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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
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" ■Why,' I says, 'they tell me you waa
dying, Sarah,' I eay*.
"Then tt waa a falee alarm?"
"A falee alarm It waa! Some one
trying to make a fool of me! Spite!
There's often spite against a watch
man. Then I comes back, and I find*
my breakfaat eat up and my tea drunk
and my fire Jlggertng well nearly out.
You can move on, matey; that's what
you can do. There'a no bob for you In
m phmp k w'a* silenced. He picked up
from the cabin his little black bag.
"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
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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
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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.
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not quite closed. He pushed It open,
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Never!
see I’m—"
‘‘Not heard of Hllgay, the bookmaker,
my dear sir! But be was a very great
bookmaker indeed. I regret to have
to eay It, elrice be wae my father.
However, he wae Btrlctly honorable.
He used to eay he had loot a hundred
thoueand pounds In bad debti to the
houee of lorda alone. He died and
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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.
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