New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1923, Page 20

T ‘ {‘ i EDEN Qi . ”‘I‘l“ R, SATIERTIELD COPYRIGH T RELEASED BY NEA §I BEGIN HERE TODAY " Robert Redmayne, uncle of Jenny Pendean ,is suspected of the murder Jenny's husband, Michael. Robert ppears and is being pursued by rk Brendon, criminal investigator, Jenny goes to live with her uncle, flndllo Redmayne. Brendon meets Robert in the woods near Bendigo's home but fails to capture him. Giu- seppe Doria works for Bendigo. ‘When Doria and Jenny find Robert they arrange a meeting at Bendigo's home but Robert falls to keep the appointment, Robert sends word to Bendigo to meet him alone in a nearby cave, Doria takes Bendigo to the appoint- ed pldce and leaves him with Robert. en Dorla returns for his master, both men have disappeared. Albert Redmayne comes from Italy to try to #solve the mystery. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Mr. Albert Redmayne slept well, ‘but the morning found him very de- pressed. He was frightened and awe- stricken. He detested “Crow’s Nest' and the melancholy murmur of the sea. He showed the keenest desire to return home at the earliest oppor- tunity and was exceedingly® nervous after dark. “Oh, that Peter Ganns were here!” he exclaimed again and agaln, as a comment to every incldent unfolded by Brendon or Jenny; and then, when Bhe asked him if it might be possible to summon Peter Ganns, Mr. Red- - mayne explained that he was an ' American beyond their reach at pres- ent. . “Mr, Ganns,” he sald, “is my best friend in the world—save and exaept- 48g one man only. He—my first and most precious Intimate—dwells at Bellago, on the opposite side of Lake Como from myself. Signor Virgilio KPO"] is a bibliophile of Buropean eminence and the most brilllant of men—a great genius and my dearest asmoclate for twenty-five years. But Peter Ganns also s a very astounding person—a detective officer by pro- /fession. *1 myselt lack that intimate knowl- ledge of character which is his native #ift. Books I know better than men, and it was my peoullar acqualintance with books that brought Ganns and me together in New York. There I served him well in an amazing police case and aided him to prove a crime, ithe discovery of which turned upon a certaln paper manufactured for the Medici. But a greater thing than this criminal incident sprang from it; and that is my friendship with the wonderful Peter.” , He expatieatd upon Mr. Peter Ganns until his listeners wearied of the subject. Then Giuseppi Doria intervened with a personal problem. He desired to be dismissed and was anxious to learn from Brendon if the law permitted him to leave the neighborhood. <"He found himself detained, how- ever, for some days, until an official examination of the strange problem was completed. The investigation achieved nothing and threw no ray of light, either upon the apparent mur- der of Bendigo Redmayne, or the dis- appearance of his brother, . 'Mr, Albert Redmayne stayed no longer in Devonshire than his duty dicated, for he could prove of no service to the police. On the night previous to hila departure he went through his brother's scanty library and found nothing in it of any in- terest to a collector. The ancient and well-thumbed copy of “Mohy jck” he took for sentiment, and he 3‘90 directed Jenny to pack for him Bendigo's “Log"—a diary in eight or tén volumes. * He departed, assured that his fam- {ly was the victim of some evil, con- cealed alike from himself and every- body else; but he promised Jenny that he would presently write to America and lay every incident of the case, s0 far as it was known and re- ported, before his friend Ganns. | Before he returned to the borders | of Como and his little villa beneath | the mountains, the old scholar took Aaffectionate Jeave of Jenny and made her promise to follow him as soon as | she was able to do so. Robert Redmayne had vanished off | the face of the earth and his brother with hm. There remained of the tfamily only Albert and his niece—a fact she imparted, not without melan- wcholy, to Mark Rrendon, When the day came that he must take his leave of her and return to other and more | _profitable fields of work. For a period of several months the ILUSTRATED ) NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1925. RRED REDMAYNES PHILPOTTS = : =3 122 THE MEMILLAN ‘QH'Afly% ERVICE INC., ARRGT,MET, NEWSP, SVS. detective was not to hear more of those who had played their small parts in the unculved mystery, He was busy enough and in some meas- ure rehabilitated a tarnished reputa- tion by one brilllant achlevement in his finest manner, On a day in latte March, Brendon received a little, triangular-shaped “UTTERED ONE LOUD CRY OF TERROR AND FELL UN- CONSCIOUS. box through the post from abroad, and opening it, stared at a wedge of wedding cake. With the