Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1924 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY To ascertain why he is being shadowed, Sir Charles Abingdon engages Paul Harley. criminal investigator. While dining with Harley, Sir Charles falls dead. His last words are “FireTongue” and ”Nieol Brinn.” Dr. >!cMurdoch pronounced death duo to heart failure. Harley insists Sir Charles was poisoned. Harley asks Brinrt to explain the meaning of FireTongue. Brinn refuses. Harley questions Polly Jone 6, parlor maid. Nieol Brinn is summoned to the home of Ormuz Khan, wealthy head of the FireTongue cult and friend of Phil Abingdon. Sir Charles' daughter. Brinn loves Naida. a member of the cult. While shadowing the home of Ormuz Khan. Harley is discovered and imprisoned in the house. Phil Abingdon is brought to the home of the Oriental. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY HIL laughed, and accepting the arm of Ormuz Khan, walked into a very English-looking library, followed by Rama Dass and Mrs. McMurdoch. Rama Dass had taken charge of the ladies’ cloaks in the hall, and in spite of the typical English environment in which she found herself, Phil sat very near to Mrs. McMurdoch on a settee, scarcely listening to the conversation. and taking no part in it. Then a gong sounded and the party went in to lunch. A white-robed Hindu waited at table, and Phil discovered his movements to be unpleasantly silent. This waiting presently grew unendurable, and: “I hope Mr. Harley is safe,” she said, in a rather unnatural tone. npp m I ' 1 AM XI COE BRINN." SAID THE STRANGER. Surely he should have returned by now?” Ormuz Khan shrugged his slight : boulders and glanced at a aiamondMudded wrisj watch which he wore. Nevertheless, luncheon terminated, nd Harley had not appeared. "You have sometimes expressed a t esire,” said Ormuz Khan, “to see the interior of a Persian house. Permit me to show you the only really char- . cieristic room which I allow myself in my English home." Endeavoring to conceal her great anxiety, Phil allowed herself to be conducted by the Persian to an apartment which realized her di earns of that Orient which she had never visited. Ormuz Khan conducted her to a wonderfully carven chair over which a leopard’s skin was draped and there she seated herself. She became aware of a heavy perfume of hyacinths and presently observed that there were many bowls of those flowers set upon little tables, and in niches in the wall. She wanted to look away but found herself looking steadily .nto the coal black eyes of Ormuz Khan. Phil became aware that a sort of •dreamy abstraction was creeping over her, when in upon this mood

