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■ w October, 24, 1924. ’, I f 1 , | mm jCSTl II *1 ■ a Mzm W^m Wl •• ■ M. ■** ■ M I rU I )by X* fc.r ni hillips Uppenheim a . * luu/lration/ ... . .. by ,J.- I. j ’ I ' is wmriycijr, Q I Si 3| V I * Copyright bp Littl«.Bt-own.. and pleasant characteristics. Andrew Wilmore, slight and dark, with sal low’ cheeks and brown eyes, looked very much what he was—u moder ately successful Journalist and writer of stories, a keen golfer, a bachelor who preferred a pipe to cigars, and lived at Richmond be cause he could not find a fiat In London which he could afford, large enough for his somewhat ex pansive habits. Francis Ledsarn was of a sturdier type, with fea tures perhaps better known to the world owing to the constant activ ities of the cartoonist. His repu tation during the last few years had carried him, notwithstanding his comparative youth-—lie was only thirty-five years of age—into the Very front ranks of his profession, and his income was one of which men spoke .with bated ' breath. He came from a family of landed pro prietors, whose younger sons for generations had drifted always either to the bar or the law, anil his name was well known in the purlieus of Lincoln’s Inn before he himself had made it famous. He was a persistent refuser of Invitations, and his acquaintance? in the fash ionable world were comparatively few. Yet every now’ and then he felt a mild Interest in the people whom his companion assiduously pointed out to him. Francis finally broke in on An drew’s chatter. “I know you’re dy ing to talk aboift the Hilditeh case, aren’t you? Well, go ahead.” “I’m only interested in this last development,” Wilmore confessed. 4 c Of course I read the newspaper reports. To tell you the truth, for a murder trial It seemed to me to rather lack color.’’ “It was a very simple and straightforward case,” Francis said slowly. “Oliver Hilditeh is the principal partner in an American financial company which has re centlyopened offices in the West End. He seems to have arrived in England about two years ago, to have taken a house in Hill street, and to have spent a great deal of money. A month or so ago. his part ner from New York arrived in Lon don, a man named Jordan of whom nothing was known. It has since transpired, however, that his Jour ney to Europe was undertaken be cause he was unable to obtaih cer tain figures relating to the business from Hilditeh. Oliver Hilditeh met him at Southampton, traveled with him to London and found him a room at the Savoy. The next day the whole of the time seems to have been spent in the office, and It Is certain, -from the evidence of the clerk, that some disagreement took place between the two men. They dined together, however, apparently on good terms, at the Cafe Royal, and parted in Regent street soon after ten. At tw’elve o’clock .Tor dan’s body was picked up on the pavement In Hill street, within a few paces of Hildltch’s door. He had been stabbed through the heart with some needle-like weapon, and Was there any vital cause of quarrel between them ?” Wilmore inquired. “Impossible to say,” Francis re plied. “The. financial position of the company depends entirely upon the value of a large quantity of speculative bonds, but as there was only one clerk employed, it was im possible to get at any figures. Hil ditch declared that Jordan had only , | a small share in the business, from which he had drawn a considerable | Income for years, and that he had not the slightest cause for com plaint. ■ What were Hil ditch’s movements that evening?” Wilmore asked. ; “Not a soul seems to have seen him after he left Regent street," was the somewhat puzzled answer. “His own story was quite straight forward and has never been contra dicted. He let himself into the house with a latchkey after his re turn from the Cafe Royal, drank a whisky and soda in the library, and went to bed before half-past eleven. The whole affair— ,, Francis broke off abruptly in the middle of his sentence. He sat with his eyes fixed upon the door, silent and speechless. “What in Heaven's name is the matter, old fellow?” Wilmore de- manded, gazing at his companion in blank amazement. • The latter pulled himself togeth er with an effort. The sight of the two new arrivals talking to Louis, the head waiter, on the threshold of the restaurant, seemed for the moment to have drawn every scrap of color from hi§ cheeks. Nev ertheless, ills recovery was almost instantaneous. “if you want to know any more,” he said calmly, “you had better go and ask him to tell you the whole story himself. There lie is." “And tl»e woman with him?” Wil more exclaimed, under ids breath. 