Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1924 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Colonel Holies, soldier and adventurer. returns to England, his native land, when war with Holland is declared. It is dangerous for Holies to secure a I'omtrission in the English army because the name of Banda! Holies, father of the Cotonel. is on the warrant for the execution of the late king. 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 also out for his arrest. His Grace of Buckingham hires Holies to abduct the actress. Svlvia Farquharson. It is dark the Colonel carries her off and when he arrives at the house rented by Buckingham Holies is horror-struck when he -ees that Sylvia is a former sweetheart of his. Sylvia is horrified. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY a r— —'.ILL, you not realize that -here \Y/ is no time to lose? That if ." * you stay here you are lost? Go alone, if you will. Return home at once. But since you must go afoot, and you may presently be pursued, puffer tr.e at least to follow after you, to do *.vhat I can to make you safe. Trust me in this ... . for your own sake trust me ... In God’s name!” “Trust you?” she echoed, and almost she seemed to laugh.* "You? After this?" “Aye. after this. Because of this. 1 may be as vile as you are deeming me; not a doubt I am. But I never could have been vile to you. It may not excuse me to protest that I did nek know It was against you that I was acting. But it should make you believe that I am ready to defend you now—now that I know." This time he caught her by the wrist, and maintained his hold against her faint attempt to liberate herself. He attempted to draw her after him across the room. A moment she hui.g back, resisting still. “For God’s sake!" he implored her madly. “At any moment Buckingham may arrive!" This time she yielded to a spur that earlier her passion had made her disregard. Between such evils there could be no choice. She looked into his livid gleaming face, distorted by his anguish and anxiety. “I ... I can trust you in this? If I trust you . . . you

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will bear me safely home? You swear it?” “As God’s my witness!" he sobbed in his impatience. There was an end to her resistance now. More: she displayed a sudden urgency that matched his own. “Quick! Quick, then!” she panted. And then, just as they reached the door, it was thrust open from without, and the tall, graceful figure of the Duke of Buckingham, his curled fair head almost touching the lintel, stood before them! a flush of fevered expectancy on his handsome face. In his right hand he held his heavily feathered hat; his left rested on the pummel of the light dress rapier he was wearing. The pair recoiled before him, and Holies loosed her wrist upon the swift, instinctive apprehension * that here he was like to need his hands for other things. His grace was all in glittering satin, black an.d white like a magpie, with EVEN AS THE DUKE DREW. HOLLES FELL ON GUARD. jewels in the lace at his throat and a baldric of garter blue across his breast. A moment he stood there at gaze, with harrowing eyes. puzzled by something odd in their attitudes, and looking from Miss Farquharson’s pale, startled loveliness to the stiff, grim figure of her companion. Then he came slowly forward, leaving th* door wide behind hiprt. He bowed low to the lady without spealting; as he came erect again. It was to the Colonel that he addressed himself. “All should be here, I think." he said, waving- a hand toward the table and sideboard. Holies half-turned to follow the ges ture, and he stood a moment as if pondering the supper equipment, glad of that moment in which to weigh the situation. Out there, in the hall, somewhere just beyond that open door, would be waiting, he knew. Buckingham’s four French lackeys, who, at their master's bidding, would think no more of slitting his throat than of slicing the glazed capon on the sideboard yonder. His life had come suddenly to matter very much. He must go very warily. The Duke's voice, sharp with impatience. roused him: “Well, booby? Will you stand there all night considering?" Holies turned. “All is here, under your grace's hand, I think." he said quietly. “Then you may take yourself off." Holies bowed submissively. He dared not look at Nan; but he caught the sudden gasp of her breath, and without looking beheld her start, and imagined the renewed horror and wide-eyed scorn in which she regarded this fresh display of coward ice and vileness. He stalked to the door, the Duke's eyes following him with odd suspicion, puzzled ever by that something here which he perceived, but whose signifl cance eluded him. Holding the edge of the open door in his hand. Hollos half-turned again. He was still playing for time in which to decide upon his course of action. “Your grace, I take it. will not require me further tonight?” His grace considered. Beyond the Duke Holies had a glimpse of Nan, standing wide-eyed, livid as death, leaning against the table, her right hand pressed upon her heaving breast as if to control its tumult. “No,” said his grace slowly, at last. “Yet you had best remain at hand with Francois and the others." “Very well.” said Holies, and turned to go. The key was. he observed, on the outside of the door. He stooped and withdrew it from the lock. “Your grace would perhaps prefer the key on the inside,’’ he said, with an odious smirk, and, whilst his grace impatiently shrugged his indifference, Holies made the transference. Having made it, he closed the door swiftly, and he had quietly turned the key in the lock, withdrawn and pocketed it before his grace recovered from his surprise at the eccentricity of his behavior. Holies, his shoulders to the door, showed a face that was now grim and set. He cast from him again the hat and cloak which he had been holding. “It is, your grace, that I desire a word in private with you, safe from the inconvenient intrusion of your lackeys.” The Duke drew himself up, very stiff and stern, not a little Intrigued as you conceive by all this; but quite master of himself. “Proceed, sir.” he said coldly, "Let us have the explanation of this insolence. that so we may make an end of it." "That is soon afforded." Holies, too spoke quietly. "This lady, your grace, is a friend of mine, an ... an old friend. I did not know it until . . . until 1 had conveyed her hither. Upon discovering it. I would have escorted her hence again, and I was about to do so when your grace arrived. I have now to ask you to pledge me your word of honor that you will do nothing to prevent our peaceful departure —that you will offer no hindrance cither in your own person or in that i of your servants." For a long moment, Buckingham stood considering him without moving i from the spot where he stood, midway between Hoi'es and the girl, his shoul- , der to the latter. Beyond a helghtenj ing of the color about his eyes and cheeigtones, he gave no sign of mo-

