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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA.
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1913.
The Half-God
BY ALBERT DORRHTGTOW.
Author of
“THE RADIUM TERRORS,"
"CHILDREN OF THE CLOVEN
HOOF,” Eto.
- (Continuation of Chapter XIX.)
"Slip Into the taxicab standing: direct
ly behind my Darracq. Blaymore has
engaged it for you. The driver knows
where to go.”
"And you?" she almost gasped.
"I will meet you later with Imry. Hur-
iry, dear! I fancy that Scotland Yard
car is coming into the street!”
Bernice tripped down the stairs, look
ing neither to right nor left, as she
: passed the little crowd of fashionable
loiterers in the entrance. Walking to
the taxi, drawing up behind Fabian's
Darracq, she took her seat.
The driver moved the car forward in
a half cirfcle to avoid a low-seated auto
which swept toward the hotel entrance.
! Eight second later the taxi was running
leisurely in the direction of the city.
Fabian remained at the stairhead until
the detective appeared within the hotel
entrance. Descending, he came face to
face with the almost breathless officer
of the law.
"You are looking for me?" Fabian
questioned, his mouth twitching slightly.
The detective Angered his chin while
his glance wandered up the long flight'
of stairs.
*'I regret to say that a warrant has
been issued for Mrs. Kromer’s arrest.
Under the circumstances it is my duty
to put it into force.”
He moved toward the stairs, halted a
moment, and looked up curiously into
Fabian's smiling face. “It would be
better, Mr. Kromer, if you accompanied
me into her room. I shall be glad to
get the matter over with as little fuss as
possible."
Fabian lit a cigarette. “I think you
have come too late,” hfe said slowly.
“Mrs. Kromer has left the hotel!”
CHAPTER XX.
Fabian had expected an outburst of
anger from Detective Garson. Instead
the man from Scotland Yard appeared
calm an dexceedingly Referential. It
may have been part of his business to
assume a certain nonchalance at the
unexpected disappearance of Bernice.
Yet Fabian was too much a man of the
world to be deceived by the polite sub
terfuges of a mere police officer.
Garson lingered on the stairs as
though unwilling to leave the hotel. A
casual survey of the man inspired Fabi
an with an idea that something more
than Bernice’s disappearance was amiss.
Under ordinary circumstances a detec
tive would have rushed into Bernice’s
apartments, would have searched the
hotel, probably, to satisfy himself that
she had really gone.
Yet Garson, with a search warrant in
his pocket, took Fabian’s word for grant
ed. Moreover, he appeared secretly glad
to be relieved of a very disagreeable
duty; and the more Fabian considered
him, the greater his own bewilderment
became. He turned toward the stair
head to Join Imry.
*‘I repeat: that you are at liberty to
Search my wife’s apartments in this
hotel. Afterwards, I trust we may go
our separate ways!”
The detective inclined his head.
“Thank you, sir; I take your- word
that Mrs. Kromer has left this estab
lishment. At present, I would regard it
as a favor to remain here with you until
my chief arrives.”
“Your chief!”'
"Sir Edward Cressleigh. He followed
close on my car. Wait . . . one
moment, Mr. Kromer-”
Garson slipped from the stairs to the
lounge entrance at the moment a small
runabout car shot up to the hotel front.
A stiff, gray-haired man in light brown
dust coat and gloves alighted and, after
a hurried conference with Garson, en
tered the hotel.
Fabian, more puzzled than interested,
awaited them with some reserve and
caution. Garson turned with a glance
in the American’s direction.
“This is Sir Edward Cressleigh, Mr.
Kromer,’ he volunteered in an under
breath, for the arrival of the chief su
perintendent of police had caused a
slight stir among the hotel porters and
attendants.
Sir Edward bowed politely. "It would
come as a favor, Mr. Kromer, if you
would grant me a few moments of
your valuable time.”
Fabian agreed smilingly and led the
way to Bernice’s rooms. Garson re
mained below. Once inside the private
sitting room Sir Edward relaxed some
thing of his official stiffness and as
sumed, with almost startling sudden-
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"I have almost to apologize, Mr.
Kromer, for the issuance <Jf that war
rant. But after you have heard my rea
sons you will agree that my action was
well advised.”
This was a strange confession from
the chief of the C. I. D., Fabian thought.
