Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, September 21, 1929, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextTHE CAPITAL JOURNAL. HAI.KM. UKKUON Krti'UKUAl, SEPTEMBER 21, 1929 LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE pv d By Harold Ciray pace; SIX -if RA.il. WAXXJNG Chapter M TUB SEVEN COUPS It ni not easy to find another Una of approach In Brussels with to little to work upon, and we re turned to the hotel. There we found letter from Laxton, written at Ostend late the night before: -I have bad a busy evening fruitful tool I'm half inclined to tar over. But I want to make sure of Marling, and I'm going back by the morning boat. "You will not discover much at Brussels. Anyhow I want you to take on the Inquiry I'm drop ping here. "You will remember that the prisoner, Eugene Richard, who scaped about the same time that your cousin arrived at Wood cot, was convicted for an offense committed at Dover. It was alleged that he had attack ed a clerk belonging to the firm of Bmithins, London, returning to England with a Urge sum of money July 23, 1929. "Come down here and search the files of the Ostend paper mu rfnv hfnrf and after that date and see whether they contain anything to show light. Anything, mind! If you draw blank, you can take up Brus sels again. If you get a winner, wire me at the Lord Nelson and follow across at once." -"The professor's- getting warm," aid Somerfieid. "But Ostend?" "But something must have hap pened at Ostend that's given Lax- ton a mm, saia i. -we go, ui course?" "On your life! Next train." There were no more boat trains that day and the next was an om nibus train that dawdled along and landed us in Ostend at 9 o'clock In the evening. We avoided the $30-a-minute places on the digue and found accommodation In a small street not far from the harbor. To pursue our quest that night was Impossible. In that paradise oi stone the thing to do is to visit the Casino. Somertield and I passed in. to its glassy halls at 10 o'clock and found it chock-ablock. A concert was going on In one large hall carpeted, a dance In an other one uncarpeted, roulette in one saloon, and boule In another. We wandered through till a found ourselves In a quiet, almost deserted room a sort of reading and writing room. We were about I to wander out again when somer fieid said: "Half a minute! I've got an idea." He walked up to the official and spoke. I heard the man say: "Mais parfaltment, monsieur. Par Id." Somerfieid beckoned to me, and the man led us into an adjoining room. He unlocked a cupboard. "What year?" he asked. "Second half of 1925," said Som erfieid. And presently the man had drag ged out a targe volume, the file of the Carillon for Julv to December. 1923, The man dusted the file, placed It on the table and left us. Somerfieid turned over the leaves till he reached the Issue of July 3rd. It contained nothing that in terested us. The issue of the 24th of July had a similar appearance. It looked as If we were to draw blank. Then line caught my eye " an Englshman, tall, with the appearance of a monk tonsure I glanced to the head of the col umn. It consisted of paragraphs of news, comments and Impressions. I . traced the topic back to Its begin nlng, and afterwards I made this rough translation: "A dramatic episode took place last' evening at the Kursaal. The hero of the occasion was a tall Eng lishman, who took his place at the table in the larse salle towards midnight Be played with small counters at first and won a petty sum In half an hour. Then tt was began the drama. Standing behind him, like a Ne mesis at his elbow, was another Englishman, calm, gray-eyed and cold, who seemed to be his friend. Nemesis touched him on the shoul der and signed to him to leave the table with his gains. "The Dlarer muttered a curse. shook off the touch, and staked the whole fortune, with an Impetuous gesture. The gray eyes of his moni tor gleamed like steel. Trie player won. "Again that monitory touch upon the shoulder. Again the muttered curse. Again the Impulsive gesture. The mass of counters remained on the table. The whole winnings had been staked once more. All eyes were centered on the tall man who sat with head in hand staring at the table as though be would hypnotize the ball by some mighty effort of bis personal magnetism. Hundreds eyed him curiously and whispered to one another the play ers who had ceased to play, the spectators crowding around, an Am erican doubtless wondering why so much excitement about so little, a white-haired gentleman with the air of a predicate ur of Geneva, slightly scandalised, beside .him another Englishman, tall and gaunt. looking like a tonsured monk, asce tic and disapproving, a number of Frenchmen intrigued, our own com pattriots Injured In their sense of thrift. "All waited for the "ne va plus' and listened to the rush of the ball. It was as if the player guided it by an Invisible string Aairln the warning hand. Again the contemptuous gesture. The play- staking his whole gains each time, won seven coups. "Then, as though he had con sclously exhausted his magic In reaching the mystic number, he rose possessor of a fortune, and, with his monitor, was escorted away. "It is said that his winnings reached the enormous sum of million francs. The player Is u known at Ostend and cannot be traced." When we came to the end of the paragraphs, we looked up to find the official standing behind us. He looked over our shoulders. "Ah," he said, "you are reading the report of the great seven coups Of 1925J" "You remember that?" I asked. "Very well, monsieur. And the most curious part of the history Is not there." He pointed to the newspaper. "No, messieurs the most curious part of the history Is afterwards. They go to their hotel - They say to the manager, 'Here is a lot of money. Count It. Lock it up. Give us a receipt for It. Do It now, without delay. We take a few thousand for ourselves. We leave the rest In your care.' Very well. "The next day, they go away. They have not come back. The money remains still In the coffre fort of the hotel, waiting for them." (To be Continued) I IVSURE MM NlfP O. "iO HVVS TO COrAfc To AT TtrV VMOTt COURSt I VOTCC fJTV TH' COOMTt? ATS, BUT VrA TCMA A. TOVJH Kt V urn vjotVt Tofewr Get ot soMfc swtu TO Mfc - VU. TtVrtfc OSl MA-A M- THOS. TOSNf 1 TO rAt A VltVA nm OUOHTsV V -r I H0RC0MBE TALKS ON CONSTITUTION OF U. S. Dallas At the KlwanU luncheon Friday a talk on the United States constitution was delivered by Wil liam W. Harcombe. Alio a motion was passed to donate trophy cups to the girls' cooking club at the county fair next month. POSTAL MAN EXPECTED Silverton Postmaster Reber Al len, who has been In Sacramento, Calif., attending the postmaster's convention, is expected home Satur day or Sunday. AC ft OAS I. A but a. Inltravrt It. To it point below 14. I'm I Ik HItt bank mttnt It. Money tl chanra art mlnm 17. All Uteri 15. (.'nnrcTRlitff It. Only to. Oftls tl. Mula ppf-iosi tt. 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