INTRODUCTION
Archibald Bennett, wealthy bachelor, travels con
stantly in the interest of his health. He meets Isa
bel Perry, who recommends a life of crime, adven
ture, romance and excitement as a cure for his
nerves. Archie goes to Bailey Harbor to investigate
a summer house for his sister. A heavy storm for
• ces him to spend the night there. During the night
he is awakened by footsteps and in an encounter
with the intruder, who sees Archie’s figure reflect
ed in the mirror and shoots. Archie fires in return,
wounding the intruder, who makes his escape.
Archie plans flights to evade publicity. He starts
cross-country afoot in the night. At dawn he is
stopped on a lonely country road by “The Gover
nor”, master-mind criminal who mistakes him for a
fellow criminal. Archie, fleeing, is afraid to tell
the truth—falls in with “The Governor,” is Wbisk
* ed across country in a stolen car. Sees story in
newspapers of killing at Bailey Harbor and, fright
ened, he decides to say nothing but stick with his
strange friend and await developments. Now read
on:
AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
"No Mrs. Congdon has registered here
within a week, I’m sure. Will you leave any
message?”
Archie paused by the desk, staring open
mouthed at the young woman who was ask
ing for Mrs. Congdon. If he was still pos
sessed of his senses the girl was Isabel Per
hj ry. She glanced carelessly in his direction
} as the clerk, addressing him as Mr. Comly,
asked if there was anything he wanted.
Archie promptly raised his hat, only to be
met with a reluctant nod and a look of dis
pleasure with connotations of alarm. She1
was walking toward the door as though
anxious to escape from him. , j
A taxi drew up and Isabel stepped into it,
but Archie, resolved to risk another snubi
before allowing her to slip away ignorant of
the vast change that had been wrought in
him since their meeting n Washington,!
jumped in beside her.
“This is unpardonable!’’ she exclaimed
angrily. “May I ask just what you are do-!
ing here under an assumed name?” J
“Really!” he exclaimed, “isn’t it perfectly,
jolly that we’ve met in this way ? You know,
l^e added, “you told me to throw a brick at
the world and I’ve been following your ad
Having dramatized himself as appearing
before her, a splendid heroic figure, this re
ception was all but the last straw to his
spirit. Her frowning silence moved him to
further frantic efforts to impress her with
■4 the fact that he was a dare-devil, wicked
£( person—the man she would have him be.
if “You were asking for Mrs. Congdon. Well,
I certainly could tell you a story if you
would give me time. If I had known Mrs.
* Congdon was a friend of yours I soould
•f have acted differently, very differently, in-J
* deed.”
■ S
'» “1 think, she said, sweeping nun wun a
f look of scorn, “that you’ve been following
| me or were put here to watch me! You went
' .# to Bailey Harbor to look at a cottage, didn’t
S, you ?” Putney Congdon was there, wasn’t
|1 he?”
«, “That’s the scream of it, you know!”
| Archie cried. ‘I don’t know for the life of
* i; me whether it was Putney Congdon I shot at
i the Congdon House or Hoky, the burglar.
^ And it’s so deliciously funny that you should
1 be looking for Mrs. Congdon, who may be a
widow for all I know!”
“A Widow!” Isabel, with her hand clutch
ing the door, swung upon him with conster
nation and fear clearly depicted in her face.
f “Oh, that’s the mystery just at present,
j whether poor old Putney is dead or not! No
great loss, I imagine! But where do you
suppose Mrs. Congdon went to hide her chil-,
dren from the brute?” :
“That’s exactly what I suspected!” she;
* exclaimed furiously. “You are waiting here!
to find that out. How can you play the spy'
for him! You talk about shooting a man!
Why, you haven’t the moral courage to kill
’ a flea! The kindest interpretation I can put
* ~ iipon your actions is to assume that you are1
hopelessly mad.”
They had reached the station; she jumped,
out and, snatched her bag. He tossed a bill to I
the driver and dashed across the platform, I
after her, only to see her vanish into the ves
tibule of a Boston train just as it was draw
ing out.
