Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 132, 16 April 1917 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1917 SCENE FROM "E RSTWHILE SUSAN? AT THE WASHINGTON "The Forgotten Wedding" B., rJ JrT7 WT ATCT CV Author of: "Beyond Youth's Paradh." V V-IJLii V Cj W AULjCj I Ulrt Perfect Gift," "Tea Real Thing." FOUR PARTS

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Hink went back to the dining-room. On the black oak table a little row of articles had been laid out. Beside them tha detective sat: There was a 6mall gold watch on a ihin gold chain, an empty sovereign purse, and beside it a little stack of gold, a lew letters, and a gold cigarette-case containing some dark-looking cigarettes. That was all. Dosser stood looking down at the fcilll, white face "And I meant to do 'im in," he thought. He noticed that in laying the body on the couch one hand had been twisted under the hip. The Inspector and the detective had ffeelr backs to him, examining the letters. He bent down and gently loosed the cold hand and laid it straight. , Something slipped out of the cuff, from which a handkerchief hung. It was the purple-covered note-book! ' Dosser put it, without speaking, in: to his pocket. The dead man had perhaps had the note-book and handkerchief In his hand, and had been in the act of slipping the handkerchief into his sleeve; and the little book, caught by a fold, had been held in place until the moment when Dosser moved the band. " 'Ere's a handkerchief on the floor" he said, making as though to pick it up. . , V The inspector turned sharply. "I moved 'is 'and and it fell," Dosf,er explained. He put it on the table. "Do you want me, Inspector?" he asked. "You'll be wanted at the Inquest, of course; and I dare say we shall want you up at the yard; but, of course, you are free all night and think yourself lucky I followed you." "Good . Lord," Dosser said with a ' sigh of relief. "I should think so!" He got out into the street and walked rapidly away. He was burning with anxiety to discover what' was written in the purple note-book! The news of Sir Maline Gorde's mysterious death trebled and quadrupled the sale of the newspapers, already selling far above their normal average by reason of the coronation news. The enterprising young Journalist

who had been the first man to spread the news, obtained yet another splendid piece of Information. ' He had returned from Fleet Street to Portland, Place about dawn. Leaving his cycle round the corner, he had walked -slowly to the house of the tragedy. Policemen were waiting about outside. One on the balcony was doing something to a piece of rope over the balcony. He had fastened together the rope taken from Gorde's neck and the severed piece. The journalist saw Hink mount the ladder at the side.. When his head came abreast of the rope he swayed very slightly, at once the rope knocked against his neck; had he leaned over ever so little more toward the right it would have been over his head. "It could have happened that way," he heard the Inspector say. "If it didn't, whoever placed that rope and ladder has a nice sense of proportion," another voice agreed. The Journalist was gone again in a flash, and his paper it was which introduced the head-line "Suicide of Famous Socialist," and raised a whirlwind of controversy. Throughout the next day the house was literally besieged by callers. Famous doctors came; smart society women, with anxiety written across their faces, asked the Inspector breathlessly if any diary had been discovered. Hink was able to comfort them with the assurance that none had been found. They went away relieved. What confidences, and what confessions had "not Gorde received In his consul ting-room? Royalty, in the midst of all its immense labor, remembered to express a message of sympathy. All. sharing his duties , with the pleasant detective, received all the visitors with dignified sadness. Once, when on openng the door a dark face appeared among the shifting crowd below, he involuntarily drew back; but the face vanished at once, and he I

answered the newcomer with aloof politeness. The inquest was obliged to. be postponed until after the coronation. The police force was already overworked end there was literally no time or room for the ordinary routine labor. The papers began to print accounts of the dead man's career. Nearly tvery report contained the sentence, "A certain mystery surrounds the birth and parentage of the famous surgeon." 1 - ' Lord Harding '.smiled cynically as he read the various accounts. Each paper had its own sufficiently remarkable explanation of Gorde's early days, no explanation, however, approximated for strangeness the real actual statement of facts as he knew.

He was so immensely busy that he dismissed the ' whole affair from his mind. - It was not until the day after the royal procession through London that his allotted visit to the Raja of Mayhore recalled the case to his memory. . "What is this case in which a Brahman AH is so apparently concerned?" the raja asked him. Harding started. He had forgotten the whole thing for the moment, then suddenly the memory of the reason for his investigation concerning Maline Gorde swept over him. Good Heavens ! Of course Marcla Tqrrens had wanted news of him in connection 'with young Fane. Instantly he resolved to enlist the raja's help. "I wonder if you remember," he said slowly, "the Janahpur scandal?" The raja looked at him with amused surprise In this dark eyes. "But yes, of a certainty," he said, "it is not an affair one forgets easily and the woman. My father Just remembers seeing her. To this day he tells me he can visualize her loveliness. She was too beautiful,- almost, I hear; I have often wondered what became of the sons. I imagine the Kala worshipers have guarded them jealously. It is a strange faith that they say that no high priest has ever yet died a natural death." "If that is so you will not be surprised to hear that Maline Gorde was the son of Romanadin and the Parisian beauty." The raja leaned forward Impulsively; his fact expressed unmitigated astonishment. "Is that so?" Can that be so?" he said amazedly. Briefly Harding told him the English history of Maline Gorde. Then he passed on to the disclosures made by Lady Torrens, and the raja listened eagerly. When the poin in the story of Robert's loss of memory was reached .he broke in impulsively. "But surely you have heard you know that the cult of will-power fs one of the tenets of the Kala creed? he asked.

. "Surely you have heard of the Yogi the holy man who simply sits.

and focusing his mind definitely on an object, invariably" attains it? The Yogi emanated primarily from Ama, the Kala worshipers." He got up. . "Let us then go and visit the house of Ramanaden," he said. They drove together to Portland Place. At the sight of Lord Harding, Hink came forward. He looked worried and depressed. , Harding asked, him. privately if it were possible to see AH, explaining that the Raja of Mayhore was from the eastern provinces too, and might possibly elicit some useful information from the man. "He could see him with pleasure, my lord," Hink said irritably, "if he

were available; but the man's gone. Clean bolted, and yet we had a detective watching him day and night, and a squad of police walking around Portland Place and not only that, but knowing there are a good many Indians atthe White City, we've had them watched too (you never can tell how these beggare work together), and now, drat it, they have all mysteriously disappeared as well." Harding returned to the 'car- and gave hi3 news to the raja. "My friend Harding." he -said with an Inscrutable smile, "the ingenuity of the Asiatic will not yet be baffled, I think you must pardon me If I offend by blunt British force." Safely at home, Dosser locked himself into his bedroom, then, switching on the electric light, he eagerly opened the purple note-book. At the top of nearly every page there was an initial. He turned each page slowly, searching among every letter for something that would give him news of his master. Suddenly, written on a page by itself, he read the entire name, "Captain Robert Fane"; below a date was appended April 17th. Feverishly he picked up a calendar. April 17th the night of the supperparty. Yes, by God, it was! His hands trembled so that he could hardly bold the book. He turned another page. At last! R. F. were the initials this time the date 18th. That would be Saturday, the day his master fell ill. Two words were inscribed rather illegibly. "Sugg opera"? Like a flash he translated "Suggested operation." The' next date was the 23rd, and against It written the words "successful second visit," and below came the details which he had seen before in the car. The 24th bore the word "accomplished." His master had disappeared on the 24th! With a hoarse shout Dosser fell on his knees, then, like a crash, in the face, he remembered that Gorde was dead. v To be continued v

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