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THE METAL BOX

By THOMAS COBB.

(Author of “Pules Preténces," Mrs. Pomeroy's Reputation, dr.}

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CHAPTER VI

A Change in Manner. Foster Markwell telephoned" to Theresa shortly after breakfast on Thursday morning-Thursday, January the seventeenth, It seemed a long week since Miss Croom's death. Miss Fevorsham consented, promptly enough, to lunch at the "Carlton," and when he reached Treadwell Manaton, greeted him even more cordially than usual, perhaps, because of his longer absence. They had not met since the previous Thursday.

As he followed her into the 'sit-

ting-room, however, her smile faded.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH

1928.

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"THE CIRCUS" AND "THE ENEMY,"

CHARLIE'S RECORDS,

New York, Feb. 8. Charles Sponeer Chaplin lá variously paying for his two years' vacation, making up that much dis- cussed alimony and adding now figures for the income tax man at this present moment,

For his film, "The Circus," is quite the rage of Broadway. Such records for attendanco na may be filed away in the statistical reports are being smashed day by day and in every way.

Charles Spencer Chaplin has proved beyond a shadow of doubt all that was sald about him when the Indies' clubs were so zealously trying to shut down his pictures:

he is one of our two or three lead-

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Only at brief intervals does he deliver himself of those expres- slons that the psychologista and intellectuads were inclined to make so much fuss about. Otherwise he is carried along from one, de- feat to another, from one discon- eerling encounter to another.

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without a word of explanation to her nephew. No wonder she had FOSTER MARKWELL,' whe conjured him not to part with it. travels periodically as ship's She may have decked herself out doctor, meets and admires with them in the privacy of her THERESA FEVERSHAM, niece own room, though this seemed in- "Are you in mourning?" she of ELIAS FEVERSHAM,

congruous, or height have asked. "Have you lost, someone American millionaire newspaper known of some disreputable bia-stuce I saw you last? Is that the owner, staying in London. tory attaching to them, which had reason you slayed away?" Foster's aunt MISS CROOM asks prevented the over-scrupulous him to take care of a small metal ittle woman from turning her! "You may have read about the deed box, with instructions to property to account,

murder at Haverstock Hl, surrender it to none but herself. Foster Markwell had no such answered Foster, and explained Subsequently she is discovered meticulous zeropics. There ought that Miss Croom was his aunting Idols. murdered.

to be a moral statute of limita- Nothing could have been more tians, or where would one bell consolatory than Theresa's sym- CHAPTER V.

Wherewith, it becomes embarras. Possession was nine points of thepathy. She had an expressive sing to report just here and there Treasure Trove.

law. He had suddenly become a face, and as she stood close to his that "The Circus" shows the result rich man, thonch at the moment ske, with her eyes raised, he of the year's vacation from it that It was past one when Foster he could not tell how rich. The thought they were the most won-Charlie was forced to take. Markwell let himself into the world lay before him, and as he derfully dark blue he had ever What is most interesting is that house in Upper Baker Street, replaced the gems in their recep- looked into, forming a piquant; the Chaplin we find in this film is having had an interview with an thele, after examining them one by contrast to her fair hair, the Chaplin of the old two-reel underinker, and lunched on his ene, his thoughts Larned 10 way from Baynton. Crescent.

days; the Chaplin who was bounced' Ils regard touched high water from slapstick to boottip. In this delightful Although not a stickler for con-hestow them on the woman "one murk that day, and he resented picture Chaplin moves about on ventional mourning his brown loved! How well they would the glances of the good-looking, more or leas winged feet and action tweed suit and old Harrovian tie hecome her! Not that he red-haired man who was one of a becomes the keynote. seemed inappropriate, and going imagined her as eaving very much rather conspicuous party of four to his bedroom, he noticed on the that kind of display, She at a table in the middle of the chest of drawers the brown paper always dress

looked quietly, wearing restaurant., He

about parcel which he had received from

szarrely any jewellery.

twenty-six, and when presently Mias Croom with strict injunctions

Poster knew little about the law,he rose. Foster saw that he was not to part with it to anybody but and eared less. The essential unusually tall, more than six feet, herself.

fact was that everything of which and wide-shouldered. Exceeding She had been the kind of his aunt had died possessed was well-groomed, he had no doubt anxious little woman to make a his, there was no one else who passed through a pubife school fuss about trifles, and he had had the slightest claim. He and university; the only fault There are two episodes in "The scarcely given her box a thought from the evening she put it in hissed that, as a matter of form, that could be found, and probably Circus" that will not soon be for- he might have to employ a saliel Foster had the inelination to be gotten. One reveals Charlie chased hands till now. That it could be

Lor to take out letters of adminis-critical. being that his eyes were by an unfriendly mule connected in any way with herration on his behalf, but even rather small and close together. the lion's cage, where he inad- death, he did not for an instant then, he was by no nicans certain Still, he was a handsome, dis- vertently locks himself in. Chap suspect, for there seemed scarcely

and oulin has never done anything fun- a doubt that she had been killed he should say a word about this tinguished-looking man.

his way out with his frients, henier. But there is too little of it. by an ordinary burglar, who had unexpected haul.

