Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1923 — Page 8

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BOXES OF M GOLD M BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM 4. nAMiCHAtk * | (M Copyright. 1922, by E. Phillips Oppenheim Staky-e.H ATTgt- NEA Service. Inc. Ig 8

Vendetta begins between Michael Sayers, noted criminal, and SIB NORMAN GREYES. once of Scotland Yard, when Sayers' beautiful housemaid. JANET, saves him from Sir Norman by shooting dead the officer sent to arrest him. Janet becomes Sayers' wife and accomplice. While Sir Norman is living at his country house the police ask him to help capture a criminal whom they believe to be at the head of a dangerous gang. On his way to London, Greyes' car is stopped and ho is shot through the shoulder. Greyes asks Janet to dine with him. Janet accepts. Acting upon Michael's command Janet puts poison In Sir Norman's coffee. but regrets her act and purposely upsets the cup. Sayers tells this episode: [WAS at St. Pancras Station to meet Gorty and Metzger on their arrival in England. I saw the seven black tin boxes with brass clamps, handed out of the guard’s van and placed on the roof of a taxicab. T knew as though It were foredoomed that the contents of those boxes would be mine before the week was out. I felt certain, too, that one at least of the two men would fight to death before I obtained possession of them. They were well worth it. however. It was a foggy night, and I lingered with perfect safety on the outskirts of the little throng of people who had come to greet these two men. They were a rough lot, on the whole—men of the lowest type, swarthy and unclean. I saw hungry glances directs toward those black boxes, and I knew that, given sufficient cunning and address, I should not be the first by a long way to strike a blow for their acquisition. But of these others I had no fear. Gorty and Metzger knew their friends, knew them well enough not to trust them.

“THERE IS ONE HOUR THAT MY HUSBAND WILL BJE AWAY,” SHE WHISPERED. “YOU MAY KISS ME.” I walked back through the fog to my huble little flat In Adam St. Those were gloomy days, even for me, who cared little about the physical comforts of life. I was passing as Mr. Arthur Younghusband, LED., a cousin of the well-known solicitor of Lincoln’s Inn. in town to consult works of reference at the British Museum. Day by day I walked to that gloomy mausoleum of dead knowledge, spent an hour or so there, and back to my rooms. No one dogged my footsteps. By devious ways I had shaken off all pursuit and suspicion. Yet life was a wearisome thing. I am not a man with many human weaknesses, but I should have welcomed a visit from Janet—a little dinner, perhaps, at the Case Royal, a peep into the world of many-colored pleasure outside of which my path lay. These things however, I knew were not for me. Janet was watched, as I knew beyond a doubt; even if she were not, she had failed me in my last demand. Janet presented a problem to be solved. On the third day after the arrival

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of Gorty and Metzger, I visited my solicitors, the firm of Younghusband, Xicholson & Younghusband, at Lincoln's Inn. My reputed cousin granted me an interview within a few minutes of my arrival. We spoke for a time of my studies and their progress. Then there was a pause. The door v.as closed; the walls of the room were thick. "Things progress?” I demanded, leaning across his wide, untidy table. Mr. Younghusband smiled benevolently. In these moments of direct speech I was accustomed to forget my ! assumed personality and to speak with all the quick incisiveness that was nat ural to me. My legal adviser, how ever, never altered his manner of reply or deportment. He was always the same, unctuous, legal, courtly. “Your affairs are in excellent train." he assured me. “Os the two people in whom we are interested, one leaves, as we have surmised, for Manchester tonight; the other remains alone.” “They have made no arrangement with any bank yet?” My companion shook his head “They are both, under the circumstances. suspicious." he said. “Their position, of course, is—er—peculiar. They are custodians of a hundred thousand pounds in gold, with which they hope to establish a few private credits In this country. On the other hand, the country to which they belong owes us something like a hundred times that amount. They have a somewhat natural fear that any bank with whom they might deposit their treasure might be disposed to hand it over to the government, or that the government, by some legal means, might attach it. “Therefore,” I observed, “it remains in their rooms?” “Precisely! They consider it the leaser risk.” “And Gorty goes to Manchester tonight?" ‘‘That is so,” the lawyer murmured. “So far all seems well,” I said. “The great thing'4s that the gold has not been removed and that Metzger will be alone. There were other little details.” “Just so!” Mr. Younghusband assented. leaning back in his chair with his finger-tips pressed together. “So far as regards the setting of the af fair. I think you will find it in order. Metzger and Gorty occupy suite 89 at the Milan Hotel, which suite consists, as you know, of two bedrooms, a bathroom and a sitting-room. The sittingroom is on the extreme right-hand side of the suite, and the gold is kept in Metzger’s bedroom, which opens from the sitting-room. The bathroom is between the two bedrooms. “I have had the plan,” I Interrupted a little impatiently. Mr. Younghusband declined to be hurried. He had the air of giving difficult legal advice on a technical point. Suite 90. he continued, “consists of a bedroom, bathroom and .sittingroom only, and is occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Jose de Miguel, very rich South Americans. They are leaving tonight by motor car for Southampton to catch the steamer there for Buenos Aires in the morning.” “Their luggage Is already pa/tked”’ I asked. “Already packed,” Mr. Younghusband agreed. “The porters have commented upon its weight.” “And Madam?” “Appears to have fulfilled her task.” was the somewhat hesitating answer I detected signs of uneasiness in my companion’s speech, and I questioned him about it promptly. “Have you doubts of the woman,” I asked.

