New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1923, Page 10

DED REDMAYNE EDEN PHILPOTTS ILUSTRATED" (2 AW, SATTERFIELD » % (=3 = COPYRIGHT 1422 THE MCMILLAN COMPANY RELEASED BY NEA SERVICE INC,, ARRGT,MET. NEWSP. VS, BEGIN HERE TODAY Michael Pendean disappears and Robert Redmayne, uncle to Michael's wife, Jenny, is suspected of the mur- der. Mark Brendon, criminmbinves- tigator, has charge of the case. Jenny goes to live with her uncle, Bendigo Redmayne, Robert appears near Bendigo's home and sends word to Bendigo to meet him in a nearby cave, Giuseppl Doria, who warks for Bendigo, leaves his master at the meeting place. When Doria calls to bring Bendigo home he finds the cave empty and signs of a terrible struggle, | Jenny marries Doria and they go to live In Italy, where Jenny's uncle, Albert Redmayne, lives. Robert is seen in Italy and Albert sends for Brendon and for Peter Ganns, famous American detective and dear friend to Albert., NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XI. Mr, Peter Ganns Mark Brendon received with mingled emotions the long letter from Jenny Doria. It awaited him at New Beotalnd Yard and, as he took it from the rack, his heart leaped before the well-remembered handwriting. 8he reminded Brendon of his good- will and declared how personally she should welcome him and feel safer and more sanguine for his compan- lonship. She also contrived to let him know that she was not particu- larly happy. Brendon sought the famous Ameri- can and found his direction without eifficulty. He had already visited New Scotland Yard, where he num- bered several acquaintances, and Mark learned that he was stopping at the Grand Hotel in Trafalgar Square. On sending in his name a messenger boy bade Brendon follow to the smok- ing room. His first glance, however, failed to Indicate the great man. The smok- ing room was nearly empty on this June morning and Mark observed no- body but a young soldier, writing letters, and a white-haired, somewhat corpulent gentleman sitting with his back to the light reading the Times. He was clean shaved, with a heavy face modeled to suggest a rhinoceros. The features were large; the nose swollen and a little veined with pur- ple, the eves hidden behind owl-like spectacles with tortoise-shell rims, and the brow very broad, but not high. From it abundant white hair was brushed straight back. Brendon extended his glance else- where, but the messenger stopped, turned, and departed, while the stout man rose, revealing a massive frame, wide shoulders, and sturdy legs. “Glad to meet you, Mr. Brendon,” he said in a genial voice; then he shook hands, took off his spectacles, and sat down again. 3 “This is a pleasure I had meant to give myself before I quitted the city,” declared the big man. “I've heard about you and I've taken off my hat to you more than once during the war, You might know me, too.” “Everybody in our business knows you, Mr. Ganns, lut I've not come heroworshiping to waste your time. I'm proud you're pleased to see me and it's a great privilege to meet you; but I've looked in this morning about something that won't wait; and your name is the big noise in a letter I received from Italy today.” The elder stared, took a box out of his walstcoat pocket, cpened it, tapped it, and helped him- gelf to a pinch of snuff, The habit explained his somewhat misshapen nose. It was tobacco, not alcohol, that lent its exaggerated luster and hypertrophied outline to that organ, . Brendon produced Jenny's letter, Petér put on his spectacles and read slowly. Indeed Mark had never seen a letter read so slowly before, At last the American spoke. “What about you? Can you go?" “Yes; I've appealed to my chief and got permission to pick this up again. My holiday's due and Il go to Italy instead of Scotland. I was in it from the first, you know.” “I do know—I know all about it from my old pal, Albert Redmayne. He wrote me the most lucid dispatch that ever 1 read.” “You can do, Mr. Gans-" How To FORGET TROUBLES \ROUBLES knock up your sys- tem like Jack Dempsey knocks Jown his opponent. Troubles deal blows both in the head and stomach—and they hurt'the stomach more than they do the head! Troubles give the stomach indi- gestion, slow