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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. 5 DOUBLOONS By EDEN PHILLPOTTS AND ARNOLD BENNETT A THRILUNG NOVEL OF MYSTERY, TRAGEDY AND A STOLEN FORTUNE (Copyright. 1906, by Eden Phillpotts and Arnold Bennett.) CHAPTER I, The Watchmen. T HAT monster, London, was Just lying down to rest. The clocks of the Strand churches and the Strand hotels, keeping nocturnal vigil, showed a quarter to one under the autumn moon. Through the windows of closed public houses could be seen barmen, who, with sleep In their eyes and dusters In their hands, were en deavoring to wipe away the last atala from their counters. The Strand was Inhabited chiefly by policemen en gaged In the examination of shop doors, and omnibuses that had the air of hurrying home for fear of be ing late; a Carter Paterson van, ob viously out for the night, crumbled along at leisure. In the court yards of the two great hotels a few cabs, with their glaring yellow orbs, waited, wait ed for august patrons, while haughty commissioners Ignored contemptuous cabmen. On the pavements, between Aldwych and Charing Cross, there were perhaps not more than twenty pedes trians, Instead of the twenty thousand that jostled one another at noon. The monster seemed to expel a fatigued sigh, as one saying: "I’ll try to get a little sleep, but I'm not at all sure that I shall.” Among the score of pedestrians was Philip Masters, a young, large-boned man of tT‘™ —" ~ r ' had some was destined soon to have considerably more. He loitered from the direction of Charing Cross, and, having stopped a moment In front of a Jeweler's which was Illuminated In order to tantalise burglars, he crossed from the south to UUIglUIB, HO biuoacu HUIII IIIO ouuill IU the north side of Wellington street, and then turned ufi the splendid curve of Aldwych. The vast and ornate archi tecture of that region rose above him In Its pearly whiteness that the breath ot the monster had not had time to soli; and Philip wondered, as people In Philip's condition are apt to wonder, where the money had come from to rear with the rapidity of a dream these blanched places devoted solely to lux ury find pleasure. For Philip was at his Anal sixpence; he carried all that he possessed on earth In a little black bag; and no one was more surprised than Philip to find himself, In the midst of a city that spends 12,000 pounds a day on cab fares, with no home and no pros pect of adding to the sixpence. Philip ilte the habit of once had quite the habl flinging profitable outlet for his talents, and though he had as yet neither opened cabs at the theater doors, nor sold evening papers, nor enlisted or done any of the approved thlnga for a person In his predicament, he was rapidly acquir ing a sort of philosophic despei The Idea of not having enough to eat, which had at first appealed to hts sense of wonder and his sense of humor, now struck him as a merely unpleasant Idea. His thought ran: "It can't be me who am 'going under* In London. It surely can't be me who will starve or beg." So run the thoughts of all me.' who have come to the end of the tether. He passed Into Klngsway, the Im mense artery which the surgeons have created, but through which the blood has not yet learned to flow. Its double line of lamps stretched imposingly to Holborn, flanked on one side by the posters of every theater and medicine In the metropolis, and on the other by the raw remains of habitation which the surgeon's knife had scatterd like a gullotlne. In the huge and solemn emptiness of the street he hesitated a moment. He wanted to discover a certain new lodging house of which he had heard, but of whose address he knew nothing save that it was In a street branching westward out of Klngsway. Less than a quarter of a mile off the braxler ot the watchman burned a bright red un der the yellow glare of the gas lights, and a title system of red lanterns, re sembling toy railway signals, showed that Klngsway Itself, despite Its tender age was already "up.” He could see two gesticulating figures vaguely sil houetted against the radiance ot the careless manner. He had lost mother at birth and his father some months earlier, and his effective pa rents had been a couple of trustees who, on his twenty-first birthday, had furnished him with 6,000 pounds and some sound advice. They had. brought him up with much common sense; had been careful to keep him out of public schools and his toric universities and other pleasure resorts; had procured him a place In the office of a flourishing publisher; and, In general, had done their best - for. him. But they had not taught him how to take advice, nor how to lose money on the Stock Exchange. So that within six years, besides having shown his heels to publishing and act ed contrary to their advice In almost every particular, Philip had contrived to part with nearly the whole of his 6,000 pounds. He was a man ot many remarkable qualities; he was even a philosopher of singular enlightenment, but he happened to have been born with a hole In his pocket which noth ing could mend. At twenty-seven he had