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Monday, December 17, 1923 MB Jill eiL^M i a J *ppl NtA INC. I«» ,V p£S?ta» dyl^^llS^L B»£S Sir Charles was poisoned. Paul goes to oall on Nlool Brlnn. millionaire club man. Brlnn receives bis caller cordially but refutes to tell him the meaning of Fire- Tongue. Brlnn laughs when Barley warns him that he stands la Peril Os his life and) assures Paul that he welcomes a diversion. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY *You are out after one of the big heads of the crhok world," he said.. “He knows it and he's trailing yon. My luck’s turned. How tan I help?” Harley stood up, facing Mr. Brlnn. “He knows It, as you say," he rS pUedT “and I hold my life in my hands. But from your answer to the question which I have come here to night to ask you, I shall conclude Whether or not your danger at the moment is greater than mine." “Good." said Nlcol Brlnn. “Myst question Is simple but Strange," paid Paul Harley. "It is . this: What do you know of ‘Fire- Tongue’r* CHAPTER V “The Qates of Hell” r> Paul Harley had counted upon “Fire-Tongue” to have a dra matic effect upon Nicol Brlnn, be Was not disappointed. “Flro-Tongue!” he said, tensely, following a short silence. “For 'God’s sake, when did you hear that word?” “I heard it,” replied Harley, slow ly, “tonight.” He fixed his gaze in tently upon the sallow face of the American. •“It was spoken by Sir Charles Abingdon.” “Sir Charles Abingdon,” echoed Brlnn; “and in what way is it con nected with your case?” “In this way,” answered Harley. “It was spoken by Sir Charles a few moments before he died.” Nlcol Brinn’s drooping lids flick trad rapidly. "Before he diedl Then Sir Charles Abingdon is dead! When did ho die?" “He died tonight and the last words that he uttered were ‘Fire- Tongue’—” He paused, never tor a moment removing that fixed gaze from the other’s face. "Go on," prompted Mr. Brlnn. “And 'Nieol Brlnn’.” Nicol Brlnn stood still as a carven man. Indeed, only by an added rig. Idlty In his pose did he reward Paul Barley’s intense scrutiny. A silence sxv»^sk”v*sß' Isy,” he said, “you told me that you Were up against the big proposition* Os yoqr career. -You are right.” With that he sat down In an arm chair and, resting his chin in his hand, gaaed fixedly into the empty grate. “Give me the whole story,” said Mr. Brlnn, "right om the begin ning." He oked up. "Do you know What you have done tonight,* Mr. Harley?” Baal Harley shook his hend. Bwlftly, ce the touch of an icy finger, that warning note of danger had reached him again. “IH teU you,” continued P.rlhn. j jH “You have opened the gates of h«!l!“ I Not another word did he vp-nii ■ While Paul Harley, pacing elowh m ■ and dMnt before the hearth o v» j H him a plain account of the case 1 El omitting all reference to his r-- > •=• nn T; H suspicions and to the mt-seu ■ >-.» M Which he had taken to confirm ttw m j H “You think be WHS muvde.s ~}••’ 9 said Brian in his high, ion, Wj - toloft I ■ “I have formed so* detinue opm ■ lon. What la your own?” ■ ‘T may not look it," replied Brlnn. ■ *%ut at this present moment 1 am IMMMgZgMnBMMMM irr-w ■■ w-i i I'Hiri 'M'tf'” K >■*!*■ »Sbi i 'fl'Hiß i i wjmrm g VISIT the scientific palmist I MADAME ALLEN * WjMMKffi trouble, this wonderful palmist can positively change your jj I ij- Jim eonditiou. many who were on the brink of uncertainty, to- i day arc resting easily 1 in the lap of luxury by acting on jj her PHI 111 to THOSE UNHAPPY AND DISCONTENTED—If ? you ore separated from the one won love or in trouble from apy cause jj consult her NOW. Would you like to marry quickly? Have you any jj trouble over any affair in life? Do you want more success? Ifso you need her advice, she not only telts Kj J>ou of your troubles but how to overcome them. No question asked, |j she will teH you all. There is no home so dreary and sad,' no life so wicked or blighted, no heart so sad and lonely, no condition of dream- j| stance so complicated or incomprehensible that eau’t be set, right and E kept right after a viuit to her, common sense says go and partake of |{ these advantages and in after years you will He spared the saddest of p| words “It might have beeu.” Private -room for colored people. id Office Hours: 10 a. m. to fl.