The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 13, 1923, Page 11

TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 19 The Three Malefactors BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM ee Copyrig I Oppendelm Ini Vendetta begins between MICHAEL SAYERS, noted and SIR NORMAN GREYES, once of Scotland fter Sayers’ beautiful housemaid, JANET, saves him Norman by shooting dead officer sent to arrest t becomes Sayers’ wife and accomplice, In ma , Michael escapes arrest by taking desperate chances is an able assistant, but because he greatly admires many good qu lities he recogni in her, Sir Norman deals w ith her as leniently as possible, In the Leeds bank robbe ry Michael (known to Greyes as “Stanfield”) barely escapes and has to flee the country. A plot of Michael and another criminal, Paul Gont, to ruin the political leader, Phillippe Norman, Janet's Version idea which I have mentioned, of r It was about four er [| bing my mistress, k had been in the service of Mre pe in my mind, I should hay aperton-Smith, that I decided to | bided my time, I think, but for tw r. I first went to he reason® One was that the salar day, I felt @ need money | Which paid me was y ose luxu to which I. had and I saw no chance become accustom After is. |Anything, and whatever had cc fo me from my |Pated. Mra, Tri + Y ha not always #0 ald establishment | have been mployed, and I} At they time she was on ex services were |¢ y y terms with a > longer necessa: I nt a | Sidney Bloor, whom I y month at a man a few |from the moment I first weeks at photographic st ndoubted adventure Mra, Trumperton-Smith advertised |*!Ways dressed in the in the Morning Post for a companion |‘##hion, and he had aca and lady's maid. I won the post on|the shibboleth of the up-to account of my manners and appear |YOUns man of the moment C ance. My mistress was a lady of |/™ade languid attempts to kiss oe ample person and ample means, She | Whenever he found me alone. lived in exce style and apparent-| He 4 one evenin ly bad plenty of money. She was af * after’ our @ widow about 45 years old, still good. looking in a florid sort of way, and well enough educated from the mid. | sometimes pleased to dispense ¢ die-class point of view. Men were|taila A spasmodic attempt at gul her one and everiasting hobby, jlantry having been met i re We were staying at the Magnifi | pulsed, he lingered to watch me busy sent hotel at Brighton when the! repairing a batrornament which my | SePv eetuRes fe) ate TWINS APPLE-PIE Brighton, in at about the hour when madam was alone the mitth LAND | “My, my, my! I'll have to do something and that soon,” "| declared Jack. | Lutarde, is frustrated by Sir| ‘ it playing ¢ 1 told hin What owraws are you ‘ if we fl ‘A ' "i fy st, Mr I 4 . ished. “1 ‘ a jecked n those dia I expe ve & large my sex,” I re Janet omplalned My last Are you gol . Back to the city tomorrow, I'm my own master and all that, of wo—-take aA week or two jusi when I want it—but ast k 1p & bit of the rhino now and then If it is re f 1 said, “tell me what jewelry u would like the mistreas to wear evening it put it out for ment or two la i 4 her mak © cocktails. 1 went going to rob th at all, it was con a 1 quickly an usual, and Mrs. ton-Smith joined me in th m, full of hat passed w h as geniality ‘ way I found bh er and ted the diamond necklace, earrings and bracelet, locked up ee and returned the key. My away “See that the fire in kept up in the ting-room, Janet,” she ordered. “Mr, Bloor and I will take our coffee there.” } I went ir the steward's room | ad had my * as usual, and I > paid « vistt to Mr. Bloor’s bed r wed ain. trifles Mrs, Trump 1 ree wed to play bridge dinner « 4 neighboring hotel I contrived to leave open the con. ecting door between the bedroom and the aitting-room, and to be in the former when they returned for their coffee, Madam had come in for her cloak, and they were on the point of starting out again, when her escort at last gave me the cue for which { had beon waiting. ] “I my, Mimi,” he drawied — he! called ber “Mimi” although she weighed fourteen stone—"I don't fool comfortable walking along the The fountain on top of Nancy’s| But Nick was marble and Nancy | front with you in those diamonds head kept running and running.