made away with everything except his peace of mind and his faith In human nature. He had essayed various vocations, from Insurance to the secretary-ship of a club, and had not found the right one. He might have succeeded In the colonies, but circumstances had not sent him thither. Not every one goes to the colonies who might succeed there; Piccadilly Is full of colonists who ought to be In Canada. He had stayed longest In his last situation, as half-assistant manager, half-professor in a Jiu-Jitsu school, for he had the frame and the proclivities of an ath lete. Among the pupils of the Jlu jitsu school (Jermyn street) had been a duke. In an encounter Philip had locked the duke's arm, and It was the limb. The duke, however, possibly on ac count of his ancient lineage, had not seen fit to yield, and somehow or other the arm had gone off crack. Now, when an assistant manager of a Jlu- jltsu school fractures the arm of n iluge who Is making the fortune ot the school, the fault Is clearly that of the duke’s part to yield at peril of a broken assistant manager. Philip saw the pro priety of a resignation, and he re signed, so as to avoid further risk to the arms, of the British aristocracy. That was a fortnight ago. Thence- toward he had sought In vain another manded of himself have the courage to ask the watchman as to the lodging house. His diffidence about this simple matter was such that, when he approached the braxler, he crossed over the road, away from It. while trying to make up his mind to accost the watchman. The watchman, however, had a sur prise for Philip Masters. ’■Matey!" called out the watchman, to appeared to be alone now, and somewhat excited. ■Hello!" Phllp replied. Here! Half a .mo’!" cried the watchman. Do I look like a tramp,” was Phil ip's mental question, "that this fellow orders me to come over to him?" But ho went over. The watchman was middle-aged and rather thin; he wore an overcoat and a sack on top of the overcoat, and two mufflers. "Want a Job?" he inquired of Philip, abruptly, after having scrutinised him. He had been a night watchman In main thoroughfares for years, and the comparative richness of what remained of Phllp's clothes did not deceive him for an Instant; he Judged a wanderer by his gait and his eyes. Philip could not tell a lie, so he iota the truth. "Well,’ said the watchman, “sit In my cabin for three hours, and keep the lire a-going, and a bob’s yours, matey.” "Right, oh.” Philip agreed, deter mined to be Jovial with the watchman in the watchman’s own dialect. "And what are you going to do, mate?" "They've Just come for to tell me as rtiy poor old woman's took 111 at Brondesbury, and I’m going to foot It up there. 1 should ha' gone anyhow, substitute or no substitute; but seeing as you'll take It on . . No hankey* pankey, now, matey!" "Leave me the sack,” said Philip. 'What have I got to do?" "Watch,” said the watchman crossly, and trotted on. Philip, his shoulders enveloped In a sack, thus found himself In charge of Klngsway, He had his little house, and his hearth; and he chanced on a Jarder in the shape of a tea-can and a red handkerchief certainly containing sus tenance. But the larder was not his; It formed no part of the bargain; it was the property of an honest and Ingenuous mortal In two mufflers, a husband In the midst of domestic ca lamity; to take It would be to rob a poor man of his bread. Still, in two minutes Philip was eating—all dlges- ttve apparatus and no conscience! So true Is It that a hungry man, though he won’t lie, will steal. A cab glided swiftly down the street while Phllp was warming the tea. "Don't burn your fingers, Charlie, shouted the cabman, Imitating a wo man’s voice, as he flashed by. "Oo and bury yourself," retorted Phllp. feeling that he must be watchman to the life or perish In the attempt. As the cabman made no re sponse, he was conscious of pride. He drank the tea. Then a policeman came above the horlxon, and Philip thought he would handy gossip with the po Ifceman. But the aspect of the police, man awed him. and he retired Into his little house and pretended to be asleep. It might have been the sedative In fluence of half a pork pie, half a loaf, and a pint of ten, or It might have been simply Philip's fatigue, but he did not keep up for more than 10 seconds the pretense of being asleep; he really slept. And after an Interval not to be measured In time, he woke with a guilty start. He had slept while on duty, and deserved to be taken out and shot—especially as he had an Intuition that In the Immediate neighborhood things had been happening which ought not to happen. Also, the fire was low. He straightened his hat, adjusted the sack and crept out of his residence to reconnoitre. His residence was at the corner of Strange street and Kins, way, and a trench had been dug aionj the south side of Strange street am nearly a third of the way across Kings way. The trench was guarded by i rope and Iron fence, and duly llluml nated by lamps In the established man. ner. It was part of Philip's domain There was nothing but unoccupied ground: to the north was a row of tall, eighteenth century houses that had survived many Improvement schemes, and would probably survive many more. Now, as Phllp gaxed along the trench, he saw a dim form clamber out ot It at the other end, at a dis tance ot perhaps a hundred yards, and shuffle across Strange street and disap pear, but whether it disapeared Into a house or Into a possible alley Philip could not decide. Nor could he decide whether the form was that of a big dog, a lion escaped from the Hippo drome, or a human being on all fours. He gave forth an exclamation. "What’s up?" muttered a deep voice. le nd man who had been standing the cabin. "I—I thought I saw some one climb out of the trench there,” Philip stam mered. 