New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1923, Page 10

BOXES OF * GOLD BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Copyright, 1922, by E. Phillips Oppenheim Arrgt. NEA Serviee, Inc. omonid BEGIN HERE TODAY "It looks well,” Rimmington ad- Vendetta hegins between mitted, + “Our friend has ordered the MICHAEL SAYERS, noted criminal, [same table for dinner tonight at Ro- and mano's.” SIR NORMAN On our way I had a moment of un- | Scotland Yard easiness, A grey touring car passed | tiful housemaid, |us at a great spead and shot down . saves him from Sir Norman | the Brentford Road, considerably shooting dead an officer sent|ahead of us. Rimmington spoke for arrest him Janet becomes|a moment through the tube, and we Sayers' wife and accomplice. [pulled up at the district police Michae! plots to rol two men, station, Gorty and Metzger, of seven boxes| “We've given of gzold brought into ngland to|eénough?' he decided, establish private credits, Mr. the alarm at any moment now, and Mrs. Jose de Miguel assist|going to have him arrested.” Michasl. During the absence of| 1 drew a littl ebreath., It was hard | Gorty, Madam de Miguel entices|to think that I should not be present Metzger to her hotel room where at the end for which I had worked so Michael rende him unconscious. zealously, but I realized the risk of The gold is substituted for their!letting him remain at large any | luggage and the de Miguels leave |longer, I waited while Rimmington | for parts unknown. |entered the pelice station and spoke | Gorty puts Greyes on the trail of to headquarters. When he refurned, | Michael and Sir Norman has a lady he brought with him a couple of operative shadow the criminal, plain clothes men, one of whom sat GREYES, once m} when Sayers' beau- Michael rope “He may get| I'm NOW GO ON WITH STORY Sir Norman Contin : “You are satisfied”” my companion | asked. “Perfectly,” 1 assured her. “T am going to run no further risk of being recognized. I shall pay the bill and 5O, You will remain, Remember, it is the woman you must watéh, Ikngage as much help as u require, She must be watched unceasingly.” My companion nodded, | “It will not be difficult,” she said. B . . I took my departure, and at this stage of my search for the missing gold, 1 took Rimmington into my confidence, He agreed with me as to the advisability of allowing Michael to remain at large for the present; and so far s he was concerned, he Latisfied himself with placing a strict watch upon the house in Adam street where we had located him, 1 my- self retired a little into the back- ground, although 1 remained in the ciosest touch with Miss Weston. Her information was interesting, always suggestive. The whole sr«}::’mv zmr:;‘ml_\ lun\(\’n(!'xml )l,n\l‘v',' b MAN YOU MUST WATCH. BN ghe OF tHe OLC-pOIEIS Al WALl aAts AFMUCH HELR AN YOU 100" he announced, “seems to re-| GAGE member a smalil furniture van backed - up against the pavement some dis- | tance away from where the majority | of the taxicabs were unloading.” “He didn’t notice the name on it, 1 “REMEMBER IT IS THE WO- in the front and the other with us. “There’ will probably be half a dozen of them,” Rimmington pointed out, “and from what T know of the Eunpoger’ 1 adde zang that Michael generally employs, “No such luck! . There's anotherithere may be a little trouble. We'll thing, though. ©One of the old hands |jeave Miss Weston in the car.” | there told another of my fellows that | . . he noticed sev s about, that off the main road at| night, whose sre quite unfa- and finally stopped be- | miliar to him and whom he hds not/fore the gaies of a large, old-| seen since. The driver of the hus fashioned villa, badly out of repair from the Mi'an insists upon it, and &pparently empty. The grounds remember, that Madam de | sloped down to the river, and the gushed away the first porter who ac- |gates were nadlocked. We climbed costed th>m, and insictad upon em- over, leaving Mies Weston behind. ‘ploying two of her own choosing She detained us for ome moment. “We have got far, then,” 1 “The house is called the Sanctu-| pointed out, recapitulating items of she said. "an\dlmx the sculp- | information which had been brought lived here once.’ ue. “This pretended South Ameri- We hurried off. The place showed can and his wife drove up to Water- |every sign of desertion, but there Weo turned Twickenham, {only by a plece of | Rimmington |tor,” he declared. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1928, went around to the back, cross lawn where the grass and weeds were up to our knees, We failed to dis. cover any other door, but somehow or other we found our way through a smashed window into the great room with its gome-shaped celling, 1 think, even as we entered, we realized that we were too lete, The place was empty, A small forge was burning; there were sey- eral strange-looking vessels lying about the floor; the coffers, covered matting which aside, were ranged against the wall, There was not a sound to he heard, but the ylace smelled of tobacco smoke, and indeed there was a faint cloud of blue smoke still hanging about the rooi. “We've lost muttered, “We have the gold, though,” 1 re. minded him, “And Michael, fervent rejoinder. . We senrched the house, which was empty and desolate, Then we gent to the local police station and ar- ranged for the gold to be removed, Afterward we called on the house agent. He made a little grimace | were told his name was Harry Car- when we mentioned the Sanctuary. | roll, alias McDonald, of Boston. He “Thought 1'd let it to a lady sculp- Was shot when attempting to hold up “She paid for the | Max Kappner, shoe merchant, in his house for a month, to see whether store at 1319 Main street. she could work there—wanted to do| The slain bandit's pal, Jack O'Brien, her own casting or something." | was captured and put in the county “She paid you for the month 1/Jall. He is the victim of a disense hope?” Rimmington inquired. which doctors say ‘may give him only “Oh, she paid that, all right” the |® Short time longer to live. 8o O'Brien recent.y accided it was agent replied, “l wish these old places were all pulled down. They're only fair to the memory of his dead more trouble than they're worth.” gf.,l ',::';-:eg?