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‘\ ‘ b rh Wat? Sreh iene ae were ri , k ‘ bi cor YC wy Reese ; sia merece a LE pre etwas pial o vening World Daily ine, W ; ! in ednesday. February 3. 191 os The Auther of the Famous Ratflles Stevtes Creates « Now end Strange Romance of Criminelegy. — & == BY EDGAR FRANKLIN == (Author of “Ceptain Vervet’s Wotcome,” eta = ee table in the corner, “iintres!= ahe cried with nervous irritation. CHAPTER Ill. The door opened and shut upon the gombre face and long, at! jo mbes ‘ i ofigehn, Del uaeuces . ir * "A Hopeless Case. ous mbes fs T first the light blinded ner, Her voice had brokem with very A for she was in the upper Joy; her hand trembled / é 3 Frise Derth, within a few inches you P of it. It came almost as ao " es . * relief? when a head bobbed next compartment all the way from 5 Saaiitiat the glare and her eyes. Paria gare Mp Vera blinked her indignation. sigan” "*™* Compartment on/ which ‘was too sleepy to do more at PR) Ughys ty 7 = Reape g re- at, and too old a traveller to make flection in the looking-g' oor, mpeh fuse about a mere piece of PR iB Rada & priest in there!’ stupidity. She could not see the man’s “There was the nigh Driest of a faba, but his head was of the type new religion in which you'll never! whith @coasions the inevitable libel bell ny more,” said Detar. with | om ‘tho. bullet, and ‘ite hideousness wee ee Ff hardly mitigated by the Rembrandt- Sh at him with cooling’ effect of the ctrio light be- eyes. “Certainly, Dooter Dollar, ig iti ind It. She conceived it to belong ™! = te.some blundering official, and or- ,,7, didn't intend to explain oy ered him out in pretty sharp French meant my ccclestastions not much to say,” But the man did not move, And in that for me—but its z sere | . we us 4 Mi| Joined the other sardonically. agether short moment Vera Moyle Out of the window on the eae ateat ‘ remember when you came to noe. "ve m hanging about a . ad Become aware of three very hor- ai) day in the hope of catching you. riBle things; it was a creature in o 1 couldn't leave it any longer. I had sult, and he had shut the door to give you these.” tim, and was holding an au- And he placed upon the table be- platol to her breast, tween them wn diamond necklace an ndant, 6 string pearls, id nf eyi’ble that La heg ele ia the andtal of age she had been ‘ene’ he muttered as her mouth wearing in the night. . "an’ it's yer larat in life! ‘Old “You made him give them up!” she 5 oe submari I won't be hae on Led Pig Se Certo! eget oe Dever “Tn their: jE say state, a <a 2 R ‘a n on me!”, only softened and sweeten “That and making otk oe ok eur it isn’t her indescribably. That's job—or “Natural 1 wat iw 4 ‘Kodak ia ly," jaughed. “It ‘wasn't very difficul yesterday jy then I “And I thought you were a confed- ’ : - * the boot for erie fo Grgncnery ante he in brutal grate bare I saw you crossing the . . Woes ‘ © sented a ane of the jug my honey, “That bein’ just so, I pu ine together!” ; i : ; the barker—eee?. r “I was putting the fear of @ foreign . aden slang and eatire, Dollar was Jail upon him to the last. But he had : = on! at Co] a Lsodingyaly oP ea the train; he was in : x oonts reservs yu 'o' berth ¢ er, With fured Rim into mine and laid atace he'd ‘help you, and you would be the "Z would give anything for one de- inconceivable. But he gives chap! “I'm not ao detective,” returned the yor Ke" g Otherwise I should have been with making not only of him but, of his . “But you are Teast doctor—but the stiff words were hard- a hoeta of. ef those ast a 2 you please go out?” sald sooner; but in one way it was dream—and not only his iftle ; . lly to @ man th: ly out before the atiff lips relaxed in Cupiicate of one . orn - Lady Vora, still with scrrom in her. Deter to take our man with your dream" — int > you know nol t all about.” Sea the ‘aw smile, ‘I've sald that before, Vin- j ‘ steady eyes. Jewels on there was no getting was her toppdd him: *I oagat to knot in the morn- admits hy had son, and I.shouldn’t wonder if you wo, I will not please.” | out of is. ae two of them were only little table, ing, . Eden 7 but ft will it stolen from him. seem: made me aay it again. I am out to eee you in the mo! a too to be kicked out at the first yi is worth ten. keep tf well til then. Eni for have, been more careful—whichever stop things happening, not to bother hi “I'm going on to ” gtation. And the other fellow was a Million of, me! But I can never the night that you're a friepd of the way you look at !t—during the sum- about things that-Mave been done “¥O% man who broke into my house to see M&rry him or anybody. And you, Home , and at your worst mer. But this autumn the trouble can't be méni But me where you're goin’! er the first night we bad him ®4 you alone, know why!” st just the time when a man wants has beguniegain. A dockyard sketch: dincovery. mar about zou, and ‘ave doM® thore.”