Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 11, Hammond, Lake County, 29 June 1907 — Page 3

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Saturday. Juno 29, 1907,

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CONTINUED. About tbe time that Fliilip's coaebman safely deposited Evelyn and her mother at their residence Victor Grenier, ajrain attired in evening dress and accompanied by Jocky Mason, whose hutre frame was incased in a suit of Cray tweed, entered a fashionable West End bar and found an elegant young person leaning against the marble topped counter, engaged in a war of wits

with a barmaid. The arrival of the two men. however, put a quick stop to the badinage. The youth quitted the counter with a careless discourtesy that annoyed the girl to whom he was talking. "Well," he demanded from Grenier, "did anything happen?" "Jimmie," was tbe cool reply, "I told you that your stupid ruse last night would result in failure. Far worse; it has supplied you 'with a rival against whom you may as well give up the game at once." "Rot:" cried tbe other fiercely, with an oath. "Don't Irritate me. Tell me

plainly what has gone wrong now." "She was there and sang delightfully. Ton my honor, she Is a pretty girl. But the man was there, too, and he managed to improve so well on the opportunity you were kind enough to provide for him, Jimmie, that after her show was over she and her mother met him at the main entrance, and they drove off together to the Savoy in a carriage and pair." "Then who the deuce la he?" demanded the angry youth. "I tell you, Jimmie, you have no earthly chance. Last night's intruder was none other than Mr. Philip Anson, the millionaire." , "Philip Anson. Great Scott! Heof all men in the world!" " The youDger man became very pale, and his eyes rolled in a species of delirious agitation. Fut Jocky Mason Lad caught the came, though he did not comprehend the exact subject of their discourse. "Philip Anson!" he said. "If there's anything on foot where Philip Anson

is concerned, count me as his enemy. Curse him! Curse him to all eternity!" And he struck a table with his great fist until other men began to stare, and Grenier was forced earnestly to counsel his associates to control themselves In such a public place.

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CHAPTER XVI. OME to my chambers," muttered the youngest of the trio. "We are fools to discuss such things here. It is

your fault, Grenier. Why did you drop this bombshell on me so unexpectedly? You confounded actors are always looking out for a curtain. You should not try the experiment on your chums in a crowded bar." "Now, my dear Langdon, do be reasonable. How could I tell that the mere name of Thilip Anson would create a scene? Yon look as sick as a man who has just been sentenced to be hanged, and my old pal Hunter seems to have suddenly goue mad." Indeed, 'his words were justified. Mr. James Crichfon Langdon "was corpselike in pallor, and Mason, alias Hunter, though his tongue was stilled, bore every indication of a man en

raged almost beyond control

"Come away, then," said with a horrible attempt to

differently. "No, no. There are too many eyes here that we should leave with the air of a set of stage murderers. Sit down. Let us have a nip of brandy. Talk about racing, women, anything, for a little while and then go out quietly." Grenier was right. A detective had already nudged an acquaintance and whispered: "The pigeon seems to be ipset. And one of the hawks is in a rare temper too. I'll keep an eye on that collection." He watched them through a mirror. He saw Grenier exert himself to put his companions in a better humor. When they went out, he followed and

ascertained from the commissionnaire at the door that they had goue toward Shaftesbury avenue. tiy walking rapidly he sighted them again and saw them turn into a doorway. "Grenier's chambers!" he said. "What a splendid nerve that fellow has. Reports hinrself coolly at Scotland Yard every month and lives in style not half a mile away. How does he manage it? I must make some inquiry a bout the others."

Certainly the methods of the superior scoundrels of London are peculiar. Grenier knew that be was a marked man in the eyes of the police. He knew that the particular saloon bar

he affected was the rendezvous not j

only of others like himself, but of the smartest detective officers of the metropolitan force. Yet this was his favorite hunting ground. Where the carcass is there are the jackals. He would never dream of honest endeavor in a new land to begin life anew. The feast was spread before his eyes, and he could not resist it. But Grenier was a careful rogue. After a boyhood of good training and education, he drifted into a bad set at the beginning of fcis ada!t career. Once, indeed, he endeavored to put his

