The evening world. Newspaper, October 9, 1913, Page 21

feelatta & Gaceesals —~ ae eens fr, The bebiis World anne Magazine, Ebereoed October 9, 1913 Poprright, 1912, by Donbieds GENOPSIA OF PEE HOING Amme Lupin hear tar the Vawe & Co NSTALME ihre < Tomndl ‘are .asilig wecretar, deat init Heron Hepmtein ones Revie CHAPTER I. Two Hundred Thousand Francs Reward! * * * -and event ’ again, you are mad! How can the Rarones# have been mur dered when the @re following her tracks, so t atep by ate They are following the tra FY another woma “What wom “The murderer's 4 “And who | “The same i fortnight, knowl through the situntivi in this house. aad d kept him imprisoned, ailence, threatened hin, the eame man who, find In the act of comnvur friend, mate away with Dlood by atabsing hin “The doctor, therefor Yeu." ‘But who is this doctor? Who ts this malevolent genius, this nal being who appears and disappears, who si in the dari and whom nobody pects “Can't you guess?" pA ” ‘And do you want to know? Do I want to know? * ¢ © Whe, epeak, man speak x where he is hiding’ omp who for the that Lavern which he oceup covered the truth, forced him to terrorized him; ng Lavernoux him in cold the heart 5 “Who te it?" “Tou meee Lupin had not been more than tan minutes with the baron; and the duel wee commencing. ‘The accusation was hurled, definitely, violently, Implacabiy’ Lupin repeated “You yourself, got up in a false beard and a pair of spectacies, bent tn two, Ike an old man. In short, you, Baron Repstein; and It 1s vou for a very good reason, of which nobody has thought, whieh ia that, {f It war not you who ntrived the whote plot, the case be- nes inexplicable. Whereas, taking you as the criminal, you as murdet the Baroness in order to met rid of her and run through those mitiions with an- other woman, noux, your agent, an unimpeachable witness, oh, whole case in explained! We pretty clear? Ant are not yo convinced?” you ax murdering Laver- In order to supp th who, throughout this con words ew jity nouRh mad with feverish eelf up and jooked at Lup as he undoubted!y had ro do ' “ man, When Lupin the Baron atenped bav Paces, sermed on tie polnt of ut words which he ended by not 4 then, without taking his eyes from a@trange visitor, went to the fireplace tang the bel pin did not make a movement waited, emiling. The butler entered had finished speak~ aree master evid Hin Ko to Twi let gentiem: hall I put out the lente, wit” ha Antoine left the room, and the baron after taking a revolver trom de at once came back to Tapia, hat the eapon in his pocket cry vers calmly You must excuse this 1 nreerau tion, sir. Foam ebtiged to tal cane you whould nad, thouch that does nor » on one n ama ‘ with an er and vou have ipon me anf eusat of eo astounding A ehary r that Tan vis te know t reason. T have experienced #9 much Alaappoint= ment and undergone so Miteh suffering that an outrage of this Kind leaves me ‘mnaitt Continue, please.’ Ae yolce shook with emotion and his @ad eyes seemed moist with tears. Lapin shuddered, ‘Had he made a mistake? Wis the surmise which his intuition had susgested to him and ating With a ¢ wh wrong His atiention was caught by a de- tails t (he opening in the baron's watst saw the point of the pin fsed in the tle and was thus able to the Ul length of the pin thin and very delicate, yet formid- n expert hand And Lupin had no doubt but that the pin attached to that magnificent pearl Was w nowhich had pierced the heart unfortunate M. Laver- noux. Ho muttered You're Jolly clever, M. le Baron!" The other, maintainine a rather) scornful gravity, kept silence, as though he did not understand and as though waiting for n he felt himself entitled, wht de theless, and, th Yes. ders in ao tn on the pret oy w ruth © And th your aft two hou! h wa work of slight e sifles, adventui Jolly « that the baroness only obeyed your or. r b they e f the gold wiem was triangular med a wort of miniature dagger, vel alizing rrowing but go on hunting the baroness! leave ¥ to sell your stud and your sto the highest bidder and to Strange Exploits of a an “hr nspired” Robber ' Who Was a No Less Inspired Detective, and Who Could Solve Crime Mysteries as Readily as He Could Cause Them. j 1por fucts, was this surmise | Arsene Lupin. his conviction was #o profound he had staked #o much on that he repented: for you u ise of buying them. Ant! it Is evident that the person who walked of your house with a bag was not! ife, is Kirk probably, and that