Show THE RETURN of l I I ANTHONY TRENT By WYNDHAM MARTYN C o b by Bara r w NU Sonic STORY FROM THE START Anthony Trent returns to hew l T York after nearly four tour years enre ab- ab b- b bence Bence ence Once One know n us all the th m s m e ter Trent Is li going straight The Tho Th purser Trent of jumpIng overboard from the th HI lit Lh Liverpool but 1 I le disappointed when hen Trent shows no surprise He learns He M 1 Capt Opt Frank Sutton Sulton I 1 In Sing TrentIs SIng At hew l ew York Trent la Is to and oc copying his hi house houte The nr err Is Sutton Sulton Campbell the brother of his best friend who Is I serving ten genre en l lal In prison Trent Is c Jt nt 19 asked by Campbell al Sutton button to force Pa Payson P son gon Grant to n a written v confession having baving ln crookedly oh ob tamed all of or Captain Sutton possession and later married Iia ti 1 I wife wit Trent after tong long he Un consents Trent tart on a camp to accomplish the downfall of or Payson Grant nt lie Ile learns from an old friend Clarke Clarice that Captain Sutton has hns ha escaped from Sing Sin Sing Sine and also learns leuns that Captain Sutton has hns no brother Coming homo home horn one eve fling to e poe e Campbell Sutton Trent ands find to CampbellI hIs great creat surprise that Campbell Is the th escaped es aped Captain Sutton Sulton CHAPTER IV Continued IV Continued 7 Neither elther of ot them hem that hat Sutton s sarge large arge mining in South Amer Amer- AmerIca America ica were In to a parlors JS state stale from the thet t e of ot the orld orld war In 1014 Sutton carried his Ills burdens ens alone And when he knew he lie was to go co overseas and had those premonitions of ot death which are as often orten wrong as right he be made over nearly all of ot his fortune to his wife And to Payson Grant he be gave gaye larger control of ot the office There was 1 ns an old and ond tru trusted ted book bool bookkeeper bookkeeper keeper who was left to watch This aged and 1111 keeper of ot ac oc- accounts ac- ac accounts counts was 1 ns dismissed sed by Payson Grant while Sutton was stilt still on the troop ship eastward aril bound Ills this pro protests protests protests tests were Ineffectual The old watch watchdogs dogs who had bad the traditions of ot an honorable firm In their blood followed the head bookkeeper It was fortunate for Grant that a loaded er was found In to Sutton s locket oc et when be he was wis dragged from be belaboring laboring the man who had bad wronged l t lira It 1 was as to begin with an In int Infraction t fraction of ot the Sullivan an act and as such 1 able with seven seyen years Imprisonment as a B ma maximum And every enry minute of ot the trial swelled Grant Grants s ultimate triumph It had hod been easy to buy bU false testimony from a former maid as os to cruelty And Sut Sutton Sutton Sutton ton Insulted the judge and turned the jurors against him It seemed that fate after smiling on n s scarcer career and bringing him fortune and honor bonor was now bent on his utter destruction Considering Sutton s long absence abroad and the martyred years his bis wife had bad spent the and mar marriage marriage e to Parson Payson Pa on Grant Grane seemed to the sympathetic world neither hurried nor d And since Payson Grant bad plenty of ot money to 10 Indulge his tastes and had not Dot yet met wet a n woman he liked Iller more than thun l happiness seemed In n a fair way wiy to be a 8 settled state Then Frank Crank Sutton e escaped from Sing Sing Sins and and notwithstanding the ns Grant had surrounded himself with he was uneasy I rat nt at he said coming up to the room where she was breakfasting In bed Frank has got cot out of ot Sing Sing Ing l I lHer IIer Her alarm was not so co noticeable as lis 1 Is They TheT always capture them site she observed That he was troubled did not eSlar estate e her ber She knew knelt lne he be was afraid of her ex husband Hut But the modern society woman Is not notto 0 to be 1 won on by the bard hitting male maleas maleas as ure are the women of ot oti ot or er spheres be thou thought ht lighting was a stupid ar chats chale practice and counseled Pason to pet Jet a permit to carry a re oh er I lou vu think he hell II 11 come here she Qt A vulgar brawl which might be seized ui ul on oD by the Saffron Iress ress distressed ed her tin Immeasurably hy hy Shy couldn t Frank stay In prison she aIle v Ue Ile bad been tried and convicted She Slie felt she would always detest t ter er former husband huband for the no no- notoriety notoriety notoriety he had t her ber It was quite easy for tor her to forget that thul she was the lie cau cause e All emotions of a n flo do dolent violent lent lont nature were wrinkle producing she I Ue Ues S after me Payson said gloom Uy And he may get me ot ot If It you re careful sl at e a said Frank was always a most obvious r arson without out or nuances ot of