Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1923 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Mark Brendon. famoua criminal investicator. la engaged by Jenny Pendean to solve the mysterious disappearance of her husband. Michael. Pendean is last seen to -he company of Penny's uncle, Robert Redmayne, when the two visit a bungalow being erected by Michael near Foggintor Quarry. Blood is found on the floor of the cottage and witnesses testify to having seen Robert ride away on his motor bicyle with a heavy sack behind the saddle. Jenny goes to live with her uncle, Bendigo Redmayne, and Brendon visits her there. Mark is introduced to Giuseppe Doria, who works for Bendigo. On the road to his hotel Brendon meets Robert Redmayne, but fails to capture him. Jenny and Doria meet Robert on the beach. NOW GO ON STORY {{T tE appears to be sane,” she I I answered. "He" made no mention of the past and neither spoke of his crime nor of what he has been doing since. He made me send Doria out of then told me that he had only come here to see you- He has been here some days, hidden in one of the caves down the coast westward.” “And still you say he behaved like a sane man, Mrs. Pendean?” asked Brendon. ‘‘Yes—except for what seemed an insane fear. I implored him to come with me in the boat and see Uncle Bendigo and trust to the mercy of his fellow men. But he is very suspicious. He thanked me and groveled horribly to me; but he would not trust either me or Doria, or think of entering the boat. ‘‘l asked him, then, to tell me what he wished and how I could help him. He considered and said that if Uncle Bendigo would see him quite alone and swear, before God, not to hinder his departure in any way after they had met, he would come to ‘Crow's Nest’ tonight after the household was asleep.

AT THE AGREED TIME DORIA AND HIS MASTER CAME UP TOGETHER. "For the moment he wants food and a lamp to light his hiding-place after dark. His hope is that you will give him means and clothes, so that he may leave England safely and get to Uncle Albert in Italy. He made us swear not to say where we had found him, and then he indicated a spot where I was- to bring your answer in writing before dark.” Mr. Redmayne nodded. "And at the same time you had better take the poor wretch some food and drink and the lamp- How he has lived for the last months I cannot understand.” “In the first place,” declared Robert Redmayne’s brother, "the man .must be mad, whatever appears to th<? contrary. I’ll* agree to see him tonight—or rather tomorrow morning. I’ll bid him come at 1 o’clock, and he shall find the door open and a light In the hall." Some provisions were put into the launch, and, with the letter in her pocket, Jenny, again set out. It was already growing dusk before ■he left and Giuseppe drove the little vessel to its limit of speed. Then Brendon was much surprised. He had been standing under the flagstaff with the master of Crow’s Nest, watching the launch”, and when she had vanished westward into a gray, still evening, Bendigo challenged the detective with a proposition altogether unexpected. "See here,” he said, "I’ve got a damned uneasy feeling about meeting my brother single-handed tonight. I can’t tell you what it is. I’ve promised to meet him alone and I shan’t be telling the poor man a lie, because, if all’s etraight and he shows no violence, he needn't know anybody else is there.” "You are wise and I quite agree with you,” said Mark. "No doubt Doria is a man you can rely upon in every way, and he is powerful, too.” But Bendigo shook his head"No,” he answered. “I’ve left this question until Doria and my niece were- out of the way, for a very good reason. I don’t want them in this thing more than they are already. What I want up there is you and only you.” Brendon considered. "I confess the idea occurred to me as soon as we had your brother’s offer; but seeing the terms, I couldn’t press for It,” he said. "Now I agree and, what's more, I think it would be very desirable if nobody—not even the household—knew I was here.” "That can be done. If you send your car away and say you’ll repott tomorrow, then the police won't trouble us any more till we see what next. You can go up to the tower and get into the big case I keep my flags and odds and' ends in. There are holes bored for ventilation at the height of a man’s head from the ground." Brendon nodded.^ "That's all right.” he said. “I’m considering what follows. Your brother goes free presently; and no doubt Mrs. Pendean will onlj wait until he Is off to come up to you. I can’t stop all night In the cupboard.” “It don’t matter a button after he’s gone.” answered Bendigo. ‘.‘lt you tell your car to go, that’s all that signifies for the minute. And all anybody but ourselves will believe Is that you’ve gone back to Dartmouth, and won’t be here again until tomorrow morning."

