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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1913.
The Half-God
BY ALBERT DOREIKGTON.
Author of
•‘THE RADIUM TERRORS,”
"CHILDREN OF THE CLOVEN
HOOF,” Eto.
The Jap doctor turned with a sup
pressed oath and jerked back the draw
er. It seemed for a moment as if the
heavy piece of furniture would be drag
ged over in his savage impatience to
view the Zeu. His sandalled feet
slipped on the old w which had dripped
from the opium lamp, causing his head
and shoulders to pitch into the cavern
like drawer. Some devil of malice
whipped the young sea captain into
lightning activity of thought and action.
Stiffening his body against the iron
camp bed, he shot out both heels against
the head and chin of the prostrate
doctor. •
It was a deep drawer, capable of
holding quantities of clothing and bed
linen. The head and neck of Hamme-
sho were in a trap, which depended on
the strength of Engleheart’s heels to
keep it shut. With both hands at
ltberty the Jap Sought to shake the
two stiff legs apart His body writhed
like a cobra’s, while the muscles of his
neck looped and twined in his fierce
struggle to gain his feet.
A corner of brick wall held the camp
bed solidly against Kngleheart’s back
pressure. In that moment the young
sea captain attributed his failure in
life to the squirming back and bullet
head imprisoned in the drawer. An
hour ago he would have fainted under
the strain imposed upon his limbs. Now
he merely remembered the ill-fated Man
hattan and her drowned passengers. It
was this wriggling torso, this gyrating
body which . had sent him upon that
infamous voyage undertaken in the in
terests of tho^e unspeakable ship-own
ers, Vardi, Gates & Co.
Hammersho’s back seemed to cave in
suddenly, the legs grew slack and, limp,
while the head lolled inside the draw
er. Engleheart waited a few seconds
and then slipped from the bed. Eadh
moment he expected O Shani Ma to
appear in the doorway. In this present
state he was no match for the muscu
lar little man. A conflict must be
avoided at all hazards.
With his brain reeling from the ef
fects of his desperate act, he swayed
drunkenly into the dark passage out
side. His bare feet made no sound as
he groped into the doctor’s room ad
joining. Under the pillow of the rough
bed his fingers closed on a big revolver
of the Browning pattern. There was
<l clip of cartridges attached ready for
instant use.
Returning to his own room he paused
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breathlessly over the Jap doctor’s su
pine figure and touched the swollen
face. He was still breathing sterto-
riously, but gave no sign of conscious
ness as Engleheart turned with a final
backward glance from the room.
That the house was under police sur
veillance the captain was pretty cer
tain. Any noise or sound of firearms
would bring the officers of the law
with a rush into the passage below.
He descended the narrow stairs as
one caressing each moment of his life.
O Shani Ma was seated at the table,
his bqll neck and head silhouetted
against the white-shaded oil lamp.
Something in Engleheart’s approaching
footsteps swung him round in the
chair, a sullen curiosity in his eyes..
He looked unmoved at the uplift-., arm
and the slanting pistol.
"I won't worry y-u, O Shani”—
foot—“unless you start piling yourself
on top of me.”
“What you want?” O Shani asaed
stonily. He was like a pocket tiger in
deep meditation.
Eugleheart breathed not too easily;
he had never quit© gauged the Japan
ese spirit and powers of restraint. Also
he was oppressed by the thought of
having to make a noise. His opium-
shattered nerves were in no condition
to control the deadliest of modern
weapons.
“I want to pass peacefully from this
house, O Shani Ma. I can't waste time
scuffling and sparring for garrote holds
with you. Are you ready to sit down
and see me go out?”
O Shani faced the slanting pistol
with a grin of 'gcorn, yet he was aware
that the bullet would get him long be
fore his strangling arms could reach
the stooping shouldered white man on
the stairs.
“Don't forget the police outside,”
Engleheart cautioned. “There’s enough
evidence in this house t° hang us
both!”
The Jap took breath like a swimmer
in distress. “Where is Dr. Hammer-
sh'o?” lie asked. “He has a long time
been upstairs.”
“Had a fit or something. Too much
blood in the head. You know how
hasty he is! Now you’d better let me
pass, O Shani. I’m full up of your
blackguard society!”
