The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 7, 1923, Page 13

THE GREAT ELUSION BY EF, PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Copyright, 1973, by Arret, N Vendetta begins between MICHAEL SAYERS, noted : NORMAN GREYES, once of Scotland beautiful housemaid, JANET, orman by shooting dead an officer sent to| Ve been tinkering with the power R F eriminal, and ‘Yard, when him from Sir © arrest him. Greyes falls in » marriage. Michael disguises ging reception to Janet. © Michael buys from the di dundle husband and his confederate, the well-known Lord Kin- Sayers refu dersley. with Beatrice Kindersley. It was toward the close of a dinner at Kindersley court, In Devon shire, where Janet and I were spend Ing a fort that our host sud © aeniy directed the conversation to me. ; heard a great deal of eyes, especially last few years at Soot What do you count your test failure 7 “My inability to bring to justice ibe greatest criminal in Burope,” I Syeplied after a moment's hesitation ey hed him on my book for th © years, but when I red, he was gill very much at larg = “what is his name?" Lord gley asked with some Interest. Vamiled. > A name with him, I suspect, ts an affair of the moment. I have Known him under a dozen different Jeendonyms: but his real name Ia, I D Delleve, Michael. He did me the honor fo attend my wedding reception as F Col. Escombe.~ T happened to meet the glance of Beatrice Kindersley ax 1 looked across the table. “But tell us about this man Michal? Lord Kindersley inter- Pyened. “I remember, seven or eight years ago, hearing something about der. the duel between you fellows at! Having stolen a pearl necklace, the gift of lowed to reach it. DSir Norman to his bride, Sayers returns them indirectly | of 10,000 pounds from the newspa-| unseen hand E pers for the evidence for publication because he is in love! of & high-powered electr that the We were a seated at a of the large dersley Court dimly tigtted, j®haded table lam, men had left the toh amazing part und ¢ banquet ‘The re except for the heavily The two foot room, presumably and the t a to fe atler standing chair was tendance. nderaley's servent tn every light and we were K B®, Phitiips Oppenhetm A. Service, Ina the only Suddenly went out into the at the place lunged darkness. most complete “Never knew such « thing to hap jen before,” our host declared in an 84vE8| annoyed tone, Somebody houne, Fetch some candles, Searle The butler turned to grppe bis way toward the door, but not al various love with Janet and propeses himself and attends the wed- he wa, om shadowy spaces every # Uttle pin-potnts of fire blazed out and steadily ap voroed wife of a politician a) proached, without sound or move the of us, of manuscript, evidence against the lady's former|™*%t One of them came to a stand still {immediately deraley's behind Lord Kin Wielded by some ling brillian torch wa Mashed round upon 12 amazed faces Then @ ate bound allence, a voloe still and cold and perfectly modulated. “Ladies and gentlemen,” the tn truder sald, “there is no need for any particular alarm. This is, to use a slang phrase, a ‘holdup.’ We have Automatio pistols, and I trust that you will realize the absurdity of re sistance,” God bi Scotland Yard and a wonderfully led criminal gang, Where is the cellow now I shook my head. I shouldn't have the faintest idea where to look for him, If he comes the Mmelight again, my frie Rimmington at Scotland Yard will certainly send for me.” 1 you would join tn the hunt?” persisted, my soul!™ Lord Kinde Where are a How the devil did you get un ata? notht vened me, “That is a I smiled back at her rea: Prosperity and Janet, sat well looking | “tt te scarcely policy vingty, ; ste the of our meth the 1PSI¥'t same cold voice continued; “but 1 peace oft Pte yas have no objection to telling you that hae, ©* | we came in thru the front door, upon her, Her your servants aro locked up and Complexion seemed to have: STOwn | cused’ in the servants’ hall very more creamy, her beautiful eyes much as you are, that your tele. potter, her carriage, always grace-| Phong ‘wires are cut, wow alectes ful, more assured, Th Be | ight supply J# In our hands, and the woman in the county more admired | it, “uPPly We In our hands, and the than she—certainly no one less | init, i un henuey » spolled. I sometimes think that if wearing, upon the table in front he ‘hed had her way, she would! sou There must be no delay, please, never have wandered at all outside |2° ia” treme at conecuineare our little Gomain. «| “What shall 1 the woman 3 ~ioaee. 