Show J THE RETURN of ANTHONY TRENT I IBy By WYNDHAM MARTYN a. a by Ba tar II arte STORY TORY FROM THE START Trent returns to New Anthony Af tour four year lura at- at nearl Tort fok after r Once known at 1 the mal ma lelle ter J criminal Trent la II going solm The fUU r accuses acc overboard of Jumping the Ibe at ot Liverpool mm from Is disappointed when Trent I la ht Ji no surprise He lie learns learn M. M doss I. I In frIend Wend Capt Frank Sutton Button At Al New York Tork Trent TrentIs sing Shut Bin Sing hg- i. i startled to find somebody oc oc- his hi hou hOuse e. e he Bt stranger h It Si Sutton sulton Campbell the brother of f till bit be beet beat t friend who Is II serving iV tears In prison Trent l II tell tee liked b by Campbell Campbell h to fore fore force r rayson Payson yon Grant Orant to a written slon having baying crookedly obtained ob ob- all of Captain Button Suttons M and an later married till his will If Trent after long healt consents Trent starts on a tl n to accomplish the downfall of Payson Grant Orant He lie Hele le learns rn from Crom an old uld friend Clarke that Captain Sutton Button has hu escaped from SIng Sing and anCl also allo learns that Captain Sutton has hal no brother Coming home one evening eve Slug ning threatening to Campbell Sutton Trent finds ands to tall bli great creat surprise that Campbell U is th th tb escaped ped Captain Ca pta I n Sutton Su Iton CHAPTER IV Continued IV Continued 7 7 Neither l of ot them knew koew that Buttons Button's Inter Interests In South America Amer Amer- large targe mining wining ica let were ere ID In a parlous state from the beginning of the World war In 1014 Sutton carried hl Ills his burdens alone And when chin he knew be he was to go o overseas overseas In ID mil had hid those premonitions of at death are Irl n II as often wrong as right tight he slide made over Ofer nearly all of his hll fortune to In his hll wife I fl And to to- Payson Parson Grant he pre larger control central of the office There was nn an old and trusted book book- keeper who was TIIS left loft to TD watch This I cod eged ed and deserving deserting keeper of a ac ae accounts mums counts was ns dismissed by hy Payson rant Iran willie while Sutton was still on 00 the tamp pulp ea eastward bound Ills flis protests pro pro- tests were ere Ineffectual The old watch watch- rings who 1110 had the lie traditions of an firm boar In their blood followed the HIP head hend r. r It II foal ns was fortunate for Grant that a limited bailed d revolver re was found In Buttons Button's when be he was dragged from be- be the mao man who had wronged him Mm It 1 was to tn begin with an Infraction In In- fraction of the Sullivan act and as lath punishable with seven years years' Imprisonment as a B maximum And ever minute of ot the trial swelled Crams Cram's ultimate triumph It II had been M Pity J to 10 buy false e testimony from a l maid 1 ns as to cruelty cruelly And Suti Sut Sut- i belt a 0 Intuited the JU Judge and turned the against him It seemed that thattie tie lie slier after smiling on Suttons Sutton's career ind bringing him fortune and honor vas is sow now bent on his utter destruction flIn SutTons SutTon's long absence e and the martyred years his bis ife if had spent the divorce e and marIn mar mar- tinge In 10 Parson Payson Grant Irani seemed to the world 1 neither hurried d nor And since Orant ld hod h d plenty of mousy money to Indulge his bis tn In Ij in lend and had not yet yel met a woman b he liked d more than Nation Natica happiness seemed m mcd d In 10 a fair way to be a settled Then Frank Frnnk Sours escaped from Sin Sins Sing and notwithstanding the precautions Grant had surrounded Im himself elf with he was uneasy M rat Nat Dt he lee said 1 coming up to the Tram where I she was breakfasting In ked d. d Frnnk has hag got out of Sing Sing I 1 Her lIer alarm was not so noticeable us as hla 1 always all al capture them she u troubled That he be was troubled lid N hi wipe tier ller She knew he was x l 1 all afraid of ot her ex husband ex-husband unlit unlit- Ih the modern society solety woman wom ln Is not w to he be won by the hard hitting hard mu mule Ie I Is are e I the le i w women en ot of other spheres Fie h. h ht fighting wits was wait Choir a stupid ar ar- practice and nd counseled Payson inY M l 1 a permit to 10 carry a revolver think he hell he'll come here site she 1 A vulgar brawl which ul fin hl b tr he Seized ullOn by the Saffron M Wit distressed tit tin h he 1 Frank stay In ln prison n r d. d lie Ie hud bud heeD been tried and ande Ir ll Sh She e fel felt she would always nl I rift her lIr h f former nURl hus husband n l f for r the non no no- tulle qUite he had n 1 brought br her U II wits 1 pis Palsy f for r her to forget fortt Wt that Ihu she he the If valise CRuse All emotions of f a R vin In nature were the wrinkle fito helleved II Ilea I after r n II me me- said gloom gloora- Anil he e 8 get me-M me me sAt It If TrU ank youre you're Tu re care careful fill she said was a most n Jm Subtleties or if of f ao