Captain Engleheart moved past the
Jap’s bunched up figure, his eye noting
^ach inflection of breath, each stir of
the shut hand on the table. Ten back
ward steps took him into the garden,
the pistol covering O Shani as he step
ped from the house.
Outside the night was pitch dark.
Masses of rain cloud blew in from the
southwest, obscuring the few stars
overhead. Engleheart crouched low
among the bushes as he crept to the
low fence at the garden end.
The palings proved rotten and gave
way to his first wrench, allowing him to
crawl through to the blackness beyond.
* le saw the shadow of
O Sham Ma silhouetted on the chintz
blind. Now ... if the police had
been keeping a sharp lookout they
might have noted the little scene en
acted in the kitchen a few moments
•before, h e argued. He listened before
advancing a step, expecting to be chal
lenged the moment he attempted to
make away. Afar off he discerned the
dull furnace glow of. the kilns, heard
the hoot, hoot of a motor as it flashed
round a bend in the distant road.
Half crawling and stumbling at times
into clay holes and ditches he reached
a sloping bank that separated the
common from the high* road. His limbs
ached now from the effects of his un
accustomed exertions. Yet he dared
not pause to rest even for a brief in
terval. Some drops of rain fell on
his upturned face.
Clambering down the bank, he
gained the road and turned in the di
rection of Chiltonhurst. In his to
bacco pouch was Caleret’s priceless
grain of Zeu. With discretion and
some finesse it could be disposed of
for a large sum. At present he was
without a single coin. Doctor Ham-
mersho had hitherto supplied his wants.
But now ... he must find Bernice
at once. Fifty pounds would keep him
for three months. Bernice would help
him he felt sure.
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CHAPTER IX.
Bernice arrived home to find that
Fabian had left unaccountably early
for town. Then she remembered hia
appointment with Rockwarne. Occu
pied with her own cares her thoughts
had deflected Momentarily from the
grim shadow which overhung his life.
He had gone to the city to receive
sentence of death perhaps. She dared
not think of his return, for what con
solations could be offered if the greatest
of living surgeons pronounced his case
hopeless?
Fabian was Vjery much in love, with
life. In his homo at Chiltonhurst he
had gathered many of the richest Eu
ropean art treasures around him, had
created for himself an earthly Paradise
among even the wealthiest of his class.
Of real happiness she had known little
until Fabian had come into her life.
It was his presence which had turned
horror to joy, despair to forgetfulness.
Now his life was threatened by an ail
ment the nature of which she knew lit
tle, save that its presence had always
been synonymous with suffering and
death.
Jeah Caleret was one of many scien
tists who had labored to produce a
remedy. For ten years he had sought
to wrest from certain elements that
undefined curative agent whose pres
ence was believed, £y modern scientists,
to exist in polonium, helium and the
sister elements to radium. At the mo
ment of success she had been the in
strument of Caleret’s destruction. She
had led into his house a man capable
of the most dastardly crimes. Her
whole future was now in the keeping of
that one man, and she cou»a not resist
nor cry out against his criminal ac
tivities.
She passed the day alone in the
grounds. The flower-scented lawn of
fered some respite from the Incessant
millwheels of thought. But each mo
tor sound from the distant road awoke
her to a sense of the ordeal to come.
It was 4 o’clock when Fabian re
turned. She was in the library when
he entered the house. His valet passed
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the open door with scarcely a glance in
her vicinity. A feeling of instant ter
ror seized her. An ominous stillness
fell upon the house. The servants*
went about with no more sound than
phantoms.
In the doorway she met Fabian. He
was pale and out of breath after his
slow ascent of the terrace steps. She
took his hand and they walked together
Into the library.
“Rockwarme has not been too kind,
dear,” she ventured with a desperate
effort to check her rising tears. “What
did he say?” \
Fabian essayed a laugh, then dropped
into a chair, his hand searching rather
wildly for his cigarette case.
“Doesn’t hold out a scrap of hope.
The devil of carcinoma gess to work
pretty suddenly after the sixth week!”
“Did he tell you so much, dear?”
“I begged him to be frank, Berny.
