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/tfeac^me ||>age ✓ * —\ »• n*- - *.•>< I j ■ . : \y '! v -- | • ' , HiIf) <oj\ • • - COPYRIGHT by ET j.\ ... ... Third Installment SYNOPSIS Margaret teferre'i brotbrr, Rex, hit been found 4a»e e.itb. a note addrmed to Kij eitter Jtitiig til H h* 'tax beet ruine.j by inveatmentx rv-.eir. B>c l ! nke Widdi'jn, xea'tliy banket, tu * >n V >ret i* engaged. Danty Morcll, a r.tiicr t. l„r. t. Intornu Madditon tint Rex bad ca«!t*d a check for li.OCU pounds bearing Luke's (If vstu c IWctive Bird, kneen aj "Vue Sf.i'roir" ca Madui.-'t, wl > tetvxct to t ... any action l!ih.u> .n signature >. a Vexed • d.e chrek. Bland;*-., doer not k { the cc. T u.i‘» i:eaj at • . • hir l Mt'ier \ a . Icr love Vi .*• * 'ison lent' t. r dec;, i to kee' !: ; roml»e to ana’r. S' lie--.tely poor d Maddiaor I ■tvh tunc > • • -. .g ;**e j pc---. ■ i i toe background of !"<e oe'.tj :i the J fig-.-. .it jK.-J. -v, of Gunn-.' Hay—-, a f-rto-t Am iro r. .-vii- ’ . be: ‘ Sla st. iu there. • r luni-.N ^ri. pef’, he. b;ca:.h coming quic..ly ,u:d ni :x quickly, and heard hitn override the p: tr. ts which catne from the other v the wire. Presently he hung f. t;e and turned to her, a s;ailv o: uuph on his Hushed face. i arc Maddison’s!” he said g' . “1 .ck, stock, and barrel, dar- i li . • < ! 1 :';r I cads a child Cl .1 .” .■he could • r-alise that he v ki ... . u ward n.i - e a mar. named I. ■ . bciies rssxh Maddii'on. ' .tv.'.;.;? Who is he?” **:<>:.! Mr. Sides’ expression of dis-• p-vkgxme;.! i.,. gathered that Lcwingj v. : t of any ; :aat account. in .v min nr. • :• in vim followed Stiles into t m vas tall and spare < i build. ] •vcp-.set eyes had in them a fur t. > tk a was almost animal. He g quickly around the room, and it ■’ t enic-' to I.uke that he was prior'/ every article within view ay ii: t the :ii',ut when he tv.vrht ente * a .w uck .» away .-itch movables as would sh • him a profit. “Homin’, sir.’’ lie held his head* downward; ar.d sideways, looking up from under his heavy and untidy eyebrows. “Like to speak to you private, sir,” he said in his husky voice. T u'.e glanced at the manager and si. _ !1< i him to leave the room. Mr. Sti! s left with the greatest reluct ance “Sit down, will you?” d , bis eyes from Luke’s ii a stretched out a hand Lew a chair to him. i‘or sat down. ' . g .t three menn f >r bcin • d," lie said in a ! o w • • e. “j lie Sparrer syj'.w u •: • ■ the i dak handed < i' Ik dire*. i. Tl.o Gunner’s appviii n' to tin l.ukc v.< <Vi 1. “He has got three ' * h labor and is appealing? • Ik p ; off. Did he send you * Lowing nodded slowly, Ik* I the a; p-. aranen of a man who \vas lying aid expected to be found out at any moment. “Yes. A few quid would do him a bit of good. He wants a mouthpiece. The Sparrer says he'll get olT—an’ the Sparrer knows.” “Who is the Sparrow?” A slow smile dawned on Mr. Lew ing’s face. “He's a busy—a detective. Bird by name—” .like nodded. He remembered Mr. 5 irrow, whose activities were appar ei.tly not wholly confined to inquests. “I was inside meself—for breakin’ an’ enterin’,” confided Lewing, "but they couldn’t rrove nothin’ so I got out. But me an’ the Gunner’s like brothers. He was in the next cell to me at Brixton an’ he told me to pop tin an’ have a talk with you—a few quid would help him.” Luke was puzzled. His acquaint ance with the redoubtable gunman who called himself Haynes was a slight one, but it had struck him, ^during their brief interview in the Carlton, that the Gunner had the manners and certainly the vocabulary of a gentle man,- and that this mean sneak-thief who was looking at him stealthily irom the other side of the table was fiardly the type of man in whom the (Gunner would confide his commissions. Luke felt in his pocket and took out a few pound notes. I suppose you know Mr. rsirci very veil?” he asked as be counted the money. „ The man grinned. “The Sparrer? I should say so! He’s always goin’ on a’ r?