Show fOOL FOOL BY BYea ea SABATINI NI NIJ Ns J 57 10 IU P BY IY MIA NtA nt M BEGIN TOD TODAY AT I Colonel Hones Helles soldier r and ad- ad adventurer adventurer returns to England his hi native land when war with Hot Hot- Hoiland land Is declared HI His Hie Grace Gr ot of Buckingham hires noli Holles to abduct the actress S1 la Farquharson It Is s dark when the Colonel car car- carrIes carnee carries nee rIes her to the tho house Buckingham has rented Upon their arrival Holles Holies Is 1 I hot hot- rifled to see that S h Ia Is an old sweetheart Buckingham hm and Holles HOUes engage In a du duel due 1 The servants of ot th the Duke puke render reDder the colonel hen Buckingham attempts to t embrAce SYlvIa her dross dress falls from her throat revealing a e blotch token of ot the th plague Tho The Duke Puke and his hia servants flee Holies Holles purees nurse Sylvia and saves eaves her t life lite When the doctor pronounces pronounce 18 her out of ot danger Holies Holles lea leaves ve the house at t night The doctor docto octor r goes COel with Sylvia to her hel old home hom NOW GO ON OK WITH THE STOK STORY The three rooms that had comprIsed corn corn com her home were situated on o the first t floor and and ond as they ascend ascend- ascended ed to the landing they saw the three doors standing open Two othe of r tile the chambers were shuttered and 1 therefore In darkness but the room room drawing Which directly faced the stair head was nag as all In 1 n sunlight and even before they entered en- en entered It they had a picture of ot the deva devastation wrought there The furniture was not merely disarranged disarranged ranged It was as rudely tumbled some of It broken and some was waa missing altogether The stood open its lock broken its It I contents rifled a litter of ot papers tossed upon and about It Dr pr Beamish and the lady stood In silence ju jut just t within the doorway for tor a II ion long moment contemplating B that dreadful havoc Then Miss Mis Sylvester moved mo ed swiftly s forward tor ard t to the In an Inner drawer of ot which had left lett a consider consider- able sum of representing money money mot molt of ot her hr Immediate resources That Inner drawer draver had been wrenched open the money sac oas gone one What am I T to doT dos do Where am I Ito Ito to turn l she ked asked and almost at once supplied the answer anser ans er I I had better go from this accursed place at lit once t l 1 nave an old aunt livIng In I hill return n to her She had also she added certain moneys In the tile hands hand of a 8 bank banker near Charing Cross Once she sheI I should have withdrawn these there would be nothing to keep h her r In London But the doctor gently re re- re restrained s strained herIt herIt her herIt It must be almost certain that the banker she named would could tem tem- temporarily temporarily ten have lule lul e suspended bu and withdrawn himself from a place In which panic and ana contusion confusion I had made end an of ot commerce tor the present It would be with that out of ot London she he find any apy one to give hel hi shelter heUer The realization ot of this unsuspected ed d thing that she was Will I In till this city cl I which seemed seamed abandoned alike t by bythe God and men man Inhabited only by the unfortunate and the unclean a city of ot dead and dying drove her h almost almot to the uttermost limits ot of despair The doctor set a comforting arm about her shoulders You Tou ale aie al e not n utterly alone elone he assured her hor ha gently I am still here to Serve you my dear and I am yoi your friend My lily friend It Is la beyond consIder consIder- atlon Who bo can help your friend ebest It It Is In la helping others that ae v e best help our ee no explained Ye Yes See HS Cut But how does doer It lie In my power now to do this In several ways my dear I will tell teU you iou ou of ot one By God Gods 1 mercy and the loving heroism of a fellow creature you iou ou have bei been cured ot of the plague and nd by that cure Iou ou have been rendered what Is commonly as a safe sate w wo- wo man man-a man a person Immune from In- In 1 infection faction who ho may mo e without tear fear among amonI those who suffer sutter from the pestilence are aree very e er difficult to find lIe Ua paused p per peer Ing eIng at her through his spectacles CHAPTER x VI The Dead Cart Cart Had ou asked Colonel HoUes Holles In life after h he had spent the week that followed Immediately Immediate upon his escape from the house In KnIght Ryder Street he could have havo supplied you with only the vaguest and moat Incomplete of ot a ac- ac accounts counts Without definite destination or even aim beyond that as a between great a 8 distance as b possible be- be tween himself and Knight Ryder Carter Street Holles Holies came by way nay of ot Car Car- rhe ter Lane Into Pauls Paul's Yard Tard There Th toa he hung a moment hesitating hesItating for a man may well hesitate when all dIrections are a as all one to him then he struck eastward down Street finally plunging Into the lab labyrinth of ot narrow allele to the north of ot It Here he h might have wandered until broad daylight but dadal that lost In the heart of that dae dae- dae dILl del he was drawn by sounds of revelry to I a a narrow door from un- un der which a blade blada of ot light was stretched across the cobbles cobble of the tho street Two drunken lurchIng forth paused a 0 moment surprised at the tho sight light of ot him arrested there Then with drunken Inconsequence Inconsequence Inconsequence quence they fell upon him took hIm each by an arm and aad dragged him weakly restating resisting over the th threshold of ot that unclean den amId shouts houts of ot Insensate hilarious wet wel come trim Its Inhabitants When presently the th Colonels Colonell eye eyes had grown Town accustomed to the light he ho took stock stack of ot hi his