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RASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS, TIH RSDAV. OCTOBER 27. 1927 rafie 2 B lin h in « in u n m i m i m i n i m i n it t m u n i r } Hlie Recluse of Fifth Avenue W YNDHAM J MARTYKI Copyright I d the United S u tu ri M 1111 M M M 1111 M 11 i M I M 11 M 11 M 111 M l I ! 11111 M r. W NU Service CHAPTER XIII— Continued —-21 ■ “ Professor Bradney,” said Mllman genially. “ One of our great physicists now brought down by unkind circum stances to being footman in the houses of lesser men. No, not in this house, Air. Raxon. Here Professor Bradney Is an honored guest." Mil man turned to Bradney. “ This Is Mr. Paul Raxon. who aspires to high office.” Paul Raxon turned on his host with a snarl. lie had been tricked. ” I f you are harboring a dismissed servant of mine who left under cir cumstances which point to his dis honesty, let me remind you It’s a dan gerous thing to do.” “ After a lifetime of orderly quiet one welcomes such dangers.” Peter Milman’s eyes peered into those red- flecked ones of his guest. The door opened again and Nee- land Barnes, in evening dress, en tered. “ This is Mr. Neeland Barnes,” said Mllman. “ Perhaps you know him best under his name of ’Enry. He tells me he enjoyed every minute of his stay at your delightful home.” Paul Raxon, who had staged so many unhappy scenes for the men he had enmeshed, was now to experience the unpleasing sensations of the vic tim. He saw, very plainly, that he must suffer what these men chose to Indict and hear what they chose to say. He had not the physical power to escape. Not idly hud they saun tered Into this room. £ “ Ah,” said Neelancl Barnes, with a large gesture, “ this is the little fellow I had to throw oif the pier at Narra- gausett years ago. It was my Inten tion to drown him as one does unwel come kittens, but some misguided Samaritan of the sea defeuted uiy purpose.” Raxon said nothing. But he had not come to his present eminence by be ing physically above the average. He had risen because of a brain more skilled in craftiness and cunning than the majority. These were not the sort of men to hurt him. He must keep his nerve and let them commit them selves to verbal follies. Barnes had hardly finished when another entered whom he recognized, despite the absence of mustache aud Imperial, us M. le Vicomte Raoul de Uuillain. “ This is Mr. Floyd Mulct,” said Peter Milinan. “ I think you are In debted to his knowledge for ridding your house of period forgeries.” Paul Raxon rose to Ids feet. “ This reception," he said, stimulat ing u yawn, “ grows wearisome. I seem to be a guest at a manservants’ club. What is it staged for? Money? I f so, there’s absolutely nothing do ing.” “ Sit down,” said Peter Mllman suavely; “you will be told when to go.” The next to enter was Sneed, who had been his own butler. Raxon saw clearly that by some ruse yet to be discovered his house had been entered by a band o f confederates. They had defeated him there. “ Mr. John McKlmber,” Sneed an- nounced. When Raxon had seen McKlmber a week before he had looked upon a crushed man from whom ambition had fled. The McKlmber who came in was again the big, dominating type, radiat ing confidence, sure of himself and his position. This bearing could only mean that McKlmber knew o f the theft of the stolen page from the reg istry and the letters. He understood that the weapons with which Raxon had threatened him were gone. The aura of danger was about Paul Raxon, and he comprehended his position with horror. Somehow or other they had tricked him, but lie would pay them back. What a scandal it would he which would involve Peter Miinmn in a conspiracy of this sort. “ This is the ltaxon who wished to go to the senate,” Mllman explained. “ Wished,” Raxon repeated. “ Who isn’t to be kept out of it by the fool tricks of you amateurs.” “ He’s trying to keep his courage up,” Barnes volunteered. “ He knows he's beaten. You can see it In his face. The man’s white ns chalk.” “ One can’t blame him for trying to bluff it out.” Bradney exclaimed Im partially. “ The cornered rat fights. Invariably.” “ Gentlemen, gentlemen.” l » r Mil man said, “ remember that at the pres ent mlnote Mr. Raxon has no idea that he Is beaten 1 can see him scheming a thousand plans of revenge, all of which seen» reasonable because lie lias no idea what we hold over him.” “ You don’t hold anything,” Raxon