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·OUR NEW SERIAL

THE VANISHING VENGEANCE

CHAPTER XVi.

By DOUGLAS NEWTON. „

Author of "Double Crassed," "Low Ceilings,"

"Green Ladies," eo. ·

They were standing in the hall, Otto Rigg, turning this way and that, acowling, in angry frustra- tion. The policeman Brid, "Well, we'd better clear out."

a high, harsh Olte snapped in voice: "What about the lady of this house? Perhaps she'd con descend to have a word with us?"

The grim servant gave him glance of bitter contempt, and, without a word, tung open the drawing-room door..

Otto Rigg atrode in, with the rest following.

At the end of the room a tall, dignified woman rose. She faced them calmly, serenely, even nobly. Otto Rigg went up to her: "Madam" he begun, and then he stopped, stared, and fell back a

pace.

Mr. Stannard!" he gasped. "Mrs. Stannard!"

There was a moment of intense and painful, silence. The woman stood there, calm, superb, dominat- ing them all with the nobility of her manner. Otto Rigg's eyes fell be- fore hora. He looked at once mean

and shifty-vile.

It was with an effort that he

found his voice, and even then he could only mutter, "Mrs, Stannard." "Yo Otto Rigg," she said, evenly. "And what do you want with me?"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

name is Stannard, the name the dy- Ing 'man spoke,”›.

THE USKUB SHOOTING.

RESPONSIBILITY OF MACEDONIAN COMMITTEE.

Belgrade, Jan. 14. Further details have been re ceived from Skopile (Uskab) re- garding the shooting of M. Prelitch, Councillor at the Prefecture, there yesterday by a young woman named Mara Boullet. When she was on the point of being arrested the young woman turned the revolver upon herself and fired in the region of the heart.

Questioned in the hospital she de- "Not quite the name," said the cinred that she had received an policeman, stimly. "The name he order from the Macedonian, Re volutionary Committed to go to "Her son," snapped Otto. "Can't Southern Serbla on a mission and poko was Martin Stannard."

see it, man-she lives there, to attempt to assassinate certain practically on the scene of the personages whose names were sub- murder. It was towards her house sequently given to her. The in- chat the murderer headed, he quiry has established that she is the elsewhere. wife of an officer in the Bulgarian couldn't have gone

Strončh actually saw him going Army. chat way. Can't you see, she's protecting him?"

"I don't see what more I can do until I've consulted my chief," said the policeman, stubborrily.

According to the latest reports, Mara Boulief has since succumbed to her injurica.

It

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928.

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I believe that the desire for club life is still as strong as ever, since

haven of refuge not pro a club is vided for by any other form of gregarious life. Of course, the young member gets bored by the subdued atmosphere, the solemnity of the staff, and the implication that it would be considered good manners if the evening paper were folded and returned to its home; but he would get bored in any cir- cumstances, as even the elderly irad Deporte according to armavement members do, when they are unable to explain. at long length to the longer suffering the unimportance of the individual as compared with "And while you are consulting

the State, or some such theme. during your chief," snarled Otto, "he'll get

case, before

Your "Old Clubman," however, Away, He'll bolt from that house, the hearing of a

Mr. Jualice Shearman in whilst admitting the changed con- and you'll never get him."

"I put two men on point duty the King's Bench Divisior ditions and extra costs since the Ent the back and front of the Dark that the brother of the defendant war, omits so many things of im

House. They'll stop him. No, I was one of the jury. The brotherportance in connexion with clubs at can't do no more, sir. And you'll the jury, at the suggestion of the present time, and treats the pardon me, sir, but I haven't any the Judge, left the jury box, and subject much in the manner of the me to lose if I'm to get through the case was heard by eleven member who "knows how to do it," to Easthampton."

jurors. Mr. Justice Shearman but discounts the..essentials. Why They drove on, Olto's rage told him that he need not remain compare club prices for food with noubting rather than abating in court, as he would have to come restaurant prices? Take the re- He lay back still silent, still the next day. "It is hoped that staurant. Generally speaking, the Hataria ruminating savagely. Straach Bat we shall, find some work for you staff are paid under the trone, or by his side, ready to answer any then on another jury,” he added. pooling system, whereby all tips are divided: If the tips' do not reach a thing but afraid.

certain minimum, the balance, is made up by the management, Usually the staff provides their own uniforms-they speak for themselves. Another system' is to pay nothing to the chief wafters, who are expected to depend entirely on tips-with commission, after a certain amount of cash has been taken.

