Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1923 — Page 8

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Vendetta begins between MICHAEL SAVES, noted criminal, and SIR XORMAX GRETES. once of Scotland Yard, when Sayers’ beautiful housemaid. JAJS'ET, saves him from Sir Norman by shooting dead an officer sent to arrest him. Janet become Sayers wife acmomplice. Janet takes passage to Marseilles, where a confederate of Sayers', named Louisa Martin, is jealous of Janet and plots against her. Greyes. following on the trail of Michael, traces him to his place of residence in Marseilles. It develops that Sayers has eluded his pursuers by disguising a confederate as himself and leaving him at the residence. Greyes reaches Michael’s hiding place just in time to rescue Janet. He is wounded by a shot from Sayers’ revolver. Sayers escapes. FOR many months after my somewhat ingenious escape from the case of Madame Ponadour In the Maritime Quartler of Marseilles, I lived in the Foret du Dom, on the far side of Hyeres, the life of a dog. There were three of us woodmen in the hut —Pierre. Jacques and myself. Solitude more complete than that which I shared with these two men I have never imagined. I read the newspapers, which we obtained with difficulty from the neighboring village —read of myself as the most notorious criminal at large, read of all the world-famed detectives of London, Paris and New Tork who had sworn to effect my capture, read of my crimes, my daring, my cunning, read of all these things outside my shanty on the hillside—and smiled. Given a certain amount of resignation and patience, and I knew very well that I was safe as long as I chose. One day a chance incident set mo thinking. We had paused for a second to fijl our pipes with filthy tobacco. barely a dozen yards rouna on of the hairpin comers of the forest road, leaving our wagons, as usual, in the middle of the thoroughfare. Suddenly a car swung round the comer, traveling too fast for the driver to apply his brakes with safety. With great skill he passed us, grazing the long trunks of the loppea trees and escaping the precipice by a matter of inches. That night I saw that Pierre and Jacques drank more than their usual share of the eaur wine, and afterward I propounded my scheme.

IT WAS I WHO CLAMBERED DOWN TO WHERE THE VICTIM WAS LYTN'G AND DREW A PLEASING PURSE. “Comrades,” I said, “Jt is a dog’s life we lead.” They growled assent. “Today,” I continued, “an idea came to me. If our wagons had been an inch or two nearer the outside cornet of the road, or the man in the automobile a shade less skillful, he couia not ‘ possibly have escaped. His automobile would have been smasheu, and he would have gone over the edge of the precipice." They made strange noises in their throats and continued to listen. “It is a dog's life, this,” I repeated. “What we need, to make things endurable, is money—money, so that you two can go down to the case at the foot of the hill and drink brandy with the daughters of the village, they who leave you now so unkindly alone because you have nothing to spena upon them.” Their pipes were out of their mouths now, and they were listening intently. “A man like that one today would have money—a pocketbook. Whilsc he was unconscious, look you, we would take it. One of us would bring it up here, here where there are a hundred hiding-places, in the ground, the trees, the cracks of the earth. A pocketbook which is lost, is lost. What do you say, comrades?”