nuances s ones kind 1 remain main fhe The snit of m man n w who i I I. I I ln s a grownup trOll nUD h boy hoy y Is fatiguing do t III as to fo ring hp the front t ball r a bell n I tip Id killed ask 1 ton Oil to step into Ino the hn G Grant frowned This ThIll was wa n. n lie hI slid not suspect t. t yon yon-o it II U Nat Rt he stul t II g be I tell te a I bele lot thun f an you I 1 feds Ir n ny 10 I ale Natica pleaded you t I n r. r wit h my 11 digestion I Ive I've 1 I lunch luncheon n party parly and andears to o ears y et mt me be best t. t Dont Don't It Im I'm M ant nut hil I t L. L III ink lk r I t I hr to too l' l lB lIln bahl nl 8 s e lie started I as he be truest kuck B k tin tau D the uie door n u- u Itt Its probably Mademoiselle Dupin Natica told him hm I l take toke an sn hours hour's conversational French Freob now A e quietly dressed woman woman entered He lie hardly glanced at her It was wal the Ih lady of ot distinguished French fa family mil who was to 10 enable his bis wife to con cou converse converse verse In fn polite and Idiomatic French She had set sel her mind on a II chateau near Paris next year and the capture of ot the old noblesse Although Grant allowed her husband to think she was not concerned concerned concerned con con- about Stilton's Suttons escape It It In to truth bothered her more than she ad ado mitt rd When he had hod been sentenced and public Interest had dd centered upon Ulon other matters of the moment she sup supposed supposed supposed posed the scandal would soon loon be he for gotten And now there was to be he bemore hemore bemore more of It It might conceivably Injure In in- jure lure her hr In her campaign against t the noblesse e who were Tere destined to he be her neighbors Mademoiselle Unpin was coaching her ber In the lilt foibles of the people she desired to 10 conquer Since two weeks had gone Jone by without without without with with- out the apprehension of Frnnk Frank Sutton and the police confessed ed themselves elfes without t clews of pf value Mrs Grant Gront hoped be had escaped lie He hid spent some lome of his early years In South America at al his fathers father's mining property property property prop prop- erty and knew a a III little Ill Spanish Frank Frnnk was one of those strong men mea who could readily do laboring work Payson Pay Pay- Payson son On was different she could not Ine be her present hll husband hanel In overalls o Payson for all nil Ms hits air of careless carelessness ness fleas about the result was In to secret eaten by dire fears fean He Ill added two Iwo of ot blood to its establish t b. b ment meat He Ill bought them because e they were one man dogs he had bad heard and turned them 1000 loose e at nt night In 10 the grounds lIe He was their first victim The fact that he t had nd pal paid l for them was Tas perhaps not sufficiently Impressed tm Im I pressed on the cnn ne Intelligence for they Ihry treed him as he crossed from the house bouse to the tile garage to In tell his head bead chauffeur that a poll police had warned him of ot a pilfering tramp In the neighborhood Natica was shown this new and nervous mood when he lie threatened to I assault a n small defenseless man who had hod called to Inquire If it the new porch was satisfactory You Vou are ore drinking too many cock cocktails tails tolls between meals meats she said It II may be I am am 1 he rei returned 1 feel shot to hits bits find and that's a fact Nat at U II 11 II he exploded speaking truth for the moment Frank got gill a R rotten deal den I all round and some ones one's got to suffer suITer A Judge sentenced him I didn't she said sold coldly She had convinced convI herself that Sutton merited punishment punish ment meat and ond Pays loS lo'S ns Imputation seemed both bolh annoying an and 1 false Grant bad not been so anxious to leave his own country for the untried delights of the French chateau as liS Natica But Dut he found a new pleasure In the Idea now lIe He could be more Inviolate In the Chateau St. St Ies Remy-les than In la Deal Oeal Beach It had hod Its Us coo consolations sol all nos being only an hours hour's motor trip from Paris n He fie told his wife be he was ready to go whenever she pleased We shall stop here for the sum summer summer summer mer she said laid Weve We Invited lo too many people to run ruu away like that Also Ive I've sworn to IO accent shall be perfect before I 1 go S Never Nefer during the long hours In do which Frank Frnnk Sutton spoke of the wrongs he had endured at lit the hands the of Payson Grant did he be use threats width which Campbell aI Sutton had swung o er the bend of Anthony Trent like a o club In one mood of 01 despondency he tie advised Trent to give ghe up ul an Idea burn born of hale that the atmosphere at lit- atmosphere of ot prison nurtures But lie he airy hind reckoned without hU his friends friend's loy by The fhe spectacle of Frank frunk Sutton brought o to the dust his Ids name e married 10 to ored the woman he lo ed the man who ho had doubly betrayed him was not of