4 re pe Mapmatgh Next to me whispered hoarsely. remarke at I m Saenaraidie-- Sache’ tin able to evade the chaliengé, If I do| *™ Wearing my emeralds—Jack tm plored me not to—they are worth not go after Michael, he may come | 19059 pounda-’ after me. to let you secret is ere Was DU are are doing,” I told her. “The firat act ADVENTURES a THE “Is the Cut-Out Lady in?” asked Nancy __ *Lat's take a heart to the OutOut Tafy," id Nancy. “Yes, let's,” echoed Nick. So he | Feached up and pulled another flat ‘wager heart from the tree on the | floating ‘sland. ‘They read the verse on ft and It “I love you.” “That's a nice verse #0 I'll put it My apron pocket,” said Nancy. wed better be going.” So they got into their saucer boat Ewith the silver spoons for carn and “Towed back to the shore of the cus- 2 lake with the patty shells on eee and started up Sugarloaf “We must be nearly theref said » “The Cut-Out Lady's house be far away now. We've been for ever and ever so And then at that very minute saw it. It was made of card- ge yoy faved’ |xindly. “But I can't offer you a|volce conceded. “Do me the further | tio), cut-outs. Over the door was ign which said “Mending” !n WBeat letters. The sign was in neat Miers, not the mending. | On the doorsill was the cocoanut | | “You will have t the othe It was precisely at this moment| * oss 10 > a8 or | of this little drama must be played out according to orders.” She unclasped the necklace with trembling. fingers, and the unseen figure behind Lord Kindersley’s chair spoke again. | “Will it be Sir Norman Greyes who struts across the stage in tho second act?” hy ed mockingly | . . | TWINS Then I knew who was there, and I remembered that Michael had sworn to take my life when and how the | opportunity offered.” I was an easy | mark for him, altting there, but somehow the idea of atmasination never had any terrors for me. “I may ccupy the stage for a Nttle time,” I answered, feeling for my wine thru the darkness. “But after all, it will be the third act that counts. Which will you choose, I wonder, Michael—the gallows at Wandsworth Gaol or the electric chair at Sing Sing?” | This, of course, was sheer bravado, & touch of melodrama of which I re. Dented aa soon as I had indulged in| }it. I heard the click of a weapon, and in the steady glare of that amall Jelrele of light L saw the flash upon its barrel as it drew level with my| head. There was a silence as polg- nant as {t was hysterical; then a cry| cat, asleep, No doubt his mistress | from Janet rang thru the room. had stuck new eccoanut af over| “A famillar voice, I fancy,” Ml- him after the fight, for he looked |chael said coldly as he lowered his! as good as new. Not a hit of his! weapon. “You do well to intervene, | sponge-cake body showed anywhere. | dear lady. Some day or other, Suddenly he opened his eyes and | think that your husband will kill me| sat up, “Miew-ew,” he said. “Who|or I him; but unless he bunts mo| are you and what do you want?” | with a posse of policemen, It will be “Is the CutOut Lady in?’ asked | when we are both armed and the Nancy, odds are even.” | “Yes, here I am! eaid the Cut-| “May I speak, please?’ Beatrice | Out Lady, and she appeared in the | Kindersley asked. | doorway—sideways, of courne—for,| “I have put my rings and brace. having only one side and no thick-| lets upon the table. I am wearing ness, she wished to show her best | around my neck a miniature set with | [ide to the world. In ier hand whe | drilllants. It is not really very valu- held a needle, No doubt she was at | able, but It was left me by a relative. | | Gin-| May I keep it?" | [ootat Madey iota, a The light finshed for a moment) Nancy thotfght of the buttons and | upon the pendant which she seemed wondered how she wan doing them. |to be holding forward for examina-| “May we come in?’ ane asked. | tion, flashed on the little heap of her | ‘We want to talk to you.” Jewelry upon the table. a “Certainty,” sald the Cut-Out Lady| “Pray keep your miniature,” the} ” honor, {f you will, of replacing your |chair, They are only out-outa’ \orcWe'lll ait oa the floor” eaia|Jewelry upon your fingers and a wrists, We are not here to rob chil- Nancy, (To Be Continued) Beatrice’s Inugh was a most amaz- ‘ar * wa GDS Cleland 4 Pag: THE BED IN When Mrs. Sandstrum told bout the