\‘rz:;‘:h:l.n:;[e “olfmac.!it “Did the ady bring you any refer- (roll's” mother, her address ip this ences-" T asked. city and the name of 'the man who “I didn't ask for any,” the house|last employed “Carroll.” agent replied frankly. “I was only| The woman O'Brien named admit- too glad to get anyone even to talk |ted her son Mad been missing more about the‘ property. Besides, the [than two months, and she consentod lady put the money down." to visit the morgue and view *“Car- “Nevertheless,” Rimmington said |roll's’ body. She looked at it and quietly, “as a person who has had shuddered, some experience in these matters—I “Is that your son?" an officlal ask- am Inspector Rimmington of Scotland |cd. A silencs of a moment, a twitch- Yard—-I should advise you to be al|ing of the lips and then, a ke of hittle careful how you deal with these [the head and a whispered “No.” large, old-fashioned houses. In the| Thus did a mother deny her own present case you may be interested to |son for fear of what the world would know that the little forge 1in the say, Unless the mother changes her studio at the Sanctuary has been used mind, the body soon will be buried in for the purpose of melting down Rus- | Potter's field. sian gold.” “God help us!"” the agent crie “What, the Gorty and Metzger gold? “Precisely,” Rimmington acqui- esced. “They've only got rid of a little of it, as it happens, but to judge from the preparations, they were going into it more extensively in a day or two.” We drove back to Londeon, and.I followed my friend into his private room with a rare thrill of excitement. I saw his face grow white and stern as he listened to the report of the man who rose to meet him. Then he turned a .disconsolate face to me. “The rooms in Adam street are empty,” he said. “Stanfield has not visited the British, Museum today. We've lost him again! 1 ought to have known better,” he added bitter- ly, “than to have let him remain at liberty for a single moment.” “And the woman?” I asked, little nervously. Rimmington shook his head. “We don't want her,” he MOTHER REFUSES T0 CLAIM SON'S BODY \Pears Shame of Being Revealed as Connected With Robber Cincinnatl, O, March 24.—~On a |slab at the county morgue the body of a man, a bandit, has lain &~ claimed more than a month, In a humble_home somewhere in Cincin. nati there is a mother who passes the | days and nights weeping, for he who | lies at the morgue is her son. the | Dut she cannot claim him, because | she knows what “the neighbors would say,” how the world would point the finger of scorn .at her and whisper, | “She is the mother of a bandit.” When the man was shot and kilied on the night of Eeb. 10, the police kicked them!" Rimmington I trust,” was a day whistle her mate to his cell. a knock for us, Greyes. Neither De Miguel nor his wife nor Michael Bayers!"” L “But we have the gold,” I reminded | simplify matters for you. Joo with thres heavy cases. They were marks of recent/“wheels upon ‘were met there by confederates|the avenues, and as we turned the dressed in the uniform = of railway lats corner we saw a thin cloud of| porters, who probably took the bo: | sinoke curling upward from a long| fnto the station .and choosing their |range of outbuildings which looked | opportunity, brought them out again ltke a sort of annex to the knchezu and got them into the furniture van. Rimmington quickened his pace. We! 'he inference is that the gold is stili lall broke into a run. We avoided in London. To proceed: What have | the front door, with its flight of stone we learned about Janet? She is stay- | steps, and went straight for the build- | ing in.a boarding house in the Crom- |ing which we now perceived to have | well Road, frequented by artists. | been the studio. The door of a long She spends an hour or two every day outbuilding stood open. ~We paused | at the South Kensington Museum,|{o look inside. ~There was a fur- studying statuary. It is exactly four pjture van there, and inside, . some| days since she brought a little speci- | clothing of rusty corduroy. The uni- ‘men of some sort of work to Michael, |forms of the pseudo-porters at Water- something that, unless T am mistaken, 1oo were accounted for. was of considerable weight, for 1| Fntrance to the studio itself was noticed that her handbag sagged as|gained by means of a stout oak drm.r.‘ she walked up to the restaurant.|gbviously barred and boited. “,,l Further—" CR ] ‘The telephone bell rang. 1 recog- nized Miss Weston's voice at the other| end.: I listened to what she had to| say, and in ten minutes we were in my car and on the way to Twu:knn‘; tham. We picked up Miss Weston herself in Kensington. “The woman whom I following,” she announced, “is only a few minutes ahead of us. 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