Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1924 — Page 8

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KET.IN HERE TODAY Colonel Hollos, soldier and adventurer. rotumi to England, the land ot hts birth, when war is declared with Holland. Hs comes to lodge with Martha Quinn, weal the hostess of the Paul's Head. In Paul s Yard. London. I Is dangerous for the Colonel to seotms a oommission In the English army because the name of Randal Holies, lather of the Colonel. Is on the warrant for the execution of the late tin#. His Qraoe of Albemarle, old friend of the Colonel, promises to try to secure a commission for Holies. Martha Quinn iwlfel Ttsftm to the charms of the Colonel hud proposes marriage to him. Hailes refuses her offer. The dreaded Nusis spreading rapidly In London and on the streets the Colonel sees a ' ictim. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY f"V J a Holies, perceiving here no I more than a sick man, contlruled his advance, a voice from the retreating crowd shouted a warning to him. "Have a care, sir! Have a care! He may be stricken with the plague.” The Colonel checked Involuntarily arrested by the horror that the very HE CRASHED THE TANKAKD DOWN AND CAME TO HIS FEET. word inspired. And then he beheld a stoutlsh, elderly man in a heavy wig. plainly but scrupulously dressed In black, whose round countenance gathered a singularly owlish expression from a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles, walk calmly forward to the stricken citizen. A moment he stood beside him looking down; then he turned to

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beckon a couple of burly fellows who had the appearance and carried the staves of billmen. From his pocket the sturdy gentleman in black produced a kerchief upon which he sprinkled something from a phial. Holding the former to his nostrils with his left hand, he knelt down beside the sufferer, and quietly set himself to unfasten the man's doublet. Observing him, the Colonel admired hi3 quiet courage, and thence took shame at his own fear for his utterly worthless life. Resolutely putting it from him, he went forward to join that little group. One of the billmen was pointing out to the other a purple tumid p-itch at the base of he sufferer’s throat. His eyes were round, his face grave, and his voice came hushed and startled. "See! The tokens!” he said to his companion. And now the doctor spoke, addressing Holies. "You would do well not to approach more closely, sir.” "Is it . . . the plague?” quoth Holies in a quiet voice. The doctor nodded, pointing to the purple patch. "The tokens are very plain to see.” he said. “I beg, sir, that you will go.” And on that he once more held the handkerchief to his mouth and nostrils, and turned his shoulder upon the Colonel. Holies withdrew as he was bidden, moving slowly and thoughtfully, stricken by the first sight of the plague at work upon a fellow-creature. As he approached the edges of the crowd, which, keeping its distance, yet stood at gaze as crowds wilj. he observed that men shrank back from him as if he were himself already tainted.