- the chil dren of the poor—hut he’s always lag giu’’em! lie pretends there’s 1 of poor people who arc sufferin' because of the likes of—” he was about to say “me” but changed his mind—“o£ fel lers who go onihe erode. I hat's silly. It you can’t u> > w r*!; you’ve got to do 'something: y u can’t starve. The last time the Sparrer started talkin’ to me ah ut it I says: To ok here, .\Tr. Bird, why don’t you go after the children of the rich an’ make ’em pay their whack to these children of the poor?’ He couldn’t answer me. He was dumb founded. I’m always heatin’ people in arguments.” He seemed rather proud of this ac complishment ; was not without his vanities, even. .» he had to lie about his triumphs. “Heft £ teg poimd|. Give that tfi your friend. I can’t help him much more. I'd like to know what happens to him. and he can write to me here.” At two o’:!' ok Margaret Laterrc topped from her car at the door of the MmyklK JK registrar’s office, and Luke, waiting in tin loom of that of i. ini, tm.KU U> greet the palest bride t! t li d ever entered those common pi ce portals. .''he spoke not at all. only answered the quvstk rs tout were put to her. With slrni'iei e let the rint slip! un< -i :i‘.*r fin;:r i it *s all ove. so «■ nekly that she! i :</■ • -.-a .; * ■ -m.; •• > j able I” “A document?” ‘‘I want you t . arsf r some money to me,” h* sui.:. “it is llie merest lormality—I\c > " covered that i have rather less than I need.” She thought quickly. “Very well, come to the house at three o’clock.” He forgot that the bank closed at three-thirty and agreed. After all. it d"d not greatly matter if the check as returned, it was merely a trar r ence rom his personal account t. he !_w '•‘*<2 ’ r, ' r! *7 sl:;) upcu her finger. I coul.! not believe that the first act of I her vengeance was played. Some body put a pen into her hand, aixl a I ' uat forefinger showed her the place ■ re B.e must : ;i her name For a ; :g time she held the pen. and when she wrote it wavered ia her fingers and the scrawled signature looked like ! nothing she had ever seen. Leaving for Par:' that nigh —the Mcuricc, or was it the Bristol? There was some confusion in her mind about these details: anyway, they did not matter if she kept her courage. The two o’clock wedding had been an in spiration. She went back to her house—Iukc was to dinner; they vere to leave ir • 1 • •> after to c. ch the night boat uum South ampton. bank’s. He was, tru to his methods, five minutes late, wlvn he was show.*, '-.to | her little sitting room. The fir< thing that struck him was that she as dressed. He had pictured her ■ dig in her negligee—in be 'even. . as not as pale as she had he -v as when he went to take h :* in *.3 that he had his first shock. “Don’t kiss me—please!" It was hot a reqeust; it was a per emptory command. “Why—what is wrong, darling?” , ' v She shook her head impatiently. “Please tell me what you want.”'* Her tone turned him cold. Tt was hard, almost an*. ]• iould hardly believe the evidence oi his teases. I tremulous. They veiv )nc n her pretty little dra wing ’ rot.:.!, and he was sitting by her side, ids arm around her. bile was very 'ill a d unyielding, but he''thought ‘.hat he understood this. I.uke was bubbling over with cx II huiie it—he was like a boy who had i received a new’ and wonderful present. “I say, did you see that queer-look - i ing w--\ standing on the pr.vement as ! we c :’ ■ • it? A fellow named Lewing , ■: t; i i of some kind. I wonder it he j pick pc-.hets? I’ll bet he did; tei . ! his hat to me as I came out.” S' • was not listening, and, after he had .. •. could remember nothing that iie had : a?d except something about Rex. It was indecent of him to