The evening world. Newspaper, November 3, 1922, Page 32

OO al te NO RICE READ THIS, THEN BEGIN THE STORY. OBERT FORRESTER, a young Chicago erigineer, receives a rote demanding that he place $10,000 in a hollow tree in Jasper Lane, an unfrequented suburban road. Ile deter- mines not to be blackmailed. He has a talk with Frederick Prentice, a fellow clubman, and from him learns that Prentice has been one among a score of prom- inent men who have responded to similar notes by paying the sums demanded. Others who have refused have met mysterious deaths the latest being George Nevins, a leading capitalist, to whose son Forrester’s sister is engaged. Prentice strongly advises that Forrester pay the money, but the young man declares his intention of hunting down the “Friends ot the Poor.” Forrester engages Benjamin I’. Green, a private detective, to assist in running down the criminals and promises him a fee of $10,000 if he is successful. Humphrey, a newspaper reporter, calls upon Forrester and ad- vises him to apply the engineering practice of triangulation to che solution of the mystery. Forrester fails to see how the mathematical process may be applied, but he agrees with Humphrey that it is best that he become a detective on his own account for the sake of the solu- tion of the mystery. Forrester is followed to his home by a mysterious automobile Police follow the car. Next morning he visits the tree and hears from a giant Negro, Joshua, that it is haunted and the Negro ascribes the spirits’ manifestations to a Negro woman whose husband has dis- appeared and is believed by Joshua to have been killed by the woman Detective Green visits the tree, sets up a flash light, hears noi sees queer things, has his apparatus wrecked and is ready to quit the job, Forrester prevails upon him to remain as his assistant, : Forrestar also makes a visit to the tree. He is pleased with the accidental meeting with Miss Sturtevant, who has a note of intro- duction to his mother. She 1s the temporary occupant of a neighbor- ing estate and the employer of the Negro, Joshua CHAPTER 1X beyond the tree and Forrester bad Lucy. gone only a few yards when he was ORRESTER had at first been in} Startled to find himself unexpectedly F in front of her cotta He had su ® quandary as to the character Posed the place to be more deep! in which he should approach] bu in the woods, and this precipi- the Negress. If) she were open to]tant arrival at her door impressed Forrester at once with the Negress's accusatory proximity to the suspicion it would be unwise for him oy pose as # detective, or openly con-1 a savage snarl greeted Forr tess to being a victim of the “Friends|he stepped into the small clearing in of the Poor.’ As he weighed the mat-| front of the house and he saw a half- ter, a recollection of Humphrey of-| reed ok facing him with teeth bared ered him a suggestion. Why not, for]? Dal ates ust at this moment, howevér, the the moment, assume the character o| 4 ‘ ay Choma t, austime the character Of}/.-ttage door opened and the Negros Humphrey and approach her as a re-] jtood in the doorway. She was tull porter? The fact that neither Hum-]and thin, with wiry, jet-black haix phrey nor the detectives had at any|that contrasted strangely with the sickly yellow of her skin. Her eyelids slnis- ak tree, rus time referred to her, and that no one outside of Joshua had mentioned her, |{reoPed, Biving her a peculiar Jed him to belleve that her retreat in]t? look the woods had remained unnoticed. “How do you do? Leaving the road, Forrester fol- wood afternoon,’ returned su Jowed the path around the oak und]lenly, her voice deep and harsh, back into the woods. The thick fol- uld you min Jing off that iage shut out every ray of sunlight| dog?’ requested FY “lL want and Forrester could well imagine how]to have a chat wi the gloom and silence of these woods About what?" s..e asked ‘would give full play to superstitious} “Oh, about your and the oak minds. If the Negress were seeking and what has been going on to hide herself, the woods in them. selves formed an eerie protection. 'Th , bath turned sharply to tho right jv lately.” n't know anything about it.” apped. Her manner grew more THE EVENING WORLDS By Capt. Robert Scofield Wood. 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COPY RIGHT By Beit SYNOICATE. friendly when Porrester told ho was) walked toward the door, “Guess you] Mrs. Forrester glanced through the bearer of this note, and wherefrom] thing’ll be cleared up in a jiffy.” Shore Saturday night. What have found out all T can tell you,| pote, “It 1s @ letter of introduction,’ | springs his Intense interest?” Forrester pulled reflectively at his| want you to do is to put that mo 1 the door had been opened] Mister. You'd better go now—be- 1.4 explained, looking over her], Forrester colored, then frowned se-/ctgar. Ho was overwhelmed. Tho| in the tree at the time wo tell yo i ter had also noted that the cot-| fore my dog comes back," ois HP bh: verely upon his sister suspicions he had entertained so that we will be ready." t mall one-story affair and siasses at Forrester. “How oud!] “ met the young lady through an| garding the weird Negress, tho 3ut nobody has ever nscale passed