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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-4-21, Page 6". T:40.Law of Tooth and Talon (Copyright) Synopsis of Preceding Chapters, Louie ,Vogel, a notorious criminal, is offered $5,000 by -Lebrun to kidnap Judge Graham, terror of evil -doers. As Lebrun leaves "Silver Dannn'e saloon, he is observed by Ralph Charlton of the Department of Just- tice who has dubbed him "The Gray Wolf." Vogel takes the $1,000 given him to bind the. compact to Stella Lathrop, a country girl he had, found starving in the city and befriended. Stella is now earning honest wages'in a factory and, refuses to marry Vogel unless he gives up his evil ways. She has, however, fallen a convert to Bolshevism. Vogel carries out his pact. Judge Graham lies bohad in a shack some mites out of the city. "The Gray' Wolf" demands that the Judge should let certain prisoners off with merely a fine. Threats of death for himself and torture for his son have no weight with the just Judge. Charlton becomes suspicious of "The Gray Wolf" and Vogel. CHAPTER V. The Inner Council. Stella Lathrop was sorely puzzled , by the fact that Louie Vogel had not met her in front of Maasey's after the meeting of radicals following her re- fusal to go to the mosries with him. Neither had she seen anything of him for several days thereafter. Anxiously she read the daily papers, expecting yet hoping she would net find his ar- rest "with the goods on," chronicled there with elaborate details. "E:g Louie" had never taken the girl into his confidence regarding any of his exploits. Neither 'had he at- tempted to conceal from her the fact that he lived outside the law, but such information as she had was picked up . -piecemeal from those of' his associates . who also were hers. It was to them i that she now turned for news of his , whereabouts. They had none. "He's probably sore at me for what I said," she thought; with . some qualms she remembered the picture she had suggested to him of his being . slain at the hands of the police "I guess -it's up to me to hunt himup and let him see my heart's in the right place." And to that bask she devoted herself about the time that the city was be- ing turned upside down in the search for Juege Graham. Stella went about .1 the matter quietly. She approached each crooks 'as might be expected to knew if any harm had befallen "Big Louie;" she sought out the lawyer - whom repeat said had been retained, permanently' to "spring" Vogel wheni . happened to be taken up by the police; she telephoned to those places I he was known to haunt. But her ef- fects were fruitless. I It was upon her rehire to her room from one of these quests that she <Hs- i covered a note under the door. It bore neither heading nor signature and its wording would have conveyed to any- one without the key the impression that -it was merely a message from a very dear friend who was, appoin.ting a meeting place for the evening. :Stella, reading between the lines, recognized it as a summons to a very secret meeting of some of the leaders of the most radical circles in the city. She had been informed by one of them that her sincerity and earnestness had been noticed., that she had been sug- gested as an excellent person for some important work if She were willing to! undertake it. Notice would be sent her when to be ready, and how to con- duct herself. Stella hurried into- the best clothes ; she possessed and set out to keep- the appointment. The bookstore whereme Charlton had once seen Lebruwas the appointed redezvous. An old man, gray haired and bespectacled, emerg- ed from the depths behind the rows on 'rows of bookcases and hastened to meet her as soon as she had entered the door. ._"There is something you wish, , miss?" he askect, bowing before her.! , He wrung hie hands continually while' he watched her closely from behind his thick -lensed glasses. Stella, fol- lowing in,structiens which had been given her, touched her mouth with a finger as if slightly' in doubt as to what she really did wish. "Yes," she replied, slowly. "I wish to see some books esn the French revolution." It was the password with which she had been supplied. "Yen miss." The old bookseller turned and led the way, toward the roar of the store. "We have some very fine books and a choice will not be difficult." She followed him to a well-filled bookcase against thesvall. Still talk- ing of the treasures on the subject she , might be expected to find, he reached out a hann, pushed gently upon the shelves and- they swung upon