burned home, mother- dear, who was also listening to the story, said, “But what could they do in a cane like that? s Where could they go? Oh! I just Feannot seo how they ever man- age.” “We went back and Itved at Grandfather Russell's for a long ‘time. I do not remember how they gathered together enough to start over again. “But I do remember that morn- ing when we started to move, "Mother had been ao busy for days getting the beds ready. We hadn't any mattresses such 48 people use now. Women took Dedticking, sewed it by hand Into what looked like a giant pil- low, and stuffed into it clean straw, “Grandmother munt have given Mother some “ticks,” for I re- Member how frail and tired Mother looked, and how hard she fworked at hing those ticks And putting in the new atraw “1 remember how terribly Muddy \t wan; the road wan just one jolt after another all the way, and the things on’ the Jontiod and bounced » and finally, off toppled * of thone straw tioka plump A deep mud puddle, “Ho, \natend of having It clean, Mother had to wash it the firat thing when she got to her ro bulit home, K ty on) In AKER ing thing. It was perfectly natural and full of amused enjoyment. dren of their baubles.” (Copyright, 1923, by Senttie Star) “I don't Mke the reflection upon| my Jewelry,” she complained. “How- | will accept your offer.” | "Look here," Lord Kindersley | broke out, finding a certain courage Cd | from his niece's complete composure, | “4s this a practical joke?” Ld "You will discover if it is a practl- cal joke or not, if you attempt to leave your seat!” was tho instant re- ply. "These follows can’t think they're going to get away with a thing like! this,” muttered Lord Harroden, the| |lord Heutenant of the county, trom | the other end of the table, “Your lordship 1s mistaken,” was| the confident reply from the unseen figure who was directing the pro- coodings. will lay you five to one in hundreds that we do, pay- ment to be made thru the personal column of the Times in 80 daya’ 95’ A MUD-PUDDLE “Poor, tired mother! Just one week after that, her sixth baby came. “I remember how proud we wore of that baby; how delighted the family was over each little new one, no matter how many wo were already. “Vor years mother worked awfully hard. Wo all did, No lmundties. then; every Monday morning I could count 16 or 17 shests on the line by 10 o'clock. “Later we had hired help, but not then. “Borrien had to be picked, too, as well as canned. “Ll remember once when mother and father went over to Dea Moines to pick berries and left us with a cousin, @ girl about 16. “That wan clone onough after the Indian war to keep white people pretty careful, “fvery home had both guns and ammunition furnished it by thé government, “But telling us we should be nate, because they felt sure thora woul be no more war, they loft um ‘All day we were a littie bit uneasy, and an night no on we pot into a regular pa 'Hoowe an Indian come, What would we 4 whispered "We couldn't do a thing,” ono of un walled. ‘We'd Juat be mur dered in our beds, and sealpod and everything,’ “the k ontruck 9; 4, he's m cool head!” chuckled | Anstruther, the master of hounds, | who was seated next but one to me.) “I wish T could aco his face for a| moment,” | “It would be your last if you ald,’ | he was promptly told. “What if 1 strike a’ match?” a young man who was seated next to Kinderaley inquired, | “I should put it out with one bul-| let and you with the next,” Michael | ‘ow, Indien | he went on, after a} pur business seems to} no who leaves hin seat | before we reach the door, will bo} shot, As soon an we get there, wa! shall lock you in, and then you can commence your part of the fun as noon as you like,” No one attempted a mingle word of reply, The Ittle points of fire were kept turned upon us while our viw itors slowly retreated. We heard the | door unlocked, heard {t slammed, heard it locked again—tho signal for | Jour emancipation, Very nearly stm. | ultancously we all started to our foot, (Continued jn Our Noxt Issue) and gentlemen, brief pause, be over, An should it wan THE i Ye SEATTLE STAR s! Bobbed Hair Is Still in Style Two banged-bobbed hair sty Grant of Atlanta, Tells Girls Not to Let Locks Grow Out ATLANTA, Ga, April 7-—Don't be too hasty |down to bangs If you would be up to| |the minute in hatr style, That's the word Atlanta |leaders have brought back here from soctety the Florida winter resorts. The wave of