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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1929)
The capital journal, salkm, Oregon FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929 . i : i; LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE The Boss By Harold tire facjk six Jf R.A.OI JBTEUBER M Chapter IS BANKNOTE DIPLOMACY Tba exproia next moraine Unded lomulleld and myself In DrautH II took roam at Uie Hotel Terral ui, at we had agreed with Laxtoo. laving lunched in the hotel res taurant, we went out on to the Place Rogier. and sat to take our coffee n front of a cafe bar overlooking lie entrance to the station. We had Just begun to lay our Ian or Inquiry when we plunged nto the middle of It. I was looking at the crowd pour- rig out of the station when I saw woman hurrying to the narrow Arret by the side of the hotel. She was in sight only a few sec Kids, but I recognised Miss Van lenessen. We dashed after her, she turned to the right around the hotel, walk ng fast, and made for the dome of tie church of Ste. Marie. Her pace lid not relax and she never turned ter head; she had the air of being xi an urgent mission. We followed by a torturous way, mtil she stopped at one tall bouse rod rang, fiomerfield and X dodged tiU3 a doorway till she was admit ted. Then we walked to the end of tie street to took at the plaque on be corner. It was be Rue Rogier -the eastern section of it. No doubt he bouse Miss Vandenessen had Dtered was No. 3 bis. That cooks our goosei" said L When Miss Vandenessen had put No. 3t bis on guard we were not Ikely to get much out of It Having raited '-11 she left 30 minutes aft erwards, we dogged her back by the ray she had come. We saw her go nto the station and leave sy a tram for the east. Uttle douht Miss Van denessen had undertaken a Journey from Bruges to Brussels merely to Warn No. 3D bis mat two imperil nent young men might be making Inquiries and were to De told hom ing. However, here was a plausible ex cuse for calling. We could now ask for Miss Vandenessen. And when we rang at the Iron-grilled door of No. 39 but, that was what we did. The concierge who opened was a Uttle man with greenish-gray eyes and a rather obsequious manner. "We called." I said, "in the nope that we might catch Miss Vanden essen, of Bruges." The concler-e said be was deso lated, but Miss Vandenessen had called and departed already, fiom erfield brought his diplomacy into action. He took out his pscketbook and began to handle the notes therein. The greenish -gary eyes fol lowed the movements of his fingers rith bright interest. Miss Vandenessen came to call Ml madame " Somerfleld began. "Tea, monsieur, she called half an hour ago." "What a pity we missed her!" ex claimed Somerfleld. He turned to me. "Now we shall have to go to Bruges." At this point we heard footsteps on the stairs to the right of the conclergerlr, and a voice calling: "Josephl" . -.. A lady cams' to the bottom of the stairs. "Joseph who are then gentle Den and what do they want?" "They called expecting to find Mademoiselle Vandenessen, ma dame." "Tell them mademoiselle is not here." This third-person treatment was amusing. The lady was within two yards of us, but pretended we were sot there. BomerfleM flicked the notes In his wallet, and looking Joseph straight in his eyes, snld: "Ah, well, we shall have an hour - to spare. Let's go and sit In the Botanical Gardens on that terrace In front of the grande scire, eh? Oood-day." We heard the lady's voice saying: "Shut thr door. Joseph." and we were out in Uie Rue Rogier attain. "No fifes on madame" wild Som ' AC ROM S. Chnm. ts Trnmi ttrnht t. Witrri IimUb Its V.Mrniraf It. rmyff II. MtMtnt rtiMk. form ihrr wmt It. lllt Hrn. It. tUmlirrr It, RllMMtl m. m tu rsriiitit ; hrllrr M. Hmall MtlU H. Kftvrr IrM Me Hi' tt. rwiirutMill n. mn H. A II !! u. rfr torn M. OM Mtk M. rrf1J ML mrM wNfe tt. AuiM IrvlaK4 III. ratin t. OI?ta nit 4$. VmH Tar L$f Solution of Ytrday't Puzzla SlTJlAPnAF tTaJr c h v THEMiE-liMARllBm k l E rec oIrIdie r QsIaJm a r a a jflT pJbiTn A. 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"Joseph I" somerfleld called. "Monsieur?" said Joseph halting. Somerfleld made room between us on the bench and Joseph sat down, remarking that the dsy made very hot. Somerfleld was suddenly seen to be playing idly with a pock- etbook stuffed fun of money. He did not delay his dive Into the cross-examination to Joseph. "You know Miss Vandenessen very well, Joseph?" said Samerfield. Joseph bad that honor. Since long? Yes. Brer since the English captain's family lived In the Rue Rogier? Yes. They had lots of friends? No. only a few. Madame Faraert, whom we had had the honor of seeing, was the owner of the bouse; she had an af fection for Madame Sea broke. And Mademoiselle' Vandenessen, an in stltutrlce at the school In Bruges where Miss Seabroke was educated. Hardly anybody else. No English people? Well, hardly any English people. Somerfleld slowly closed bis pocketbook, -having extracted one 30-franc not from It. . But there were some English peo ple In the circle? Yes. one or two. The pocketbook opened again. Joseph had mentioned only ladles so far. Yes, that was true, but he did not know much about the gen tlemen. What he saw was the one of the two bad a love affair with Miss Vandenessen oh, very seri ous, he assured you. And Miss Sea- broke a second note Joined the first in 8omerfleld's hand! Inter ested herself enormously in this affair. - v ' As to the names of the gentle men. Joseph could not recall them. But he could describe their owners. The lover of Miss Vsndenessen was a tall, dark man. And his woo ing an impetuous man, this mon sieur. But his friend, you could not have a cooler head a veritable Englishman with bis gray eyes that looked as If they saw behind your own, and his quiet manner of speaking, I glanced at somenieio. Here. indeed, we were on the track of Pell. Joseph described him exactly. But the other man the lover of Miss Vandenessen? . . . Was It strange that Joseph did not know the names of these two messieurs? Joseph eyed Bomer field's fingers as they extracted a third note from the wallet. No, It was not, because English names were hard to remember and he had seen those messieurs only three times, and he' would not have kept them so clearly In his recollection as he did if the last time had not been so extraordinary, and yes, so painful. When? About three years, per haps more. A desperate affair the English officer, monsieur the cap tain, who had come back from sea to live with madame and mademoi selle in the Rue Rogier, made a scene and such a scene. He quar reled Miss Vandenessen's lover and he quarreled the lover's friend Again Joseph's command of por traiture was wonderful, Seabroke lived before our eyes. The captain was of a rury. The two messieurs never came to the Rue Rogier again, and In some months afterwards the cap tain and his family went away. Joseph bad not seen Miss Vanden- ("Continued on Pb 11) S. fin of th Pll ttrlm triilra 9. Itltirrojratlna I. 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