well - ;oiled hinges, revealing a, narrow door- way ,and, leading downward, a flight of steps. The old man motioned to- iward them, she stepped upon the top landing. a dim electric light suddenly • appeaneri at the foot of the flight and the bookcase swung to behind her. Stella had not expected Met this but she bravely began her descent Stretching away from the foot of the steps was a tunnel that led she could not tell where, but the followed it Therewas no alternative but to re - I tra'her steps. Perhaps a hundred feet from where the steps had ceded she discerned another light in the dis- tance, and beyond it a doer barred the way. Nothing had been said to Iher about what she sh.ould do beyond asking the old bookseller for works on the French revolution, and, reaching the door, she paused. Instantly she was conecimis that from behind it she was being studied by unseen eyesi an intense light sudidenly flashed , into her very face, but immediately went cut again, and the door swung open. Stella stepped through it and found herself in a small anteroom, confront- ed by a man wham she reeognized as having been a frequent speaker at the open meetings which she had attend- ed. "You are prompt, IVIiss Lathrop," he said. The door which had admitted her swung to, a heavy iron bar drop- ped noiselessly into place and her guide led her to a sticond door upon which he rapped sharply a number of times with pauses -between. It, too swung open without sound and Stella moved forward into a larger room. About a long table sat perhaps a dozen men and half that number of women. They arose as Stellats guide urged, her forward. "This is Miss Lathrop," he said, and there was bowing all around. The girl was somewhat confused and embar- rassed by thus becoming the centre of attraction, but she quickly regained her poise. With two exceptions -she had seen all these people and talked with most of them at the _meetings which she had attended. The exceptions sat at the head and foot of the table, and although she did itot know him, the' one who sat at the head was Otto Lebrune, known to agents of the Department of Jus- tice as "The Gray Wolf." . The other had a faze with an obviously Teutonic cast, fat, flabby, with pig -eyes. His neck overlapped his collar in folds, his hair was parripaciouteed • and his bulk threatened the destruction of bhp chair into which he dropped heavily as soon as a seat had been pointed out to the latest arrival. "Before we proceed further, it is necessary that the oath' be administer ed to QuT new member and that she be acquainted with the purpase's of this body." Otto Lebrune was the speaker. She could not tell why, but Stella took an instinctive dislike to him. "Miss Lathrop's sentrinients have been too thoroughly investigated to permit of any reluctance on. our part to taking her into our full confi- dence," he went on in his oily tones. Then, turning to her, he said, "Before I administer to you the oath you have the opportunity to withdraw from our .,midst." • She shook her head. "I'll stick," she said. "You will now repeat after inc the following 'oath," continued Lebrune "I swear -to be faithful and true to the mandates of the Inner Council, to cheerfully obey them even at the ex- pense of my life, to give my best ef- forts to carrying out such plans as it may decide upon, to respond promptly to any 'calls made upon me by any of its members' and, above all, to keep locked in my- innermost bosom and to reveal to no one any of the things which I may learn in the in- ner Council, so help me God." "Sounds like I was joinini a lodge," thought Stella as she parroted the words after Lebrune, her hand up- lifted. Then' she bent attention upon what he was saying to her. "Miss Lathrop, the Inner Council is the ruling body in this city for all of those who believe that the day is at hand when a new order of things will come into being throughout the world. The 'common people have been trampl- ed underfoot long enough. Their suf- fering at the hande.of those who have wealth and power must end. The class which has been ruling everywhere- in the world must now step down in favor of those who heretofore have been the- ruled. . "Our comrades in Russia ,have pointed the way' for us. There they have overthrown the despotic czar and . Laugh It Off., Are you Worsted Ina fight? Are you cheated of your right? Laugh It oft" Don't make tragedy of trifles, Don't shoot, butterflies with rifles-- Laugh It off. Dees year work get into kin ts . Are you near all sorts of briefer'? Laugh it off. ,It's sanity you are