Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 256, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1924 — Page 8

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BEGIN HKKI. 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 commission in the English army because the name of Randal Holies father of the colonel, appears on the warrant for the • execution of the late king. His Grace of Buckingham hires Holies to abduct the actress. Sylvia Faruuharson 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 arrives upon the scene the two men engage in a duel. Buckingltgei calls for his servants and they attack the colonel, who is knocked unconscious. Sylvia is a horrified spectator. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XX The Conqueror ——i HE had reached 4 hat point of Q endurance at which sensibility ■ becomes mercifully dulled. She sat there, her head resting against the tall back of the chair, her eyes closed, a sense of physical nausea pervading her. Yet, at the sound of the Duke's voice gently addressing her. she opened her long blue eyes set now in deep stains of suffering, and looked at this handsome satyr who stood before her in an attitude of deference that was in itself a mockery. "Dear Sylvia,” he was saying, 'T *m beyond measure pained that you should have been subjected to this . . . this unseemly spectacle; I need not protest that it was no part of my Intention.” She answered him almost mechanially, yet the ironical answer she deivered was true to her proud nature ind the histrionic art which would lot be denied expression even in the -xtremity to which she was reduced "That sir, I can well believe." He considered her, wondering a little at the dash of spirit, from one in her condition. If anything it but -erred to increase his admiration. He sighed. She eat now stiffly upright, dissembling her fear behind a mask of lnlignant scorn that was sincere enough. "Is anything sacred to such a man ts you?” She rose by r.n effort and stood before him, swa. mg, slightly ■’onsclous of dizziness and of shivers and marveling a little that she should be unable to better command herself. But she commanded herself at least sufficiently to give him his answer. "Sir, your persecution of me has rendered you loathly and abhorrent In my sight, and nothing that you may do oan alter that. And now, sir, I bag you to bid your creatures fetch

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: the chair in which 1 was brought hither and carry me henco again. ' Detain me further, and I promise you, : sir, that you shall be called to give ' a strict account of this night's work.” “Let you depart so soon? How can you think it, Sylvia? To have been at such infinite pains to cage you, you lovely bird, merely to let you fly away again!” "Either you let me depart at once, sir," she told him almost fiercely, her weakness conquered now in her own indignation, “or the Town shall ring with your infamy. You have practiced abduction, sir, and you know the penalty. I shall know how to make you pay it. I swear that you shall hang, though you be Duke of twenty Buckinghams.” ”Ma3d*e; maybe. But first the | charge must be made good. Where | are your witnesses? Until you pro I 'luce them, it will be your word against mine. And the word of an actress, however exalted, is . . . v in such matters . . . the word of an “DO NOT TOUCH ME. I HAVE THE PLAGUE.” actress.” He smiled upon her. “Then this house. It is not mine. It Is tenanted by a ruffian named Holies; it was taken by him a few days ago in his own name. It was he who brought you here by foroe. Well, well, if there must be a scape-goat, perhaps he will do as well as another. And. anyhow, he is overdue for the gallows on quite other crimes. lie brought you here by force So far Ve shall not contradict each other. What follows? How came I here into thgt man's house? Why, to rescue you, of course, find I stayed to com fort you In your natural distress. The facts will prove my story. My grooms will swear to it. It will then be seen that in charging me you are a scheming adventuress, returning evil for good, seeking to profit by my unwary generosity. You smile? You think the reputation bestowed upon me by a scandalmongoring populace will suffice to give that tale the lie. lam not "f your opinion; and, anyway. I cm prepared to take the risk. Oh, I would take greater risk for you, m/ dear.” She shrank before him in sheer terror. Then, conquering herself, stiffening in every limb, she drew herself erect. Majestically, a very queen of tragedy, she flung out an arm In a gesture of command. He found her magnificent, in the poise of her graceful body, the Ivory pallor of her face, the eyes that glowed and burned and looked the larger for the deep, dark shadows In which they were now set. Suddenly, with an almost particulate cry. he sprang forwardf to seize her. She slipped aside and away in panic before his furious onslaught, oversetting the high-backed chair* in which she had lately been sitting. The crash of its fall seemed to penetrate to the slumbering mind of Holies, and disturb his unconsciousness For he stirred a little, uttering a faint moan. Beyfind that, however, her flight accomplished nothing. Two yards away the wainscot faced her. She would have run round the table, but, before she could turn to do so, the Duke had seized her. Helpless iff his arms she lay. Oyer that white throat he now bent his head like some evil vampire. But ‘ his fevered lips never reached it. In the very act of/bending, he paused. I and stiffened.

