New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1929, Page 15

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, SYNOPSIS: Veronica Seabroke' flashing blue eyes have placed Tom For has Grenofen in a predi Grenofen loves the greed to help her fugitive by 1is home. a returning from their ing, when they encounter 1"otherbury, the “unlicked cub,” has been annoying Veronic en ament girl and hide a hunted the and Tom Fred ged by the youth's insolence and strikes him a dazing blow—an inci- | t is to trouble him in days!| home, Grenofen dent th ot Reachi discovers a vith Veronic pected mom Professor 1 other of his scemingly interminable ngerous situatio sterious guest e; ntarily, the So Cousin John Merryweather was | 3 to be the name of our strang guest. I secretly admired my moth- er's d 1g and foresight “Have you told Laxton?" her., “Oh, I just casually I asked mentioned it. ng himse But h night until or Laxton sat L cigar, greeted him “How do, in my I vhen I went professor? It you r midnight expedi- this child tonight.” think of king you Grenofen. 1 only up to anks for not recognizing me in i t for “Wouldn't Mr. say t came I gave myself a 1 forgot I'd scen you in London and therefore ought to have owned you when they brought you nto the library. In the excitement most people missed it, but one saw W— “Who SN “Ah queer that?" himse forg fellow Just Fotherbury well, he may about this A Pell madness yarn What do you t or method i “If there professor, vink ? method purpe Pell expeeted to reveal somebod “Quite” said ton. “W it got to do with Fotherbury's dig- sn't any in it there zing! Haven't a shadow, What about you?" “I had an idea, Mr. Grenofen. But now Pell's dead, and whether I can ever put the idea to the proof vell, all see. But it's late ind you're expecting a guest. So “Must have a sip before you go, professor.” And I went out of the ut giving him a ct I wanted to Know John Merryweather | the coast clear. not yet it professor. we s room with- to refuse. ether Mr arrived But Mr produced while my had fact Merryweathe himself. In was mother put glasses on & tray in the | dining room that I heard a car in Woodcot lane “Take the tray in to Laxton, will you, mother?” said I. “Keep him talking till I've spirited Cousin John out of the way.” And T went down to the caching the gate as the taxi pulled up. “Hello, Cousin Jo the dark. “Just Got your bag A figure went by me. iriver. He maneuvered Presently his tail light lown the road “Cou John Merryweather, 8 > you?" I said "here’s U man in the house, and ge thought 'd just get in quietly and smug- you upstairs at onc “A man? What man" asked a lecp voice. “I'm suspicious of all men.” He's called Professor Laxton,” said 1, “and he came down to look it some Roman remains at Ne lace.” ‘Where is he “In my studio round at the back )f the house.” ould I see him een?” “I don't ould, Cousin John, unle: et a peek at him by he blind.” “Will you take me there?" “By all means. This way.” It certainly seemed as ohn might be a rather troubl clative. We went quietly round o the hack of the house. Unfor- unately 1 had not noticed that the lind of the big north window had ot been drawn. A huge square of wight light lap on the turf. Nearly he whole interior of the room was isible. My mother stood talking to rofessor Laxton Cousin John leaped back just as he was about to step into the square of light. “That man “Professor Laxton?" “Go and get rid of him, hn," I called into °p inside the zate round dropped w- without being 0 quite know how you you could the side of T'll wait man in | are strange meet- who | mother Tom is | eccentric xton has arived for an- | you | ind | f Cousin | ome _SEPTEMBER 10, 1929. ‘15 By R. A. J. WALLING somewhere outside. you have a visitor?" Naturally. He's taking off to leave room for you here by the shrubbery and and get him out of it.” As I entered the den 1 that Laxton had heard the |of the taxi. So I said Does he know tendgd hand and bent over it. And | then' he was no longer a tramp but la man who knew how to behave Wait | with a woman; and from the terri- 1 I'll 8o |ple face therf came that deep, | | Fooming voice, “I'm very grateful Mrs. Grenofen | “Nonsense.,” said my mother. | “Tom, take Cousin John up to the bathroom. I see you've got some things, Cousin John--not like Pro- | tessor Laxton.” | | “No.” said he. “I've ot a ragz. The bag—" He paused, and his eyes glanced | from one to the other of us. Then | he shrugged his shoulders | “I may as well tell you now," vent on. “The ate things of and value to me. it in your safe.” CHAPTER 15 THE BLACK BAG | After his first hesitation, Cousin | John made the startling request in | a matter-of-fact style, as if he| | were asking us to take care of umbrella, It is not e fect of the an with a h that he had momentous value bag himself | 5 guessed arrival | to my “Cousin John's just come — | tired, but he'd like a little | when he's had a wash.” Whereupon Laxton put glass and soon took his leave | When the coast was clear and | brought the man in from the shrub- bery, and he stood revealed in the t of the hall, I had a terrible But my mother smiled in her sweetest way and said | “Well, Cousin John, you?" | The man ind 40 3 stubble ve supper i no things— he bag contains pri- | great importance how' are I want you to put was tall, and between | rs of age. He had a| of three days' which stood out {inister thing—was as his hair. Is there a less pleasant spectacle quite 4 y to describe the ef- ouncement, by a m ad cropped as his wa of apparently in an old black a secr: en my mother was taken back | 1 moment. But