* . eee bag ee ig eee yi" he“eried. “I'm, AP Has jown the Srreas Ocean, vention, ] cant S oe Wi tracks, “« " AP’ ureda, . come home to roost some means bot! rrels ere’s time.” bpd bh y haa Hae hop MOU CHAPTER IV. to be married on Thursday, and this’ into which we'd better not inquire, In the morning Dollar carried up best for you,” #b® the whole thing, even. to fragments The Golden Key. is Bunday night! How oan I toe the and is pronounced by Stockton @ bad tho patient's sultoase, woke him up, -humbly. thought you were o¢'s conversation from which it was 73 SES was quite ATK ua ig oot sotte sleep? And imitation of one made for Mm by nnd watched the rising tide of mem= to. le ‘ . give reso poss % ory drown the thanks in his throat. Mare in ite —s eoreatie hneaae On leat might right!” exclaimed the zeave that to m&" said Dollar, , wonder?’ Now was the doctor's ‘chance of “ "A fresh start! I want a bit more Mave it a rule not to listen at pa- young man at the outting a pregnant pause as short as h in the Firat checking Mr. Vinson's version of the sho than that, lidy!” tients’ doors, any more than one book shelf, with the Possible; “leave everything to me, young man's troubles: but he weites oy ‘Well, what do you want?” would at other people's, but I'm not prematurely bent back S04 come straight upstairs. I keep been made rge Edenborough to open his came t He rolled his eyeballs over th® coing to blush tor this tieulae & the room in constant readiness; you memory; he hag good reasons heart, and waited in vain till —but mow he meant to be biunt; racks laden with her hand luggage. Sone 16, Lead et aes upon Dr, Dollar at his old oak shall be Atted with pajamas, and I'll why nobody but Edenborough could the last Ave minutes, when the boy. was 2 not seer when his map 1e, ym pt “ nger anywhere have le it. Ex on. jewel: case," aald he, promy’ ener soft wot eyes were looking Bim "1s, way never wrong: when he YoU like for whatever you may want sons that are not so good in the whole story. “What the devil one) tm this corner, ever my you kept him on—for my stuck to poetry,” sald the doctor, ‘2 a a ae my doar iaw. apparently?” oxlf fittered very little trom the esc: sake! ‘4 -hand synopsis, bu Her equal alacrity might have been ""iNo4 aitogetner, Lady Vera.” They looking up from an unfinished pre- Skamnber of Peace a crucial test, be- more than one'tmpression which Dol than you do—but I begi: the mere measure of her eagerness to wer, an honest "eoupie, t put me scription on which the ink was never- Cause Ps A sp we shall all come out very much ‘fear that traps are being lar would have given much to ro- mage ore — ver Ree rid of bim, but Alfred Croucher On"my mettle; it gave me something theless dry, “What about Bhelley, With fying colore! vet, and I've taken it on myself to linquish. The talk of intolerable sus. 7 didnt think, far too oid in deception to be i) OMvent at first-as Imm afraid, Mr. Edenborough?” There wan leas confidence in the ‘hte gua picions was Indeed more consistent vi ply. very ¢ deceived. you knew--f really didn't want to “Only a bit of one of his letters,” Dgcter poe wee ran Srmnesis ? Thine Blak uizoe tt wae auee Maineta od Bice enrien 778 haen deme? “The keep {i my fer and sat at hip telephone “Yeu; . thing else, since it waa b level" sald he “Til trouble you for Ush the fellow with a pole, He was gata tho young man. “E just happened with an urgent face, In another min: ting wait atte Sree Chance of get- HYDE SI meton thet nobody wed picion. “All Le then instead—ond the rest wot 100 better hanged—fustly or un- t? open them at something that rather Ute he had left the house, and in having the poor little bride to dinner @*Preseed such suspicion in