any ony kind The Tir sort of man who remains a grownup boy bov DOT Is lIe Is just ns as likely to ring the front door bell ind and n k you von to step Into the and be killed hilled Payson Grant frowned This was callousness nel be did not suspect n D-n D n It at I nt at t 1 te e c expostulated expostulate you you might be serious I I tell you Frank FranI- Is a n whole lot deeper than you OU ever cyer II Dear toy I a pleaded you ore are trilling with my wy digestion I ye ve vea yea TOa a me mt m st s t Important luncheon party and andI I want nt to feel at lit my best Don t worry Sorry ab abut ut It Im I'm not You Tou take taLe It olto altogether too lI lightly to t eald said frowning nIni lIe He started ac a be bek heard aril a knock nock on 00 the Ule door CJ Its It It a probably Mademoiselle Dupin told him I I take toke an nn hour hours s conversational Fren h now A quietly dressed woman entered lIe hardly glanced at ot her ber It was waa the lady of distinguished French family who was to enable his wife to con converse converse verse terse In polite polito and Idiomatic French rench She had hod set her mind on a chateau near Iaria I nest next year and the capture of the old noblesse Although alIca Grant allowed her hu husband t and to think she was not con concerned concerned concerned about Sutton s escape It In truth bothered her more than she ad muted When he had bad been sentenced and public Interest had bad centered upon other matters m of the moment she the sup supposed supposed supposed posed the scandal would soon be for tor forgotten forgotten gotten And now there was to be bemore bemore bemore more of ot It IL It It might conceivably In Injure Injure lure jure her In her ber campaign against the not noblesse le e who were destined to be her ber neighbors Mademoiselle Dupin was as coaching her ber In the foibles of ot tile the people she desired to conquer Since two yo weeks had gone one by with without without out the apprehension of ot Frank Sutton and the police confessed themselves without clews dews of value Mrs Urs Grant hoped he be bad had escaped lie He had spent some of ot his early years In South America at ot his father tather fathers s mining prop prop- property property property erty and knew a n little Spanish Frank was tas one of ot those strong men who could readily do laboring work Pay Payson Payson Payson son was different she could not Imag ImagIne ImagIne rue Ine her ber pre present ent hu husband band In overalls Payson for all nil his Ills air of carelessness careless carelessness ness nels about the result resell was In secret eaten enten by dire fears tears Ue added two of ot blood to his establish establishment establishment establishment ment lie He bought them because they were one-man one dogs be had bad heard beard and turned them loose at night In the grounds lie He was th their lr first The fact that be he had paid for them 1 as as perhaps not sufficiently Im Impressed Impressed pressed on the can ne n Intelligence for they treed him as be he crossed from the house to the garage to tell Began bl his head bead chauffeur that a 8 police om officer had bad warned him of a tramp In the neighborhood Natica WAS shown this new and nervous mood when he lie threatened to assault a 0 small defenseless man who had called to In If tf the new porch was satisfactory You are nr drinking too many cock cocktails cocktails I tolls tails between meals meols she said It may be I am he returned I 1 feel shot to bits find and that s a a 8 tact fact I at 1 1 at II II-II II 11 he be exploded speaking truth for the moment Frank got a rotten dell deal all round and some one s got to suffer A judge sentenced him I didn t she said laid Coldly She had bad convinced herself herselt that Sutton merited punish punishment went ment and Payson s Imputation seemed both annoying and false Grant bad had not been so anxious to tole tole le lee lette c e his own country for tor the untried delights of the French chate chateau u as asI 1 nut But be he found a 0 new pleasure In the Idea now lie could be more inviolate In the Chateau St SL St les Chevreuse than In Deal Beach Deach It had Its consolations t Leing only an hour hours a s motor trip from Paris II Ie le told his wife he was ready to go whenever she pleased e 11 a shall stop here for tor the sum summer summer summer mer she said We ve ye Invited too loo many people to run away like that I Also I ye ve sworn my accent shall be b perfect before I go eter ever during the long hours bours In 1 Frank Sutton spoke of ot the wrongs he be bad had en lured at the tLe bands ot of Payson Grant did he use the threats which Campbell Sutton Sulton bad swung o cr the head bead of ot Anthony Trent like lI a club In one mood ot of he be advised front frent rent to give glye up an on Idea Ideo born of ot bate hate that the at atmosphere atmosphere of ot prison nurtures But lie had hael