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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY, AUG. 24, 1922. -PAGE ELEVEN , The Adventures of the Mazarin Stone By A New Sherlock Holmes Story SIR ARTHUR CON AN DOYLE TRADE MISSION SAILS TO BOOST U. S. COMMERCE ' "Nonsense! I have had them fol lowed. Two can play at that game, Holmes." ; "It is a small point. Count Sylvius, !but perhaps you would kindly give me my prefix when you address me. You can understand that, with my routine of work, I should find myself on fam iliar terms with half the rouges' gal lery, and you will agree that excep tions are invidious." , "Well, Mr. Holmes, then." ( "Excellent! But I assure you you are mistaken about my alleged agents." Count Sylvius laughed contemptu ously. , ' . "Other people can observe as well as you. Yesterday" there was an bid ;sporting man. Today it was an elderly woman. They held me in view all day." . "Really, sir, you' compliment me. jOld Baron Dowbou said the night be fore he was hanged that in my case Jwhrt the law had gained the stage had 'lost. And now you give my little im ipersonations your kindly praise!" It was you you yourself?" Holmes shrugged ' his shoulders. "'You can eee in the corner the para .sol which you so. politely handed to me in the Minories before you began !to suspect." "If I had known, you might never " "Have seen this humble home again. I was well aware of it. We all have neglected opportunities to deplore. As 'it happens, you did not know, so here we are!" , The Count's knotted brows gathered O more heavily over his menacing eyes. "'What you say only makes the matter worse. It was not - your agents, but :your play-acting, busy-body self! You admit that you have dogged me. "Why?" - - . "Come now, Count. You used to khoot lions in Algeria." : "Welir ' "But why?" " " ., "Why? The sport the excitement the danger!" "And, no doubt, to free the country from a pest?" "Exactly!" "My reasons in a nutshell!" The Count sprang to his feet, and his hand involuntarily moved back to his hip pocket. "Sit down, sir, sit down! There was another, more practical reason. I want that yellow diamond!" Count Sylvius lay back in his chair with an evil smile. "Upon my word!" said he. lou knew tnat I was after you for that are here tonight is to find out how much I know about the matter and how far my removal is absolutely es sential. Well, I should say that, from your point of view, it is absolutely essential, for I know all about it, save for one thing, which you are about to tell me." "Oh, indeed! And, pray, what is this missing fact?" "Where the Crown diamond now is." The Count looked sharply at his companion. "Oh, you want to know that, do you? How the devil should I be able to tell you where it is?" "You can, and you will." "Indeed!" , "You can't bluff me, Count Sylvius." Holmes's eyes, as he gazed at him, con Q tracted and lightened until they were two menacing points of steel. "You are absolutely plateglass. I see to the very back of your mind." "Then, of course, you see where the diamond is!" Holmes clapped his hands with amusement, and then pointed a deris ive finger. "Then you do know. You have admitted it!" "I admit nothing." "Now, Count, if you will be reason able, we can do business. If not, you will get hurt." Count Sylvius threw up his eyes to the ceiling. "And you talk about bluff!" said he. - . v PART TWO ' Holmes looked at him: thoughtfully, like a master chessplayer who medi tates his crowning move. Then, he threw open the table' " drawer and drew out a squat note-book. "Do you know, what I keep in this book?" "No, sir; I do not!" "Vni. ' " . "Me?" "Yes, sir, you! You are all here every action of your vile and dan gerous life." "Damn you, ! Holmes I" cried the Count, with biasing eyes. "There are limits to my. patience!" ','It's all here. Count. The real facta as to the death of. old Mrs. Harold, who left you the Blymer estate, which you so rapidly gambled away." "You are dreaming!" "And the' complete life history of Miss Minnie Warrender." "Tut! You will make nothing of that!" "Plenty more here, Count. Here is the robbery in.the train-de-luxe to the Riviera on February 13, 1892. Here is the forged check in the same year on the Credit Lyonnais." ,"No; youJre wrong . the re." "Then I am