snarled. “ In the Interests of truth I must contradict you.” said his host. Mil- man took from bis pocket a blue manilla envelope. •*l have here, Peter Miluian went Improved Uniform International on, “ those documents with which you threatened Mr McKlmber.” “ You stole them,” Raxon cried, “ and that’s a penitentiary offense.” “ Stole them?” Milinan returned. “ You puln me, Mr. Raxon. They were offered to me for sale Just as they were offered to you. You bought them in tlie first instunce, I in the second. You are not yet aware that every word of that long Interview in your tower with Mr. McKlmber was taken down In shorthand by uu expert and tran scribed. I huve three copies, of which the one In this blue envelope is only a carbon. One copy will -be given to Mr. McKlmber, and tlie original Is in my safe deposit vault at my bunk. I am afraid you were a little careless In guarding the sanclty of your home. On one occasion you mistook an op erative for a sewer rat. ’Enry here was greatly afruld lest you should shoot.” “ I don’t believe It,” Raxon cried hoarsely. “ I thought you would not. Perhaps you will realize your mistake when you hear a few paragraphs.” Raxon listened In distressed silence. There was no doubt that someone had been listening and had taken the con versation down accurately. He had no room to doubt. The place where he had heard what he thought was a rat, the place where he had been thrust, bound and gagged, had beeu prepared for one end—his downfall. Raxon saw McKlmber open the en velope and look at the page cut by Raxon’s private detective from the reg ister. This page, never to be replaced, together with the letters bought from relatives o f McKimber’s first wife, were torn Into little pieces and dropped in the blazing fire. Then Mc Klmber turned to his enemy. “ You’ll get a whole lot of help from me now,” he Jeered. "You daren’t run for office,” Raxon cried. “ You’ve nothing on me.” Mllman waved his hand warningly and elevated the incipient verbal war fare to a higher level. “ You shall Judge,” he said urbane ly. “ I may tell you this embodies the work of years. It cost time and money, again Mr. Raxon’s own words, hut it was money well spent. I have here, for example, an affidavit from Thomas Mlnnerly, formerly elevator realized as he went down the stone steps into the avenue that he dure make no move against the men who hml invaded his home and brought him low. McKlmber, sitting before the fire, felt as one might whose death sen tence had been respited at the last mo ment. He had been told to come as though he already knew lie was victor. And if he had deceived Raxon lie had not convinced himself. There were tears in his eyes when Nita came in. “ My dear,” he said, “you ure too good for any son of mine, hut if you will rnurry him you’ll make me hap pier than I ever thought to be again.’’ Someone put a strong, firm hand on his shoulder. It was Robin. “ It’s all right,” said Robin gleefully. “ She is going to do it.” McKlmber looked up ut his son and smiled. “ Robin,” he said, “ never forget what you owe to Mr. Miluian. I cun never repay him, never.” McKiinber took from his pocket a long, legal envelope. He balanced it in his band a moment. “ It would give me great pleasure, Mr. Milmun, if you would throw that on the back of the fire. It’s something I want to get rid of.” “ Certainly,” said Peter Mllman courteously. “ It seems to amuse you," he added, seeing McKimber’s face break into a smile. “ Do you know what you’ve done?” McKlmber demanded. “ You’ve burned up the mortgage I hold on tills house. Yes, sir, I bought it yesterday, and now can’t collect.” "Really,” said Peter Mllman, red' dening, “ I could not possibly accept such a thing—no. indeed.” McKlmber waved his hands. “ You can’t help yourself. I ’ve more to say. I ’ve had my lawyers going through the Hazen Brewer affairs, and you didn’t lose all your money. There will be enough saved out of the wreck for you to live on here.” For n man who prided himself on his word, McKiinber lied with prodigality and fluency. “ Loddon trimmed you, but Brewer was honest.” McKiinber turned to Bradney. He felt like a super-Santa Claus handing out presents for the deserving young. “ You may not know it, professor, but I ’ve a lot to say in the manage ment of a small up-state university.” He did not tell them he was its most munificent donor and chairman of trustees. “ We want to specialize