she recovered aplomp. | aid she. “Tom will see 1 he'll look you out some Cousin John." ank you, Mrs. Grenofen. You £k no ¢ You take me on trust splendid. If grati- tude — | “Oh, don't!" Go along with Tom." “Bri the bag this way,” said I 2nd he followed me into the| studio | cried my mother. | I do not know what 1 vious owner had made il»vfl he d built a steel sa into the My guest the black deposited and locked up, d a little sobhing n ast,” he said. But the words | ed to himself. | I took him to he caught big fall the pre- of this room, watched At were addre: the bathroom. sight of himself glass. T thought he | as he staggered back | Then he burst oaths. T stoie a | There in the would against uncontrollable sayin 'l find some razors on the shelf if you want them. Come down | to the dining room when you're | ready ’ “Mother!" found her n? “Job whose 1 has been clipped to niform length of a T exclaimed “What ha when T qua taken of an inch, so th ve we scalp shows through every had a shapely eyes the look hunted wolf. He wore nor S clothes held in his left I battered hat and in his right a rag- | ged bag. He might have rummaged an old clothes shop and put on the first th to My mother very n — rathe but gracefully hostess r guest, wa of This man but his dar the good Samaritan, 1 suppose, " “But think! You can been lately = Look s at hi where he's of secrets casily And a bag Did i to hir and 1 our Veronica ask you it ¢ hand t 2 would, of ! common aversion oquacity came into play. John came an hour, the hin renc dai course.” | At from | agile in appear- sound And she ving a q ramp and said, “Well, Cousin John, how ¢ you | He put down the queer-look black bag he carried, took the Cousir down auarter of wved and pon with his b refreshment of h It | up water had made a in spite of the Even the hunted yes had declined of his expression NIGHT SCHOOL Meody Secretarial School OPENS SEPTEMBER 16 | Office Open For Registration 8:30 - 4:30 7:00 - 8:00 25 ARCH STREET PHONI 207 | the PARAMOUNT LEADS TOMORROW road, | I paid the ew Fall Felts | . Made to Sell at $2.95. Special at ? Wide Variety | Every Headsize $ 1 44 | [ | All Colors FOR MISS AND MATRON Absolutely the Best Value in the City. IPARAMOUNT | ‘ MILLINERY CO. } 188 MAIN STREET | i COR. COURT Cousin John a little petite. At having eater Lerries, he “I wonder ince 1 tasted He He broke off short vefilled his p with a courtesy, As for ing me could implic kir hal me, h up, try faith sation was di afraid of it. vealing sent completed. The one thing he talked out was Laxton. He desire to kn When he lea : nnel throu come, he terrier does ved it nothing of my Laxton 3ut he Laxton's time, The to t arr the ciry t e almost as biza John Cousin cigaret from table. He tu dining room as his glance the first moment gnaw returned | fact had been evideat the night be- fore. It simply shrieked at me at breakfast time | My mother was down first. When [T entered the room she poured my coffee, then handed me the news- and saic you now. I arden.” ve shall be was unusual intention. As the paper, 1 to reflect T divined some soon op anted saw it me before paper contained a short extremely sketchy account of affair Newplase Abbey — the shooting of Pell through the Fole by some unknown marauder who had half murdered Professor Laxton before irdering Fell. 1 and the at Key- wholly gather tha the trend of the nquest, that the land Yard had b the most ef habited the themselves to mysterious mur | Al of which med pr |Beside the actuality | And it was not the | Newplace affair t this would be the Ya that my mother | sweat until 1 The place sensational longed to a Special patched from Ta and printed “Daring Es Copyright, 192 Does this John pointed at his black bag—packed with its ominous secrets. apologized for his ap- end of his meal, plateful of ras k wa. his ing keep our win- had sat at table wi to it. T S Our Correspondent e summer eve alw ope n a d aid if I might? It's so long qEm the head lows wide John's and he were heavily fingers frowned s my mother He treated her nd of queer, frave f humole, half equal. e seemed to be weigh- speculating whether 1 whereas he had my motier “om A settled conver- He was clearly He would begin a re- ence and drop it 5 | Cousin Have vindow I nodded “What madness!" we beon like that sitting. 1l the with the time?" he ACTION ON ORDINANCES ordir . mon o'clock on the = anee comm of the mutte co council will meet at at ( Hall to dry cleaning which has 1 1st Irew the o1 harm do kitchen tams across e, 1 said. ! den side. And to Woodcot - tonight act | proposed and con vl o 2 o |dyeing code, at | consideration f The report on changes in were voted at the co corporation counsel's off un- relaxed ipology He and mother the the to said a word of he code, which to my slept in had an overpowering | had occupied about the professor. |When I went see him in the rned that I made the | morni he sai1 he thougnt the 1gh which Laxton had he could do was to report ed on the fact as a tay in a bone, and licked it room Laxton night before last week report fo cil will by be taken on to the ordir luminated who might |the buildir John would be was n and it is expected presentation to th Action will proposed it a prepared Iso ndme nd il- sick tad he and news his room till he 1 nobody Th about of Cousin sur- Not out did at with ace cloisters and it Woodcot, stances of that visit er visibl etween abroke of the MEXICAN LAW Mexico Ci pt partment of interior a projected law to do of the press, severe alties His face |employe secking to in press. 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