is shot t shoulder. Janet rece ] from a myster es asks Janet to dine Janet accepts, " e Michael, who is faking fillness rursing home, TODAY ween , noted eriminal, | onee of '8’ beaus Norman b ¢ car| the and with him, | visits | in ives GO ON WITH THE STORY Janet Continues i She closed the and I ad-| vanced toward the bed only to step back with Tt exclamation, 1 thought there must be some mistaige, > man who s bed, sight a strar had been dar door was now and he worc a short, stubbly he of the sai color. His cheeks had fallen in; his forehead seemed more prominent; there w nfamiliar scar on the left side of face “Michael!” T lously exclaimed incredu- “You see no| s Stanfield, ed him. | But pital!” he replied. blance to Mr! Ja Not the slightest, “The w thing is wonderful. what is the matter with yo “Nothing,” was the joinder. *I have had to starve self to get thin. 1 took the place the name of a business ainta upon the boat. It quite a sm picce of work. I am suffering from a nervous breakdown. Bosh! I haven't a nerve in my body." “You left me alope for a long time,” T reminded him. “1 was fighting for my answered grim “You don't know | the inner wo! s of the 80| I can't explain. T was hemmed in, | As socn as I broke away, they were | never on to me ag I Lrought off | the coup of my lif New York, but —things went Janet. = You know what that means “You Lilled some one?’ 1 pered. ‘I had no intention of thing of the sort,” he answered. was Hartley, the banker, him forced me into a fight at clos ters. We e »d shote, woundad. S0 was he. He was in; misera he though, and he never recover The shock Kkilled | him as much as anything. 1 got away all right, but it means all or nothing for the future.” f you have enot not try the other re- my- | lire,” Thej whis- doing any- ulh He quar- 1 was T suggested, end of the everywhere,” the the of Indo-China, New Guine thought he answered, “of South Sea Islands, tar South American states. ey are all hopeless. e eyes follow. There is safoety only under the shadow of ‘the arm.” “What about our asked. “I am known.” “ It is a problem to be solved said slowly. “There is risk in it; yet the thought of parting with you, Janet, is like a clutching hand laid upon my heart.” meeting?" I * he It was the first word of the sort he! had ever spoken to me, and again for scme reason I shivered. “What is your need of me now?" I demanded. “To get rid of Norman Greyes,” he replied. . There was a silence during which T Childrens HICKORY Garters HICKORY Garters are strongest and ' last longest. Good dealers everywhere recommend them, Ask for supposed to be |* 1with him tonight.” Iz.-“ that he was studying my face, and although I do not believe that a muscle twitched or that my eyes lost their steady light, still, I was thank- ful for the darkened room. “I have figured it all out," he went on, “1 am safe here, safe except from that one man 'noas I am now, he would recognize me, The moment 1 move, and there are bhig things to be done here, I shall foel him on my trail, It is his tife or mine Why do you think that 1 can this?" 1 asked “Because, although he does not know it, Norman Greyes feels your at- traction, He is too strong a man to succumb, but he can never resist dallying with it, becanse it provides Lim with something new in life. You suggest to him a sensation which he do HE REPLIED. “YOU MBLANCE TO MR. D, I TAKE IT.” TAPITAL, Yisk else. 1 know men and I have seen obtains nowhere like a book, Janet, these things.” “Do you know women, too?” I ven- tured “Sufficiently,” he answered {ow do you propose that I shoulvij do this?” T asked. “Norman Greyes,” he said, “is one of those men whom it is hard to kill. A fool walks to his death. Norman Greyes we: the aura of .defiance. “They have tried during the last few weeks. One of the finest marksmen in England missed him with a rifle at a hundred yards. He is a reckless motorist; yet he drove a car with safety when the steering wheel col- apsed. Nevertheless, if he had stayed'in Devonshire, we should have had him. They tell me that he is in London. “He is within a few yards of this pot,” I announced, “and I am dining ¥or a moment his eyves flashed at me like steel caught in the sunlight. “I met him at the corner of the street this morning,” 1 explained. “I ask no questions,” was the cold reply. I shall know if you are ever faithless. A little present for you, Janet." He brought his hand from under the pillow and handed me an ex- quisitely chased gold box, a curio of strange shape and with small enamel figures inlaid. T exclaimed with de- light. He touched the spring. It was filled with white powder, on the| top of which reposed a tiny powder- puff. | ‘Be careful not to let any of the powder get near your mouth,” he en- joined. “A pinch upon the food or in the glass is sufficient. Take it.” 1 dropped it into the silk bag I was that T had killed a man befoye, “That half-ounce cost me one hun- dred pounds,” he said, “Men scour the world for it, You can handle the powder freely, There is no danger until it gets into the system," “And then?" ‘It makes a helpless invalid of the strongest for at least two years," PR Norman Greyes Continues: I have come to the conclusion that in the future I shall do well to avold Janet Stanfield, As the cold me- chanical assistant of a master of crime, she interested me, I have even devoted a chapter of my forth. coming book to ah analysis of her character, T am beginning to realize now, however, that even the hardest and cruelest woman cannot escape from the tendencies of her sex, Tn' all the duels I have previously had | with her, she had carried herself with cold and decorous assurance, There has never been a moment when I have seen the light of any real feeling | in her eyes. Last 'night, however, a different woman dined with me. She was more beautiful than I had ever imagined her, by reason of the slight flush that eame and went in her cheeks, Her eyes seemed to have in- creased in size and to flash with a | softer, brilliance. We sat at a corner | table against the wall at Soto's, where the room was, as usual, filled with beautiful women, There was no one who attracted so much attention as| my companion. There was no one who deserved it. “You think I am looking well?" she asked, in reply to some observation of mine, “Wonderfully,” I replied. “'Also, | if T may be allowed to comment upon it, changed. You look as though you had found some new interest in life.” She langhed a little bitterly. “Where should I seek it?" asked. “Perhaps the change is ifternal,” suggested. “Perhaps your outlook upon life is changing. Perhaps you have made up vour mind to put away | the false gods.” “I have traveled too far along one road,” she answered hardly. It was at this stage .in our con- versation that I made up my mind that it were better for me to see his woman no more. Our eyes met, and she suddenly was not hard at all. I she seemed to look into her soul, and there weré things there which I could not understand, I was thank- ful that the dancing began just then, It helped us cover a curious gulf of silence, Janet danced with little knowledge of the steps, but with a wonderful sensé of rhythm, I was ashamed of the pleasure it gave me to realize, as we moved away to the music, that his woman of steel had a very soft and human body, Janet was certainly in a strange and nervous state that evening, We danced for some time without rest- Ing. Then she suddenly turned back to the table, ment to speak to some acquaintances, it of breathlessness, | When I rejoined her, she was pale, and the hund which was holding her \ittle gold powder-box was shaking. “‘Has anything happened?" I asked her, a little concerned, “Are you not feeling well? 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