Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1923 — Page 8

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THE UNFAMILIAR TRIANGLE jqf tyr BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM X. " ru\ iiittusL jdk Copyright. 1922. by E Phillips Oppenhelm SiaHORHAM Arrgt N’EA Servtoe. Inc. lg

BEGIN HERE TODAY Vendetta berine between MTfTHART. SAYERS, 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 She receives a legacy of two hundred and fifty • pounds and tabes oassape to Marseilles. On the boat Janet meets a confederate of Michel's named Louisa Martin. Louisa takes Janet to Sayers’ hiding: place in Marseilles, where Janet is unjustly accused of treachery. Greyes. traveling closely on the trail of Michael, tracts him to his place of residence in Marseilles, ft develops that Sayers has eluded his pursuers by disguisintr a confederate as himself and leaving him at the residence NOTV GO ON WTTFI STORY Sir Norman Greyes Talks: HE shook his head. "They were left by a former tenant.” he replied. “I know nothing of their use.” I turned into the garage and wheeled out one of the rubber tires which were ranged against the wall. "T * you have no other car," I asked him. "how is It that all the tires in your garage are like this one —two sizes larger than those on the car you were driving?” He hesitated and turned his head. He knew then that It wns the end. The gendarme was returning with a fat little man who wore no coat and waistcoat. “This man keeps the case at the corner,” the former announced. "He knows his neighbor Guy well.”

HE RAISED HIS ARM SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH MINE. OUR PISTOLS SPOKE TOO ETHER. "Is this Monsieur Guy?” Demayel asked. The innkeeper ■was more than emphatic; he was vehement. ‘Upon my soul, no'** he -declared. "Monsieur Guy I know well. This gentleman is a stranger.” Demayel turned to the pseudo Monsieur Guy. "Well?” The man shrugged his shoulders. "I have done what I was paid for,” he said sullenly. We dined that night, Rimmingtnn and I, in a remote corner of a great bustling restaurant. Demayel had himself telephoned and ordered the table. The latter had promised to join us for coffee, but, before we reached that stage of our repast, we were surprised to see him coming hastily toward us, followed by a tall man of military bearing. "Messieurs,’’ he said as he sat for a moment at our table, "a grave thing has happened. The young man who has acted as my secretary for five years has absconded. It is he, without a doubt, who warned the man whom you call Michael. Worse than that, his report to me that the Carlyon would not reach dock until