through the door he CHARTER Xx Helen asks me to do what I can to]accident this morning. When she/on the horse and her colored serv locating these peoplo at. the ed a partition, with a doorws ine ucross the centre, and cc t the interior of the cottag id Fiheerien make Miss Mary Sturtevant's stay in| learned who I was she asked mo to} were knocked flat. The half-formed] protested Fo bring this letter to you. She had in-|theories he had been building up] « tended presenting {t in person, but/around them wero completely shat-| ning, ' Cros ey HE long drive into the city from| Chicago a pleasant one. Strange that rester. know,” admitted Cahill, “but O'Connor and me h was divided into twg rooms. As the the North Shore delayed For-|she did not write me directly. learned after arriving that we would|tered. The growing pride he had felt} worked out a plan. We figure that Negre ed the “door behind him rester so that he did not reach} “Oh,” breathed Josephine, smiling] not’ be moving to ‘Woodmere’ forJin his own detective talents was] the past these guys have been able: F Saal Res anned eo] “prig| the Nevins home until the funcral | wisely at Forrester ed nae ee ; crushed, and the discoveries in eee slip in between the detectives into which ho had been ushered. This F ; ured Happily for Forrester’s peace of/he had exulted were rendered value-| watch. Yo e, it! ices had ene a ough he Does she say who Miss Sturtev watch. You see, it's pretty dark ' welve by fifteen feet, and| Services had ended, and though 1 “hd col diab Cvant} mind the conversation drifted to other] tess, After all, the hard-hearted,| those woods at night. Our plan quite obviously served as both kitchen things, and as soon as dinner was} plodding, unimaginative city detec-| going to put a stop to that. It's I und sitting room, A small fron cook- over he hurried to his favorite corner] tives knew their business best. There] this: 1 in one corner, a table oc- in the brary. He wanted to think,]was really no mystery or romanc “We'r : y ally y e're Bt s to put eg fi i. cupied the centre of the room, and ¢ not alone of Mary Sturtevant and-ger| to crime; no clever men pitting their] ground on cucl siderot ho aonta rocking chair and two straight-backed vague connection with the mystery,| brains against those of astute de-Jand front. O'Connor will be on’© chairs of ancient design completed th but of the Negress, Lucy, and the/tectives, The criminal ciuss was} cide und me on the other. There’ furr On # small stand in the perplexing new aspect she had given} nothing more than the police claimed lho 4 string trom each peg runing window next to the entrance door to the case, There seemed no appar-Jit to be—just a stunted, unnatural, ; O'Connor, and the same thing on other side to me. We'll hold th strings, one in each hand. Now, th stood on old glass aquarium govered netting. It contained no ver, and Forrester dis al snakes siowly coiling tround on the gravel in It instantly recalled to that the Voodoo worship- he West Indies used snakes ceremonies, te questioned the woman husband, who had run tid, and about the queer it the tree. you ever seen any of the men who make use of that tree?" ‘ ie declared, “and no one ent alliance between the two, yet both} evil-smelling plant, with its roots were strangely, though obscurely, as-| buried deep in the sordid, filthy dives sociated with it. Forrester had nojand foreign settlements of the West] Completely surrounds the tree, eo th sooner lighted his pipe, however, | Side. any one approaching will Ick inta when the door bell rang, and two} Forrester was disappointed; deepl¥| xtring, We'll know from the hi callers were ushered inte the room. |disappointed. In spite of the danger. tne siring's in just what direction “Well,” said one of the men, “my|worry and uncertainty, the thing had |) 6k ror them in the dark. O'Conne name's Cahill, and this is my partner,| got into his blood during the last] strings will be A and B, and Detective Sergeant O'Connor. Wel few days. It had fired his imagina-|q\1) be C and D. Get the Idea? come from the Detective Bureau." | tion, stirred his latent energies and} “Ty O'Connor feels a tug, he'll “I'm glad to know you both,’ re-|awakened his brain. And now the|4 or Bat me. If I get a feel on ot turned Forrester, smiling. ‘Sit down,| whole elaborate structure which had|or my strings I'll holler C or D. please,” and he indicated nearby| been slowly building up toward the|me? Then we'll both make a rush 1 skies collapsed in one moment to re- | just the right spot. Belleve me, We came to seo you about this|veal nothing save a few murderous | lorrester, we got them this time. ‘Friends of the Poor’ matter," began] thugs concealed in the cellar. sneaking up between detectives neg Cahill, who appeared to be the spokes-| Forrester heaved a. sig! Saturday night." man for the pair fy partner and} “Relieved, eh?" chuckled Cahill The idea sounds very good, Cw me are working on the case."” “Thought the police were no good, | hill, ed Forrester, ‘Perhaps “Making any progress?"’ inquired] and that you had to kiss 10,000 bucks | will work. If I don’t hear from ye io you mean by that?” rrester. men ever come near that tree—~ just hosts, It's haunted!"