right on the others! Now, Count, you are a card player. When the other fellow has all the trumps, it saves time to throw down your hand." "What has all this talk to do with the jewel of which you spoke?" "Gently, Count. Restrain that ea ger mind! Let me get to the points in my own humdrum fashion." I have all this against ycu; but, above all, I have a clear case against both you and your fighting bully in the case of the Crown diamond." "Indeed!" "I have the cabman who took you The real reason why you to Whitehall and the cabman who Drougnt you away. 1 nave tne com missionaire who saw you near the case. I have Ikev Sanders, who re- peached, and the game is up." The veins stood out on the Count's forehead. His dark, hairy hands wero clenched in a convulsion of restrained emotion. He tried to speak, but the words would not shape "themselves. "That's the hand I' play from," said Holmes. "I put it all upon the table. But one card is missing. It's the King of Diamonds. I don't know where the stone is." "You? Now, be reasonable, Count. Consider the situation. You are going to be locked up for twenty years. So is Sam Merton. What good are you going to get out of your diamond? None in the world. But if you hand it over well, I'll compound a felony. We don't want you or Sam. We want the stone. . Give that up, and so far as I am concerned, you can go free so long as you behave yourself in the future. If you make another slip well, it will be the last But this time my commission is to get thef stone not ycu." "But if I refuse?" "Why, then alas! it .must be you and not the stone." , Billy had appeared in answer to a ring. "I think, Count, that it would be as well to have your friend Sam at this conference. After all, his in terests should be represented. Billy, you will see a large and ugly gentle man outside the front door. Ask him to come up." "If he won't come sir?" "No violence, Billy. Don't be rough with him. If you tell him that Count Sylvius wants him he will certainly come. "What are you going to do now?" asked the Count, as Billy disappeared. "My friend Watson was with me just now. I told him that I had a shark and a gudgeon in my net; now I am drawing the net and up they come together." The count had risen from his chair, and his hands was behind his back. Holmes held something half protrud ing from his pocket of his dressing gown. "You won't die in your bed, Holmes." "I have often had the same idea. Does it matter ,very much? After all, Count, your ,own exit is more likely to be perpendicular than hori zontal. But these anticipations of the future are morbid. Why not give ourselves tip to the unrestrained en joyment of the present?" A sudden wild-beast light sprang up in the dark, menacing eyes of the master criminal. Holmes's figure seemed to grow taller as he grew tense and ready, "It is no use your fingering your revolver, my friend,"' he said, in a quiet voice. "You know perfectly well that you you dare not use it, even if I gave you time to draw it. Nastv, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Bet ter stick to air-guns. Ah! I think I hear the fairy footsteps of your estimable partner. Good day, Mr. Merton.v Rather dull in the streets, is it not?" (To bo continued Friday) frf - v The Theatres Attempted Robberies Stir Connersville Police Dr. C. J. Owens, head of U. S. international trade commission. The American international trade commission has sailed for Europe on the Homeric to boost American export trade abroad. The pilgrims are headed by C J. Owens, presi dent of the Southern Commercial Congress. , Beveridge Worker To Address Women Mrs. Allen T. Flemming, of Indiana polis, who spoke on behalf of Senator Albert ,: J. , Beveridge during the pri 'mary campaign, will be here to speak to members of the Women's Republi can club, in the Westcott hotel, at 10:30 Friday morning. Women who are interested in the work of the party are invited to attend. Mrs. Flemming will be te the Repub liacn tent on the Chautauqua grounds in the afternoon and will, be glad to meet women workers who are inter ested in the progress of the party. Mrs. Flemming is sent out by the Stato speakers bureau and was formerly identified with the W. C. T. U. MURRETTE THEATRE The' little booklet, "What the Gen tlemen Will Wear," has never