up the liver—and then follow constipation and biliousness. The way to get rid of troubles is to invigorate digestion, stimu- late liver and bowels and tone up the entire system. The best way to do this—has been for the past B0 years—is to take Beecham’s Pills. Then you will feel so go:d that i “troubles” become merely prob- lems, to be solved readily by the clear, keen brain of health. At All Druggists—25¢ and 50c golden | “Brendon,” said Mr. Ganns, " run round and find when the night boat salls from Dover, or Folkstone. We'll reach Parls tomorrow morning, 1 guess, catch the Rapide for Milan, and be at the Lakes next day. You'll find we can do so. Then telegraph to this dame that we start a week hence, You take me?" MR. REDMAYNE WAS OVER- |JOYED AT SKEEING GANNS. You want to we're expected?"” “'Exactly.” He took another pinch of snuff and picked up the Times. “Will _you lunch with me here in the grillroom at 2 o'clock?"” ] “With pleasure, Mr. Ganns.” Some hours later they met again and over a steak and green peas Brendon reported that the boat train left Victorla at 11 and that the Rapide would start from Paris on the following morning at half past six. “We reach Bevano some time after noon next day,” he said, “and can either go on to Milan and then come back to Como and travel by boat to Menaggio, where Mr. Redmayne lives, or else ieave the train at Bevano, take steamer on Maggiore, cross to Lugano, and ‘cross again at Como. That way we land right at Menaggio. There's not much in it for time."” “We'll go that way, then, and I'll get lherem Beauty Of Skin And Hair Preserved By Cuticura Use Cuticura Soap for daily toilet pur- poses, with touches of Cuticura Ointment as needed, and have fresh, clear skin and thick, glossy hair. They are ideal for the toilet as is also Cuticura Tal- cum for powdering and perfuming. Samy - “Cuttenr . ot Doyt Shb, Mo Mty o ehesy: intment 25 and 50e. Taleum 2e. ‘Cuticura Soapshaves without mug. ( HEAD WET! | Pendean?’ poke little while he partook of the light meal. joyed the spectacle of Brendon's hearty appetite and bewailed his in- ability ‘to join him in red meat and a vint of Burton. Thay entered the smoking room presently and then Brendon, very much to his surprise, heard an as- tonishing lecture which left him under the emotions of a fourth-form schoolboy after an dnterview with his head master. Mr., Ganns ordered coffee, took snuff, and bade Mark listen and not interrupt. “You're a detective ' inspector of Scotland - Yard,” continued Ganns, “and Scotland Yard is etill the high- water mark of police organization in the world, The Central Bureau in New York is pretty close up, and I've nothing: but admiration for the French and Ttalian Secret Services; but the faot remains: The Yard is first; and you've won, and fairly won your place there. That's a big thing and you didn't get it without some work and some luck, Brendon. But now-—this Redmayne racket. In a word, your conduct of the affair don’t square with your reputation. Your dope never cut any ice from the start.” Brendon did not hide his emotion, but kept silence while Mr. Ganns helped himsell to a pinch of snuff. ‘A great many of your ‘cast-iron | facts were no facts at al “What were they then?" “Elaborate and deliberate fictions, Mark."” He paused again, applied himself to his gold box, and then proceeded. “Now see how reason bears on the evidence of Robert Redmayne and his trick acts since first he disappeared. A thing occurs and there are only certain ways—very limited in number —to explain it. Fither Robert Red- mayne killed Michael Pendean, or else he did not. And if he did, he was sane or insane at the time. That much can't be denled and is granted. If he was sane, he committed the murder with a motive; and pretty careful inquiry prives that no motive existed. Then, assuming him to be sane, he would not have committed such a murder. The alternative is that he was mad at the time and did homicide on Pendean while out of his mind. “But what happens to a after a crime of this sort? get off with it and wander over Europe as a free man for a year? Granted the resources of maniacal cunning and all the rest of it, was it ever heard that a lunatic went at large as this man did, and