At the house Otto Jurched out of the car, Stronch following like a dog. At the top of the steps Olto: called to Joyce: "I shall want you. Wait in your office. I shall ring."

His tone was menaceful, crudl. It was the policeman who answer As Joyee put the car away fear of ed. Catching the name he came Otto Rigg grew in her heart. His forward. "Stannard," he suld-tone, she felt, implied danger, ter- "Stanniard was the name that poorrible danger to her. So strongly gentleman said before he died."!

did she feel this that she hesitated

The woman looked at him with for a moment before entering the out emotion. She said nothing. house. She was afraid to enter Nobody said anything.

it Some lurking and lowering "Martin Stannard, the police- danger was waiting in there for Rian went on. "Martin Stunnurd is her. She could feel it with a sense) the muse deceased uttered. Who of horror, and her instinet, bade ker is Martia Stannard, ma'am?"

run away. "Martin Stannard is my son," she said, evenly.

he cried

"Ila, your Hunt" "Where is your son?"

The woman looked at him levelly "Why do you ask that?" she de- manded, quietly,

But where could she go? There was nowhere to go, no one who would take her in. She knew of no shelter. Alone in the world, Otte

Rigg's had been her only home. for years. She could only think of one person who could give her "Because, ma'am," the polleemun shelter Mrs. Sondes, or, rather, blurted out, though Otto Rigg made Mrs. Stannard, who had offered it a gesture of warning-"because, only that afternoon. And Mrs. ma'am, a marf has been found Stanard was herself threatened, shot dead on the Common, and the was perhaps herself in need

she could not dream of adding to

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"Look at her," said Otto, each word falling like a lash on Stroach's the man Dudley about Stan- nard's being on the Common Well, now you see who did it. She told him, and pretended not to have

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"Ma'am," he cried, "be careful

last year. To-day it numbers the 12th, but staff must be main-well over 1,000, and is confidently stretched and clawing he advanced It's the law you're floating". The half-hour she waited in her on Joyce

tained and service as swift as ever "I'll awwer to the law," she said, room for Otta Rigg's ring was al- She expected death, and was in all circumstances. What is lost expected to reach 2,000 by the end Armly. Meanwhile, i am not Mar- most unendurable. She eat there helpless. She put up a feeble hand sight of is that the club depends of the year. It is not in any way tin Stannard. You have made your wondering. Imagining. horrore, to ward him off.

on turnover as much as does the trade organisation, though mem search for Martin Stannard and fearing the worst. When the ring

restaurant, and it is not fair to ac-bers of the book trade have not found him-there seems did come she almost welcomed it, Hugo Shanly, his pallid ace case the secretary of "unbusiness presented on it. It is not a profit-Londen Bankere:-National Provincial Bank, to be no reason for your presence as at last giving her, a chance of writhing and twitching in panic, management when he is unable to making body. It exists solely to in my house."

facing her fears actively.

burst into the room wildly, rushed The policeman shifted uneasily Stronch was standing by the straight at Otto, and stood before fill the empty tables with members help the cause of reading.

of the general public, who would One of its most valuable activi under her

frowned, desk, watching her. His face was him, mowing and clawing the air be only too glad to flock into a club ties is the distribution of biblio- shrugged his shoulders, turned red, lowering, brutish, angry. His with his fingers like a madman. amidst pleasant surroundings with graphies upon a great variety of oyes glared hate at her. He had Twice, thrice he tried to speak a cheap meal of the best quality subjects, so that a member in- No good staying," he said, re- the air of a man who had been Otto shouted at him. Otto caught and no tips. It is rather amusing terested in a certain subject has signedly and began to walk out of lashed and threatened to the point him by the shoulder and shook him. to watch the club member who only to consult the N.B.C. to know the room. Otto Rigg sprang for where fear, burata into mad red Then Hugo's voice came, in one fumes at forty-five minutes for a what books to read upon it. These ward in a gust of passion.

