| Show i i iH i I I No 2 Story of the The Th e Br Brotherhood 0 th er h 00 d 0 of f th the ef S Seven even Ke Kings lOgS Copyright a 1906 O by W G STACE man j II j t c t j I 1 P ity r scientific pursuits no long r in inI I i iL i I W Ii t sted me mc I returned to m my hou o L 1 In R ons Park but only to ponder I 1 I ret t oven events t Wih With th p cf r i I ful fully int to 10 be bej beI a aI I I j to brotherhood I which In a moment or 01 mad foty folly I had f c r d Fro From henceforth my object I t f 1 0 jOh bo be to eXI eXPOSe ose Mine Mme By Bys ByI I I life would h In dan dnn dant I q S s my own bp I t i gei gei my firm firmI I j i i was not to lea a stone un unturned I I t to place woman and h her r It I f orates in the tho felons dock or of a an Eng EngI Eng Engi 1 court To effect this end endI i I I 1 Lh criminal I p I thinK thing war i 4 a i I could not work worle I knew lenew little of the theli li 4 Jaw and to expose e a a secret society tj j 1 I i j i Jk like Mme I must invoke inoke the thet t S J t 4 ala of the keenest and most able ablo legal I j I f man I had bad jurt I 1 c i dUn before my lily hurried visit vitt to mf w a the ern of ni all other I I term for my He was one of the I i lawyers in London I went to his J I as I f 4 therefore OJO one duy to 1 i i 4 In finding him in md and ho hot hoI I i if t I listened to the stor story which I 1 told him himI I L t Y 7 a i in confidence with the keenest atan atten I j ti I A X this is true Hed Hend he Mid you I t J are In danger j r j 7 GL I n m Ir mI IrA I t A f d Is made u I wi will enter the Mme 1 jis fae face grew grave furrows lined I t f I 3 bila bald for forehead bend tlc knit 1 ii I ted td together ov over r his hise J e t 0 gy gray eyes S SU I u anyone any one b but t yourself had brought I J 4 U a h an n In Incredible I II Ii I d i i hav have thought him he be s tl f knows that j at Int last Of course I 4 4 from froDl time to time u a gIat master In Int InI I q t 1 arises and sets Justice at de deI I I I Cli C but that this should be betl bep i p I the l a at I a d deliberately organized th the laws or of England is J tl I V I almost re past my bl belief f Granted It is IsS t 1 S I R o however r what do YC wish me inc to toS S ii I i do doI f fI I i Ghe me your heI help I answered I I ue your In ni employ your our ourI J 4 fonest agent agents the most moat trusted and andI ji I experIenced of the law to toI toI I I e i watch this woman woman clay 1 f and 11 night and I t 2 bel her and her accomplices s to jus lit I In I am f a rich and am j t t b l to d devote vote both my life and rd m mi my 1 I i n RI ne to this gret great CLU When 1 W WJ we J 1 I have d sufficient evidence nc I 1 4 f I let Jet UI us lay our Information h i j the authorities i ID f looked at me thou thoughtfully after i a a lie he spoke f I What occurred in Naple Naples has d doubt I 1 1 lM the t a consider I t 0 able bU shock lu he MId said and if Mme j 1 I Kol ehY Is R a ceyer clover w a you suppose 1 i I b Iter r to b be she he wU will reain remain quiet for fort t t I tb the Your bt best plan therefore I D I is fa to do 10 nothing n ad d allow tf me to toJ tod J d 1 t fl f Sh suspects you OU s she does docs not noti Ii i me t hat Is certainly the cas case I su sul U Ui l t r I t I I Take a 80 sea vo voyage age or lo 0 something 11 I i Id f I I i ti your equilibrium Head you i I I J 1 looked ea 1 iI f I So would you be i if yU IU leno know the 4 g und and If you had just gone gonea a Ii through my t terrible experiences I i ill W I I anted but do not let It this g t 0 on your ur nv nerves Res Rest assUred ft I wont ji lc leal a stone unturned to t the theE a I E r ml that wh when 1 the Ule right mo moa 1 1 J nent ment omos I 1 wU will apply to you I P I I had to 1 be satisfied wih with this reply L I And nd soon oon afterwards I left I II IH H I I HpE t a winter of anxiety during i I I time I hoard nothing or of ilme Mine Fw i Once again my suspicions H j l und my my attention was to science WW was at atI aton L d I 1 I on nc the and solace or of my lfeo life o when in tho May ay of the year ear earI i I I I r a note from It I Ij P rn ratas a folon have received i My Dear an I boh both for you Ol and myself to toi 4 t I din and sleep next Friday at Sir Joh t v tons place nt at Epsom You ar are of 1 i I i 1 J COUrO n aware war that his hora horse Ajax is Isi f i t the tho for for the Derby Dont on onI this Invitation V I nn iny account I i I th thris over al all other for forthe the sake of i It There is more In this tr 1 tan meet meets the e eye e Yours sincerely 1 I COLIN f I wind wired back to r to accept I th the and and on the following 1 i FrIday Frida wont went down own to Eom in I II fot for dinner had luu arl arrived ed er ear earn 0 I n I the tho day and I had not yet had hadi ha hak k i i nn an opportunity or of seeing ein him alone JC c I I entered th the drawing room be bei i I i dinner I 1 found myself one Cf of n a nj av v j larga ago party lI My hOft host came forward to 1 t nd e t Inc I happened to have V met mett t J Sir John several times tims at his club In i 4 iI r t I town and ld h he now signified his pleasure I nt at rue me In his house A moment I I 0 to i he Introduced me to a ai af f i I girl irl of about JO JD yer years of oft L t age wa was Alson Alison Carr She SheI