The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 14, 1922, Page 9

SS Oe eee, Se % (Continued From Yesterday) “It is better, that pain, mon He replied with an uncertain nod, Pressing a careful hand to his side =... wound that animal gave me & month ago.” “Whieh animal?” “Monsieur of the garotte, Liane; Tecently the assassin of de Lorgnes; before that the ex-chauffeur of the Chateau de Montalats.” “Albert Dupont!” “As you say, it Is not @ name.” “The same?’ Hor old terror re vived. “My God! what bave I ever fione to that ono that he should Beck my life “What had de Lorgnes?" Her eyes turned away, she sat for & moment In silent thought, started Quddenly to speak but checked the words before one passed her lips, and—as Lanyard saw quite plainly wastened to substitute others What do you think?” Lanyard indicated a shrug with suffictent clearness, meaning to say, she probably knew as much as tf not more than he, “But how did he get int? I had not one suspicion T was not alone} until that handkerchtet “Naturally.” “And you, my friend? “T saw him enter, and followed.” This wag strictly within the truth Lanyard had nowno dou and the man who had reconnc from the service-door were one. But it was no part of his mind to tell the whole truth to Liane, She might be as grateful as she ought to be, but she was still... Liane Delorme . .. a wor > be tested rather than trusted “I must tell you. But you knew there were agents de police in the restaurant tc might?” Liane’s head described a negative; her violet eyes were limpid pools of candor. “I am so much & stranger tn Paris.” Lanyard pursued, “I would not know them. But I thought you, perhaps—" “No, no, my friend, I have noth- ing to do with the police, I know little about them. Not only that, but I was so interested in our talk and then tnexpressibly Paid attention ot nothing else.” - “I understand. Otherwise you must me.” “You were followed?" And she had found the effrontery to chide him for lack of faith in her He was in pain: for all that, Ye moment seemed amusing. “We were followed, I assure you,” Lanyard replied gravely. or two—I don't know how many-- in a town-car.” “But you are sure?” “All we could get was a hansom drawn by a snail. The automobile, running without lights, went no faster, kept a certain distance be-| hind us all the way from the Place Pigalle to the apartment of Made-/ moiselie Reneaux. What have you to say to that? Furthermore, when Mademoiselle Reneaux had per suaded me to take refuge in her epartment—who knew what they de- signed?—one man left the automo- bile as ft passed her door and stood on watch across the way. Could one require proof that one was fol- lowed?" “Then you think somebody of the Prefecture recognized Duchemin in y “Who knows? I know I was fol- lowed, watched. If you ask me, I think Paris is not a healthy place/ for me.” “But all that,” Liane objected, “does not bring you here!” “Patience: I arm well on my way.” Lanyard paused to sip his brandy| and soda, and, under cover of that, summon ingenuity to the fore; here & little hand-made fabrication was indicated. “We waited till about half an hour ago. So did the spy. Made- = a TENT _ “ ove ni ‘or d “Oh, the Magic Mushroom, he wears a queer hat” Nancy and Nick had almost reach- 04 the Fairy Queen's Palace, They were riding along in the magical automobile on the road to Fairyland, as happy as two little robins in a cherry-tres. Nick was singing @ song. It was about his friends, the kind fairies who had helped Nancy and himself on their adventures. He just made It up as he went along. It was about hats, too. THis was it: “Oh, the Magical Mushroom, he wears a queer hat, Line « doorknob on top, on the bot- tom's it’s flat, On the top It's as white as the sun when it's shining, down underneath fs a pink ining. while “Mr. Rubadub wears a high hat Ifke | motselio Reneaux then let me out | by @ private wa; | house. ‘No; I do not understand at all!) perhaps | shocked, I) have noticed who followed) “One man} PAGE 9 _ BY STANLEY ' Db You SO ‘THAT OLD LOAFER, WAS GETTING READY TO > = SKIPLs THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN THE OLD HOME TOWN PORTLAND, We HAVE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT YOUR PROWESS = \ know PUGILISTS REMIND MEN REALLY | Me OF “THE GLADIATORS READ ABOUT MY 'SNARL WITH || “THEY USUALLY GeT “AANSLAYGHTERE| PNEUMONIA FROM TH MILLER, EH2-| | DRAUGHT» WHY SAY, HE WAS A HARD | Look AT HIG NOSE = I SPose He GoT IT FROM LOOKING IN SLEPT IN KIS BED FoR THREE NIGHTS AN” NO ONES SEEN HIDE NOR HAIR OF HIM: I started to walk to my hotel, the Chatham, There wasn’t @ taxt to be had, you under. stand, Presently I looked back and saw I was being followed again, To make eure, I ran—and the spy ran after me, I twisted and doubled alt thru this quarter, and at last suc ceeded in shaking him off. Then I / turned down this street, hoping to pick up & cab in the Champ-Blyseos / Of a sudden I see Dupont, He ts ) crossing the etreet toward this He does not know me, but |quickens his pace, and hastily lets jhimeele in at the service entrance . . Incidentally, if T were you, Lt ane, I would give my staff of serv.