The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1913, Page 17

The Evening World mene ae Wednesday, October 8, 1913 CDIOHOEDESHSH HOGS g DDO BODOG POOSHDHDGHOHHODHHHSHOODHHHSGHODGHOSSGOOOSOG! ‘iThe Confessions of Arsene Lupin iy Mawice reine OOHHHHHHHTDSOSHHHETOIGHTGOHS FHOGSEPODOPESGOHHG (¢ PEDSHHDHGDSIODIGHSFHTGOOOOS FOO UOC OU OOOO OG FDOBOOHOODOSGOOGGIGHUDOOS HODHDOIGDISHTGDODHTSPIG DOANE GGG GHD Strange Exploits of an “Inspired” Robber Hin now aR up. with Ml ene eee ot tte IN date Me One rain atmrenee eee Met Qn very ie The Latest, Most Fascinatin, Adventures turned (to the open window and his 1 sat down to this ailly work and wrote e statehed up his hat and ' aus P eee 9 . ie . 7 2 Who Was a No Less Inspired Detective, ::. ::vi «Turns ciesrets He oy uy must tnters Pia tial tea nate'gieeen ta tortalent Oe tase Of Fiction’s Great Thief-Genius,a French- and Who Could Solve Crime Mysteries as i. ')oitt ashy sinr a: Readily as He Could Cause Them. pa "2G al ff in surprise: claimed. “Two Engll and 1 don't be 9 on, old « ied oa lecieatatein aaa day with @ temperature and took to his man as Famous in His Own Way as His went down the stairs, and sald Hut he te up, surely?” ° ° . Sey ea ot nm nus fea Se oh rete ha cua Atanas eave ayes English Antithesis, Sherlock Holmes. & pause: t r arated as they appeared. And, to my rac Dk the ‘ 4 ; CHAPTER I. ttle before, but keen and attentive Aentonce lay before my Cree ime, lies been victimized by hia wife. The p that ee! sitter teen {Rhow {he gentleman py Antoine. Two Hundred Thousand Francs Reward! . . « and that they geemed to be watering: "Done. By the way, there are Mmis- air’ her dress and her extravagance, VRS GiSuvr, ate comes and eeee to 0s oe + Liaten to me and answer ¢ Ted the way to the first fiver. ,” Leald, “tell me something about ee er Darently captivated them. a ei: Said these amd teed He Ott ‘away a fortnight ago, taking wi Mote eho Te three times a aay, me. It te most important, M. Laver n doorway stood a genleman “Why, what would you have me tell you? erybody knows reanehie he dictated, with Interv: i = left y minutes TOUX had a friend jiving In thia treet, whom Lupin recognized from his phot 6 house only tw: Please, * * * Ki slowly.” waid Lapin, with his foot on the staire, “It's the third floor, imn't It, on the lett “Hut I mustn't!” moaned the portress, running ef him, “Beskies, I haven't y, the upshot of the mystery; these are things of which they know wiose shutters were closed as usual. grog, Sradenes ange ew There was nothing particular about all “y hegen to laugh: no detall that struck me ee new And there you are! Fiat lux! We're those which I had had before simply dazed with light! But, after ai suing the buroness across the continent, an easy jo! o ? On the game side, to the « nH fn pape my life!" replied Lupin, who lay drowsing on the aofa in my bad al hae bby? ' Thereupon I read out the following Collection of diamonds, pearls and Jew. ee cones a went man vith Bair ae faints aces 0 ed we par ri ng etudy. Me }, 19% At, Seared finished communication, which I will elry which the ni : . * "Ven," owner of Etna, the horse of the year, “Nobody knows it!" I protested. “People know from your There was hardly anything to be seen (down as it Appeared on the paper jlaced in her hands and which she was Tite bent. © °° But where are you 1. °C 4 whom ne used to meet at san’ excecdinely tall, oguaee T*. settere in the newspapers that you were mixed up in this cage, that you through (ue window Nut Ad taf pored to buy. Pe aa és he way. the cafe in the evening and with whom His clean-shaven fees N ‘en thst case, But the part which you played in it all, the plain facts of Saldine oopontts, an old private house, 9); Ta ie no Above “For two weeks the Police | h im golng up, ghow me the way,” 1, nged tho ihistrated papers sant, almost smiling expres etor; not affected by the os. Ho wan dressed in a well cut morning cont, with @ tm Pa lh a hin namet” Waistooat and a dark tle fastened with “Pooh! A heap of uninteresting twaddie! “What! Your present of fifty thousand franca to Nicolas Dugrival'a wife! Two days ago our champion de: ; . Me Harare & pearl pin, the value of which etruelt you call interest! And in which you eolved for years. * Tupin, confers