The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1915, Page 13

* ‘ 5 = pret «« Mass AD al " . j . ca cin th BS SBN it {entities | By Robert Minor === of the Famous Raffles Stories e and Strange Romance of Criminology. i i oe be The Physician Who Healed Himself. MN. the.course.pf his meteoric career as Secretary of State for the’ Atome. Department, the Right Honorable Topham Vinson’ insti- » Maged many reforms and earned the reformers whack of praise! and blame. His methods were not those of the permanent staff; Sox _, 94 while his notorious couraga endeared him to the young, it " {n 90 strong a nature to leave friend or foe lukewarm. An assidu- mpt for tradition fanned the flame of either faction, besides lead- tral of those personal adventures which were as breath to the ity ré Onregenerate nostrils, but which never came out without expos. hi ‘th‘althost universal censure. ' It is matter for thankegiving that the me Of We indiscretions were unguessed while he and his held Moe; “BE We Wad! never wo unconventional as in pursuance of those enlightened ‘whidh: his reputation rests, or in the company of that kindred it HH re Ho ¢? ef i zee E z thy i for Gist Whe had 20 much to do with their inception, fant. Never had Tt was early in an autumn session that this remarkable pair became ac- =i a ree Me < Vinson jad been Of the By the mildness:of the night x ‘PAck ‘from "Westminster to & Square, He'tiad just reached “Then you would call yourself e—" tein Wher, hé heatd tits hame eritd The broken entence ended on a oriminal sonie little distatice behind him. note as tactfully remote from the di- occasion ywolce tempered, hoarse excite- ous one’. a8 practised speech ee 2 2 * ‘With, the, restraint due to mid- &@ recognized term,” to wit im @ quiet square; and as Mr. lar, a oe ume, will Sey etiaes had been turned on. bis door-step, part wider recognition, | Young man rushed across the rod {oc™ call myself a crime gou- wind ‘end erent } a5 # i i a & "Gold chain swinging from his “A pbranoh not yet acknowledged Een hand by your profession” sti ‘ott watch, slr, your Watch!” he tne NEiDOE DY MY Profession nor by » Mr. Vinson; hand displayed a bulbous hun~ gor 1o"come to it, Just as surely aa pwith a,monogram on one side and we will accept the other eolentifid crest ef all the Vinsons on the developments of the day.” pd pare rou Tauted, your prac- wena!” cried the Home Secre- he repewae ala Fi in an empty waistcoat , “! am doing 0," said Doctor Dol- A in F af ie rehe could believe his Mar with the reatraimed confidence $ re on earth did you find Wich could not but impress one who had it on me when I loft Knew the value of that quality in . 3 #0 late 1 wo! ; i" ‘ ; oe ee és " . ieeog sean. ae be, jaan Timed tell you all about it. You are the ee eis § a? t : “ur. Vinso) a iitee other piste his opera ‘hat. “I've just taken Home Secretary of Kngland, the man Re Wai: wt} | A ‘ S ae ‘hall come down for @ book!” the fellow who took It from 9f all others whom 1 couid wish to M 4 , : tices i "4 “hee ome & convert to my views. But already I i 3 ‘i MAR eS i ars f gtion of « el td 2 Where?” demanded the Dave kept you up too long. If you j f j 5 , ‘ personality for once very pearly overs ary of State, with unsiaterman- “Old Sant me an appointment’ — ‘ gy: *! ; Borne. A’ minute after Dr. Dollars tement, n= ad i ‘ ; MBome poor brute in North Audley %% ## he seitled himself even more ae ey Gy : 3 Gopartu (he room Btreet, I think it was.” comfortably in his chair. “The night f fa St! That was where he % Still young—so is my cigar. Pray the corner of ®@Y¥,#!! you care to say, and A it as claimed Vin- CoMfidentially as you plqase. You in- fave the old *etest me, Dr. Dollar; nor can I for- by get that 1 am much indebted to you.” ‘I don’t want to trade on oa od he “7 aed Pyeng I was going to fight Crime as it had faith, Doctor Dollar. But who would bo: next to nothing) on mat. conversation in a dining young an ream of m ing + . yy foreheads