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tonight was ’a lia. She arrived this morning and landed her passengers this afternoon.” \ I half rose to my feet, but Demayel waved me back. "Listen," he continued. ’This much we know at present: The Englishwoman went first to the Hotel Splendide. At 6 o’clock this 6ventng she was called for by the other woman, and they drove off alone. They were shadowed, fortunately, by Lund, the American detective, who ..followed Louisa Martin over, and who reports that his life was attempted last night. This woman Martin, it seems, has an evil reputation. She has been in prison twice In her younger days in Paris, and she was tried for murder seven years ago. Lund reports .that there Is ill blood between the two women. He is convinced that the Englishwoman, Janet Soalo, as she called herself on -the steamer, has been decoyed' | into some place to meet Michael. "How far did he follow them?" I asked. "Where is he now?” "He followed them Into the worst Quarter of Marseilles,” Demayel replied, "but as soon a she discovered their destination, he had th good sense to return for aid. They are in the one quarter of the city which I have not yet succeeded in clearing. But tonight the attempt shall be made.” "Let us start!" T exclaimed eagerly. TVe moved toward the door. “I deeply regret,” Demayel announced. “that this Is an adventure on which I cannot accompany you. If I were to show myself in the Quartier, I should not only endanger your lives, but I should of an absolute certainty forfeit my own. Monsieur Santel here,” he added, turning to his companion, "will take command of the expedition. Lund is in one of the cars outside. A sufficient force of gendarmes hap already penetrated seeretly into the Quartier. It remains only for me to wish you good fortune.” In the car which we found waiting for us. we passed from the broad thoroughfares of the city to a retrion of increasing squalor and ugliness. We descended some small stone steps, parsed along a narrow passage, and entered a case, the most dilapidated and filthy I have ever been in. A repulsive woman lolled across the counter and looked at us. TVe passed behind that counter, through a door, into a noisome house wrapped in utter darkness. Four other men seemed to have crept up to us like shadows, and we all had electric torches. At a certain po.r.t in the descent of some stone steps, we paused. Three of the men felt about for some time. Then an unsuspected door slowly swung open, a door which seemed to lead into a chasm, black and impenetrable. The man who had slipped past Santel and become our guide stretched up his hand and pulled down a long, tjjin ladder. One by one we descended into what seemed to be a great cellar. At the farther end was a kink of light from the room beyond, and a sound which for the moment made a madman of me—the sound of a woman crying. I stumbled across the uneven, floor, but Santel caught hold of my arm. "Be careful,” he muttered. If our man is there and sees you, he will shoot. Let the others surround him. We have a plan." I scarcely heard him, .but I held my breath and kept silence while some one attempted to find .means of ingress. Then suddenly, I heard Michael’s . voice. Gold and measured as ever, it seerne.d to me, though he must have known that he vras in desperate straits. "For the last time, Janet, the truth!” he said. "What has become of the money which was handed over to you —the price of the jewels? And why have you followed mo to Marseilles?” "No one has given me any money.” she replied. "1 have earned my own living since we parted.” ”lAa4!" Louisa exclaimed "Tell us why you came to Marseilles, and why Rimmington, the English detective, has followed. Tel! us who called your new lover, Norman Greyea, from Monte Carlo?" Again there was a peal of derisive laughter from Louisa Martin, followed by the soft ringing of an electric bell-and a fierce oath from Michael. There was a moment’s silence, the scurrying of feet, the flinging back of what sounded like a door. Michael’s voice, when he spoke, had changed. "You have had your chance, Janet,” he said. "I shall leave you to Louisa." A fortunate madness seized me. I flung my whole weight against the door, and we fell into the place In a heap. Janet, her feet and arms tied with cord, white and numb with fear, was lying on the ground: Louisa Martin with the face of a fury and eyes filled with hate, leaned over her. Michael, with unrecognizable face, but unforgettable eyes, was already half way through a trapdoor. Ho raised his arm simultaneously with mine. Our pistols spoke together and the sound of their report was followed almost immediately by the crashing of the trap door. t felt a sharp pain in my shoulder: and for a moment T think T went mad.. I was cutting the cords which bound Janet’s hands and feet, talking to her foolishly. trying to keep back the faintness which threatened me. Then the mist came and the room rocked. • * * My first visitor in the hospital, six weeks later, was Monsieur Demayel. “That man’s escape. Sir Norman.” he confessed, "was a most deplorable incident.” * “How did he get-away?” I inquired. “He descended through the trap door from the room in which you found him.” Monsieur Demayel explained. "by means of a rope ladder, to a narrow inlet of the harbor, which, at full tide, is directly underneath. He secured the trap door behind him by means of a bolt, got into a petrot launch and apparently made his way across the bay. The launch was discovered- next day upon the beach, and there is a theory that he was washed overboard by a heavy sea.” "Louisa Martin.” T asked. “Safe for coven years.” was the grim reply. "And—the English woman’.”’ Monsieur Demayel glanced suspicloidy at the flowers by my bedside. •fcie remained in Marseilles for’ w time. I do. not know her’pres-

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ens whereabouts.” As soon as my visitor had gone, I sent for the nurse. "From w-hom did these flowers c-ome?” I inquired, “Until you were out of danger,” she told me, “a very beautiful English lady called every day. A week ago she returned to England, but she lert with the sister an order on a florist for roses every day for a fortnight.” "She left no note or message?” ‘'Nothing.”

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“When can I leave for England?” “In a fortnight, if you behave,’ she answered. “Perhaps never, if you work yoursejf into a fever'.” “Nurse,” I asked, “have you is vet been in love?” “It is not a fit question from a patient to his nurse,” she replied, with a pleasant little gleam in her eyos. "I need sympathy,' 1 explained, “but. if you will not talk to me, I shall go to sleep." "The more*'you sleep.' she declared

"the sooner you will be able to go to England?’ “.Michael's Wedding Gift,” ninth storj of this remarkable series, will begin in our next issue. Store Employe Accused Vera Dean, 33. of 2348 Prospect. St., -under arrest today, made false reports in the millinery department of L. S. Ayres & Cos. .store, where she was employed,'according to detectives.

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200 HOMES FOR ORPHANS American Legion State Auxiliary Fixes (ioiil at 25,000. More than two hundred homes will be needed for World War orphans within the next year, according to Mrs. L. J. ivostei of Indianapolis. She made the prediction aL a conference of the Indiana American Legion Auxiliary at Central Christian Church. Mrs. Donald MaoCrea, |past president of the Department of lowa, fixed

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the goal for Indiana auxiliaries at 25,000 members within two months. Each district of the State will send a delegate to the national convention at San Francisco in October. SECOND BIDSTABULATED State Board of Education to Act on Teste Tuesday. The State Board of education today received tabulated sohrdulee of second bids offered Thursday by thirty-six

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publishing houses on high school text books for five years. Only six of the 1 300 books showed reductions on bids ’ejected April 30. The board will meet again Tuesday to adopt or reject the second lot of bids. ’ Ladies' Das at Club The Exchange Club observed its first Ladies’ day for several weeks at the weekly luncheon held at the Lin. coin today. There was a musical program. *