banged-bobbed hair has already |reached thin city and ts movin northward and westward with re- | markable rapidity | There are two styles of bangs—the |straight, @ la Buster Brown, and the jai a curly fringe type. The former seema oul Gnd vow. ave to out tS ove been adapted by the betdeth anyway, to keep astride with fashion. | while the bionds have taken to the In fact, you'll have to cut the front!ourl And their popularity is grow. girls, in deciding to put up your bobbed hair. 8 worn by Driss Douglas Paine (left) and Mrs. William ing, despite fgainet them. “It's just says Miss Doug the “official” ruling the ax Pals hey short . pretty lanta debutant ruled t for a few short months, but it's back and this spring and su mer drenses are going be even shorter than ever “Women may like to styles in drenses and hair ments, but when they that's sensible taken a 4 must pans date.” skirt,” At- to change arrange. come to one and stylish it Pp root and a long time before It goes out of too, ° mila Grey: y Vo Wife Should Work Away From Her Home Several Hours Each Day in Order That Her Brain May jot Become Dusty, Thinks One Reader, BY CYNTHIA GREY Should the wife eeek employment outside of her own! home under any circumstances, other than that her hus- band is incapacitated? | Every married woman should be occupied away from} home at least four hours a day, answers one reader for the| reasons that she states in the following letter: | Dear Miss Grey: I am interested in the discussion on married women working, as I have had a number of years’ experience and have given the subject much thought, One noted writer has said that a married woman should be occupied away from home at least four hours a day— object: To get new ideas and thoughts, as the average hus- band does not come home and talk over those things with his dependent wife. As for M.R., he is 50 years behind the time, and it is| mostly his type that drives a woman away from home to seek work that will be appreciated. Mr. M. R,, it is only an inferior that is despondent. I say that if a wife is looked upon as an equal partner and independent, she will have less desire to go away from home to work. A WIFE AND MOTHER. be | Who was Christopher Wrgr, A famous English archhict, as- tronomer, mathematician, phystctat, anatomést, meteorologist and chemist, | |the passage of a Dill and the prest- dent has refrained from acting on it, it does not become a lato; the dis-| li ie wwho died £00 years ago (February 25,| Peeuugene: ft pm ill dap ni | 1788). He te beat known os the de-| wish to veto tt formally, 1 termed a} sioner of St. Paul's Cathedral, Lon-|*pocket veto.” This term seems to don, and of @ number of deautiful| nave deen first applied by the Whigs churches and pesmiage. to the disposition in thia way of two i internal improvement billa by Jack- What ts the origin of the name! son, Balley? From obsolete eee the Anglo-Saron “Bale,” on In there any precious or semi-prec- name for an outer fortifica- fous stone appropriate ana gift to ono : who has foresworn bootleg whisky? The amethyst, according to an old In there any difference in the! superstition, banishea the desire for Weight of $12,000,000 in $1,000 bills! drink. It i9 an emblem of humility and 12,000 $1 bills? and sobriety, No, f. fs SALADS BY BERTHA FE. SHAPLEIGH Of Columbia University In the spring the appetite ts capri-| cious, Nature is telling us we need| a tonic. How can we get it more in- | What happens when a bill given! vitingly than in salads?—green, crisp the president for signature recelvos| vegetables, fruit acids and the oll di- no attention? gestion needa, If the president faits to return a bill! At leant twice dally they should be with his signature within 10 daya| served—for dinner, lettuce, romaine, (Sundays excepted), tha dill becomes| chicory, endive or watercress, with 4 law aa if he had signed tt, unless) ofl, vinegar or lemon juice and sea- “congress by their adjournment pre-|sonings—for luncheon or supper, vent tts return, in which case tt shall fruit, with beaten cream and mayon not be a law” If, therefore, con-|naise or mayonnaise alone, plus gress adjourn: within 10 days after| bread, per' Why 1m wool #0 readily matted to- gether to form felt? Hach strand of aheep wool 4# cov- ered with minute scales. When wool Nbers are worked and maased closely | together, the scales open out and in-| torlock. 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