that wlintered fa tg about my work, and haw nat che; never been fought. before!” come to consult you about a homtoidal Dollar exctetmted oom in Spartan ae the rest of the from the open door, with a white Came to take it up. I was. not Nae There was a challenge in the pause tendency or a trick of tampering with blank amazement. But it was not tora characteristic abode, handkerchief just extracted from tended for medicine, you see; my Tien Dares Bat & Boop ly special offertories?” run Yet, whea ® Dee, was people are arm: le, wi take it up, an arangue Ukely, through one of the numbered ve outlaws once upon a time,and fexe, On a humbler note, ; then they might hot dead!” he above: hothouse fi ing folk ever since. My father was _ “I studied at St. Mary's under men id him to see me on some other an ensign in the Crimea—scots Fus- Whose names you know as well as pretext.” { come into the square my- 'liers. 1 joined the Argyll and Buth- YoU know yours. I was at Berlin un- “And what form would the treat- ere bound in glassy * ah had just gone out of It. ane tis year before South Africa bod Lab depp ieeeqarel Gg id Bcd ment take?” A . anes there was s pile of them beside a ¢ >where, by the way, I remember see- Jennsen in Stockholm. fo! “It would depend, of course, uj enormous * in wi @ very young map, swat Tae eon even wink $ute ing you’ with your Yeomens” thirty I had put up my plate in Wel- They don't ail know that against a background of pink sleep: in bandages, lay ‘after you.” "I bad eighteen monthe of it-with- beck Street, and there I am stil! being trémted for ino; ing suit, with « ferocious eye looking s shade of an electric ® where is he now? Did he slip Ut & headache or a acratch.” “and yet,” said the Home Secre- The majority think they down the barrel, a, your fingers?" “I wish I could say the same, Mr. tary, with @ faint and wary emile, are in an ordinary nursing home.” qoeeee an le ashamed t y he did; but Vinson. I was shot through the head —and yet the possibilities are still 4, nome!” oried the Secretary of tood the occurrence downstaire; iMated on ‘Four. watch didn't!” its owner was he, Modder, ten days after I only posibilitien oa: there 1 State. The word had brought him to body tent, scarcely looking up, said that Reakiaded ‘with more pint." could 7 the sare ‘Swi abnormal Dis feet at last, in a frame of mind since he could not have moved tu Svees whose it was by the crest and | Through the head, did you say7 was ms yateey guages ¢ no longer to be concealed by nods and Fiasat Bt {3 Sve his life, he had gone on read- omogram. rand" 1" decided to, make poked the Home Secrotary, irtng bia cart, When, tootner,gudden, MUU gmilen You" dgrt mean foal Mm, qyeo'teg'ting SPA yay ie all the time; and hey fet ey Perse ae namic aanared. th $y I know where to take him; but the Doctor Dollar, that you actually run thougnt you were a better eports- fait Obviously giad dual, too ®, nursing home fdr unconvicted iT the fool th Net a be Home Secretary, in belated apprecia- tj “That's Syernee ey e ioe eSongonita, oriminala’ rae tant Tne ont Ittyee feat te “That” whispered the doator on the Be ete Oncers ‘vite cocaas ma be cases are, of course, quite hopeless in ,, Potential criminals, a ee if frighten people, do it where you don't peegerdl Ride) ar haves eadt een it appearing a mug out K n that respect. Yet there are ways of sonnet seanitea oe they oll yrho damage their property; if you mean pO ony it ee eed Rivan’on his ‘ean on seth all ab sear ; curing even what I regard as the very (ey ee hie Satreordinary murder, I'm your marie my lad! Alm own free will read anything but @ hande; and the elestrie ble at this time of night. otherwise, In fi Yroret type of congenital criminal at os abiisnment?” Ripe you'll Get me in the month; bad novel or a newspaper; he.is now upon ‘a medallion of ing hi he 4s fit as ever—physically.” the present day. * deep in the immortal work of an- above one burning ear. i C ° “Under my own roof