What’s the use trying to evade the
inevitable? It’s one of these calamities
a man can’t buy vut of.” He bent for
ward in the chair suddenly pressing his
right hand over his chest. ‘‘Get’s one
by the heart and brain until,” he
paused wiping the moisture from his
brow, “until everything swims In black
ness and you’re half suffocated!”
She sat beside hi mher cool cheek
pressed to his lest the sight of her
pain might weary him. Recovering
himself slightly he sat back with one
of her hands held close to his heart.
“You are going to be a good little
wife, Berny. There’s no earthly reason
for you to sink into a hopeless frame
of mind because something is prevent
ing me from drifting into a senile old
age. Are you listening?”
“Yes, dear, but we must not take
Rochwarne too seriously. Ten per cent
of his predictions are always unful
filled.”
“Ten per cent is a small loophole,
Berny, when you’re one of the doomed
ninety. Of course, I didn't go to Roch
warne with any hope whatever. He
only verified what I felt to be the
truth.”
The effort of speech wearied him.
He seemed content to lie still in the
wide chair With Bernice’s face drawn
near his own. A great soundless void
leaped between them out of which
came the faint throbbings of the far-
off city. Until tonight ease and lux
ury had been theirs. Fabian had in
herited a huge fortune to lavish upon
this sweet-voiced woman who had
given him love and comradeship in re
turn.
To Bernice it seemed incredible that
Fabian should be standing at the grave
edge. She had seen men, in Roch-
warne’s institute, suffering acute agonies
and constant relapses, yet the great spe
cialist invariably held out hope of their
ultimate recovery. Here was Fabian,
his mind bright and responsible, able to
enter and leave his car without as
sistance—and yet withal these favor
able rhanifestations he* must succumb
and pass away!
He stirred uneasily as though about
to rise. “Funny how things happen,”
his voice was keyed to a whisper.
“You know I helped Caleret to produce
that superrradium in the hope that it
would prove a blessing to humanity.
Today Rochewarne reiterated frankly
that in the stolen radium lay my one
chance of life. With it he could have
operated with a big chance of suc
cess!”
In the sharp silence that followed his
whispered statement there came to her
the slow unctuous voice of the Japanese
miscreant she had taken into the pro
fessor’s house. She dared not /speak
now. Her confession would be too
tragic, too lamentable and foolish.
“The man who stole Caleret’s grain
of super-radium,” Fabian went on weari
ly, “cut my life line, dear. I do not
know who he may be—some medical
charlatan, probably—but . t . if he
would come to me and bargain, if he
would only come—”
His head sank to her shoulder and
she counted the heavy pauses in his
breathing as a mother watching the final
efforts of a loved one before the end.
She knew that the verdict of Doctor
Rochwarne had unnerved him. and she
waited without speaking until the fit of
blind inertia had passed.
Her mind reeled over the events of the
past few days, beginning with the theft
of the Zeu-bulb and ending with Cal
eret’s assassination. She knew instinc
tively that the Japanese doctor had some
how blundered in his desperate attempt
to transmit- the priceless grain of super
radium from the French professor’s lab
oratory. Something had miscarried, she
knew not what, and the murder and rob
bery had ended in blank and pitiful fail
ure. Hammersho could not help them
even though she placed Fabian’s last dol
lar at his feet.
Bernice’s maid entered the library an
nouncing in a whisper that dinner was
ready. A single look sent lier from the
apartment wondering at Fabian and her
mistress’s preoccupied manner. Once or
twice during the long evening visitors ar
rived, but Bernice shook her head at the
pensive browed ,footmaq who brought in
the cards.
A glass of wine brought color to Fa
bian’s cheeks. He rose from the chair
and expressed a desire to leave her for
a little while. She knew instinctively,
that his solicitor would be sent for and
that the rest of the night would be spent
in arranging his multitudinous affairs.
They parted in the hall. Bernice, her
mind running on the second tragedy
which had entered her life, passed in
stinctively to {he sweeter air of the outer
conservatories where the electric instal
lation had permitted the spending of
many an hour among Fabian’s beautiful
collection of awers and plants.
A stretch of lawn separated the nearest
conservatory from the house. The cool
night air touched her cheek as she cross
ed the grassy space. Heavy rain clouds
were massing overhead; a fe*w splashes
fell heavily on the glass roof. Far down
the avenue she heard the first‘sound of
the wind among the elms, and again the
loud patter on the glass roof above.