For the present, at least, he bowed to Theresa, who had evi- Much could be cul that this seene stolen everything portable and intended to keep his own counsel, dently not recognised him till might be padded,, convertible.

Now, however, the parcel ought, but lodging-house bedroom was that moment. She nodded and And there is his tight wire per- scarcely a. suitable place for the smiled in her somewhat casual formance. In this, Charlie takes surely, to be opened. Foster was bestowal of the gems. After con-way, but made no remark about the place of the great and peerless Miss Crbom's heir-at-low, and she had always had a nervous dread siderable reflection he retied the him. Obviously she was not en-performer. He arranges to have of making a will.

metal box in its original brown tirely lacking friends in London, an invisible wire attached to hin More than once she had spoken almost apole-paper, and on Saturday morning and indeed Foster knew this was belt, achieves astounding feats over the crowd without visible took it to the bank in Whitehall. her third visit. getically of her government

means of support. That Thursday formed a divid- The situations complicated by annuity and he stood to gain where for the last. fow years he nothing by her death beyond the had kept his unimportant accounting line, it acemed when he looked the arrival of a number of escaped proceeds from the sale of the Having been assured that it would back, in Foster Markwell's life. monkeys who clutter up the rope

in the strong room Lill might stand to her credit at the de personal application for ita bank, after payment of the funeral return, he turned his thoughts to Freeable and sympathetic before, to me that the monkey business the inquent which was to be held and the next time they met she was carried too far and achieved

was altogether different. What an anti-climax.

But it is obvious that the people The parcel, whatever it contained, at two o'clock.

The proceedings did not lastad changed in her, he would was his own properly and as soon

Foster identified the have found it difficult to explain, want Charlie back. They are as he had put on a darker suit and very long, a grey tie, he carried it to the bed, hody, and testified that he had last but he became conscious of an clamoring for him; packing the KENILWORTH CASTLE.

on Saturday, shrieking with laughter. removed the paper wrapping, and seen Miss Croom alive on Tues-alteration the moment she admit- doors until well after midnight and disclosed an old black, ennmelled day evening. Martha Keene gaveted him to her flat metal deed box, which might, to evidence, and the police constable when she greeted him with a judge by appearances, have been who had discovered the crime, then smile, it was true, though her The second Broadway event is the she achieves just in his aunt's possession for years, the doctors who had made the post spontaneity had gone, and on the "come-back" of Lillian. Gigh. In

From year bo year the historic or even in his grandfather's. On mortem. One of them mentioned, as way to the "Savoy" in a taxi, she "The Enemy,"

rains of Kenilworth Castle, which Laking it up to examine the lock, matter of some interest, that the remained so persistently silent about all that the most avid fans For several pictures the Gish had he fancied he could detect dead woman's skull had been that he asked what was the mat- and critics have claimed for her. metallic sound, and wondered abnormally thin, so that a blower.

seemed to us to be rather impro was 50 closely associated with whether some of the articles which delivered with similar force might

this war picture the producers have Leicester, and the ill-futed Amy Sergeant Galloway had put in his

bable, if not impossible. But in Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of list as missing might, by way of

"Perhaps you have," she return-given her no lae bush to run Robaart, give increased cause for

around, and so she seems saved for precaution against thieves, have

the number of recent, burglaries ed, soberly. been slowed away in the box,

"Won't you tell me what I've the arts.

They might have left the bird After trying vainly the few keys in the neighbourhood, the jury

returned a verdict of "Wilful done?" he urged, but she shook! on his own bunch, he appealed to merder against some person un-her head, rather in sorrow than cage out, for bird cages and lilac bushes have always seemed to, us Mrk. Hatchings, who produced a

in anger, he thought.

time to time. That portion of the score or more of various shapes known," and Foster outside the

to be Lillian's weakness. court. was, aerosted by Mr.