11 His wife!” To reach their table, the one con cerning which Francis and ids friend had been speculating, the new arrivals, piloted by Louis, had. to pass within a few feet of the two men. The woman, serene, coldly beautiful, dressed like biuck, a Frenchwoman in unrelieved with extraordinary attention to de tails, passed them by with a care less glance and subsided Into the chair which Louis was holding. Her companion, however, as he recog nized Francis, hesitated. His ex pression of somewhat austere gloom was lightened. A pleasant but tentative smile parted his lips. H« ventured upon a salutation, half a nod, half a more formal bow, a ■alutation which Francla lnstlnc tlrclj r eturned . Andrew Wilmore “Mr. Ledsarn," Hitdlteh Mid. with qulot dignity, “I that you will forgive the lib take In speaking to yon here. looked for you the moment I was free this afternoon, but found you ha( j | e j t the cour { | owe my good name, probably my S't y ok S^ r thlags ’ but “You owe me nothing at all," Francis replied, In a tone which even he found harsh. “I had a brief before me and a cause to plead. It was a chapter out of my daily work.’’ “That work can be welt done or 111," the other reminded gently, “In your case my presence here proves how well it was done. I wish to present you to my wife, who shares m.v gratitude.” Francis bowed to the woman, who now, at her husband’s words, raised her eyes. For the first time he saw her smile. It seemed to him that the effort made her less beautiful. u Your pleading was very won derful, Mr. Ledsarn,” she said, a very subtle note of mockery faint ly apparent In her tone, We poor mortals find it difficult to under stand that with you all that show of passionate earnestness is mere ly—what did you call It—a chap ter in yonr day’s work? It is a f. reu t s ! ft t0 be able , to . argue from . the . brain and plead though from as the heart.” We will not detain Mr. Led snro,” Oliver Hilditeh interpose*!, a little hastily. “He perhaps does not care to be addressed in public by a client,who still carries with him the atm osphere of the prison. My wife and I wondered, Mr. Led sam, whether you would be good enough to dine with us one night. I think I could interest you more about my case than you know at present, and it would give us a further opportunity, and a more seemly one, for expressing our grat itude.” Francis had recovered himself by this time. He knew very well that the idea of that dinner would be horrible to him. He also knew that lie would willingly cancel every engagement he had rather than, miss it. ■ You are very kind,” he mur mured. “Are we fortunate enough to find you disengaged?” Hilditeh suggest ed, “tomorrow’ evening?”. ■ “I am quite free,” was the ready response. “That suits you, Margaret?” HI1 ditch asked, turning courteously to his wife. “Tomorrow evening will suit me as well as any other,” she acqui esced after a brief pause. “At eight o’clock, then—number 10 b, Hill street,” Hilditeh con cluded. Francis bowed and turned away with a murmured word of polite as sent. Outside, he found Wilmore deep in the discussion of the tner its of various old brandies with an interested maltre d’horeL Any choice. Francis?” his host inquired. “None whatever,” wag the prompt reply, “and, for God's sake, give me a double one quickly!” The two men were on the point of departure when Oliver Hilditeh and his wife left the restaurant. As though conscious that they had become the subject of discussion* as indeed was the case, thanks to the busy whispering of the various waiters, they passed without lin (To be continued) looked on with curiosity. “So that is Oliver Hilditehr he murmured. "That is the man,” Francis ob served, “of whom last evening half the people in this restaurant were probably asking themselves wheth er or not he was guilty of mur der. Tonight they will be wonder ing what he is going to order for dinner. It is a strange