Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1924 — Page 12

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BEGIN" HERE TODAY Colonel Holies, soldier and adventurer, returns to England, his nalive land, when war with Holland is declared. It is dangerous for Holies to secure a commission in the English army because the name of Randal Holies, father of the Colonel, is on the warrant for the execution of the late king. The <ireaded plague is spreading rapidly in London. His Grace of Buckingham promises to think of some way to help the Colonel. Because he Is financially embarrassed, the Colonel is forced to sell a priceless ruby given to him years ago for saving the life of Buckingham. Martha Quinn, hostess of the "Taut'a Head, in Paul's Yard, London, falls in "w* with the Colonel and he is forced to leave her lodging place. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY IHERE'S beqji two men here I seeking you, sir.” ' * ' Holies started, in eagerness, his mind leaping instantly to the Duke of Buckingham. Observing this, the landlord, grave-faced, shook his head. “They was messengers from Bow Street,” he said. “They didn’t say so. But I know them. They asked a mort o‘ questions. How long you had been in my house, and whence you came and what you did. And they ordered me at parting to say nothing about this to you. But . .

AT A BLOW HE FELLED THE MAN. The landlord shrugged his great shoulders, and curled his lip in contempt of that injunction. Holies collected himself. “Mister Banks,” he said, “ye're a good friend, and I thank you. I have done nothing. Os that I can assure you. But appearances may be made to damn me. The unfortunate Mr. Tucker was an old friend of mine . . The landlord's sigh interrupted him. “Aye, sir, I thought it might be that, from something they let fall. That’s why I take th erisk of telling you. In God’s name, sir. be off whiles ye may.” -The Colonel took the man's advice, paid his score—which absorbed most of the proceeds of the jewel—and, without so much as waiting to collect what gear he possessed, he set out at once from quarters grown suddenly so very dangerous. He was not a moment fbo soon. Even as he stepped into the gloom of

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the Street, two shadowy forms loomed abruptly before him to bar his way, a lantern was suddenly uncovered, and thrust into his face. “Stand, sir, in the King’s name!” a gruff voice commanded him. He could not see whether they had weapons in their hands or not, nor did he wait to ascertain. At a blow he sent the lantern flying, at another he felled the man -who had advanced It. The arms of the . second messenger wound themselves about his body, and the fellow steadied himself to throw him. But before that could happen Holies had knocked the breath out of the man’s body by a jolt of his elbow, and, as the catchpoll’s arms slackened in their grip, he was flung off ajid violently hurled against the wall. The pursuit was not long maintained, and presently the Colonel was able with safety to resume a more leisurely and dignified progress. Before dawn he had reached the conclusion that there was but one thing for a sane man in his position to do, and that was to quit this England, where he found nothing but bitterness and disappointment. Now that the Dutch were back in the Texel and the seas open once more, there need be no difficulty; not even his lack of funds should prove an obstacle. He would ship as one of the hands aboard some vessel bound for France. With this intention he made his way to Wapping betimes next morning. Vessels there were, and hands were needed, but no master would ship him until he had procured himself a certificate of health. So the Colonel trudged wearily to the Guildhall, going by sparsely tenanted. darksome city stress, where he saw more than .one door marked with a cross and guarded by a watchman who warned all wayfares to keep their distance. The extent of the panic he realized when he came at last to the Guildhall, and found it besieged by coaches, sedan-chairs, and a vast mob on foot. AH here were come upon the same errand as himself: to procure the Lord Mayor's certificate of health that should enable them to escape from this stricken city. Most of the day he waited in that throng, enduring the stifling lnjnt and the pangs of hunger and thirst. For the only hawkers moving in the crowd were vendors of preventive medicines and amulets against the plague. Instead of the cry of “Sweet oranges,” which in norma! times would have l>een heard In such a gathering, and which he would now have welcomed, here the only cries were: "Infallible Preservative Against Infection,” "The Royal Antidote,” “Sovereign Cordial Against the. Corruption of the Air,” ajid the like. He could ill afford to purchase the favor of the ushers and bribe them Into according him some precedence. He must wait and take his turn with the humblest there, and, as he had arrived late, his turn did not seem likely to come that day at all. Toward evening he- departed emptyhanded and disgruntled. Yet within the hour he was to realize that perhaps he had been better served by Fate than he suspected. In a sparsely tenanted eating house in Cheapside, where he sought to stay the pangs of thirst and hunger —fdr he had neither eaten nor drunk since early morning—-he overheard some scraps of conversation between two citizens at a neighboring table. They were discussing an arrest that had been made that da% and in the course of this they let fall the words which gave pause to Colonel Holies. "But how was he taken? How disj covered?” one of them asked. “Why. at the Guildhall, whciß he sought a certificate of health that [ should enable him to leav town. T tell you it's none so easy to reave

