Evening star. [volume], July 21, 1930, Page A-10, Image 10

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By Beldon'Duff
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■ From Vcytf vrirr’s S'ar.)_
TWENTY- FIFTH I\ ST AM,M F.N T.
THERE was a stir In the room.
- The confession was finished.
But now came an even more
tragic recital, the defense. Lift
ing his hrad for the first time.
John Diamond looked from one to an
other ot those about him. It was the
look a prisoner gives the members of
the jury.
f ’“What you have heard from me is
‘the truth, but when Derick Cranson
-said I wormed my way into a peaceful
jbome. he lied. There never was any
£tiearc nor any love in this house. The
Runnels family built in strife and lived
-by the point of the sword." He chose
I each word now as a duelist chooses his
‘Weapon, carefully, deliberately, knowing
this life might depend on the selection.
IT'Jane Runnels was an unwanted child
tLong before she was born the judge
;mnd his wi:’e had grown to hate each
*Other. Their hate ran through the
;*mbryonic \oins, vitriol instead oi blood.
yShe came into the world, tearing her
{mother limb from limb. The mother
|«ed. The father, seeing his wife had
a begot ten him another girl child, cursed
-And turned his back on both of them.;
fit would have been better for every one i
had he wrung the infant's
neck."
f, : Thp veterinary, to whom ibis fitter
arraignment, of his lost love was more
> tortuous than the slash of w hip, made
; an effort to get at the speaker, and was
forcibly restrained. When quiet had
been once more restored. John Diamond
; aaid:
"Jane Runnels had the soul of a fiend
.and the lace of a madonna. Her heart
[Was a dark chamber in which were
tortures for the unfortunates
}Who came under the spell of her slow,
• sleepy-eyed smile. I was chief among
her victims because—l married her.
v Now that I look back upon it, I see
that my appearance in Hales Crossing
came at what one might call the zero
hour in Jane Runnels’ life. She was
getting along In years. Twenty-three
Was old for an unmarried girl in those
days. Tlie village swain had commenced
to pall. A man from another part of
the country had at least the virtue of
novelty.
"From the start I was the hunted,
„ not the hunter. Our courtship was
IrJsne's, not minp. A wild, exotic court
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woman could make it. But .once we I
werp actually man and wife. Jane laid |
the mask to one side. What I endured |
from that day on no tongue can tell.
It was as though I had turned over a
stone and found the dark and slimy;
| things that thrive beneath." In sudden
passion. "Never, though I swing for it.!
will I say that I am sorry it was my
hand which hastened the end. Earth
is a better place because she is gone
from it—and hell, a spot more piously
to be avoided.”
In the silence which followed. An- j
nassa West was startled to hear the
same soft, almost noiseless, footsteps |
which had interrupted her reveries on !
the evening before Otto’s death. In- 1
stinctively she glanced toward the door
that led into the unlighted hall, and
there, across the face of the mirror. |
lead gray now against the surrounding
dark, moved the shadow—the nebulous j
form —she had seen there before. Only i
this time, instead of disappearing, it j
turned and came toward the open door |
of the living room. Unseen by the j
others, the black figure crept on until j
it had crossed the sill and was almost ;
in the middle of the room. Hands stole I
up and gripped the cloth which swathed
I the head —dank, fleshlcss hands. The
cloth fell away.
A leering yellow mask, one eye gone
completely, the empty socket,, round and
j staring, faced her like a death's head.
1 "Oh!" Annassa screamed, finding her
voice at last. “The ghost—the ghost
of Bride's House!”
• The little veterinary raised startled
eyes. A blank look crossed liis sac
to be instantly swept away by an ex
pression of acute anguish. Befoie ona
of the others could turn to see what
had caused the cry, he had used the
poker in his hand to dash the candles
from the mantel shelf
A wall of darkness descended, sep
arating the occupants of the room Into
small groups.
During the hubbub which followed,
frenzied fingers sought for matches
and failed to find them. At last Cropsey
remembered his cigarette lighter. For
once it worked. When a candle burned
again on the mantel, five pale faces
questioned one another—only five.
Derick Cranson and Annassa West
had disappeared.
A moment of tense and absolute
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C., MPNPAV. JULY 21, 1930.
silence followed upon the discovery of
Annassa West’s disappearance. But
almost immediately the tumult broke
forth affesh Abby's lamentations
"'loudest of all.
"My baim —my wee one—whatever
I have they done wie ye?”
