Show L the adventures of A mobilized demobilized De Der zed officer who found peace dull ly CYRIL L A SAPPER wk by 1 tj MYERS copyright P by beoh geo H doran do ran co A CHAPTER IV Continued 8 1 I 1 FO FOUR U R tfx rd you vere doan it here she f f J bald a gravely holding out her be r hand I 1 to 0 jt leini ivo ive been sick with anxiety ever since father told me had sarn levri g you Imprison ol lie little hand lit in 01 lits lila own huge ones ond and smiled reps puri nely gly dont worry little girl lie ho said yeara ayears ngo ago I 1 cyns told by an olti gypsy that I 1 ile its in my lily bett of old ohl age and excessive of invalid port As a matter of i fact the cause of my visit was rather humorous liu me inc lit ID the of the night with nn an ex cx sol adler of my iny old batti battalion allon who V j 10 won was I 1 s S regret to state sleeping off the ho effects of much indifferent liquor in my they thought lie was your american millionaire covo cove and the g 1 wretched was wag too alnita to djs deny it in fact I 1 dont think they B frer S asked tl BIe ils 8 opinion at all stugh 8 grinned Fri nned reminiscently A spectacle olt oh I 1 but splendid cried the girl a lattio breathlessly iroll toll nit me where in the now I 1 many miles out of london nn in acred cowered hugh 1 I think well leave icat dhati tile loss less you know miss henton at the moment the better you found out anything mile elio demanded eagerly hugh shook his hend i not a thin thing g 11 except that flint your neighbors are BB as pretty n bunch of nf scoundrels as I 1 ever want to incel but yol lill let ino inc know if you do she laid a hand ll 11 beseechingly on tits ills brnt arnt you know wf ilits fit at stake for bior too dont you vather andoh and ohl I 1 nil but you know III I know he answered bravely gra vely 1 I 1 know old thins thing I 1 promise ill lot let ewt Y know anything I 1 find out and lid inthe meantime I 1 want you tit tc 1001 in eye fixed axed on what ROM goes on olt next i door and lt lot rot me know anything 0 of importance by letter to the junior tinb lie iio lit a cigarette frette cl 1 I have nil an idon idea flint tasy alry foil fl so absolutely confident in their own power flint thoy are going to nolte the fatal of clr opponents we khall hall see lie turidio turk dio herwIt hd his tye yc anyway Any wn our mr air La lackington kIngton see sec hint coif dont voine to any enrin alie raj itji britol silo alio cried very low jow biloxi how I 1 hate hinal teiei with a sudden hidden chane of tone she up jt at 1 I dont aint knoal er its worth mentioning ale i bald ild lowly slowly hut but yesterday afternoon tour imir men come at different times to tile alio Rl maTey the sort ort of af tofic ono 0 acca tub lit in I 1 ayd iyda park it alt vono on who looked like it a re blugh shook ills hond hend i dont fecto to help much does docs it itt still ono no I 1 joyer knows let I cl tile 1110 know like hint flint in future tit nl the pi lib 1 bood t ni Orning 1114 4 clenton i stir son x vote volet behind blinde drummond hru swing owing round willan n smothered curse curke our inestimable friend drummond brought audi a nice young follow to see tile inc inart night ind 11 han n loft left him lyan about the lourio tills thia morning I 1 hnyp petit him to your car peter ton boli Kua mun vely ely aitch t I 1 mint was tle lc airn jr adli la 11 xon 0 alint to jve jve ln 1 I wo tac pl f front from a rogild survey mr peterson Ie torson I 1 should think you have quite enough already said hugh 1 I trust you joll paid him the money oiley Ill you owe him 1 11 I will allot it to film in lily mill peterson if you do lie same in III yours lio lie wilt will got 1 it front from ono one of us its sooner hooner or inter lit in tilt the miss benton Ilou tosi la Is your dour father r up ull the alio girl frowned no not yet et then I 1 will go and see him in bod bed elior or the present pr csont nil au revoir he todil tile house und and they 1 aa ej AN ohl but splendid cried the girl a little breathlessly batched bitched wit ebed ailin lilt go in and it wag as no as laiq opened tile room rom window flint called after him do you like lie horse or tile ordinary brand he fis Iced ill send you ft a bottlo bottle for or that tha t at attert af neck of yours vry vory Iole Peter rhoD filin curried round dont trouble thank you captain drummond I 1 have lehiy lily own benle ties dies which anro ah 7 anoro enica cloVa 0 CHAPTER V I 1 I 1 in which there thera Is trouble at Goil doling rig ONE tile the car slowed up before tho the pst p st office and hugh got out there uro latro one or two things lio proposed 10 lo do 00 lit in london londini Lond iii before KIIB going to gorina and it struck blin that lint ft a wire to aeter darrell might allay that gentl emaus it 1 lie he was late into lit in gelting down go 80 new was ans lie he to tile tortuous tort tor tilous lous anys ot crime flint tile foolishness ot of the proceeding never entered lits ills head up to date in ills life if he had to send a wire ho he had bad sent ono one and so it 1 may ile bo decma a ithemer nuke fluke on hla his part that a man linn by the counter aroused his suspicions lie ile was a perfectly ordinary man ilion knitting casualty with the girl on tile tho other oilier sla ado but it tent jut os as hakli elligh was flold