He walked to the water front, firmly re
solved to drown himself, but his courage
failing, he yielded himself luxuriously to
melancholy reflections.
Congdon was a name of evil omen. What
business could Isabel have with Mrs. Cong
don ? Why should she think him capable of
spying her movements? Why was she in
Portsmouth when she had told him she was
leaving immediately for her girl’s camp in
Michigan ?
He had been wholly stupid and tactless in
pouncing upon her with what he realized
under the calming influence of the brisk air,
must have struck her as the vaporings of a
dangerous lunatic. He had never been clev
er; he smarted now under the revelation
that all things considered he was an immiti
gable ass.
He went back to the hotel, bitter but for
tified bv a resolution that nothing should
check him in his desperate career. He had
quarreled with the inspiration of his new
life, but in the end Isabel should have rea
son to know how unjust she had been. Af
ter all, it was something to have seen her,
perplexed anxious though she had been. He
would bear his martyrdom manfully, keep
ing the humiliating interview carefully from
the Governor.
' Isabel was still the most wonderful girl
he had ever met!
Chapter V.
The next morning the Governor announc
ed Cornford as their next stopping point, a
town, he explained, whose history thrust far
back into Colonial times. When they were
seated in the parlor car he drew a small
volume from his pocket. Archie saw that
it was really a volume of the Horatian odes.
The Govrnor was utterly beyond him and he
stared moodily at the flying landscape.
The Cornford Inn proved to be a quaint
old tavern, and after a leisurely luncheon
they took their coffee in a pleasant garden
on one side of the house.
Two men came into the garden and seat
ed themselves at a table on the other side of
a screen of shrubbery. They ordered coffee
and one of them remarked, in a low tone:
“You oughtn’t to have carried that cash
up here. The old man is a fool or he would
not have suggested such a thing.”
The Governor nodded to Archie to keep
on talking, while he played the role of eaves
dropper.
“Well, he wrote that he was coming here
to spend a week and said if I wanted the
stock I could bring the currency here and
close the transaction. The Congdons are all
a lot of cranks, you know. This old curmud
geon carries a small fortune around all the
time, and never accepts a check in any trans
action.” *
“Let’s stroll about a little,” said the Gov
ernor. He led the way through the garden
to the street, and bade Archie proceed slow
ly to the post office while he walked toward
the main entrance of the inn.
When he joined Archie, he informed him
that the two gentlemen were Seebrook and
Walters, and that they had rooms on the
floor below them.
“You don’t think they’ve got any consid
erable sum of money with them, do you?”
Archie asked breathlessly.
“That remains to be seen.”
When they reached the green, which the
town’s growth had left to one side, he ss
down on a bench and directed attention to
a church whose history he read impressive
ly from the book.
“And in the cellar of that simple edifice
where the early colonists used to hide from
predatory Indians, is hidden fifty thousand
dollars. It must be saved from destruction.
We can’t fail Leary”.
They found half a dozen visitors roaming
through the church, and while Archie
courteously answered a question
! asked him by a stout lady, the Gov
ernor disappeared,
j When he reappeared he called
out in a cheery voice: “If you want
|to see the cellar, don’t tumble down
11he steps as I did, it’s an abomi
nable hole!”
He blushed the dust from his
knees and mopped his face until
the voices below receded.
“All safe and sound. Stuck It
out through a back window into a
lilac bush, and we’ll pick it up at
our leisure. It’s a very decent suit
case and you can hand it to a bell
hop and bid him fly with it to your
[room. You were a little short of
linen and made a few purchases—
I the thing explains itself.”
When they reached thexhotel,
Archie, following the Governor’s
'instruction, gave the suitcase to a
bell hop, and shortly after, they
L.)flowed the suitcase upstairs,
i where the Governor unlocked it
[with an implement that looked like
[a nut pick. Archie .picked up sev
leral bundles of the bills and turn
ed them over, reflecting that to his
i other crimes he had now added the
l receipt and concealment of stolen
; money.
| “Dinner in an hour, Archie,” re
[ marked the Governor, “meanwhile,
I wish you would look in at Bar
| clay & Peddling’s garage, just
'around the corner and ask if a
[car has been left there for Mr.
| Reginald H. Saulsbury. You need
not be afraid of getting pinched,
for the machine was. acquired by
!purchase. I am merely borrowing
it from Abe Collins, alias Slippery
Abe. We’ll leave here like honest
men, with the landlord bowing us
away from the door.”