'Oh, you did, did you?" said the po liceman, approaching the lire. The tone of the policeman seemed to Indicate to Philip that he must con trol his thoughts better than that. But Philip was not to be removed. "Yes, I did," he Insisted. "It’s funny, as I saw nothing," the policeman remarked with cold Irony. "You the watchman?" "Yes,” said Philip. "Oh, you are, are you?" sneered that agnostic of a policeman. 'TU have a look yonder." And he marched along Strange street with a majestic tread that would have shaken the Albert suwenslon .bridge. "Nothing here," he Ailed, gaxing Into the trench with noble condescension. And then he vanished Into the dis tance. Philip, who had not expected the trench to be full of Infantry or any thing else sufficiently conspicuous to catch the eye of a policeman, seised a lantern as soon as the policeman, was out of sight, and jumped Into the trench. It was a nice, clean rectangu lar trench, with sewer pipes lying In It Irregularly. At the further end, where the pipe had already been laid, the bottom, was 2 feet higher than else where, and at the junction of the two levels the end of the sewer pipe came out from the earth. Lying close by was a broken section of pipe, and lodged by accident Just In the mouth of the laid pipe was a small fragment of the broken section. Philip picked It up and examined It. There was clearly stamped on It a fingermark In some dark substance. He carried It away; It might well be the Imprint of a workman; It probably was; but, on the other hand, It might not. He saw nothing else of the slight est Interest. Before returning to the cabin he ascertained that an alley named Little Orlnters alley ran north out of Strange street, nearly opposite the end of the trench. A single light burned In the entrance hall of the house at the angle ot Strange street and the alley; otherwise the street was uterly lifeless. "And my breakfast, master T' He was thus greeted on his arrival at the cabin. The watchman, hta em ployer, had come back breathless, and In a stormy temper. •Tve eaten," said Philip. Tm aw fully sorry." "Being sony won’t do,” replied the watchman. "That breakfast'll cost yod a bob. and no less. Here I foot It all the blooming way to Brondesbury ex pecting my old missus at her last gasp, and she ain't even III. Sleeping like a child she Is, and I startles her finely. the combatants. He opened the sec ond door with a rapid movement and beheld a well-dressed, slightly built young man In the fatal embrace of an elderly well-seasoned navvy. "Help me," sputtered the young man, choking, with a frantic appeal in hie eyes. "Certainly," said Philip, enchanted by the adventure. ■ He dropped his bag. With the outer side of his right hand, hardened by special training, Philip' gave one cut Juht under tho navvy’s ear. Shocked into attention by the novelty and pafnfulness of the at tack, the navvy flung hie victim to the floor, and sprang forward to slay Philip, who lay down on the flat of his back between the two doors. If the navvy had had even the slightest ac quaintance with jiu-jitsu he would have recoiled before this master-posi tion In the greatest known art ot self- defense. Tne navvy, however, had never heard of jlu-JItku, and-the con sequence ot his rash Ignorance was that after getting his wrist Ingeniously sprained, he was propelled In a grace ful curve by the upraised flat-of Phil ip's left foot, clean Into tne street. His ■ firs thought on recovering his wits was that the age ot miracles had returned. Then, not being a duke, be staggered away, beaten. Philip rose. 'Jiu-jitsu, I suppose?” said.the young man, also rising, but with more dlffl culty. Philip nodded. "I thought so. I.must learn It. I’m excessively obliged to you.” "Oh, that's nothing," said Philip. Have you a bed to let? I take It you iro the manager." “You don’t know me?” exclaimed the young man, with gentle surprise. "No,” Philip answered. "How should I? But as you appeared to be trying to chuck some one out I naturally as sumed—” "You don't mean to say you don't recognise me from my portraits V The young man's surprise was becoming almost a hurt surprise. "What portraits?'' "Why, In the press! I've been In terviewed with portrait by nearly every said "You you," said Philip; after And Cheap Qne-way Rates -TO- CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWEST Round trip Summer Excursion* from all polnte Eait to Pacific Coast and Northweit until September 15th, with special stopover privileges, good returning to October 31et, 1900. 