aided Dame Fashion "in the Frozen North. Frigid Fashions . have been the" same for years and years and .will continue to remain the same. An amazing in- sight into, the output of the Prozen North's Fifth Avenue shops Is shown in the Pathe feature picture, "Nanook of the North." The Eskimo gentleman Is kept "well-dressed" by the skill of the women of his tribe with the fishbone needle " threaded with deer sinews: There "is no bother about "B. ,V. -D's" or lingerie, as such .things are -not worn in the best Eskimo circles. The costume of "men, women and children is of one general model, consisting of upper garment, which includes tho "parka" or hood, trousers, boots and dog-skin mittens with the fur outside. . Nanook, the Eskimo hero-adventurer, and Nyla, his leading lady, wear the only absolutely waterproof boots in existence. They are of seal skin with the fur removed, the parts of the pattern being sewn together with sinews in a peculiar ''lock-stitch" that makes the seam impervious even to air. Under the boot is worn two deerskin socks, one with the hair next to the bare foot and the other with the hair next to the sealskin boot. Explorer Robert J. Flaherty, who produced the picture, declares tfiat Eskimo gentlemen never wear straw hats, and that the Eskimo women have never seen a silk parasol. WIFE BEATER ARRESTED CONNERSVILLE.'Ind., Aug. 24. Nicholas Wrindle, of Cambridge City, who has been selling baskets and nov elties in Connersville this summer, was fined ?10 and costs and sentenced to 90 days Jn jail Wednesday,' after he had been arrested for beating his wife' The beating was witnessed .by boy scouts at the; fair grounds and re ported by them, to the police. . CONNERSVILLE, Ind., Aug. .,24.. An attempted hold-up of an auto-bus and a frustrated trial at burglary rof a Connersville ' honiS', have aroused the vigilance of. the police during the fair season. Neighbors, alarmed by the barking of-- a; dog, investigated the home, which had been entered from a porch window;4 and it was found the thieves had left by. a back door. Two men who' rah out' of, an alley and tried to stop a-jitney bus the same night were frightened away by the crowd. Four men in an auto duiSng the same night, tried to steal'a quantity. of oil and tires from a station in cast Con nersville, They were frightened away by, the return of the proprietor. GARY; WREQK REWARD ;J?rt IS RAISED TO 5,000 sNXW? YORK Aug. ; 2t-Thereward offered by' the Michigan Central rail fvci$ ;for; ik"irrtjin conviction ot pWrwnrf aifipg Ar -to iltarfe, . caused the wreck of an express train at Gary, Jnd., Sunday morning, was increased to $5,C0Q; according to an announcement. IRES! BEiD-B UGS TAOUESSl J CAPSULES Quick Relief for Indigestion, Dyspepsia and Constipation cents at Druggists below or from Jsques Capsule Co.. Inc., Plattsburir, N.Y. On gale at Thistlethwaite's Drue Stores. -Richmond, Intl., or 60 cents hv mail postpaid for lartro parkas from Jaques Capsule Co., Plattsburg, N. X. Advertisement. ( Pesky Davils Quietus) P. D.Q.is the new chemical that puts the ever lasting to the Peky bedbugs, roaches, fleas, ants and cooties impossible for the pesky devils to exist where P. D. Q. is used. .r Kecoramentixtions of HoteJa. Hocpital. Rail road Companies and other public instittrtkmoaro a ftuarantee to the public that th aai eet, Quick est and most economical waywf ridding the peaVy i n sects is by the use of P. D. Q- as this cbenucal kills the estrs as well aa the live ones, and will not in j ore the clothing. - A 35c pack acre makes a full quart, nourh to kill a million bedbugs, roaches, fleas weooties and also contains a patent spout to-fret tbeegRS rtes ts i n th e hard -to-gret-at-places and saves ju ice. P. D. Q. can also be purchased ia eased katucs. double strength, liquid iorau . - Sold by A. G. Lukea Drug Co. Advertisement. STOP ITCHING SKIN Traction Company Drops Rushville Power Plant RUSHVILLE, Ind., Aug. 24. Aban- donment fo the Rushville power plant bv the Indianapolis and Cincinnati- traction company, in furtherance of -improvement plans looking to uniformity of the whole line,, is a policy recently announced by the'eompany in prepara tion for renewed business that is ex pected with restrictive legislation and other causes which will decrease com petition