great natural abilities to some reasonable use by going on the stage. The industrious hardship of tbe early years of an actor's striving were not to hi liking, however. No sooner had he attained a position of trust as manager of a touring company than he tampered with moneys intrusted to his care. He was not actually found out, but suspected and dismissed. Then the regular gradations of crime came naturally to him. Gambling, card sharping, company frauds, even successful forgery, succeeded each other in their recognized sequence, until at last came detection and a heavy sentence, for the authorities had long waited for him to drop into the net Now that he was free, he did not Intend to revisit any of his majesty's convict settlements if he could help it. His wits were sharpened, his cool intellect developed by prison life and associations. He personally would keep ciear of the law and make others support him. lie would depend on two classes of contributors fools, like Langdon, and

slow witted criminals, like Mason. Being a really clever man. it would be strange if his own middle path were not kept clear of fetters. In the mystery surrounding Philip Anson's influence over these two he scented interesting developments. Beginning with a young rake's attempt to ensnare a beautiful girl, he suddenly discovered a situation pregnant with the potentiality of gain to himself. It

did not matter to him who paid him, whether Anson or Langdon He would betray one or the other or both Impartially. Mason ho liked. The man's rugged strength of character, his sledge hammer villainy, his dogged acceptance of the leadership of a more skilled rascal, appealed to him. Mason was a tool, and a hard hitting one. He would use him, safeguard him if he could, but use him anyhow. In the seclusion of Grenier's small fiat Langdon poured out his spleen. Anson was the bane of his life. His stepfather was Anson's uncle, and the old idiot recently found out certain facts concerning the life led by his Btepson that caused a family rupture. His mother endeavored to patch matters with ill success, and tbe baronet was intent on finding his sister's son and atoning to him for years of neglect by making him his heir. Lady Louisa concealed nothing of this from her scapegrace son. She hoped to frighten him by the threatened loss of supplies, but neither fright nor hatred could bring him to leave London and settle down to a quiet life in Devonshire, when perhaps the elderly naturalist's fit of indignation

might gradually wear Itself out. At this crisis came his discovery of Evelyn Atherley and a mad desire to win her affections. He even dreamed of persuading her to marry him and by this means succeed in rehabilitating himself with Sir Philip Morland. The girl was well born. Mrs. Atherley was Lord Vanstone's half sister, and, although his lordship had ruined himself and his relations by his ex

travagance, tne matcn was m every ;

other respect suitable. He was not content with the slow formula of seeking an acquaintance in the ordinary way. Accustomed to speedier conquests, he confided his wishes to Grenier and resented the latter's condemnation of his suggestion of a mock accident in which Langdon should figure as the gentlemanly rescuer, as a ready means of winning the girl's grateful regard. The result was worse than failure, lie was wild with himself, wild with Grenier and reached a higher pitch of fury when Mason surlily refused to say what grievance he harbored against Anson. "A nice muddle I've made of everything!" cried the disappointed youth.

"And a precious lot of friends I've discovered! I tell you everything, place myself unreservedly in your power, and you not only let me drift into a stupid blunder, but decline to share your confidences with me." He rose to gQ, but Grenier firmly pushed him back into a chair.

"Don't be a bigger fool than you are, Jimmie, and leave those who will help you. I told you the cab adventure was a mistake. It might go wrong in twenty ways and right only In one. And you must admit that I never heard of Anson from you until tonight." "I may be to blame," was the sulky admission, "but who Is your friend Hunter, and why does he not be as outspoken as I?" "There are reasons, nunter was cleaned out in Africa on account of Anson's manipulation of a diamond mine. He wants to get even with him. That should, be enough for you." Mason smiled sourly at his leader's ready explanation, and Langdon saw only the venom in the man's face. "He ought to have said so." he muttered. "I am in no mood to be denied the confidence of those who act with me in this matter. In any case, what can we do?" Grenier procured a decanter of brandy and passed his cigarette case. "We can accomplish nothing without money." "Money! What avail Is money against a millionaire?" "None directly. You would be swamped instantly. But we must know more about Anson. He has

servants. They can be made to taik. He has susceptible cooks and housemaids in Park lane and at whatever place he owns in the country. I am great with cooks and housemaids. There Is a mystery, an unfathomable mystery, about his supply of diamonds. It must be probed' "No mystery at all," snarled Jocky Mason. "He found a" meteor in a slum called Johnson's Mews. It was cram full of diamonds. I saw some of 'em." "Y'ou saw tbemr His bearers allowed all other emo