here in Wel- "4 7 iY ” property “Wonderful!” “E wish I knew of some!” eaid Mr. peck Street.” Shate Beery pow, Pies, Ai other weak young. man who was - “Doctor—Dollant” was not loweri: swayed by strength, and is himself ham Vinson. And the ingen’ “1 be But the ‘pink-striped mi , Where | “Physically and even mentally— Vinson cheerily. “But what, may I «a few hundred yards from where barrel ° ie refreshments stood in read- from a medical point of view—but not Oak, do you regard as the very Worst we stand, yot this te tho frat Theat yay oi ON erinE, ie Darrel to im: font clone belng under Doctor Jobne of his cure tected oa @uide table, and a bright fire morally, Mr. Vinson! Something sub- type of congenital criminal at the o¢ gether. And his other wild eye waa 00's salutary thumb.” h Yas acceptable as the saddiebag tle bad happened, some pressure some- Present day “IT can see that, It's not my fault, open now and both were Sinking “What was bis weakness?” drawn up beside it. A bottle whe ome form of local paraly: “The society type,” replied the sir. I have done my best to bring it with unlovely woe. ‘ ‘01 ‘4 pint’ of reputable champagne And it left me a pretty low-down crime doctor without an instant's before your notice,” “{ didn’t mean any harm,” he fal- “What?” n left out with the oysters type, I can tell you! It was a case hesitation. “How?” tered. “It was only @ rag—and I'll the caviar, and Mr. Vinson, ex- of absolute automatism—but I won't His host permitted himself to open “By writing many times to tell pay for the door.” that he never allowed any- 0 into particulars now, if you don't his eyes once more. all about myself and the home, Mr. “It'll be a great rag, won't it, if 1 bad ite effect on ‘to sit up for him, opened the mind.” “Your ideas are rather sensational, Vinson.” ou fire bang into your own foot? t in fear of ister. with tho precision of a prac- “On no account, my dear doctor!” aren't they Dr. Dollar?" 7 “Then I never saw the letters. A Rotter give that thing before you the rod, and it kept him straight. ‘So that was your weakness!” The ihandiand leti the attack on food exclaimed the Secretary of State, with “It's rather a sensational age, isn’t Home Secretary stands to be shot at Dollar held out the steadieatof Only the other day he goes up to thas’ with schoolboy gusto and inadvertent cordiality. “This is all of it, Mr. Vinson? Your twentleth-cen- by every crank who can hold a pen, . “No, tother way round if Oxford, and promptly sete are te his extraordinary interest I believe I tury criminal, with hie telephone and J employ more than one young gentle- you don’t mind; ‘tisn’t manners to ma."* can see what's coming. But I want his motor car—for professional pur- man expressly to divert that sort of pase knives and forks business end to hear every word you care to tell poses—his high explosives and his fire. You should have got an in- firet. Tat Now make yourselt soarce ‘man. me—and not one that you don’t.” scientific tools, has got to be an edu- troduction to me, Doctor Dollar.” before Barton goes for you by kind ‘A. very subtle case, if I were free t while his host was opening It had destroyed my moral sense cated person, to begin with; and lam The doctor had smiled at an ex- permission of his family.” to give you its whole history.” and evening clothes on just one curious point, but, thank #fraid there's an increasing number pression that he could not but take The young man in pink stood wildly “I should be even more laterested tuated a mature gauntn of God, I came to see the cause as well of educated people who have got to to himself. His smile sweetened un- etaring, then fied up etairs with a in your treatment,’ and limb, His hair, which was as to suffer unspeakably from the ef- be criminals or else paupers all their der the kindller tone which succeeded smothered sob. “Well, I needn't tell you that he’s and wiry, was beginning to fect, After that it was a case of kill- lives. A vicious