Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1923 — Page 8
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BEGIN' HERE TODAY Paul Harley. criminal investigator, is tailed ujMtn by Sir Charles Abingdon to find ont why Sri Charles is being shadowed by persons unknown to him. While Harley is having dinner at the Abingdon home. Sir Charles falls from his chair dead. The last words uttered by Abingdon are N'i-ol Hrinii” and “Fire-Ton me.” Dr. McMurdoeh pronounces death due to heart failure. Harley insists that Abingdon was poisoned and calls on Nicol Brinn to ask him the meaning of “Fire-Tongue.” Brinn admits that he knows the meaning of tne words, but refuses to tell the secret. Brinn tells Harley that seven years ago in India things happened to him which cause him to court death. NOW GO ON WITH THE STOKY . >fT -"1 HERE isn t any one I would ! I I rather confide in,” confessed L~ I the American. “We are linked by a common danger. But”— he looked up—”l must ask you again to be patient. Give ne time to think—to make plans. For your own part—be cautions.” Something struck with a dull thud upon a window pane—once—twice. There followed a faint, sibilant sound. Paul Harley stared and the stoical Nicol Brinn turned rapidly and •-.lanced across the room. “What was that?” asked Harley. “I expect—it was an owl," answered Brinn. “We sometimes get : hem over from the Green Park.’ His high voice sounded unemotional as ever. But it seemed to Paul Harley that his face, dimly illuminated by the upcast light from the lamp upon :he coffee table, had paled, had be- > ome gaunt. CHAPTER VI Phil Abingdon Arrives On the following afternoon Paul Harley was restlessly pacing his private office when Innes came in with u letter which had been delivered by rand. Harley took it eagerly and tore open the envelope. A look of expectancy faded from ins eager face almost in the moment that it appeared
PHIL, ABINGDON CAME IN ACCOM PAXIED BY DOCTOR M MURDOCH. there. “No luck. Innes,” he said, gloomily. “Merton reports that there is no trace of any dangerous foreign body in the liquids analyzed.” He dropped the analyst's report into a wastebasket and resumed his restless promenade. There came a rap at the door and Miss Smith, the typist, entered. "Miss Phil Abingdon and Doctor MeMurdoch,” she said. Almost immediately Phil Abingdon i-aine in, accompanied by the sepulchral Doctor Me Murdoch. Phil did not wear mourning. Harley recalled that there had been no time to procure it. hiie was exquis itely and fashionably dressed, and even the pallor of grief could not 'ob her cheeks of the bloom bori\ of Devon sunshine. He had expected her to be pretty. He was surprised ;n find her lovely. Dr. McMurdoeh stood silent in the doorway, saying nothing by way of introduction. But nothing was necessary. Phil Abingdon came forward quite naturally—and quite naturally Paul Harley discovered her little gloved hand to lie clasped between toth his own. "How brave of you. Miss Abingdon!” id Harley. “How wonderfully brave us you!” ' She's an Abingdon," came the ■ > tones of Dr. McMurdoeh. “She ived only two hours ago and here ■ is."