She paused with her hand on the elec-
tic switch undecidedly. Sootsteps, slow
and irregular, sounded in the avenue.
She listened and wondered. It was not
usual for the servants to come in by the
main entrance and her visitors never ar
rived on foot at that hour. The rain be
gan to pelt the glass roofs now. Instinct
ively she drew inside the doorway and
waited.
A man came slowly into view, halted
quite close, and began a calm survey or
the thirteenth century house and back
ground. His outline conveyed an impress
sion of slovenly attire—the sagging coat
, and knee-bagged trousers, the cheap
cloth cap pressed down about his ears*.
It was six years since she had parted
|with Maurice Engleheart at Nagasaki.
jNow . . . the sky seemed to spin earth
ward at sight of him. . . . The man
who had been drowned in that For
mosan typhoon, buried beneath oceans
of brine and forgotten! She had seen
him in his opium stupor at Hammer
sho’s only a little while before. But
. . . now he had r.wakened, had come to
seek her out.
She looked again until her eyes grew
sick and sight failed her. There was
not sense in hiding from him. Dr. Ham
mersho had sent him, no doubt. She
must face It out.
Stepping from the conservatory she
called once, twice. Engleheart looked
around quickly and advanced, rolling a
cigarette as he walked; he was think
ing hard.
There were signs of mud and sand
on his clothes where he had crawled
from the Japanese doctor’s house. A
week’s growth of beard completed his
tramp-like appearance.
(Continued In next Issue.)
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Thursday Night's Fiddling
“Wound It Up” With Flour
ish - Prizes Are Given
There may be heartburns about the
way those prizes were awhrded, and
there may be folks disposed to take
issue with the judges' at the Old Fid
dlers’ convention—-but the clouds were
fiddled away Friday morning as though
nobody had been disappointed and every
body had won firsf prize. For the fid
dlers had scattered to their native
heaths by then, and fiddlers are not the
hind whom troubles pesters.
The big contest, which began *at the
auditorium Tuesday night and contin
ued Wednesday night, ended Thursday
night with the distribution of prizes.
Fiddlers from far and near, from town
and backwoods, had gathered there to
test their, merit in rendition of the old-
time tunes on the old-time fiddles. Bet
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big in spite of the weather, was quite
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vention, which is never pretentious.
Thursday afternoon the fiddlers or
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dlers’ association, which hereafter will
hold, a convention each year. Timsey
Warren, of Rockdale, was elected pres
ident; A. V. Poole, of Oxford, vice
president; P A. Ludwig, Marietta, sec
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Block, Lawrenceville; R. M. Simonton,
Logansville; E. S. Cown, Hogansville;
John M. Carlton, Cartersville. The
committe on constitution and by-laws
was constituted as follows: J. T.
Holland, Madison; T. J. Low, Lithonia;
C. C. Moon, Logansville; M. Y. Robin
son, Dunwoody, and H. J. Weaver, At
lanta.
THE PRIZE WINNERS.
Following were the prize winners,
as announced by Judge “Dick” Russell,
of the state court of appeals. His fel
low judges were Judge “Andy” Cal
houn, of the city court of Atlanta, and
Timsey Warren, of Rockdale.
First Prize—J. B. Singley, Logans
ville, $20.
Second Prize—John Block, Lawrence
ville, $17.
Third Prize—P. A. Ludwig, Marietta,
$15.
Fourth Prize—John Carson, Blue
Ridge, $12.
Fifth Prize—J. M. Mathews, East
Point, $10.
Sixth Prize—R. H. Young, Jersey, $8.
Seventh Prize—C. C. Moon, i^ogans-
ville, $7.
Eight’.! Prize—Mark Singley, Logans
ville, $5.
Ninth Prize—Wiley P. Harper, Mon
roe, $3.
Tenth Prize—John M. Carlton, Car-
tersviilc, $2.
M. M. Ware, of Atlanta (but country-
reared), received a prize that wasn’t
on the list A handsonje big bouquet
of carnations apd roses was handed up
to him from the audience, with the
card of some lady who apreciated his
fiddling, Mr. Ware was not entered in
the contest, but played in Tuesday’s
and Wednesday’s programs, acompany-
ing himself with a mouth harp.
