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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-02-01, Page 6THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE --------------------- —— 17,; , ".its 5=5= by Eardley Beswick liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiPiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin “Certainly. Come in, please.” As the xnan entered the room his keen black eyes seeme.d to whip found like a lizard’s. “My name is pttomeyer, Fritz Ottomeyer,” he announced, bowing, j “Oh, yes,” was the pleasantly yoiced answer, though inwardly the fjame voice was saying: “Oh ,no it isn’t, my lad. We happen to know better in this part of the ■world,” Aloud again Hendringham said: “Won’t you sit down?” ♦ But Ottomeyer, or Morganthau, .Walked straight over to the bed and lifting the valance looked under it. : “Really, Mr.-—er—Ottomeyer, do you always behave like this?” ’ Rising, the little man grinned al- !most frankly and engagingly he re­ plied: “I really must'apologize. The t'a^at is I suffer from phobias, effect of shell shock, you know. I can’t bear to sit down in a room until I’ve assured myself against my terrors. I'm a very nervous man, frightened ’as a rabbit so long corner from which ‘spring out at me. there you are. We these neuroses unfortunately.” “If that’s the case,” some urge for the perilous impelled Geoffery to reply; “please satisfy yourself that there is no such possibility. Perhaps you’d care to look up the chimney, or what about the ward­ robe?” “Oh, but how sympathetic of you!” answered the visitor.“I do not fancy that I should feel any ill effects if si neglected to study the interior of ;the fireplace, but about this ward­ robe ...” He walked over and ’stood before it, running a connois­ seur’s fingers daintily over the ma- 'chine-cut mouldings. “I have greatest enthusiasm for these llightful English period pieces,” said, i Well, if he was going to open ’door the secret of the wardrobe ■would be his at any moment, .’thought Hendringham, and that •would be that, and no good getting excited about it either. Aloud he ’said: “Yes, I suppose it is an inter­ Jesting piece for the collector. Ggnu- ;ine Tottenham Court Road, mass- ’•produced in Hackney, I imagine.” I The visitor -continued to run his ■fingers over the mouldings for a J moment, then he rapped sharply on Hhe plywood front, “Dear me,” he ■said, “do you really mean to say it • is as old as that?” | “Every minute of it,” •ironically assured, j “Really! Would you mind if I ^looked at the inside?” * Before the words had properly j left his lips Mr. Morganthau-Otto- 4 meyer had jerked the 4 door open. I R as there is a anyone might Childish, but. cannot control the de- he the me,” he he was wardrobe Business Offer 7. Hendringham was too* to show., the intensity of ’ ings. Acting as if ■^propelled he just walked over and • shut the wardrobe firmly, and as b.e did so his eye told him that his suits hung orderly and that, beyond a pair of yellow shoes among his own more cober-coloured ones on the shelf beneath there was no sign of Johnny Cope being in occupation. He turned to observe his visitor bending again to peer as if disbe­ lieving his eyes beneath the bed. “Ah that now,” he remarked "is genuine Wolverhampton of the Iron Age. (Springs are probably from Warrington though. They nearly al­ ways are.” Even as he spoke he was wondering at his own glibness, at his air of unconcern when actually all his nerves were astir. “Anything ■else among my landlady’s effects that interests you, Mr.—er—Otto- meyer?” he enquired. “Mr. Hendringham, you have al­ ready been far too gracious in over­ looking my absurd neuroses. You see they even drive me to pretend an interest in quite normally atroci­ ous furniture. May I compliment you on understanding so readily? It is refreshing to meet' a man of the world again.” He bowed and, at last accepting one of the window chairs drew it back some six feet from the dismayed his feel- mechanically Chest Wheezing Means Bronchitis The principal symptom of bron­ chitis is a dry, harsh, hacking cough accompanied with a rapid wheezing and feeling of tightness across the chest. There is a rising of phlegm, espe­ cially in the morning. This phlegm is at first Of a light color, but as the disease progresses becomes yel­ lowish or greenish, and is sometimes streaked with blood. You will find in Dr. Wood’s Nor­ way Pine Syrup a remedy to stimu­ late the weakened bronchial organs, subdue the inflammation, soothe the irritated parts, loosen the phlegm and mucus, and. help nature to easily dislodge the morbid accumulation. The T. Milburn Oo., Ltd., Toronto, Ont window before seating himself. Geoffery took out his cigarette case. He wanted a cigarette partic­ ularly badly, and it piqued him a little to notice that the visitor des­ pite his shell-shock accepted one with a hand steadier than that with which he extended the case. Apart too from the sense of excitement, his mind was bothered to account for the disappearance of Johnny Cope. The stranger however, had no more curiosity to display in the mat­ ter of hiding places. He had satis­ fied himself apparently that they were alone. After he had lit the cigarette he eyed the smouldering point reflectively for a moment and then began to