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"There eean be no rest for me, doctor,” said the girl, .and strove valiantly to control ner voice, "until this dreadful doubt is removed. Mr. Hailey”—she turned to him appealingly—• “please don’t study my feelings in the least; I can bear anything—now; just tell me what happened. Oh! I had to come. I felt that I had to come.” Dr. McMurdoeh sat down on a chair beside the edoor, setting his silk hat upon the floor and clasping his massive chin with his hand. "I will endeavor to do as you wish, Miss Abingdon,” said Harley, glancing anxiously *at the physician. lie began to relate what had taken place at the first interview, when sir Charles had told him of the menace which he had believed to hang over his life. tohe made no comment throughout but her fingers alternately tightened and relaxed their hold upon the arms of the chair in which she was seated. CHAPTER VII Confessions I’aul Harley crossed the room and stood in fgont of the tall Burmese cabinet. He experienced the utmost difficulty in adopting a judicial attitude toward his beautiful visitor. "In the first place. Miss Auingdu-, ’ li*- said, speaking very ct.ibcia.ely, “and., you attach any particular significance to tlie term ‘Fire-Tongue'?” Phil Abingdon glanced rapidly at Doctor McMurdoeh. “None at all, Mr. Harley,” she replied. “And Mr. Nicol Brinn? Have you me this gentleman?” “Never. I know that Dad had met him and was very much interested in him.” “H'm,” muttered Harley. “And now. Miss Abingdon, can you enlighten me respecting the identity of the Oriental gentleman wITh whom ha i iatterly income acquainted?” "Yes. He could only have meant Ormuz Khan." Paul Harley gazed steadily at the speaker for a moment. "Can you think of any reason why Sir Charles should have worried about this gentleman?” he asked. The girl lowered her head again. "He paid me a lot of attention," she filially confessed. “So far as you are aware, then. Miss Abingdon. Sir Charles never met Ormuz Khan?” “He never even saw him, Mr. Harley. that 1 know of." "H'm,” mused Harley, “That's possible But such was not my impression.” He turned again to Phil Abingdon "This Ormuz Khan. I understood you to say, actually resides in or near London?” "He is at present living at the Savoy, I believe. He also has a house somewhere outside London." Presently Harley went down to the street with bis visitors. ‘ There must be so much more you want to know. Mr. Harley.' said Phil Abingdon. "Wll you come and see me?” Paul Harley walked through to the private office and. seating himself at the big. orderly table, reached over to a cupboard beside him and took out a tin of smoking mixture. He began very slowly to load his pipe, gazing abstractedly across the room at the tali Burmes^ 1 cabinet. Paul Harley, having lighted his p;pe. made a note on a little block: “Cover activities of Ormuz Khan.” He smoked reflectively for awhile and then added another note; “Watch Nicol Brinn." For ten minutes or moft he sat smoking and thinking, his unseeing gaze set upon the gleaming lacquer of the cabinet; and presently, as he smoked, he became aware of an abrupt and momentary chill. His sixth sense was awake. Taking up a pencil, he added a third note: “Match yourself. You are in dinger.”
>'IUI‘TKR VIIT A Wreath of Hjaduths Deep in reflection anil oblivious of the busy lamdon life around him, Paul Harley walked slowly along the Strand. From dreams which he recognized in the moment of awakening to have been of Phil Abingdon, he was suddenly aroused to the fact that Phil Abingdon herself was present. Perhaps, half subconsciously, he had been looking for her. Phi! Abingdon was coming from the direction of the Savoy Hotel, ''as it possible that she had been to visit Ormuz Khan? Harley crossed the Strand and paused just in front of the hurrying, jlaek-clad figure. She stopped suddenly, and through the black veil which she wore he saw her eyes grow larger—or such was the effect as she opened iiiem widely. Perhaps he misread their message. To him Phil Abingdon’s expression was that of detected guilt. More than ever he was convinced of ! the truth of his suspicions. “Perhaps you were looking for a cab?” he j • uggested. Overcoming her surprise, or what- I ever emotion had claimed her at the \ moment of this unexpected meeting, Phil Abingdon took Harley’s outstretched hand and held it for a moment before replying. "1 had almost despaired of finding one,” she said, “and I am late already.” “The porter at the Savoy would j get you one.” “I have tried there and got tired of waiting, she answered quite simply. For a moment Harley’s suspicions were almost dispelled, and, observing an empty cab approaching, he signaled to the man to pull up. “Where do you want to go to?” he inquired, opening the door. “I am due at Dr. McMurdoch’s,” she replied, stepping in. Paul Harley hesitated, glancing from the speaker to the driver. “I wonder if you have time to come with me?" said Phil Abingdon. "1 know the doctor wants to see you.” “I will come with pleasure,” replied Harley, a statement which was no more than true. Accordingly he gave tire necessary directions to the taxi man and fitted himself beside the girl in the cab. “I am awfully glad of • i tunity of a chat with yo v ’ > ley,” said Phil A’oinjjdo" few days have seemed like one long nightmare to me.” She sighed pu thetitafiy. “Surely Dr. McMuidoch
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
SALVATION AW IS GIGANTIC SANTA Eight Hundred Bushels of 'Goodies’ Arranged, A bushel basket full of Christmas goodies—that’s what the Salvation Army is going to give Indianapolis’ 800 poor families this year, Maj. W. B. Sowers said today. “We were expecting to take care of 500 families, but at the rate they axe coming to us they reach 800,” said Major Sowers. The .baskets are to be given out at the Citadel, 24 S. Capitol Ave., Christmas morning at 9 o’clock. An order for nearly a ton of candy has been placed by the Salvation Army, Major Sowers said. Hundreds of dollars have been spent for toys. Toys and candy will be given out Christmas Eve at Tomlinson Hall. Tickets are being given out at the Citadel. Additional funds are needed by the Army to carry out the Christmas program, Major Sowers said. Members of the Seymour post of the American Legion plans to build anew home for the organization. The proposition will be acted upon at a special meeting about Jan. 1.