in one thing which will put us on the educational map in a national sense. I ’ve suggested your name, and that was approved, too. All you have to do is to signify your acceptance or re jection to me.” “ Rejection?” Bradney cried, his eyes lighting up. "Mr. McKlmber, you are offering me my career.” “ As for the father of my future daughter-in-law, if lie cares to run my stock ranch near Sacramento, I want a good man at once. He can go as soon as tlie wedding Is over. What about it?” “ Man,” said Neeland Barnes earn estly, “ there isn’t one chance in a trillion I ’ll refuse.” He turned to the others. “ And how I hated him for the ice water he drank!” Floyd Mulct, standing In the back ground, suw another man reborn In the former ’Enry. Not again for Nee land Barnes would there he the life of little things and daily financial wor ries. Mulet looked on the scene with “ It's All Right,” Said Robin Glee no spirit of envy. That there was no place in McKimber’s plans for him fully. seemed of little consequence. Nita had boy in the studio apartment where won her happiness, aud that was that poor girl died. He says, under enough. oath, that you paid him money for He looked up as the girl came to services tlie details of which are set his side. forth. There is also the confession of “ Dearest of my uncles,” she whis Patrick Ford, once a well-known pered, “ do you think I don’t know who jockey, but later a stablehand at Pim gave me my Robin?” She kissed him lico, wlio was badly burned in a fire before them all. there and died later from injuries. "My friend Floyd,” Mllman an He Implicates a trainer named Ache- nounced, “ is going to live at his house son and Paul Raxon in the plot which near Florence, where he will do the disgraced Neeland Barnes. And I great things we expect from him.” have the testimony of Edward Ny- “ My house?” Malet cried. gren, who was the go-between In the “ Your house,” said Peter Milinan matter of offering a bribe to Professor firmly. “ The deed of gift will be Bradney. In all I have seven docu drawn up as soon as possible. It Is ments, each one of which will prevent useless to pie. I—I shall remain here.” you ever from running for office. Do Mllman looked about him. “ There are you care to see them? I dare not some trees that cannot be transplanted put them into your hands for fear that and some men who die if they are up you might throw them Into the fire, rooted.” He embraced the others in hut Mr. Barnes will no doubt secure his gaze. “ I wish I could tell you your arms while I show them.” what a different man you leave from Raxon waved the suggestion aside, the one who asked you to Join him.” and Barnes sat down disappointed. Never before had Peter Milinan been “ And there are other things,” Mil- so genuinely affected. The envelope man went on. “ Your attorney Rod- upon which Raxon had looked with don, when heated with wine, lias been such horror, that envelope containing more than Indiscreet. I have had ids the affidavits that would forever hold conversations transcribed. If I were him inactive, Peter Mllman threw into you, l think 1 would employ another the golden fire. McKlmber saw* the lawyer, one not given to boasting of action too late. There was no possi his Influence over his chief client. bility now of saving infinitely Im Truth, you know, lives under a cork. ’ portant documents. Raxon said no word. This man Mil- “ Man,” he cried, “ don’t you reullze man. whom Loddon hated, had tricked what you have done?” him in the end. v “ Better, perhaps, than you,” said “ We shall see about it,” he said, Peter Milinan, smiling. “ I have de striving for culm. “ I ’m not the sort stroyed an envelope containing a of man that you can try this sort of dozen sheets of blank paper.” game on. What 1 know about McKIni- [T H E END.] ber I know and the world shall hear Of I t * South American Pampas "Would that be wise?” Mllman asked Tip- extensive treeless plains cov- solicitous*/. “ You see, you have no eretl with coarse grass In Paraguay, evlden In order to give credence to rrutrnay anil Argentina of South yon? story you would have to explain America, are called pampas. These the ordering of that page to he cut plains are being turned Into cattle out. Very awkward, Mr. Raxon, as ranches, especially in Argentina, from you will find, to tamper with vital which country large exports of meat statistics. That Is not all. If Mr. lake plnoe each