men tion the boy. Danty rang her up, but she would not see or receive him. She must go through now without help. Luke was coining at seven. At s-'u "she called him on the telephone, a d had one panicky moment when she feared that he had already left his 11 <t and could not be found. Then sh. heard his voice. “Darling, isn’t it odd? I car.’t be lieve it—I still think of myself as a crusty old bachelor—” “Luke, I want you to do something for me." She found her voice at last. “No—no, don’t interrupt. It’s a big thing. I don’t want to go away to night, not for a day or two. I want to be alone, not to see you. My nerves are in a terrible state; I think I am on the verge of a breakdown.” As she went on, he listened with a growing sense of alarm and dismay. And yet he was not thinking of him self. i “I’ve been a selfish brute. Of course, darling, I quite understand.” The conversation did not occupy five minutes of time; he could hardly real ize what was happening, to what he was agreeing, before he was sitting at his writing table staring blankly at the telegraph forms by which he was to cancel so many pleasant arrangements. Danty, waiting at Waterloo Station with a full view of the barrier, wa'ch»d die mail-boat passengers filter through to ie platform. He saw the barrier ( lose and the red tail lights of the f'« . disappear into the darkness, jnd went home humming a little song, for Mr. and Mrs. Luke Maddison were not among the passengers. * * * Luke did not even trouble to see Margaret at once. Before lunch he remembered and telephoned. “I want to see you, darling,” he began. “Why?” It was difficult to disguise the suspicion she felt. ‘T want you to sign a little docu ment,” he said gaily. So diat was it! Danty had warned her. Only she had newr dreamed that she would be asked to • (mount# her i marriage pvtflWfl *V Nttfr i I Stammering like a school ’ .>e told her in disjointed sentences oi i.ic situa tion which had arisen, and she lis tened and did not speak until he stopped. “Ninety-seven thousand pounds,” she said. "A tenth of that would have saved Rex.” * He could only sutre at her uncom prehendingly. “It was rather dreadful to see a man make a god of money, Luke, and to know that for its sake he is will ing to sacrifice even a young life.” To him her voice sounded like the clang of a bell; to herself it hardly seemed that it was she who was speak ing. “And to accuse this poor dead boy of forgery—to add that infamy to the other ” “I—you are speaking of me?” he said in a whisper. She nodded. “Of you. I knew that you were coming to get your money back—that is why I did not go with you to France. I wanted it to hanpen here. Here, where I have frienus and can meet you on even terms.” , A pause, and then: “Luke, I am giving you ro You gave it to me—it is mine. Not a penny can you have—not a penny f' She wished he would speak during the silence that followed. She wished he would rave, curse her, do all the things that were consistent with her picture of him. But he said’nothing. He was not even looking at her, but was studying the pattern of the carpet Presently he jerked up his head. “Good-bye,” he said, and turned on his heel. She heard the door close on him, and then there came to her a realiza tion that made her brain reel. Sho ' loved him. Why he gravitated to the Embank ment he could never tell; it seemed a natural objective. He had no thought of suicide, no intention of finding that gross way to forgetfulness. Walking slowly by the parapet, he came to a halt before Scotland Yard'and eyed that Gothic building incuriously. That big detective was there, the Sparrow— the Sparrow, who righted so many wrongs, could hardly disentang’e tno problem which deadened the mind of I.uke Maddison. The “children of the poor!” He smiled mirthlessly. 