Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1923 — Page 6

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BEGIN HEBE TODAT r> ORar'.pA Abingdon engages Paul Haney. criminal investigator, to find out why Sir Charles is kept under surveillance. Harley dines at the Abingdon home, thr Charles falls to the floor in a dying state. Mr. McMurdoch pronounces death due to heart failure Harley claims that Abingdon was poisoned. The last words uttered by Sir Charles are "Nieol Brinn" and ''Fire-Tongue.” Harley asks Brinn the meaning of • Fire-Tongue,” but Brinn refuses to enlighten him. Harley investigates the life of Ormu* Khan, friend of Phil Abingdon, daughter of Sir Charles. Naida, an Oriental, .•alls at the home of Nieol Brinn. NOW GO OX WITH THE STORY <| r |A ST night there was a meeting i | outside London.” { *~* I “You don't want me to believe there are English members'"’ “Yes. There are. Many. But let me go on. Somehow —somehow I don’t understand —he finds you are one—” “My God.”’ “And s'ou were not present last night! Now, do you understand? So he sends me to tell you that a car will be waiting at 9 o’clock tonight outside the Cavalry Club. The driver will be Hindu. You know what to say. Oh, my Nieol, my sake! You know it all! You are clever. You can pretend, pretend. You can explain you had no call. If you refuse —” A discreet rap sounded upon the door. Nieol Brinn crossed and stood, hands clasped behind him, before the mantelpiece. “In,” he said. Hoskins entered. “Detective Sergeant Stokes toshes to see you at once, sir.” Brinn drew a watch from his waistcoat pocket. Attached to it was a fob from which depended a little Chinese Buddha. He consulted the timepiece and returned it to his pocket. “Eight-twenty-flve,” he muttered, and glanced across to where Naida, wide-eyed, watched him. “Admit Detective Sergeant Stokes at eight-twenty-six. and then lock the door.” “Very good, sir.” Hoskins retired imperturbably. CHAPTER XVI. X'icol Brinn Goes Out. Detective Sergeant Stokes was a big. dark, florid man, the word “constable” written all over him. Wessex's instructions with regard to Nieol Brinn had been succint“Watch Mr. Brinn's chambers, make A SPRUCELY ATTIRED HINDU BTEPPED OUT. a note of all his visitors, but take no definite steps respecting him personally without consulting me.” Armed with these instructions, the detective sergeant had undertaken his duties, which had proved more or less tedious up to the time that a fashionably at'ired woman of striking but unusual appearance, had inquired of the hall porter upon which floor Mr. Nieol Brinn resided. In her manner the detective sergeant had perceived something furtive. There was a hunted look in her eyes. too. When, at tho end of some fifteen ©r twenty minutes, she failed to re-

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appear. he determined to take the iniative himself. Asa result, then, he presently found himself in the presence of the immovable Hoskins: and, having caused his name to be announced, he was requested to wait in the lobby for one minute. Exactly one minute had elapsed when he was shown into that long, lofty room, which of lAte had been the scene of strange happenings. He looked into the unfathomable, light blue eyes of Nieol Brinn, and became conscious of a certain mental confusion. “Good evening, sir,” he said, awkwardly. “I am acting in the case concerning the disappearance of Mr. Paul Harliey.” “Yes," replied Brinn. “Well, sir,” —again he glanced rapidly about—“l don't want to intrude more than necessary, but a lady lady come in here about half an hour ago.” • “Yes,” drawled Brinn. “It’s possible.” “It’s a fact,” declared the detective sergeant. “If it Isn't troubling you too much, I should like to know that lady's name. Also, I should like a chat with her before she leaves.” Nieol Brinn replaced his cigar in the right corner of his mouth. “Detective Sergeant Stokes, I give you my word that the lady to whom you refer is no longer in these chambers.” Stokes glared at him angrily. "But there is no other way out,” he blustered. ‘ I shall not deal with this matter further,” declared Brinn, coldly. “I may have vices, but I never was a liar.” “Oh.” muttered the detective sergeant, taken aback by the cold Incisiveness of the speaker. "Then perhaps you will lead the wav, as I shoula like to take a look around.” Nieol Brinn spread his feet more widely upon the hearthug. “Detective Sergeant Stokes,” he said, "you are not playing the game. Inspector Wessex passed his word to me that for twenty-four hours my movements should not be questioned or interfered with. How is it that I find you here?" Stokes thrust his hands in his pock ets and coughed uneasily. "I am not a machine." he replied; "and I do my own job in my own way.” “Maybe, but it is no affair of yours to interfere with private affairs of mine. Detective Sergeant. See here, there is no lady in these chambers. Secondly, I have an appointment at 9 o’clock ,and you are detaining me." "What’s more." answered Stokes, •whe had now quite lost his temper, "I intend to go on detaining you until I have searched these chambers and searched them thoroughly.” X'icol Brinn glanced at his watch “If I leave in five minutes. I’ll be in good time,” he said. “Follow me." Crossing to the center section of a massive bookcase, he opened it, and ;t proved to be a door. Within was a small and cozy study. In contrast with the museumlike room out of Which it opened, it was furnished In a severely simple fashion. Palpably there was no one there. Nor did the two bedrooms. tho kitchen, and the lobby afford any more satisfactory evidence. Nieol Brinn led the way back from the lobby. He resumed his place upon the hearthrug. “Are you satisfied, Detective Sergeant?” “I am!” Stokes spoke angrily. “While you kept me talking, she slipped out through that study, and down into the street.” “Sorry,” drawled Brinn, again consulting his watch. “The five minutes are up. I must b off.” “Not until I have spoken to Scotland Yard, sir.” Nieol Brinn strode to the telephone, which stood upon a small table almost immediately in front of the bookcase. The marked door remained ajar. “You are quite fixed upon detaining me?” "Quite,” said Stokes, watching him closely. In one long stride Brinn was through the doorway, telephone in hand! Before Stokes had time to move, the doo * closed violently, in order, no doubv, to make it shut over the telephone cable which Lay under it.

CHAPTER XVII What Happened to Harley Some two hours after Paul Harley's examination of Jones, the ex parlormaid, a shabby street hawker appeared in the Strand, bearing a tray containing copies of “Old Moores Almanac." Nobody appeared to be particularly Interested, and during his slow progression from Wellington St. to the Savoy Hotel he smoked cigarettes almost continuously. The commercial optimist was still haunting the courtyard of the hotel at a time when a very. handsome j limousine pulled up beside the curb and a sprucely attired Hindu stepped out. One who had been in the apartments of Ormuz Khan must have recognized his excellency’s private secretary. Turning to the chauffeur, a half-caste of some kind, and ignoring the presence of the prophet who had generously opened the door, “You will return at 8 o’clock,” he said, speaking perfect and cultured English, “to take his excellency to High Claybury.” • "Yes, sir,” replied the chauffeur, and he touched his cap as the Hindu walked into the hotel. The salesman reclosed the door of the car and spat reflectively upon the vment. imping wearily, he worked liis way along in the direction of Chancery Lane. Rut, before reaching Chancery j Lane, he plunged into a maze of courts with which he was evidently well acquainted. His book-selling enterprise presently terminated, as it had commenced, at the Chancery Agency. Once more safe in his dressing room, the peddler rapidly transformed himself into Paul Harley, and Paul Harley, laying his watch upon the table before him, lighted his pipe and indulged In half an hour’s close thinking. And presently, laying his pipe aside, he took up a telephone which stood upon the dressing table and rang up a garage with which he an account. “Hello, is that you, Mason?” he said. “Have the racer to meet me at 7 o’clock, half-way along Pall Mall. Never for a moment did he relax

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