|way marble (being changed by ec ry es a bard a he gd Mix-Up Land kept filling up and fill f ae total se you li ear,” she an fag up with water, and Jack Straw, |MAS) and so they didn't feel &/ sented meekly, “Perhaps you're the rogue, became more and more | thing \right, especially if we go on to sup- per afterward. Here, Janet!" frightened as he saw everything| Finally Jack Straw had only the} swimming or climbing while he|tip of his nose sticking out of the x berples out. couldn't do elther—on account of | water. “I do believe I'll have to turn | es, madam?” Koes having a peg leg. Imy ring and change Mix-Up Land] ‘ake thone off—all of them,” she He would have turned the magic! back Into Apple-Pie Land?’ he said directed, extending her arms and and sighed a gurgly sigh. But some- thing better still happened. The| ring slid off hia hand tnto the water | and it was never found again. | ting on his left thumb and stopped the water, but he couldn't tell where it was coming from—whether a big / 4 wave from the ocean had washed polsing her neck. and may be late. 1 relieved her of the jewela, the time Mr. Bloor was watching with a gleam in his eyes, “I am going out All} ever the land, or a cloud had burst,| Hefore you could nay “scat” every nis ; or a river had backed up, or what. |t ng was set to rights. The water If you will give me your key, First the grass disappeared, then disappeared and there were the aaa a I will lock them up,” I sug ti rs & gonted the flowers, then the bushes. Every-| mountains and trees and grass and) &e8! 4 thing that could swim ws houses and pigs and chickens and| “Ob, that will fed when - get} ming and everything that could |cows and churches and the people | &ck.” she may oe them tn ot climb was climbing, everyone who | and wagons and everything Just as it | Of the Sonat oft pscigoh rat ae had a boat to row in was rowing, | should be. Mix-Up Land was Applo-| They ar - ‘3 ney ye Peel and everyone who had a raft to float| Pie Land again and King Even- te a ayy ore on aia i ba cian tt iteveu wi Meir) domenhs ari ed in the ag-TOC wd cscs Ht ae fo se m was on the throne in his) vniie t completed my plans. 1 had “My, mm my ave to do | palace. come to dect the nomethi that soon,” declared | And Jack Straw was back cob. | Just come t Paco prigrenadepes a | Jack I wish I knew where all|bling shoes—just as he used to be. | ¥8s & ts oi vss Soceicin, oy at that water was coming from.” | And best of all, the Twins were | Geant. is his “pease am ei Nancy and Nick had long ago|iittie boy and girl again, and on| rink made Jil, appearmnce, | He) been covered up with er. It had | their way home pa y one right over the tops of their| (To Be Continued) pa as | (Copyrtzht, 1922, by Seattle Star) x eegeratecd that Mis. Truman. | re Stattle a Page -He Mabel SQUAWS IN THE GRASS “I have come think,” sald “So this time that I got into Mr. Wiseman, “that the Indians | trouble was the root-digging and were right and I wal wrong about | horse-racing time in the spring. + this trouble we had. But we coat there were couldn't see it that way then, several me “For aa far back as any of| them could remember they came to m certain p! camas to wasn't alone, one we called about; John’ ome of thone volc controlled. He could be ‘Squealin’ becatine he had i” that can’t be in to talk root, and I just want you to know| in @ low, deep voice and sudden that camas root is worth digging!| ly shift to a high squeak—vory Talk about figs and dates, when| funny. So we called him ‘Squeab camas root is dried they can’t] in’ John.’ compare with {t! “Well, I was more than pleased “Well, I paid no attention to| with my claim, My cattle were doing well and the new grass was so high and so thick that it didn't seem pomaible it hadn't been plant ed there on cultivated ground in- stead of just growing wild. “IT knew there had been some trouble over tho treaty the In- dians had signed, knew that Chief Joseph's band wouldn't agree to it, but a treaty was a treaty, and || the government had given part of the land to the Indian and part to the white man, and this way my part. | “But