gift came a line—one only: “Kind and grateful remenbrances from Giuseppe and Jenny Doria.” . She sent no direction that might enable him to acknowledge her gift; but there was a postal stamp upon the covering and Brendon noted that the box came from Italy—from Ven- timiglia, a town which Doria once mentioned in connection with the ruined castle and vanished splendors of his race. CHAPTER X. On Griante, Dawn had broken over Italy and morning, in honeysuckle colors, burned upon the mountain mists, Two women climbed together up the great acclivity of Griante. One was brown and elderly, clad in black ( For skin bl emisheg ze Resinol Don't be annoyed and embarrassed any longer by an ugly, blotchy skin. Apply a little Resinol Olntment and use Resinol Soap for your tollet, then note how much better your skin looks and feels. This wholesome treatment seldom fails to restore that healthy color and clarity of skin which every man desires. Resinol Shaving Stick soothes tender .1‘1‘1{‘:. 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Mr. Albert Redmayne's silkworms, in the great alry shed behind his villa, had nearly all spun their co- coons now for it was June again and the annual crop ‘of mulberry leaves in the valleys beneath were well-nigh exhausted. Therefore Assunta Marzelll the old | bibliophile’s housekeeper, made holi- day with his nlece, now upon a visit to him, and together the women climbed, where food might be pro- cured for the last tardy caterpillars to change their state. And then, where two tall cypresses stood upon either side, Jenny and Assunta stayed a while. The lake below was now reduced to a cup or liquid jade over which shot | etreamers of light into the mountain shadows at its brink; but there were | vessels floating on the waters that held the watchers’ eyes. They looked like twin, toy torpedo | boats—mere streaks of red and black | upon the water, with Italy’s flag at the taffrail. But the little ships were no toys and Assunta hated them, for the strange craft told of the cease- less battle waged by authority against | the mountain smugglers and reminded the widow of her own lawless hus- band's death ten years before. The women climbed presently to a Ittle fleld of meadow grass that sparkled with tink flowers and spread its alpine sward among thickets of mulberry. Here their work awaited them; but first they ate the eggs and wheaten bread, walnuts and dried fige | that they had brought and shared a little flash of red wine. They finished | with a handful of cherries and then| Assunta began to pluck leaves for her | great basket while Jenny loitered a while and smokeil a cigarette. It was a new habit acquired since her | marriage. Soon the women started upon their romeward way. They had descended | about a mile and at a shoulder of Griante sat down to rest in’welcome | shadow. | And then, suddenly, as if it had| been some apparition limned upon the air, there stood in the path the figure of a tall man. His red head was bare and from the face beneath shone a pair of wild and haggard eyes, They saw the stranger's great tawny mustache, his tweed garments and knickerbockers, his red wais(c(mt,: DORIS, ARE You [ comiNg P- WELL, ( coME ON! I'M NOT \ ALL DAY ! AUTOGRAPHS of NEGLIGENCE Hands can get ditty but they shouldn’t stay that way. MIONE s the softest, creamiest, smoothest soap of its kind you ever used. MIONE gets every particle of grease and dirt and grime off the hands, from under the nails, out of the pores. MIONE is the best soap for every purpose that you can get. Your dealer has it in convenient, sanitary, ten-cent tins. ( GOING TO wmy \-\,\,\;_I DOINGS OF THE DUFFS e i ) MINUTE ! THIS 15 | sleeve, | not happened,” he said. DORIS, OH,DORIS. COME MON! LAST cALL! and the cap he carried in his hand, It was Robert Redmayne, Jenny vtered one loud cry of terror and then relaxed and fell unconhscious upon the ground. The widow leaped to'her ald, but it was some time be- fore Jenny came to her senses. “Did you see him?" she gasped, clinging to assunta and gazing fear- tully where her uncle had stood. “Yes, yes—a blg, red man; but he meant us no harm. / When you cried out, he was more frightened than we. He leaped down, like a red fox, into the woods and disappeared.” “Regember what you saw!” sald Jenny tremulously: “Remember ex- actly what he looked like, that you may be able to tell Uncle Albert just how it was, Assunta. He is uncle Albert's brother—Robert Radmayne!" Jenny helped Assunta with her great basket, lifted it on her shoul- ders and then set off beside her. “I have a horrible dread,” she saild “Something tells me that we ought to be going faster, Would you be trightened if I were to leave you, As- sunta, and make greater haste?” The other managed to understand and declared that she felt no fear. They parted and Jenny hastened, risked her neck