I i had ory dart dark e eyes e ad and hair a F ui I paret parent complexion and a manner fun full I u g or of and intelligence I noticed J ill I j how ver an anxious abolt aboLt 0 har iu lips and also tha that now and and then J c I L I whet when en engaged ged in U the e moat most she lost herself in a re ret ref t t I i verle erle or of a a somewhat painful nature f I I She wake from these ft fits or of in J attention ton wih with an obvious start and a II heightened color I found she was to toru 1 ru i be my companion at dinner and soon I tat that here was an interest t tt t I j t I Ing Indeed d delightful personality She Sho I know the tho world and could t talk k wll well 1 i f I Our conversation Ir drifted to I the great groat subject of the hour Sir John JohnI hIi I col colt Ajax ax axi 1 1 i i Ire He Is a bc chier the tho girl girl I Ir fC r i j love him for himself as who would not notI I u i who had bu t t If he wins fl j the Derby why then my gratitude 1 1 She pause and her hands I f i I then drew herself up coloring i J HArt Are you v wry ry much interested In the of tIme tha race 1 I could not help z j Al All my future futuro turns on said c dropping bar hor voice oIce to a whisper f I x think p she e continued Mr Ir Du Dui t 1 f r intends to in you I It It t t i t r t krev cw about you Mr Head r f r Mr r has told me I am so 50 sot t r a glad to meet you I cannot sy say any j now but my position Is 15 one or of 0 4 great anxiety I f d Her words somewhat me tL J b but t I could not question her further at att f t that moment Lter Later on however f f J i when we returned to the tho drawing room roomi JI i 4 4 L 1 approached her side side She looked up upI I I eagerly when she saw me mei i 1 i I 1 have been nI all over Europe this j summer she said gaily dont you 01 f I ant to see some of m my photographs hs t I 1 j She moton motioned cd me to a seat near her herf herh h I f I I side and taking up n a book opened I It 1 We V bent over the she sheL L I lurne d the pages talkIng g ry Sud t It I j I denly she he put Dut her her hand to her he brow i i 0 nG iid her face tace turned deadly pale 4 p j d What Is the mater matter I asked J I Sh did nt speak for a moment but lut butr i 1 I r noticed that the moisture moment stood on her forehead Presently she gave gave a t i I 1 tIgh ugh of relief reHer h i It has haa P pas s she said Yes I 1 I 1 f t J Jr i r suffer In my h ad an ind indescribable escrib ble I agony agon but i it does not last now more I I than a moment or two At ono time thE the vain pain used to stay for nearly an hour and I 1 was almost crazy razy at tw the end I ha have Y had sharp sort of neuralgic pains pains from 3 a child but since I 1 have consulted lIme Mine I started She looked up at t me inc arid and nodded Of course you have heard hend of 1 her hershe she ht said who has not not She is I quite the most wonderful det woman in iii existence existence She indeed is a doctor t to have confidence In I understand that the men of the profession are arc mad with jealousy and smal small won wonder tr h hr r I cures are so marvelous Yes es Mr Hend I went to Quie quite half haJt a dozen of our greatest doctors and thE they could do nothing for tor me but since I have to Mme the pain comES comes hut lUt seldom and when it Oes arise from an any cause it quickly t sides I have much to thank her for Have you ever evet seen saen her Yes Yes I 1 rp replIed led And dont YOU 1 like c bar lier continued the the girl eagerly Is slip shO not beautifuL the most beautiful woman in the Perhaps YOl you have bave her for your health she sho has a great mun many men patients 0 I made no reply Miss Carr continued to sP speak with great animation It is not only her beauty which im impresses presses me she said it Is also her draws you out of yourself completely I am am a away w u from Crom her I must confess I am am Is isas ns as though she h hypnotized me mc and arni yet she has hns lono ono so I lon to go goback back to her cv evon n when whon She hesi hesitated tate and nd trembled Some 01 one came caine UP and commonplace subjects of con their sway That evening late I joined in the smoking room Ye We found our ourselves selves alone and I began to 40 sneak at Once You asked tC me to come h here re for n a I gW said lIs Miss Carr Car the girt whom I took in to dinner further tol tolie told ie Ine that you had something t What Vim t is the Sit down HAae Head I ha haa n much to ten tell you rou rouBy B By th the way vay I continued as I sank flito the nearest chair do YOU OU know that tha t Miss ls Carr is under the in influence of Mme Koluch I know it and before T I go 0 any fur thor tell teU me who what t you think of her herShe She uShe is a handsome handsome girl sirl I and I should say good one but sh she se seems ms to have trouble She hinted as s much and in any Mie I 1 observed i it in her face Ind and r You are right he hc is sUffering from fromn froma n a v very r considerable anxiety t r I wi will explain ni all that to you ou lr Now pl please RP give your best attention to the following details I It II is about n a month ago ag that I first U a visit Isi from Frank Frunk Sir John w und and the junior partner of Bruce Nicholson the great stock jobbers in 10 Gardens I did sonic some legal business for his firm some years