Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1924 — Page 8

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BEGIN HKRE TODAY Paul Harley. criminal investigator, is engaged by Sir Charles Abingdon to solve for him the mystery of constant surveillance. by persons unknown to him. While Harley is dining at the Abingdon home. Sir Charles tails to the floor in a dying condition. Harley insists that Abingdon is poisoned. The last words uttered by Sir Charles are "Nicol Brinn" and “Fire-Tongue." Paul asks Nicol Brinn to tell him the meaning of “Fire-Tongue." Brinn refuses to enlighten Harley. Paul Harley and Phil Abingdon, daughter of Sir Charles, are made prisoners in the home of Ormuz Khan, Oriental. Nicol Brinn rescues Phil while Paul promises to sign a statement written by Ormuz Khan. NOW GO ON WITH THK STORY |_ _< AGUELY he detected the IV/ I speaker withdrawing. There I Y i upon, heaving a loud sigh, he removed his coat, looked about him as if in quest of some place to hang if. anlf finally, fixing his gaze upon the studded grating, stood upon the divan and hung his coat over the spyhole! This accomplished, he turned. The table was slowly sinking through the gap in the floor beneath. Treading softly, he moved forward and seated himself cross-legged upon it! It continued to descend, and he fo’HKl himself in absolute darkness. Nicol Brinn ran on to the veranda and paused for a moment to take breath. The window remained open, as Phil Abingdon had left it. He stepped into the room wtih its elegant Persian appointments. It was 'viiW' “I STRUCK HIM BEHIND THE EAR," HE MUTTERED. empty. But as he crossed the threshold, he paused, arrested by the sound of a voice. “A statement will he placed before you," said the voice, "and when you have signed It, in a few minutes you will be free.” Nicol Brinn silently dropped flat at the back of a divan, as Rama Dass, coming out of the room which communicated with the golden screen, made his way toward the distant door. Having one eye raised above the top of the cushions. Nicol Brinn watched him, recognizing the man who had accompanied the swooning lady. She had been deposited, then, at no great • distance from the house. Creeping forward to the ddhrway

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jby which Rama Dass had gone out. Nicol Brinn emerged uporf a landing from which stairs both ascended and descended. Faint sounds of footsteps below guided him, and although from all outward seeming he appeared to saunter casually down, his left hand was clutching the butt of a Colt automatic. He presently found himself in a maze of basements—kitchens of the establishment, no doubt. The sound of footsteps no longer guided him. He walked along, and in a smaller deserted pantry discovered the baso of a lift shaft in which some sort of small elevator worked. He w.r> staring at this reflectively, when, for the second time in his adventurous career, a silken cord was slipped tightly about his throat! He was tripped and thrown. He fought furiously, but the fatal knee pressure came upon his spine so shrewdly as to deprive him of the strength to raise his hands. “My finish!” were the words that flashed through his mind, as sounds like the waves of a great ocean beat upon his ears and darkness began to descend. Then, miraculously, the pressure ceased: the sound of great waters subsided; and choking, coughing, he fought his way back to life, groping like a blind man and striving to regain his feet. “Mr. Brinn!” said a vaguely familiar voice. “Mr. Brinn!” The realities reasserted themselves. Before him, pale, -wide-eyed, and breathing heavily, stood Paul Harley: and prone upon the floor of the pantry lay Rama Dass, still clutch- j ing one of the silken rope In his hand! “Mr. Harley!” gasped Brinn. “My God. sir!” He clutched at his bruised throat. “I have to thank you for my life.” He paused, looking down at the prene figure as _ Harley, dropping upon his knees, turned the man over, j "I struck him behind the ear.” he I muttered, “and gave him every! ounce. Good heavens!” He had slipped his hand inside ; Rama Dass - vest, and now he looked up. his face very grim. “Good enough!” said Brinn, coolly. "He asked for it; he’s got it. Take this.,” Ho thrust the Colt automatic into Harley's hand as the j latter stood up again. "What do we do now?" asked Har- j ley, Search rhe house, ’ was the reply. ' "Everything colored you see. shoot, unless I say no.” Into two rooms on the first floor! they burst, to find them stripped and j bare. On the threshold of the third i Brinn stopped dead, and his gaunt face | -'rew ashen. Then he tottered across the room, arms outstretched. “Naida.” he \yhispeher. “My love, my love!” Paul Harley withdrew- quietly. He had begun to w-alk along the corridor when the sound of a motor brought him up sharply. A limousine was be ing driven away from the side entrance! Not alone had he heard that sound. His face deathly, and the lacklustre eyes dully on fire, Nicol. Brinn burst out of the room and, not heeding the presence of Harley, hurled himself I down the stairs. He was as a man ! demented, an avenging angel. “There he is!” cried Harley—"head ing for the Dover Road!” Nicol Brinn. at the fvheel of the racer—the same in which Harley had jnade his fateful journey and which had afterward been concealed in the garage at Hillside—scarcely nodded. Nearer they drew to the quarry, and nearer. Once—twice—and again, the face of Ormuz Khan peered out of the window at the rear of the limousine. They drew abreast: the road was deserted. And they passed slightly ahead. Inch by inch. Nicol Brinn edged the torpedo body nearer the wheels of the racing limousine. The Oriental chauffeur drew in ever closer to the ditch bordering the roadside. He shouted hoarsely and was about to ap ply the brakes when the two cars touched! A rending crash came—a hoarse scream—and the big limousine toppled over into the ditch. Harley felt himself hurled through space. • • • “Shall I follow on to Lower Claybury, sir?” asked Inspector Wessex, excitedly. Phil Abingdon’s message had come through nearly an hour before, and a party had been dispatched in accordance with Brinn’s Instructions. Wessex had returned to New Scotland I ard too late to take charge, and now, before the Assistant Commissioner had time to reply, a phone buzzed. “Yes!” said the Assistant Commissioner. taking up one of the several instruments, “What!” Even this great man, so justly celebrated for his placid demeanor, was unable to conceal his amazement. “Yes, he added. “Let hiih come up!” He replaced the receiver and turning to Wessex: "Mr. Nicol Brinn is here!” he informed him. Footsteps sounded in the corridor. Came a rap at the door. "Come in.” said the Assistant Commissioner. The door was thrown open and Nicol Brinn entered.

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“Gentlemen,” he said, without other greeting, “I’m here to make a statement. I desire that a shorthand writer attend to take it down.” He dropped weakly into a chair which Wessex placed for him. The Assistant Commissioner, doubtless stimulated by the manner of his extraordinary visitor, who now extracted a cigar from the breast pocket of his ill-fltting jacket and nonchalantly lighted it, successfully resumed his well known tired manner, and, pressing a bell: "One shall attend Mr. Brinn,” he said.

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