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PAGE TWO If MOUTHPIECE l»v|r»J COPYRIGHT—RELEASED BY WAHL Sy o EDGAR WALLACE yuly central PRESS associatiom y and ROBERT CC//ST/S READ THIS FIRST-. Charles Stuckey, of • London law firm, reluctantly has agreed to a scheme to defraud the daughter of one of his few respectable clients, Jacque line Smith, of an inheritance of $1,500.- 000 from an American uncle. In keep ing with the plan, Col. Alex Lutman —who has a hold "over Stuckey—Jim Asson, an ex-convict, and the lawyer are stopping at the same hotel in Co benzil with Mrs. Smith and her daugh ter. In dire financial straits, Mrs. Smith has persuaded Jacqueline to marry Asson. posing as a wealthy Eng lishman, uhsuspectedly falling in with the plan of the three men to have Asson cultivate the girl, have all of her property assigned to him before their marriage, then splitting up the inheritance before she learns of it. Lutman, as Jim's '‘trustee”, has hur ried Jacqueline's decision by revealing a check he cashed for her mother re turned marked “insufficient funds”. After meeting Jacqueline, Stuckey is more reluctant than ever to go through with the scheme and stalls by telling them all the property deed must be signed in London. Back in London Charles leaves Lutman in his office while he goes after Jim Asson. Mrs. Smith and Jacqueline arrive at Stuckey’s office to sign the deed. Jac queline insists on a conference alone with Charles before signing the deed. Jacqueline signs the deed but later Charles tells Lutman she signed in the wrong place and that he will have to prepare another, perhaps delaying the wedding. Finding Charles opposing the marriage. Lutman suggests that Charles himself marry her instead of Jim, but he refuses. Meanwhile Elsie Harringay, Stuckey’s stenographer, proposes a private chat with Jacqueline. The typist declares Jim Asson is her man and that she will not let Jacque line marry him, telling her he has just finished a prison sentence. Her head in a whirl, Jacqueline goes home. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY: CHAPTER 24 | JACQUELINE scribbled a note as soon as she reached home. She was going out, it said, and might 'be home late, and her mother was jnot to wait up for her. She smiled 'as she propped the note against a Vase on the mantelpiece. That, at any rate, would reduce the odds .against her in the coming conflict. *She could tackle her.mother to- S‘ ight when she would not have im and Colonel Lutman to sup port her. 1 Jacqueline spent the afternoon at a movie, had a meal in a small Soho restaurant, and in the eve ning sat through two rounds of the program in another movie. When she had walked from the theater district to the flat it was almost half-past 11. Her mother had already gone to bed, and Jacqueline, glad of the respite, decided that she would break the news in the morning, and was tiptoeing' across the land ing toward her bedroom when she heard her mother’s voice, t “Is that you, Jacqueline?” She opened the door of her mother’s room and switched on the ilight. i “So late, dear,” said Mrs. Smith. i“I had to come to bed, but I couldn’t sleep. Im much too anxious to sleep. Colonel Lutman assured me that everything would Ibe all right—we had an excellent lunch, Jacqueline. It was such a relief not to have to look at the price of everything before saying I’d have it—but you behaved very strangely atr Mr. Stuckey’s office this morning’ and just for the mo ment I was afraid you were going to refuse to sign. You did sign the deed, dear, didn’t you?” “Oh, yes, mother, I signed if A smile spread over her moth er’s face and her hand found Jac queline’s and drew her down until her lips brushed the girl’s cheek. “You’ve made me very happy, Jacqueline,” she said. “Bless you, dear. It’s years since I really slept properly, but I shall tonight.” Jacqueline hesitated, frowning; then she suddenly stooped, kissed her mother, and switched out the light. It was all very well to talk, she told herself as She went to her bedroom, but it wasn’t always easy not to be soft. Poor mother! She 'should at least have her good (night’s rest tonight. * * * • Charles had work to do on that afternoon of his talk alone with Jacqueline. There was an impor tant consultation the next day, and a mass of details to be mastered before he could go to bed that night; but when Miss Harringay and Mr. Bells left at 6 o’clock, the work was still untouched, and he was still sitting at his desk, staring at the papers in front of him. " He looked, as * Miss Harrin gay had remarked to Mr. Bells, “as if he had something stuck in his gizzard and couldn’t cough it up.” At 7 o’clock he gave up, went out, and had a meal in a neighbor ing restaurant. Then, returning to his office, he settled himself at his desk and made a serious effort to CARO'GRAPHICS ~~~ hx rnMtHf!ro 1 r vuinnM l Toilet, u IN BURKE CO VAKINATf PA6AIWT OF THE BAmt OmxiNfiTONTO REACH HERE 1 PIPYOU KlKWmat PIP YOU KNOlVthat t K^ Cm ! IHT£P T 0 » wnfl HRS. JAMB COWAN OF Wit ff TriFVIRGINIAiSTAUIFGIttA- URi^ L 7'A~ MINGTON WAS NCs FIRST ’? TORE IN 1770? NEXT YEAR WOMAN MAYOR? 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Stuckey & Stuckey which, though it bore no outward and visible sign of their occupation, was none the less in cluded in the suite. It was ap proached by a short spiral stair case in the corner of the main office, and had been used, until Charles became sole partner of the firm, as a store room. Charles, however, had found a better use for it. There were numbered amongst Messrs. Stuckey & Stuckey’s clients gentlemen whom prudence warned to shun publicity and daylight, and who, consequent ly, when in need of legal advice, preferred that their consultations with their legal advisers should be held at an hour when they could slip in and out of the office under cover of darkness. Charles had had appointments at 2 o’clock in the morning, and midnight was quite a common hour; and since at that time of night the journey from Rotherhithe to Bloomsbury, where the solicitor occupied a furnished flat, involved a long walk