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Show The Return of Anthony Trent by Wyndham Martyn & Copyright by Barse & Hopkln. STORY FROM THE START roJrktl,rtny Tren,1' returns t0 New iork after nearly four years' ab- ence once known as y,h T master mas-ter criminal, Trent Is Koine Trean?ht-of The accused from t t umPine overboard but 1, h, Poit,'?ni.a Liverpool, but Is disappointed when Trent shows no surprise. He learns h S.Cnpt- Prank Sutton, ?8 in Sing Singr. At New York Trent is startled to find somebody o" . a!ffShp1,OUW The stranger Is Sutton Campbell, the brother ten years In prison. Trent I, , ?0Srce pty Cam Sutton 0 force Payson Grant to a written confession, having erookYy obtained ob-tained all of Captain SuTton's Possessions and later married his CHAPTER II Continued "And I have looked upon him as one of my few friends 1" "He is your friend," the other said earnestly. "And it is because he thinks you are his friend that he expects ex-pects you to do this. He has enor-mous enor-mous faith in you. He remembers hOW you Olltwitfprl tho M rr. so skilled as you, so resolute and highly trained, he believes it will be child's play. Have you thought what your success means to him?" Trent sat with his elbows on his knees, his face buried in his hands. It was one of the bitter moments. He felt himself trapped. There was no reason to doubt Campbell Sutton's statements. And believing them, what escape was possible? Those good resolutions, res-olutions, founded not on fear, but a gradual spiritual rebirth, must be cast to the winds. He knew that Sutton, maddened by Injustice and three years' a convict, would be In no mood to listen to what would seem only poor excuses born of temerity. "Well?" said. Sutton, after a long silence. "What is it to be?" "You win," Trent answered listlessly. list-lessly. "1 shall expect to be consulted in what moves you take," Campbell Sutton Sut-ton said. Trent allowed his growing dislike of the intruder to flame out, "Then you'll be disappointed,'' he snapped. "I'm forced into this thing and I'll do it my own way. I'm not In the habit of being dictated to by anyone. You are Captain Sutton's brother. I owe you nothing at all, yet you presume to command me to do this, or that, as though it were for you I have had to alter my whole plan of life." "It 13 the same thing," Sutton's urotner saia carelessly. "Emphatically It Is not," Trent retorted, re-torted, "and I shall teii Captain Sutton Sut-ton so when I see him." "He doesn't want yon to see him. We talked that over. Grant has a dread of what my brother may do; he has not forgotten those threats uttered ut-tered in court Without doubt he has his spies there in the prison who report re-port to him what visitors my brother sees. Your value will be nullified il you first go to see Frank and then take action against Grant. It would never do to incur the risk; choose your own path in anything but this." Trent thought a minute; it was not necessary to see Captain Surton if the visit entailed danger. '1A11 right," he said. "I suppose you know everything about this Grant?" "As much as my brother," said Campbell. It was nearly midnight svhen Trent left Campbell Sutton in possession. He was now perfectly familiar with every detail of the trial. The innumerable innumer-able questions he hud asked 'concerning 'concern-ing I'aysou Grant had been answered fully. There was no doubt but thai the prisoner had confided everything to his only brother. CHAPTER III The Game Begins Again When Trent had sent a telegram to Mrs. Kinney bidding her remain in I Cape Cod until he was ready for her he removed from the hotel to his .' apartment. Then at his bank, where the cashier shook hands with him heartily, he drew a large sum of money and took a new check hook. At an automobile mart on Broadway. In the Fifties, he purchased from a reliable concern a second-hand automobile auto-mobile of a make he had previously owned, lie bought this make because there were so many of ihem on the j road and its color was not such as lo ( make it remarkable. I Trent was on his way to see a man ! named David Mure whom lie had fre quently employed. When Trem tirsi beheld him. More was a small dyspeptic dys-peptic man weighted down In monetary mone-tary cpres. D thosfi days More was engaged In the rremt and collodion department of a furniture lioi.se which assured aoJoos home furnisher:- thai their credit was good. It was More'e business to ferret out details concerning concern-ing the life and habits of sucb as desired de-sired their furniture on the Installment Install-ment plan. When Trent had invented his rich ancle and was living in Central Park, " est, he found himself once or twice handicapped by ignorance of the oum (bers and habits of the servants In some of the great houses he planned to raid. Then it was he thought of David Mora . He found that More bar- lost his position owing to a Are which wiped out his firm. Trent established More m a httla detective agency of his own and was his first client. More had an idea that Trent was one high up in the secret service. Just before the outbreak of the war, More suffered from varicose veins and was unable to make ends meet Further, Fur-ther, his wife was 111 and the small home sold up. Timidly he appealed to Anthony Trent, whom he had not seen for a year, to aid him. Trent dragged from him that it had long been his ambitioi. to retire from a business which kept him s, much on his feet and retire to the profitable ease of a store which dealt In tobacco, tobac-co, candy and magazines. Two brothers wh. owned such a stor in the main street of Fort Leu were selling out preparatory to going Trent Sat With His Elbows on His Knees. to France. Within an hour of hearing hear-ing of this Anthony Trent had bought the place. Ere the Leviathan left her dock the More family was install d. The new car pulled up before More's little shop. Beholding his benefactor, More jumped up with eagerness. He stammered out a desire de-sire to pay an installment on the property. "Nonsen.