Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1923 — Page 8
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BEGIN' HERE TODAY Mark Brendon. criminal investigator. Is engaged by Jenny Pendean to solve the murder of her husband. Michael. Jenny's uncle. Robert Kedmayne. disappears and is suspected of killing Michael. Jenny goes to live with her uncle, Bendigo Rtdmayne. Robert appears in the neighborhood and sends word to Bendigo to come to his hiding place. Giuseppe Doria, who works for Bendigo, takes his master to Robert and leaves the brothers together. When Doria calls to bring Bendigo home he finds an empty cave in which is evidence of a terrible struggle. Jenny marries Doria end they go to live in Italy, where Jei ny's undle. Albert Redmayne lives. When Robert is seen In Italy, Brendon and the famous American detective, Peter Ganns, renew investigations. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY THEY had reached the shrine—a little alcove in a rotting mass of brick and plaster. Beneath it extended a stone seat whereon the wayfarer might kneel or sit. They sat down and Doria began to moke his usual Tuscan cigar. His depression increased and -with it Brendon’s astonishment. The man appeared to be taking exactly that attude to his wife she had already suggested towfffd him. “II volto sciolto ed i pensieri stretti,” declared Giuseppe with gloom. “That Is to say. ‘her countenance may be clear, but her thoughts are dark' — too dark to tell me—her husband.’' "Perhaps she fears you a little. A wotnail Is always helpless before a man who keeps his own secrets hidden." “Helpless? Far from It. She Is a self-controlled, efficient, hard-headed-woman. Her loveliness is a curtain. You have not yet got behind that. You loved her, but she did not love you. She loved me and married me. And It Is I who know her character, not you. She is very clever and pretends a gTeat deal more than she feels. If she makes you think she is unhappy and helpless, she does it on purpose. She may be unhappy 1 , because to keep secrets if often to court unhappiness; but she is not helpless at all. Her eyes look helpless; her mouth never. There is power and Iwill between her teeth.” “Why do you speak of secrets?"
;as the red man fired, the OTHER PLUNGED FORWARD ON HIS FACE. "Because you did. I have no has secrets. I tell you this. She •knows all about the red man! She is ma deep as hell.” Brandon could hardly believe his ears, but the Italian appeared very much in earnest. He chattered on for some time. Then he looked at his watch and declared that he must descend. "The steamer Is coming soon.” he said. “Now I leave you and I hope that I have done good. Think how to help me and yourself. What she now feels to you I can not tell. Your turn may come. I trust so. lam not at all jealous. But be warned. This red man—he is no friend to you or me. You seek him again today. So be it. And if you find him, be careful of your skin. Not that a man can protect his skin against fate. We meet at supper." , He swung away, singing a canzonet, and quickly vanished, while Brendon. overwhelmed by this extraordinary conversation, sat for an : -ur motionless and deep in thought. '!e considered now his own course of action and presently proceeded to the region in which Robert Redmayne had been most frequently reported. Brendon climbed steadily upward
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and presently sat down to rest upon a little, lofty plateau where, In the mountain scrub, grew lilies of the valley and white sun-rose. Suddenly Mark became aware that he was watched and found himself face to face with the object of his search. Robert Redmayne stood separated from him by a distance of thirty yards behind the boughs of a breast-high shrub. But it appeared that the watcher desired no closer contact. He turned and ran, heading upward for a wild t£aet**of stone and scrub that spread beneath the last precipices of the mountain. Mark strove to run the other down as speedily as possible, that tie might close, with strength still sufficient to win the Inevitable battle that must follow, and effect a capture. He was disappointed, however, for while still twenty yards behind and forced to make only a moderate progress over the rocky way he saw Robert Redmayne suddenly stop, turn and lift a revolver. As the red man fired, the other flung up his arms, plunged forward on his face, gave one convulsive tremor through all his limbs, and moved no more. The big man, panting from his exertions, approached only to see that Ms fallen victim showed no sign of Lfe, the other, with his face amid the alpine flowers, remained where he had dropped, his arms outstretched, his hands clenched, his body still, blood running from his mouth. The conqueror took careful note of the spot in which he stood and bringing a knife from his pocket blazed the stem of a young tree that rose not very far from his victim. Then he disappeared and peace reigned above the fallen. Many hours passed and then, after night had flooded the hollow, there sounded from close at hand strange noises and the intermittent thud of some metal weapon striking the earth. The din ascended