the point that the Indian [| made (and I think he was right) || | | the camaa root, nor to the habits of the Indian, and I just happen- ¢4 to stake my claim on that par ticular spot where the camas root grew best, and on over the stretch that they used every year for their horse races, “You know, the Indians had a regular round that they traveled every year; in the fall and winter they hunted deer and tar, «moked the meat, cured the skins, made thelr moccasins and things, and got ready for spring. “In the early apring they moved on to the prairies where the nquawa dug the camas and the braves had wild times racing their | was that that camas prairie had | been a favorite ponwension of thelr hoteee fathers, and their fathers’ fathers, “July and August they gather-| and no stranger had @ right to ed berries and dried them in the| come and take it away, But, re wun, and then they followed on to| member, I didn’t eee It that way the best fishing places and the| then,” women dried and smoked the fish. ! ee |) (To Be Continued) ton-Bmith was up here,” he sa: courteously. | “Mrs, Trumperton-8mith went out | some little time ago,” I told him | “What time do you expect your mistress back?" he inqutred. Fa “She did not say, sir,” 1 replied “The last time «he went out to play | bridge, it was about 1 o'clock when she returned. Mr. Bloor ia” with her.” fe | ‘The manager nodded and turned | away. \ “Can I give her any message, sir?” | x QO OL) IS I added He hesitated, came back closed the door and ain | “1 should Smagine,” he said, look ling at me attentively, “that you are |@ trusted servant,” | | “IT was engaged ay companton- |lady’s mafd, sir,” I told him, “I be lieve that my mistress has every | confidence in me” | He nodded. ‘To tell you the truth,” he ex- plained, “I, am a lttle worried about | & your mistress’ Jewels, There was a| amall robbery last night at a hotel tn | the neighborhood, and I have had an lindirect sort of warning th police that there are thieves about |Mra, Trumperton - Smith the | reputation of being |came to ask her if she would allow | me to keep her jowely in the hotel | ' | safe," “I should be very could persuade har T an | |sured him, “I sugested it when we} larrived, but madam likes to take! | them out and look at them when sho | | ts alone.” “It Ja fearesly fair upon any | hotel,” the manager pointed out a lit | tle querulously. “WI you be so kind as to tell me where sho keeps | them?" I showed him the cave, although 1 waid nothing of the diamonds drawer, “Tt In placing temptation ple's way,” he declared he door of the bedroom 4 looked,” T reminded him. you have a night too, we on the from glad tt you | to do in the| He frowned neverely | in peo: | fn al “and Then watehman fourth at woman,” hi dear terrupted irritably nothing to an in "thone things are | experienced thief, how, in November, I found him more| like that. She wasn’t coarse or yul attentive, He wanted to know how I| «ar, beyond an oath or two. It felt, whether I wanted anything. He| seemed as if she had thought out| brought me a large plece of flowered! the terma of her letter to hurt me, | damask, which I had admired in ato outrage mo all she could. cushion shop. Gifts! Men make us| “You silly, moon-faced kid, 1 sup. deceived ua, because they feel re-| roped! I suppose you think morseful, The piece of damask told} you've taught him to behave when mo that it was all over with Sadie/the wife's in the country, and that }and that he wanted to begin again! the rest of his life he'll be as good as where wo'd left off fold, Just because you gave him the| Well, call me undignified {¢ you] what-for with the chill off! Why you| |like, but I felt so fll, so lonely, that think he'd stick to a bit of pastry | under the garment of tolerance that | every woman packs away colossus crashes on his feet of | was with before she was handed over to cover him with ft, and pretend/to Pawlett. You bet Jullan knew | that underneath Hes the image of old. | a bit about Christine before he landed But Sadie didn’t let me. Bomebody| her on Pawlett. A bit of fluff like told mo that she was sailing for! her didn't say no to Julian, who's a America In a few days. She had