ing alie ile pencil up till and ray log ing at RA t called point with ith an or of resigned anguish the perfectly perfect lS ordinary mall erased chaft chaffing ing rind looked at him blugh caught lila hn eye for it fleeting F then the he corl con versa t fon cont imwie aud and as ito 9 twined to 0 o pull out tile the of at lt him hint flint th he wan bad aioo ekl MY M Y just it trifle too toi quickly t r A grin slowly ivor avor lile 1 I file till inid offer it ft moments hesitation lie IK proceeded to a i wire ho arote it lit in black lettera s for adill cionni ig lie ht tilso lir pressed essed his hb har hardony dont as befitting it blueit pencil I 1 theia with tile tho buim fol in ills his hand lie 11 nd ad to tile the coun counter tir ilow tong long will it take to deliver in london ho naked ilic d the girl the girl was not helpful it t depended lio lie gathered Ra on A variety of ot 0 which not lie alib least ii ana n tile tho perfectly ordinary inch nho talked so 1 I dont think ill bother then lie h said tho ahr wire into hta his 1 pocket bood orning morning ile walked to tho the door and shortly ills car rolled down the street with willi what ilip lift girl considered becu liar the perfectly ordinary ann concluded 11 with lier her and decided thiu that lie toa to would send n wire and then I 1 n long IOU fand at thoughtful pause nt the tit writing each ho he distinctly heard n nn unrolls lible ID n 11 then he be ouli bild blie saw him no wore moreover it is to be bo regretted that thu perfectly ordinary man inan told a lie it little later lu lit the tiny luy when giving film report leport to bome ODO whose neck lieck apparently pon patently fitly ly inconvenienced eflin greatly hut but then a lie ts Is more tactful than the truth and to have unit that the sole pole result of hill 1 mornings morning labors had and been to decipher ft A wito wire to the elins which contained the cryptic remark stung again stiff neck stung again would dot halle beell tactful so he tied lied as hug has been pouted thereby tle reby showing h wit idom bilut though drummond chuckled to us the car rushed ru luJ lirou litho fresh air bouce or twice ii n gleatis dint was not biot diocie in ills his eyes for four our years lid hu imil find 0 oua lie g gauno a cheru no in mistakes s were alami arwed ed the little tile f tic lit of tile had helped to bring to tits lila mind tile the certainty that I 1 lit id lint now embarked on another the c condition ons were ero much aho tha same tie lie had find ed up to date wito luck rather than good mannge manage flie iii tnt lit lind lie he was an far too oo 00 shrewd not to realize it now lie mas mar kVil and luck alth a marked man cannot be tempted too far alono alone and unguarded lie lind a gang of international it gang not only utterly unscrupulous but controlled by a master ilind of its power as y et he had no clear idea of its size and fiume allate object ho he had find even emi less per ier imps blips it was warns ns well blud lie ho realized even dimly tic lie immensity of tile the la is sues lie ho was wag up ull rigal list had lie ile had but un lin inkling of tile tho magnitude of tile he plot conceive conceded in tile tho sinister brain of ills host of tile the previous evoi evening thell cheery optimist though lio lie waff oven hugh drummond Drui timond might havo wavered hut but he had no nosi such ich inkling find BO 00 tile lie gleata in lils ills eyes was wag but the file chuckle flint succeeded it more wholehearted whole hearted than before re was it not sport in a lowing with strikes and profiteers sport such ns as ills his soul loved 1 I nin am afraid lie said ns as ills his car sto stopped pied in front of hl his s club that tile the gentlemen whom wo we spent lust last night hns has repudiated ted tits obligations lie ho refuses to meet tile lie bill I 1 gave him for your services just wait hero here a moment 11 ho 0 went v L tit inside returning in n few moments with a folded check tho the corner and nn nil obliging fell kellnh till lit in a black coat will shovel you out the necessary brad b burys it rys the man glanced nt at tho the check fifty pounds air lie gas gasped ped my lva lla too much str I 1 the rhe laborer mulling la is worthy of ills his hire you have been of tho the vevy ery greatest assistance and lilt it la is more knore than likely flint I 1 may inay wont you again now whole can I 1 got get bold of youl la oreen irean street 0 aton air if 11 always fand me and any time air us its you wants me id like to come collie just for the sport aport of the thing hugh grinned good lad ind alq aai it may be sooner than you think TWO inside the junior sports club hugh drummond was ns burying his nose 1 in I it largo tankard of nt tile ala for which lint flint clibery pothouse pot house was still fam oin A waiter avils aa arranging rangIng pr the iho first editions of the evening papers on n table and hugh beckoned to him to bring one cricket racing the latest devoice ense case and tile the latest strike kenil till the usual headings were there aud ann lie was just pil bilting ting down tho the paper to gizola on tits ills kroblin pr oblin oni when a caught till ills eye Q ST STRANGE RANall MURDER IN the man lunn whose body was ducov cred in such peculiar circumstances benr tile the docks hns has been