New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1923, Page 10

THE GREAT ELUSION BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Copyright, 1922, by E. Philllps Oppenheim & Arrgt. NEA Service, Inc BEGIN HERE TODAY Michael, who was choosing a club, Vendetta begins between Just glanced up at me for a moment, MICHAEL SAYERS, noted criminal, [#nd I felt as though I had said some- and thing sacrilegious. SIR NORMAN GREYES, once of| “We don't play games that way," Scotland Yard, when Sayers' beau-|he rejoined quietly, I am afrald this tiful housemaid, is going to be rather a forlorn hope, JANET, saves him from Sir Norman |though.” by.shooting dead an officer sent to| He took a niblick, and against the arrest him, 8ir Norman falls in[Wind he was only able to get about love with Janet and marries her. |lalfway to the green This time, Michael rescues Tord Kindersley | however, his ball was lying well, and his daughter, Teatrice, when| *I play the odd,” he murmured as their auto runs wild. Beatrice and [ he selected a running-up cleek, We 8ayers are in love, | waited breathlessly for the shot, Michael and his band of robbers | Norman's caddy and Michael's servant break into Kindersley Court and rob |although they had no idea, or course, the guests. '~ Beatrice is told by Say-| of the significance of the match, had ers to keep her jews and later he|gathered from our tense alr that it personally returns Janet's jewels, | was of no ovdinary interest, We all Michacl arranges to publish a fake hen at last obituary. Greyes discovers Michael's e hiding place and A game of golf is| played with Michael's freedom as the | stake. . NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Janet Continues: 8o the matched started, hole was halved in four, then onward commenced a struggle which I can hardly think of, even now, without a shiver of excitement. Neither was ever more than two up; but toward the sixteenth hole, I be- gan to realize that another factor be- | sides skill was at work, Norman topped his second shot but jumped the bunker and lay upon the green. Michael carried the bunker with a| perfectly played mashie shot, but] pitched upon a mowing machine and | came back to an almost unplayable place in the long grass. He lost the Lole. Norman, who was as nearly | nervous as I have ever seen him, mut- | tered something about bad luck, but his adversary only shrugged his shoul- ders. : At the seventeenth hole drove fairly well but was still sixty| yards short of the green. It was the old Michael who took his stand after- ward on the tee, hard and dogged. T saw his teeth gleam for a moment, The first and from Norman ved it, spellbound. Tt was a | This time there was no mistake, and the whitening of the flesh around his knuckles as he gripped his clubigag. ang'I could scarcely keep back a | fiercely. He hit the most \\'OHIJ(‘)‘H”:“(‘,(‘ ory of:joy when. I sas 1t land| drive 1 have ever seen, long and 10W | oy the green and run slowly two or | and straight. It carried on and on, [(yran yards past the hole. while we watched it breathlessly.| .y {ne racovery.” Noeafi salt Finally it ran onto the green am! thick “My turn now to play the ended within a couple of clubs'|, | length of the hole. I gave a little gasp of relief, for from the first I| had prayed that my husband might lese, low shot, beautifully straight for the 1ke. He took his putter and my heart | sank as I saw him strike the ball |well and firmly. For a moment it Tt : et |seemed as though he had holed it and | u had reckoned withc ALl the match was over. It came to a unseen force. gninen ;m'}w“‘v “:“f standstill about cighteen inches short. | mashie shot, which bumped along the | “yis tor g half,” Michael remarked ground onto the green, |as he went toward his ball. BENRELE Hall, and o my, Ner | 1 saw him half close his eves as he dropped into the hole. "I‘j'j NOT- 450k up his stance, and 1 wondered man himself scemed = to k m]\: ‘:_::‘Tor a moment what he was thinking words. ~m| v'v'f('[‘ logkink i iplgiel. He took the line carefully and | where his bal m.’ . |sap\m.lr‘ I8 | gtpuck the ball straight for the back | rn;:‘:}::;‘tvdmf;';:‘" ‘[': "I':l’:"::;\' He |Of the hote. I gave a little gasp. Tt ' . i cemed as th ti 1w - | studied his putt long and carefully :xr:z.‘ 11‘1‘:«:‘0‘;};‘1%-V;rh.ansm“a;r:r::l" hit'it with a musical little click, and | 3peioe 20 & G e The e L straight for the | bail, nithough it had seemed to hit the ole. A he’ 1as ok b 8 “ltack of the hole. spun round and| : S RENT LG ‘la foot or so of the hole. Michael | i oL « PR | very edge. and we stood there wait- | Norman took out his putter, and ing. Nothing, however, happened. ;o icly qared to watch. - He was Michael turned away, and T fancied] S5 5 < & 4 & e e ufver upon his | oMY few inches from the hole, The “ G, jresult seemed certain, | lips. “This for the match,” he said, | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1923, the ground In a puzzled manner, “This is the rottenest green on the course,”he muttered, “Whose play, caddy The eaddy considered the matter for a moment and pointed to Michael, The Lall went well and truly to the hottom of the hole, Norman