Cropsey, on his knees before the fire
place. thrust fingers into cracks, beat
with clenched fists upon the surround
ing panels of wood. All to no purpose.
Only Willie Prentice, who had seen j
j this thing happen before, remained
I calm It was he who first spied the
giant. David, as the latter came in by
I way of the kitchen door.
"Where’s Miss West?” demanded the
I newcomer. He spemed to be laboring !
under some tremendous excitement. 1
"She's gone,” was the cry; but David I
did not seem to understand what they *
meant by gone.
‘‘There are men surrounding the
l house,” he said, still in that thick, ex
| cited tone. “They’ve axes and guns.
| One of them set fire tor the hay-staeks.
Where's Miss West?”
Willie Prentice climbed on a chair
and beat his hands together to attract
! attention.
j "Miss West has disappeared.” he
shrieked above the tumult, ‘‘and Dr.
! Cranson with her.”
The giant heard and froze into an
! attitude of magnificent disbelief. Even
his eyes became fixed, their pupils mere
; pinpoints of golden fire.
"My baim, my bairn!” keened Abby;
and the spell was broken.
The tremendous frame came to life.
| “You let her go with that fiend?”
! shouted the giant at Cropsey. "And
| you—what are you doing, that you
| didn't prevent it?” His rage fell upon
; the terrified Scotchwoman like brim
j stone. It shriveled her to ashes. "Good.
what a pack of numskulls! After he’d
j just shot one of you, too.” Turning to
Willie, "Come, show me that opening
you found, to the tunnel. We may be
able to head him off before he gets to
his house.”
"Wait!" With David's entranre on
the scene, the wounded millionaire had
slowly and painfully dragged himself to
his feet. Now, using Carling as a
crutch, he tottered across the room and
laid his hand on the young man’s arm.
"You say it was Cranson who shot me?”
"I took the gun away from him my
self,” said the giant. He was im
patient to be off. "It began in the cel
lar of the red barn. Prentice had no
sooner crawled into the hole than a
man scooted up the ladder behind me
and closed the trap door. I followed.
The barn was dark, but I caught a
glimpse of him. It was Cranson. He
know some one was after, him and ran.
I overtook him in the brushes across
the road where he was hiding. That
was just as your car drove up. Os
course, I’d no idea he was going to
shoot you, otherwise I’d have knocked
him cold.” With an apologetic shrug,
"After I’d disarmed him he gave me
? the slip. That swamp in the woods is
no place to be running about in after
dark.”
John Diamond seemed scarcely to j
have heard the explanation. His eyes
were leveled on the face before him.
"Who are you?” he asked in a chok- !
ing whisper. But David was through
with explanations. He brushed the
question aside.
“You and you.” pointing to the man- j
aging editor and to Garling, “stay here, j
If our friend the horse doctor doubles j
I on his trail, see that he doesn’t escape :
again. And now .„ . .” Seizing Wil- !
lie by the collar, the giant half dragged, \
half carried him to the kitchen. A
mighty kick* and door fell open, j
i only to disclose a group of shadowy :
j figures waiting outside.
“Hands up!” comanded a voice from
! the darkness; and a rifle barrel glinted
in the light which streamed across the i
sill.
The answer was equally lmp?rative. i
"Settle your differences with those
inside; but let me pass.”
Farmer Gaylord stepped forward.
“It’s you we want. Come quietly and j
there'll be no trouble.
David saw he was outnumbered six ,
to one, and condescended to temporize. !
"Don’t stop me now. I will come,
back. On my word of honor, I will
come back.” j
Some one in the crowd hooted. A
man said. "The honor of a murderer!" j
It was a jibe carefully calculated to
stir blood already hot for vengeance.
"Drag him out.”
‘'Shoot him if he tries to escape.” |
The giant stood and glared down at '
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' them, his wits, sharpened by a new
sea fear for some one besides him
self—working desperately. At last:
“All right.” He dropped his hands
j to his sides, in token of surrender. Then,
as his opponents bunched for the cap- j
t.ure, he caught the unsuspecting Willie j
Prentice about the waist, lifting him j
with the ease a cat might use in han-!
dling her kittens, and sent him flying
i headlong into their midst.
(to be continued.) 1
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BERLIN. July 21 (iiP).—The Berliner
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leader of the Fascist organization in i
j Germany, and Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, !
Nationalist leader, have resulted in an |
agreement to avoid hostilities between I
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