| ants @ bad quarter of an hour in | the morning. The door and gate | were not locked; I am sure Dupont }used no key, Some person of this establishment was careless or worse,” | “Trust me to look tnto that" | | “Enfin! in his haste, Dupont leaves the door as hp found tt. I take @ moment's thought; it ty plain he is here for no good purpose, I fol low him in The state of this room tells the rest.” | “It is no matter." The woman | | reviewed the ruins of her boudotr | with an apathetic glance which was, | | howew anything but apathetic) when she turned {t back to Lan-} yard's face, Bending forward, she} closed a hand upon his arm. Emo-| tion troubled her accents. ~My) friend, my dear friend: tell me what I can do to repay yout” + t “Help me,” said Lanyard simply,, holding her eyes. How is that—help you?’ : ‘To make my honor clear.’*| peaking rapidly and with unfeigned — feeling, he threw himactt upon her || [oyq Vwasy You'To MEST 3 he [| V4 CERTAINLY INDEBTE! kenerosity ‘You know I am no Doc WAG: S yhe rirauges Aipyimerney ip Ag Birk | OK pcg Se onthe ny 3 Ms) Nov For THis Fue. [Oo AiO CIGARS WO INN > OTEY WALKER WHO IS FIGHTING To SAVE. HIS JOB HAD DISAPPEARED - | —when you first knew me. You | know I have given up all that. For! years’ I have fought an uphill fight to live down that evil fame in which | 'T once rejoiced. Now I stand ac cused of two crimes.” | “Two! ‘Two In one, I hardly know which is the greater: that of stealing, or that of violating the hospitality and con ee of those good ladies of | the Chateau do Montalais, | not rest while they think me guilty }... and not they alone, but all my friends, and I bave made good friends, in France and England. So, if you think you owe me anything, Liane, help me to find and restore the Montalats jewels.” Liane Delorme sat back, her hand lifted from his arm and fell with }a helpless gesture. Her eyes mir rored no more guile than a child's. Yet her accent was that of one who Temonstrates, but with forbearance, against unreasonable, demands, “How can I do that?” And she bad protested her grati- tude to bim! He knew that she was tying. Anger welled in Lan- yard’s heart, but he was able to hold it tm leash and let no eign of it show in manner or expression. “You have much influence,” he suggested, “here in Paris, with peo- ple of many classes. A word from you here, a question there, pres sure exerted in certain quarters, will help me more than all the powers of Prefecture and Surete combined. You know that.” * “Let me think.” She was staring at the floor. “You must give me time. I will do what I oan, I prom ise you that. Perhaps”"—she met his gaze again, but he saw something erafty in her smile—“I ha a scheme already in mind. We will discuss that in the morning, when T have slept on it.” “You give me new hope.” Lan. yard finished his drink and made | as if to rive, but relapeed, a spasm lof pain knotting his face. “Afraid I must have a cab,” he said in a low voice. “And if you could lend me @ coat of some sort to cover these rags...” And indeed his ready-made eve. UICK as @ flash, Jack was on his hor the trio went up the road before the said Jack, “but we’ (Continued in next chapter) ‘ACK then gave a mighty push. The man went sprawling over the dog’s back. The fall partly stunned bim and the boy made & rush for his = up again. ‘Sorry,’ urry.” ACK and Filip had often worked this trick back home. The boy gave Filp the secret signal. Faithful Filp remembered and at once took his place in back of the man, knew that it would be useless to argue this surly. fellow, and tried to think of a plan to outwit him, Filp then came running up ind Jack thought of a trick. horse. ning clothes had fared badly tn | occas! joned in the frafl new tins their first social adventure. of bis wound. Now, fresh from @) “But if you think I dream of let-| cold shawer following a second hot ting you leave this houxe—in pain bath, and further comforted by « and perhaps to run tnto the arms) petit dejeuner served in bed, he felt of the police-you little know me,| measurably sane again, and sound Monsieur Michael Lanyard?’ wind and limb as well, barring “Paul Martin, if you don’t mind.”'a few deep bruises whe soreness would need several days to heal, | A pleasant languor, like @ light opiate, infused his consciousness; yet he was by no means mentally | “The guest rooms are there.” She waved a hand to Indicate the front part of the house on that floor. * * to make you night, and in the morning I will send to the Chatham for your things . . . OF perhaps ft would be wiser to walt till we are sure the police Jare not watching there for your return, But if they are, it will be la simple matter to ‘find suitable | clothing for you. Meanwhile we wil have arrived at an understanding. You comprehend, monsieur, 1/ tective work, and not one line sug. | Wed. this affair is now ar-|sested that it did not deserve undi-) poe . | vided credit, Lanyard bad nothing| “{ am well content, Liane.” i complain of there. y Andthat was true engugh; what-| Ae fer che yeoman tt ecu cha tak te wind Tor him, she) Vek nee 270) te cat she ‘had tn mind sorta hands| stricted sige Imposed upon French was only pla . , | when she proposed to keep him near| Dewspapers by the paper shortage | ee tee weadaged 06 get out of] em days crowded oyt of their her. He managed to, tne offer of| columns everything but news in 4 4 sig back for mo} i Seem and there could be none her arm, but held back for @ M0) 4¢ tnt in connection with the Mon- a: aes eaoaien talais affair until either Andre Du- ag / SB au|¢hemin had been arrested or the Sey eee pic Paspgy-t't jewels recovered from the real thief! a Mince net daria Ted or thieves. And Lanyard was hu- ore. + wally be-| man enough to be almost as willing | “There are sound tn pralis be: to have the firwt happen as tho last, jtween thelr part of the house and) i i+ were not given him to be the| |’ The morning papers were scat: tered over the counterpane, Lan-| | yard had diligently scanned all the | atories that told of the identifica tion of the murdered man of the Lyons rapide as the Comte de Lorg- ‘nes; and inasmuch as these wore of one voice in praising the Prefec- ture for that famous feat of de- WHITE SLIPFEKS 4 Page 807 “Mrs, Wit,” David sald, “one, gowns, and the square college thing I don't understand—Seattle | caps, with thelr tassels at a care had public schools by that time, | ful angle. didn’t it? I thought it did. Why] gut in 1876 ‘the class’ wore a didn’t you ge to high school— then hee ‘veahia’t have teen. ofl | Pre, ttle drage.cf caxetiaiy, tonto by yourself like that?” white swiss, with a broad white “Yea, David, you are right| Satin sash, white kid slippers and about the public schools in Seat-| Its hair hung down its back in th. They started before that. | long black curls. Because, you re Mr. Kenneth Macintosh’s mother | member, I was ‘the class.’ “A short while ago I was in was teaching a public school when Seattle,” Mra, Wilt said, turning we moved to Beattle. But there were no high schools, either in| to daddy, “and went into a restau- rant for luncheon, Across the Seattle or anywhere else in the room I saw a man I fancied I state; It was a difficult thing for a girl to get a real college educa | recognized, I went up to him and tion in 1876, in the Puget Sound | sald, “Isn't this Mr. Bagley? “He looked hard at mo for a country, “Do you know about the Mercer | minute, then rising, he took both my hands and said, ‘Clara Me- girls? I sometimes think those cultured young women changed| Carty! I haven't seen you for 30 the whole tone of the Northwest.| years, but I would have known you anywhere! ” But the thing which makes poor 18 ae} ANYTHING IN iT PAPE ABOUT Tingaling look so fat One was a graduate of the Boston In the dear little, queer Jittle, bun of |ttis. More than that, they are for) Fringe factor in their restoration, Conservatory of Music. They Co’ & hat, |bidden to intrude, no matter what |PTINe THOT Ne deine it he must|| were all bighly educated, and| qnatr atre, Wilt told how she hed Good MANNERS F may happen, unless I #UMMOM) confess tho truth—hd was actually || they camo at a time when the} gone to the Universit at Colne y g “Now Seribble Scratch bothers with | “em. rather enjoying himself, rather ex-|{ Northwest needed just that sort| Sir “sr postgraduate. w oo no hat at all, But tn the morning, Lane. | nuarated than otherwise by the|] of influence.” lh all as preg abd ps when they regard this wreckage! switty shifting scenes and charac- Daddy looked much interested, | university poabooseires reg When he opens his Meadow-Grove | School in the fall, He wears a long forelock which makes him look wise, And a pair of large spectacles over his eyes. “And then there's the weatherman wise Sprinkke-Blow, Who's often caught out in the rain @ tempestuous lover!” “when I question them about that open door.” xXvit. Brother and Sister I am afraid they will think m¢/ tory of his unfolding investigations| and by the brisk sword-play