that this advice, dribbled the egregious Ganimard, the key © the doctor’ * § Sina ae etnaaeccta | Atal ea tua three pastersdt™ Rese ayer Be oee is a out by @ kitchen-mald, doesn't help you ci a visitor at a big hotel in Belgium, They climbed the three Mights, one [Where dues he liver” ‘He lock Lovin tats Mb Wei; & J, morale And suddenly I understood—or, eather, much!" & woman against whom the most poale behind the other. On the Ianding Lapin 4 three-windowed room, lined with I thought I understoo: for how Lupin rose, without breaking hie con- tive evidence acamed to be heal up. took a tool from his pocket and, die- old doctor Vines ‘of pigeonho! mertcat “Tes, that was @ queer pussies, certainly. I can a: ta title for you !f could 1 admit that Lupin, a man eo es- smraons silence, and took the sheet of On inquiry the lady turned out regal regarding the woman's protests, inserted n Goan anda YF ay ye ne at uae asked, Ske. What do you say to ‘The Sign making his daily effort, doing evil from sentially level-headed under his mask paper. notorious chorus girf called Nelly Dar- it in the Jook. ‘The door ylekted almost "No. I did not know him. Me came wii ton Caled enwerne, ee Btadow? ” @ay to day and doing @ little good as of frivolity, could waste his time upon I remembered soon after that, at this bal immediately. We went in, on the evening when M. Lavernoux wi “Do you know anyghing?* “ADA your successes in aoctety and well, naturally @nd for the love of the guch childish nonsense? What he was moment, I happened to look at the ‘'Ag for the baroness, she has vanished. At the back of @ amal! dark room we taken fil.” Yer, Monsieur le Haron.” T continued, “The thing, like a whimsical and compassion- -_ Without another word Lupin dragged “About the murder of that poor Lav love affairs! * * ® ate Don Quixote. me away once more, ran down the atairs to your good actions? Hoe was silent, and 1 insisted: and, once in the atreet, turned to the tera in your life to which ‘Lupin, I wish you would!” right, which took us past my flat again. often alluded under the To my astonishment, he replied: Four doors further he stopped at No. Wedding Ring,’ ‘Shai “Take a sheet of paper, old fellow, 92, w small, low-storied house, of WHICh gront you. and so on! © © © Why and a pencil.” Gelay these Lea rea and confession*, | oneyed with alacrity, delighted at * Come, do What the thought that he at last meant to cl thone pares Hwae at the time when Lupin, though *iciate 10 me some of ka which he knows how to clothe with ey ceniess had not yet fought his sich vigor and fancy, pages which I, unfortunately, am obliged to spoll with “tedious explanations and boring du He had not yet dreamt of Vor ments, ing the accumulated treasures of 5 the French Royal House nor of chang- “Are you ready?” he asked. fag the map of Hurope under the Kai- “Quite. 4 ger's nose, Ile contented himaclf with ‘Write down, 9, 1, 11, 6, 14, 16. milder surprises and humbler profits, “What?” the ground floor was occupied by the tte pushed forwar tor of a dram shop, who stood gavin cen rorward a chair, Lapte eat Haron, the circumataness doorway, next to the entrance passage, Lupin asked if Mr. 1 wilt be brie! Hargrove was at home. ra on, please ve went out about Halt “Well, ‘Bonmeur le Ba ‘anid the publican, ‘i words, it amounts to thier Five oF ome aeemed very much excited and took a hours ago, Lavernoux, who, for the last -cab, @ thing he doesn't often do.” fortnight, had been kept ip @ sort of en- nd you don't know?— forced confinement by his doctor, Lay- “Where he wan going? Well, there's ernoux—how ahall I put it?—t hed No secret about it. He shouted ft loud cortain revelations by means of signals enough! ‘Prefecture of Police’ ts what which wero partly taken down by mo he paid to the driver" — and which put me on the track of thie Lupin was himaeif just hailing « taxt ©: He himaelf was surprised in the when he changed his mind, and 1 Act of making this communication and heard him mutter was murdered,"* “What's the good? He's got too much "But by whom? By whomt start of u “By his doctor." Ho asked If any one called after Mr. "Who is this doctor?” rove had gone. “I don't know, But on An old gentleman with @ gray noux's friends, an English called tacles. He went