He made no direct response, feeling in
stinctively that silence was an invul
nerable shield. Sir Edward appeared too
preoccupied with his mission to note the
other’s reticence of speech.
"I have been interested from the very
beginning,” he resumed, "in the series,
of events which culminated in the death
of Maurice Engleheart. The depart
ment's worries began with the assassi
nation of Prof. Caleret,. and the theft of
that wonderful chemical discovery—
Zeu. You will agree with me, Mr. Kro
mer,” he added with a shrewd glance at
the American, "that it was a marvelous
discovery even for a scientist of Caler-
et’s standing?”
"I have every reason to be grateful
to the dead savant,” Fabian vouchsafed.
Sir Edward Cressleigh coughed as
though a nervous irritation had seized
his throat. Then, after a breath-giving
pause, he resumed.
"The department is in communication
with Dr. Rochwarne. He has been in
terrogated in regard to the wonderful
element of Zeu, which we understand,
was used in the operation upon yourself,
Mr. Kromer.”
Fabian, still doubting the nature of
Sir Edward’s confidence, nodded as
sent. For th« life of him he could not
divine the reason of so unexpetced a
proceeding. Something more than the
mere death of Maurice Engleheart lay
beneath the old chief’s mission to the
Hotel Mont Dore, he felt certain.
Without waiting an Invitation Sir
Edward had seated himself comfortably
near the window overlooking the street,
and had proffered his cigar case ,to the
American.
"Let us be at our leisure, Mr. Kro
mer. To be frank with you,” he went
on with an unaccustomed smile, "one
does not enjoy hunting a lady across
this world on a murder charge!”
"You have preferred such a charge
against my wife!” Fabian retorted, ig
noring the chief’s proffered cigar.
"Not in the face of the new evidence
submitted, Mr. Kromer. If we were
disposed to take a serious view of the
case I fear Mrs. Kromer would have
a difficult task to prove her innocence!”
“Innocence of what, Sir Edward?”
"Of complicity in the Caleret murder,
in the theft of the Zeu from the profes
sor’s laboratory, in the edath of Stef
an Scholfer!” The chief of police tick
ed off each crime with a forefinger, his
square-cut face half concealed in cigar
smoke. "We have pieced together
enough legal evidence to incriminate
Mrs. Kromer,” he went on. "At the
same time we feel that she has been
unwittingly drawn into the confidence
of a Japanese doctor named Hiogi Ham-
mersho.”
“Why don’t you arrest him? I can
supply you with the rascal’s address!”
Fabian exclaimed, It angered him to
think that the police temporized with the
real assassin of Professor Calvert while
Bernice was being hunted from place
to place.
Sir Edward Cressleigh considered for
a space before replying, and it was evi
dent to Fabian that he was forcing an
awkward query upon the chief of police.
"There have been, up to the present,
Mr. Kromer, many cogent reasons why
Hammersho’s aprehension was not ef
fected.” Sir Edward replied at last.
"Insufficient legal evidence in the first
place, and secondly a desire on my part
to watch the effects of the Zeu on the
operation performed on you by Dr. Roch
warne.”
"Why?” Fabian stared in open amaze
ment at the slow speaking chief.
"Because upon your case depended a
situation of extreme delicacy, Mr. Kro
mer. From the moment it was known
that Dr. Rochwarne had accomplished
your cure wq became aware that Cal-
eret’s Zeu had been used in the opera
tion. Rochwarne admits the fact. Now,”
Sir Edward leaned back in his chair,
his cigar held up to the level of his
eyes, "we are forced to make a confiden
tial statement. The super-radium is
either in your wife’s possession or in
Hammersho’s. Will you give your word
that it is not in Mrs. Kromer’s keep
ing?”
"Absolutely! It was handed to Ham-
mersho the day Rochwarne left my
house!”
Sir Edward’s jaw hung slightly at the
announcement. His vivacity of manner
was superseded by a bleak silence in
which Fabian had leisure to speculate
upon the chief’s next move in regard to
the wily little Japanese adventurer.
Then his thoughts wandered back to the
ciwrious policy pursued by the police in
preventing Bernice leaving England.
And his thoughts shaped themselves In
words before Sir Edward had recovered
his self-possession.