after There's no'reeeint like laughter'. t off. have understood all of the words he aeeil but alte ,had gained, 4he ideas Whielr he wished to convey. tillone are. nog geotoduit?'se ,, inquired, "people aie't fo eland for it." At once a babel of talk ensued. Eaeli one seemed to be trying to ex- plain to her in his es her own way . how the end was to be accomplished. Lebrune held up his hand for silence. "It is net to be expected that you would grasp the fall breadth of thel plan at once., sister," he said. "You, must absorb it by degrees iis you learn the work of the inner Council. You say people will not stand for it. They must stand for it. Under our glorious banner," he waved a hand toward the red flag adorning the wall, "we will gather in such force that no xesistance -will be great enough to overcome us. Throughout the come - try our agents are at work quietly teaching the doctrines that will rally to our Standard all of those who do not, belong to the ruling classes. The whole strength of the Industrial Workers of the World, the Bolshe- vists, the anarchists', the majority of the Socialists, those who are dissatis- fied with canditioas, the returning sol- diers and sailors who gave up jobs to enlist and returned to find there were ao other jobs for them, the foreign- ers with these ideas already instilled into them --all will flock to join hands with us when the day arrives. "Money? We have money. Our Rus- sian 'comrades haVe seat to help.us with the fight millions taken from the strong -boxes of the rich. -Among ourselves we have raised other mile lions. Oh, there will be plenty of money to start. After that we. take what money we need, take it from the banks, from those who have it; wher- ever we find it We will take it." "What'll the police be dein'owhile we're dein' the takin'?" Stella was practical and to her the police repre- sented a force that was irresistible. "The police! Bah!" It was the fat man at the foot of the table who answered her. "What did the police do in Russia? In Germany? We will not permit the police to do anything. We will kill them if they try.We will kill all those who interfere with us. Blood! Blood! It will run like water and it will be the blood of our enemies. Blood and fire, young wo- man. That is the way we will en- force our plans. The jails will give up their victims. Prison doors will open for them and yawn for those who oppose us and whoni we do not Inwardly 'Stella shivered. "He looks and he talks like a butcher," ,she thought. Outwardly she was perfect- ly calm as she nodded and said: "I get you," , -Evidently this Was taken for indorsement of what had been explained to her. ' "Are there any questions you would like to ask?" Lebrune pat the query to her. , "How You goiin to keep people from findin' out about all this ahead of tine?" she. asked. "If -We're gain! to have all of these "people with us when the time comes we got to let 'em know beforehand, ain't we? How do we know some Of 'ern ain't gain' to turn squealer and tip off things? I know Prie green and all , that and I suppose you've figured this all out. But I want to know, too." ' - "Quite right, sister," aneveerecl Le- brune. Stella" wished he wouldn't call her that. She had no sisterly feelings toward this man. His face recalled to her; like it had to the government agent, the face of a cruel, rapacious wolf. "But those whom we will use as our instruments dib net know the details of our -plans. They are secret with the Inner Council. I, as its presi- dent, am in touch with the presidents of the Inner Councils of other cities. We get our orders ficanethe council of presidents. Local details are left with us. We carry out orders arid plans to fit conditions. But outside of this council , no one knows what those plans are. We tell the mob just what we ,want the mob to know: We tell them what we hope to bring about, but we do not tell them how we are going to do it. Is that clear?" Stella nodded. A big light was be- ginning to break upon her. " She, did not need, to ask further questions to enlighten her as to what was the real object of this Inner .Council.' Loot, robbery, „riots; murder—all of them were permissible to bring about real, ization of the Council's plans. Leh/eine had Mentioned Russia. Stella knew a little of" what was taking place -there. In the factory where she worked she had heard several Russian girlS talk- ing and she had gained -some idea of the turmoil which involved that, coun- try. But of the Bolshevists and what they stood for she was ignorant. She had eagerly