again surprised me, He studied his ridiculous little putt with exaggerated care, brushed away some fancied impediment and reproved his caddy sharply for talk. Ing. When he hit the ball, he hit it crisply enough, but again with that little stab which drew it once more to the wrong side of the hole, There was a little murmur, “I never saw such flithy putting in my life!"” Norman exclaimed, looking exactly like a normal man who has| lust an important match by a mo- ment's carelessness, “Your match, Monsieur Denisande, I think per- haps you deserved fit, You had all the worst of the luck until my put- ting paralysis set in," Michael took off his hat, and I saw great beads of perspiration upon his forehead, " “I am thankful for my win,"” he said quietly, “but I scarcely expected it “Janet and I will leave St Jean de Luz at once,” Norman ann ced, “It will not be n Michael rejoined quickly. for the mountains. 1 shall be gone for a week or more. I beg that you will not hurry your departure, . May 1 speak to you for a moment, Janet?” Norman made his way, without re- mark, to the clubhouse, He neither spoke to nor looked toward Michael egain, Men are strange beings. This was the passing of the feud which left them both forsworn. . I spared Michael the question which I knew was upon his lips. “Beatrice is well,” I “She is still unmarried.” “I am sorry to hear that she is un- married,”” he said, “although no man 0 told him. in the world could be worthy of h('r,| 1 am going to intrust you with a mission. ing me should come to. light, T want her to know this." He drew from his pocket a letter- case of black silk with platinum clasps, a simple but very elegant trifle for a man. Out of it he drew what appeared to be its sole con- tents, a crumpled card, upon which | was written, in Beatrice's handwrit- ing her own name. The card was smearcd as though with the stain of - {crushed flowers. “1 planned my death,” he con- tinued with a faint return to his old If ever the truth concern- | cynical smile, “very much as I have lived my life—with my tongue in my cheek, Then I read in some I*rench raper that Beatrice had sent flowers to the hospital for my funeral, and I felt all the bitter shame of a man who had done an ugly thing, I made what atonement 1 could, After hav- Ing reached absolute safety, 1 risked my life in almost foolhardy fashion, 1 attended my own funeral, 1 stole that card and one of the flowers from the grave, If ever she should learn the truth,” he added, his face turned away toward the mountains, "I should llke her to know that, She may reckon it as atonement,” I lald my hand upon his arm, Speech of any sort seemed to have become extraordinarily difficult, v .o The last we saw of Michael was, In its way, allegorical, As we climbed one of the grassy slépes of the golf club on the following morning, we-saw two men om the other side &f the river, walking steadily away from us along the path which led across the lower chain of hills toward the moun- tains, They carried knapsacks on their backs and long staves In thelr hands. They had, somehow, at that distance, the air of pligrims, “Therec goes DBenisande off on one of his moun‘ain expeditions,' the sec- retary, who was playing with Nor- man, remarked, pointing them out. “They say that he has made up his mind to climb that farther peak be- yond the pass. Even the Basque guides call him foolhardy.” 1 watched the two figures. ' waved my hand in futile farewell 3ut Michael never once turned back. THE END. 17 AUTO PATALITIES IN STATE IN THREE MONTHS Report of State Motor Vehicle De- partment Shows Result of Better Co-operation, Connecticut's control of the fatal accident situation has been shown again in a report which has just been issued by the department of mo- tor vehicles stating that there were only 17 fatalities in the state for the first quarter of this year. During March of this year there were only eight fatalities as a result of automobile accidents, while there were 14 during the same month of 1919; nine in 1920; 14 in 1921, and ten last year. It’s jammed full of it—hard riding cowboys—pictur- esque Basques—battles for water—shooting scrapes—gang fights—attempted lynchings—dynamiters—sheepherders. And there it beautiful, heart interest in the big new colorful romance, too—real Western Story. WHISPERING SAGE This successful novel, in daily in serialized form, will appear The tHal history for the three month period is also the bedt in the history of the department, Tn 1910 there was a total of 83 fatalities dur- ing January, February and March; in 1020 there were 20; jn 1921, 34; in 1028, 21, and but 177In 1923, While Connecticut conttivies to keep its fatal aceident situation in periect control in spite of the yearly jumps in the registration figure, reports con- tinually are being made publie fiom| 5,000 other states showing that fatalities in other sections of the” conntry and in the United States as a whole are growing by leape and bounds, The Connecticut situation s eredited to the spirit of co-operation which is shown by pedestrians and motorists alike in fatal accident prevention. 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