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tion. He even smiled, though not quite pleasantly. "But how simple,” he said, with a little laugh. Then his voice hardened. And should I refuse to pledge my word, what does Colonel Holies propoas?” ‘•|t will be very bad for your grace,” said Holies. The Duke's whole manner changed. He plucked off his mask of arrogant languor. “By God!” he ejaculated, and his voice was rasping as a file. "That Is

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enough of this Insolence, my man. You’ll unlock that door at onoe, and go your ways, or i’ll call my men to beat you to a Jelly.” "It was lest your grace should be tempted to such ungentle measures that I took the precaution to lock the - door.” Hollse was smooth as velvet. Buckingham laughed, and, even as he laughed he whipped the light rapier from its scabbard, and flung forward in a lunge across the distance which he had measured with Iris very practiced swordsman’s eye.

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It was an action swift as lightning and of a deadly precision, shrewdly calculated to take the other by surprise and transfix him -before he could make a move to guard himself. But swift as it was, and practiced as was the Duke's skill, he wtis opposed to one as swift and practiced, one who had too often kept his life with his hands not to be schooled in every trick of rough-and-tumble. Even as the duke drew and lunged in one movement, so. in one movement, too, i Holies drew and fell on guard to de-

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flect that treacherous lightningstroke. Nan's sudden scream of fear and the clash of the two blades rang out at the same moment. The Colonel’s parry followed on into the envelopit g movements of a . riposte that whirled his point straight at the Duke’s face on the low level to which this had been brought by the lunge To avoid it, Buckingham was forced to make a recovery, a retreat as precipitate. as the advance had been swift. Erect once more, his grace

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fell back, hla breathing quickened a little, and for a moment the two men stood in silence,. their points lowered, measuring each other with their eyes. Then Holies spoke. “Your grace, this is a game in which the dice are heavily cogged against you," he said gravely. “Better btke the course I first proposed.” Buckingham uttered a sneering laugh. He had entirely mistaken the other’s meaning. “Why, you roaring captain, you pitiful BodadUto you think to alright

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me with swords and antics? It is against yourself the dice are loaded. Unlock that door, and get you henco or I’ll carve you into ilbbons.” “Oho! And who’s the roaring captain now? W'ho the Bobadil? 'Who the very butcher of a silk button?” ; cried Holies, stung to anger. He ■* would have added more, perhaps, but ” tlie Duke stemmed him. “Enough talk!” he snapped. “The key, you rogue, or I’ll skewer you wb6re you stand.” (Continued In Our Next Issue)