it ia your orus girl who js deliberately allowing an herself to be chased across the contl nent dy our worthy Gan!mard. And 1 look u the trick as man vellous. What does the woman risk, | seeing that !t ts the baroness who being looked for? And how could they look for any other woman than the baroness, seeing that you have prome la reward of two hundred thousand france to the person who finds the haroneas? © * ® Oh, that two hun- ‘red thousand francs lodged with ® solicitor: What a stroke of genius! Tt ‘has dazzled the police! It has thrown dust in the eves of the most clear- sighted! A gentleman who lodges two hundred thousand francs with a fo- Meltor Is a gentleman who speaks the! ow prepare your fight! Joke!’ The baron aid not wince. up to Lupin and asked, without aban- miperturbable coolness: doning lone, 4, the mone: his rat oat shal your n tom ® from bia chatr, der ‘almost all the princess's jew- you received to-day from stud and the sale of vour it's all there, or in that «ate, Your can sen the ® ou rl, the nfor ) behind that hanging. The your dess are tn order t you would have done a guy, night after taking all your pre- woul ad ere: 1 have committed murder, that in police, the tweive dete to Lavernoux’s revelations, posted 1 Ww under your windows. Roose, 1, 1 ave you. “A word through the telephone, and, in the morning, twen yo ur by 3 or 4 o'clock of my frienda wi obstacle, polished M trif ta yo h off tives And you aud T will wiip away conditions? 1, we sha ons and the jewels He w Ins take, Ker out welt, money und 8) over the baron, th feresistiie ene ughing. 1 nit matter who Tam? Take nan em of the darkness for your de- DHHOSGTGHNSODOID OOO OUI leaved himactf, grasped his rovolver taron’s knees Ato emtort the baron that's what 1 call pulling a fa and fired aud brought him to the groun and clutehed by the th vie © * © Pim holding, you too thent, p But Lupin vas prepared for the at- Ion freed himself with an effort. torivus at last omnipotent haps? My lord's at his last gaap? tack, the more so as the baron’s face ‘The two enemies rolled over tn each You ass!” he erted. “If you hadn't * # © That's Just a wee bit of had lost its assurance and gradually, other's grip, ant a atubborn, crafty, shown your cards, | might have thrown «tring around wrists; do you allow under the slow Impulse of rage and brutal, sa strugale followed. up the game! You have such @ look me? * © © Why, you and I are agree fenr acquired an expression of almost Suddenly, Lupin felt a pain at his of t st man about you! Butwhat ing like two brothers’ It's touching? hestial ferocity that the res © ab ri * * * Lchought for ® * © At heart. you know, Um rather Lellion so long kept ontrol You villian! he yelled. “That's your a © ¢ Rut ite all over 1of you * * © And now, my bon- fired twice. Lavernoux trick; the tle-pin!' now Come, my friend, hang lad, mind yourself! And @ thou- aif to ome side and then dived at the Stiffening his mugcton with a desper- the pin a ful, © 8 & A apologtes! ne explanation to And, in it is evident ur securities and Princess's jowels accomplice, that quietly to settle The Latest, Most Fascinating Adventures of Fiction's Great Thief-Genius,a French man as Famous in HisOwn Way as His English Antithesis, Sherlock Holmes. Hai! raising himeeif, with all his Strength he caught the other a terrible blow in the pit of the stomach. The ve a gurgle ai nd unconscious, “That comes of havin; sense of logic, my friend,” sald Lupin. “t offered you half your money, Now I'l give you none at all-provided I know where to find any of it. For that's the main thing. Where has the beggar hidden hie dust? In the safe George, it'll be a tough job! I have ail the night before m He began to feel in the Baron's pock- ets, came upon a bunch of keys. frat made sure that the portmanteau behind the curtain held no papers or Jewels, and then went to the safe, But at that moment he atopy he heard a noise aomewhere. vante? Impossible. Their attics were on the top floor, He Hatened, The noine came from below. And, sudde he understood: the detectives, who had heard the two shots, were banging at the front doo. was thelr duty, with- out waiting for daybreak. ‘Then an elec. trio. bell rang, which Lupin recognized as that in the hall: “By Jupite he sald. “Pretty work Here are these joker coming, and just as we were about to eather the frults short The str of our laborious efforts! Tut, tut, Luvin, keep cool! What's expected of you? To open afe, of