ago but the matter ers mater fn on which came cam to see me was not one with Ith his business but ot of u a purely purly character Am Am I to her hear whit what It Is IsYou You are and b first of In Information formation I m mean n t to t to o you Is the following Frank Its 01 en engaged to lIss Miss Carr Indeed date data The en engagement is I of three months 11 n are arc they to be married altogether depends marro on whether Sr Sir John Lorie Ajax wins tIme Derby or What do YOU mean monn 1 To explain r I must tell teU you fOU some something something thing of Miss Iss Carrs arrs earl early history f fI I sat bak back in n ny chair and to listen Durra er spoke slowly About a year ear ago go he said Alson AlIon Carr lost her father She was then IS 8 years ears of ag age md and sti still at school school Her mother mother died when she was 5 years old Her father was 1 a rest est Indian mer mci merchant chant and had made his money slowly and with cure Cre When h be i Ii left teft lefta u a hun hundred thousand poun pounds 8 behind behind him u and un an wi will The girl whom you met tonight wn his only Henr Henry Carr father had hadu hada u a brother Felix Carr a clergyman In his ivill i Henry made mad his brother AU All sons sole guardian and also his bis own l residuary The Tho interest or of the tha hundred thousand pounds was vas to be altogether ther to the girls girls benefit but the capital was only to come into her possession on certain conditions Sh She was to Jve live with her uncle and andree ree receive e the Interest of the money as leng a as she remaIned single After the death of the tho uncle she tas as still pro VIled she Was vas unmarried to receive the interest during her lifetime At her herM M th the pr property was to go tp to Felix urs arrs oldest son or In c case se lie he was dead to his children Provided cv l Alson Alison married ac to the conditIons of the wi trill tl the whole of the hundred thousand pounds was to be settled on her and her children Time The were as follows The man who married Alson Alison wa to set settle tc a similar sum sum of upon her herand and her hor children and he ad was also to add thE then nae name of Car Carr to his own Fail FaU il lug the tho of those two condi conditions tons Alson Alison if she maried married was to lose the Interest and capital of her fathers fortune the he whole going to Felix FeUx Ca Carr 11 for his life and aft after him to his eldest son On this point tIle girls girls father seems to have had n a crank he was ofer heard to sa say that he did not Intend to amass gold in order t ti provide luxuries for a stranger strang r Let the man who marries marri s Alson put pound for poun pound lie he could cry fair enough otherwise time the mcney goes to my brother Since her faters fathers death Alson AlIson JUtS has had one or two to proposals from elderly mon men or of geat great wealth but Sh not consider them When she he became engaged J however to Cal Calthorpe Calthorpe thorpe he had ever every hove hope that lie ho would be able to fulfill tle the strange conditions of time the will 1 nn and l meet meet her fortune wih with an equal sum on hI own account The engagement Is now of three mon months date ad and here comes the tbt extraordinary part of the story tor Calthorpe like Uke most ot of Ils his kind is a speculator and has large Jarge dealings in stocks and shares ad and on the turf Ho HoIs Hois Is a keen sportsman pry pray listen Hitherto lie he has always been remarkable for his luck luel which has been of course as much due lue to his own common sense as any timing thing else but since hIs engagement to Miss Carr his financial ven ventures tUl S have been so persIstently disastrous and hIs losses so 80 heavy that ho he is practically no now on th the vee ver e o of ruin Several most remarkable and unac unaccountable countable things have happened re recently centy and It Is nOv now almost certain that some one wih with geat great resources has been using his Influence against him You wU ill s Y that the person whose object I It would be to do doso doso so Is uncle but be beyond ond the Le Ley y i i This Is the second of a series of stories dealing with a secret sock socie I Ity ty whose name struck terror terror to every heart in Ialy Italy a century ago That such an institution could thrive in the Eighteenth century is easy of belief but that it extended its menace to within the past decade en entitles titles it to more than passing attention The discovery of this menace in London in 1894 was told in the first story At the Edge of the Cra Crater Crater ter which appear appeared d last week The story today de dels ls with further de developments in the struggle against the powerful smiles of a fascinating fascinating ing woman Succeeding stories each complete in itself wil will take the reader through the history of one of the most remarkable in criminal annals of modern times I vaguest suspicion there is not tile the slightest evidence against him ne has been Interested in the he engagement from the the first and preparations have even b been 1 made for the he wedding i it is true that Alison on does not le like him and re resents SNIt very verv mu much h the clause in the wa will which co compels her to lve live with him him hut but as far as s we can can |