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"Can you tell me where there's lodging house called the Corner House?" he asked the watchman tim idly. "Yea. It'* Just there, at the comer of Strange street and Little Orlnlers alley." "Thank pause. A terrific thunder assailed hi* ear from the aouth. And In a moment a flying squadron of newspaper van* swept up Klngeway from Fleet street toward Eueton—swept past and wae gone. No clatter of hoofs on the hard road, no cracking of whips; nothing but the deafening whirr of heavy wheels and the odor of petrol! The monster had roused Itself before the dawn, before the moon bad paled, CHAPTER II. The Corner House. The house Indicated to Philip by the watchman was like the other houses in the row. except that It possessed a double frontage. It had five stories, a flat, plain fare of dark, soiled crimson, and some nineteen windows on Strange street alone. In common with nearly all similar houses between the Strand and Eueton, It seemed to have lost Its Illusions early In life, and to be await ing the end with the cold dignity of a proud, unattractive woman. Little had t dreamed, In Its Georgian youth, of the unique fate In store for It at the hand* of Mr. HUgay. The light still burned In the hall, and the moonbeam* caught the nine teen somber wlndowa with a peculiar theatrical effect when Philip mounted the. steps to the front door. He could now decipher, In discreet letter* on a discreet copper plate on fhe door, le following legend: THE CORNER HOUSE. Residence and Board. Adrian Hllgay, Manager. The front door, ha perceived, waa not quite closed. 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He died and left me extremely wealthy,, and ae.I had the misfortune to disapprove" of bookmaking I wae obliged to do some thing to satisfy my conscience. Hence my scheme, sir.” “What scheme?" Mr. Hllgay controlled his astonish, ment at Philip's surpassing Ignorance, and then said: "Come Into my office and I’ll tell you all about It." And he drew Philip Into a tiny office to the left of the hall. It waa elec trically lighted, furnished with frail, green furniture and adorned with re productions of pictures by G. F. Watte. They eat down. aka some Cut Cavendish?" eug gested Hllgay, offering a pouch. "My scheme, sir, le philanthropic. It alma to do. for the distressed, respectable and well-connected what le done by Lord Rowton and others for the lower classes. 1 have no prejudice against the lower classes, but their habits are not ours. And It has always struck me that one of the worst hardships of a genteel person (excuse the word) down on his luck Is that he Is forced to adopt the habits and endure the society of his social Inferiors. Imagine the feel ings of a refined Individual, sir, whom 111 luck or unwisdom coi»N*ls to lodge, for example, In a Rowton liou«e! Im agine his natural disgust at the clothes, the manners, the accent—er—odors of those with whom he must associate. I provide a boarding houee (I will no call It a lodging house) for tho re epectable person who I* reduced to hi* last sixpence.” "That Is my case," Philip put In. Hllgay bowed, and continued with eagerness, 'It Is called the Corner Houee, because there Is a corner for everybody—of decent appearance and demeanor." "And who settles what le decent ap pearance and demeanor?" Philip aeked. "I do, sir. 1 alone. When I am not satisfied I say wo are full up." "You are always here, then?” "This house Is my hobby. 1 am at ways here. I sleep from 5 a. m. to noon; and from noon to 2 p. m. I take exercise. Between those hours new guests are not admitted. My difficul ty with the person whom you so kind ly threw out was caused by hi* refusal to believe my formnl statement that we were full up. Such a person would have been Impossible In the Corner House, where the standard of manners Is high. If the purse Is low. We eat off marble-topped tables, sir, but we do not eat peas with a knife, nml we allow ourselves Japanese serviettes, and we do not make noises, and we do not swear. The ladles leave the dining room first"— "There are ladles?" "Most decidedly. Why not? A die tressed gentlewoman, sir, is one of the"— "And you make It pay at sixpence a night?" asked Philip, filling the room- lot with fume* of <nt Cavendish. '•'It Just pay* current expenses. Space I* rigidly economised, but not ventila tion. The old room* are each divided Into two, or even three, cubicle*—but by sound-proof partitions. They are very cheaply furnished, but each dif ferently, and with art furniture, and I could not deprive myself of the pleas ure of putting Inexpensive copies of masterpieces on every wall In the house." He waved a hand. "In days when a reminder of Raphael’* ‘Aneld- ert Madonna’ can be bought for three- pence"— "Exactly," said Philip. "Now, can I have one of your sixpenny room*?" "It grieve* me to eay that we are full up,” replied Hllgay. "Ah!" said Philip, "I am not respect able enough! I guessed It! Yet 1 give you my word of honor that I do not eat peas with a knife.” "I beg you to believe," returned Hll gay seriously, "that we are really full The Corner Houee le » colossal success. However, one of our guests, Mrs."