Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1923 — Page 8

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THE HONOR OF 3 M. LUTARD J& BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM \ * Copyright, lift, by B. PhllMpg Oppenhetro SbIMMM Arrgt NBA Brfjc, Inc IT

BEGIN HERE, TODAY Vendetta begins between HICHAEL SAYERS, noted criminal, and SHI NORMAN GREYES. once of Scotland Yard, when Sayers’ beautiful housemaid. JANET, saves him from Sir Norman by shootinir dead the officer sent to arrest him. Janet becomes Sayers' wife and accomplice. In the Leeds bank robbery. Michael (known to Grcyes as “Stanfield ") barely escapes and has to flee the country. Sayers plots with another well-known criminal. Paul Gont, to ruin the political leader, Phillippe Lutarde. Gont sends for Jar-et to assist them. Sir Norman is hired iy the government to protect Lutarde and Dromiseg to do all in his power to beep the eader from harm. Greyes meets Janet on ;he street and takes her (o lunch. NOW GO ON WITH STORY Sir Norman Talks TSAW her luggage through the customs, for which, as she knew no French, she was grateful. I offered her a seat in the car which had been sent for me, but she shook her head. "I am going to the Gare de l’Est,” she said. “Where you will take a fresh cab and drive to the address which you do not intend me to hear,” I remarked. “You need not go out of your way. I will give you another parole. I will make no effort to discover your address, so you can take your taxi and drive straight there. I shall be at the Hotel Meurlce. If you have an hour to spare we will drive in the Bois tomorrow.” • * * For the next few days I was immersed in the complications of the business which had brought me to Paris. To my surprise, Janet called to see me at the hotel and we took our drive in the Bols. It was easy to realise that, whatever the business whioji had brought her to Paris may have been, it was of a disturbing nanny. She was nervous and ill at looking around all the time as th<y%£h she was afraid of being observe* Somehow I gathered when we parrel •‘bat she was obsessed by Borne new fear, ■austja’inderiying dread of circumstances, of which, however, she gave me no inkling. “TIJEY WILL SEEK TO STRIKE Through his one weakness —HIS SENTIMENTALITY, GOOD NATURE.” At the end of the third day of my stay a little conference was held in my salon between Guy Ennfson—who had worked In the English secret service during the war, and whose headquarters had been in Paris—myself and Monsieur Destin, an ex-chief of the police, now a member of Lutarde’s government. The latter was a short and corpulent little Frenchman. with black mustache and imperial, vivid black eyes and a most vivacious manner. “Sir Norman Greyes,” he said, grasping my hand, “you are welcome. If you can help us to save our chief, you are more than welcome. He is in danger—of that I am assured.” Much of the rest of his speech was irrelevant. The gist of the matter, however, was contained in his concluding sentences. “They will seek to strike through his one weakness—his sentimentality, his excessive good-nature. Philippe Lutarde has always been a lover of women, a kindly and a generous lover. He can resist no appeal to his sympathies; and our French public—you know, perhaps, how strange they are. Whatever our own private lives may be, we tolerate not even indiscretions from our great men. We glorify and sanctify them; we place them on a pedestal; and if they fall, we depose them from our hearts. All nations have their peculiar form of hypocrisy. That is ours. Lutarde's daily life is being examined at the present moment, hour by hour.” “By the police?” I asked. “No! By the agents of a very dangerous gang of criminals, whose chief we believe to be in league with the other side.”