circle, I think you that one unmeasured word. “After him, Barton, before he does bandaged up for burns; but you at'the temple: ns bo" ing or curing oneself by hook or by must ig int” “I am not sorry I waited for the something allly,” sald the doctor un- might not guess that he has come ear there was a lit lorin, crook. I decided to try the curing And you bel TThemseives "tFoduction which time has given der his breath. “My dear Mrs, Bar- by this lot since I've had him, if not ike @ new florin: frat. And—to out a long yarn short— “In saving oO re vines ta ™e,Mr. Vinson.” ton, Jou shall tell me the whole thing almost at my hands.” bag Wana eager eae 1 was cured.” bred Ct hg Miche ts noe oaks bebe “You wanted me to assist the good from A to Zin the morning; go down ‘Nonsense, man!” 6s Derk oyee virone aia | maally? tat Dee byt the vital principle WOR, I take it? to bed like a good soul, and be aa “At any rate I'm responsible for un fm r or intensity by , “No. The slander may come home denn therapeution in every 'By your countenance and influ- fied that you . what happened, and it’s going to oure Deere teght atrablens, Bo to roost, but I shall never think much mor Tavkesping good ine. ence—tf you could. Bobby, on him, It was # onse of undisciplined Sut of the London specialist! ot eoping “I must see something of it first. and give your imagination acting on a Donnet. with dropped my two 80 and a t I must inspect this home of yours, is Just one bee in it, He had never reai- florin into too many of their itching Doctor Dollar.’ table pair made ised what a hell let loose a fire really palms, beginning with the baronets YC “It 19 open to your inspection day or off. The street door was abut; ‘was; now he knows through his own and knights and ending up with the tn iifel” night,” eaid Doctor Dollar, Home Secret had sole possession skin.” ad unknown adventurers. But not a ments every night in life . “Even at this hour? Elven to- of the mat. “Why, Mr. Vinson, what's The statesman's eyebrows were like man-Jack of them was ashamed to “I hope, Doctor Dollar, it is not to night?” happened to the myrmidon?” the backs of two mutually displeased u know! You haven't pocket his two guineas (in one case be @ function of the new faculty to “This minute, by all means,” sald «7 thought you would like me to cats. d fe'ana you really should.” three) for politely telling me I was as collaborate in the concealment of the doctor, with resolute cordiality. get rid of h said Topham Vinson , “But surely that’s an old wives’ interest ‘other was on his lege that In- mad as @ hatter to think of such @ crime and criminals?” “There's always somebody up, and dryly. ‘He's waiting outside to ex- fick pushed beyond all bounds?’ ayeate. AM ve "I never amoke, and seldom thing as really wae the matter with | It 1s nog Taptied a ce. th Patients can be seen without plain matters to the relnforoemente— | "Pushed further than I intended, with s kind hand on the bent shoul, imed, ut I alm- mi 4 4 c as @ joke. . Vingon, I must confess. I only 4 et pani ‘our hospitality, scope of an embryonic science. When said the Home Secretary, — « ” meant him to see riow: ere, ¥ a eye on the bent regi in Mr, Vin smitnout “a 2 Sfivy I etruck @ fellow with Se avin ne gel he bom Rey pd ME, i ies igh pall the aneiee: iene tietcoetend arranped with the bilaade wo rine me bese nae the. ita on it? ho fee Ming a bit more hon th YOU an open mind—but not in England— sa full atl 4 with the back of his hand. iP waen there was & real 4 ene, my dear doctor—on any aneak- ve been so far. I didn't lose gna ir 1 eaid that he literally opened Protean part with the full sanction atrike, doctor, while the iron ts as hot “itm ead you anit in Dr. Dollar, and with my man to take the bey owt y sneal “4 he law. He as I can assure you that you have * ght for all ing doubts I had about you! You've pocket by accident or be- ming it might be an e: ration, but Of bis profession and of tl cj Am I to understand