ot a nature to lessen lesen Trents Trent's determination to Inflict pun And It was nut not to be an act solely of vengeance He lie t. t vindicate Pulton's Suttons lon u name nome He lie was not oot sure how hll this would affect the there but hut convicts convict's slat status us legibly legally would he be money enough to 10 retain the best besl of counsel and In the end no could be won doubt a u pardon Zo T Z Y Z Y X X X I X I shall seek Pel quarters quarter In 10 a s more mure fashionable locality he be told Button Sutton While 1 I want bot nothing bing better IK than this It Is U not from Central Park Nest West that those who storm society proceed At a house bouse agents agent's whose clientele was Tas a distinguished one Trent learned of several eral furnished apartments for subtenancy along the Avenue Annul He lie was Tas looking at ot one In the rear of ot the house In the Fifties Id like one facing the Avenue he remarked la Is the one In to front fronto o occupied r I That Thai belongs to young Stratford Van Can Baden the agent said I 1 let It to him but hes he's abroad now bOW I Ito Trent Treat knew a ga good god d bit about this youngest disappointment of one of ofA A Americas America's me rIcos rIco's most celebrated families He tie had bad likeable qualities but little moral Stanton stamina And of course his enormous fortune fOri line had attracted to him the least worthy If most fascinating of the monde deml Would he sublet The house bouse agent was doubtful lie Ile considered It unlikely because the monetary need did not exist He Ue Is always bard hard up up Trent re re- re marked Ill send a cable It was a costly cable and the answer answer an 80 Ter S prepaid Stratford remembered I Anthony Trent well and was pinched for ready money The terms were generous ones ODes and acceptable Within a 8 week of ot meeting Frank Sutton Trent Treat was established In the most luxurious apartments be he bad had ever seen the borne home of one whose place In to society was unquestioned It was Trents Trent's step He Ito bad paid attention to his base as military tactics had Instilled In him hum the advisability ad ado of doing The advance once was his next problem He lie found In Van Bodens Boden's nod ns n's rooms the members' members lists of all nil the exclusive sluts cluts a aan Van an Bodes Doden need belong to They TIey were ere clubs to 10 which Trent Treat could not oot hope to enter other than as us a guest He Ue was not deceived as os tt he this He De glanced down the columns with Interest he be found the name he was Tas searching for It was In to Inthe the most exclusive e young mans man's club New ew York possesses Anthony Trent remembered ver very well his first list meeting with willI Weld lie He had gone Into the super super- smart Bachelors Bachelors' club In fn Hamilton place Park lork lane will his bis friend Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur At AI dinner he be was among a group ot of men of rank runk and fashion And since so BO many foreigners Imagine all 1111 Americans of a 8 type IrIle fit lit to 10 be he gu guests at al such liuch a club as the tile Bachelors Bachelors' must be glad to meet one another Swithin Weld Veld was Introduced to 10 his fellow I countryman by a II marquis who thought I they would fall Into loto one another's arms Weld bad never ne heard beard of cf Trent und and said suld so Ue He remarked It ItIn ItIn itIn In a tune toOl that was not oot conciliatory He lie thought be knew every ery eligible American Those be he did not oot know were not Dol eligible socially Weld supposed supposed sup sup- posed that this Ibis Anthony Trent was WOI one ot of those bose Americans to be met with all over o Europe who have bOfe a gen bus lus for understanding alien people are welcome visitors in ID great houses and vl visit their own country but rarely One night after a successful day at Sundown Sumo Sandu tn n Weld Veld had hod gone to one of ot oftie otIbe tie the most notorious supper clubs In London There be he had bud taken token too much champagne for one of his hie teme temperate temperate tem tem- habits and had Iad been Inveigled Into a R secluded where three experts had taken what he be had bind won nt tit the races and und left him biro heavily In Ind d debt It t was while white the winners were waiting f fur for r the Ibe chock check which he be be best l l' to draw been o a he had bad not sufficient suf sut balance a Ii l hunk hank to mee It that Trent came ng Trent knew the men with h whom Weld was pin pla tag hg to be notoriously crook crooked Id Apparently the gamblers would not accept L OOs O. O OUs II Os Us a To obtain a check drawn drown when funds were not In I the he hank batik to meet offense In London serious It was ns a s and would enable them to make the Weld family pay Joy through the nose The wa was two for tor torIs Its Is return sum thousand pounds Trent strolled o over and spoke ami awl amicably to bis Ila fellow countryman Ignoring lnor- lnor tag ing the entirely TO BE CONTINUED I I X Z X Z X I |