Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1923 — Page 8

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BOXES OF M '* GOLD JS BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM l. Copyright, 1922, by E. Phillips Oppenheim I Arrgt- 'TEA Service, Ina. Ir I ■■ ■ * 'W , .

BEGIN HEBE TODAT Vsndetta begins between MICHAEL SAVERS, noted criminal, -and SIR NORMAN GREYES. once of Scotland Yard. when Sayers' beautiful housemaid, JANET, saves him from Sir Norman by shooting dead an officer sent to arrest him. Janet becomes Sayers' wife and accomplice, Michael plots to rob two men. Gorty and Metzger, of seven boxes of gold brought into England to establish private credits. Mr. and Mrs. Jose da Miguel assist Michael, During the absence of Gorty. Madam de Miguel entices Metzger to her hotel room, where Michael renders him unconscious. The gold is substituted for their luggage and the de Miguels leave for parts unknown. Gorty puts Greyes on the trail of Michael and Sir Norman has a lady operative shadow the criminal. NOW GO ON WITH STORY Sir Norman Continues: 4 4 -tr T OTj are satisfied?" my com- | pan lon asked. "Perfectly,” I assured her. “I am going to run no further risk of being recognized. I shall pay the bill and go. You will remain. Remember, It Is the woman you must watch. Engage as much help as you require. She must be watched unceasingly.” My companion nodded. "It will not be difficult,” she said. • • • 1 took my departure, and at this Stage of my search for the missing gold, I took Hlmmlngton Into my confidence. Re agreed with me as to the advisability of allowing Michael to remain at large for the present; and so far as he was concerned, he satisfied himself with placing a strict watch upon the house In Adam St. where we had located him. I myself retired a little Into the background, although I remained In the closest touch with Mias Weston. Her ' Information was always interesting, always suggestive. The whole scheme gradually unwound Itself.

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•REMEMBER IT IS THE WOMAN YOU MUST WATCH. ENGAGE AS MUCH HELP AS YOU DESIRE.” “One of the out pepters at Waterloo.” he announced, “seems to refnefn ber a small furniture van backed up against the pavement some distance away from whore the majority of the taxicabs were unloading.” “He didn’t notice the name on it, i suppose?” I added, “No such luck! There’s another thing, though. One of the old hands there told another of my fellows that he noticed several porters about, that night, whose faces were quite unfamiliar to him and whom he has noi seen since. The driver of the bus from the Milan insists upon it, as you remember, (hat Mme. De Migue, pushed away the lirst porter who accosted them, and insisted upon employing two of her own choosing." "We have got so far, then,” I pointed out: recapitulating Kerns pt information which had been brought us. "This pretended South Ameri can and his wife drove up to Water 100 with three heavy eases. They were met there by confederate-* dressed in the uniform of railway porters, who probably took tho boxes into the statist, and choosing their opportunity, brought them out again and got them into the furniture yan. The inference is that the gold is still London, To proceeds What have we learned about Janet? She is staying in a boarding house in the Croirv well Rd., frequented by artists, She spends an hour or two every day at the South Kensington Museum, studying statuary. It is exactly four days since she brougnt a little specimen of some sort of work to Miohael, something that, unless I am mistaken, was of considerable weight, for I noticed that her handbag sagged at.

