Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1924 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Colonel Holler soldier and adventurer. returns to England, his native 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 kins. The dreaded plague is spreading rapidly in London. A friend of the colonel, named Tucker, is arrested for plotting against the government. Because Holies has been seen in Tucker's company, a warrant is out for his arrest. His Grace of Buckingham rents a house in Knight Ryder St. and plots to have Sylvia Farquharson. actress, ab- ' ducted and carried there. Bucknigham asks Colonel Holies to abduct Sylvia and take her to this bouse for him. At first the colonel refuses. \ NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY j-k not Rut a man r* standing- in the shadow of ——l the gallows should not be ever fastidious.” The flush perished in the Colonel s face; the haunting fear returned to his eyes. The Duke, seeing him thus suddenly stricken by that grim reminder, was moved to sudden laughter. “It seems you have to realize. Colonel Holies, that there is no music without frets. You resent that I should ask a trifling service of you when, in return I am offering to make your fortune. For that is what I am offering. You come as opportunely to my need as to your own. Serve me as I require, and I pledge my word that I shall not neglect you.” "But this . . . this . . faltered Holies, protesting. “It Is a task for bullies, for jackals.” The Duke shrugged. “Damme! Why trouble to define it?" Then he changed his tone again. “The choice is yours. Fortune makes the offer: gold on the one hand- hemp on the other. I do not press either upon you.” Holies was torn between fear and ..onor. “I*ll go my ways. I think.” he said leavily, and half turned as if to depart. “You know wl ither it leads?” came he Duke's warning voice. In silcr.ee Holies bowed, and made bis way to the door with dragging feet, hope's last bubble pricked. And then the Duke's voice arrested lim again. ‘ Holies, you are a fool.” “I have long known it. I was a 'ool when I saved your life, and you pay me as a fool be paid.” “You pay yourself. And of your jwn choice you do so in fool’s coin.” Seeing him standing arrested there, still hesitating, the Duke approached ASPIRIN Say “Bayer”- Genuine! pAYE Ry w Genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” have been proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians over twentythree years for Colds and grippe misery. Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost only few cents at any drug store. Each packsfge contains proven directions for Colds and tells how to prepare an Aspirin gargle for sore throat and tonsilitis. —Advertisement. A A iti if i ill i* •- -t- t •- A A „””TtttTttTtTTTTy * Home-made Remedy * Stops Coughs Quickly { * [ The best rough medicine too ever T T need. A family supply easily and T * quickly made. Sate* about |S. + + .i.+ You might kqfT-ur|#isetl to know that the best thing you can use for a severe rough, is a remedy which is easily prepared at home in just' a few moments. It's eheap. hut for prompt results It •eat* anything else you ever tried. I’sually stops the ordinary eough or nest cold in 24 hours. Tastes pleasant, 00-—children like it —and it Is pure and food. Pour 2t* ounces of I’inex in 'a pint oottle; then fill it up with plain sranllated sugar syrup. Or use clarified molasses, honey, or corn syrup, instead of sugar syrup, if desired. Thus you make a full pint—a family supply—but •osting no more than a small bottle of ready-made cough syrup. And as a cough medicine, there i9 really nothing better to be had at any price. It goes right to the spot and gives quick, lasting relief. It promptly heals the Inflamed membranes that line the throat and air passages, stops the annoying throat tlekle, loosens the phlegm, and soon your rough stops entirely. Splendid for bronchitis, spasmodic croup and hoarseness. Pinex is a highly concentrated compound of Norway pine extract, famous for healing the membranes. To avoid disappointment ask your druggist for “V? ounces of Pinex” with directions and don't accept anything •lee. Guaranteed to give absolute’ satisfaction or money refunded. The I’inex ?0.. Ft. Wayne. Ind.—Advertisement. - Awp IF YOU HAD A NECK A6 LONG AS THIS FELLOW, , AND HAD fISORETHROAT HI | DOWN iiiTONSILINE Ltl SHOULD QUICKLY RELIEVE IT I* . & 36c. and SOe. Hospital Sms. tl. la 1 ALL DRUGGISTS

