New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1923, Page 14

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PHILLI Copyright, 1022, Arrgt by BEGIN HERY Vendetta begins | MICHAEL SAYE! and BIR NORMAN Scotland Yard, tiful housemald, JANET, sa im from Sir by shooting dead arrest him Sir love with Janct TODAY tween noted eriminal GREYES, when Sayers' once of bean Nor an officer sent to Norman falls in and marries her, Michael rese Lord Kindersley and his daughte Beatrice, wher their auto runs wild, Reatrice and arc but it is a hope- mfatuation b Michael is a hunted nHmHm Headed hy into Kindersicy Buests, who are in love, LUSe robbers break ind rob the assembled at dinner Michael is recognized by Beatrice and 8ir Norman, When Beatrice asks to be allowed to » her jewelry, Michael grants her request NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Sir Norman Continues: Anstruther asked a tfrom somewhere in J “Greyes,” he said, ing of a famous criminal, a named Michael, You called tellow—"" “That was the man,” I told him “Grayes seems to me to be the| lucky man,” Lord Harroden remark- | ed, “He could have settled scores with you, all right—potted you like a | sitting rabbit, any moment he wanted to."” ‘ “Quite true,” I admitted. “But uw" question shadows, “you were speak- | man | that | the one thing which has made pursuit of Michael so fascinating is that he is the sort of man who would never shoot a sitting rabbit. He | spoke the truth when he said that the | end would come when one or the other of us was driven into a corner | and both were armed . So far as 1 am concerned,” I added, glancing across at Janet, “I am rather in- clined to let it be a drawn battle The hunting of men is a great sport, but the zest for it passes with the years,” Release came at last; to the apartment where we were im- prisoned was found: the door was thrown open, and a stream of serv- ants with lamps and candles entered. A few minutes of incoherent exclama- followed. The orders which Lord Kindersley roared out were al- most pitifully ineffective. We were | geventeen miles from a millage, and | the moor which stretched from the | park gates led across the loneliest | part of England. The more we dis- cussed it, the more we realized that| it was, without doubt, a most amaz- ing coup. 1 o @ another key | | | Naturally, the press devoted a great deal of attention to a robbery of such sensational magnitude, and several | Journalists and photographers travel- €d down specially from London in search of material, l:unmlngmn himself came down from Seotland | Yard with two of his shrewdest as- | sistants, but as he acknowledged to| me upon the third night after their| arrival, the whole affair had been carried out with such an ing fore- sight that it seemed impossible to lay Lold anywhere of a clue. Janet and I stayed on at sley Court for the last meet of stagehounds—a day which we neither of us likely ever to furg'ut.‘ We motored over to Exford, where | our host had sent all his available| horses two days before. Janet, Bea- | trice Kindersley and I were among| those of the house party who rode. | Early in the afternoon we found ourselves on the fringe of the hunt,| on the southern slope of Hawksley Down. Suddenly Beatrice, who had been looking over her shoulder, gave a little exclamation. A man, riding | a dark bay horse, whom I had no-! ticed once or twice always on the outskirts of the hunt, came round the side of a piled-up mass of stones and boulders, and rode straight up to us, | I must confess that at first the in-| cident possessed no significance for| me. In his well-cut and weil-worn | riding-clothes, and possessing the as-| sured seat of a practiced rider, there was nothing to distinguish this man | from half a dozen of Lord Kinder-| sley's neighbors with whom we had exchanged greetings during the day. It was not, in ract, until he suddenly wheeled his horse round to within a vard or two of us, and I saw some- thing glitter in his right hand, that I realized who he 3 “Norma“l Greyes he said, “I call an armistice for five minutes. You will admit,” he added, glancing down- | ward at his right hand, “that T am in a position to call the game.” | “Lot it be armistice, mchan!.' | I agreed. “What do you want with | me?" | “With vou, nothing,” he answered. “ came to speak to Miss Kinder- sley.” “I find understood Kinder- | | | the | are | k my confederate mis- me the other night,” he continued, “and that after all he took | your jewelry from the table. T have stayed in the neighborhood to return.! it.” He leaned over box in Beatrice's hand. gworn that 1 saw her that and placed a sealed | I could have fingers cluteh The Four-legged Thunderbolt Comes to Fox’s Starting Thurs. NEA Service. Ine NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDA PLAYWRIGHT SCORES (make my way to safety as cablly as { 1 shall canter across this moor," He leaned suddenly toward me." “Send the women on for a mo- nient,” he b ed, I have a word llur you alone, GREAT .. Janet turned her horse at once in obedience to my gesture, Beatrice however, lingered, She was gazing across at my companion, ! 