year. McKlmber finds you are acting against him. either directly or Indirectly, he To Drive Away Moth a will set' that the opposition papers The biological survey says that a get copies of the affidavits in this en velope. You are defeated at every solution of corrosive sublimate and al point. Salvation for you lies in aban cohol applied .o a mounted deer's head Is beneficial for keeping awav doning of all political ambition.” Paul ltaxon knew Milinan spoke motha. Any druggist can supply th* the truth. Here, definitely, once for exact proportion. It need only be ap all, was the end of his ambitious. He piled once every year or ms Sunday School f L esso n T (B y R E V . P B. F I T Z W A T E R . D.D., Deftq M ood y Dlblu In stitu te o f C h ic a g o .) (© , 1927, by W estern N ew sp a p er U n ion .) f Few Little The B A B Y m S m ile s ! Lesson for October 30 AMOS D E N O U N C E S S IN (W o rld ’s Temperance Sunday.) A ON THE LINKS LESSON T E X T — Am os 2:4-12. O O LD E N T E X T — Seek good and no. evil, that ye may live, and so the L ord the God o f hosts shall he w ith you as ye have spoken. P R IM A R Y T O P IC — The Punishm ent ef Sin. J U N IO R T O P IC — W h a t God Th inks o f Sin. IN T E R M E D IA T E A N D S E N IO R T O P IC — W h y the D rin k T ra ffic Is P r o hibited. YOUNG PE O PL E AND A D U LT T O P IC — Intem perance and Associated Evlla. Tommy Armour, golfer, was taking ten on the veranda of the Oakmont club when a poor player came up to him and said: “ I ’m improving, Mr. Armour. Yes, I ’m Improving. I did the ‘difficult fourth hole yesterday In three.” The champion gave an incredulous and good natured laugh. “ Three what?" he said. “ Hours?"—, Minneapolis Tribune. Amos, a shepherd and tradesman (Amos 7:14, 15) was called to proph esy for God. He was neither In the prophetic line, nor trained In the pro phetic schools. APPRO VED OF CLUBS I. The Sins of Judah (2:4, 5). In the first part of the book Amos sets forth judgments upon the sur rounding nations. The aim, doubtless, was to show that there Is no escape from God’s Judgment. The nation or Individual that sins shall surely be judged (Num. 32:23). 1. They despised the law of the Lord. To despise means to spurn, to dis regard. To despise God’s law is a sin directly against God. There Is no es cape from Judgment for such ns do this. (Heb. 10:28. 29). 2. Failed to keep the Lora’s com mandments (v. 4). Disobedience logically follows the despising of God’s law. l’t not only robs of blessings in this life, but re sults in eternal destruction (I I Thess 1 :7-i0). 3. Lies caused them to err (v. 4). Because they despised God's law they fell Into lying errors. Doctrine and conduct are inseparable. Think ing wrong precedes doing wrong. 4. Judgment upon Egypt (v. 5). This was literally fulfilled a century and a half later in the capture of Je rusalem by the Chaldeans. II. The Sins of Israel (2:6-8.) The message of the prophet now comes directly to the northern king dom. 1. ’’Sold the righteous for silver” (v. 6 ) . The Judge, for a bribe of silver, de clared the innocent to be guilty. 2. “ Sold the poor for a pair of shoes” (v. 6). Likely this refers to the practice of selling Into slavery the debtor who could not pay for a pair of shoes which had been sold to him on time. 3. “ Pants" after the dust of the enrth on heads of the poor (v. 30). The word “ pant” means to engorly desire. So nvnrlclous had these men become that they even grasped after the earth which the down-trodden poor cast upon their heads In mourning be cause of their misery. 4. Turned aside the way of the meek (v. 7). These grasping rich men turned aside the meek; that is. those who would not stand up for their rights. 5. Licentiousness (v. 7). So notorious were the immoralities practiced that they were even guilty of Incestuous prostitution. This was not merely the case of falling into sensuous sin, but was Indulged in with the definite purpose of Insulting God, provoking His holy name. 6. Idolatry (v. 8). They not only frequented the place of Idolatrous worship, but lay down on the clothes taken from the poor, and drank wine bought with money ex torted from the poor In unjust fines. III. God's Goodness to Israel (vv. & :V ITS Mrs. Gabb— You certnlnl.v approve of clubs for married women? Mr. Stnbb—Yes— good heavy ones. A Good Rule T o w in success Don’ t be stopping. 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