Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1950 — Page 20

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Synopsis: Things are not going so well for Wheeler, the little Mudlark who slipped into Windsor Castle. Locked up by Scotland Yard he is being grilled daily to find out what evil motives he may have had in trying to get to Queen Victoria, And things aren't going so well either for Lieutenant McHatten, hopelessly In love with Lady Emily Prior, Maid of Honor to the Queen. Her Majesty royally disapproves of the match. Now go on with the story— CHAPTER NINTEEN THE QUEEN'S head, by God preserved, was full of indignant thoughts concerning the Wheeler Case, and that morning she had been busy making some of them known in the proper quarters. Far from being touched by the general concern that almost overnight had lifted her ouf of her unpopularity and endeared her to the hearts of her subjects, the Widow at Windsor had been moved to wrath by all this clamor at her gates. Everyone was demanding a public inquiry, and this.she con sidered to be perfectly ridiculous. Mr. Delane, the editor of the Times, received from General Ponsonby a letter ‘of rebuke, while Mr. Cross, the Home Secretary recéived one stipulating that Her "Mafesty desired thes inquiry to he private.

ful-one. “Very good of you to come, Mr. McHatten.” He mo: tioned to a chair and sank back into his own, "A good deal has happened since you and I last met. It seems now we were in at the beginning of something. I had no idea then." x “Neither had I.” McHatien said a shade bitterly.

“No? ‘I thought ‘perhaps you Later Disraeli said to his sec- could explain it to me retary: “Do you remember that McHatten glanced at the Prime

fellow McHatten? 1 should like Minister sharply. “I don't profess to know something more about to he a sage, sir; 1 should have him, Hammond privately. - And aid it was the other way round.”

when we've got a report on him Not many men in London would

perhaps we'd better send for Mr. choose to match wits with” him McHatten.” like that, And as McHatten redWhen McHatten was informed dened, Disraeli =aid: “Oh, don't that he was wanted in Downing apologize; I brought it on myself. Street, he thought hig reprieve I'd rather you told me something from India was at hand. - about this little ogre Wheeler.” un “Wheeler”! McHatten repeated ACROSS HIS desk, as McHat- incredulously, his hopes dashed; ten was ushered in, Disraeli saw, and suddenly hecame alarmed.

if not a truclent young man, at “The boy Wheeler is something

Teast a proud and rather scorn- of a popular villain now, you

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= . = "Nn =. = # - . see the castle? Precious few London mudlarks have ever been out of London in their lives. 1 think, Lieutenant, that the ignorance of our mudlarks would surprise you. Trying to drive them all to school is like trying to round up all the rats in the sewers, It would take the Pied Piper of Hamelin.” » » 4 “WELL,” McHatten said, “this one may not know who Jesus was, but he knew Wellington—recognized the bust 6f him in the Guard Room called him ‘the Arn Juke.” And he knew the Queen right enough, and knew he'd sat on the throne, And be asked a lot of questions when we gave him a sporting chance. I admit I was surprised --and rather struck, you know. I think he’s intelligent. But. Lord, he speaks the worst Cockney T've ever heard. T feel rather: sorry for him; but, by God, I envy him a little too.” Men seldom surprised Disraelf, but McHatten had. “Youth,” Disraeli said; “I always envy youth jut 1 den't- often pity it.” MeHatten laughed. “He likes to gee and do things, that kid, or I miss my guess, And strictly between us, sir, he's embarrassed | the Grenadiers no end. They'd give their buttons to make him, six feet tall and an experienced

know. The Home Secretary conceives of Wheeler as a political enfant terrible. And as always there are the radicals, making capital out of another aspect of the business. So, strange as. it may seem to you, Lieutenant, the boy threatens to hecome an embarrassment Her Majesty's Government. Politics teaches a man to be prepared when he can That's why I'd like you to give me your opinion.” ~ n ” McHATTEN SHOOK his head “I4hink he told the truth,” “You don't :helieve he had ac complices?™ 3 “Not a bit of it. Poor little devil He's a London mudlark. Said he came to Windsdr on a coal barge to take in the castle. Managed to get past a sentry post and found

it was dark, and that night there was a thick fog. There are coalholeg in the Quadrangle, you see and it was just his luck that some fool had left one open. Well, he fell into it--into the cellars. Then he climbed upstairs and hid in the Private Dining Room. That's all.” “All?” sald Disraeli in an ineredulous tone. “And you can be lieve that?” “Yes, 1 can believe it, Though I don't suppose anyone else can,”

“You're wrong, Lieutenant, I burglar.” can.” { wy on “I've been wondering,” Disraeli ou, sir. sald; “could you possibly be re“But a London mudlark, vou lated to old Robert McHatten?' |

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in Parliament for — for —" “The Cheshire Wirrel, sir—for fifty years; and he and his father between them sat for it for nearly a hundred.” The “Indeed? "A family constituny 2? “Used to be.” . “Then 1 suppose you'll be standing for it yourself someday.” “No, we're out of it now.” “I should think you owe it to the Party, as well as to your family.” 2 "= =» = “SIR?” said McHatten in surprise. : “I mean that with all the industrializing you've had up there in recent years, the Tory Party's weak in Cheshire now. You have’ an. old Cheshire name. Very valuable. I think you'd be good in debate. 1 should say the Party needs you. But then, I suppose that for the present you're pretty keen on a career in the Army, eh?” . For a moment McHatten could say nothing. He was bowled over. The idea had never appealed to him before. but suddenly it appealed to him now. “But I'll have to wait a bit, sir.” “Why?” McHatten was thinking of the vague cloud hanging over him in the Grenadiers. Being under the impression that his superiors

were for getting him out of the-

way in order to make him the scapegoat in the Wheeler Case, he was determined to remain in the Regiment until either he was

vindicated or the affair blew over.