sometimes, and sped forward with the energy of youth and on the wings of fear. Jenny saw and heard no more of the being who had thus so unex- pectedly returned into her life. Her thoughts were wholly with Albert Redmayne. He was at Bellagio when she reached home, and his man- servant, Assunta's brother,, Ernesto, explained that Mr. Redmayne had crossed after luncheon to visit his dearest friend, the book lover, Vir- gilio Poggl . Jenny waited impatiently and she was at the landing stage when Albert returned, He smiled to see her and took off his great slouch hat. He looked at Jenny’'s frightened eyes and felt her hand upon his “Why, what is wrong? You are alarmed. No ill news of Giu- seppe?” “Come home quickly,” swered, “and I will explain.” Jenny told him that she had seen Robert Redmayne, whereupon her uncle considered for five minutes, then declared himself both puzzled and alarmed. “What did you do?” “I made a fool of myself," confessed Jenny. ‘“‘Assunta says that I cried out very loud snd then toppled over and fainted. When I came round there was nothing to be seen.” “The point is then: did Assunta see him also?" “That was the first thing I found out. I hoped she had not. That would have seved the situation in a way and proved it was only some picture of the mind. But she saw him clearly enough. She heard him, too. When I cried out he leaped she an- |away into the woods." Mr. Redmayne lighted a cigar which he took from a box on a littie table by the open hearth. He drew several deep breaths before he spoke again. “This is a very cumstance. and I greatly disquieting cir- h it had There may be no cause for alarm; but, on the other hand, when we consider the dis- e orns No The simplest way to end a corn is Blue-jay. Stops the pain in- stantly. Then the corn loosens and comes out. Made in clear liquid and in thin plasters. The action is the same, At your druggist Bluejay (il thase | foul odors Don't merely cover up foul odors with another smell, Use Sylpho-Nathol! It kills them and their cause. Sylpho- Nathol ice-box h it daily as You 35, 65¢ lnd’ilJ!. THE SULPHO-NAPTHOL CO, Boston, Mass. SYLPHO-~ NATHOL appearance of my brother Bendigo, I have a right to feel fear.” “You must not stop here tonight,” she said. “You must cross to Bel- lagio and stay with Signor Poggi un- til we know more.” “We shall see as to that. Prepare tea and leave me for half an hour to reflect. In half an hour Jenny returned with Mr. Redmayne's tea. Providence is, I think, upon our side, pretty one,” he began, “for my amazing friend, Peter Ganns, who designed to visit me in September, has already arrived in England; and when he hears of this ugly sequel to the story I confided in his ears last win- ter, I am hold to believe that he will hasten to me immediately and not Lesitate to modify his plans, “I'm sure he will,” declared Jenny. “Write me two letters,” continued Albert. ~ “One to Mr. Mark Brendon, the young detectlve from Scotland Yard, of whom I entertained a high opinion; and also write to your hus- band. Direct Brendon to approach Peter Ganns and beg them both to come to me as quickly as their af- fairs allow. Also bid Giuseppe to return to you immediately. He will serve to protect us, for he is fearless and resolute.” But Jenny showed no joy at this suggestion. “I was to have had a peaceful month with you,” she pouted. “So indeed I hoped; but it can hardly be peaceful now and I confess that the presence of Doria would gO some way to compose my nerves. He {is powerful, cheerful, and full of re- souree, He is also brave, ,Jenny had left Dorla for a time and apparently felt no desire to see him again until her promised visit to her uncle should be ended. “I heard from Giuseppet three days ago,” she said. ““He has left Ven- timiglia and gone to Turin, where he used to work and where he has many | friends. He has a project.” Albert spoke again. | “Tonight 1 go across the water to | Bellagio and you come with me. It is impossible that Robert should know we are there.” A boatman quickly rowed them to the landing stage of Bellagio and they soon reached the dwelling of Albert's friend, who welcomed them with an equal measure of surprise and delight. At 9 o'clock next morning Mr. Redmayne and Jenny were rowed home again, only to hear that no in- truder had broken upon the nightly | peace of Villa Pianezzo. Nor did the | day bring any ‘news. Once more they repaired to Bellagio before dark, and for three days lived thus, Then | there came a telegram from turin to say that Doria was returning immedi- ately to Como and might soon be ex- | pected via Milan; while on the morn- ing tigat actually brought him to Men- n;:gloT)\is wife received a brief letter from Mark Brendon. He had found Mr. Ganns and the two would set forth for Italy within a few days. 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