A single thing beheld impresses us more deeply than twenty such things described to us by others. Hitherto | these London citizens had treated lightly this matter of the plague. Not ten minutes ago they had been derid ing and pelting one who had preached repentance and warned them of the anger of Heaven launched upon them. And then suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, had come the stroke that laid one of them low, to freeze their derision and fill their hearts with terror by giving them a sight of this thing which hitherto they had but heard reported. Tho Colonel stalked up. reflecting that this event in Paul’s Yard had done more proselyting for the cause of the Commonwealth than a score of advocates could have accomplished. It was very well, he thought. It was a sign. And if anything had been awnting to clinch his decision to throw in his lot with Tucker, this supplied it. But first to quench the prodigious thirst engendered by his long walk through the sweltering heat, and then on to Cheapside and Tucker to offer his sword to the revolutionaries. As he entered the common room, Mrs. Quinn turned from a group of citizens with whom she was standing to talk to follow him with her eyes, ! her lips compressed, as he passed on | into his own little parlor, at the back. A moment later she went after him. “What may be your plesure, Colonel?” she demanded forbiddingly. "A draught of ale if I deserve your charity,” quoth he. She went off in silence, and he- j turned with a tankard, which she | placed upon the table before him. "Ye M I have made your plans to leave j my house today as we settled It last j night?” said she between question and asertion. He nodded, purging his lipe a little. “I'll remove myself to the Bird in < Hand across the Yard this afternoon,” j said he. "The Bird in Hand!” A slight upward inflection of her voice marked her disdain of that hostelry, which, indeed, was but a poor sort of tavern, j There was something portentous In j her utterance. She came forward to j i the table, and leaned heavily forward upon it. Her expression and attitude were calculated to leave him in no doubt, that this woman, whoyhad been so tender to him hitherto, was now his declared enemq. "My house,” she said, "is a reputable house, and I mean to keep it so. I want no traitors here, nc gallows' birds and tho like.” "Ye’r made," he said with conviction. “No. I’m not made, nor a fooj neither, master rebel. A man’s to be known by the company he keeps. Birds of a feather flock together, as the saying goe3. And how should you be other than a traitor that was friends with traitors?" He crashed the tankard down upon the board and came to his feet. "S’death, woman! Will you tell me what you mean?” he roared, his anger farmed by uneasiness. "What of traitors have I been close with” "What traitors, do you say?” She sneered r. little. "What of your friend Danvers, that’s being sought at this moment by the men from Bow Street?" He was instantly relieved. "Danvers?” he echoed. "My friend Danvers? Why, I have no such friend. I never even heard his name before.” "Indeed!” She was terribly derisive now. “And maybe you’ve never heard the names of his lieutenants neither—of Tucker and of Rathbone, that was in here with you no later than yesterday as I can swear. Two traitors that was arrested this morning, along of a dozen others, for conspiring to bring back the Commonwealth. Oh, a scoundrelly plot—to murder the King, seize the Tower, and burning the city, no less.” It was like a blow between the eyes. "Arrested!” he gasped, his jaw fallen, his eyes startled. "Tucker and Rathbone arrested, do you say? Woman, you rave!” "Do I?" She laughed again, evilly mocking. “Step out into Paul’s Yard, and ask the first man you meet of the arrest made in Cheapside just afore noon, and of the hunt that is going on this minute for Danvers, their leader, and for others w£o was I mixed up in this wicked plot. And I don’t want them to come a-huntlng here. I don’t want my house named for a meeting place of traitors, as you’ve made it, taking advantage of me that hav-en’t a mu to protect me, and all the while deceiving me with

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your Smooth pleasantness. If It wasn’t for that, I’d inform the Justices myself at once. You may be thankful that I want to keep the good name of my house, if I can. And that's the only reason for my silence. But you’ll go today or mayha I’ll think better of it yet.” She picked up the empty tankard, and reached the door before ha could find words in his numbed brain to answer her. On the threshold she paused. *T’ll bring you your score present-

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

ly," she said. “When you've settled that, you may pack and quit.” She went on .slamming the door. The score I It was a small thing compared with that terrible menace of gaol and gallows. Let him be denounced for association with. Tucker and Rathbone, and there would be no mercy f6r the son of Randal Holies the regicide. His parentage and antecedents would supply the crowning evidence against him. And yet the score, whilst a comparatively negligible evil, was the more Immediate,

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and therefore gave him at the moment the greater preoccupation. He knew that it would be heavy, and he knew that the balance of his resources was utterly inadequate to meet It. Yet unless it were met he could be assured that Mrs. Quinn would show him no mercy; and this fresh trick of Fate’s, in bringing him into association with Tucker on the very eve of that conspirator’s arrest, placed him In the power of Mrs. Quinn to an extent that did not bear considering.

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And so you behold him presently, arrayed once more In the shabby garments that he had thought to have discarded forever, emerging from the Paul’s Head carrying a bundle that contained his finery, and making his way back to those shops In Paternoster Row where It had been so lately and so Jubilantly acquired. Here he discovered that there is a world of difference between the treatment offered to a seller and to a buyer. Ten pounds was ail that he could

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

I ]DECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS—By BLOSSER

raise on gear for which a few hours ago he had paid close upon thirty. Back to the Paul’s Head went Colonel Holies to find his hostess awaiting him with the score. And the sight of the latter turned him almost sick. He marveled at the prodigious amount of Canary and ale that he had consumed during those weeks. Irrelevantly he fell to considering that this very costly thirst of his was the result of a long sojourn ia the Netherlands, where the habit of copious

FRIDAY, FEB. 22,1924

—By MARTIN

—By TAYLOR

drinking Is commonplace. Then hd came back to the main consideration, which was that the total exceeded, twenty pounds. It was a prodigioua! sum. , He raised eyes that, despite him, were haggard and betraying from those terrifying figures, and met that baleful glance of the lady who, because she could not'be his wife, wai now his relentless enemy. (Continued in Our Next Issue)