“None whatever," Mr. Younghusband assured me blandly. “At the same time, she is. without doubt, the weakest link in the chain. She has temperament enough—Metzger seems to have been an easy victim; but I should have had more confidence in tho lady who vDitod me the other day.” “I can no longer put complete confidence in my wife," r replif><i coldly. Mr. Younghusband was startled out of his dignified senrity of manner. He leaned across the table. “What do you mean by that?” he demanded harshly. “Do you know that she has been here, the one place in I/Ondon you should have been careful to keep her away from, if you had any doubts?" “I have no doubts whatever as to her fidelity,” I declared. “You know what I mean when I say that, in the parlance of our friends, she has gone soft. It is a pity." Mr. Younghusband seemed relieved, but puzzled. “A woman who could do what she did on the golf links at Woking.” he murmured reminiscently, “must have changed very much if she merits your present criticism.” The subject was by no means a pleasant one to me. I abandoned it. “In any case." T reminded him, “she is in touch with Greyes and he knows too much.” “Wonderful capacity for existence, that man." Mr. Younghusband replied suavely. Harsh deeds—l am not a lover of them. I seldom go out of my way tc kill, or allow my subordinates to dn so, if my ends can be obtained otherwise. At that moment, however, ITelt a sudden resurgence into my bm!n of that one bloodthirsty desire of my life. “As soon as this affair is safely concluded.’’ T said, "and we are in funds once mor. I shall take occasion to deal with Norman Greyes myself.” - “It occurs to me that you would he well advised." my companion acquiesced. “The person in question possesses the one gift which might make him dangerous to us. He has imagination.” I nodded. I was tracing figures upon the blotting paper, debating with myself different methods of dealing with Norman Greyes. "Every channel which might lead to the firm of Younghusband. Nicholson and Younghusband.’’ the lawyer continued meditatively, “seems, so far as human ingenuity could arrange It, permanently blocked, but a man with imagination who is not afraid to work on guesswork is always to be feared.” “It will not be my fault,” I promised, a.'s I took my leave, “if you have a y ei.use to fear Norman Greyes after the next month or so.”

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That night, in the language of those forgotten war communiques, everything happened according to plan. At a quarter to nine Metzger, who was writing alone in his sittingroom, heard a soft knocking at the door which communicated with the adjoining suite. He rose promptly, locked the outside door of his own rooms, and softly withdrew the bolt of the door to the next suite. He stood there with an inviting smile upon his ugly face. Madam de Miguel laid a

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

cautioning finger upon her somewhat overpainted lips as she stole over the threshold. “There is one hour that my husband will be away,” she whispered, gliding past him. “You may kiss me.” (Continued in Our Next Issue) Total amount of gasoline consumed in the United States last year was f.,382,000,006 gallons, 80 per cent of which was consumed by automobiles.

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from the Oakland Museum on the Supal Indian reservation, forty miles northwest of the Grand Canyon In Arizona, according to word received in this city by George S. Gould, archaeologist, from his colleague, Fred Shaw, who is the photographer for the expedition. A fossilized impression of a primitive man's shoe whose size indicates the wearer was eight feet tall, was found in Nevada a few months ago

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and fossils already found on the Supal reservation gave the Oakland scientists the "hunch” that they might find evidence of the prehistoric rac< in the primitive Arizona region. The fossil footprint showed a primitive shoe, presumably made from hide In which twenty stitches had been taken to shape it. Scientists hold the theory that the fact that the hide wa& stitched carefully to conform to foot shows that >.be race to which Ujg

THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1923

—By ALLMAN

—By AL POSEN

wearer belonged had a higher sßefl of intelligence than any other prehistoric race known. Word of the expedition's discoveries are being awaited by scientists In this city and throughout (he Nation. If traces of a race of giants are found, it is declared that this discovery will be the most valuable contribution made to archaeology in years and wld alter all present theories of prehistorio life on this continent.