Wheeler again—his nemesis, He answered: “Personal reasong.” “Naturally I'm disappointed,” Disraeli said. “Thank you, sir. That's very good of you, I must say!” And McHatten warmly shook the Prime Minister's. cold, prehensile hand.

The good man Benjamin. Dis-

jraeli, when McHatten had gone, | stood scowling at the empty air.

He had gone to a good deal of trouble for that' man, all to extricate himself frem a false position with a friend; and going back to his desk, he wondered what he could say to Rothschild.

| = |THE FREE evenings of that. walking archieves, Mr.

Naseby, had been passed in the same way, barring accidents, for fifteen years. On Tuesday evenings he would dress himself in his best clothes, brush and put on his tall hat, take his stick, and wend his way into the Borough, to the sign

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\would come forward in person to greet the magisterial-looking pa-| tron, and with suitable deference lescort him into a private room off | the saloon bar, where they would 1 be joined by Mrs. Simms and] WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (UP) three pints. And seated at a little|-—-The Attorney General's contable covered with a clean white ference on crime today set its cloth, they would talk what Mr. sights on wiping out the nation’s “shop” for two muiti-billion-dollar gambling ayp-| hours every Tuesday evening. dicate racket. \ } But the shoptalk was all too The job of mapping details of one-sided to suit Mrs. Simms. She the fight fell to the organiza-| wished he would tell them a little tion’s legislation comm it t ee something ‘ sometimes about go- headed by Mayor Thomas d’Ales-| ings-on in the castle: But until|2ndro jr. of Baltimore, Mad. | this particular Tuesday evening The group was handed the task it had never occurred to Mr. after President Truman and Atty.| Naseby that on his part he had Gen. J. Howard McGrath called anything much to tell. for a concerted effort to drive Wee

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Mrs. Simms said cheerfully; crime lords out of business. “And: how's’ the book ‘coming Chairman Nambed along?” - |__The meeting of mayors and city.

Mrs. Simms Knew perfectly well and state attorneys set up the that there wasn’t any book. What | conference as a permanent or-| she had heard was that Mr. Nase- ganization yesterday and named by could write a book if he chose, 38-year-old Quigg Newton, Mayor but that of course he wouldn't,| of Denver, Colo., chairman of the | preferring to carry his fascinat- continuing executive committee. ing knowledge to the grave with! Mr. . d’Alesandro’s committee him. was ordered to report to the ex-| ecutive committee by Apr. 15 on] what new laws it thinks are] needed to permit more effective participation of the federal gov-| ernment

ns 8 “AUTHOR?” said Mr. Naseby. “Book?” -and he boomed forth two separate and distinct reports

of laughter. “Me an author? Now in the battle on "orf

whatever put: that jie. your a recommenda- | ad tions to be studied are proposals She sighed. “Well, it isn’t true, to deny telephone, telegraph and then. Ah, the things-one does hear.| radio facilities to those who use| But of course I didn’t believe it. sporting information for illegal | If you've not the gift you've not gambling; and to bar interstate] ‘the gift, I always say.” |shipment of slot machines and| Simms remarked to Mr. Nase- parts. | by. “There you are in the castle,| The proposal on sports infor- |

day in and day out, year in and mation . specifically exempted year out, en? There you are serv- “generally accepted” press assoing the Queen, showing in the ciation and newspaper reporting] dukes and the duchesses ahd the of sports events. ministers, and a-hearing of every via | word they say.” . Before he left the Nag and Cart Murat Arab Patrol that evening, he had told all he. Plans Dinner Dance knew about the Wheeler Case and, ppe Murat Arab Patrol will hinted at a good deal that he ,,1q jis fourth annual dinner, didn't know. He had answered g,nce Saturday night in the offiall. Mrs. Simm’s questions -about ars mess Hall of the Naval Ar-!| the Queen's tastes in food, and ory WwW. 30th St. and White had dropped a confidential hint iver. | that Prince Edward, His Royal g pg Fisher is chairman of the Higness,; might be going to Ire-’ : BY . .

A arrangements committee. Other| land soon. The Simmses had set .on mittee members include! his mind going, and walking james E. Slaughter, Floyd C.

homeward, he thought of several Newman, Merril G. Phillips, For-| stories. Never before had he been rest W. Gilbreath and M. L.| listened to so avidly. But then gutton. ! never before had he essayed the

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