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“Why not give warning to Monsieur Lutarde?” “That has been done. He is haughty and impetuous. He will brook no interference with his actions.” “Can I meet him?” I suggested. “Today at the British ’ Embassy,” Guy Ennison replied. “We have arranged a little luncheon. He does not know your errand, and he scarcely even realizes our anxiety.” * + • Our conference broke up soon afterward. At luncheon I found Philippe Lutarde gracious, charming and brilliant. He had the clear skin and bright eyes of a v younger man: his snow-white hair was a veritable adornment. He was a delightful companion, and I easily understood the enthusiastic adherence of Ills friends. Toward the close of luncheon Ennison spoke to him quite seriously of the existence of some conspiracy against either his life or his honor. Lutarde only smiled. “My friend,” he said, “I much appreciate all your efforts on my behalf; but behold, I am 70 years old! A few years more or less of life now are little. As to my honor, that no enemy can besmirch. If I were to surround myself by guards, as you suggest, place myself in a glass house. I should live an artificial life. I know that wilthout me things might for a time | be difficult, and relations between our i two countries might suffer. In a month | or two—however, all that will be changed—we shall have entered upon anew era—and for these few months I choose to take my risk. I will not submit to espionage.” Nevertheless for the next three days I cast away my name and resorted to the meaner walks of my profession. I shadowed the great French statesman, from the moment when he rose, until nightfall. There was a young j girl, very beautiful, with great dark j eyes and an appealing face, who! stopped him one night with some plti- j fui story. She was limping, and she j pointed continually to her foot. Lu- j tarde called the fiacre which she in I dicated. She leaned her Angers upon | his arm. I was qlose enough to see j the pressure of them, to note the j subtlety of her upward glances. He handed her to the cab. I heard her J pleading words. She was lonely. If ! monsieur would drive with her a little j way! But Lutarde shook his head j gravely. He paid the taxicab man a | fare which surprised him. lifted hts hat courteously and walked away. T saw the change in the girl’s face as h* disappeared. That was just one of his escapes. We had a more exciting few minutes one night when he Insisted upon •walking home trom the Quai d’Orsay. I saw the four dark, silent Agure? gliding together, two of them in front of him and two behind, and I saw the waiting motorcar at the corner of the street. Prudence led me to an-1 ticlpate their action, whatever it might i be. When they heard the split of bul lets against the wall they took to their heels and ran. To the gendarme ; who came hurrying 'up, I had only to show my badge of authority, and h procured for us at once a taxicab. Lutarde, convinced now that his enemies were In earnest, yielded to my Arst proposition. I was installed in his house as major-domo.

We had three or four days of absolute quietude. Then the moment which we had been expecting, ar rived. It was about six o’clock In the evening, and T was seated in Monsieur Lutarde’s study, copying some •letter.at a desk and posing as his secretary. A servant brought in a note, which the Minister read hastily and passed to me. It was written on British foreign office notepaper and signed by a very important personage. The gist of It was contained in these lines: The bearer can be altogether trusted. He brings you a verbal message of great importance. You will further our mutual interests if you give It your most serious consideration. • • • It was a mere chance which led me to retire to what Lutarde was pleased to call my spy-hole. It was perhaps as well that I did so, for to my amazement it was Janet who was presently ushered in. Monsieur Lutarde rose to his feet in some surprise. "You are the bearer of this letter, madame?” he queried. "In a sense I am not,” she replied, taking the chair to which he pointed and leaning a little over his desk. "It is my husband who should have come. He would have waited upon you and brought the letter and message to which this note refers, but he was attacked last night by an old complaint of his—sciatica—and he is absolutely unable to move. He asked me to hasten to you, and to beg that under the circumstances you would do him the honor to come to the hotel. He is ashamed to have to ask you, but the doctor who. Is with him now absolutely forbids him to stand up. I have here his certificate.” "I will come without delay, madame.” Lutarde promised, waving away the half-sheet of notepaper which she had tendered. “I came In a taxicab —it is waiting," she continued. "You doubtless would prefer your own car?" “It is no matter,” he answered. “At which hotel do you stay?” “The Hotel Napoleon, in the Rue Tranchard,” she replied. The minister started. I too received a shock, for the district was the most notorious in Paris. “My dear madame." he protested, "the neighborhood of the Rue Tranchard is certainly not a fit place for you and—” "That is what, distressed my husband so much in having to ask you to go to him.” she interrupted. “It was the particular desire of the person on whose behalf he has come, that his presence in Paris should not be known, and my husband deliberately chose this hotel, where he sometimes stayed when engaged on secret-service work during the war. He desired me to say that if you preferred not to risk being seen in such a locality, he would endeavor to procure an ambulance car from the hospital and come here.” ‘‘Snrh a thing would be unheard of.” protested. “I will go with > 41. of course.”

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China Learning by Mail fjj TIENTSIN. China, May 7 —For the first time in Chinese educational history correspondence schools have bawi started here. They are In connection with the new school of civilization opened here by Llang-Chichao, smi nent Chinese scholar. Among the Kachins, a tnbe in Bur ma, girl wear their hair bobbed aa a sign they are unmarried.