by auto busses. Long distance : travel and freight transportation nave grown instead of decreasing with auto transportation and a revival of short haul business is expected soon. IIKR SEVITKK MACK ACHE ENDED No one should suffer backache, rheu matic pains sleep disturbing kidnev and bladder ailments when Folev Kidnev Pills may be so easilv had. Mrs. J. lj. Miller Syracuse, New York, suffered with kidney trouble and rheumatism. "Finally I got .Foley Kidney- Pills and after taking two bottles, my backache is gone, and where l.used to lie awake with rheumatic pains, I can now sleep in comfort and enjoy a good night's rest." A. G. Luken Drug Co., 626-(i2S Main St. Advertisement. PALACE 0 0 Wo me 7i 9s a fid Misses' Autumn Frocks of Distinction With the Autumn season right at the door, "of course" you have in mind a smart new Silk or Cloth frock. We are now showing a charming selection of alluring new modes in both Silk and Cloth Frocks for Autumn wear. Every one possesses beauty and originality in design. The very latest fa-shion decree, featurjng the new draped line, panels and unique sleeves. You are sure to recognize the beauty in these frocks the moment you view them. MODERATELY PRICED 15 00 to 150 00 "New Arrivals in Blouses 1 and Skirts mm r " - "The Fall Corsets Are Here for Your Selection TODAY Rudolph Valentino and Katherine McDonald in a splendid screen adaptation of C. N. and A. M. Williamson's sensational romance "Passion's Playground" An intense love affair, with Monte Carlo as the background. Keeps one literally on edge as to the outcome. With this, two, big, comedies Snub Pollard and Mutt and Jeff. COMING SUNDAY The Peer of Screen Flays Zane Grey's "GOLDEN DREAMS" Zemo, the Clean, Antiseptic Xiiqum, uives jrrompi iveiiei, There is one safe, dependable treat ment that relieves itching torture and that cleanses and soothes the skin. Ask any druggist for a 35c or $1 bot tle of Zemo and apply it as directed. Soon you will find that Irritations, Pimples, Blackheads, Eczema, Ring worm. Blotches and similar skin troubles will disappear. Zemo, the penetrating, satisfying liquid; is all that is needed, for it ban ishes most skin eruptions, makes the skin soft, smooth and healthy. Advertisement. RICHMOND Theatre i Today and Tomorrow The photoplay that is con ceded to be greater than the greatest. OTIS SKINNER America's foremost charac ter actor, in Edward Kno block's famous spectacular drama 1 A marvel of cinema art wonderful scenes of the Orient a treat for those desiring to see the screen's and stage's greatest play. IE Era crra K Theatre Beautiful "Where-the Stars Twinkle First" : if Today, Friday and Saturday ' -. A thrilling story of the snowbound north the first film" of its kind, employing real Eskimo actors, : . : YouTl T Like It It is Different 'I'M .-V M An Extra Added Feature . "WHO WON THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND i An exact reproduction of the famous sea fight between, the British , M ana uerman navies. .- - - . YES, THESE POPULAR Four H armony noys In songs you'll like are here in an entire change of program. Also Pathe News Weekly Admission--Matinee, 23 cents - - Night?, 10 eents ChUdren, All Shows, 15 cents Time of Show 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 . Vaudeville 3:30, 7:30, 9:30 ' 1 tie G MAUI Richmond's Own It's Yours to Boost! TONIGHT Standard Time 7:00 p. m.--Ver Haar Concert Co. Mme. Ver Haar appeared on the Earlham platform last winter and her concert proved the finest number of the year ; 8:00 p. m. -- Program by Billy Sunday Club arid-Virginia Asher Women's Council 8:30 Know H f-t -wr in TaMxJr a -m 0. 1X1. -r J MS IS 1 JK 11 A H n the world over.as the cleverest make-nip and quick-change .artist. An evening of character study ''- ..' '.-'.'other" number on this season's offering." You will like Jessie Rae Taylor. : v '- : . ' "j. , ' . - - Come Today ! BringVYour Lu nch ! pon't Miss a Number! . ' . ;- : :' ' ' ' TOM ORFtOW unlike any. 3:00 - 7:00 p. m. -- Garner's Original Jubilee Singers ; The. Real -Thing 1 . HI. 8:00 p. m.vArthii "The Harding Administration Up to Date" (non-partisanbu't'fcandled intelligently and without gloves) Mr; Rees is a forceful speaker, a broad, constructive thinker and fully capable of dealing with; this subject.