that the whole ¢ night for all his walke. T he Was too quick for me, I—T thay Ee eee eee erecting in Will be preventive officer, private de- made it. thing wag a practical joke, carefully #0ther good reason for tha struels © son after my own heart. end tective and father confessor in one, if Bed together 1 u've led me into it as I never was jole thing is that I hap- MY skull—risked his reputation as 10) Sa aecacdty etiet tn a, matter ef esconde they had Fehesteed for my benefit other nothing can have seemed ie into anything in my lite before, hold my own views on crim TI a ed“his shining eyes, ™Ore natural than the way they both 2 ee oat pope fe—but we Both came pome awful fact. ‘The humbler pio- both fetched up at a Drililantly ZBe doctor opened ‘hia shining eyes, Tove Natural than the way they both Well, you've Just got to keep me in viishment. If T might pe et ie One been your own man MéF can hope for no such power; his lighted house, where a more than » iittle, Mr. Vinson! riding-schoo! affair.” ball Sy te conceited enough to engin Zourrp bee only chance is to work tn the dark usually obese pollceman was alter- “iene noimed I didn't think of .."l know whats coming!” oried the e Nt be worth my place. ance rs on his own lines, to use his own judg- nately pounding on the door and Home Secretary. “This is the fellow Don't you think you might turn 1a} for Topham Vinaon asked the aues- ment and to take his own risks as splitting the sober welkin with bis it til you put the word into my Some Ge to hi round, Dr. Dollar, and let us ahake ‘rhe truth often isn’t,” said ff you consider it no tion gravely; it would have taken as jent.and to take hie own rake as splitting mouth, But It's—well, rather a coin jashed in to help save the horses ite uct. © I i ‘ and got away afterward without giv- bands on thi Vera, bitterly. “You may be BRANT T have put myn ieee eer clean aifterence ir ma S28 8 man by screening him. let him “Stop that infernal row!" eried Doce (jaence doctor, coming on, top of si Kit Away, 8 5 prised to hear that the blow feuch of the law, there, sir, Is self to detect eee difference thing 4 it and blow the odds! If he can tor Dollar, with incensed authority, all men catching the thief!" “That's it. He says he'll hear those CHAPTER II. struck with a knife at all. arta here am I, prepared to f in PS anyth! yor StOP a thing without giving it away, “Out of the way with you—this is my “!/, 70" catohing the thi thing that’s horses till his dying hour! He was bs struck with—thie! donsequentes of my” act. ut him, Doctor Dollar was Not aii the better for everybody, and If house!” always liable to happen when one’s !n the thick of It before Barton or The Life Preserver, Her right hand flew from her lome Secretary leaned forward that kind of obser ro sine far One ho falls to stop it all the worse for And the Home Secretary arrived on plweye Hable to happen when one's Of Li Mite Of id atop. hitmthey HE Lady Vera Moyle had ™UM: in it was no fi the card from a sensitive must look high, and to look high i@ him! Lot him be a law unto his pa- the scene of an imminent amault on DACk : only succeeded in stopping poor Bar- a i BBA) Mis ua @ short, black, round-knol veereny us the wales to waleh to mis ‘eelnge ater 08 A niet tent and himself, but let him id his police, Just tn time to avert the | ‘¥ea?" wald the Home Secretary, as ton from following. Well tcan take made herself notorious in a end “just” mn listening, but no * the racket if his law won't wor! outraged officer's attention by asking . o credit for the last thi cause that Syste ‘Again he looked up, In the sheer height of bis enthusiaam, Dollar paused and looked at him. = y ry i — rll gail iin ws Rag iis i HSE ie! if ul - : HH | si by s 4 : j 5 £ i i fit 3 iu i 5g a Hf Hie it i it ES fei il it H IY Ei +4 ¥ | Hie ! i te Fen re i ‘ . H : Hi fi i : il i i a fi Hie bs | “ “In other words, you would tackle what had bappened, while the dootor ~.. ». should have dreamt