-Bfi ». a. I 22 West “Quality Store” Give U 9 your order for Fresh Cpuntry Bitter and Bggs and Farm Vegetables. , ‘ a ; ' H • Orchard Produce Company I Phone I3p. Suoffittw ta flofir . lOV ♦pWPMIIiV 7 MWV * • llPfpilp 7 !' JsMWw . . ■ : : ‘ sliding before fieflr*)Bac« staring “Ons day last month,” bt ffl sumed, "I got out of my car m * big hurry at tht top qf th* Hay market. ’ A fool «b ei motorcycle passed between the car qnd the aide walk just as I stepped down, and I knew nothing further until I woke up in a drug store close by, feeling very dased and with my coat in tat ters and my left arm numbed from the elbow- A man was standing Watching me, and presently when I Mid Hulled round be gave me his oard. ' „ “He was Sir Charles Abingdon, who had been passing at the time of the .accident. Tbit was how I met him, and aa there Vras nothing serf, ously wrong with me I saw him no more professionally. But he' dined with me a week Inter and I had lunch at his club about a fortnight ago.” He looked up at'Harley. “On my solemn word of .honor," he said, BRINN OPENED HIS HEART TO THE PLAYERS’ CLUB. “that's all I know about Sir Charles Abingdon.” • "Then I can only suppose," re sumed Harley, deliberately, "that the cause of your fear lie*’ln the tend, ’Fire-Tongue’.?” Brlnn again rested hit} chin in bis band, staring fixedly Into the grate. “Mr. Harley," be began, abruptly, "you have been perfectly frank with ’ iik audio return I wish to-be as frank with you as I can be. I am . face to face with a thing that hgs haunted me Mr savin - years, and eijgry step I taka ffojp npur onward has to be considered carefully, for any step might be my lahL And that’s not the worst of the matter. I will risk one of those steps' here and now. You ask me to explain the significance of Fire-Tongue” (there wits a perceptible pause before be pronounced the word, Which Harley duly noticed). “I am going to tail .vou that Sir Charles Abingdon, When 1 lunched with him at his club, asked me precisely the same thing.” "What! He asked you that so long us two weeks ago?” “He did.” “And what reason did he give for j his mu.-.ri ? ' I Nlcol Brum began to tap the fen ijd,f »km'n-with his foot. lie referred 'to an experience j 'vnich had befallen him in India,” jvuicw Nicol Brian's belated reply. I In India? May I ask you to re i Count sihat experience?*' “Sir Harley," replied Brlnn, sud denly standing up, ”1 can't,*’. "Vou can’t?” “I have said so. But J'd give a| :?!!?H!—(M mi i 1 1 * lot more than you might believe to know that Abingdon bad told you the story which he told ms.” “You are not helping, Mr. Brlnn,” •aid Harley, sternly. ”1 believe and I' thfnk that you share my belief that Sly Charles’ Abingdon did not dts from natural causes. You are repressing valuable evidence. Allow my to remind you that if anything come to light necessitating I a post-mortem examination of ths body, yfou will be forced to divulge in a court of justice the fact# which you refuse to divulge to ms.” " knew Ikv” saMNfrinn, shortly. Hs shot out one king arm and grasped Harley’s shoulder as in a Vice. "-Pm counted a wealthy man,” he continued, “but I'd give every Mat' I possess to see •paid’ put to ths biil of a certain person. Listen. Yqu don’t think I woe In any wey concerned in the death Os Sir Charles Abingdon? It isn’t think able. But yotl do think I’m In pos session of facts which would help you find out who is. You’re right.” “Good God!” cried Harley. ’Yet you remain silent!” "Not so loud—not so loudP Im plored Brlnn, repeating that odd, al most furtive glance around. “Mr. Harley—you know me. You’ve heard of me and now you’ve met me- You know my place In the world. Do you believe me when 1 say that from this moment onward ! don’t trust my own gprvanU;? Npt ray own friends?!’ Be removed his grip from Harlsy’S shoulder. “Inanimate things look Hke enemies. That mummy over yonder may have' ears!” “I’m afraid X dost altogether un derstand jrou.” "Se* tarsd" Nicol Brlnn crossed to a bureau, unlocked It, and while Harley watched him curiously, sought amcmg a number of press cuttings. Presently he found the cutting for . which he was looking, “This was • soldi" he explained, handing the slip to Harley, “at the Players’ Club in New Yolrk, after a big dinner in pre- * dry day*. It was said In confidence. But some disguised reporter had got In and it came Out in print next morning. Road it,” p Paul Harley accepted the cutting and read the following: ’ - NICOL BRINN’S SECRET AMBI TIONS Millionaire Sportsman Who Wants to Shoot Niagara! Mr. Nicol Brinn of Cincinnati, who is at present in New York, opened his heart to members of the Players’ I Club last night. Our prominent oltl- ,j zen, responding to a toast, “The B Distinguished Visitor,” said: “I’d like to live through months g of midnight frozen in among the g polar Ice; I’d like to cross Africa from east to west und get lost In the middife. I'd like to have a Mon tana sheriff’s posse oo my heels for horse stealing, and I’ve prayed to he wrecked on a desert island like Robinson Crusoe to see If I am man enough to live it out I want to stand my trial for murder and de fend my own case, and I whnt to ba found by the eunuchs m tire' bhrem • ,f pf the Shah. I want to dive for as and scale the Matterhorn. I to know where the tunnel I leads to—the tunnel down under the Great Pyramid of Glzeh—and rd love to shoot Niagara Falls, in a | barrel.’’ “It sounds characteristic,” mur mured Harley, laying the slip on the coffee table. ”It’s true!" declared Brinn. “I said > it and I meant It. I'm a glutton for danger, Mr. Harley, and I’m going to tell you Why. Something hap pened to me seven years ago—” “Hi India?” / . o “in India. Correct. Something happened to me, sir, which Just took the sunshine out of Ufa At the time I didn't know ail it meant I’ve learned since. Fcr seven years I have been flirting with death and hoping to fall!” Harley stared el him uncompre hendingly. “More the a evert fail to understand.” . Nicol Brinn dropp*# his chin into his hand and'rseum«k-Jk*t unseeing I stare into ths bpeit pne • Pml Har lley watched him -uKy-iflf j (Continued la 0« Next Issue) ■lllMi—BilHlllllllllllllilfflliiiiiiiiuiiLea«im[nmaimiminiHiininum i, T Presidential Hot Biscuits Her Specialty ''' *" ijBM Mrs. George W. Nichols, president of. the Highlajid Park Woman’s Oub oL Columbia, Tennessee, is fa mous . for her * hot beaten biscuits. fete ■ : J- • •<.* ‘ ' .t/A- *•>/ ; THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE Letters to Santa Clans *- ] Codcord, N. C., Dec. 15. 1928* I Dear Banta Claua: I am a little boy 3 years, 11 months | old. Please bring me a stopped- gun and other toys; candy, apples, oranges and j nuts of all kinds. Pleaw* remember my little crippled brother, Worth, who wants H anything you can bring him. ! ' y Your little friend, J EUGENE McCALI,. j Concord, N. C„ Dec. 14, 1923. i Dear Banta Ouus: I am a little girl seveen years old, ar.d j I want a doll, a trunk, and cradle for ! Christmas. i Your little girl, j MELLIE SHORT. j Dear Old Santa Claus: Don’t forget me. Bring me a cow-boy J suit number 8, pistol, pair of gloves, | watch that runs like daddy’s, 12 boxes of J pistol caps and oranges, apples and nuts. I Please don’t forget little brother Bill. J He will send you his letter later. Hop- j iiig you will be feeling-line Christmas ] night and remember all tlio little girls i and boys and don’t forget daddy and mama. J MUNDIE EUGENE WOODY. I 126 8. Spring St. • My Dear Santa Claus: I am two years old but large enough | to have lots of toys, so please don't for- ! get me when you make your ..round. I 1 ij’ould like to have a telephone to talk < to m.v daddy while lie is working, a wheelbarrow -to roll sand with, a horn, a ; pair of bed room slippers as ujy feet get Cold these cold mornings before I can get my shoes on and don't forget, to bring lots of oranges, candy and nuts, good bye. WILLIAM LEWIS WOODY. 126 South Spring Street. Coneord, N. C., Dec. 13, 1923. Dear Santa Claus: I am just a little girl nine years old. I want yon to add m.v name to your list. I Wunt you to bring me a baby doll and a tea set, some oranges, apples, candy of alj kinds and some nuts, and rai dim. Your little frie id. Louise horton. ' Concord, N. 0., Dec. 15. 