laughed at Scotland Yard's attempt to run him down and: capture him? No, Mark, t{he man responsible for these impos- gible things isn't mad. And that brings me back to my preliminary al- ternative. “I said just now, ‘Either Robert Redmayne killed Michael Pendean, or else he did not’ And we may add that either Robert Redmayne killed Bendigo Redmayne or else he did not. But we'll stick to the first proposition for the moment. And the next ques- tion you must ask yourself is this: ‘Did Robert Redmayne kill Michael That's where your ‘facts,’ &8 you call them, begin to sag a bit, my son. There's only one sure and certain way of knowing that a man is dead; and that is by seeing his body and convincing the law, by the testi- mony of those who knew the man in life, that the corpse belongs to him and nobody else.” They chatted for half an hour and Mr. Ganns attained his object, which was to fling his companion back to the beginning of the whole problem that had brought them together, “Tonight, in the train,” sald Peter, “I shall ask you to give me your version of the case from the moment that Mrs. Pendcan invited you to take*it up.” CHAPTER XII. Peter Takes the Felm As the detective traveled through night-hidden Kent and presently ! hoarded the packet for Boulogne, | Mark Brendon told his story with | every detail for the benefit of Mr. Ganns. They chatted until the dawn, by which time their train had reached Paris, and an hour or two later they madman Does he DOINGS OF THE DUFFS /DUCK UNDER, DANNY AND GET YOUR He en-, i TURDA ACID IN STOMACH + SOURS THE FOOD Says Excess of Hydrochloric Acid is | Cause of Indigestion, o R A well known authority states that stomach trouble and indigestion are nearly always due to acidity—acid stomach-—and not, as most folks be- lieve, from a lack of digestive juices. He states that an excess of hydro- chloric acld in the stomach retards digestion and starts foods fermenta- tion; then our meals sour like gar- bage in a can, forming acrid fluids and gases, which Inflate the stomach like a toy balloon. We then get that heavy, lumpy feeling in the chest, we eructate sour food, heich gas or have heartburn, flatulence, water-brash or nausea. He tells us to lay aside all digestive aids and instead get from any phar- macy four ounces of Jad Salts and take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast, while it s effervescing, and furthermore, to con- inue this for one week. While relief often follow the first dose, it is im- portant to neutralize the acidity, re- move the gas-making mass, start the liver, stimulate the kidneys and thus promote a free flow of pure digestive Jjuices. Jad Salts is inexpensiye and is made from the acid of grapes and lemon Jjuice, combined with lithla and sodi- um phosphate. This harmless salts is used by thousands of stomach suf- fers with excellent results. —— e e were on their way to Italy. Mr. Ganns had determined to cross the Lakes and arrive unexpectedly at Menaggio. He had now turned his mind once more to the problem be- fore him and spoke but little. He sat with his notebook open and made an occasional entry as he pursued his thoughts. ) He looked up presently, “The hard thing before us is this," he said, “to get into touch with Robert Redmayne, or his ghost. There are two sorts of ghost, Mark; the real thing—in which you don't { believe and concerning which I hold a watching brief; and the manufac- tured article.” 5 He broke off and changed the sub- ject. “What I'm doing is to compare your verbal statement with Mr. Red- mayne's written communication,” he said, patting his book. “You'll find the story Redmayne from childhood and the story of the girl, his niece, and of her dead father. Mrs. Dorla's father was a rough custome scorpions to Robert's whips apparently—a man a bit out of the common.” “1 shall Iike to read the report.” “It's valuable to us, because writ- ten without prejudice, That's where it beats your very lucld account, Mark. There was something running through your story, like a thread of silk 'in cotton, that you won't find here. It challenged me from the jump, my boy, and I'm inclined to think that in that thread of silk 1 shall just find the reason of your failure, before I've wound it