Ijondon nowadays, as evildoers are finding when they attempt it. Sooner or later they'll get Danvers for this way. They’re on the watch for him, aye, and for others, too." Clonel Holies pushed away his platter, his appetite suddenly dead. He was in a trap, it seemed, and it had needed those words overheard by chance to make him reahze it. To attempt flight was but to court discover!'. True, it might be possible to obtain a certificate of health in a false name. But,'on the other hand, it might not. There must be inquisition into a person’s immediate antecedents if only to verify that he was clean of infection, and this inquisition must speedily bring to light any prevarication or assumption of false identity. And so he was on the horns of a dilemma. Ts he remained in London, sooner or later he would be run to earth by those who sought him, who would be seeking him more relentlessly than ever now, after his manhandling of those messengers of the law last night. If he attempted to go, he delivered himself up to justice by the very act. He determined, after much gloomy cogitation, to seek the protection of Albemarle in this desperate pass, and •with that intent went forth. He persisted in it until he reached Charing Cross, when a doubt assailed him. What if Albemarle should refuse to take the risk of his innocence. considering the nature of the alleged offense? He finally determined that first he would make one last attempt to make the Duke of Buckingham-

CHAPTER XV The Shadowjuf the Gallows ' His Grace of Buckingham had not accompanied the Court in its flight to Salisbury. His duties, Indeed, recalled j him to his lord-lieutenancy in York. But he was as deaf to “the voice of duty as to that of caution. He was held fast In London, in the thraldom of his passion for Miss Farquharson, and enraged because that passion prospered not at all. It was his obsession on the scqre of Miss Farquharson that was responsible for his neglect of the letter that Holies had written to him. That appeal had reached him at a moment when he w’as plunged into dismay by the news that Sir John Lawrence's orders tiad gone forth that ail thea-‘ ters and other places of assembly should close upon the following Saturday, as a very necessary measure in the Lord Mayor’s campaign against the plague. Now the of the theaters meant the wlthcg-awal of the

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precipitate departure from The Harp. On Tuesday morning the excellent and resourceful Bates was able to report to his master that he had found precisely such a domicile as his grace raq’iired—though why his grace should require it Bates could not even begin to surmise. It was a fairly spacious and excellently equipped dwelling in Knight Ryder St., lately vacated by a tenant who had removed himself into the country out of dread of the pestilence. The owner was a certain merchant Jn Fenchu*-ch St., who would La

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glad enough to let the place on easy terms, considering how impossible, it was just at present to find tenants for houses in the city or its liberties. Bates had pursued his inquiries with characteristic.discretion, as he now assured his grace, without allowing it to transpire on whosq behalf he was acting. His grace laughed outright at the assurance and all that it Implied that Bates had taken for granted. “Ye’re growing a very competent scoundrel in my service."

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Bates bowed, not without a tinge of mockery. “I am glad to merit your grace's approval,” said he dryly. There was a strain of humorous insolence in the fellow, of which the Duke was did? posed to be tolerant; perhaps because nothing elfee was possible with one so Intimately acquainted with his conscience. “Aye. Ye’re a trustworthy rogue. The house will do admirably, though I should have preferred a less populous district.” (Continued in Our Next Issue)

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