identified ns its mr james granger tile the confidential it I 1 secretary to mr potts tile tho american nt present I 1 in tills this cokin country try the unfortunate victim of tills this dastardly outrage his Ills head its we in our last nights issue was ns neilly nearly severed from ills body had been sent gent over on business by mr potts and lind had arrived tho the preceding day what lie civilli doing in the locality lit in which lip ft wo as j found Is t a mystery we understand that mr lott who has recently been indisposed ito lias returned to the he Cn carlton riton and Is IM greatly upset tit nt the he sudden hanerty ra nerty the pollee police are confident that they III shortly obtain a clue though the rough element lit in the ho locality where the lie murder was vas C presents great it seekim dear flint abo ans robbery na as nil all ahe ho murdered mans pockets were PIU rifled lint hut elm lost peculiar tiling filing the case altho 1 the extraordinary cc caro iken hy by tile 1 lne r 11 1 I 1 r lt if the hudy hody atit ni or of clothing even cn down t to 0 taw murdered innas socks had lind the eitnie torn out lit annd it was vos only rl 0 tho file erlin inal ov tailor nil inside the lio I 1 liner inner li of 0 ar r irling ers cra coat that aliat the pollee eie enabled to identify tile the body drummond slid down dolvil ib tta paper on n tits hla knees and stared a letlo dazedly at tile the clubs immortal fj fc ader holy ladief ho he murmured that man hiim peler pelo in ought to be on the committee hore verily I 1 believe lie he could gal go lilze the into somo some som semblance blance nw f activity did you order nr mr ling airy A A waiter paused beside flit no murmured I 1 ammond nira ond but I 1 will rectify the oi 01 1 ion another large ot of nip ale the wolter waiter lepan deport and hugh picked up lip the paper a n tin we lie murmured gently to lil mAvIt mil mr potts who tins has recently been bech indisposed las has returned to the fhe carlton vow now shuts very interesting lie lit fit n cigarette bind and lily brick in lili cliner 1 I was under the alic impression that mr potts ans mf eli tucked up in bed consuming Nelli ollun pudding nt at goring it requires elucidation 11 1 I beg your our pardon sir remarked remark pd tile he waiter valter placing the heer beer on the table benido him you rived nu tint nt returned blugh up to date ion have justl led any fondest condet alit and ns as it further proof of my lily good will I 1 would like sou to get tile ine n trunk c call 2 X Gori goring tig 11 A lew aw s later lie ho was in the felt ek box libit Il pete alleter I 1 linio seldom been so aind to hear your voice olce Is till ill well good dont mention anny iiames our guest is 18 there Js is lie he gone on strike wore more inick puddings you soy say coax lihn blin peter mako a noise boli o like a sturgeon and hell t think its caviale cavi are aimo seen keen the papers there are interesting doings in belfast which concern coi Kero us rather father intimately ril ill le be down awl later find and yell well have a powwow lie ito hung up tile the receiver nud ud stepp cil col out of the box if algy lie he remarked to a roan man who hiim ae looking ut jit the tape machine outside tile the paper says sni a blighters brighters bligh somewhere here and you ou know lies somewhere else what would you sou dov oy up to late in PUCU capes I 1 bw e al ai anys shot the editor murmured algy aigy longworth Longn como come and feed youre so 0 o helpful belp ful algy A perfect rock of 0 strength do you ou wont want it a bobr job what sort of a job demanded tile the other suspiciously olt oil I 1 not work door dear old boy D n it ninn you ou know me better than lint flint suie sure lyl people eople 1 are iii so funny nowadays days returned longworth gloomily what tr Is tills this job bobr together tile ho two men strolled into the luncheon room and long after the cheese lind had been finished algy ling leng worth was wag still listening in silence to ills his competition companion mi illy dear old bean he murmured ecstatically ns as hugh finished my cry acry acir car old benn bean I 1 think its the he must most priceless thing I 1 oer ever heard enroll mo me ng as it n member of the band and incidentally toby sinclair Is running round in circles asking for or trouble lets rope him in go tind find jilin him this afternoon algy said blugh rising and t tell e 11 i jilin him to keep ills mouth shut shu id come with you ou but it occurs to mo that the wretched potts bathed in tears nt at the carlton la is in need of r sympathy so go long old dar you it hear from no ine in a day or two drummond sauntered niong along poll pali mail ile ho had find told longworth more or less on tho spur ot of the moment knowing tant gent lemans capabilities to a nicely under a cloak of assumed flippancy lie concealed nn nil iron neive nano which had bad never neer yet set failed jilin and lit in spite oi of the fuel fact that flint lie he were nn an entirely unnecessary eyeglass lie ho could bee further into a brick wall than most ot of the people aiho colled called him a fool it was ills sug gealon of telling toby sinclair that caused the smile for itkind started a train of thought in birum drummonds Drummon monds dB mind 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