1023. Dear Sauta Claus: I am a little baby boy just six months o'.d. I want Santa Claus to come to see me. I want a white elephant and "a baby rattler ami some oranges, apples, candy, nuts of all kinds. MILTON RAY HORTON. Glass. N. C„ Dps. la, 1923. Dear Strata Clads: I am a little boy just three years old. I want Santa Claus to come, to see me and bring a tricycle and a book and a i little automobile and a little chair, some leranges, apples, some candy and rais ins and nuts of all kinds. Your little friend. WALTER WILKINSON, Jlt. Concord, N. C., Route 3, Box 108. Dec. li>, 1923. Dear Old Sauta: I am a little boy nearly years old. Please briug me a train, a gun, and lots qf good things tp est. . f hope you 1 are Well and please don't got -eickr Loin of love. From, > FRANK EDDLEMAN, JR. Concord, N, C., Route 3. Box 108. Dec. 15, 1923. Dear Sauta Slaus: Please bring me a doll-earriage. I have plenty of dolls, and I want to ride them in a carriage. Please bring me some apples, oraqges, naisdns,,.puts and candy. Your little friend. • FAITH EDDLEMAN. P. S.-r-Please Santa, I have a little broth er named Alton. Please bring him a red wagon, and some good things to eat too. F. E. Almost every day for nearly a hun dred years the famous Morro Velho gold mine, in Brazil, has yielded a for tune in gold and its allied products, while more wonderful still is the fact that, instead of giving out- the lode shows signs of becoming, if anything, rlched than ever. Watching a blind pianist in Paris 1 distinguish the keys of her instrument by her remarkable sense of touch, so stimulated the inventive genius of Vul eutine Hauy that in 1754 he produced tlic first book ever printed with relief letters for the. use of the blind. flour work four fall ounces of crjgco, three level tSaspoons of sugar ana one and - one-half teaspoons of silt Mix this into a stiff dough with one cup qf water. 1 Work Veil with the : hands, then ' roll through dough. . Brca)t until smooth and tyhite. KjpU | about one third of an inch thick, wit, , and Bierce with fork and bake in ai i nipd<jjratel|i hqt ovendor | makes hmwjits one sad i I Every Man Every Man and Boy JB| and Boy I And If They Are | I They’re pr\p Usefal | I From £mV and | 1 HOOVERS HIM Practical 1 Handkerchiefs | will launder well. They come lu P' l striped or squared initials or 1 £ r.„ t . p-. _ T fIUT At Christmas times, most men •m v 1 & ■" _£ are purposely neglectful of their a£[ fct 'Robes, House Coats, such ntTeded art' t 0 rece ' ve ffi a collection we nev- Pajamas often heads such lists ll silks and blanket robes in We have them P in Mad- 1 Men’s and Beys’ Clotting | I s S JJ<* Clocked, f « Corduroy Suits ““V" l« S 2 'ill Corduroy Trousers wools in all shades \ > 'JS JSS l iM and patterns. ‘ • / 5k f IL Boys — New Jewelry as K c *., Cuff Buttons GIVE HIM A HAT 5 xk 1,6 bu ts Tie Pms > «& Overcoats Belt Buckles x HOOVER’S, inc. 5 - THE YOUNG MAN’S STQBE K CAPITOL BRIEFS In the early days of the State of North Carolina the Legislature met in least a dozen places, according tp Col. Fred A. Olds, of the State Historical Cowmtewion. This was due to-the fact that no definite site for a state eapitol had been selected. In the lat ter part of the eighteenth century, New Hern was selected by legislative enact ment as the capital and buildings were erected in that city. tatter the capital was changed to Raleigh where it Ms been since. XV. X. Everett. Secretary of State, was absent from Raleigh during the lat ter part of this week, being in New York where he delivered an address at the mid-winter dinner of the New York branch of the University of North Car olina Alumni Association. Mr. Everett Rockingham for the Christmas holi days. Stock Exchange Lingo. "At the outset a firm tone was In evidence." Perhaps you think the writer was reviewing a violin recital. He was not. He was reviewing the day's activities on the New York stock exchange.—Kansas City Star. Ufa’s Constant Changes. In human life there is a constant change of fortune; and If Is unteapon able to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life Itself decays, and *H things are daUy efca*gia*.-%*la tarch. Bees and poultry are kept in many British school* by the teacher and put ®tt* «» kufcjaets of y;’., *'■"’ } 1 <• V . .. . - PAGE SEVEN No Cause Vo Worry. A society "to iwevcnt the Wide from being scoffed at hj colleges" hns been started. The Bible has been ucoGed at for about i,OOO yenrs, both In and out of colleges, and still remains the International “best seller.'’ M’liy wor ry*—Minneapolis journal. ' Lizard Walk* on Hind Lags. A curiosity of Queensland Is the frilled lizard,, which does not orawl, as all other lizards do, but ’walks about on ttt f kind legs, Wtl wfcen standing perfectly erect la oftwi more ' than a yard high. 4, fffiqxtsuip?'
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