The picture, just out of the ruins known as Leicester's Build-| United Artist's plant, is taken "I can only assure you it's not from Channing Pollock's burning Ings is at present being streng- ant sideways on the bed, trying on one of his visite to Baynton more repronchful than usual," he anti-war play and, as such, is the thened, and to this end an elabor- As they stood talking insisted, and during the meal, first photoplay to carry a denun-ale scaffolding has been erected. one key after another, till present-Crescent. ly he found offe that filled. about the funeral which was to

INTERIOR CLEANLINESS Raising the lid, he saw a large, take place on Tuesday, one or two amidat the talking and laughter ciation of the sport of Mars. Even This is the portion of the Castle solled, bandanna handkerchief, but young men hovered about with and the music of the band, he though it sags toward the end, allotted to Queen Elizabeth on the removing this, he started to his cameras, and when Foster walked could not shake off a suspicion has a powerful story to tell and occasion of the sumptuous enter-

that she was keeping him under Mile. Gish does everything a real tainment given her Malo by is of paramount importance to WHH overtaken by.

observation. Something must artist might be expected to do to the Earl of Leicester, and which all who value youth, health and feet with an exclamation of pro-away, he

eflelency. To keep the system Sergeant Galloway..

extended over many days. found astonishment.

elean and in perfect working order Do you remember a friend of have happened since last Thurs- help. The box was filled with a mis-

use Pinkettes, the dainty little re- cellaneous collection of gems, Miss Croom's named Hillyard?" day, though he could not imagine what, and in the hope of finding

"THE CIRCUS.”

gulators which neither pain nor worth, Foster told himself a king's the inquired.

"I've never heard the name out, he began in his turn to watch

Theresa. Never had be seen so

CROWDED HOUSES AT THE. many in such a small space: rings who is he?" answered Foster.

"Just what we want to find out,

On leaving the restaurant, she

QUEEN'S, set with precious stanca,

Miss Croom had a call said she should prefer to walk a diamonds, emeralds, rubies: Doctor,

Charlie Chaplin's great comedy, brooches, pendants, heavy gold from someone who used the name part of the way home, and though

Bort of introduction. I

the day, being Saturday, many "The Circus, continues to draw bangles, a tiara containing scores s of magnificent diamonds, a neck-thought you might be familiar shops were closed, their windows crowded houses at the Queen's Was Theatre. Most cinema-goers are were unshuttered. Foster band two inches wide, consisting with it.".

Foster explained, that she had surprised that she should stop under the impression that Charlie POLA NEGRI'S BIG SUCCESS. entirely of gorgeous rubies, a double row of darkish pearls, not had very few friends, and that as more than once, and invariably at Chaplin, never goes to any great

-about his costume. Pola Negri has a big part to play of great size, but marvellously he was often at sea for months jewellers'. She called his atten-pains

would. never put him in "The Crown of Lica," which is matched both in colour and size. at a time, he knew little about tion to various gems, though she They

interest in in the

class at present being shown at the And they were all his own! them. He parted from the ser had never taken an Their value must be enormous, nor geant at the Underground station, such things before. On Saturday Adolphe Menjou or Gloria Swanson. World Theatre. The story is full Was it possible to question their and on Sunday morning he took her out to dine, and still in the minds of most people, his of romance, and although ranny of Shanghal. Let Pinkettes origin. How his eccentric grand-Hutchings excitedly exhibited an it was impossible not to be aware baggy trousers are just a pair of its incidents border on the Impos father had obtained possession of illustrated newspaper, containing of the disconcerting change. them, it was futile to speculate, a.full description of the murder

expenses.

The sky seems to have clouded not have proved fatal to ninety-over," he said. "I feel as if I had nine persons out of a hundred. been putting my foot in it." When the coroner animadverted on

"I think I prefer to leave.it to and size, tied together by a piece Oliphant, the minister, whom he your own conscience," she said. of lape.

Returning to his room, Foster remembered meeting some while

ransom.

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but that he had brought them and his photograph as the victim's from India, Foster

at once next of kin.

assumed. From where else could!

Frequently as he thought of his nunt have got them? Thoy Theresa Feversham; he held no Had possibly been bestowed on communication with her till after her father for services (perhaps the funeral. He was surprised by of flowers. that equívocal) rendered to the poten-the number tate to whose court the late Mr. arrived at the house in Baynton and amongst others Croom had been attached, and he, Crescent

large heart-shaped misar as he was, had preferred to noticed a hoard them, rather than change cushion, formed entirely of prim- them into coin of this realm,

rodes.

Attached to it was a card, "with All these years, since his death, fifteen years,; the treasure had love and fondest memories from Of course ho been hidden away in that little Monica Railton." suburban house, Miss Croom, per-remembered the girl. A sort of haps, inspecting them from time protegee of his aunt's, the to timo in secret, but neither daughter of a painter, at Addison speaking of them nor parting with Bulidings, Chulk Farm. Foster a single gera, till the dread of had been introduced to her while Josing her precious possessions, she was staying with Miss Croom induced her to entrust. the box after her father's sudden death,

(To be continued.)

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