When he returned the Governor
was dressing and manifested . no
surprise that the car awaited his
pleasure.
“Yes, of course,” he remarked
absently. “You can always rely on
Abe. It’s time for you to dress,
and we must look our prettiest. 1
caught a glimpse of Mr. Seebrook’s
daughter a bit ago. It may be nec
essary for you to cultivate her a
trifle.”
When Archie reached the par
lors half an hour later he found
the governor engaged in lively
conversation with a gentleman he
introduced immediately as Mr. See
“And Mr. Walters, Mr. Comly,
and—”
; “Mr. Saulsbury and Mr. Comly,
my daughter, Miss Seebi'ook.”
Seebrook and Walters wore un
doubtedly enjoying the Governor,
proof of which was immediately
forthcoming when Seebrook sug
gested that they should all dine to
gether.
“You do us much honor,” said
the Governor. “Mr. Comly and 1
shall be pleased, I’m sure.”
CHAPTER VI
Dinner over, they continued their
talk over coffee served in the gar
den. Wlhen the music began, See
brook and Walters recalled a bridge
engagement and the Governor an
jnounced that he must look up an
old friend who lived in Cornford.
“I shall be back shortly,” he
said as they separated in the of
fice.
Archie and Miss Seelbrook joined
the considerable company that were
I already dancing. After several
[dances Miss Seebrook thought it
would be fine to take a breath of
air, and gathering up her cloak
they went into the garden for an
ice.
Miss Seebrook was speaking of
music, and reciting the list of
operas she loved best when - Ar
chie’s gaze was caught and held
by a shadow thata fitted along an
iron fire escape- that zig-zagged
[down from the fourth to the first
story of the long rambling inn.
“You seem very dreamy,” she
remarked. “I know how that is for
I can dream for hours and hours.”
“Yes; reverie; just floating on
clouds, on and on,” Archie re
plied, though the shadow moving
on and on along the side of the
inn was troubling him not a little.
He had surmised that the Gov
ernor’s declared purpose to call on
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an old friend was merely to cover
his withdrawal from the party,
but that he could have meditated
a predatroy excursion through the
I inn had not entered into Archie’s
I speculations as to his friend’s ab
sence. There was no mistaking the
j figure that had moved swiftly down
[the ladder. He was now creeping
along the little balcony at the third
[floor. He paused a moment and
then vanished into an open win
Idow. The Governor had said that
Seebrook’s party had rooms just
under their own, but—
Ihey danced again, and in the
handclapping that * followed . the
first number he turned to find th-.i
Governor calm, and with no marks
of his escapade upon him.
At midnight Seebrook and Wal
ters came in from their card game,
and after a few pleasant words, the
[party broke up.
in Archie s room the Governor
hummed one of his favorite bal
lads as he slipped out of his coat
and picked a speck from his snowy
waistcoat. “It is evident,” he re
marked good-humoredly, “that you
are perturbed, anxious, and have
slight symptoms of paralysis a
itans. Pray be seated and I will
do my best to restore your peace
of mind.”
But Archie was not to bo
thwarted in his purpose to learn
just what the Governor meant by
endangering their security so reck
lessly. He slammed the transom
itight and drew down the shades.
“Tou needlessly exposed your
self to observation by sneaking
klown the fire escape of this ho
tel—I know that!”
! ‘My dear boy, I was merely
gathering a few blossoms of the
crimson rambler from the ancient
walls of the inn. You may have
noted that I wore a spray of buds
in my lapel when I joined you in
the ball room. Now seat yourself
on the bed and *1*11 tell you the
whole story. When I left you I
hastened into the drugstore and
bought a stick of shaving soap.