attended radical meetings and listened to speeches predicting that 'a: new day was, dawning for the people of the lower 'classes and had approved, but murder and robbery had never entered her head as the methods by which it would be brought about. With sudden realization it burst upon her that it .was to these very things that she had pledged herself. Her soul turned sick within her and.svhilc she appeared to be paying attention to the routine discuisien going op around the table she heard not a single connected sentence. (To he continued.) substituted the soviet form of govern- ment which is contealled by the work- ingmen. In Germany our comrades have followed suit. They have upset the throne and substituted a govern- ment of their own. A harnesemaker who in other days would not have been allowed within gunshot, of the seat of government now is the govern- ment's head. In. England, in. France, in Sweden, in all the countries of Eur- ope, the hour is striking when OUT comrades there will launch their blow for freedom. "We in America are also preparing for the day when we must strike. Those who have wealth must share it with us; industries, factories, shops and governments—natioral, state and city—fling Pans into our hands. It is our birthright. Deprived of it for generations, we are about to take it; Peeneablar if we can, by fonse if We must. Our 'comrades in Russia have nobly shown us hew this can be ac- complished. We have no more use for the American form of government than we had for the Russian system when the czar was ruler. It must he overthrown, even though the eountry be drenched with blood to accomplish our. encle." Ile paused for breath. In his eyes glowed the zeal of the fanatic, About the t a ble in en au] women Maid ed 'their heads in approval. Stella might riot mm Withhad 7 heuUifu1'but Hefty,, The ease that tae class ,gave Miss Ra chei was 'Stayed a•VMY witece they gave, It to, her. She felt, she coalct asnbe:Prasant: siren she, had, centeibuted nothing' to- Wil'rd the gift. With no raoney how could ahe e ? Nevertheless, no girl in the class loved her teacher as libty loved her, And now' Mins, Rachel, with her lovely Smile s, siieil itair:ir t5ich_lier. sweet v oic e was going Slow tears essielled up in Hefty's eyes as she washed the sapper, dishes and set them nt orderly TOWS aeon the pantry shelves; ;'S'he MAUS a thin little girl -with soft brown eyes and thick breads, of haire that fell below her waist., *phi -Mra. Barton had, urged her Mother to cut, them off; ,So muc.h hair took her strength, the, old lady said'; batiHetty's, mother had shaken her heade Hefty Iwas strong enough and her hail, wais her one beauty. , , As Hettn_ca,rried thelast cup inns the pantry she stood there a moment reflecting. Mies Rachel *as going aw'ay' Was there not something she could do for heii? And then, ,as she stood in the dusk of the little pantry and pressed her tear-filled eyes with her handei the answer came. Miss Rachel heard a timid knock at her door an.d lifted her head from her paelstng. ortai.o`Oa`ohrome, voice, smi0icein,li,ea;'dinaishii,esaid inswettMissher.heestit..yentered "Good evening, Betty," she said. Hetty, stalled ,faintly: "Good. even- ing, Miss, Rachel." Then -for a me- ment she. paused. "I felt so sorry," she began tramulously, "because I couldn't give anything toward buying the 'beautiful vase that the rest of the girls gave But I didn't have any money." , Again 'she paueed a moment, then continued: "But Miss Rachel, none of the girls love'you more than node. I love yoUr hands, your eyes, SrOUT smile, and the way you fix your hair, and' your clothes, and everything about 'you. So I've come to -night to ask whether yeu'll let me do something for you, something I can do and some- thing I want to do very much. I've Come to,ii you, Mists Rachel, if you'll let me wash:3411Year clothes be- fore you go' away. Mother says I wash beautifully."' : Miss Rachel looked at Iietty—at the thin little face, lighted by its Wistful eyes, and at the, small rougth hands fingering so nervously a fold of her dress. : "But, dear," she, said Ma trembling voice,. "I don't.; a -tenet' to wash, my clothes." , ' Hefty threw 'both ;arms found her. "Dear Mins' Rachel, I've cried every night for a •weak 'because, I couldn't give anything toward the vase. You won't go-away and make me feel I've done nothing! Dernt you see that I want to have a Part in you; and if yoh won't let irie dot this, -I can't. Pie -else, Miss Rachel." ' Seeing. that Hefty's 'heart was set upon it, Miss Rachel let her have her way, and a few minutes later she crept down the stairs with a big bundle in her arms. Two idaysiafterwarde Hefty brought back the clothes,' snowy white and beautifully ironed. Miss Rachel was to go away the next morning., 'Hefty removed the , cloth, and Miss Rachel saw them in all: their sweet, clean freshness. ' "Dear," she cried, gathering the lit- tle figure into her, arms, "What lovely clothes! How can I thank you? It isnot everyone that is willing tO gird himself with basin and towel as the Master did." • Hetty looked into the dear face. "And have I" she asked - "really . given you something, even though I didn't have any.' money?. 