Behind him he could hear the footsteps of his grooms re-entering the chamber. But it was not their coming that imposed this resaint upon him, that dilated and bulged his eyes with horror, that fetched the ashen pallor to is cheeks, and set him suddenly trembling and suddering from head to foot. For a moment he was as a man paralyzed. His limbs refused their office; they seemed turned to lead. Slowly, where he would have had them swift, his arms relaxed their grip of tha4 sweet body. Slowly they uncoiled themselves, and slowly he fell back before her. crouchfng forward the while, staring ever, his jaw fallen, his face the face of a man in the last extrembity of terror. Suddenly he raised his right hand to .point with a shaking Anger at her throat. Hoarsely, in a cracked voice, he spoke.- ■ s “The tokens! The tokens:” The three grooms, entering at that moment, checked and stood there just within the theshold as if suddenly turned to stone. The awakening yolles, on the ground, raising himself a little, and thrusting back the tumbled hair which was being matted to his brow by blood from hj>- cracked head, looked dazedly round and up to see the Duke> shaking, pointing hand, to bear the Duke’s quavering voice, this time, saying yet again- “ The tokens!” His grace fell back step- by step, gasping with dread, until suddenly he swung about to face his men. “Back ” he bade them, bis voice shrii:. “Bac-k: 'way! Out of this: She is intected. My* God! She has the plague! The tokens are upon her!’* - " A moment still they stood at gaze with him. They "craned forward, to look at Miss Fr&quharson, leaning faint and limp against the wainscot.

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her white neck and shoulders thrown Into dazzling relief against the dark in this horror which they fully shared brown of the background, and from where they stood they could make out quite plainly stamped upon the white lovelines of that throat the purple blafrh that was the brand and token c.t the pestilence. —Xs the Duke reached them, they turned, in sudden dread of him. Migha he not. hifnself, already carry upon ■wild cries of terror they fled before

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him out of the room, and out of the house, never heeding the commands which, as he precipitately followed, fie flung after them. CHAPTER XXI Under the Red Crows Colonel Holies and the woman he had sought so passionately long years ago. until despair had turned him from the quest, were alone together at laat In that house, brought thither by that irorfc destiny of his, in circumstance* of horror piled on horror.

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Painfully he got to his knees, and with dazed eyes looked round the room. Again he brushed back the tangle of hair from his brow, and thereafter dully considered his hand which was yet and smeared with blood. Understanding of where he was and how he had come there grew clear at last. He rose to his fee*, and stood swaying a moment, looking round, dull-eyed as*a drunkard. He beheld Nancy, her shoulders turned to him, contemplating herself In an oblong Venetlon mirror thkt

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adorned the wall beyond the table, and in the mirror Itself he beheld the reflection of her face. It was ashen, and there was a staring, ghastly horror in her eyes. She reeled back, and knew, without power to help herself, that she was falling, when suddenly she felt herself "aught, and supported. Sht looked up. and beheld the ghastly, blood-smeared face of jßandal Holies, who had sprung Instinctively to her assistance. For? a long mernent she stared at him, dull-eyed. &

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little frown of effort drawing her brows together. Dully then she spoke: “Do not to'uch me. Did you hear? I have the plague.” “Aye ... I heard,” he answered. “You will take the Infection," she warned him. “It is very likely,” said he, “but no great matter.” On that he lifted her in his arms, as he had lifted her once before that night. Despite his shaken condition, the act cost him but little effort, for she was very slim and light. Un-

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♦ 1 resisting—for she was and weak for any physical resistance now —she suffered him to bear her to the daybed. Then he passed round the couch “to the shuttered windows, unbarred them, and set the casement wide to Ist a draught of the clean, cool night lftto the stiAing room. The cool air revived her a little, set her pulses beating more steadily, and cleared her mind of some of the numb ness that had been settling upon it. 4 - (Continued in Our Nexi Issue} 1