Brendon approved of this rlan and when the launch returned, her uncle informed Jenny that the detective had left, to make certain inquiries, but would return early on the following morning. “We left the letter, the lamp, and the food and drink exactly where he indicated,” Jenny said, “on a forlorn spot, above that ancient, raised beach, where the great boulders-are.” Thus the matter was settled. Mark had already taken up his position in the chamber aloft and Bendigo looked to it that he should not be Interfered with. At the agreed time Doria and his master came up together, the former carrying a light. Jenny also joined them for a short while, but she stayed only ten minutes and then departed to bed. ' Giuseppe brought up a jug of water, a bottle of spirits, a little keg of tobacco and two or three cl4y pipes, for the old sea captain never smoked till after supper and then puffed steadily until he went to bed. CHAPTER VII The Compact Bendigo lit his pipe and turned to his only book. It was “Moby Dick.” Herman Melville's masterpiece had long ago become for the oil sailor the one piece of literature in the world. ' “Well,” he said to Doria. “get you gone. Look round as usual to see that all’s snug aloft and below; then turn in. Leave only the light in the hall and the front door on the latch. Did you mark if he had a watch to know the hour?” “He had no watch, bqt Mrs- Pendean thought upon that and lent him hers.” \ Bendigo nodded and picked up a clay pipe, while Doria spoke again. “May I speak of your niece a moment before I go?” Bendigo shrugged his round shoulders and pushed his hand through his red hair. 0 “It’s no good speaking of her till you’ve spoken to her,” he said. “I know what you are after very well. But it’s up to her, I reckon, not me. She’s gone her own way since she was a nipper—got her father’s will hid under her woman’s shape.” “Our Italian way is to approach the parents of the loved one,” explained Doria. “To win you is to be far on my way, for you stand to her in the place of parent. Is it not so? She cannot live alone. She ■yras not meant by God to be a single woman, or a widow woman." “But what about your ambitions — to wed an heiress and claim the title ajid the territory of your vanished forebears?" Doria swept his hands to right and left with a great gesture, as though, casting away his former hopes. “It is fate,” he said. “I planned my life without love. I had never loved and never wanted to. Now I do not want the rich woman but only she who, wakens my passion, adora-! tion, worship. Life has nothing in it but Madonna —English Jenny.” “We can stow the subject for six months anyhow,” replied Bendigo, lighting his long clay. “I suppose in your country as well as mine, there’s a right and a wrong way to approach a woman; and seeing my girl’s a widow —made so under peculiarly sad circumstances—you’ll understand that love talk is out of the question for a good bit yet a while.” “It is too true,” answered the other. “Trust me. I will hide my soul and be exquisitely Her sorrow shall be respected—from no selfish motive only, but because I am a gentleman, as you remind me.” He was gone and for a moment only the hurtle of rain on the ground windows of the tower room brok^ - the silence; thcj Brendon emerged from his hiding place and stretched his limbs. Bendigo regarded him with an expression half humorous and half grim. “That’s how the land lies,” he said. “Now you’ve got it." Mark bent his head. Asa clock in the hall below beat the hour of one he returned to the cupboard and drew the door behind him. Bendigo had just lighted another pipe when there came the sound of feet ascending the stair; but it was no doubtful or cautious footfall that they heard. The ascending man neither hesitated nor made any effort to approach without noise. He came swiftly and as the sailor stood up calm and collected to meet his brother —not Robert Redmayne, but Giuseppe Doria appeared. He was very agitated and his eyes shone. He breathed hard and wiped the hair away from his forehead. He had evidently been out in the rain, for water glistened on his shoulders and face. Doria explained. “I was going the rounds and just about to turn out the oil lamp over the front gate as usual when I remembered Mr. Redmayne. That is half an hour ago and I thought - it would be better to leave the lamp, to guide him, for the night is dark and wild. I came down the ladder therefore, but I had already been seen. He was waiting under the shelter of the rocks on the other side of the road. He w r ould not come vithin the gate, but sent a message that you are to come to him instead, if you atlU will to save him.” (Continued in Our Next Issue)

BLAST STARTS FOfJRTH Sewer* Gas Causes First Real> F.xplosion of Day. A real Fourth of Juyl explosion occurred in front of 411 Massachusetts Ave. at 4 a. m. today, tester L. Klingman, 321 E. Walnufc. St., was driving his automobile on Massachusetts Ave. when sewer gas exploded and the lid of a manhole was blown up with great force and a noise like a cannon. The sewer lid hit Klingman’s automobile, broke in two pieces and fell into the open manhole. At nine months old the average During the nineteenth century the population of the world grew from $40,(10,000 to 1,600,000.^00.