0 Miss Rachel', I wanted -you to know!" Miss Rachel nodded. „ "'Silver and geld have I none; but such as I have give I thee"she quoted softly. Then she paused and added, "Child, child, you have given me more than anyone." • A half hour later whenHefty' took the empty clothes basket down the Stairs her thin little face was softly sn1"011‘iBilhalsIgi;rrin amidgtf:IhaNdvalli,,'I'isssheRZchhiesTesl'aeidd. that!" Peddle Sunlight if You Can. Though you deal in liquid blacking, Dismal bluing and Such things, When you have'a sale to manage, Do it as the robin sings. Put some cheer -up in your business,— Be a chipper sort of man, ' And, with other lines of notions, Peddle sunshine if you can. There's an awful deal of meanness 'In this busy World of ours; But mixed In with weeds the rankest "Ofttleses grow the fittest flowers. Wear a posyon your lapel,— It worl'tehurt the trade you plan, And along, with other samples, Peddle swish -Me if yen can, SIX'T'er cent, of the .litie of ,a Swiss . „ „ railroad 'is -esrerithe, bridge's and 13.5 per cent. threngh tunnels. It'enarda Cluirnerit for .Surri3 etc. Two Labor -Saving Devices. . One of the handiest tools that have on cleaning days is a wire mop-) stick, *which by the way, Was pur- chased for a small sum. The wire an the stick was covered with 'heavy felt material, being very careful that all sharp edges were thoroughly 'covered. Over this put a piece of a wornaut blanket, sewing it securely to the felt. When ordinary dusting is to be dime, I put a deatless duster over the pad- ding, fasten it to the mopetiolt and proceed to duat in the medal way. The long wooden 'handle of the Treepetick enables roe be dust the ont-of-theeWay Corners, and surfaces' almost out of reach; I am able with this device to dust" picture molditiga, ceilings, cor- ners, tops of windows and doors and other high plaices. It saves time and labor, and I never have to use a 'chair or ladder as was iteceasary formerly. The other handy device is a piece of ordinary refiner lune which has been a greet helia on wash day'. By the- use of this hose which is eix feet in lengths Inave Saved myself many steps and a tired haat' as well. I can fill ma assasb 'Una with „cold water, which , eaves carrying' and lifting., it, alia me ,tinte, fon many other, necessary duties that invariably occur on 'wash - „Chlicin 'Account Book. ga'n'ce, why not 'teach our c'hild'ter the value of qicumey? Try giving ‚thorn a certain :mount each week for duties Well pertforined,. 'increasing' lane cover certain • extra tasks, not enough: to giYe" them the impreesion that yap are paying„ them wages, hut a snail- , lated sum. -.IMnoite 'a email fine oat trf.'the allowance f or duties neglected' oiig, Have them keep an account book, and credit 'themselves' With all 'blies' receive, atal charge theinselees with all the i spend, and balance ',the nook Once a.' month. Encourage' them to save the nickels and dimes until' they :Snip:Matt:. to 'dollars, With which, they nnn eit.firt.aehenk.account ..Or bay some a thing wished -for, inatearl 'of ,speading every nickel 'for facifish toys er tool nettlaiCand This' business training' Will' be of benefit in, later yeare, a o_ sr, to, impair theirdigestiere ,ic sed Autos -"re earstoa:17re eailyi 7tiipPr:eril7J39(.11TV'eFirc's";‘.'docirir"rja"ginitert run of .irame..diritaeco it yriut in as to, look them over; etir oak, es to, take any car...to.,city, repegsoptettye,for" Inspection. Very largo stock 'always on hand 40g "ifeoure41,7SY'8 t`re'et'U,sed‘Can 41.arIcTeitoronto , Still Made a Noise, An Italian fruit dealer -was caught 'in, the railroad yards in his Ford track. Beeeming excited, he killed his engine, stopping the truck on the track, from which it was knocked by a switch en - nine. Next day a friend asked him if the ear was badly damaged. ,`Yes," replica , time Italian, "he pretty bad smashe up." 