great shout. "Womu," he snarled, "where is

Otto Rigg stood on the rug be-

"Fedden" he cried. "Fedden?" four-course dinner in his club, while bibliographies are not compiled

an hour and a half in a clockless by the Council, but in cach Case Captial {(fully_paid'up) Marlin Stannard?, He is Herefore the grate. His eyes regarded| Otto and Stronch crowded upon have you noticed that?-popular by a well-known authority on the serve Fund.... IH,500,000 show us his hiding-place, do you her coldly, cruelly, fixedly, as she him, shouting at him, shaking him.restaurant does not disturb him in' hear 7"

came in. He was in the most "What about Fedden? Anything the least. Mrs. Stannard turned her back ferocious of rages, too. But he wrong with Fedden? Speak up. These, I venture to suggest, are Twentieth Century Novels. This in preparation, including one on on him with a gesture in which ad controlled it so that it would man, what's this about Fedden?" some of the reasons why food in is naturally an intricate task, but stavia complete contempt and disgust act as his servant.

word were mingled. Without a

"So," his slow, cold voice cume; He reeled across the room and sarily high," as "Old Clubman" re- a number of well-known critics Busca Ayres Lee Anguin. Bemarang she walked away from him, and out "you stayed to brazen it out, eh-collapsed into a chair, suddenly marks, much as so many old club- are co-operating in its compila- Calci

quiet and limp.".

men have and will remark while tion, and it should be of great Carbs What burst from Stronch. "Fedden's dead?" he said, in clubs exist.

interest to the reading public. "Old Clubman" per "You see her" said Otto, softly, startlingly quiet voice. "Fedden's haps forgets that one of the rea The N.B.C. also arranges for Hamburg "The smooth little lady who is the dead. Stannard got him. Stan: sons for cheap food was, and still Book Exhibitions and lectures. Otto Rigg lay back in his car insause of all this.”

nard got him as he got Gamlin and is, that the entrance fee and subsuccessful exhibition was held the coldest, blackest temper at "What?" snarled Stroach again, Maker. Gamlin dead. Maker bolt- scription help to pay for losses in lately at Ipswich, where some Joyce drove him home. He said and his voice was thick, as his face ed, Fedden dead. Every the coffee-room, and that members fine specimens of book production a m nothing, not even to Stroach, but seemed congested with a sudden one of them sent their money to the of committees never troubled to were to be seen, lay back brooding.

uprush of blood. His eyes glared Publie Trustee. Fedden the same find out whether any individual 1,250 exhibits. They dropped the police-sergeantt Joyce, and they were congested, as the others--exactly the same!" department ran at a loss. at the station, and he listened with too, like an angry wolf's.

(To be continued.) scarce concealed contempt as the fussy title man detailed his plans

of the room.

And it seemed as though Olto Rigg dare not put out even life hand to stop her.

for catching the murderer.

"There'll be men scouring the country from this minute on, Mr. Rigg," he said. "I'm also getting through on the 'phone Easthampton--they'll send one of their smartest detectives along by the next train,' I lay. I'll send him along to you, Mr. Rigg."

"Oh, yes," growled. Otto Rigg. "What are you going to do about that woman?"

"You mean Mrs. Sondes, sir?” said the policeman, vaguely,

"Call her what you like," snarled Otto. "What are you going to do' about her?"!

"I don't quite see as I can do any thing at the moment, sir. We ain't got anything against her."

"Nothing against her!" snarled

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against

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Man, where are your wits. Her

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"Old Clubman" glibly suggests An example of the work of the putting clubs on a "business basis." N.B.C.. may be quoted. An In many cases that is impossible Englishman living in Irak heard without scrapping an inefficient that the land question in Ireland building, and the single incident was somewhat similar to his own he mentions of the club which problem in Irak. He wrote to the changed its secretary and made a N.B.C. naking for information a profit is entirely unconvincing to books on the Irish land ques- Clube cannot amalgamate easilytion, that he might apply those without carrying one another's methods on his own settlement losses and without losing tradition, Had the N.B.C, not been in exint- which is as important to the club once he would have had no link to man as to the soldier. And why the knowledge he desired. should clubs he purely commercial?

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