“Why did your officers hot arrest my
wife, Sir Edward, when they found her
on board the Havelock, yesterday? And
why was Detective Garson so anxious
to apprehend her this morning? Does
it not appear to you, sir, that the law is
being trifled with?”
Sir Edward looked up and his eyes
appeared to stare vacantly at Fabian’s
swaying figure in the chair.
"You—you have asked me a great
question, Mr. Kromer, one that is best
answered when I say we are fighting
for the medical world to save the
superradium intact.” He paused with
brows close knit, his fingers on Fa
bian’s arm. "Another factor "has ap
pealed to our sympathies, Mr. Kromer,
the life of, shall I say, a certain well-
beloved prince!”
Fabian sat very still. Imagination
flared her torch in his brain, and the
reflected fire in his eyes was Sir Ed
ward’s answer. For weeks past the
world had known that a prince of the
royal household was seriously ill. The
dread malaise which had fastened upon
Fabian was slowly preying on his life
energy.
The prince’s illness, synchronizing as
it did with Fabian’s case, had In
vested the Rochwarne-Kromer opera
tion with an interest unprecedented in
medical history. It had seized the pub
lic imagination. If, by the aid of a
certain radio-active substance called
Zeu, a Swiss specialist could operate
successfully, in the case of an Ameri
can millionaire, how came it, they
asked, that a son of. a king was per
mitted to die?
Only within the last few hours had
the royal physicians deemed it expedi
ent to communicate with the great
Swiss surgeon. Rochwarne had replied
that the Zeu, upon which the success
of Rochwarne’s cure depended, had
passed from his keeping, and that with
out its aid any attempt to operate on
the royal patient would end in failure
and disappointment.
Fabian’s sympathies were easily
awakened. The sons of plebeans or
i kings were equal in the scales of life
| and death. Yet, American in sentiment
1 and principle, he was swayed by the
! domestic tragedy which threatened the
| royal household, and he could easily
understand the old police veteran’s pe
culiar position.
The C. I. D. had been invested with
almost new powers. Their business,
for once, had not been first to catch
and punish certain criminals, but rath
er to recover, at all hazards, the price
less grain of Zeu which held a prom
ise of life to suffering thousands.
Fabian regarded the bent head of the
old chief with new found interest. It
occurred to him that Sir Edward had
played with his own reputation and
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SEIZED BY CANADIANS
VANCOUVER, B. C., May'15.—Seized
for poaching in Canadian waters the
American halibut schooner Valiant, Cap
tain John Courage, of Seattle, was
towed Into Vancouver harbor last night
by the government patrol boat, William
Jolliffe. Captain Newcombe, of the pa
trol, says he sighted the American ves
sel lying a little over a mile inside the
three mile limit.
He immediately gave chase and after
a run covering six miles the Valiant
heaved to Captain Courage and his four
seamen were brought to Vancouver. He
is alleged to have denied that he had
fish on board, but when the holds w-cre
torn open live halibut were found. The
vessel now is lying in English bay
awaiting proceedings for confiscation.
The Valiant is an eighteen-ton gaso
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Twine company. The Valiant is the
fourth American fishing- vessel seized
for poaching by Canadian fishing pa
trols in recent years.
principles in the hope of recovering the
Zeu and the formula of its manufac
ture intact.
“Why don’t you seize Hammersho?”
he almost pleaded. "The thing looks
easy.”
Sir Edward straightened his bent
shoulders like a steer under the lash.
"Dr. Hammersho cannot move out of
London without my knowledge, Mr.
Kromer. His house is practically sur
rounded by plain clothes police. The
one thing that remains is to rush the
place.”
“Why not at once?”
The gray white face looked up at
Fabian slowly, the grim lines relaxing
about his tight shut mouth. “Your
wife overcame Hammersho with one
of those patent chemical pistols. Our
chances of entering the house unchal
lenged are not so good. The Jap doc
tor and his friend are armed with
Browning revolvers. You know what
happened a few years ago. Mr. Kromer,
when some of our fellows attempted to
rush a criminal den in the East End.
We were shot down without attaining
our object. Besides, the public are ner
vous of such militant methods. And
I don’t want to mess things by caus
ing these fatalistic Japs to suicide!”
"You think he might destroy the
Zeu?”
"He would do it in sheer hatred of
us and our people. We have held back
In the hope that it was still in Mrs.
Kromer’s possession.”
"Is it worth while appealing to Ham
mersho? He might come to terms.”