1 saw their leyos meet, and It seemed to me a strange thing that such a look should | pass between those two, Then I saw Michael shake his head, | She turned and rode slowly after| Janet, but reined in her horse scarce- v twenty paces away, Michael rode up to my side, He had dropped his| PS OPPENHEIM . Phillips Oppenheim Pollock Peved When His Work Is Not Honored passionately at his as he drew away, | Now 2erh AnRl A oRbsunipy Pols “I knew that it was a mistake,” she |} lock, playwright, whoss cursont play, sald softly, looking across at him| as though striving to her side, He kept his face, how- ever, turned steadily away, His ex- pression had changed, The mocking smile was back upon 1ps. Upon reflection, nued, “especially » richness of our haul, tain Impulse of distaste bing you of your ne splendors, Permit me, He was at Yet, rightly | of his riding coat, merey, and he knew it Ol enough, he had no fear, his mlllm' waxed | bitterly sarcastic last of the drama league, the end of our duel, for I hnw“md thelr guests at the annual dinner. finished with life as you and T/un-| “weoge o6 hig hearers were inclined derstand life, ¥ate has made US|, gmile as he started his talk with | enemies, Fate might more than once |have given either of us the other's| acauired | e Fploes things are finished.” “You speak as though you making a voluntary retirement little packet, | how can you hope to escape? a few paces, asked him, “There is a price upon d 1 knew that | your head wherever you turn.” “I am not here to speak about myl that | Janet,” he con- when 1 considered 1 felt a cer- toward rob- ‘ly the sign post committee, DBut as he/ | progressed with growing sarcasm the | | laughter died and his talk ended fn’ expressive silence. “Although 1 were e 4 vet | He handed her also Then he backed his hor: Fut he still lingered he had something else to say. | self,” he answered indifferently, want a word with you about | girl.” | | “About Beatrice Kindersley?" i “What can you have to say about |her?" 1 demanded, puzzled, al- |though the memory of that look was | still with me. “Never mind, . . You know life, Greyes. You know that the greatest |of us are great because of our follies, |That girl is the folly of my later life, "rhtvr(- is a touch of romance in her, | a sentiment— For God's sake, Greyes, |don’t sit and look at me like a ;gm\on image! Dle a human belng |und say that you understand.” | 1 remembered that look, |nodded, “I understand,” I said. on," “Tell her, then, for the love of lieaven, who and what I am. Tell her that I have wives living, women | whom I have deceived in every quar- |ter of the globe. Tell her that a | policeman’s hand upon my shoulder | would mean the gallows in Jngland or the electric chair in America. 70| Strip off the coverings. Show her {the raw truth. Tell her that T am a SAW | criminal at heart from the sheer love HIE of crime.” ‘I tell | promised. | “Damn it, man!” he answered pas- “So our friend Rimmington has sionately, as he turned his head to given up the chase and gone back to| windward for a moment and swung London!" he observed. “Give him a(round his horse. “Tell her nothing lint from me some day. Tell him|from me; tell her from yourself! not to take it for granted that the | You know the truth, if any man does. first impulse of the malefactor is to|Give her pain, if you must. ~ Show place as great a distance as possible | her the ugly side. As man to man, between himself and the scene of his| Greyes, enemy to enemy, swear that misdemeanors." you will do this.” “I will remember your message,”| “I swear,” 1 answered. I promised. “You realize, of course,| He must have touched his horse that I shall report your being still in | with his whip, unseen by me, for the the neighborhood?" words had scarcely left my lips be- “If you did not,” was the cool re-|fore he was galloping away, making “the next few hours would be|for the loneliest and bleakest part of empty of interest to me. Even if |the moor. I heard a stified cry from you yourself take a hand in the game, | Beatrice, a cry that » was almost a Greyes, and 1 will do you the credit Sob. 40 admit that you are the cleverest' of the lot, I promise you that I shall have produced Be Careful What You Wash Your Child’s Hair With If you want to keep your child's/ hair in good condition, he careful | what you wash It with. poos contain too much free alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and is very harmful, Mulsified cocoanut oil shampoo (which is pure |and entirely greascless), is much bet- ter than anything else you can use for| shampooing as this cannot possibly in- jure the hair. Simply put two or three !oupoon— fuls of Mulsified in a cup or glass/ with a little warm water, then moisten the hair with water and rub the Mul- | sified in. It will make an abundance | of rich, creamy lather, and cleanse the hair and scalp thoroughly. The lather ringes out easily, and removes every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and ex- | cess oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves it fine and silky, | bright, fluffy and easy to manage. You can get Mulsified cocoanut oil | shampoo at any drug store. Itis \nry cheap, and a few ounces will last everyone in the family for months. and I “'Go HE WHEELED HIS HORSE WITHIN A YARD Ol US. I SOMETHING GLITTER IN HAND. her what you say,” I sified. | AM DOC ply, o Michael Takes Up the Story { 1 lunched one Sunday morning at |the Cafe de Paris with my friend | | Gaston Lefevre, the well-known in- | surance agent of the Rue Scribe—a | |luncheon specially planned to cele- brate the winding-up of one of the | greatest coups of our partnerhsip. | “You must now be a very wealthy man, my friend,” Lefevre said to me a trifle enviously. “I have enough,” I answered. “As a matter of fact, that is one of the reasons why I have decided to levy no more contributions upon the fnols‘ of the world."” | *“You are not going to retire?” Le-| | fevre cried in a tone of alarm. “‘Absolutely,” I assured him. | | have burned all my boats in England, | destroyed all ciphers, sealed up my secret places of refuge and said| | goodby to all my friends.” medicine. rhcumanc Sloans Lhimmt-mml heumatism, bruises, strains, chest colds Ll (Continued in Our Next Issue) DOINGS OF THE DUFFS HOW DO YOU DO,MISS - I'M TRYING TO FIND A LADY WHOSE NAME | HAVE FORGOTTEN, BUT | KNOW SHE LIVES IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD - SHE IS A WOMAN EASILY DESCRIBED, AND PERHAPS YOU KNOW HER - A VERY BEAUTIFUL GIRL, WITH PINK AND WHITE COMPLEXION AND WONDERFUL EYES, AND THE DRAMA LEAGUE “The Fool,” was not included in the | to call him "““‘nwnpnn back into the loose pm-km,nnt of 14 dramas recently selected as my“hn year's best by the sign post com- | " " " night when he | Norman Greyes,” he said, “this “fflddrund the organization's members humorous allusions to the cholce of | 24 Many soaps and prepared sham- Be sure your druggist gives you ‘Vlul-v 1 have Nature’s Finest Remedy to cure the sick, the near sick, and healthy. My first year as a doctor I saved $300 and a few lives, now I am only saving lives. Tomorrow I will tell you more about my After my office opens I will have more patients than all the other doctors put together. Remember—My office opens Thurs- day the 12th—468 Main St. DR. JACK, , APRIL 9, 19%3, CASTORIA | Por Infonts and Chitdren | | InUse ForOver 30 Years flnm- of | pleces in New York, not one has ever Hneu a sign post play,” he Dbegan, “Ifundamentally I am opposed 10 Lhu drama leaguc idea that the proof of the pudding is that nobody wanted to | oat it. Apparently the lcague thinks that it is with plays as with people that the good die young. Nine of the tourteen on the sign post are no longer with us, T'wo of the remalning ones are tottering and three of them were by Shakespeare, a recent discovery, of the drama league. All the rest of | them betray a leaning toward Nor- way and Russla.™ He continued: “The two greatest dangers to the American theater today are the high- brows and the lowbrows, the high- brows arc those who are educated pe- yond their capacity and the lowbrows have no capacity, . . An organization | that sign posts ‘l’uslcur' (Henry | | Miller's current play) and ignores ‘The Fool' is futile and ridiculous," The sign post plays are ‘loyal- I ties,” “Rur,” “Six Characters in Search of An Author,” “The World| | We Live In," “Rain,” “Hamlet,” *The 1 Merchant of Venice,” “A Square Peg,” |the Moscow Art Theater's produce tions, “Romeo and Juliet, “Mary the | Third, eer Gynt,” “Icebound” aund | “Pasteur | Polleck's remarks apparently get| the note for the evening's speeches, | | for William A, Brady launched an, {attack on the popularity of the Mos- | cow art players, and Marle Dressler| | said some unpleasant things nbout» prosent day performers, FINED I'OR “CUSSING" Tottenham, England-—One of the | defendants in the magistrate's court here is back $10 just because someone {overheard him “cussing” for twenty | minutes at a stretch, He was fined &0 cents a minute. PISO W 7o (Gughs & (01! TOR JACK Specialist CAN You AssIST ME, Miss P HANGING | the I’M AFRAID NoT! THERE ARE NO SUCH BELLS AS THAT EASTER IN MOSCOW IS WITHOUT NUGH TROUBLE Churches Filled With and Anti-Religious Outbreak Is Minor, Mot ed Press)—The Easter message that | the church bells of Moscow sent out yesterday was greeted by no such echo of organized mockery as saluted Christmas chimes, The day| passed quietly and there were no un- usual anti-religious demonstrations. “Christ 1s risen, Christ 1is risen"” came the chant from within the great ! church of Christ the Saviour to the throng that walted outside. Immediy | ately the rgfrain was taken up by a multitude of chimes throughout the eity, Suddenly from a little group that huddled near the church came the lilting tones of the “internationale,” “Down with the priests, down with | religion” shouted a man in the crowd, An angry murmur ran through lhv.- | throng of worshippers. Some shrugged their shoulders. Others laughed, But there was no trouble. 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