up to Hargrove, the friend, in fact, mith rerove's, rang the bell and went m he was communicating, is beund 5 : . y again.” now afd is also bound to know the én) P ae = j 1 am much obiiged,” said Lupin, az touching his hat. communication, ‘ause, without wait- He walked away slowly without nx for the end, he jumped into @ motor. speaking to me, wearing a thoughtful C&b and drove to the Prefecture of Pos alr, Thore was no dotbt that the prob. lice.” . Jem atruck him as very dimcult and "Why? Why—~ And what te the re- that he aaw nono too clearly in the sult of that etept” darkness through which he seemed to | “The result, monsieur le baron, ts that be moving with auch certainty, your house is gurrounded. There are Ifo himself, for that matter, confessed 'welve detectives under your windows. to mo: Ths moment the eun rises they will “There are cases that require muoh elter In the name of the law and arrest Soke Pee Tae reflection, But th may tell you, 4s well worth tak- murderer ing paina about.” cealed in my house? rhe fe he? We had now of the servanta? Gut no, for you were Lupin entered a public reading-room ena speaking of @ doctor, © ° spent @ long time consulting the “T would remark, mecasiour le Daron, fortnight's newspapers. Now and n that when this Mf. Hargrove went to he mumbled: tho police to tell them of the revela- “Yen—yon—of course it's only a guess, tlona made by his friend Lavernouz, he but it explains everything. ‘Well, @ was not aware that his friend Laver gues that answers every ition is noux was going to be murdered, Lo not far from being the truth.” step taken by Mr. Hargro had te do Tt wan now dark. We dined at @ with something else © Uttlo restaurant and T noticed that “With what?’ Lupin'a face became gradually more “With the disappearance of madame animated, His gestures were more d¢- Ja baronne, of which he knew the secret, ‘ded. Te recovered Din apirite, Nim thanke to th liveliness. When we loth, euridh the Loricere: en ee ene oe walk which he made me take along the Peis The: Boulevard Havas Tepatein’s ho: anet And the jew of th “At Bay” Not a Desperate Detective Play. BY CHARLES DARNTON. HEN you were young and freckled and eagerly allve to all the imposs!- bilities of @ sure-fire detective story didn't you glory in the feeling that counting was the Intermittent flashes of the author couldn't hold you at bay? Didn't you Jump right along with |, ray of auntight playing on the dingy Page and skipeall those dumpy, solid paragraphs that clogged the action |front of the opposite house, at the which your riotous, undaunted spirit delighted? You know you did! i But you would have been obliged to curb that early spirit last night tf you} 716, 2"—— sald Lupin, had been at the Thirty-ninth Strect Theatre, where “At Bay" stubbornly lived | 72 Seah disappeared tor @ £0 Per Up to Mts title for the greater part of four acts. The author, George Scarborough, | Piccessively, at regular intervalee and @o0k @o much time in talking about this, that and the other thing that the audl- | disappeared once more. ence might have been excused for going out and sending him a night telegram] J had instinctively counted the flashes to get on with his play, When he couldn't think of anything glse to say he |and I said, aloud harped on Louis XIV. and Mary Stuart—as if they could possilly have anything | ['S"-— to do with a detective play! There were momenta when we felt we were alone with Augustus Thomas and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Ce ee ein ea nad But Mr. Scarborough went still further back—back, back, « to the heroine | out ay though to discover the exact di- Clock, It was eighteen minutes paat | ‘ who suffers as the victim of a “mock marriage.” Think of that, If your mind | rection followed by the ray of light, five. can stand the strain, in this day of/Then he came and lay on the sofa | Lupin was standing with the paper in woman suffrage parades and Fifth ave-/again, saying: his hand; and nue isles of safety! ‘To add to her trou-| “It's your turn now. Count away!" Cnieerds He cosine fentdres Wes, this Old-fashioned heroine in a] The fellow seemed so positive that T Ne alt thecevess exer ‘aught the {dea? T congratulate you!" he replied, surcastics toward Baron dk; Gots. : , the robbed me of?" which baffles all observers and u had made up his mind to go in and new-fashioned gown struggled des-| id as he told me. Besides, I could not | S 7 Loy Baron Repstein wae talking in @ perately with @ Dinckmalling lawyer] {icih Confessing that thera was some: UODENLY. BEYOND a NAN W. plackened our pace just short state of excitement, Tie rose en almost who held her terriblo secret in a letter he had dbouzht, and tn the course of a BRIGHT LIGHT FLASHED. of the Tue de Courcelion, Baron Rep- ecainity "your tary ean dare thie suspense!’ rn frequency of those gleams on the front pleasure, even without the help of of the house opposite, those appear- and whose every transient etrugglc resulting from a sudden UN-| ances and disappearances, turn and to be the final, dei- The baron, on his side, has offered a re- saw @ etreak of light fitering through =“ ald Lupin, muddenty. Taupin continued, tm @ slow an@ hegk professional interest he took in her the|turn about, like so many flash signals, nite expression? * * * By what signa? Ward of two hundred thousand france @ door that had been left ajar, Lupin "What tn it? 1. tating voto agitated lady accidentally punctured] ‘They obvious! hare was one Which t know: werk > whosoever finda his wife, ‘The money run across the room and on reaching ‘Another proof to confirm my suppoal- 122 700 pe cee him with a paper file, He died plc-|our side of the street, for the sun was invariable sign: ‘Two little cre is in the hands of a solicitor. Moreover, the threshold gave @ cry: tlon. i it te aiMcult to hayrg By © © tee s t ‘ rinkles th h cad Ne has sold his racing stud, his house “Too Jate! Oh, hang ft all! “what Proof? T nee nothing. turesquely across the table after he had |entering my windows elantwise. It was Poteet les Cid marked . * rorehend on the Boulevard Haussmann and bis ae ane ‘enough. . . .% And T ere looking at oe one photographed her with his unique flash-|®4 though some one were alternately Whenever he made a powerful effort of Country neat of Roguencourt in one Me turned up a4 collar of his coat, *tA!ly difterent point of wtew. Nght apparatus. His death was a great|OPening and shutting a casement, or, Concentration. And J saw it at that mo- loss to melodrama, for a more remark- wo that he may indemnify the rny for her loss the bedroom, tn my turn, and towered the trim ef his eoft hat and don't understand.” nd yet you ought te / it Jone raw a man lying half-dressed on the # monatou' ron. 9 © © We besa Fo etl aes carpet, with his lege drawn up under — "By Jove, tt*ll be a ate Aeht! Go Tonsiar te bal Seotiag the Couaneneae: eae Princes will have “im, his arms contorted and his face to bed, my friend, I'll tell you about ay gaying, do we not that Baroness Only, frankly, [ Gulte white, an emactated, Meshieas face, my expedition to-morrow . . - 1€ 1 Repatein knew all the ‘cecrete of your tlore iikely. amusing himself by max. Ment, saw the tiny tell-tale cross, plain. }!"M “I ; = ly and deeply scored. Prin able lawyer never lived. nd sunlight flashes with a pocket mir Ho put down the sheet of paper and ‘ After that sad event the heroine was! sing a child having a game!” Tertea Muttered: kept so busy by the police that shelatter a monent or two, feeling w ttle pede lew ve. ; : ‘ h the eyes atill staring in terror and doean't cont me my life. by had hardly time to change her gow Irritated by the trivial eccupation that «wy cried. *' yh ‘ah usiness and that @he was adle to tho district-attorney, she would have] “Never mind; go o erat) an : t Lupin, i I'm saying! | Tm ‘at the a canta tn gone to jail in the latest fashion if a] And T counted away, And I put down He took a few steps up and down the = {uP ndaacent) to reply. oxpmmina sion, CN Oe re eee ee emitne t your eecuritios locked ap We had been walking down the stroet “tut why?" I exclaimed, “There's not which dan't much. Next, h I live and had passed some a trace of blood!" killed, which ta worse, Tht . « or five houses, when he stepped off “Yes, yes, there ts," replied Lupin, gripped my shoulder, “Tut thi nd began to examine @ pointing to two or three drops that third thing I'm risking, which 5 of the latest conatruc- xhowed on the chest, through the open ting hold of two mil tion, which looked aa if it