Show oI r r J r t i 1 If ti tit e 1 t Y rw BY MI IN TH US U 5 w N U SERVICE C r f v THE STORY ORY r Floyd Flo d Unwin and nd Howard Ho take dinner with an anold old college coll ff chum churn Alfred GIbbons j financial magnate Unwin Un In pro produces produces produces duces a written pledge pled taken by bythe bythe byth the three o at college to help h lp each other In adver Ity explaining that he h needs ne d financial assist assist- assistance ance I ance to educate ducat his hi eon Bob Dob and and dau daughter Mary Gibbon agrees agree to make mak a II place for the daughter In his hll hl organization Mary U Unwin Is I stenographer to toa toa toa a wealthy debauchee Rad nad nay ay Calling at Gibbons Gibbon office ns as arranged Mary is II 1 asked to tob betray tray her employer employers a e secrets and andI refuses Radway plans plane an ocean I I voyage to recover from the of ct of ot dissipation Mary Diary Is to to togo togo toso go a s as secretary her brother to accompany her i painting on the Maine coast COlst Is I RadI and taken aboard aboud Rad- Rad Radway ways Had way ways s yacht acht His clothes are I found by GIbbs a fugitive e from justice who vho dons don them and goes gou f t to a 8 studio and there falls to his death Is IsI I Questioned by a man known knon know kno n as the BOB Boss He lie Is shown an ac- ac account account ac account count of ot Gibbs death tenth the bod body r being Identified as S Bettington I The Boss Intends to hold Rad- Rad Radway Radway Rad Radway way for tor 1 ransom Bet Det- Bettington Bet Is told he will be forced to assist I v CHAPTER Continued VI-Continued VI Continued 7 It was as vi as a 0 very ery serious blow to me and It Its s an amazing coincidence that the master can finish what hat the pupil began I was In luck there listen I Orme At a 0 word I can send you back r for that sentence which will end only when hen you die Furthermore I am not putting myself In your er power You Youma ma may never neer know my real name I could look calmly at the very detec detectives tives who ho had spent years looking for forme rue me use because I gaze at them with a 0 dIfferent face I will wager that yon on 1 Lase e seen the fice ce I wore for years When my bank banI failed Called with ith such dis disastrous results I was In e cry e ery piper per where here Illustrations are ore found 1 des es r you know the real me But Clements the the man you ou are looking Is at-Is at Is only a 8 year old and his past Is s blameless it took Beardsley a year to re create me and It will III take you a few ten min minutes utes probably to rectify one mistake Bettington had heard often enough ot of the comparatively new branch brinch ot of surgery which devoted Itself to the face He lie had associated It with beauty parlors and quackery In general ow l ow suddenly he was convinced that what hat hat Clements said was true But to find that he was expected to undertake some Borne of ot It was horrifying lie He shrank from the Idea but would not Dot permit Clements Clement to see It Beardsley must ha have e cut a nerve nere for suddenly I found m myself with this damnable smile It never ne leaves leases me Orme I haunt myself Some Some- Sometimes Sometimes times I think I cannot go on unless the curse Is removed remo from me meI meI meI I thought everything e was well sell ell done I had bad finished with Beardsley before I knew ew ton wondered what hat was the cause of ot Beardsley s death lie He died of ot pneumonia said Clem Clements eats as though he had read the doubt In his bIs companions companIon s mind It was as a 0 asad sad ad blow to me He lie was wa ne never neer er strong BettIngton found himself sa saying savins with gravity gra It Reluctantly Clements rose and put on the stewards livery coat cout In In this drawer he said you yon III find some Borne of ot the most mot resent recent books on operative surgery They Thel may refresh your our memory Take them to your room They pro proved ed of ot no benefit to flow Howard lord and Their Idioms were beyond his comprehension lie He put the books aside and went n-ent out on deck Mrs Mra Rad Radway Raday ay was sitting silting In a chaIse longue writing letters Se looked uv up at and ond smiled as be passed I 1 am driven to writing letters to people I have almost t t forgotten I m afraid this thia Is going to be a very dull month doctor Dull I h ha he said gald to himself as he took a teat seat and ond looked out at the placid ocean If It she only guessed 1 I Never Neer he supposed In lu the history or of yachting had sucha such tuch a n com company pan been assembled by the design of ot one man He lie was tempted to cro cross s the deck to load lodd odd and tell him toIre to wire Ire 1 less to the goern nent government what was ns Moot afoot If It any happened to him what could save sate E Evelyn el n Hadway and Unwin a s children The other night Mrs Radway be- be beg begun be gun g n It lt was as as ns a 11 friend I spoke to Sou I felt you were friendly to me Indeed you were ere right he be said suld earnestly Isow ow Its It's to th the doctor I am speak lag InS speakIng He hoped his face did not show hIs alarm and disappointment Its Its It's about M M- M Radway I am horribly die disappointed appointed In his hla behavior He lie came here to get himself Into