world. <( Strange, indeed," WiInjure as sented. .t This afternoon he was In the dock, with his fate in the balance—condemned ceil or a fn vored table at Claridge's. And your meeting! One can Imagine him gripping your hands, with tears in his eyes, Ids voice broken with emotion, sobbing out his thanks. And instead you exchange polite bows. 1 would not have missed this situation for anything!” "Tradesman!” Francis scoffed. “One can guess already at the plot of your next novel.” "He has courage,” Wilmore de clared. “He has also a very beau tiful companion. Were you seri ous, Francis, when you told ine that was his wife? *» She herself was my informant," was the quiet reply. Wilmore was puzzled. “But she passed you jnst now without even a glance of recogni tion, and I thought you told me at the club this afternoon that all your knowledge of his evil ways came from her. Besides, she looks at least twenty years younger than he does.” “I can only tell you what I know,” said Ledsarn, as he set down his empty glass. “The wom an who is with him now Is the j woman who spoke to me outside the Old Bailey this afternoon. We went to a tea-shop together. | j >* JT5 k MW | p | iU 7 | & i “I Have Never Listened to So Hor rible a Recital in My Life." She told me the story of his career. I have never listened to so horri ble a recital in my life.” And yet they are here together, dining tete-a-tete, on a night when it must have needed more than ordinary ,, . courage for , either . of , them , !®.! Wilmore lave l)ee pointed ® s<> ® n 111 P u ^ c at a H> out. it “It is as astounding to me as is to you," Francis confessed. “From the way she spoke, I should never hare dreamed that they were living together.” 4< And from his appearance,” Wil more remarked, as he called the waiter to bring some cigarettes. “I should never have imagined that he was anything else save a high principled, well-born, straightfor ward sort of chap. I never saw a less criminal type of face. • They each in turn glanced at the subject of their discussion. Oliver Hllditch’s good looks had been the subject of many press comments during the last few days. They were certainly unde niable. His face was a little lined, but bis hair-was thick and brown. His features were regular, his forehead high and thoughtful, his mouth a trifle thin, but straight and shapely. Francis gazed at him' like a man entranced. The hours seemed to have slipped away. -He was back in the tea-shop, listen ing to the woman who spoke of ter rible things. He felt again his shivering abhorrence of her cold, clearly narrated story. Again he shrank from the horrors from which with merciless fingers she hod stripped the coverings. He seemed to see once more the agony of her white face, to hear the eter nal pain aching and throbbing in her monotonous tone. He rose sud denly to ids feet, “Andrew,” lie begged, “tell the fellow to bring the bill outside. We’ll have our coffee and liqueurs there." Wilmore acquiesced willingly enough, but even as they turned toward the door Francis realized what was in store for him. Oliver Hilditeh had risen to his feet. With a courteous little gesture he intercepted the passerby, Francis found himself standing side by side with the man for whose life he had pleaded that afternoon, within a few feet of the woman whose terrible story seemed to have poi soned the very atmosphere he breathed, to have shown him a new horror In life, to have tempo rarily, at any rate, undermin«4 every loy and ambition be po|- ; ; iY NEWS ......... — ... _ Washington, Oct. 24__Joseph P. Tumulty, former secretary of President Wilson, has demanded an apology from Governor Walk er, of Georgia, for the governor’s charge that Tumulty sought by U the chicanery of politics” and it through a sympathetic presi dent” to “place in every national war camp a Catholic church and drive out the churches of every other denomination. i Disinclined to Disavow. “Governor Walker seems to be disinclined to disavow, either pri vately or publicly, his false charge against my honesty and integrity as a public official," Tu multy said in a statement here Thursday, in which he said, “I i :el that in justice to myself and try church that Governor Walker Wes me a public apology. >> Tumulty submitted letters from the late President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson and from Senator John Sharp Williams as “concrete evidence that my religious pre dilections were entirely disasso ciated from my relations with President Wilson. tf Atlantian Upbraids Walker ’Atlanta, Oct. 24.