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BFXiIN HfcRF TOI>AT Sir Charles Abinpdon asks Paul Harley. criminal investigator, to find out why Sir Charges is kept in constant surveilance by persous unknown to him. Harley dines at the Abingdon home. Sir Charles falls from, his chair dead. Abingdon's last words are 'Nicol Brinn" and "Fire-Tongue.” Dr. McMurdoch pronounces death due to heart failure. Harley insists that Sir Charles was poisoned. Paul goes to call on Nicol Brinn, millionaire club man. Brinn receives his caller cordially, laughs when Harley warns him that he stands in peril of his life and assures Paul tnat he welcomes a diversion. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY H ‘ OU are out after one of the j Y I big heads of the crook world,” 1 ~ 1 he said. “He knows it and he's trailing you. My luck’s turned. How can I help?” Harley stood up, facing Mr. Brinn. “He knows it, as you say,” he replied, “and I hold my life in my hands. But from your answer to the question which I have come here tonight to ask you, I shall conclude whether or not your danger at the moment is greater than mine.” “Good,” said Nicol Brinn. “My question is simple but strange," said Paul Harley. "It is this: What do you know of ‘Fire-Tongue’?’’ CHAPTER V “The Gates of Hell” If Paul Harley'had counted upon “Fire-Tongue” to have a dramatic effect upon Nicol Brinn, he was not disappointed. BRINN OPENED HIS HEART TO THE PLAYERS’ CLUB “Fire-Tongue!” he said, tensely, following a short silence. “For God’s sake, when did you hear that word?” "I heard it.” replied Harley, slowly, “tonight.” He fixed his gaze -intently upon the sallow face of the American. "It was spoken by Sir Charles Abingdon." “Sir Charles Abingdon,” echbed Brinn: “and in what way is It connected with your case?” “In this way.” answered Harley. “It was spoken by Sir Charles a few moments before he died.” Nicol Brinn’s drooping lids flickered rapidly. “Before he died! Then Sir Charles Abingdon is dead! When did he die?” “He died tonight and the last words that he uttered were ‘Fire-Tongue’—” He paused, never for a moment removing that fixed gaze from the other's face. “Go on.” prompted Mr. Brinn. “And 'Nicol Brinn’.’’ Nicol Brinn stood still as a carven man. Indeed, only by an added rigidity in his pose did he reward Paul Harley’s intense scrutiny. A silence charged with drama was finally broken by the American. “Mr. Harley,” he said, “you told me that you were up against the biggest proposition of your career. You are right.” With that he sat down in an arm chair and. resting his chin in his hand, gazed fixedly into Ihe empty grate. “Give me the whole story," said Mr. Brinn, “right from the beginning.” He looked up. “Do you know what you have done tonight, Mr. Harley?" Paul Harley shook nis head. Swiftly. like the touch of an icy finger, that warning note of danger had reached him again. “I'll tell you,” continued Brinn. "You have opgned the gates of hell!” Not another word did he speak while Paul Harley, pacing slowly up and down before the hearth, gave him a plain account of the case, omitting all ■ efarence to his personal suspicions ■nd to the measures which he had iken to confirm them. “You think he was murdered?” said Brinn in his high, toneless voice. “I have formed no definite opinion. What is your own?” “I may not look it,” replied Brinn.

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"but at this present moment I am the most hopelessly puzzled and badly frightened man in London.” He half turned tn the big chair to face his visitor, who now was standing before the fireplace staring down at him. \ “One day last month,” he resumed "I got out of nty car in a big hurry at the top of the Haymarket. A fool on a motorcycle passed between the car and the sidewalk vast as I stepped down, and I knew nothing further until 1 woke up in a drug store close by, feeling very dazed and with my coat in tatters and my left arm numbed from the elbow. A man was standing watching me. and presently when I had pulled lound he gave me his card. "He was Sir Charles Abingdon, who had been passing at the time of the accident. That was how I met him, and as there was nothing seriously wrong with me I saw him no more professionally. But he dined with me a week later and I had lunch at his club about a fortnight ago." He looked up at Harley. “On my solemn word of honor." he said, “that’s all I know about Sir Charles Abingdon.” “Then I can only suppose." resumed Harley deliberately “that the cause of your fear lies in the term FireTongue’?” Brinn again rested his chin in his hand, staring fixedly into the grate. “Mr. Harley,” he began abruptly, “you have been perfectly frank with me and in return I wish to be as frank with you as I can be. I am face to face with a thing that has haunted me for seven years, and every step I take from now onward has to be considered carefully, for any step might be my last. And that's not the worst of the matter. I will risk one of those steps here and now. You- ask me to explain the significance of Fire-Tongue (there was a perceptible pause before he pronounced the word, which Harley duly noticed). “I am going to tell you that Sir x Charles Abingdon, when I lunched with him at his club, asked me precisely the same thing.’.’ “What! He asked you that so long as two weeks ago?” “He did.” “And what reason did he give for his inquiry?” Nicol Brinn began to tap the fender again with his foot. “He referred to an experience which had befallen him in India.” came Nicol Brian's belated reply. “In India? May I ask you to recount that experience?" “Mr. Harley." replied Brinn. suddenly standing up. “If can't." "You can't?” N 'l have said so. But I'd give a lot more than you might believe to know that Abingdon had told you the story which he told me.” “You are not helping, Mr. Brinn.” said Harley, sternly. “I believe and I think that you share my belief that Sir Charles Abingdoh did not die from natural causes. You are repressing valuable evidence. Allow me to remind you that if anything should come to light necessitating a postmortem examination of the body, you will be forced to divulge in a court of justice the facts which you refuse to divulge to me.” “I know it.” said Blinn, shortly.