of allowing; skull wi pelo face grown paler still, the soaring visionary | wae losing character” as ordinary “doctors and found his key. Hehe te Cae eters nae Gite Utaney the odde are fairly lon exclaimed John Dollar, and rae enthusiasm. It was by no ling in the chair. and the soul?” man, kicking some broken glass on fi 9 again tempt our young friend up- cajoled the Home Secretary outside “Tt Ataas bis ba, tay of enat sort of fire: | Twas cured.” be anewared with “Me! would come to that, Mr. Vin- Gneside,. rior, 18 sounds ike; aie oid! FTES A FOGDe MAR Ue. ete ’ Plas Yo oe wet ae ene roe he carotid at geethed to Mr. mn tha a " * son, It's a large order, I know, and there's somebody been loosing n “Doctor Dollar, 1 should prefer not you cot "t do that wit! mk new typo of eccentric zealot, ulous cure, and yet no miracle, Any- | don't expect to see the gooda dee off" = dust ‘Deen placed wader my care, T f : welghty business with the colora of tried. "1 ylum, to ask you to show me or tell me “ iméeit-was-only by an effort that he body could perform its like, given the livered in my time, It will take bets — And even as he epoke somebody Cont srun f Drivate aeylum, nor le ne aay more, Z know s good man when ® bated Union pinsed to his uncoa- ‘TTit. the Goor with Ik Sais i ~ of Commons atti- nerve and skill. Yet it seemed to me ter men than I am, and many of ‘em, loosed off again! The terrific report head a little, 1 this happens in a I see one, and I know good work scious back. ve “but don't hold it quits . ude and his smile. @ new thing; ite possibilities were even to start delivery on the scale T was followed by screams within and nemasa, tte, and this happens in @ F soe one on bun weit Perhaps that 1¢ js true that some of her excesses © ¥ 4 rf. Dollar, that you are a almost appalling in their fascination. dream about. But that’s the idea ali a fresh shower of glass from the fan- revolver regulations—but IT mustn't Was necessary in the case of such Dollar bent down and did of mine-only just | must not speak of them, for in @ right, Punishment has nover signt- light. But by this time Doctor Dollar forget myself in my excitement, If extraordinary, work as yours; yet Ad less to redeem them, but all were rected? at the blow, @ paniard: t ér in’ Welbeck Street. large measure they are only pos- fied prevention; what we want is to had his latch key in the lock. If the you would come in and amoke you say it was a sheer coincidence committed with a plous sest which out of the oj ite end to the 7 -fake it that your experience sibilities still. But I resolved to get under the criminal’s akin before dor had opened outward a tangled a cigarette I shall have to make @ that I caught you at It to-night—or recalled the saying that the Moyles knob; t! caught in his onsultant is the basis of the qualify, so that at least I might be we make it smart, if not before trio would have fallen into the street; round directly to see how things are rather that such tough work WA were a race of Irish rebele who had “That w it was 0," ‘iment! im @ position to do ap I bad been done there's an actual criminal in the case as it was, it hardly would open for qui hi waiting for you when we got there?” tinued Lady Vera. “And a period nllepiats ius by. I had already left the service, at all!” the man Jn white who was struggling lad to tak i) “Do you atill doubt it? Why, you ‘termarried with the saints. It was person jt was done by, Doster Dol z i ert can but my fighting ‘were not over, “A very plausible confession of with » woman (in red flannel) and 6 made after further yourself insisted en. coming round to reserved for Lady Vere to (Ro Be Co " Tn) (NMRA Gehl ah a 8 inh aimee ele 9 ‘ + ae! “ate. W8- 4 abi ae sab hn Ae 4 si beg RA he tel} och pn ‘Se rd-headed ground~ persons devote themselves to the body ‘Lord only knows!" sald the police- tion, Mr, Vinson, the tempting element will never, never siance. She it was who |, he looked at bis ¥ is poe =