which you flon't know the necret, in thirty seconds. ‘That's @ mere trifla to lose your head About! Come, all you have to do in to discover the secret! How many letters are there in the word? Four?’ l@ went on thinking, while talking and latening to the e outnide, He double-locked the door of the outer room and then came back to the sate: Four ciphere—four letters—four let- ters, Who can lend mo a tiand? Who can give me just a tiny hint? Who? Why, Lavernoux, of course! That good Lavernoux, seeing that he took the trouble to indulge in optical telegraphy at the risk of his dif. Loni, what « fool I am! Why, of course, why, of course, that’e It! By Jove, this ta too exciting! Lupin, you munt count ten and oppress that distracted beating of your heart. If not, it means bad work." He counted ten and, now, quite calm, Heavens, (He walked what a ary of fate loom- nelzed the aml ferked out ruction, my bold Your wife's three your real in your pocket, fight ts prepared leather of your Th disguised beyond have joined your ature for whose | ne Hot, whom Reigium, But for en obstacle: the tives who, thanks have been ‘They've old chap: * 8 ¢ 4 the twelve de- ave rem the net noth= © the mils Ia tt a bargain” thine heg ng to understand. not. eatl It what you Wht SONNE HOE 10 KO LZ with it and do asl may. And WY moment, Don't say to youre tele iieman Whom tne SZ sk in. refusing, Ns ne tie handeutts len al ool alin tee etek dean rn HW sphin may be well to satiny: those of our readers who nie 4 baby, walks on his two feet as a man, and in old age walks on his feet sts. would be a ro | forgotten thelr mythology, says the Sketch, was, {ny ancient Greek] and with the ald of a staff." So defeated, the Sphinx killed herself, There MBIAME Le BBs i eetla malwoyal legend, a she-monster who appeared in Boeotia and killed all those |{s very Mttle doubt that the tdea of the Sphinx was brought into Greece ft yourset alone, **® ® Your | dwellers therein who could not answer a riddle of her propounding. This|from Egypt. ‘The Greek Sphinx 1s a winged Hon, with @ woman's face and or your life, my igre Share | was: “What animal is it which has four feet, and two feet, and three feet, | breasts; the Egyptian, a wingless Hon with a human head, The photograph To Ailke wean’ Ret the ang but one voice, and ite feet vary, and when {t has most {t 1s weakest?" | here reproduced bears the title “Study” and 1s one of those exhibited at the scaffold! qu k mov ent The baron re-|Qedipus gave the correct answer: “Man, for man crawls on all fours as{London Salon of Photography at the galleries of the Royal WaterColor Society. Overheard in Silhouetteville at “Now, Willie, what's a strait?” 4 “Five consecutive cards of any suit.” \ | snl rs “Thie le the third time. you've forgotten to bring home the butter | Gent you for.” “If you knew my family ae well ae | do, young man, you wouldn't want to marry Into It” wm “Vee'm. it’s so greasy it slipped out of my minds” “That's all right, sir. What | don't know won't hurt me.” mgr oe ong ene we = ner knelt in front of the eafe. He turned the four knobe with careful attention. Naxt, he examined the bunch of keys, jelected one of them, then enother, and attempted in vaio, to insert them én the lock. “There’e luck in odd numbers,” he muttered, trying a third key, “Victory! this te the right one! Open Sesame, 004 old Sesame, open! ‘he lock turned. The door moved ‘on its hinges. Lupin pulled it to him, after taking out the bunch of Keys: The millions are ours,” he eald. “Taron, I forgive you!” And then he ‘a singte bound back- ward, hiccough with fright. Hin lecs h him. ‘The keye jingled together in his fevered hand with n sinister sound, And, for twenty, for thirty seconds, despite the din chat was heing rateed and the electric belle that kept ringing through the house. ne stood ved, gazing at the most ho: sight mmed in, like an over-ia! parcel * © hanging down ® © © and biood * © © clots of blood © © © and livid fleeh, dine itn ‘Ho, roused himself {rum his torpee, auddenly, to apit in the murderer's face and pound him with his hoele: “Take that, you wretch! you villain! © © ° And, raging. Lupin heard footsteps eourry- ing down the stairs, It was time to ing @ retreat. 