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Following was the program that was
rendered Thursday night:
Overture, by M. Y. Robinson, son and
daughter.
A. V. Poole, of Oxford, polka, accom
panied by the Singley children.
Wiley (Shorty) Harper, Monroe. “Fish
er’s, Hornpipe.”
R. M. Stanley, Dacula, “Bile Them
Cabbage Down.”
C. L. Hutchens, Suwanee, “Kilicran-
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M. Y. Robinson, Dunwoody, “Pretty
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P. A. Ludwig, Marietta, “Nigger in the
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R. H. Young, Jersey, “Billy in the Low
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J. B. Singley, Logansville, “Leathter
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John M. Carlton, Cartersville, “Nigger
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C. C. Moon, Logansville, “Rye Straw.”
Master Mack Singley, Logansville,
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J. R. Simonton, Logansville, “Shanghai
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W. B. Childs, Yatesville, “Mississippi
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John Bloch, Lawrenceville, “Forked
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more thoroughly distribute the control
of committees and legislation.
The date of the Democratic house
caucus to pass upon the details of the
tariff revision bill had not been deter
mined upon early today. General legis
lative subjects that may come before
the special session are being held back
by party leaders of the two houses and
by President Wilsoh, in the hope that
no other subjects will draw attention
from tariff revision during the early
days of the session.
Hundreds of minor appropriations are
expected to reach the senate Monday
when that body convenes. President
Wilson has announced only a few recess
appointments, but it was understood
that scores of routing appointments had
been determined upon and would be sent
to the senate early in the week.
FRANCE ALLOWS GERMAN
AIRSHIP TO SAIL HOME
LUNEVILLE, France. April 7.—The
German air cruiser Zeppelin IV was re-
inflated and departed for Germany at 3
o’clock this afternoon.
The landing of the airship on the
parade grounds here in the midst of
a brigade of French riflemen yester
day was satisfactorily explained to a
French board of inquiry today. The air-
sihp and her crew wer e afterward re
leased on payment of $2,000 as customs
duty and the incident was declared
closed. The crew of the dirigible had
been kept virtually prisoners through
out the night.
“Fiddlin’,” John Carson, Blue Ridge,
“Cacklin’ Hen.”
E. S. Cown, Hogansville, “Nancy
Roilin.”
J. M. Mathews, East Point, ’“Ladles*
Fancy.”
J. O. Rudson, Atlanta, “Johnson's
Steamboat.”
J. H. Strickland, tlanta, “June Ap
ple.”
Special features:
James Dodd, College Park, recitation,
“Nebuchadnezzar.”
Tom Carwine, Alkahest lyceum. imita
tions.
A. Y. Poole presided.
SCANDAL INVOLVING WESTERNER
MAY BE AIRED IN U. S. SENATE
After U. S, District Attorney
, Wilson Dropped Charges
Against Senator involving
Moral Conduct, Charges Are
Made to Senate Clerk
(By RALPH SMITH.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5.—Al
though United States District Attorney
W T ilson has found “no justification for
laying any complaint against any Uni
ted States Senator before the grand
jury,” it is reported tonight that friends
of the “woman in the case,” ate de
termined to expose the whole alleged
scandal of the affair.
Copies of the charges against “the
well known western” have been filed
wim Vice-President Marshall, and un
less he lays them before the senate
on Monday it is understood that a sen
ator will rise in his place, and read the
statement to the open senate.
The nature of the charges and thd
prominence of the parties concerned,
more e&«-ecially the senator, have fur
nished to Washington the spicest mor
sel of gossip in many a day.
The woman, who is the wife of a
prominent constituent of a senator in
question, charges that the statesman
offered certain indignities to her, when
she sought his aid in behalf of her
husband, who is an applicant for a
federal office.
The senator claims that he is the
victom of a blackmailing scheme, and
that the charges were manufactured
out of the whole cloth.
District Attorney Wilson, of this city,
investigated the chargee at length,
heard from the woman herself and one
or two witnesses. After his inquiry and
a conference with Attorney General Mc-
Reynolds, he issued a statement today |
declining to proceed further.
In the meantime, friends of the
woman presented copies of the charges |
to the vice-president.
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