from a rock which lifted its gray head above a thicket of juniper; and here, while the flat summit of the boulder began to shine whitely under the rising moon, a lantern flickered and showed two shadows busy above the excavation of an oblong hole. They mumbled together and dug In turn. Then one dark figure came out Into the open, took his bearings, flung lantern light # on the blazed tree trunk, and advanced to a brown, motionless hump lying hard by. The dark, approaching figure saw; the object of his search and came forward. His purpose was to bury the victim, whom ; he had lured hither before destroying, and then remove any trace that might Unger upon the spot where the body lay. He bent down, put his hands to the jacket of the motionless man. and then, as he exerted his strength, a strange, hideous thing happened. The body under his touch dropped to pieces. Its head rolled away; its trunk became dismembered and he fell backward heaving an amorphous torso into the air. For, exerting the needful pressure to move a .heavy weight, he found none and tumbled to the ground, holding up a coat stuffed with grass. The man was on his feet in an instant, fearing an ambush; but astonishment opened his mouth. “Corpo di Bacco!" he cried, and the exclamation rang in a note of something like terror against the cliffs and upon the ear of his companion. Neither delayed a moment. Their mingled steps Instantly rang out; then the clatter faded swiftly upon the night and silence returned. For ten minutes nothing happened. Next, out of a lair not fifteen yards from the distorted dummy, rose a figure that shone white as snow under the moon. Mark Brendon approached the snare that he himself had set, shook the grass out of his coat, lifted his hat from the ball of leaves it covered, and presently drew on his knickerbockers, having emptied them of their stuffing. He was cold and calm. He had learned more than he expected to learn; for that startled exclamation left no doubt at all concerning one of the grave-diggers. It was Giuseppe Doria who had come to move the body, and there seemed little doubt that Brendon’s would-be murderer was the other.
The operations of the detective from the moment that he fell headlong, apparently to rise no more, may be briefly chronicled. _ With a loaded revolver still in his opponent's hand, he could take no risk and fell accordingly. Brendon had simulated death for a while, but when satisfied of hte assailant’s departure, presently rose, with no worse hurts than a bruised face, a badly bitten tongue, and a wounded shin. Mark guessed that until darkness returned he might expect to be undisturbed. He walked back, tnerefore, to his starting place, and round the pacekt of food which he had brought with him and a flask of red wine left beside it. After a meal and a pipe he made his plan and presently stood again on the rough ground beneath the cliffs, where he had pretended so realistically to perish. He expected Redmayne to return and guessed that another would return with; him. His hope was to recognize the accomplice. With infinite satisfaction he heard Giuseppe’s voice, and even an element of grim amusement attended the Italian’s shock and his subsequent snipe-like antics as he leaped to safety before an anticipated revolver barrage. CHAPTER XV A Ghost The next morning while he rubbed his bruises in a hot bath, Brendon determined upon a course of action. He proposed to tell Jenny and her husband exactly what had happened to him, merely concealing the end of the story. He breakfasted, lighted his pipe and limped over to Villa Pianezzo. He was not in reality very lame, but accentuated the stiffness. Only Assunta appeared, though Brendon's eyes had marked Doria and Jenny together in the neighborhood of the silkworm house as he entered the garden. He asked for Giuseppe and, having left Brendon in the Bitting
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room of the villa, Assunta departed. Almost immediately afterward Jenny greeted him with evident pleasure, but reproved him,, "We waited an hour for supper,” she said, "then Giuseppe would wait no longer. I -was beginning to get frightened and I have been frightened all night. I am thankful to see you, for I feared something serious might have happened.” "Something serious did happen. I’ve got a strange story to tell. Is your husband within reach? He must hear it, too, I think. He may be in some danger as well as others.” She expressed impatience and shook her head. •’Can't you believe me? But of course you can’t. Why should you? Doria in danger! However, if you want him, you don't want me, Mark.” It was the first time that she had thus addressed him and his heart throbbed; but the temptation to confide in her lasted not a moment. (Continued in Our Next Issue) FANCY HATBAND One of the smartest white felt sport bats of the season has a band of white buckskin embroidered in red and blue, and white envelope purse embroidered to match. CERISE AND WHITE A gown of white satin, on very simple lines, is hemmed inside with cerise satin. The red appears also in the huge sash bow tied at the left side.
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