Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1924 — Page 16

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BEOIN HKRK TODAY Colonel Hollee. soldipr and adventurer. returns to England, liie native land, when war with Holland Is declared. It is dangerous tor Holies to secure a comtnlsion 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. His Grace of Buckingham hires Holies to abduct the beautiful actress. Sylvia Farquharson. It is dark when the colonel carries her off. and when he arrives at the house Buckingham has rented. Holies is horror struck when he sees that Sylvia is an old sweetheart. When the Duke arives upon the scene the colonel demands Sylvias immediate release. When Buckingham refuses, the two engage In a duel. , Sylvia 1s a horrified spectator. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY OOLLES grinned at him. “I little thought when I saved your life that night at Worcester that I should be faced with the need to take it thus." And then the blades ground together again, and they'were engaged in deadly earnest. CHAPTER XIX The Battle I do not suppose that any two men ever engaged with greater confidence than those. Each regarded the other half contemptuously, as a fool rushing upon his doom. Holies was a man of hi" hands, trained in the hardest school of all. and although for some months now word practice had been a thing neglected by him, yet it never occurred to him that he should find serious opposition in a creature whose proper environment was the court rather than the camp. The Duke of Buckingham, whilst ranking no parade of the fact, was possibly the best blade of his day in England. He regarded the present affair merely as a tiresome interruption to be brushed aside as speedily as possible. Therefore he attacked with vigor, and his very contempt of his opponent made him careless. It was well for him in the first few seconds of that combat that Holies had reflected that to kill the Duke would be much oo serious a matter in its ultimate • cnsequences and possibly in its iTnnediate ones. For Buckingham's tackeyes were at hand, and. after disposing ■>f their master, he: must still run the MOTHER!: “California Fig Syrup’’ Dependable Laxative for Sick Baby or Child Q Hurry Mother.' Even a bilious, constipated, feverish child loves the pleasmt taste of “California Tig Syrup" nd it never fails to open the bowels. \ teaspoonful today may prevent a ■sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for genuine “California Fig Syrup" which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother! You must say “California" or you may get an imitation fig syrup.—Advertisement.

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j gantlet of thosew follow s before he j could win freedom with Nancy. His aim. therefore, must be to disarm or | disable the Duke, and then, holding ! him at his mercy, compel from him the pledge to suffer their unmolested dei parture which the Duke at present re- ! fused. Thus it happened that in the ! first moments of the engagement he ! neglected the openings which the i Duke’s recklessness afforded him, intent instead upon reaching and crippling the Duke's sword-arm. In the background in a tall armi chair to which she had sunk and in which she now reclined bereft of strength, white with terror, her pulses drumming, her breathing so shortened that she felt as if she must suffocate, sat Nancy Sylvester, the only agonized witness of that encounter of j which she was herself the subject. HOULES DROVE AT HIM AGAIN WITH REDOUBLED FURY. Suddenly .here was a change of tactics. Buckingham moved swiftly aside, away to his left: it was almost a leap; and as he moved he lunged in the new line he now confronted, a j lunge calculated to take Holies in • lie flank. But Holies shifted his : feet with the speed of a dancer, and j veered to face nis opponent in this j new line, ready to meet the hard- j driven point when It was delivered. Meanwhile, the sounds of combat in that locked room—the stamp of shifting feet and the ringing of blades —had drawn the attention of the men in the hall outside. There came a rigorous knocking on the doer accompanied by voices. The sound was an enheartenirg relief to Buckingham, who was finding his opponent much more difficult to dispatch than he had expected. Not only this. but. fearless though he might be. he was growing conscious that the engagement was not without danger to himself This rascal Holies was of an unusual strength. He raised his voice suddenly: j "A moi! Francois, Antoine! A moi!" ‘Monseigneur!” wailed tho voice of | Francois, laden with alarm, from be- j yond the oak. **Enfoncez la porte!' Buckingham bhouted back. Came heavy blows upon the door In answer to that command; then silence and a shifting of feet, as the grooms set their straining shoulders to the oak But .he rtcut tirhbers withstood such easy methods. The men’s footsteps retreated, and there followed a spell of silence, whose meaning was o.uite obvious to both combatants. The grooms w'ere gone for implements to break down the door. That made an end of the Colonel’s hopes of rendering the Duke defenseless, a task whose difficulty he began | to perceive that he must find almost j insuperable. He settled down, there- j fore, to fight with grimmer purpose. | There was no choice for him now but i to kill Buckingham before the grooms ; won through that door, or all would ‘ be lost, indeed. So far Holies had fought on al- j most academic lines, no more, in- ! deed, being necessary for the purpose j he had been setting himself. But now that this purpose was changed, and finding that mere speed and vigor : could not drive his point beyond the i Duke's iron guard, he had recourse i to more liberal methods. There was a trick —a deadly, never-failing trick —that he had learned years ago from j an Italian master, a soldier of fortune who. like himself, had drifted into mercenary service with the Dutch. He would essay it now. He side-stepped to the left, and lunged on a high line of tierce, his point aimed at the throat of his opponet. The object of this was no more , than to make the Duke swing round to parry Without meeting the opposing blade as it shifted to the threat- ‘ ened line. Holies dropped his point and his body at the same time, until he was supported, at fullest stretch, by his left hand upon the ground. Upward under the Duke's guard he whirled his point, and the Duke, who had been carried —as Holies had calculated that he would be—a little too far round in the speed required, thus unduly exposing his left flank, found that point coming straight for his heart. He was no more than in time to beat It aside with his left hand, and even so it ripped through the sleeve of his doublet and tore his flesh Just above the elbow. But for that wound there might well have been an end of Holies. For this trick of his was such that it must succeed or else leave him that essays It momentarily at the mercy of h!s antagonist. That moment presented itself now: but it was gone neain hefore the Duke had mastered the twitch occasioned him by the tearing of his arm. His recovery and downward-driven riposte were swift, hut too late by half a heart-beat Holies was no longer there to be im paled. They smiled grimly at each other as erect they stood, paustng a second after that mutually near escape of death. Then as a. succession of resounding blows fell upon the door. Holies drove at him again with redoubled fury. Hdlcs realized that there was no time to lose- Buckingham, that his -v.fety lay In playing for time, and allowing the other’s furious attacks to spend themselves .against his defense Twice again, despite his wound, he us*d his left hand, from which he hlncd was dripping freely.