speak. “I’ll come straight to the point, Mr. Hendringham,” he said. “I fancy we are both interested in the same things, furniture for example and at the moment two celluloid tubes filled with a new explosive.” He stared hard as he said the last words and in spite of efforts to set his own face like a mask, Hendring­ ham was conscious that his eyes were widening with amazement at the man’s effrontery. “I see that you are too much of the world to attempt to refute that statement,” the yisitor went on “That makes it easier for us to do business. Now don’t get the idea that I want your tubes. Not for one moment do I want them. As you have probably learned already, their pos­ session can be an embarrassment. All I need is a very small quantity of the power out of one of them, a trifling quantity, less than a tea­ spoonful. And for that I am will­ ing to exchange the sum of one thousand pounds in Bearer Bonds. Now, what have you to say to that?” “I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me,” “Come, Mr. Hendringham. I as­ sure you I am not prepared to go any higher for the very small quant­ ity I need. And there is positively not the least risk — perhaps you had not realized that? I have with me a powder that is precisely simil­ ar in appearance with which we can fill up the tubes again. I have wax of precisely the same colour and quality, in fact from the very same source as that with which the tubes are sealed. When I get my powder you get your money and no one is a bit the wiser.” “Nothing doing, old man.” “Oh come! will be pretty this morning. This line of attack failed of its effect, tending to antagonize one who up to then had bedn disposed to regard the whole affair as pre­ posterously amusing. “As a matter of fact you’re wasting your time, Mr. Ottameyer. I haven’t the tubes any longer,” Surely, he thought, this would put an end to the man’s persistance, and it was the truth for that matter. “Have them no longer?” The black eye brows shot up over the pin-point eyes in an expression of utter disbelief. “Surely you are not seriously telling me that?” “I am. The fact is they were stolen this morning.” “And I find you totally uncon­ cerned? No, my friend, that is not the sort of story with which to re­ ject an offer of a thousand pounds, it is not even a story which I find myself able to believe. Come, I will increase my offer to the limit with­ out further beating about the bush as you pounds, “It’s meyer, gone, I Mr. Ottomeyer-Morganthau politely. “In that case, for I must of course accept your apologizing for my previous ness, I will detain you no longer, he said, and seemed as if about to hold out his hand. But, glancing ' at the palm of his hand he withdrew i it abruptly’ and a look of distress ! overspread his features. “Forgive me,” he begged. “I have made my hands unbelievably dirty in the course of my enthusiasm for furni- ; ture of the—er—Tottenham Court i Road period. Would it be asking too great a favor to beg the use of your I toilet stand?” I “Carry on by all means,” Geof­ fery nodded towards the wash bas- in. i Promptly the visitor stripped his jacket and rolled his shirt sleeves | over hairy forearms. Then he lath- 1 ered his hands and washed them i serdpulously. From the rack he took a towel and came forward os­ tentatiously drying, his cigarette drooping from the corner of his mouth. “Astonishing, the absence of cleanliness in the average Eng­ lish household. I don’t fancy I can bring* myself to stay many days in this establishment,” he said, and with his speech the cigarette dtop- I ped from his Bps and fell at Hend- come, Mr. Hendringhafii, Think of the good times you able to give that remarkably girl I passed on the stairs call it. shall we no good They’re tell you.” Fifteen hundred say?” really, Mr. Otto- good, completely rose which word, rude- >> ringham’s feet. Consideration for the carpet as much as those of politeness influ­ enced a stoop to pick it up for him and in a flash, the towel came round shoulders and lowcv jaw. It was, Hendringham realized af- neat binding the fel- as he nothing terward and extraordinary piece of work, gagging and in a single movement. And low was strong. Struggle would his victim could do against that strength, handicapped as he was by the constriction of his arms. In a trice he was helplessly bound, the towel knotted tightly behind his back. Then his assail­ ant impudently drew the silk hand­ kerchief from his victim’s breast pocket and employed it to bind his wrists together. “Better sit on the bed, Mr. Hend­ ringham,” he remarked pleasantly, “while I have a look around.” He strolled grandly across the floor without so much as bothering to guard himself against being rushed from the rear, so confident did he justifiably feel in the efficacy -of his work, and having turned the key in the lock and faced around once more, a smooth smile on his sallow face. “It would be annoying if we were to be disturbed now’that we are getting on so nicely.” he com­ mented. “You can’t tell how dis­ appointed I am that you should force me to adopt these crude and unpleasant methods.” Geoffery sat impotently on the bed wondering when, if ever, John­ ny Cope would appear from when­ ever he was now concealed. He even toyed with the idea that the fellow added the practice of