up.” “I don't understand you, Ganns." “You wouldn't—not yet. But we'll change the metaphor, We'll say there was a red herring drawn across the trail, and that you took the bait and, having started right enough, presently forsook the right scent for the wrong."” ¥ | Brendon made no reply. Neither | his conscience nor his wit threw any | light on the point. Then Peter, turn- |ing to his notes, touched on a minor | incident and showed the other that | it admitted of a doubt. | “D'you remember the {left ‘Crow’'s Nest' after your first visit? On the way back to Dart- | mouth you suddenly saw Robert Red- | mayne standing by a gate; and when of Robert night you the moonlight revealed you to him,| |he leaped away and disappeared into |the trees, Why?" “He knew me." “How?" “We had met at Princetown and we had spoken togethér foi minutes by the pool Quarry, where I,was fishing. “That's right. But he didn’t know who you were then. Even if he'd remembered meeting you six months [ before in the dusk at Foggintor, why should he think you were a man who was hunting him?" Mark reflected. “That's true,” he said. Peter did not pursue the subject. He shut his book, yawned, took snuff, and declared himself ready for a meal, The long day passed and both men turned in early and slept 4N daybreak. Before noon they had left Baveno on a steamer and were crossing the blue depths at Maggiore. At Luino they left the steamer and yroceeded to Tresa. They wound over Lugano and came in evening light to its northern shore. Then once more they took train, climbed aloft, and fell at last to Men- aggio on Como’s brink. “Now," sald Peter, “I guess we'll leave our traps here and beat it to Villa Planezzo right away.” Within twenty minutes their one- horse vehicle had reached Mr. Red- mayne's modest home angdr they found three persons just about to take an evening meal. Simultaneously there appeared Mr. Redmayne, his niece, and Guiseppe Doria; and while Albert, Italian fashion, embraced Mr. Ganns and planted a kiss upon his cheek, Jenny greeted Mark Brendon and he looked once more into her eyes. Doria held back a little while his wife welcomed her uncle's friend; then he came forward, declared his pleasure at meeting Mark again and his bellef that time would soon re- veal the truth and set a period to the sinister. story of the wanderer. Mr. Redmayne was overjoyed at seeing Ganns and quite forgot the object of his visit in the pleasure of receiving him. i It has been my last and abiding ambition to introduce you to Virgillo Poggi, dear Peter, so that you, he and I may sit together, hear each other's voices and look into each other's eyes.” Jenny and Assunta had hastoly pre- pared for the visitors and now all sat at supper and Brendon learned that rooms were already taken for him and Mr. Ganns at the Hotel Vic- toria. “That's as may me,"” to Doria's wife. “You will find, T think, that Mr, Ganns is going to stop here. He takes the lead in this affair.” After a cheerful meal Peter abso- lutely declined to cross Como and visit Signor Poggl on the instant. “I've had enough of your lakes for one day, Albert,” he announced, “and I want to talk business and get a rough, general idea of what more is known than Mark and 1 already know. Now what has happened since you wrote, Mrs. Doria?" “Tell them, Giuseppe,” directed Mr. Redmayne. “Your gift—the gold box-—take a pinch,” said Peter holding out his snuff to the old bookworm; but the master of Villa Planezzo refused and lighted a cigar. “1 will have smoke rather than dust, my precious Peter,” he said. “The man has ben seen twice since you heard from my wife,” began Dorifa. “Once I met him face to face on the hill, where I walked alone to reflect on my own affairs; and once—the night before ‘last—he came here. Happlly Mr. Redmayne’s room overlooks the lake and the garden walls are high, so he could not reach it; but the bedroom of Mr. Red- mayne's man, Ernesto, is upon the| side that stands up to the road. “Robert Redmayne came at two o'clock, flung pebbles at the window, wakened Ernesto, and demanded to be let in to .see his brother, But the Ttalian had been warned exactly what to say and do if such a thing happened. 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