contained ghirt, “Look, they Goctor who happened to be passing the|rows of figures, And the sun continued rvom, lit a cigarette and said: house at just the right moment hadn't|to play in front of me with mathe- “You might ring up Baron Repstein, been called in te aay that the lawyer | MAtiCe Dre {¢ you don't mind, and tell him I ahnli had died of heart disease and not of jupin after @ longer bo with him at ten o'clock this eve- ing.” the puncture she had given him, ‘Then, it seem finisned. There haa “Baron Repstein?” I asked. “The hus- He “Well, one evening, @ fortnight age While you were at your elud, Repatein, who, unknown to yourself, . + converted all those securities into eaah, st have taken once T pomxora A capital of two miliions, left this house with @ Vielen 4 Chrystal Herne as Aline Graham, Guy Standing as Capt. Holbrook. ; a je f laren number of tenants, the throat with one hand ant Tit show peapla what Tecan di * enntaint to make her quite easy In her mind, the secret service hero who had gone to Jail] peen nothing for some minutes," buronens : ccording to my calculation: Minida the dinaet With ypstes eee pal ge Ma ik you Hever 666 ceave de iierney'a jewels? alt the. for her came cheerfully forward with the information that the newspaper corre-| ‘We waited and, as no more lght suid, “this Ia where the signals camo aaa Wenaita Hea ek ee I vs spoadant who left her in Atlantic City with @ clouded honeymoon had dled tn | flashed through space, T said, jeatingly: probably froin that open WI Won} cant he seen It miggoats @ hole 'T warked away. ‘Three minutes tater “And, ginee then, she has not sbeap hig arms in the Philippines, So at last sho went to his arms—and we went out| | “My Idea 1A that we have been weating uitely at a tons, but ine [OM oS tniea foort made by @ very long needle, —tT am continuing the narrative as ho geen? into the foggy night. To have held us at bay! any longer would have been Te. ie few Agures on paper: ® cananle of resisting hin, T opened tha ayegtne He 1c ‘on the floor, told It to me next day three minutes “No, fahumen. Pumpin, without etirring from hie sofa hone-directory And unhooked the xe went to the portress and asked corpse, There ater Lupin rang at the door of the «Wet, there te an excellent interest and force the play depended entirely upon Quy Standin, i * receiver, Hut, at that moment Lupin gor: attention, exe at-mirror, Hotel Repatetn why she has not been seen.” a For charm, ! piny dep y | rejoined: her ee eee ‘or with which M, Laver- | eres who, as the secret service hero, acted like an English gentleman with an Irish| “Oblige me, old chap, by putting in Stopped me with a peremptory gesture feocent, He gave a smooth, clever performance that required him to steal the | the place of each of thone numbers the wid salt, with iis eves on the pi Da ort nding letter of the alphabet, which hi tneriminating flashlight photograph under the nore of & puliveman at one mo-; Cunt A ux, Bas Zand soon, Do you" n't say anything, © © © It's “Wo have M, Lavernoux here, auch Ent suddenly, aa thy portrens was . ment and to procinim himself the unworthy thusband of the heroine atanother. | how me no use letting him know, * © © There's » Rentle mar he tat breaking into lamentations and calling that I have come about the murder and you're madt* “At Bay" has its interesting moments, thanks to Mr. Standing’s acting, but |” put it's idiotic!”* something more urgent * * © a queer ‘and a I look for help, Lupin fluag himscl€ on her that there ts not w moment to lone, , — ft fen't @ desperately exciting detective play, It causes more wonder than thrills, y idiotic, but we do such @ thing that puzzles me * * * Why on ‘And can we seo him?’ and hook her A volce called from above (To Be Continued.) Se ee ere te eeerett x BY ws jo By C. M. Payne er “What reason “This, that deen murdered. M, please tell monsieur 10 dargn “Murdered does one of your tenanta happen fo the Metle mi . be acquainted with Baron Repateln noux had amused himaelf by making the baron at homer had taken op agsin “Why, of course!” replied tia woman, sunbeams dance through apace, Repstetn has ‘The Waroness! Bat YA DONT MEAN To SAY You +EARD 9 A CAT IN THE PIPE TAT IN DA WATTAH PIPE ! TAT Iw DA WATTAH PIPE a ItHleEARD IT MEOW