He shot out one long arm and j grasped Harley's shoulder as in a vice. “I'm counted a wealthy man,” he continued, “but I'd give every cent I possess to se e ‘paid’ put to the bill of a certain person. Listen. You don’t think I was in any way concerned" in the death of Sir Charles Abingdon? "'lt isn't thinkable. But you do think I'm in possession of facts which would help you find out wha is. You’re right.” “Good God!” cried Harley. “Yet you remain silent!” “Not so loud —not so loud!" implored Brinn. repeating that odd, almost furtive glance around. “Mr. Harley—you know me. You’ve heard of me and now you've met me. You know my place in the world. Do you believe me when I say that from this moment onward I don’C.trust my own servants? Not my own friends?” He removed his grip from Harley’s shoulder. “Inanimate things look like enemies. That mummy over yonder may have ears!” “I'm afraid I don’t altogether understand you.” "See here!” Nicol Brinn crossed to a bureau, unlocked it. and while Harley watched him cu.-iously. sought among a number of press cuttings. Presently he found the cutting for which he was looking. “This was said.” he explained. handing the slip to Harley, “at the Players’ Club in New York, after a big dinner in pre-dry days. It was said in confidence. But some disguised reporter had got In and it came out in print next morning. Read it. Paul Harley accepted the cutting and read the following: NICOD BRINN'S SECRET AMBITIONS Millionaire Sportsman Who Wants to Shoot Niagara! Mr. Nicol Brinn of Cincinnati, who is at present In New York, opened his heart to members of the Players’ Club last night. . Our prominent citizen, responding to a toast, “The Distinguished, Visitor,” said: “I’d like to live through months of midnight frozen in among the polar ice: I’d ’ike to cross Africa from east to west and get lost in the middle. I'd like to have a Montana sheriff’s posse on my heels for horse stealing, and I've prayed to be wrecked on a desert island like Robinson Crusoe to see if I am man enough to live it out. I want to stand my trial for murder and defend iny own case, and I want to be found by the eunuchs in t/ie harem of the Shah. I want to dive for pearls and scale the Matterhorn. I want to know where the tunnel leads to —the tunnel down under the Great Pyramid of Gizeh—and I’d love to shoot Niagara Falls in a barrel.” "It sounds characteristic,” murmured Harley, laying the slip on the coffee table. “It’s true!” declared Brinn. “I said it and I meant it. I'm a glutton for uangev, Mr. Harley, and I’m going to tell you why. Something happened to me seven years ago—” “In India?” "In India. Correct. Something happened to me, sir, which just took ft*

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On the plea, that she was forced to support her husband for twelve years. Helen B. Peterson. Terre Haute, has been granted a divorce. The present year is the record building year in Richmond both in amount and number of permits issued. J. E. Higgs, building inspector states the feature of the year is the large volume of small construction work. Merchants of Frankfort have do nated valuable prizes for winners in the Farm Products Hhow, Dec. 28-29. The Bluffton city council recently voted not to renew the yearly contract of John S. Gardner as superintendent of the city electric dght and water works plant when his term expires Jan: 2. The Equal Suffrage and Literary Club, Kokomo, has joined the individuals and organizations who have Indorsed Mrs. B. C. Moon for mayor to succeed her husband, deceased. When the school janitor arrived at the Circleville school house, 'near Rushville. in the wee hours of the morning to build a fire for the kiddies he found hiniself out of a job. During the night a practical thief had hauled away In a truck the entire coal supply. Marion Elks will purchase more than $1,200 worth of clothing to be

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distributed to needy children of the city for Christmas. C. D. Heaton. Kokomo, claims to be the first man. to drive an automobile over the Hazelton ferry, about twenty years ago. The ferry was closed with the opening of the new Hazelton bridge. Members of the Bluffton Lodge of Masons may build their own home. Definite action is expected to be taken by Jan. 1. If built, it is expected the structure will cost about $50,000. Anew modern sewer system is to be constructed at Winona Lake. South Bend’s fire loss is expected to be below $300,000 during 1923. This is several thousand dollars less than in 1922. Washington will purchase the local street railway property if the deal is approved by the public service commission. Hope Bank Open Again Today Bu Timex Speoial f HOPE, Ind., Dec. 17. —Two months after it closed for an investigation by bank examiners, the Hope State Bank was open for business today. The first act of the officials was to pass out Christmas savings checks totaling $3,000.

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VETERAN PHYSICIAN’S FUNERAL IS TUESDAY Years of Practice End When l)r. J. A. Swartzel Becomes 111. For twenty-three years Dr. Joseph A. Swartzel. 74, of 2202 Broadway, practiced medicine in Indianapolis. Six months ago he became ill and abandoned his practice. He died Saturday. Funeral services will be held at the home at 10 a. m. Tuesday. Burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Dr. Swartzel was bom in Germany, but came to America when a child. He moved to Indianapolis after many years in Vincennes. The widow and four children survive. May Ask State Probe of Wreck By United Press MUNCIE, Ind.. Dec. 17.—Request for a State investigation of the crash of a Nickle Plate engine witr* a Union Traction interurban car here was expected to be made here today. Five passengers on the interurban were slightly injured. William Guildie, interurban inotortnan, said the crossing flagman signaled him to go ahead. Plant Fire Loss Is $10,00(1 Bu United Press GOSHEN, Ind., Dec. 17.—Officials of the White Manufacturing Company today estimated at SIO,OOO the losses caused by a fire in thair plant. The fire started from a defective flue.

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