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came a sound which stimulated her weakening powers of resistance. Dimly, for all the i windows of the room were closed, sne hear 1 a car come up and stoup belore tuS bouse. It aroused her from the curious condition of lethargy into which she was falling. She turned her head sharply aside, the physical reflection of a mental effort to remove her gaze J from .the long, magnetic eyes of Or- | muz Khan. And: “Do you think that is Mr. Harley?” | she asked and failed to recognize her own voice. “Possibly,” returned the t-ersian, | speaking very gently. With one ivory hand he touched his knee for a moment, the only expression of disappointment which he allowed himself. “May I ask you to go and inquire?” continued Phil, now wholly mistress of herself again. “I am wondering, too, what can have become of Mrs. McMurdoch.” “I will And out,” said Ormuz Khan. He rose, his every movement possessing a sort of feline grace. He bowed and walked out of the room. Phil Abingdon heard in the distance a motor restarted and the car b<*ing driven away from Hilllside. She stood up restlessly. Someone was rapping upon one of the long, masked windows! Phil Abingdon started back with a smothered exclamation. “Quick!” came a high, cool voice, “open this this window. Y'ou are in danger!” The voice was odd, peculiar, but of one thing she was certain. It was not 1 the voice of an Oriental. Furthermore, it held a note of command, and something, too, which inspired trust. She loetked quickly about her to make sure that she was alone And then, running swiftly to the from which, the sound had come, she moved a heavy gilded fastening which closed it, and threw open the heavy leaves. A narrow terrace was revealed j with a shrubbery beyond: and standing on the terrace was r tall, thin j man wearing a light coat over eve- j ning dress. He looked pale, gaunt, I and unshaven, and although the re- j gard of his light eyes was almost dreamy, there was something very j tense in his pose. “I am Nicol Brinn,” said the stranger, “I knew your father. You have walked into a trap. I am here to get you out of it. Can you drive?” "Y'es.” “Come right out.” It was wildly bizarre, almost un believable. Phil Abingdon had experienced in her own person the insidious power of Ormuz Khan. She new found herself under the spell of a personality at least as forceful a.;hough in a totally different way. She found herself running through a winding path amid bushes, piloted by this strange, unshaven man, *o v horn on sight she had given her trust unquestioningly! “When we reach the car.” he sail over his should or. “ask no questions head for home, and don’t stop for anything—on two legs or on four. That’s the first thing—most important: then. when you know you're safe, telephone Yaid to send a raid squad down by road, and do it quick.” CHAPTER XXVII! The Chase The events which led to the presence of Mr. Nicol Brinn at so opportune a moment were—consistent with the character of that remarkable man—of a sensational nature. Having commandeered the ear from the door of the Cavalry Club, he had immediately, by a mental process which many perils had perffeted. dismissed the question of rightful owners from his mind. Jamming his hat tightly upon his head, he settled down at the drawing up rather closer to the limousine as the chase lay through crowded thoroughfares and keeping his quarry comfortably jin sight across Westminster Bridge and through the outskirts of London. Presently at a fork in the road he sew that the driver of the limousine had swung to the left, taking the low road, that to the right offering a steep gradient. The high road was tlic direct road to Lower Claybury, the low road a detour to the same. Nicol Brinn mentally reviewed the intervening countryside, and taking a gambler’s chance, took the road up the hill. He knew exactly what he was about, and he knew that /hipcwerful engine would eat tip the slcpe with ease.

Its behavior exceeded his expectations. and he found himself mounting the acclivity at racing speed. At its highest point, the road, skirting a hilltop, offered an extensive view of the valley below. Here Nicol Brinn pulled tip and. descending, watched and listened. Tn the stillness he could plainly hear the other automobile humming steadily along the lowland road below. He concentrated his mind upon the latter part of that strange journey, striving to recall any details which had marked it immediately preceding the time when he had detected the rustling of leaves and knew that they had entered a carriage, drive. Yes, there had been a short but steep hill: and immediately before this the car had passed over a deeply rut.ted road, or—he had a sudden inspiration —over a level crossing. lie knew of just such a hilly rpad immediately behind Lower Claybury station. Indeed, it was that by which he should lie compelled to descend if he continued to pursue his present route to the town. He could think of no large, detached house, the Manor Park excepted, which corresponded to the one which he sought. But that in taking the high road he had acted even more wisely than he knew,- he was now firmly convinced. He determined to proceed as far as the pack gates as speedily as possible. Therefore, returning to rhe wheel, he sent the car along the now level road at top speed, so that the railings of the Manor Park, when presently he found himself skirting the grounds, had the semblance of a continuoat iron fence wherever the moonlight touched them. / He passed the head of the road dip-

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ping down to Lower Claybury, but lty of a •wildcat, settling himself upon forty yards beyond pulled up and de- his perilous perch before the engine seer.ded Again he stood listening, had had time to gatheY speed. an ® : When presently the car turned into “Good!" he muttered. the drive of Hillside, Nieol Brinn , He 001)1(1 hear the other car labor- dropped off and dived into the bushes ing up the slope. He ran along to on the right, of the path. From this the corner of the lane, and, crouching hiding place he saw the automobile close under the bushes, waited for its driven around the front of the house appearance. As he had supposed, the to the garage, which was built out chauffeur turned the car to the right, from the east wing. Not daring to “Good!" muttered Nicol Brinn again, pursue his investigations until the There was a baggage-rack inline- chauffeur had retired, he sought a diately above the number plate. Upon more comfortable spot near a corner this Nicol Brinn sprang with the agil- of the lawn and there, behind a bank

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