—he consulted a large book, open on the desk—"Mrs. Upottery. told me lost night that she should leave this morning. I will reserve her room for you. And In the meantime you will do me the favor of resting in the arm chair. I consider myself deeply. In your debt." He jumped up, deprecating Philip's expressions of gratitude. A clock struck five at the same moment, and a step was heard In the hall. "My sub-manager,” said Hllgay, opening the door. "I will give Instruc tions about you. Make yourself at home here. Good morning, and thunks again." The bookmaker's eon passed suave ly, with his rather melancholy smile, out of the little office. And Philip took the artistic green armchair, and slept under the electric light. He was awakened later by a prodig ious din outside In the street. The British, workman was commencing his deliberate labors In the trench, and making the world aware of the fact. Philip stretched himself, looked about, and found that the window wae open, and also that the pale lustre of a Lon- don dawn was competing with the elec tricity In the room. He rose, turned off the light, and went Into the hall. Two boy* were cleaning the floor. They had apparently received their or ders, for one of them touched a fore lock and directed him to a lavatory which was microscopic, like the man agerial office, but very complete In detail. From the lavatory he saunt ered to the street, where a chill and tonic wind was blowing eastward. The same simplicity of the early morning, tranqulllxlng the feverish pulses of the night hours and dispelling their wild thoughts, made him feel that, despite his misfortunes and his unenviable sit uation, It wok an excellent and goodly thing to be alive, with sound health and a cheerful mind. And then he approached the trench and looked over the ropes. The earth above the laid portion of the pipes had a peculiar appearance on the side near est to him. It seemed not to lie quiet ly; It seemed to be somewhat uneven; to have been disturbed and to have been replaced. The group of workmen were moving pipes at the other end of the trench, near Klngsway, their fig ure* vaguely mingled In the uncertain and feeble light. A milkman passed by, one arm weighted by a heavy can and the other stretched horizontally. Ae Philip stared Into the trench a regiment of strange suspicions, creat ed out of Innumerable half-remem bered circumstances of the night, took possession of his brain. A foreman ap proached him along the trench. Philip addressed him.', “You notice nothing remarkable about tho He of that earth, there?” he suggested diffidently, pointing. ,"I notice as It’s been badly filled," replied the foreman, who was munch ing a piece of bread. "1 told 'em about It yes'day arternoon. • But I don't know ns that's any concern o’ yours. You ain’t his majesty the chairman of the .county council, 1 presoom?" Phlilp broke Into hfs Imperturbable smile. "I was only thinking It had been dis turbed In the night," he said. "Not It!” said the foreiniln. "Going to have them do It again?" Philip asked. At that Instant hla face being In the direction of the street so that he com manded both the trench and the Cor ner House, he saw in the tall of his eye u blind lifted and let fall mo mentarily In one of the windows of Mr. Hilgay'a establishment for the respect able. "Not much," said the foreman. "This Is a contract Job. What do you think?" "I see,” said Phlilp laconically. The regiment of suspicions fled before the ganger’s matter-of-fact tone. He left the foreman and atrolled Into Klngsway, and then up toward Hol born. He had his next meal to find. But the foreman, visited In his turn by some disconcerting notion, contin ued to gaze at the accused earth. "Bill!" he shouted at length. An old man In the gang at the other end of the trench glanced up and the foreman summoned him with a Jerk of the head. “Look at that. Bill,” said the fore man. Bill scratched hts head. “Funny, ain't it?” murmured Bill. In a guttural voice that Indicated brandy. In another mtnute four laborers had received order* to remove the earth. In another live minutes there wae a high commotion. First a boot, then a leg. then the whole dead body of a man had been brought to view, laid flnt against tho sewer pipe. The group of laborers stood round It, awed by the pathetic dignity of death, waiting for a policeman. "That was luck, that was I" mur mured the foreman, holding In Ills hand tho half-eaten bread. "If I hadn't looked at It curloue-llke, he’d ha' Iain there till—goodness knows how Ions ho would ha' lain there.” Continued In Tomorrow's Georgian. TRY A WANT AD IN THE GEORGIAN Hotel Marlborough Broadway, 36th and 37th St*., Herald Square, New York Mo*t Centrally Located Hotel on Broadway. ( Only ten minutes walk to 25 leading theatres. Completely renovated and transformed in every department. Up-to-date in all re spects. Telephone in each room. Four Beautiful Dining Room# with Capacity of 1200. 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