tions to yield to the interest of this astounding statement. "Yes. I don't say much; I act. You'll get no more out of me. I want none of your girls or property. I want Philip Anson's life, end I'll have it if I swing for it!" "My dear Hunter, you are talking wildly. Have another drink?" Grenier, cool as an icicle, saw unexpected vistas opening before him. He must be wary and collected. Here was the man who would pay and the man who would dare all things. Mason's truculent determination gave hope even to Langdon. He. tx, gifted with a certain power of vicious reasoning, saw that this new ally might prove useful. But he was afraid of such bold utterances and hoped to achieve his purples without binding himself eveu tacitly to the commission of a crime, for Mason not only looked, but talked, murder. "I think I had better go." he said suddenly. "Your braudy is too strong for my head, Grenier. Call and see

me in the morning." The astute rogue whom he addressed raised no objection to his departure. He instantly embraced Langdon's attitude In his wider horizon. "Yes." he agreed, "let us sleep on It. We will all be better able to discuss matters more clearly tomorrow." Thenceforth the flat in Shaftesbury avenue became a spider's web into which the flies that buzzed around Philip's life were drawn one by one,

squeezed dry of their store of Information and cast forth again unconscious of the plot being woven against their mnster. Within a month Grenier knew Anson's habits, his comings and goings, his bankers, his brokers, many of his investments, the names of his chief employees, the members of his yacht's crew, the topography of his Sussex estate. Nothing was too trivial, no detail too unimportant, to escape a note undecipherable to others and a niche in a retentive memory. He made a friend of one of Thilip's footmen by standing treat and listening reverently to his views on the next day's racing. He persuaded one kitchen maid in Park lane and another at Fairfax Hall that he had waited all his life to discover a woman he could love devotedly. It was a most important discovery when he unearthed in a dingy hotel the man whom Philip had dismissed for tampering with the locked portmanteau. From this worthy he first heard of the quaint adjunct to the be

longings of the young millionaire, and

judicious inquiry soon revealed that there was hardly a servant in riiilip's employ who did not credit the Gladstone bag with being the repository of the millionaire's fortunes. Ordinary people will credit any nonsense where diamonds are concerned. Even an educated criminal like Victor Grenier believed there might be some foundation for the absurd theory which found ready credence among the domestics. He never made the error of planning a burglary or adroit robbery whereby the bag might come into his possession. If it did contain diamonds, and especially if It contained unique specimens, it was absolutely useless to him. But his vitals yearned for Anson's gold, and the question he asked himself in every unoccupied moment was how he

might succeed in getting some portion of it into his own pocket.

One day a quaint notion entered his mind, and the more the thought of it the more It dominated him. He was, tall and well made, if slim in figure, and his face had never lost the plasticity given it by his stage experience. He had only heard Philip's voice once, but his features and general appearance were now quite familiar to him, and he undertook a series of experiments with clothing and makeup to ascertain if he could personate Anson sufficiently well to deceive any one who was not an intimate acquaintance. Soon the idea became a mania, and the mania absorbed the man's intellect. To be Philip Anson for a day, a week! What would he not give for the power! One evening when Jocky Mason entered Grenier's apartmeuts he started back, with an oath, as a stranger approached him in the dim light and said: "Well, Mason, and what do you

want?" The ex-burglar and man slayer seemed to be so ready to commit instant murder that Grenier himself was alarmed. "Hold hard, old chap," he said In his natural voice. "I am onby trying an experiment on you." "What tomfoolery Is this?" shouted the other, gazing at him with the suspicious side glance of a discomfited dog which has been startled by some

person familiar to it in ordinary guise, but masquerading in outre garments. "A mere pleasantry, I assure you. Good heavens, man, how you must hate this fellow Anson if you are so ready to slay him at sight! From your own story, he only acted as ninety-nine people out of a hundred would have done in helping the cop." "What I want to know Is why you are playing tricks on me. I won't stand It. I'm not built that way." "Now, Mason, be reasonable. Can I ask anybody else if I resemble Philip Anson when made up to represent him?" "Perhaps not, but you ought to have warned me. Besides, I am worried today." "What has happened now?" "I went to report myself at Southwrk rolice station. Who should I find there but Bradley, the chap we used to call Sailor. He is an Inspector cow, and of course he knew me at once." "What cf thatr "He pretended to take an Interest la me and tried to lead me on to talk about you."

"The devil he did!" (To be Continued.)

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