good physical condition end and he be has hag given en enay way ay to 3 r L- L C Doctor Mite you must help me How he demanded lIe He was wis oser OHr overcome come corne with the layman hyman s fc feeling of uess In the presence of ot Illness After Arter all nil you are a physician aren arent t vole Yes Yes he found himself forced to tosny It seemed horrible to hive hire to tell her A n deliberate lie Then It la is your duty to go to him and tell him he lies s killing himself elt And couldn t you lou ou see sec that that horrible Clements offered him drini s CI all the time She he ol sighed hed It It Isn t very pleasant to hire C to confess confes that my warnings or pleadings h hive hate e no loner any an effect You You wish Ish me to go o now no It If If you would I m afraid there Is very ery little I Ican Ican Ican can do he lie sold slid rising I h hive he e no sort of authority except e what he gates gh ec me If PI him him Is any an good III I II certaInly do tint that He lIe went below and then to the bow v of the boat feeling he was going on ona ona ona a useless errand Badway ny looked up as though he be hid been e expecting such a visit Except that a purple hue was as spread over oser 0 er hIs face more deep than anything Betting Bettington Bettington Bettington ton had et ever er seen on human Is ge he had no air of or Intoxication Years before In Paris had noted how absinthe acts It Is a curIous property of ot the spirit that Its effects nary ary with the Individual It gave e find Radway way the delusion of ot Incredible powers and predisposed him to acts of ot physical I Ical cal violence I I should like to hive hwe them all alldon don down n here he said cald ald In mordant tone I I am not sure that a n man has lI lived ed unless he has actually squeezed the life out of ot the throats of ot men he hues tes hat particular lives lI do you want to end Bettington asked The The Gibbons bang ang Alfred Gibbons first t lIe He and his group ha have e tried for tor years rs e to bate hate me to death its It s quite possible They The re succeeding apparently Bettington replied and pointed to the bottle of ot absinthe In the rack IIa e eyou you ever thought that they may all be concentrating on you to drink this stuff I don t know any sUre surer way or of death You better lie down you IOU look all In It Its s 8 my constant headache that th knocks me out vay R returned and pressed his temples as though In pain Sometimes It Is so bad I actually am blinded It s their concen concentrated concentrated hate Bettington turned away In dIsgust The spectacle le of ot this wreck reck drifting tow u II lid d destruction and ond binning others for Cor his bla disaster seemed pitiful Dont Don't go Had a said querulously querulous ly Iy Stay here hero Bettington paid p no heed to him Mrs R dway was as waiting for him anxiously She could not rid herself of the feeling that thIs tills voyage was to end in tragedy ere 1 ere you able to do anything she demanded eagerly For the moment he did not He wanted to ask ash her a question and dId not desire her to feel tee I the atlon of ot ha having hasing Ing to endure his gaze as ashe ashe ashe he asked It Have Ua you iou OU any reason he said gently v to fear physical violence from him In this state There was as a n perceptible pause be be- before before before fore she au answered The possibility exists but It Its s most remote It If you vou ou like he said I III II take one I ot of these forward staterooms to be near him He hoped lolled she would construe this to mean that he was as merely the physicians s readiness to tobe tie e at hI hi- hi hi patient s side In danger dinger lIe He did not want her to n rt lire ilire that H dwa's safety meant nothing to tu him lie He felt she would be frightened to learn that his only conco n ns was s to protect hu her from the violence of a man almost inane I I think there Is la no need for that she che returned gratefully In In fact It might anger anber him If he found It out lIe He has lias a hatred tred of ot being spied upon as he he- calls It Mary Alao Unwin Un came come up it t this tills mo moment moment ment with Crosby Todd Mary smiled pie santI but the II operator paid no attention to the ships ship's sur surgeon surgeon geon BettIn ton witched w Mary lar with Ith the artist artists s admiration as she went ent off with l 1 lodd odd She bhe seemed to embody youth I I hardly h v re the child was so be beautiful he muttered Sher She s In love lose said Mrs Irs Hadway I dont don't think she ha has ever vcr been In Inlove lose 10 e before She has found a new ne nehe heeD he eD and n a new earth Clements passed by There s the mm U Captain Hallett particularly dislikes Mrs Badway said when hen he had bad gone Dont Don't you Bettington demanded Mrs Irs Radway Badway hesitated I Im I m III ne never neer er quIte sure Ure He Ue Is la so courteous and has such auch an n voice and yet It I romE sometimes feel afraid Perhaps It Is that Fettled smile which h pre pre pre- prejudices prejudices one Ills His features tures are good goodlee good cs 1 lee es It must mURt be that smile on wondered what the real had been Ill III e a The voice hud hind been cultivated to Crt avert suspicion that the face ga gave e rite to And now the face was gone one and one had been to m itch the