“We cannot make terms with sup
posed murderers, Mr. Kromer.”
"Then permit me t to interview Ham
mersho! If he’s after the dollars J’ll
make him an offer for the Zeu. Every
Jap has his price!”
Sir Edward turned quickly in his
chair. “Your proposition is quite Amer
ican, Mr. Kromer. Of course,” he went
on with a slight flush, "we should not
throw obstacles in your way if you care
to visit Hammersho. I must warn yuo,
however, that we take no responsibility
in the matter.’
Fabian looked at his watch hurriedly.
"I will see Hammersho at midday and
make him an offer for the Zeu. If we
come to terms th super-radium will be
handed to you this after. Before go
ing,” he met the old chief’s .inquiring
stare with a smile, "I must explain to
a certain Hindu lady in this hotel the
reason I borrowed her shawl.”
"To shelter Mrs. Kromer from obser
vation, eh?” Sir Edward rose and put his
hand cordially. "Godd-bye, Mr. Kromer,
for the present. If you can strike a
bargain with the Jap you will earn the
nation’s gratitude.”
"And you, Sir Edward, will hang
Hammersho when the Zeu is In your
keeping?”
Sir Edward’s manner became suddenly
non-commital. "We have yet to prove
our theories, Mr. Kromer. In any case
he may rely on getting justice. Good-
joined Bernice at the appointed meeting
place. The nut brown complexion stain
merely accentuated the Titian-like
charm of her features, he told her Imry
had been sent to Holmwood to await
their return. And, in the few hurried
moments which he had allowed himself
to be with her, he spoke jubilantly of
the days to come.
But beyond his gay prophecies lurked
the shadow of impending tragedy. He
refrained from any suggestion of his in
tended visit to the Japanese doctor. It
was with difficulty he persuaded her to
return to Holmwood without him. The
complexion stain must be removed be
fore she could show herself to the serv
ants..
It was decided finally that a visit to a
certain New Bond street complexion spe
cialist would solve the difficulty without
delay. And so between laughter and
scarcely repressed tears, Bernice drove
bye, and don’t worry about Mrs. Kro
mer,” he added 1n a whisper. "If we
handle Hammersho with diplomacy the
truth will out at last!”
CHAPTER XXI.
It was near midday when Fabian
to New Bond street, while Fabian pre
pared for his meeting with Hiogi Ham
mersho. As the car picked its way
through the dense traffic his eye caught
by the newspaper headings which an
nounced the critical condition of an
English prince.
More than once during the journey he
asked himself why he was acting as an
agent on behalf of the police. Was it
to prevail upon the Jap doctor to sur
render the precious grain of Zeu so that
Scotland Yard might allow Bernice to
drop out of further inquiries? Fabian
did not relish that aspect of the case; |
he preferred to view it from another
point. Hammersho had *in his keeping
the most dazzling curative agent known
to science.
Its destruction by accident or design
would prove an irreparable tragedy. No
one could predict what Dr. Hammersho
would do if provoked or molested by
the police. At any moment, he might,
in a spirit of frenzy or malice, destroy
the tiny platinum tube containg the
Zeu, and with it the formula of its man
ufacturer. ,
By its aid Rochwarne had plucked him
from the shadow of death. Its very pres
ence In an operating theater invested
the surgeon with invincible powers. It
could give back to life men and women
already condemned. •
The newspaper headings made clear
to Fabian that the passing of the young
prince was merely a question of days.
He sat back in his seat his mind in a
strange ferment. It was not for Ber
nice, nor an alien prince, the present
task had been undertaken. All his life
he had held to the doctrine of philan
thropic enterprise when the sick and
perishing called.
Only once in anger had he turned from
Bernice; but the provocation had been
greater than he could bear. A question
of her faith and honesty had suddenly
confronted him. and his quick wrath and
mortification had caused a temporary
breach, that was all. It would never
hapen again.
The day was insufferably warm. A
few white clouds dotted the windless
blue above. The stir and din of Lon
don left behind, the car entered the long
dusty road which led to Hammersho’s
house. A smell from the near fields
came in refreshing breaths after the hot,
stifling streets of the city. Blaymore
had not forgotten the weed haunted gar
den, the few unwatered plants and
shrubs which lent an air of desultude to
the Jap’s house.