'Io was one of the children of the poor, the natural charge of that big man. To protect the children of the j >or and punish the wrongdoer. Who had done wrong? Margaret? He tried hard to apportion all blame to her. to hate her. He shook his head and walked slowly back toward Black* friars. ( Continued Next Week I _ j i •A * *V . ' • * * •' Thousand; cl 11::.' ■ Heeded [ \_ '-■'V yO,OOU,<JUO 7 utiHLLi ' ~ ' + Arr.Tlta nap's 1 <;•>:) new churchc1 n year to replace obsolete structure** i It is estimated 20 per cent, or 23 •' | cf the old churches now being u *■ i I have been outgrown. It would irk twenty years to replace them, buildin : l 610 new edifices a year. This is the estimate of President A E. Dickinson of the Indian- I <•-, I s -"le company, who has ••prcy;dcrt i re stone for Wse in churches in the p t year than ever before." Strength, beauty and practicability t • actcrize new churches. They are i • it with the security of a fortress n (> new Temple Emnnu—El. Fifth A enuc and Sixty-Fifth Street. New i v-.*rk, with its gorgeous lacy stone I ’ front, typifies the r.ew era in church 1 building, Mr. Dickinson says. Its lints I.vqtta In r'y!.\ !'e ore'll I i ;mre being nn adapt'itb i of the i H - it Hfi|Ue wilt-re it vas ’ i I’urnccd bv the Eastern ar t Arab n \ 'l -’-. of Sicily and Southern I >y. T’ « structural proportions are mug : nlficrnt. The rxferior Is variegated 'ndlnnn limestone, end nn interior decorative feature centers on the erk where columns and dome-; re of vari colored marble nnd morale work in lays The new temple, cf which Kuhn, ; [hitler & Stein are architects, repre sent n cost of around $S.0C0.ti00. "Church construction Is on a bleb plane.” added Mr. Dlcld von. "t '* 1 of our cathedra In surp: s those of t: i did world Cert-inly the Cm y o I frame church is a gho l of the dim I past." - 5 l\ H i . lWA 9 [2T%, Th 7" T '.-;i , plr ID (J it I i * '■ - JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M.D. WASTING TIMS The good physician somehow that time i«? a mighty l rcc.ous commouuy u.ui everybody was, ami, mat it saouid not be ruthlessly thrown away. To wa^te is to **qu?T1',''r something that can : „*v r be retri~v . i sho t ... .( am trying in my tc cs ■" v : : •: <•; \ ' .- o d ualities that i . ..i . . _, ./ i lions, as follows: I have found I’, r • -foods’ ; t ••• that she should keep :iei net Wu.ii>,, a. ! h.. iic_u e -oi: in other words, th:1 sl e* slioui ! nut vr p i • ! •; • :-<• I i. • • *, worth of furs about her need,.; v o in mpera.t with her legs Had in thin side su. . .g?., . .m , ,t ;n Lad. room sandals. And, I have wasted many a v-•1 '• * '* 4’ -g k took to say them, in telling young w? • i ! .»'• astonishing altitude, are m< ( tin::a.i. d !•. t t: .y to all laws of common sense—that t . • ... ,v c« .. j generations with mental and physic 1. dciiuv .,ew y, u wot worse. On several occasions I have f oled a.v v good advice and the time it took to give it, on the ! arber that uses a common hair brush on his customers, unquestionably carrying rubbish from diseased scalps to healthy ones. Along with the brush goes the public comb, equally ef.ee ive in <1 ng harm. Maybe you could persuade the good public servant •• keep a jar of antiseptic solution in which to submerge hi. ... i ; d comb between customers—I just can't. I have perhaps, squandered moi*c t -c *• *- ti e ':: o'clock dinner than on any other deadly cm my < . our hr.-5 men ; I can onlyr convince, when I am appealed to by a > of tiie custom, who comes to me with failing r^etd threat of apoplexy, shortness of breath, c>-. of v • [ diseas'd kidney’s—these at the age of fifty or si:.., , shu i be at his very best. This is the Avc of Woman’s Success in Business i ^ _____ i -*s Vary Dillon 1 Ji; r." ,', ~r~ T~-, ^ Hi i • k. n. 'w n Marie Ryan i George R. 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