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she walked up to the restaurant Further—” • • • The telephone-bell rang. I recognised Miss Weston’s voice at the other end. I listened to what she had to say, and in ten minutes we were In my car and on the way to Twickenham. We picked up Miss Weston herself In Kensington. "The woman whom I have been following,” she announced, "is only a few minutes ahead of us. She is In a private car, and there Is a strange man seated in front wiyt the chauffeur.” "It looks well,” Rimraington admitted. "Our friend has ordered the same table for dinner tonight at Romano’s.” On our way I had a moment of uneasiness. A gray touring-car passed us at a great speed and shot down the Brentford Road, considerably ahead of us. Rimmlngton spoke for a moment, through the tube, and we pulled up at the district police station. "We’ve given Michael rope enough.” he decided. "He may get the alarm at any moment now. I’m going to have him arrested.” v I drew a little breath. It was hard to think that I should not be present at the end for which I had worked so zealously, but I realized the risk of letting him remain at large any longer. I waited while Rimmlngton entered the police and spoks to headquarters. When he returned, he brought with him a couple of plain-clothes men, one of whom eat In the front and the other with us. "There will probably be half a dozen of them.” Rlmmington pointed out, "and from what I know *of the gang that Michael generally employs, there may be a little trouble. We’ll leave Miss Weston in the car." • • • We turned off the main road at Twickenham, and finally stopped before the gates of a large, old fashioned villa, badly out of repair and apparently empty. The grounds sloped down to the river, and the gates were padlocked. We climbed over, leaving Miss Weston behind. She detained us for one moment. "The house is galled the Sanctuary.” she said. "Goodson, the sculptor, lived here once.” We hurried off. The place showed every sign of desertion, but there were marks of recent wheels upon the avenues, and as we turned the last corner we saw a thin cloud of smoke curling;upward from a long range of outbuildings which looked like a sort of annex to the kitchen. Rimmlngton quickened his pace. We all broke into a run. We avoided the front door, with its flight of stone steps, and went straight for the building which we now perceived to have been the studio. The door of a long outbuilding stood open. We paused to look inside. There was a furniture van there, an 4 inside, some clothing of rusty corduroy. The uniforms of the pseudo porters at Waterloo** were ac counted for. \, * Entrance to the studio itself was gained by means of a stout oak door, barred and bolted. We went around to the, back, crossing a lawn whore the grass and weeds were up to our knees. We failed to discover any other door, but somehow or other we found our way through a smashed “window into the great room with its dome-shaped ceiling. I think, even as we entered, we realized that we were too late. The place was empty. A small forge was burning: there were several strange-looking vessels lying about the floor: the coffers, covered only by a piece of matting which Rlmmington kicked aside, were ranged against the wall. There was not a sound to be heard, but the place of smelled of tobacco smoke, and indeed there was a faint cloud of blue smoke still hanging about the root. "We’ve lost them!” Rimmlngton muttered. "We have the gold, though," I reminded him. “And Michael. I trust,’ was the fervent rejoinder. • • • We searched the house, which was empty and desolate. Then we sent to the local police station rfnd arranged for the gold to be removed. Afterward we called on the house agent. He made a little grimace when we mentioned the Sanctuary. "Thought I’d let It to a lady sculptor,” he declared. "Bhe paid for the house for a month, to see whether she could wc.-k there—wanted to do her own casting or something.” “She paid you for the month, I hope?” Rimmlngton inquired. t “Oh, s£e paid that, all right?” the agent replied. “I wish these old places were all pulled down. They’re more trouble than they're worth.” "Did the lady bring you any references?” I asked. “I didn’t ask for any.” the house agent replied frankly. "I was only too glad to get any one even to taik about the property. Besides, the lady put the money down.” “Nevertheless,” Rimmlngton said quietly, “as a person who has had some experience in these matters—l am Inspector Rlmmington of Scotland Yard—l should advise you to be a little careful how you ffieal with these large, old-fashioned houses. In the present case you may be interested to know that the little forge in the studiq at the Sanctuary has been used for the purpose of melting down Russian gold.” t "God help us!” the agent cried. "What, the Gorty and Metzger gold?” "Precisely,” Rimmington acquiesced “They’ve got rid of a little of it, as it happens, but to judge from the preparations, they were going into extensively in a day or two." We drove back to London, and I followed my friend into private room with a rare thrill of excitement I saw his face grow white and stern as he listened to the report of the man who rose to meet him. Thpn he turner a disconsolate face to me. “The rooms in Adam StVeet aempty.” he said. “Stanfield has no visited the British Museum tod a; We've lost him again! I ought to habetter,” he added biterly, “th. to have let him remain at liberty t‘ a single moment.” “And the woman?” I asked, a litt. nervously. t

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Rimmlngton shook his head. “We don’t want her," he said. "She’s just the decoy who may some day whistle her mate to his cell. It’s a knock for us. Greyes. Neither De Miguel nor his wife nor Michael Sayers!” "But we have the gold.’T reminded him once more. * "Damn the gold!" Rlmmington retorted profanely. But Gorty thought otherwise. So,

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when he recovered consciousness, did Metzger. "The Unfamiliar Triangle," eighth story of this remarkable sendee, will begin in our next issue. Movie theaters In Java ark so constructed that the screen divides them into two parts, foreigners sitting on the side from which the picture Is produced and the notices on the other.

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