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HOOSIER BRIEFS
John A. Newman of Union Township has been elected 1924 president of the Marshall County Farm Bureau. Asa part of the campaign to nominate Hiram Johnson for President, a new weekly paper is to be started at Bloomington, according to members of the Johnson-for-President Club there. Purdue fraternities and sororities will play Santa Claus to scores of needy children at Lafayette. Entertaining programs have been arranged when the children call at the houses to glimpse the Christmas trees and receive candy and gifts. Lawrence County commissioners have- announced the proposed sale of $307,000 worth of bonds for the erection of anew court house at Bedford. Anna Sullivan. 104, believed to have been the oldest woman in northern Indiana, died recently at the home of her son, Col. Joseph M. Sullivan, near South Bend. She was born in Ireland. The Christian Union Church, Bluffton, has voted to change its name to the First Christian Church. The town has been without a church of this denomination for several years. There are twenty-five members. Mrs. Hannah land* hits been granted a flivorce from William McCullick, 65. (Cruel treat-
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mait and failure to provide was alleged. 0 George R. Carlisle, retiring treasurer of Shelby County Dec. 31, has accepted a position as field examiner with the State board of accounts. L. W. Ross. Harrison township, is new 1924 president of the Boone County Farm Bureau. Dr. F. A. Shoaf, Kokomo, was recently elected president of the Howard County Medical Society for 1924. Just a few hours after he had sworn to abide by the laws of the United States and received his naturalization papers, John Kwansy, Clinton, father of eight children, was arrested when officers raided his home and found a still boiling merrily. For the first time in the history of Montgomery County non-resident hunting licenses have been issued. R. C. Eisley and C. B. McClelland of Benton Harbor, Mich., • paid the sls each for a permit. A photograph must be furnished before this kind of license is issued. One of the largest incubators in the State has been purchased by Elmer Brown, living near Noblesville. Its capacity is 15,000 eggs. Brown is a wealthy New York business man who came to Indiana for his health, and plans to raise a large number of chickens on his Boone County farm.
TUESDAY, DEC. 18, 1923
—By ALLMAN
‘POWER OF RIGHT TNOUGHTPREVAILS’ Christian Science Speaker Upholds Mind, “Persistance in right will remove mountains," John C. Lathrop, member of the board of lectureship of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, declared in a lecture at the Murat Theater Monday night. “Having shown that thoughts are things, and that matter is mindless, harmless and unreal, Christian Science takes the next step and shows that there is a right thought resistance and a wrong one, a right control and a thought, control which is decidedly evil and harmful,” the lecturer said. “It shows that resistance to be cor rective and healing must have behind it the unlimited power of the Divine Mind, and not have behind it the limited influence of the so-called material mind or human will. “The human will based on the belief that life, substance and intelligence are in matter, is selfish, blind and aggressive, and is capable of doing all evil. Such thoughts are the very opposite of the ufiselflsh and pure thoughts of Truth, Life end Love.”