? Forrester, fully convinced in his own | goodby?"’ n the meantime, what hour do you Vorrester stared for a moment. It however, that they were not. Forrester laughed. Now the humor | Wish me to approach the tree on § was curious how all these people ell, we are, and we aren't,"}of the situation struck him. Green's | ¥ night?”’ ered Cah “You see, O'Con-|iong study of the problem, his care We've tixed on ten-thirty, if thal] nor and me were in the police auto|fui tabulation of information and s convenient for you, Mr. Forrester,” the other night—the night you tipped | oret loped theories, we vered Cahill us off. We're both some shots, and] gq. lass with Humphrey's sug- suits me,’ declared For. we felt pretty we had hit that} cested scientifle solution, und Pe car we were chasing. So we've been| rester's own investigations and con now, we'll be going, ame scouting around the West Side gar-|soctures. No wonder the Chief of |eunced Cahill, rising. ‘Thanks for ages looking for a car with bullet! Detectives had said, “Novices only|the cisar. As fine a smoke as I've hole: hamper us." had in @ tong time. “To-day we located just such a car] wxo.+ explained Forres an agreed in that one point. “What do you keep those snakes for!’ he asked suddenly “They're part of my religion, 1 go to ch inquired Not t church theso Niggers around she sneered. “I worship in my own way." »,"" murmured O'Connor, in ar with half a dozen bullet holes in the ‘i a dn’ Tuke another along,”’ st “Well,” he went on, again address- KBE A Ewe OLELOR CFARACAe? able rk rare ce eee rrester, accepting the ‘hint. ing ie: Megrese oie vee ited nue. aA Aventie, You Know. (617 wii cee thie: Lave recently m The two detectives each carefull instead of men hamsing around that Puloee PSAs Crom the | willeay tiki T hve recently elected another cigar, and then Fou iree, perhaps you cam tell me some- river, The garage man suid it was] SOM? Pecullar and interes FH now [tester Went with them to the doors thing about what they do." left there late ‘Tuesday night by three | Tes on my own account, and no What will you do if the gho ou have practically knocked the oundation from under them with your very matter of fact solution of he myster: “We ain't solved it yet, remem objected Cahill. ‘We've simply a line on the right people, and in due | one time we'll get our hands on them. We | tail “I have never seen anything,’ ex- Mained Lucy, “but sometithes when I come home late at night I hear things posed to haunt that tree sho wi?" inquired Forrester, u don't believe that stuff, you, Mr. Forrester?” asked Cal yen full Well, several people noth Italians. Now, do you get the ster did, and he was astounded news. You mean," he queried, “that you ascribe this whole affair to some West Side Black Hand band ar proves your theory suggested Forr ans and sometimes the sc “Such unknown) have agreed on the w sitive confirmation of a Met hinte eae in, | may still have to ask you to help us. “Ali smiled. - “Mahe. ands Hee ee ETHE NEGRESS IST COD) IN| THE DOORWAY. «SHE WAS/ TALL ||, cue tHine!® | assented SCAHMI ITT seviat we dropped ii for tule maid, “ur anne tree tn Oe Forrester glanced around the room| AND THIN, WITH WIRY, JET BLACK HAIR. eran Pcathe eo earnee | @vanIne: palnerennie To sto . fine i lve “What do you want me to do n o ghost once mc cookstove appear MHEG (he. cotterawilon followed. the iletitvdueriedwonveats times had o clve, and a 3 1 ghoe to be without a fire and there were) /lmed the cortege which followed th pe hibageens dais me then ag: s didn't. We have sus-| asked Forrest ghosted no signs of food. He wondered. remains of tle | r to the ceme- The daughter of some very dear! pected Black Handers from the first,] ‘Well, you see is way," ex You certainly have my best wisl Turning again to Lucy, Forrester] tery he did not have an opportunity nds of Helen's. The Sturtevants| but we couldn't exactly get a line on| plained Cahill. ‘If those Dagos come] tor your suee aid Forréster, said, ‘Strange out the ghost that] to speak to his m er about the let-[are an old New York family, she|them. That tip you gave us Tues-] back to the garage between now and “Don't worry y more,"’ assul haunts that tree, Lucy. Did you ever] 4... which the girl had entrusica to|84¥8. I'm quite sure that I day night started things right. Now|Saturday, we'll have them, Bui if] Cahill, as he passed o} rhe po hear of any one being murdered heard df them." we know where we're at There's} they get wi car] have got this gang dead to rights ¢ tind heros’? Yim. At dinner, I assed} “May 1 be permitted to inqui three detectives in overalls in that|they may chuck it a another |time, Saturday night wiil end itt “No,” she ed, ‘Then added, | the letter table to his} said Josephine roguishly, “how Mr.| garage right now, and if those guysfone. In that t them fter a it she rose and ‘mot! Robet ester came to be thelcome back car the whole at the oak t Nott (Continued To-Morrow.) their trip at Washington and go Evening World’s Weekly Road Maps for Auto Owners situs cack |S Fed NaN a bury then over Salem Avenue] all of which is in quite good condi- to Old Point Cot erry is crossed through Mickleton and Swedesboro tion. 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