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Ifere for centuries countless yessels have been driven to pieces talon the, eheals—ships of battle, treasure bear - ems' and andeunens carrying precious , cargoes: Here innumerable lives have - been. lost, 'ana here is 'believed .tee be the -greatest treasure cache , in the w(Drttnotird.'.always were, the 'Goodwin Sands the dread tear of seafaring, men .they are to -day. Once, so tradition runs, before the Norman comniestitef England; these' barren sands were the fertile and beautiful estate of ,the Earl of Goodwine, where he ruled in peace and made his home. It was then' an isiland surrounded by a high Sea wall - to keep back the‘chargingeratersn, With the coining of the Nortnans, the earl was compelled to turn his lit- tle island estate ever to the abbey of St. Augustine at Canterbury. The ab- bot iii charge,. little realizing the con- ditions oto ) piireieveae, prevalent in his newly obtain- ed estate, allowed the great sea walls wetikened by the con- stant beating of the waves. Engulfed by the Sea. In 1099 came a great storm. The I seas` rolled hig-h and broke with terri- fic forte on the weakened walls, Two days it lasted. The skies were, dark-, ened and many ships were lost, When calm again came; the people in the little ,village of Deal gazed across the water toward the site of the. little is- land estate anti rubbed their eyes. The island had disappeared. The sea had' engulfed it. In the yearn that followed, the island -was more deeply submerged and covered with sands. It became the scene of innumerable wreeks. Every gale brought a new victim to be swal- lowed by the. shifting sands. Even in fair weather ships, striking the un- chartered shoals, • would be speedily drawn below the waves by the action of the sands. Because of the vast treasure known to have been contained. in many of the ships wrecked on the sands, the. spot - which, at low tide stands several feet above the water, has been the meet - of treasure -seekers. Many ,schemes have been employed from timele-time to reclaim the cargoes for its own. Invariably these attempts .have failed, for the ships and their cargoes, upon 'striking the sands, 'were engulf.' ed and drawn below the level of the sea bed by the peculiar action and composition of the shoals. The latest attempt to uncover these riches of centuries, is expected to be made according to plans put forward. by Lord Headway, president of the Society. of Engineers of Great Britain, in an address before that body in Lon, don recently. - Highly Speculative Adventure. Lord Headway's plan provides for the sinking of a concrete tower near the sands in Trinity Bay, and from that point' to run tunnels in all direc- tions te the cargoes which have been drawn beneath the surface, - "The problem of the Goodwin. Sands Is' not exactly 'wildcatting,' " he is re- ported to have said, "but it comestin- 'der the, heading of 'highly speculative' adventure.' It is none the less fae- cinating for that, and it is far .more sound than many mining ventures, for the treasure is' really -there." _- History bears out the statement of Lord Headway.that the ,treasure is really there. In ,one eistance,-a Span- iel} treasure ship; laden with gold and ,precious jewels, was seen by fisher- men to strike :the 'sand elwals. Be- fore rescue boats could ,master the seas between the shore and the ship it had...been; completely swallowed by the sands, The reat sand brinks '110 on the coast of Kent,- and are approximately ten miles long, stretching 'from Rams- gatoto Kingsdown. AtIiigh tide they are completelY _stibmerged; while at ' low tide a co,nsiderable portion is from three to five feet above sea level, and sufficiently' firm to walk upon. 'cricket matches are often staged on the sands by' the Ramsgate sportsmen during the period of 'low tide. Perhaps theemost terrible catastro- phe recorded there *as the wreck of folieteen ships during a great storm In November', 1703, Now lightships, buoys arid other means of. protection from the shoals surround the sunken Island, but still, during heavy galoa' 'and fogs, When the lights or the new lightship are obliterated, neW-ships are added to the list of victims for this "graveyard of the seas." Victoria's Brown Coal. The state of, Victoria will it can an ,., tiClil:',dtlet.;!.4%.1,17seitr'o'sft'altrirpollwiTlhceota'el estimated to cont,l,VC nootcoV tons la an area of about ri'efiguarblini.e. According to a Paris mathetr461eiat the adeptieri of GreenzVich the standard for Prance increased blit lighting expense of eeery French household 1 per cent. 0, e