anything With @ school youre din’ be'tnd “em!” justly.” appealed to me.” And the book shot other two Mr. Topham Vinson was as well. Heavy work, Dollar, drink. !X@ 80 many words. The crt Gxt tured paler to the electro Don't apeak of that—or dot” ax- PK IBG IE Plage. ie aaig Beuaiae oe Aner (@ him in Portman. ing” their. healthe and’ tnowing what 1OF, Was sorry he hed put the quee- it y - — “No ut the pri 4 H ; Mis readiness tov point out the claimed tho gitl, “It makes me for- 1 hope?" suggested the dactor; for all ‘1 call this too bad of you," bo. Ye that Mdenboroneh RRL, comfort Tut’ by ‘exhorting Edenborough to ven tt _ Jewel caso; tho other hand, with most sive him everything!) |, the world as 12 fun. said Bdenbor- shorter still of patience cite tae pan’ aE did: It was written on hie tace, Set.ell the exerciae Re could, and by oF Aes daa 1d pet , my pow- b here was bo ard Grrost; for abe was ‘trav- right. He was beyond reclaim. But ough, with a fuco that would, not erful friend, Hane BAG (tie Bay. and T haan’s to do Sie dcrevatiewe’ tated the alan, trom ig nwith her great. 1 never thought he would give me a have imposed upon an infant. “My dear fellow, I couldn't help 11," Ret hie ta eee ee Push when T tant disembler had litte aimeulty in ‘lh il iat eta definite move to block; that, as you “Aa little commission from Sheliey vowed the Minister, with disarming fully frank, from his polat. of v ing an jmmediste invitation to one’s chief job after all, and to Trelawny, for a amall quantity of meekness. “He would go straight tol , toa at Prince's Skating Cub. b it oat & ow Ley oly§ La an. Hpi g Ne 9 bitter sleends. you, and just po AS Soulent have wh driving thie oe oe nis mind; he ti Pee op by io oe departed with « jough—as as so ie might ‘hold rung you ithout givi: hi 1d hada’ face almost r nt at tl + for cancer and found him in his possession that golden key to Away a this oog CVne. Bin seid Be WES ton thames end ek he had. acaronly” epoken of hls chamber o! rpe' peace.’ “I can staf five minutes,” ie love until the subject ot tiny That yas a sald the youth at ian, Ieoking 6. Tle eaten sthce ts mane eae™ RO ascunation: hae beg It ieee a6: Chou WE Tear agate pgth. much tell “Although y jpn about it, Butt don't know how on conae jou,can (ell me in the time | “Althous to penneot ies ent BMS could otill think of her, will Pitiful tone and tender of their laugh. y thing earth you knew! fore I saw your neurotic friend.” bad copy of his own map’ and ghame; and in. due cou not, the ie that r believe I simost might have | ‘The dootor gave @ kindly little “Hasn't he told you all about him- “Phat‘a the woret thing ¥ fae ci tnesrine etl Gat tae Fs put you in ugh. nelf?" me,” eaid jook of lingering pride and joy. care 00's on Yous good, anyhow—but for the very thing Pan? Serica Sie book he aa. “Hardly & word worth anything in tog ed hin ianoeuashe of feourest eis_wae the height of the shating Daur ee ee ee sured & case ie is, ere t! use = “In absolut bod afternoon, and the glassy strip an — wn 3 pore. "Ang me as never ying passage-—and you ad just becn matters more than the effect Of “And what was your own impres- oPhaiie pane on which e litte giant gp. Xou fe not the frst man, my dear hush you up, as did! But bra clamoring for at least a silver key course I could have insisted, but that sion, Mr. Vinson?” Pres might have been scribbling with 2) fp ae IO 4 , il t murder will out, cigar ash. He bad lost her attention to some chamber of temporary ") would seem to have been Papen kell iaat sancder Wil out, oliver ast. Be mn might have finished him off for the “Kixtremely mixed. 1 felt that he diamond. The eye swam with blood night. I igather, however, that he's was speaking the truth, and yet rotating as in a circus—with single | Marchese Rocohi. prison—e when they're titled “I was @ little fool,” she sald at “You said you would give me one, Y ) and yet not Ih a a with the King on Ke throne length. “I should have listened to Doctor Dollar.” but wri nd OF VOUT ae tee rears; the whole truth, He had an air of practitioners at’ work wader dash . Have you, indeed! *, ee id of you: t f Miss Trevell: Yomi It'll ruin you, if tt does you and been content to help in some | “And now I think I won't,” sald the being married, and In more than the cuits knowledge, if not of