14 not trouble him reraation with the baron the enemy’e extraordinary coolness had given him the feeling that there muat be a private outlet. Be- sides, how could the baron have begun the fight 1f he were not aure of eacap- ing the police? Lupin went Into thi looked out on the garde ment when the detectives Ing the house he flung his lege over the balcony and let himself down by @ rain- pipe. He walked round the building. On the opposite side was # wall lined with shrul between the shrubs found # little d ’ opened with one of the kefs on the Dunch. All that remained for him to do was to walk acrose a yard and pase through the empty roome of a lodge, and in & few moments he found himaelf in the Rue du Faubourg @aint-Honore. Of course—and this a reckoned had not provided for 1 next room. this secret outlet. ee what do you think of Baron cried Lupin, after givi tho details of that tragic night. dirty scoundre' And hi at distrust appeatances! I fF to you, the fellow looked a ther- oughly honest man!" But what a the mitiions®® t anked. The prin Le were in the safe, 1 remem ng the par “Well?” “They are there atill. ‘One more questi: “The word that opened the ‘It was contained in the revelations telegriphed by that poor Lavernoux.” “What?” "Just think, my dear chap, the mis takes in apelling “The mistakes in @ “Why of course! a Surely, you don't Imagine that the agent, the private secretary of the baron--who was a company-promoter, mind ¥ an—did not know than to apell ‘necessery’ with an k’ with one ‘t! ‘ennemy’ with two ‘f's' and ‘pru- dance’ with an ‘af! The thing struck me at once, L put the four letters together and got the famous horse.” “And waa that one word enough? Of It was enough to start ‘with, to put me on the ascent of the Rep- stein case, of which all the papers were full, and, next, to make me guess that it was the key-word of the safe, de- cause, on the one hand, Lavernoux knew ctna,’ tite name ef the gruesome contents of the safe and, on the other, was denouncing the ron. And it was in the «nme way that I waa led to suppose that Laver- noux had a friend in the atreet, that they both frequented the same cafe, tha: they amused themselves by working ou: the probleme and cryptograma in the ilustrated papers, and that they ha: contrived a way of exchanging tele- grams from window to window. CHAPTER Il. The Wedding-Ring. \VONNE D/ORIGNY kissed her Mm on and told him to be good: “You know your grand- mother 4'Origny is not fond of chiléren. Now that she has gent for you to come and see her, you must show Ber what emaible little boy you ‘Aa soon es she waa alone, @'Origny walked to the window @ glimpse of her gon as he left house. He was out in the moment, raised his head and Kins, an was dis custom every Then the governess took hie hand with, as Yvonne remarked to her surprii movement of unusual violence. role Jeaned further out of the windo when the boy reached the corner of the Doutevard, she suddenly saw & mon we, out of @ motor-car and go ap to im. ‘The man, in whom she recogninel Bernard, her husband's confidential eer- ‘vant, took the child y the arm, mage both him and the governess get inte the car, and ordered the chauffeur ¢o érive off, ‘The whole incident 4/4 not tae @em Seconda, Yvonne, in her trepidation, ran 0 her ‘Defroom, seized a wrap and went to the door, ‘The door was looked; and there Was no key in the lock. @he hurried hack to the houdetr. The door of the boutotr also was socked. Then, suddenly, the image of her Ras- vand appeared before her, that gloomy face which no emile ever lit up, chose pittiom eyes in which, for veare Cd ‘Ral felt so much hatred and malice, “Ite he © © © it * ghe onié hereclf. ‘Tle has taken the child. © © Oh, {t's Norrtbl Ghe beat against the Goor with Ger fats, with her feet, then flew ¢o the mantetptece ami pressed the dell Geresty. ‘The shrill sound rang through the Rouse from tap to bottom. The servants ‘would be eure to come. Perhaps 6 crows would gather in the etreet. And, ed Dy a eort of despairing hope, ahe her finger on the button. A key turned tn the lock. °° © The door was flung wide open. The count appeared on the threshold of the boudolr. ‘And the expression of his fa that ¥¥ a @ entered the room, Fi neparated him from her, With a eu- preme effort she tried to stir, but all Movement was impowibie and, when she attempted to apeak ashe could only flutter her lips and emit ieaohorent eounds, Ghe felt herself lo thought of death unhinged her. ier knees gave way beneath her and she gank nto a huddled heap, with a mean. The count rushed et her and eeteed ‘Ber by the throat: (To Be Continued) “Were you ever at a telephone in a storm, professor?” “Oh, yoo; my wite calle me up quite frequentiy!™ aiven ||