or an expensive taxi ride, he had transformed his erstwhile store room into a very fair apology for a bedroom. There, on such nights as he was detained at the office, he slept; there, too, from time to time, he accommodated his friend, Captain Allwright, when his ship, the John o’ Gaunt, was berthed nearby. And others had slept in that room, whose history would make splen did popular fiction of the most thrilling type. Charles decided that he would sleep there tonight. He climbed the spiral staircase, kicked off his shoes, switched off the light, and flung himself on the bed in the darkness, only to discover that sleep was out of the question. That word “coward” that Jacque line had flung at him rankled and made him restless. What did she know, or what had she guessed? Something, she had said, had hap pened in his lif ~ to push him down —something ;mendous. Was that only femir.i 2 intuition? Was it that she had realized, when she saw him, that he wasn’t in the least like the man he could be, that here in Rotherhithe, acting as mouthpiece for the riff-raff, he was out of his element, that by rights he should be doing something far better ? He smiled as he thought of the HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1937 deed. It had been a brain-wave, that announcement that Jacque line had signed in the wrong place. He would stick to it, too; it would give him a few more days, at any rate, and even so there was no time to be lost. Lutman, of course, hadn’t believed him; he had hard ly hoped that he would accept his word for it, but so long as Lutman did not see the deed, he would not risk letting the marriage take place, and that was what mattered. Lutman had sized up pretty accu* rately what had been in his mind. It had only been a vague idea then, but it was a clear-cut resolve now. Tomorrow morning he would de stroy this deed, and then he would see Jacqueline and get the whole wretched business off his chest. He wondered if, when he had told her everything, she would still think him a coward. Charles sat up, switched on the light, and felt in his pocket for his cigaret case. He put a cigaret be tween his lips and began exploring each pocket in turn in search of matches. Then, deciding that he must have left them on his desk, he got up from the bed, crossed to the head of the spiral stair case, and began to go down. Half way down he suddenly paused and stood rigid, staring in the direction of the door that led from the main office into his private room. The door was wide open—he could see the top right-hand cor ner of it silhouetted against the window—and in his own room, just for a fraction of a second, he had seen a flash of light. Through the window, perhaps—from some boat on the river. But he didn’t think so; it had been too vivid for that. It was more as if someone had snapped a flashlight on and off again. He waited, his gaze riveted on the doorway, but the light did not reappear, and he was about to continue his expedition in search of matches when he paused again and his grip tightened on the hand rail. The door into his room was open, but he had not left it open. He distinctly remembered shutting it. The bottom edge had caught a ruck in the linoleum and he had had to force the door to. Someone was in his room. Charles did not hesitate now. Whatever other type of coward he might be, he was not a physical coward. Slowly, treading noise- 0 lessly, he went down the staircase, congratulating himself that he had removed his shoes m before lying down, straining his ears for the least sound, and all the time peer ing into the darkness of the door way. Cautiously feeling his way past Miss Harringay’s desk, he reached the doorway, felt for the electric light switch just inside his room, found it, and pressed it down. (To Be Continued) mmm Continued Cold Weather in March Delays Planting of Crops Raleigh, April 15.—-The cold weath er of March delayed farm work and the growth of pasture, thereby leng thening the required feeding period for livestock. Spring work has been delayed over the country as a whole. Considerable fruit has been damaged. Rising prices during the winter have been an incentive to encourage far mers toward a maximum acreage of crops this year. Conditions in the eastern part of North Carolina have been fairly favorable for the prepara tion of soil and for the planting of early truck crops. Farmers are quite busy preparing for cotton and tobacco planting in fields. Considerable corn is already planted. In the central and western sections of the State, how ever, farm work is somewhat delayed by the cold and wet soil. The condition of wheat as of April Ist was reported at 86 percent of a full crop. This is 2 percent better than the ten-year average and 5 percent tetter than a year ago. For the coun try as a whole, this year’s condition is appreciably below the ten-year av erage but is 5 percent better than last year. The stocks of winter wheat on farms throughout the nation are ap preciably less than the usual at this season of the year. The condition of rye in North Car olina, reported at 86 percent, is slight ly better than the ten-year average and is 8 percent better than last year. The oat crop is also considerably bet ter than last year. For the country as a whole, however, small grains are not up to usual. Pasture conditions are also belcw the average. Peaches are reported at 55 percent in State which is much less than a year ago and 22 percent below the ten-year av erage. In the Sandhill Rglt or com mercial area, however, the crop is on ly slightly below last year’s pros pects. • " 1 The early commercial potato crop is reported at 83 percent or better. This is equal to the ten-year average. The extremely unfavorable weather a year ago resulted in a condition of only 69* percent which gradually got worse until the last of May. For the Southern States as a whole, the crop ads Every flock has to have its leader and you’ll find plenty of proof on the road this summer that Buick’s the pace-maker of this year’s crop of cars. 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