(Continued in Next Issue.)
SWEPT BY FLIES;
Early Morning Fire Damages
Main Sleeping Quarters to
Extent of $3,000 Before
Firemen Arrive-None Injured
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MACON, Ga., May 15.—Fire that is
supposed to have originated from a de
fective wire damaged the main dormi
tory of Mercer university to the extent
of about $3,000 this morning at 2:30
o’clock before the fire department could
reach the building.
Shouts of fire from the students sleep
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200 students in a tumult as they hasten
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and hurl them from the windows to the
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SLAYER OF BROOKS LANE
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Sheriff Overpowered and Ne
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Quiet Tuesday
HOGANSVILLE, Ga., May 15.—Sam
Owensby, the negro who yesterday
afternoon killed Brooks Lane, promi
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from the jail here late last night,
swung to a tree and his body riddled
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The crowd overpowered the sheriff
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Brooks Lane, who was killed by the
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SENATOR MAY TAKE HAND
IN CASE OF J. F, HOUSTON
PANAMA, May 15,—A cablegram was
received here yesterday requesting
postponement of the trial of J. Frank
Houston, of Kentucky, a Panama canal
worker who shot and killed his friend,
Harry Stern, of Hot Springs, at Gatun,
on February 8, because of jealousy aris
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was convicted on May i and sentenced
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POLICE SEARCH FOR
MISSING MESSENGER
(By Associated Press.)
PITTSBURG, Pa., May 15.—Harry
Thomas McLaughin, aged twenty-four,
a former express messenger, who is
charged with having absconded with
between $10,000 and $12,000 in gold and
silver certicate currency, is being
sought by local police and a detective
agency. He is said to have receipted
for several packages of money at Belle-
vernon and Charleroi, Pa., on last Tues
day. When he reached this city he
made his usual report and it is al
leged disappeared. The banks to which
the money was consigned have not yet
been able to check up the entire amount
and the exact shortage can not be ac
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MAN WHO HAD LEFT
LUNG REMOVED, DIES
ST. JOHN, N. B., May 15.—Joseph
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heart partially exposed.
The beats of the heart could be seen
plainly through the thin tissues which
covered that organ and many physi
cian# took advantage of the opportunity
to study its action.
Mr. Carey recovered his usual health
after the operation and had worked
daily for the past four years.
SANTA BARBARA VOTES
TO OUST LIQUOR TRADE
(By Associated Press.)
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Santa Barbara practically went ‘dry”
in yesterday's election. Saloons were
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WASHINGTON, May 15.—A federal
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the attorney general; William S. Gregg,
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COX URGES' CONTROL
OF OHIO FLOOD WATERS
Governor of Ohio Calls on
President* Wilson to Enlist
His Support
WASHINGTON, May 15.—Governor
oCx, of Ohio, told President Wilson to
day h e thought It high time that con
gress appropriated for the development
of the inland waterways and that the
recent floods compelled preventative
measures at once. He suggested res
ervoirs at the head waters of the Mis
sissippi valley system which could be
used also to regulate the guage as well
as for water power development.
"I found the president very sympa
thetic,” said oGvernor Cox, “to the* idea
of flood prevention, especially at> the
head waters. He is fully alive to the
situation and has in mind a tangible
proposition to be worked out by army
engineers covering the Mississippi valley
system and we are very hopeful of ac
complishing something soon.”
FALLING SPIRE KILLS
POLICE AND FIRE CHIEF
• (By Associated Press.) .
STRATFORD, Ont., May 15.—The tall
sgire of the Knox Presbyterian church, I
towering 160 feet above the street, was
struck by lightning early today and in i
the ensuing fire three men were killed
and another mortally injured.
The three men who lost their lives
were buried'beneath the burning bel
fry when it toppled and fell; the fire
man was laid out with a blow on the
head from a flying timber.
The dead:
J. A. M’CARTHY, chief of police.
HUGH DURKIN, Are chief.
MATTHEW HAMILTON, policeman.
The injured man is Sidney Van
Stone.
The steeple, visible over a great ra
dius, burned without hindrance as the j
puny stream of water, far below, fell
many, feet short. Showers of blazing
embers fired the roof of the church,
and McCarthy, Durkin .and Hamilton,
dragging hose, had scrambled up a lad-1
der to the roof when the belfry fell.
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