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to dash aside the other’s blade. Once he did It with impunity. But when he repeated the action. Holies took advantage of it to fling himself suddenly forward inside the Duke’s guard, until they were breast to breast, and with Ills own left he seized the Duke's sword-wrist In a grip that paralyzed it. Before, however, he could carry out nis Intention of shortening his sword, his own wrist was captive in the Imke's blood-shieared left h'nd. He sought to force himself free , <■ ti la t

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grip. But the Duke maintained it with the tenacity bom of the desperate knowledge that his life depended oh it, that If he loosed hia hold there would be an Instant end of him. Thus now In this fierce corps-a-corps they writhed and swayed hither and thither, snarling and panting and tugging, whilst the sound of the bolws upon the door announced the splintering of a panel, and Nancy, half, swooning In her chair, followed the nightmare struggles of the two men in

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wide-eyed but only half-seeing terror. And then under a final blow the door all splintered about, the lock flew open and the grooms flowed Into the room to their master's rescue. Holies tore his wrist free at the same moment by a last wrench. But it was too late. Casting the Duke’s sword hand from him, he sprang away and round with a tearing sob to face the lackeys. For a second his glittering point held them at bay. Then the Wow of a club shivered the

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blade, and they rush in upon him. He felled one of them with a blow of the hilt which he still retained, befor a club took him across the skull. Under that blow he reeled back against, the table, his limbs sagged, and he sank down in a heap, unconscious. As he lay there one of the grooms, standing over him. swung his club again with the clear Intention of beating out his brains. But the Duke arresied tin* blow.

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“It Is not necessary’," he said. He was white and breathing hard from his exertions and there was a fevered glitter in his eyes. But these signs apart he was master of himself. “Your arm, monseigneur!" cried Francois, pointing to the blood that filled his sleeve. “Bah! A scratch! Presently." Then he pointed to the prone limp figure of Holies, from wtiose head the blood was slowly trickling. “Get a rope. Francois, and truss him up." Fran-

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cols departed on hie errand!. "You others, carry Antoine out. Then return for Bobadtl. I may have a use for him yet." They trooped out obediently, nd Buckingham, still very pale, but breathing now more composedly, turned to Nancy with a queer little smile on lips that looped less red than usual. (Continued In Our Next Issue)