Then I bought a few cigars in a
tobacconist's. In each place I con
versed with the clerk, thus laying
ample grounds for an alibi. Hurry
ing back to the- inn, I avoided ob
servation by entering by the side
door, skipped up to our rooms—
and there you are! I exchanged our
new bank notes for sixty well-worn
one-ithousand dollar gold certifi
cates negotiable in all parts of
the republic. That means a net
Jfain of ten thousand dollars to
Red Leaiiy.”
My God,” moaned Archie. “You
don’t think you can get away with
this!”
“I think,” returned the Governor
imperturbably, ‘‘that we must and
will get away with it.” His em
phasis on the plural pronoun caus
ed Archie to cringe.
“You’re getting me in pretty
deep,” mumbled Archie dejectedly.
“How about those blood stains
on the sidewalk at Bailey Harbor?”
asked the Governor in his bland
est tones. “When yop speak of get
ting in deep you forget that some
one besides Hoky was shot back
yonder. You came to me red-hand
ed from a deed of violence, and I
took you in hand became your pro
tector, asking no questions. It‘s the
basest ingratitude for you to be
gin to whimper over a small lar
ceny when you have adebd as
sault or murder to the liabilities
of our partnership! But don’t for
get for a moment that we’re pals
and pledged to see each other
Ihe reference to the blood stains
reported by the Bailey Harbor po
lice threw Archie back instantly
upon the Governor’s mercy. Com
plicity in the robbery of Seebrook
was as nothing: compared with the
haunting: fear that the man he had
shot in the Congdon house had
died of the wound. Unable to de
termine this question he was floun
dering in a veritable sea of crime.
The Governor was undressing with
provoking indifference to his com
panion’s perturbation.
“Sleep, lad, sleep! You may be
sure that nothing will harm us to
night, and I have faith that more
stirring adventures are ahead of
us. I forgive you for your qualms
and quavers, the pardonable mani
festations of youth and inexperi
ence. We walk in slippery places
but we shall not stumble, at least
not while the Governor keeps his
head!’”
Nothing appealed to Archie as
of greater importance than the re
tention by his companion of the
head that now lay chastely upon
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“Put cut the lights and get out
to your couch!” the Governor mut
tered drowsily.
The man certainly wore his
crimes lightly. Pie was sound asleep
before Archie had got into his pa
jamas.
Archie in his preoccupation with
Miss Seebrook was murmurnig. <
“I have chosen a star for you,”
the Governor’s strange perform
ance, was so slow to respond that
Miss Seebrook, thinking that he
was deliberating as to which star
he should bestow upon her in re
turn generously broadened the
scope of her offer.
But something very unlike a
star—more like the glimmer of a
match in a room on the third
floor held his fascinated gaze—
“We must go back, I suppose,”
said Miss Seebrook with a sigh.
To be continued next Friday)
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By virtue of the authority con
tained in a certain mortgage deed
executed by ('. (’. Weaver and wife
Lorna Weaver to Fannie Langston,
and duly recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds of Johnston
county in Book 191, page 21, the
undersigned will on Saturday, Feb
ruary 11, 192X at 12 o’clock noon,
n front of the courthouse door in
ohnston county, offer for sale to
hd highest bidder for cash the
ollowing described t**nct of land,
o-wit:
Bounded on the north by the
un of Mill Creek, on the east by
he lands of Lonnie Weaver, on
he south by Bass’ line, on the
vest by the lands of F.(! Wise the
ame containing 106 acres, and be
ng the lands conveyed from Silas
.Veaver to C. C. Weaver, May 13,
90S, and recorded in Book W No.
0, page 410, Registry of Johnston
ounty, and being the identical land
onveyed to said C. C. Weaver by
L G. Stevens, commissioner, un
ler judgment of the Superior court
>f Johnston county in the special
proceeding had for the sale of the
and of C. W. WTeavre am nog his
leirs at law.
This January 11, 1928.
FANNIE LANGSTON,
Mortgagee.
\. M. NOBLE, Attorney,
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