of wits “They will find me a page eee ‘which he was called upon con- mistress," promised Idane PrM®,/ stantly to engage; both essential in- gredients of tha wine of life accord. ing to the one recipe he knew, And then a review of recent events seemed to warrant the belief that, all things considered, he had ‘The storm had passed off. AM AT \ thus far made fair progress toward) but David and Peggy began to wiggle restiessly, so Mrs. Wilt went on with her story. “I took my examinations, pass- e4 with very creditable marks, and ready to graduate. “Now, the long, long column of marching graduates wear black tek ee ——————————— when she remembers how little tt was when she graduated. And when they came away Peggy and David were all excited over seding if they didn’t have enough pennies in their bank to make a statue of her, lke Chief Seattle's, down- town. umbrella, with a igor ns ee b alrepey to Kat While it was true he did not as|in assassinating inoffensive folk in-; visited upon the Chateau de Mon-/4ctual perpetrator of the robbery;|either of Dupont’s identity or of To keep hin quite dry—oh, this| Sey ance Window ‘awnings of the yet know what had become of tho diseriminately. talais thru no vagary of chance|#d by the samo token, that Liane! the opposition interests which that chamber where Lanyard, in bor! xontalais jewels, he had gathered| That his attempt upon ‘the life] whatever, but as part of a delib.| had led in asserting that Monk and/one so ably represented; and thus wonderful fellow, “Down under the sea ts a wee traffic of silk, Jay luxuriously bedded, lis- tening to the purr of wideawake | | rowed pajamas and dressing-Cown| (eitner an accumulation of evi- dence which, however, eircumstan- tial and hypothetical, established ac-| of Liane Delorme within twenty-four) crate design whose ulterior motive hours of the murder of de Lorgnes indicated conviction on his part that had transpired only with the disap- pearance of the jewels--to Dupont's retinue had sailed for America near- ly a week prior to its commission. That Liane herself had not so was better informed than poor de Lorgnes, to whom Dupont had been unknown; which argued that Liane’g: @ dunce, cop, He's is r without ft, you’d know | With a sea-horse beneath him, the Jag li Vaabiaek ane Meat | ceptably to his intelligence a num.|the two were coupled in some en-| vast but understandable vexation of| suddenly decided to leave Fra role in the intrigue was that of @ °c ypeco Besa: hs esi | ee 10 sLlumatio issue of hie latest turn| er of Interesting. inferences, to-wit:| terprise tnimical to bie personal in-| spirit, ac ec paabts °°.) principal, whereas de Lorgnes had rot curlleews on which made|Whateer bo the weather, bright of fortune, and not in the leaat| | That Dupont hed not left, the) ‘ents That the several members of the|pady, and journey, te America, |{#ured only as a subordinate, Mist ne’ enya they's6 10 te filen dat |" eave 0 aston sprinkle, |downhearted about it neighborhood of the Chateau de| ‘That tn aplte of his mask of | Monk party hed been working in| where she would be nobod: "| That even if the woman did mean hide ene ante anand Baa ay does our dear! fyefore turning in he had eoaked| Montalais, after haunting it for up-| stupid pig Dumont was proving him-| entire accord, as a close corporation; | tn stress of mortal fear lest r well toward Lanyard she was bound y polng. enny winkle. Cee eee it: of the ache out| Wards of @ month, without definite| self mentally as well ay phystoally| in which case the person whom the| that had befall de roth tania | bY stronger ties to others, whom she “Sow Tingaling jingles with tells| ‘There was a lot | of bone and ‘sclo in the hottest| knowledge that he would@ain noth-|an adversary worthy of all respect,|Comte de Lorgnes had expected to| her in Arewaghas per must consider first, and who were Proton sporact ft 5 in nO but there water his flesh would suffer; and|ing by staying on, or ithout an|and was—what wags worse—still to|/ meet tn Lyons must have been!peen the case last ‘ght br ©) hardly likely to prove so well dis- DN gp thas SAR ES 18 fall Zou, my dears six hours” unbroken slumber had equally definite objective, some mo- be reckoned with, Monk Phinutt or Jules. teaver. x ut for| nosed; that her ‘protestations of help drenihedin’' obei » a 2° ae tor Gases done wonders toward lessening the’ tive more inspiring than such sim-| ‘That, as Lanyard had suspected] Conseque! oe friendship and gratitude y uty | (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) distress his exertions last night had plo sensuousness as he might find! al along, the Monk party had been the ey at ieee kad viene gr sc timig deg toll. | eae yearns fl ag