reckoned without his friend friends s loy by loyally loyalty ally at ty the It of ot Frank rank Sutton brought to It tie til e dust hl name ored the woman yoman he 10 toted lo cd m d to the man who had bod doubly betrayed him was not of ot a nature to lessen Trent s a determination to Inflict pun And It was not to be on an anau Ott solely of ot vengeance lie tie resolved t tr Indicate i Sutton a s name lie Jo was as not sure how this would affect the com s status legally but there would be Le money enough to retain the best of counsel and In the end no dout doutt t a pardon could be won WV Vu I shall seek quarters In a more mor fashionable locality he be told Sutton 11 bile I want nothing better than this this It Is not from Central Park Parl West that those who storm society proceed At a hou house e ng s whose clientele was a n distinguished one Trent learned ot of several furnished apartments for subtenancy along the he Avenue Ue He was looking at one In the rear of ot the house houle In the Fifties s Id I d like one facing the thi Avenue he be remarked Is Is the oue one In n front occupied That belongs to young Stratford Van Doden noden the agent said I 1 let It to him but he her a s abroad now Trent knew a good bit about this youngest disappointment of one of America s most celebrated families Ue lie had likeable qualities but moral stamina And of ot course his enormous fortune had attracted to him the least worthy If 11 most fascinating ot of the demimonde monde Would he lie sublet The house agent was wa doubtful lie Ile consIdered It unlikely because the tb monetary need did not exist lie Is always al hard barll up Trent Trout remarked re- re remarked re remarked marked III send a 8 cable It nas ft 1 as a costly cable and the tb an answer answer answer prepaid Stratford remembered Anthony Trent well and was pinched for tor ready money The Thi terms were generous ones and acceptable Within a week 01 o meeting Frank Sutton Trent was established In the most luxurious apartments he h had bad ever eter seen the home of ot one whose place In society was waa unquestioned It was Trent Treat s a first step lIe ire had bad paId attention to his bla base as military tactics had bad Instilled In him the ad of ot doing The Th advance was his next problem Ue He found In San Boden oden s a rooms the members lists Usta ot of all the exclusive clubs a Van noden Boden need belong to They were ere clubs to which Trent could not hope to enter other than as a 8 guest Ue He was not deceived ed as tc te this Ue He glanced down the columns with Interest Presently he be found the name he be was searching for It was In Inthe inthe Inthe the most exclusive young man s club ew C ew York possesses Anthony Trent Treat remembered very fery well his bis first meeting with Veld Ue He U had bod gone gODe Into the th super smart Bachelors club In Hamilton plate Park lane lane his friend Ar Arthur Arlhur Arthur thur GrenvIL At dinner he be was among a group of men of rank and fashion And since so many foreigners Imagine all Americans American of a type fit to be b guests at such a 0 club as the Bachelors must be glad to meet out oni another Weld was Introduced to his fellow countryman by a marquis who thought they would fall Into one another s 8 arms Swithin Weld bad had never neter heard beard ot of o Trent and sad said so Ue He remarked It ItIn itin ItIn In a n tone that was not conciliatory Ulie Ue thought he be knew every efery t American Those be he did not know Inow were not eligible socially Weld sup sup- supposed supposed posed that this Anthony Trent was wa s one of those Americans to be met with all over oter Europe who bo have baye a gen genIus los Ius for understanding alien people are or ar e welcome visitors In great houses and their own country but rarely One night after otter a 0 successful day at a t Sandown Sando Weld had gone to one ODe o othe ot f the most notorious supper clubs In 1 n London There he be had bad taken too to o much champagne for one of ot his bis tern tem temperate habits and t I lad ad been 1 Into a secluded ed where three experts had taken talen what be he bad had won at tb the races and left him heavily In ID debt It was while the winners were waiting for tor the check which be he heal toted to draw because be he had not sut suf sufficient balance at the bank to mec mee It that Trent Treat came along Trent knew the men with whom Weld Held was pia pla ILg to be notoriously crooked Apparently the gamblers would not accept L 0 U s To obtain n a check drawn rawn When funds were ere not In the bank to meet It was It a serious offense In London and would enable them to make male tile the W ld family pay through the nose nos no e eI etor for tor Its return The sum was two thousand nd pounds I Trent strolled over o and spoke sail amI amicably caLly to his fellow countryman IgnorIng lag Ing the sharers entirely TO BE DE CONTINUED |