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G.O.P, LEADERS TO ATTEND 3R ALLIES Petersburg, Princeton and Evansville Arrange Meetings, Republican State committee officials, with other party leaders, will be guests Monday noon at a luncheon at Petersburg, first of three “get together” meetings in the First Congressional District. Among the guests will be Clyde A. Walb of Lagrange, State chairman; Lawrence Cartwright of Portland, Miss Etelka Rockenback of New Albany, Mrs. Edna Herr Bucklin of Brazil, vice chairman; Frederick E. Schortemeier, State secretary, and Senator James E. Watson. Stuart T. Fisher of Princeton, First District chairman, will be in charge. Monday night the group will attend a meeting at Princeton and Tuesday night at Evansville. Walb, Schortemeier and Cartwright will attend a State Bar Association meeting Thursday at West Baden, where Walb has planned a conference with Third District Republican leaders. Women sleep more lightly and require less sleep than men, according to a French scientist.

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

Household Pests Insect pests make life miserable. letin which will tell the housewife Infestation of homes by bedbugs, the latest and most approved cockroaches and ants will occur of ridding the premises of these undesirable insect visitin spite of every precaution of ors jf y OU W ant a copy of this the careful housewife. Our Wash- bulletin, fill out and mail the remington Buraeu has prepared a bul- pon below: Washington Bureau Indianapolis Times/ 1822 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin, HOUSEHOLD PESTS, and enclose herewith a 2-cent postage stamp for same: Name ’ Street and No City State

FUNERAL SET FOR MONONEMPLOYE J, M, Sellers, Freight Conductor, Dies at Michigan City, The funeral of J. M. Sellers, 1922 Ashland Ave., Mqpon railway freight conductor, who was 'found dead In a room at the Earl Hotel, Michigan City, Ind., early Tuesday morning following

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an attack of heart trouble, will be held at his home at 8 p. m. Thursday. Burial will be at Lebanon, Ind., with the Knights of Pythias in charge. Sellers left Indianapolis Monday morning In charge of a yard engine. He arrived in Michigan City at noon, and was to have made the return trip Tuesday. Sellers was born in Putnam County. He had been an employe of the Monon for seven years. Mrs. Sellers, who went to Michigan City Tuesday; the father of Greencastle and two brothers, J. H. and Clay C. Sellers of this city, survive. Egyptian women are said to be exceedingly graceful In figure and poise though not beautiful of lace.

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CHURCHMEN URGE MORALJEACHING Leaders Say Patriotism Demands Christian Education, By Times Special LAKE WINONA, July 4.—A resolution holding that American patriotism demands teaching of Christian morals in American schools, was adopted by representatives of many nations of the world attending the consultation conference on Christian citizenship. , / "I see a great danger in America in your large foreign element, a second Europe in your own land, which has not been marally educated,” said Miss Martha Kralicek, a Czecho-Slo-vakian who is teaching in Chicago schools. "The foreign element is backing the anti-prohibition movement in New York," she said. “You must reach the children of foreigners through your public schools. If there was more Christian personality in our teachers of America, our children and foreign children would be taught differently,” she declared. Speakers at the session Tuesday night were Dr. Charles Frederick Wishart, Wooster, Ohio, and Dr.. Charles K. Edmunds, Canton, China.}

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

DOINGS OF THE DUFFS—By ALLMAN

STATE ‘CLEANS UP’ LAWN Plants and Flowers Will Be Set Out on Grounds. An economical program of beautification of the Statehouse lawn has been announced by Henry Roberts,‘ new custodian. Frequent criticism of the “unsight-

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