Why hy do you sigh Mrs Irs Badway asked osbed curiously She Slie noticed that there was nl a look of ot sadness almost of despair on his face tace He lie was n-as far for too good looking she 11 of n told her herself herself self to have base escaped the attentions of hu six st Something has upset you doctor she d ex He ne suddenly that he was n-as nen nervous O lS Suppose the role he had set out to pIa play v vas was as one hound ond his ability or courage counge lIe He thou thought ht of Sam anti Metzger er and leary I eary and the lesser men UK the controlled Somehow he felt that Clements was as only money muney mad and could be satisfied S 1 only with money But ut Metz Metzger Metzer er and Sam 1 I ger who ho liked whit wint he called class sand and Sam who ho loved lo youth Even Cven ten at this moment Sam enormously v broad prodigiously strong and In 10 his heart henrt free from all F sentiments of or pity was crossing the deck slowly watching Crosby lodd lennin 0 over oser er the side I talking to Mary lory wondered If It there could be a bett better r example etl of a 8 beautiful woman n beautifully gowned and ex et exquisitely I cared rd for thin th the lovely ely A At t L LI I l lr ls r s 1 ti I Atlis s sJ J Better Lie Lle LI You Down Down You Look All In Mrs R dway She had never neer been ed of ot the luxuries of ot her class and country Everything C about her was as beautiful be and rare What a morsel for tor Metzger I 1 was musing on this wl wI en he felt a hand band on his shoulder It was as Sam Sam was looking In the direction direction tion of ot Todd His great fiat flat face was distorted with rage I I seen him kissing my gal Sam gro growled led shook himself free of ot the sailor sailors s grasp Hes lles young oung and good looking and you re not noL Sam paid no attention to this He was still rIng glaring at the retreating wll eless operator It If murder looked out of ot human eyes it was focused on Todd then by the deep sailor was glad he had an ex excuse excuse cure cuse to get away ay from the angry brute I I must change chang mv my clothes for tor dinner he be said They hid had to wilt wait It for tor nadwa Badway Bet Bettington Bettington hoped that the owner would not come to dinner Mary Un Unwin In was wis plainly ner nervous ous Mrs Radway Hadway showed no fear at nt all She was pIn play Ing a blight little dance by Chaminade when R dway came me In III Ills His face was still highly con congested Clements met him with the theIne Ine inevitable cocktail It was as toward the end cad of ot dinner that H dw mile mide his one remark It was addressed ed to Bettington There was a mocking politeness In his voice olce o la is 19 It part of your lour contract to dine wIth your employer er Unfortunately It leo la Is Bettington re returned returned returned turned Instantly There Thero was silence until Mrs find way and Mary left lett who ho had ripen ri cn when hen the ladles ladies did dropped In ID his chair again and stared at nt the He lie Mt felt he had never ne de detested detested detested tested any 11 living Ing so much m This the man who ho had married tul ful L Evelyn LelIn elIn 1 and had made her miserable miserable- This was tile the man who had promised her tier so 80 much and ond had done so little lIe He wondered what violent p is gea there hid h id ld been In their lives She had admitted that there was a possibility of d mger for tor her ber when he was In till this state slate and It Its was s no new v thing for tor him to be as he hewis IS now v novlIe lIe He watched Had ny rise this time not steadily and go to his quarters made his way wiy y to the after quarter deck It was us Clements who Interrupted his unhappy Clements presented pre pre- presented presented an unusual appearance of haste Its It's y he cried you oud ou d better bet better better ter come at once I don t know what's hats hat's the matter Radway Badway ay was lying on the floor In insensible Insensible sensible o r o wonder after what hes he's drunk this week Clements said Absolutely dead to the world orld He lIe watched n Bettington stoop down and carry Badway to the bed By By Jingo but you re strong l 1 I he lie s ld I I don t think this is drink alone Bettington said I dont don't like It at atall atall atall all Clements had no suspicion that Bet Bettington was as not a skilled physician It chanced that te Harro Harrow gite the cele celebrated celebrated painter had just such a seizure ns as tills this In the studio he shared with Ith In tome Rome The doctor who ho attended him put s feet Ceet In hot mustard and water ater and applied Ice to his head Clements saw Betting Bettington Bettington ton loosen the senseless s man mans s cloth clothIng clothIng lag Ing and then be begin ln the treatment After Atter a while Radway Badway opened his eyes I remember falling failing he said pres presently presently I I must ha have e knocked my myself m self out I II be all nil right in the mornIng morn mornIng lag Ing In a sense he dismissed them peremptorily They heard heird him bolt the door when they were ere outside It Clements Bettington said with convIction you ve we helped him to kill himself That man mans s very ery III Nonsense Clements said You re rea ren a 0 surgeon and tills this sort of ot thing Isn t your line at all It s lII |