o/peauty, I'll say that for him. But even Jot poor little Frills alone. She was going. It wasn't that T feared) couldn't ay no. To say nothing her; what was’over waa over, but It} about the two women on the firat Would be caster to forget a woman In| floor, Under your very feet, you! |.another continent, IT knew the date) jugginat You make mo sick! 1 of her nailing, and a sense of the pic-| suppose you'll atick to him, if you turenque made me mugont a little | don't mind my loavings, if you don't mind those of the rest of the town, The hotel safe i the only place for "SADIE." ich Jewelry Mrs, Trumperton-| Rather dully T went out at the mith poxwexwos,” visual time, walked along the usual ‘Continued Tomorrow) Piceadilly, I read the letter under an TA Cynthia Grey: Engaged Girl Was Hoppy | in Wonderful Love Until She Unexpectedly Came Upon Her and 1 Year-Old Mutual F rie a Locked in Another Ar Now Seeks Advice. y: lamay montt in "lance On ms Dear Miss and age been engag ago were the happie and the world. We still are, ou 1 a seething, perp! 1 woman ial young friend 17 years old many way Anyway, I that, until I found her a We intil a few ward We | a mutt ing but a child looked upon her tw my happiness Several months ago my fiance and I were visiting fri over the week-end, in fact, it was a sort of house party town, Our little friend was also there. The night we were getting ready to leave for home, I came downstairs rather quietly, I suppose, for it did not disturb what later met my Pausing on the threshold, I my fiance and the girl locked in each other’s arms. I tunned for a moment and made my v again, they were evidently unaware of my pr That was all. He has never spoken of it to me, not know I know of it. What shall I do? I cannot stand this doubt any more. He is the sa nwardly I who have trange menace in upstair sence, but, oh, I am troubled! He is not a man to do a thing like that lightly We go on apparently as before and he often peaks of our coming marriage as if he were anxious for its immediate culmination, 1 do not understand. Do you? me soon, for I am unable to strain because I love him dearly PERPLEXED. tand much There is only one thing to do. Tell your fiance and him explain if he can. It would be positively wrong to go ahead with your wedding plans, feeling as you do. If you marry a man you doubt, even tho you do love him dearly, you will never have a moment's peace of mind when he is out of your sight. Faith and trust in th mm who is your husband, you must have to in your happiness and hia I cannot say that I understand your fiat action in th particular instance, unless he let his emotional nature get the better of him. Men are more impulsive than women, and then, too, they seem to have a different code of love. “Man's love is a thing apart, while 'tis woman's whole ex- e716 first used the expression callers Ra inesday f i dah ad from 1 to 3 p. m, ‘uc Gana ae uesday and Thureday r a very illiterate man, a gy dene & come at mes, as it serious # with her writing | | pats Oreck Indians ceded to the United : States, June 14 the western| did the United States) part of their domain in the Indian a? Which Ir territory for $0 cents an acre, while ¥ Vber the the Heminoles gave up their en go tn , h for 16 cents an acre | ¢ 1 wos pert he Louts-| 4 ca, Cheyennes and othe ‘ r sf 4 rib re settled wpon thie land reeks Seminoles agreed to al ain work of || great influz of settlers, pealed to thin de ie help. He in young How many stars have been photo. Jed and willing to do | | eraphed? One hundred million ts an under. estimate of the mumber of stare al- photographed, and it may be supposed that this number would be much increased with increased ex tho 200,000,000 has been as-} signed as a limit fo their number. URSULA TIRENT A Novel by W. L. George. Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Brothers. K at all, altho he has had naive experience as « chauf Anyone who can give him tion may reach him by call ing Main 6208 and asking for Mr C. W. Johneon. ready pomure, (Continued From Yesterday) | dinner on the night, to which w All thru thie I was asking myself | Would ask or 8 as didn't what would pen to me and m © what t nk th child. It was te born at the end| said. Julian agreed, moment ft April, i tho I ofte won ‘ed noyed me that he should agree what I should do, I was becoming| #0 easily; he didn't mourn her even lymphatic. Perhaps I felt that some-|on the day of her sailing. Would ho| body would b 20. Perhaps I was|mourn me on the day of my in-| till t secure. As one of the/evitablo sailing to an unknown} | Trenta, bh n what might, I muat| shore? Almost at once I ceased to| }be all rig Perhaps {t was merely | care, for a woman, at bottom, always | benevolent nature keeping me quiet] believes that he will mourn on the for my id's good. ow, I| day of her sailing lg didn’t worry much. I slept a lot. I|he may take the departure of an-| was yory good-tempered. I was not | other, exacting. Indeed, at that time I was] 11 hay perhaps the The Uttle dinner did not take place, Among my le that morning, | | came one from Sadie, 1 read tt twice, | hardly understanding tt. Then, quiet- | ly, I put it away, saying nothing to across the table, phieg- matically glanced at the Daily Mail and munched eggs and bacon. I said hardly anything. Not only was the revelation too awful, but the way tn which {t was put! Sadie didn’t talk t matter. That in| thing jife can d iat for a human being. CHAPTER IT Facing It Out 1 | Jullan, who, Tt was no surprise to me that Jull an should so soon give up Sadie. 1) think I would have known It without | indications other than those secret} ones arising from my instinct. Some- | presents as a rule when they have | po you think you've got your dandy | I accepted him, It wasn't that 1 wanted his caresses much, but 1 wanted him to talk, to smile, to be my friend. If I hadn't been as 1 was, I suppose I should have developed ky enough to leave him for good. like you more I don't know. than to anybody el But then you always were atuck up. So let mo give you a} tp, a pal: you keep your eye on your dandy fellow. Don't you think| | he's Koing to live like a curate just | n't} But when a woman 1s about to be-|hecause I'm out of the way; ft 4 come a mother she needs @ man|his nature, If you don't belleve mo badly. The fact of his being there ts/ you ask Maud Freeland why she a sort of protection, an insurance. I} stopped her divorce, It wasn't be 1 wanted somebody it was vaguer than don’t mean that to keep my child; cause she hadn't got cause, It was No fear! because Maudie knew that that; I just wanted somebody. 80,|/ there might be a bit of an account Hetle by little, 1 supr T should| against her if the King's Proctor ave forgotten Sadio, should have! found out about her and your burted that memory of unfaithfulno#s| Julian, You ask her, suddenly, if you don't believe mo, and you'll see, un- less you're too much of a worm to rink tt, You ask Christine who sho with her to take out when the wedding gown job there, In Arizona, That concord-~ ed with the plece of damask, and 1 was immensely glad to think that she there, he never can keep away whi ho weow a bit of skirt n He couldn't ing-e ab and h a who! ou don’t kn I don’t An g met 9 ted how weak one Is One gots entangled.” by I sald, with an alr of “It tan't the mame thing. A man > thene things, They don't h to hi e I didn't mean mics 4 e th I er | found ro out How many treated nn Except for a year, 4 ke me a laughi une of you that a we | can insult me and crow over me, You was free, and) | You've dragged me down, ruined me. | It's because of yo talk to mm done n me when I Into the w her w How many ade the joke thone He moved tow I lost my g-ntock you've 6. Don't hing but nothing oman Ike r men devi sold to ard me It have le to He to but 's be- Badle child, you You ve is? rich “Don't | knows what he wanted me for. that I've got to| memories became vague Rage cloud- 1d with yo A Value-Giving Sale of Splendid Spring Coats At a Very Special Price-- $18.75 Practical Styles for Immediate Wear N unusual of Coats and offering in top semi - sport of materials coat styles, able made service- in popu- lar well tail- ored priced ex- tremely low. shades, and Included the sale are Coats of plaid, plain tan, gray, brown, blue and sport colors. 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