sur lur soundings rounding He found himself In a motley evil gathering of looking evil raffish men and no less lees e Ing women In all aU there may h have been som some lome thirty ef of them huddled there together In fn that ly Iy restricted space pac Holles surveyed them with cold disgust hU t they stared ques que- back at him He yielded to the Inevitable He ha had a few tew pieces In his pocket and he spent one of ot these on burnt sack before that wild company broke up and Its members crept to their home homes like rats to theIr burrows burrow In the pale light of dAwn Thereafter he hired a bed from the vintner and slept until close upon noon Having broken hI his feet fast fail upon a dish ot of unit salt herrings herring he wondered forth again errant and aimless He won through a sue sue- cession of ot narrow unclean alleys lIea Into the eastern end nd of o and stood there aghast to survey survoy w the change that the month had ha wrought But the temptation wu was not very strong upon him and he h 1 withstood It lt Such a visit could woul but waste the time of ot a man who wh had hd no time to waste therefore Albemarle was waa hardly to fa f i a e hIma hima him a welcome I His HII nights were Invariably spent at the sign of the Flagon Flacon In that dismal alley Off oct Walling Street In Into In- In Into into to which merest chance had led him In the first instance The end came oam abruptly On One night In that thoroughfare usual usual- usually I Inight ly Iy the tho ha busiest In London he found emptiness and silence allenee I He Ile turned up toward St Pauls Paul's hIs steps alepa echoing In the noontide through the empty street as echo at midnight th the steps of some borne be- be belated be be- be belated reveler Albemarle he learned from a 8 astray stray sailor with shorn nhom horn he h talked was still at the tho Cockpit True t to hie character Honest George Monk Mont remained grimly at his post un- un unmoved moved mo ed by danger I unI Holies Holles was tempted to seek hIm lewd haunt of ot recklessness recklessness-he s-he s h drank more deeply even ven U than an his hie deep habit As o a a consequence when at the hosts hoots host bidding he h thelast lurched out IntO the dark alley the last of all those roisterers to de de part hl hIs wits were drugged to th the point of ot Insensibility Without apprehension or care of the tha direction In which h he ha wai was moving he ho came Into Street crossed It plunged Into a narrow alley on the southern stile and reeled blindly onward until hi his feet teet struck an obstacle In to their thel unconscious path He lIe pitched over 01 0 er e erIt it It and fell forward heavily upon his lIs face faco Lacking the tha will and the thi I strength to rise rlee e again he lay la y v i where here he had fallen tallen and sank II there into a lethargic sleep I A hour halt passed It Jt was the hour halt Immediately before the thio theda dawn darn da n Cam Came a bell tinkling In thi the dIstance Slowly It drew nearer and a cry repealed at Intervals been audible and Intel Intel- I to Holles Holies had he h been on con scions Nearer rang the cry upon n the silent client night I Bring out your de dead d The vehicle halted at the mouth of ot the alle aile In which the Colonel Colon lay IllY an and a man Advanced holding a II flaming link shove above his hie head so as 88 to CAst CARt it Its ruddy glare hither and thither to tn search earth the dark k corners of or that way by-way This man beheld two bodies bodice ea I stretched upon the ground the ground th Colonels Colonel's and the one over o 0 er which h I the Colonel had stumbled tumbled He H I II I shouted something over his I shou 1 Ider der and advanced again H Ho was wasI i I ollos ollo's followed e ed d a moment later by the e I cal cart t conducted b his fellow who 10 I walked at the horses horse's head pulling ata at a short pIp pip pip- Whilst he ho who held the torch stood tood there to light the Iho other inthis In Int t this his work his companion stooped stoop and rolled over the first body tn men stepped forward for and did the same ORme son e b by Colonel Holle The man with the link thrust this Into a holder hoMer attached to the front of ot the dead cart Then the ie I two of ot them on their knees made madean an examination of ot the body or r orl rather of ot such garments as were wei e upon upon It Not Not much trouble over here her Lar Larry Lam said one They rose took down dawn their nooks Kooks and seizing the body by l y them they swung It up Into the th e vehicle Fetch etch the nearer said sal d Nick as he turned and stepped topped stepped to t nard ard ard Holles Holies The horse was led I forward tor some few paces so ao that thi it the light from the cart now fellmore tell fell fe 11 more fully tully upon the Colonels Colonel's long supine figure Nick went sent ent down on one knee beside him and uttered a grunt grui of satisfaction This Th Is Is better His fellow came to peer over r his shoulder A gentry cove damme he swore with horrible satisfaction Their practiced ghoulish fingers re went cent nt swiftly over Holies and they th chuckled obscenely at sight eight of or tae ie half dozen gold pieces displayed In Larrys Larry's filthy paw Not lot much else elise grumbled one 01 I after atter a further Inspection J Theres his sword sword-a sword a rich hilt hll look Larry And theres there's a tine fIne 0 stamp stamp- stampers ers are said Larry Bho ho was already alread alrea y busy buoy bu y about the Colonels Colonel's fee Ceet te t Lend a hand Nick They pulled the boots boots oft off ar an and armade d made a a bundle of ot them them together r with the Colonel s u hat and cloa elos k rk This Thue bundle Larry dropped Into a basket that hun hung behind the cart car cai t whilst Nick remained to tp p Holler Holles of his doublet Suddenly he h 1 paused C Continued In Our Next Issue |