leviation to his undoubted but freakishly occur­ ring gift of clairvoyance. And mean­ while the suave Mr. Morganthau or Ottomeyer or whatever his name really was rapidly as if with a practised skill ran through the con­ tents of kitbag and attache case, foraged in the drawers of the dress­ ing table, even looked behind the newspaper that decorated the fire­ place. In his manner, unhurried and efficient, he went, through the whole contents of the room, his black brows to seem blacker as he sought unsuccessfully. He was al­ most angry when he came at last to stand once more before t'he ward­ robe. “You are giving me a great deal of unecessary trouble, you know, you most obstinate, and unbusiness­ like young man,” he observed and put out a hand to open the ward­ robe door. Cope Takes a Hand Johnny Cope did not spring from the wardrobe as Hendringham had half expected he would. He just stood there, smiling confidently, still in stocking feet, his head bent slightly to avoid the lintel, Mr. Pamphlett’s wicked little firearm in his hand. Neither did he have to say a word The foreign gentleman’s hands shot up as if imploringly at the mere sight of him, and he made a sudden step backward. “Cope!” he gasped. “Then you were in there after all!” “I dont think it maters where I was, Morganthau. The point is I am here now and that I don’t at all approve of your keeping Hendring­ ham tied up like that. He’s in my professional care, you know, suffer­ ing from burns and shock, the after effects of an explosion he was so unfortunate as to be concerned in last night.” “I am deeply sorry,” said the other apologetically. “I assure you it was a most disagreeable necessity. As you know I hate all forms of viol­ ence. But you% mentioned an ex­ plosion . . ” his button eyes assum­ ed a knowing look. “Am I to un­ derstand that that explains our in­ ability to come to terms just now?” “.Better ask him yourself. I be­ lieve I heard him say the things were stolen, but at any rate there certainly whs a very violent explo­ sion last night. Gresham ringham “How “How ary. him pronto for that.” “Assuredly. With ,\e best will in the world. But of course I did not meaft that it was unfortunate that Mr, Hendringham escaped. Do you know I still find it hard to believe that such a calamity as the destruc­ tion of those tubes of powder can actually have accurred,” His head was turned over his shoulder to lend the enforcement of a grimace to his words as he worked at un­ tying the handkerchief and towel, his plump little tapering fingers working as efficiently as they had when they made the first knots. “Tt, tt, tt,” his tongue clicked, “To * think those their By towel Blew hal'f the Works to pieces. HendA escaped by a miracle.” extremely unfortunate!” extremely uncompliment- I reckon you’d bettef untie the silk handkerchief, smoothing and folding it scrupulously. “Not much the worse, Mr. Hendringham,” he remarked as he handed it back with a bow from the waist. “You can conceal the creases in your pocket, I am more sorry than I can say, but you should have told me about the explosion. I might have believed you, for you possess an ingenuous face that is indeed now I notice it, somewhat strikingly evidential of you having been in the neighbor­ hood of an explosion. I had been wondering for a long time subcons­ ciously what had happened to your face. Now, if you really can bring yourself to forgive me perhaps we three might fitable once ness,” “I’d like rnent by goin, ets first, Morganthau. Here Geoffery you hold the gun while Mr, Mor- ganthau’s hands resume their pro­ testing at the wound to get please.” The warm the man’s scrupulously kept hands obediently turned towards the ceil­ ing while Cope’s own hard, effic­ ient fingers ran smoothly over his body, “You know I never carry firearms, Mr. Cope,” he protested a little “I then well but the facts speaks can none of us remain entirely true to our principles amidst the chang­ ing circumstances of this busy life, you know, Morganthau. The best of us fail to run true to form some­ times.” “Ah, but not me, not me, I as­ sure you, Mr. Cope.” “Well, not this time apparently. All right, Geoff. You can hand that thing over again. From the feel of it, it is a trifle easly on the draw for a service weapon thought I admire the way they’ve got the weight down. Must be ounces lighter than any other service revolver,” He reached across and, taking the wea­ pon, slipped it, negligently into a pocket. “Ah!” said Mr. Morganthou, ‘'I thank you. I feel now more safe, Perhaps we can talk business? Will you 1 I find it mutually pro- again to discuss busi- to return the compli- g through your pock- position, small there over. Keep it pointed of his back, a bullet is so extremely nasty Higher. Morganthau, brown little palms of wearily. know you don't I don’t myself, there seems to as a rule, but and yet . . . be no bulges, for itself. We PM*D M0TELS CkooseW RATESW 4150 5 I to 1 2-50’ SlNGUNOHKII ■ CJ r] ci [] [] [] [J [J [ ] [] [] [] [] [] n CJ n Query and Reply By Page Turner accept .a cigarette?” (Tp be Continued) EIGHT JACKS AND ONLY ONE SHOT FIRED What do you think of a fellow who goes hunting jackrabbits and brings back eight of them and used only one shell from the shotgun. 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