—Adding his voice to that of other government officials who directed the desti nies of the United States under the leadership of President Wood row Wilson during the world war, Marion M. Jackson, of Atlanta, Thursday gave out a statement to the press in which he bitterly upbraids Governor Clifford Walk er for his charge made in a speech before the Ku Klux I klonvocation at Kansas City the Catholic church was favoritism in the war ments at the expenses of Protestant' churches. ARMY IS GETTING EXCLUSIVE; NOW HAS WAITING LIST New York, Oct. 24.—“Join the army and see the world, and a The army wants men,” slogans ^ or years past, liave given away to “Try to get into the army, tt The service now has something novel—a waiting lijgt—Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard stated. No longer does the recruiting sergeant search the highways and byways in hopes of filling uni forms. He has no uniforms to fin. The almost total absence of illiteracy in applicants, in Gen. Bullard’s opinion is the most promising development in many year’s experience with recruit ing. ! J. C. TARPLEY DIES AT HAMPTON HOME Hampton, Oct. 24. C. C. Tarp ley, 57, one of the oldest ar.d most prominent merchants of Hampton died yesterday after an illness of about 10 days. He is survived by his widow and five daughters, Mrs. G. F. Bosche, of Atlanta; Mrs. C. E. Maddox, of Luella; Mrs. Henry Gentry, of Jackson, Tenn.; Mrs. Wilson Pullian, of McDonough, and Miss Frances Tarpley, of Hampton. Funeral services were held from the residence Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Inter ment was at Berea cemetery at Hampton. The lowest sum earned by any one member of a famous co-op erative dance orchestra of New York last season was $16,000. Lobster catch of this country is one third of that of 30 years ago, according to recent government reports. FLIERS MAY BE NEXT TO CIRCLE THE WORLE v.;- wMm ' ■ X 3 ■ 3 ■ i Argentine army aviators may be second fliers to circumnavigate the globe. They have, succeeded in reaching China, and Evaristo Velo (above) is on his way to Japan to pilot them across the fir to the U. 5. FORMER MILLEDGEVILLE POSTMASTER GETS TWO YEARS IN PENITENTIARY Macon, Oct. 24.—Two years in the penitentiary was the sentence imposed upon Olin Robinson, for mer postmaster at Milledgeville, Ga., when he pleaded guilty be fore Judge William H. Bar ctt. in United States district court yesterday, of embezzling posta’ ffinds. Robinson wqs accused of dtaw ing personal checks on his pos tal account in Milledgeville. When a postoffice inspector checked his office, his shortage was more than $1,000, about half of which he made good while the inspector was there. 4. Citizens of Australia who do not vote at federal elections must pay a $10 fine for their negli gence. ECZEMA Money back without question if HUNT’S GUARANTEED SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES (Hunt’s 8«lve and Soap),fall In the treatment of Itch, Bceema, J Rinf worm,Tetter or otherltch Ins akin diseaaes. Try this treatment at our rl.’q. WARD’S DRUG STORE THIS PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE SAYS HE WONT BE WINNER ft ■ - ir m ■ , : : mxsm V 1 3. is t v: 5 : ';3 r n / n One presidential nominee ad salts that he hasn’t a chance to win. He is Frank T. Johns of Oregon, candidate of the Social* ist-Labor party. However, he is seeking to enlist as large a vote i as possible under his party’s ban ner. A FEW MORE Just a few moFe who have sub scribed for The News Lately: J. E. Young, Locust Grove, Route 1; S. A. Chasteen, Locust Grove, Route 1; T. E. Mathews, Zebulon, Route 2; W. C. Polk, Jackson, Route 6; O. W. Sims, Locust Grove, Route 1; Miss Nellie Da vis, Route D; J. B. Hutson, Route D; Julius Clark, Route D; J. H. Connally, Route D; W. P. Bar field, Route D; D. F. Hamlin, Route D. RED PEPPER HEAT STOPS BACKACHE The heat of red peppers takes the “ouch” from a sore, lame back. It can not hurt you, and it certainly ends the torture at once. 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