actual instructors tua gema pie bol airgady "Ser" eves ot tor bolder, more—tu! ‘ou an’ ure—an’ I am sorry: Goctor, rising from his aged chair. rmal ‘ut your ‘eartat”™ 7 ‘m octor Dollar, “No; you shall not go without hear- todeewith ieee es oY QE something = “His physical condition bears you Tesounding saad the oT" beerved the doctor with re- the Workers was George Edenborough, th e 1808 almost serenel; Yas enough. She stripped her “It was a very sporting folly—but ing my reasons, and what Iam «oing ‘Tt take your points in orde obsery tee OU aime aay ace ten eit a ana” ry some “The hese hi,” he ihe aroyed, Ree Sara, INGE evn sane ower dia was cnn” fo, prozong 0 you fiend © Sheet, opham Vian, wha cou be iriher fuatigg Ate er rite t Tvtoneheah jo'ind‘in meena ‘nocd ummmeainae, expanatien| But, it vnued Mette cocntey 1 wi . « e * vellyn.” aces, No. I've frightened hii the unfintahed prescription into Iittlo Edenbocough Ie nor cuisine of mek, There my pit place behind ‘the im ry Marc! a . m9 is true of you; for you are the first He will think of some subtler bite—“gold or silver, they are not ton's ssoremriee hut a But the girls another frie Ho glad you're not late for the man I have known bear the brunt as Tengered why be wee Ga ay % Keys at all, but burglars’ jimmies ang most confidential of the crowd. he most private yours? May 1 ask her name? waltsing.” be one, servers pied had you have borne it, my very dear P , that injure and vitiate the chambers o ey Trevellyn.” a long day out of town, and didn't Ket fellow!" hidden. p,anere's Be, eubusty 9 his no proak, It certainly Iw so Llon't know about his being a friend “Any gplation 10. Admiral Trovel- ater than 1 &x- “What makes you Dower, no initiative, no saything bul Ve rest you wantatany of mine; I've been a friend to him for jyn?* pected. Lucy's writing a letter {n the groaneq Edenborou, “hie mirror on the door of the mere brute force,” sald Dol i with s he the same with the aan inna sae Sound a. a nine “Own daughter to the old sea dog, lounge, but she'll be here In a’minute ““qie not @ case ean ne arg room, between &,touell of that same Af ge teteyo4 Derpetual pesee that Bhelley took for qpoumm ellow Bul the ait and if farthing, the breesier of the for the inglosure, and after that we'll deceive yourself as to that, Edenbor- a — ry , \ me ranted. Yet jo have a (O07 man ! imagine a young he 7 a secre tne very ‘coment of assertion. “The fellow is @ deadly Chamber, of Peace of sorts here. tn “Er .y cried the doctor, “Do you Miti,more like an old fait at heart, Dollar ascertained that the waltz. Sikh g4 Know that Miss Trevellyn moment,” aid the ‘enultation it ceased to reflect under to me in a moment.” thia house. It's my latest fad. You've noan to ‘say she'd draw back in the he'd to sea if she could; as she ing tnclosure was a close quarter of two sketches jout which there's ; ’ race of en her Alfred Croucher of his ill-got- “3(0n,'°.me In & momenty sy again, found It ® name, and im return I [Dean to ma) she's a little pillar of the Navy an hour for all but those more or loss heen all the trouble, 1 only suspect of your own stesord, of on ah . should like to offer it to dee the 1 e—and engaged to the Firat proficient in that delicate andastound- that she got ye ow 2 HL. bd Goer baa, seenedi but this time she was looking firmly jiene* ya pet be able to help her- Lord's best young man! Could you Ing art. Edenboroush said that he originals, almost as tools as frog ict my eee accord entiray.” : 7 sal * ay . out i 5 you mean @ room that sends % the grave reply. “George conceive a more ingenious irony, or if not quite up to the stand- made, on the plea of her tremendous “You've been ferrett! rs tae ap ea ge She eaid, with PRs you off in ad of dr ti rin fe waders. gloud that & renter, tragedy when he truth rd of those dieplays, and sulted the interéat in the Navy. for yourself, have you “® fren black le ‘oui lenborou, was lookin: a v _ come lar, tt must come out action to the word by taking th ‘or ited - 5 roand the ook of Coaupnar wire tee to him as long as we are both in the penned bat Wor tho neemment tale oct “A sudden cloud?" before Thursday, if {t's ever coming floor unsteadily on his skates. i) ut ag though he did not “ Detective ae well ant desten i oO | fen ‘Gexterity ap world. And it's what I deserve.’ ‘of himself. He had heard of Doctor - ‘Out of the blue for me. I only out at all he seated himself a gong sounded, the appreciate what he was saying, as pears’ ¥ id without 4D0lar abandoned bis attempt at Dollar as a rather eccentric consult- heard of it from Stockton on Friday it otherwise @ likely match?” band struck up, beginners dispersed, though something else had stuck in “Mise Trevellyn, I tmplore we ‘The pail iE disingenuous disabuse; the extreme ant, but as the very man for him, isht. But it's no new thing to him. “The very likellest, for this confident hande clasped _ |i | “But it was a tremendous tell me if these things are truel™ | word. to which he flew instead was a little from no less an authority than the He might have told me sooner, I world’s goods, and there'll be more J . ul “So that you may ell your patient, get tooth, the other death in the bi startling, but these two knew ech Home Secretary of England, and no think, seeing it was through me that of them one day. She has got enough ik of he her's | T eu poset iy ‘and darkening face, with its other. ii further back than that very evening Edenborough ever went to him.” for two, and they have tastes in com- sweeping grace and sy! 1 Ien't it io. I shall rot tell himw® > interlaced fingers white to ‘You must marry, Lady Vera,” he at dinner. He had céme straight i some special capacity, I rather in. ‘old you he could draw a bit, Dollar had never seen “Very weil! 1'll tell you aid with Set ows pressure. was moved to say. But his manner round from Portman Square, fore- but whe's @ little artist, though you it in his life, for artificial Ico was in eles I've found her—that she of all can shout ft from the Toot for ‘Vera watched t! 4 = , was eininently uninspired. He might seeing miracles,and Ic potions: ; he can draw a bit—in fact, wouldn't think it if you saw her its infancy in London before the war,’ people should do a thing like this?” care now! It's perfectly true!* fawn might watcl bi python j, been her ehe must hand put he had not foreseen John Dollar, he’s not a secretary at all cept In teaching him to skate at Prince's or evel ince he had been a busy “I am afraid the inconceivable hap- Dollar started, not at the ik to timely death, until the ou be Dorter at Rome. or his unprofessional conversation, or o, but the First Lord's private taking me on at golf! Lucy Trevel- ian, He followed firat one couple pene almost as often as the unex- had to come, but at fies nicating door shut upon .them ‘That was in fact the note he meant slight cast that actually ad to ughtaman. Stockton's a whale for lyn's the beat type of sportewoman-— and then another, and each seemed pected,” said Dollar, with which It came. It and only her own unearthly to take, only he sang it louder than m tie eyes. details, but lunce at technicalities. just a# Vera Moyle is one gone " tent and graceful “Cri ology, indeed, prepares remained in the mirror. What he in “thats exactly what I do mean,” What he likes is the thing on paper, Wrong.” id a t the frst short lit Rappened? Only too soon she Raver marry.” she anowered said the . as he sees it with his own eyes; so) John Dollar was on his feet, walla Gae Ect over Getite ie lavelen: sacl seithenn Die un yy had pped at ome name- hands’ bi upon my a London, he makes his tnepections with Eden- “Well, I've atayed longer than 1 tary selection had eliminated alt but fanticide as the firet relief of et : Sinden iM Ctoe te tant SEs RE tated holes ‘are aken'at'Sory tek, promised, to"'a®, opr wit Mit an Swati ke "eh ihe ia Seeding heater a}. a rn, awa) man itl be eyéo and a a - boot. Ii ke. and all sorts of impossible improve- if he was eal: And black wentes! . ¥6 , ba Hh ys i ey de oat che. the Chancel ments worked out in subsequent col- But what's « ni reat two fre the best,” sald h Of course she's mad.” cried of the mleep the laboration. I had that this evening against auch a ti ly aa the whole « the h ‘all bai “ of the just 1" i, Te will ohow rages hat girl in red and the heavy allen.” Ede: ugh, that ee would if she's lty, at all. thing’s bound to think so?” cried the de- what t tl * “Do 2. so?” ori O i sont and won't Py L “Or such b is ated borough. “Th "re @ believe, I can & mystery’ ited roe ne 70! s ave, dick away. Topham “If you could only 1 Ieee wcacenicl esa a