hint. His grace's need, as you know, was very urgent. It was no overstatement that Holies coming had been rpportune. Unless he could make of Holies the fool that he required so sorely, where should he find another? He set a friendly hand upon the Colonel's shoulder. And whilst the Duke now talked persuasively, tempting him with promises on the one hand and intimidating 'him with a picture of what must otherwise happen on the other, the Colonel's own tormented mind was reconsidering. Were his hands really so clean, his life so blameless, his honor so untarnished, that he must boggle at this vileness, and boggle at It to the extent of allowing them to stretch his neck and disembowel him sooner than perform it? And what was this vileness when all was said? A baggage of the theater, a trull of an actress, had played upon the Duke that she might make the greater profit out of him in the end. The Duke, wearied of her tricks and wiles, desired to cut the game short. Thus the Duke represented the And what WITH ARMS LINKED. THE THREE SET A COURSE FOR THE ALEHOUSE. cause had Holies to assume that it was other than a true representation? The gir: was an actress and therefore. it followed, wanton. The Puri tanical contempt of the playhouse and its denizens —heritage of his Commonwealth days—left him no doubt upon that score. If she were a lady of quality, a woman of virtue, the thing would be different. Then, Indeed, to be a party to such an act were a wickedness unthinkable. a thing sooner than which he would, indeed, suffer deatll. But where was the vileness here, since the object itself was vile? Against what, then, really, did this thing offend 9 Against himself; against his soldier’s dignity. The act required of him was one proper to a hored bully. It was ignoble. But was hanging less ignoble? Was he to let them put a rope about his neck and the brand of the gallows on his name out of tenderness for a baggage •of the theater whom he did not even know? Buckingham was right. He was a fool. All his life he had been a fooL scrupulous in trifles, negligent in the greater things. And now upon the most trifling scruple of all he would fitly -sacrifice his life. “Your grace,” he said hoarsely. "T am your man.” CHAPTER XVI The Sedan-Chair His grace behaved generously, and at the same time with a prudence which reveals the alert and calculating mind of this gifted man, who might have been great had he been less of a voluptuary. He attended with Hokes before the justices early on the morrow, announcing himself able to confirm out of his own the truth of the account which the colonel gave of his relations with the attainted Tucker. More was not needed. The sycophantic court bent the knee before this great gentleman who en joyed the close friendship of the king. Thus at the outset was Holies delivered from his worst peril. Next he was informed that, since service of any distinction in England was almost out of the question for his father's son, Buckingham would sup- , ].ly bin) with letters to several highplaced friends of his own in France. , where a capable soldier well recommended need never lack employment. From attendance before the Justices. Colonel Holies repaired straight to Fenchurch Street to conclude arrangements with the owner of the house in Knight Ryder Street. Os this he now acquired the tenancy in his own name for the term of one year. The merchant did not trouble to conceal the fact, that he regarded Colonel Holies as crazy to desire to take up his residence in an infected city from which all who were able were making haste to remove themselves. Had the Colonel needed a reminder of It. he had It in the fact that he was constrained to go on foot, not only because hackney-coaches were now rare, but because the use of them was considered highly imprudent. since so many had been used by infected persons. Doors . smeared with the red cross am> guarded by- watchmen were becoriv | ing commonplaces, and the comparaj tively few people met in the streets who still sought to maintain the normal tenor and business of their lives I moved with the listlessnes of despendency or else with the watchfulness of hunted creatures. The pungent smell of electau rales, and particularly of camphor, was wafted to .the Colonel’s nostrils from the person of almost every human he met. He may have thought again that —as he had already admirably expressed it—Buckingham was led by his passion like a blind man by his dog, to come thrusting himself at such a time into the City, and he may have taken satisfaction in the thought that he. himself, so soon as thsi business should be accomplished, was to shake the poiaonous dust of London from his feet. Matters concluded with the mer-

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chant, the Colonel went to take possession of the houses, and he Installed there two of the French lackeys the Duke had lent him for myrmidons. After that there was little to do but wait until Saturday. That evening, however, and the next, the Colonel repaired to Lincoln's Inn to watch from a safe distance Miss Farquharson’s departure from the theater, and so inform himself precisely of_ her habits in the matter. On both occasions she came forth at the same

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time—a few minutes after seven, and entered her waiting sedan-chair, in which she was borne away. On Friday evening Holies went again, at 6 o'clock, and he had been waiting half an hour before the chair that was to convey her home made Its appearanace. It was the same chair as before and borne by the same men. Holies lounged forward to engage them in talk. Os set purpose and despite the 'warrrl weather, he had donned a well-worn leather jerkin to

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cover and conceal his fairly presentable coat. He slouched toward the chairmen, pulling at a clay pipe, a man with time on his hande. And they, sitting on (the shafts of the chair—one on each side, so as to balance each other —were nothing loath to have the tedium of their waiting beguiled by the thrasonical garrulousness his appearance led them to expect. He did not disappoint them. He talked of the pestilence and of the war, and of the favoritism practiced

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at Court, which bestowed commands upon all manner of incompetent fops and kept a hardened and stout old soldier like himself cooling l*s heels it) London’s plague-ridden streets. On the following evening—which was that of Saturday—you behold him there again, at about the same hour, joyously hailed by Miss Farluharson’s chairmen in a manner impudently blending greeting aeris on. They took the Colonel between

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them, and with arms linked the three set a course for the little alehouse at the corner of Portugal Row. The Colonel was more garrulous than ever, and very confidential. He had met a friend, he insisted upon informing them—an old brother-in-arms who had come upon fortunate days, from whom he had succeeded in borrowing a. good round sum. Into the alehouse they rolled, to be skilfully piloted by the Colonel into a quiet corner well away from the win

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ilows and the light. He called noisily, tipsily, for the landlady, banging the table with the hilt of his sword And when she made her appearance, he silenced her protests by his order. "Three pints of Canary stiffly laced with brandy.” The wine was brought, and the facetious pair swilled it greedly. whereafter they praised it, with rolling of eyes and resounding lip-smackings* they even subdued their raillery of the provider of this nectar. (Continued in Our; .Next istoq)