-," Trent said, smiling; "you can't pay an installment on a gift. Don't mention It again. I'y come to' take you for a ride if you'- o the tima." Trent did not mention the subject that brought him until they were going go-ing down the hill into Leonia. "I want your assistance," he began. "Can you go down Asbury way for a week ?" "Glad to," More said eagerly. "Any- lu.u oi uu, on. xreut. "Fine," Trent sxclaimed. "The Gug gensohn place at Deal Beach has recently re-cently been bought by Payson Grant. 1 want to know his habits, diversions, .'riends and how and where he passes his -imi.. Also, how many servants sleep Indoors and their names. Verify their references, and craw on rfae for what money you need. Here's a huu dred as a starter. Before you go down there look in the offices of Suttoi. and Merton, 28 Broad street. Capt. Frank Sutton was my adjutant ; at present he's in Sing Sing. Get some old employee to talk about him and his brother Campbell. Let me know what you find out concerning them before you go do.vn to Deal. I'm anxious anx-ious for accurate information about Frank Sutton's intimate friends. If he had any. Learn it- the office what they think about his guilt." He dropped More at his store very well satisfied. More would bring him a clearly written report in which nothing was incorporated that had not been learned from some source outside himself. When Anthony lient had uban doned journalism for magazine writing lie resided for two years in the boarding board-ing house of a Mrs Sauer.. whose main weakness was poor Judgment in the selection of her cooks, and a too narrow range in her hills of fare. Trent bad seen her struggling against fate and hat been unable to help her except in paying his bills promptly and occasionally settling those of Mr and Mrs. Clarke. Clarke had been a celebrated Park Row character whose last position was that of city editor on the paper Trent had abandoned for fiction writing. The demon rum had been Clarke's undoing. . It was after he had been gone for some years from the Sauer abode that he-learned she was ar lust to k house. This he found out a little time before he enlisted, and this, too was one of those sudden charities which meant little enough t , him but spelled salvation to Mrs. Sauer. He settled her debts In full, installed her In a better house, and made the suggests, sug-gests, which the grateful woman followed, that she should take Mrs Uarke into partnership. He had been told since that the scheme had been successful. Mrs. Clarke was a natural-born cook for whom ovens ran true to form and culinary marvels happened as matters of course. It was to this boarding house In the i old Chelsea district that Trent took his way after having seen More. His old landlady insisted that he take coffee cof-fee and cake with her and Mrs. Clarke after the first greeting was over. She assumed that he had come to talk about some form of repayment "Forget it," he said, smiling. "You and the Clarkes were always kind to me, and it was fortunate f'.iat I discovered dis-covered a way of proving my gratitude. grati-tude. I have been In America les than a week, and I only came in tc ' see how you all were." He rose as Mrs. Clarke, flushed fron he heat of the kitchen range, entered the room. She was a large, dignified woman, now completely happy for the hrst time in twenty years. Prohibition Prohibi-tion had aided her. Her husband was always at home now. No more haunting haunt-ing visions of seeing him crushed by trolleys or automobiles. No more humiliating moments of inquiry at saloons for him. "He's writing a book," she assured Trent. "It's shout di. n ., Fine,' said Trent. "I'd like to see him. Is he in?" "He's absolutely engrossed in the book," said his wife. "There are times when he won't leave his room " Trent followed Mrs. Clarke' to the top floor. Clarke literally fell npon his old reporter's neck and dragged him in. "I want this' boy for an hour, mother," moth-er," he said. His wife smiled and left them. The Ciarkea hnrt nm ways been on such amicable terms ' Prosperity has much to do with conjugal con-jugal happiness. "It was my adjutant who got ten years for attempted murder and embezzlement. em-bezzlement. Sutton was the name It was almost three years ago. I suppose sup-pose you read it?" Trent began. "Every line." Clarke returned, "from the editorials on it to the slush sisters' sis-ters' sob stuff." "What did yorj think cf the verdict?" ver-dict?" "Sutton accused the judge of unfairness; un-fairness; that was bad. This accusation accusa-tion of cruelty to his wife hurt him Hooked up with wild women in gay Paree while his wife was knitting him socks. The judge ruled that out but it sticks." "Clarke," said Trent impressively "Sutton was absolutely devoted to his' wife. He had no thong.it for any one else. There's nothing in that wild woman stuff, believe me. It was invented in-vented by Payson Grant wh ho since married Mrs. Sutton. Sutton's wife urged him to go to France because be-cause she was in love with a slacker who had one of the fifty-seven varieties varie-ties of flat feet that were invented in 1937. He threatened Grant, as any red-blooded man would. Grant's afraid of him, but he has seven more years to enjoy stolen property. He's got a superb mansion down on Ocean drive at Deal Beach, and the woman's he's been hankering for. Seven years ls a long time. One of them may be dead by then." "One of 'em will be dead before that," said Clarke, "or 1 miss my guess. Didn't you know that Sutton swore he'd break Jail and kill Grant'" "That hurt his chance," Trent said "1 suppose they'll put him under extra guard or something?" Clarke looked at the younger man with a slight frown. "Where do you suppose your friend Simon, is?" "Ossining on the Hudson." "Like h-ll he is," Clarice retorted. "He escaped two weeks back." Trent stared at him for a moment witlmui speaking. if Clarke were right why had Campbell Sutton persisted per-sisted in the deception? A dislike he had formed for the man seemed to him now sonic Intuitional sense which had warned him. and not merely a nret-udice. nret-udice. (TO BE CONTINUED I |