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There was no doubt about how the scheme appealed to them. “It would be an equal share between the three?”' Pierre urged. “Between the three,” I agreed. “Leave the details to me.” We went to our work the next morning with anew zest. All the time that we were at work in thforest we were thinking of what foitune might have in store for us on our homeward crawl. We crawled round each comer, loitering at the psychological spot always with the same evil hope in our hearts. The affair, however, was not so easy. Sometimes we were seen from above or below; sometimes drivers were too careful. On the fourth day, however, success rewarded our perseverance. A small automobile which I had spotted from a distance came round the comer where we were, so to speak, anchored, driven with that full measure of recklessness which only a Frenchman, anxious to have his engine, can obtain. There was a wild cry from the driver, a crash into our wagon, and over went the automobile and man down the side of the precipice. It was I who clambered down to where our victim was lying, and drew a pleasing-looking black pocketbook from the inside of his coat. Afterward I felt his heart, and discovered that he was alive. I ordered Pierre to move the wagons over to our own side of the road, and we secreted the pocketbook among the logs we were carrying. Presently a public) touring car from Cannes, on its way to Hyeres, arrived. The accident was explained; room was made for the injured man; and a liberal pourboire was given us, collected among the passengers. We then made our way home, and later on, when we had lighted our evening fire, we opened the pocketbook. I divided the money into three portions, but I spoke to them as a master. “Listen. Jacques, and you. Pierre,” I said. “I am a man of justice, but although I am one of you, I have traveled beyond these forests, and I know the world. If you take this money with you to the village tonight, you will be drunk, the truth will be known and we shall all go to prison, 1 will swear to you the woodcutters’ oath, the oath across the flames, that your share shall be saved. But go to the village tonight with twenty francs each, the pourboire given us by the Englishmen, and let me keep the rest for you, or hide it for yourselves.” They had just sufficient wit to realize that T was their superior in intelligence and that my advice was good. So we growled an oath in the strange dialect of those parts, and I gripped their gnarled and knotted hands, which reminded me always of the roots of the trees we felled. Our next adventure, engineered in similar fashion to the last, brought us a matter of a couple of thousand francs. This time, however, there was trouble, for the driver's neck was brokwen as he pitched head foremost from the seat of the car; and his wife, who was only slightly Injured, gave vigorous evidence as to the position of our wagon and the disappearance of her husband's pocketbook after we had dragged his body up from a ledge of the precipice. A gendarme from the neighboring village visited us that same night and made a careful search through our belongings. There was nothing to be found, however, and leaving all speech to me, my companions escaped suspicion just as I did. Afterward, however, I spoke to them seriously. “Comrades.” I pointed out, “this game is too good to last. For a time we must go warily. Afterward we will seek one more adventure, which we must select with great care, for it will be my last. If It is successful, I shall leave you. Afterward you two had better bury your savings in the ground and abandon the game, for it needs brains to be made successful, and you two have not the brains of a rabbit between you.”

They knew that I was right, and they held their peace. It was a month later, indeed, before we made our last coup, and it ended in a very different fashion from what I had anticipated. Prom my lookout place on a stretch of the road above the wagons, I saw a gray touring car, piled with luggage and golf clubs, approaching from the direction of Cannes. There was a girl in front, seated by the driver, and an elderly gentleman behind. I called down to the others. "Comrades, this Is our chance," I announced. "Move the wagons on around the corner, and be prepared for what may happen.” What did happen was not in the least what I had expected. From where I lay, crouching amongst the scrub, I could see that something was wrong with the car. The chauffeur was roekirtg in his seat, and the car wa£ swaying from side to side. But it was the girl’s face from which I could not remove, my eyes. She must have fully realized the danger she was in, but she showed not the slightest signs of fear. She leaned over and tried to put on the foot-brake, succeeding so far, in fact, as momentarily to check the progress of the car. The chauffeur, suddenly seizing his opportunity, jumped from his seat and rolled over in the dust. The girl’s foot apparently slipped from the brake, and the car once more gathered speed. I saw her eyes, as the car came bumping down the hill, heard the wild shouting and exclamations of the old gentleman behind, and there came to me one of those extraordinary moments which I make no attempt to explain. 1 half slid, half scrambled, down the slope into the road, drew in rny breath, poised myself for a great es fort, and at the psychological moment leaped for the from splashboard. 1 found myself sprawling across the seat, but my left hand was upon the wheel. We were within two inches of the precipice after my jump, and we touched the farther side of the road with my grab at the wheel. I righted the car without much difficulty, applied the brake, gently but with in creasing force, took the corner with only a moderate skid and brought the car to a standstill within a few feet of the wagon. "When the girl saw it. the first look of fear crept into heuface. I (Continued in Our Next Issue) i

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four States of North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana produce 95 per cent of the total crop. The principa . products of .flaxseed are linseed oil, l'or paints and manufac turing purposes, and linseed used for feeding stock. —Department of Agriculture. Old Timers Although the seventy-fifth anniver sary of the close of the war between the United States and Mexico will oc-

cur on May 30, there are still on the pension rolls of the Government the names of fifty-two veterans of that struggle. All these are over 90 years of age, the oldest being Urbain Chan deur of San Francisco, Cal., who will be 100 years old on June 6, 1923. Interior Department. ' Bettor Homes Asa resultsof extension work during 1922, 1,435 water systems were installed in southern homes, 1,932

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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS—By BLOSSER

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

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States, including Arkansas, a considerable part of the muca| greater quantity of manganese ore than required.—Bureau of Mines. Another Safety Guard Hit The safety zone guard at Meridian and Washington Sts. was knocked over again Friday night. The automobile of Walter Beplay, 11 Wlscon* son St., Is in the repair shop. Beplay said rain on the windshield prevented him from seeing the obstruction.