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MONDAY, OCTOBER- 5,' 1914., PLATTSMOUTH . SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. PAGE 7. V 1 April aouar PROLOGUE. "it breaks the speed limit to smithereens." That's a candid opinion about this story. There may have been swifter tales, but not re cently. It's an aeroplane of a yarn, moving so fast that you lose your breath while you fol low it. But you don't need any breath, anyway, because you for get about respiration with your eyes on reading of this kind. Every man has his day of days. Yours may have come and you may be swimming in the full tide of fortune. If so, read how P. Sybarite found his. If your own ship is still in the offing, you will enjoy learning how the little spunky red headed bookkeeper won a fortune and an heiress, foiled all his enemies and had some of the most amazing ad ventures ever penned all in less time than it takes the hour hand to round the clock dial twice. CHAPTER XII. The Brooch. IIOUT.PER to shoulder, tbe tar get of two score grinning or surprised stares, they strode across the lobby and through tbe office. It was immediately cloed and the key. turned In the lock.' was removed and pocketed by the detective. In this room, a small interior apart ment plainly furnished as a private of fice, two people were waiting, a stout, smooth little man with n mustache of foreign extraction who. on better ac nuaintance. proved to be the manager of tbe establishment: the other Bayard Sbayr.on, stationed with considerable caution on the far side of the room. "Well?" P. Sybarite demanded of bis captor tbe moment they were private.. "Take it calm, son; take it calm," counseled the man. his manner not al together lacking in good nature. "There seems to be some question as to your right to attend that party up stairs; we got to investigate you for tbe sake of tbe rep. of the bouse. Get rue;" I. Sybarite drew a long breath. If this were all! "I freely admit I Lave no card of in vitation." "Mr. Shaynon." went on the detec tive, "says be saw yon lift n diamond brooch ofTn Mrs. Addison Strone while you was coruin' down in tbe elevator." And while I. Sybarite gasped tbe de tective looked to Shnyuon for confirma tion. "I stood behind bim in the elevator coming down, ten minutes or so ago," the latter stated heavily. "Mrs. Addi son Strone was immediately in front of him. The cage was badly crowded no one could move. . "As I got in I noticed that Mrs. St rone's brooch, a gold bar set with several large diamonds, was apparent ly loose pin bad parted from the catch, you know and meant. to warn her she was in danger of losing it. but I couldn't without shouting over this fellow's heal, so waited until we got out. and then, when I managed to get to her, the brooch was gone. Later 1 remembered this fellow and. looking round the lobby, saw bim in a corner, apparently concealing something about bis person. Then I spoke to you about it." P. Sybarite's face settled into grim lines. ' "Shayiion." be said slowly, without visible temper, "this won't get you anything but trouble. Remember that, w hen I come to pay you out unless you'd have the grace to retract bere and now." "To save time." Shaynon suggested dispassionately, "you might explore bis coatt.-ii! pockets first. It was there that I saw him secrete the brooch." Nervously In his Indignation P. Syba rite caught bis coattails from beneath hi-i Inverness, dragsred them round In front of him, and. fumbling, found a pocket. Groping therein, bis fineers brushed something strange to him a small, bard, irregular body which, escaping In clutches, fell with a soft thud to the carpet at bis feet. It was the brooch. With a noncommittal grunt, the de tective stonned and retrieved this damning bit of evidence, while the manager moved excitedly to bis side inspect the tiud. And P. Sybarite looked up with blank eyes In a pallid, wizened face in time to see Shaynon bare bis teeth, his lips curling back In n manner peculiarly wolfish and irrita ting, and snarl a mirthless laugh. '-" - It wn something inopportune. The man could have doue no better than ,vei) h's pence. lyeft to himself. P "Sybarite would In all probability ha 'floundered and -bistered and comroit led himself inextricably. ' S- DAY OF DAYS By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE Copyright, 1(912, by tbe Frank A. Munsey Co. Tint that lnugn was n good as a douche of cold water in his face. lie enme abruptly to tils senses, saw clear ly how this thin? had come to pnss. the temptation of the loose broach to Shan non's flnsors Itching for revenge while "Search his pockets," suggested Shay non. they stood near together in the crowd ed elevator. P. Sybarite smiled sunnily in the face of the detective. "Caught with tbe goods on. eh?" he chirped. "Come. now. be fair to me. Own up. You didn't expect to see that, did you?" Tbe detective hesitated. "Well." he grudged, "you did have me going for a minute, you were so rocksare. and it's pretty slick work for an amateur." "It looks bad. eh not?" the manager questioned, his predacious eyes fixed greedily upon the trinket. "You think so?" P. Sybarite purpose fully misinterpreted. "Let me see." Before tbe detective could withdraw P. Sybarite caught the brooch from his fingers. "Bad?" be mused aloud, examining It closely. "Phoney? Perhaps it is. Looks like article de Paris to me. See what you think." He handled the trinket indifferently. "Nonsense;" Shaynon interposed in cisively. "Mrs. Strone's not that kind. Besides, it makes no difference. Theft's theft." "II makes a deal of difference wheth er it's grand or petit larceny. P. Syb arite flashed "a difference as wide and deep as that which yawns be tween attempted and successful wife murder, Mr. Shaynon." His jaw dropping, a look of stupefy ing terror stamped itself upon Shny non's face. He strove to speak, but for the time could not. "The man's crazy." be muttered sick ishly. rising. "I don't know what lie's talking about. Arrest him take him to the station house." "Who'll make the charge?" asked the detective, eying Shaynon curiously. "Not Bayard Shaynon!" P. Sybarite asseverated with conviction. "It's not my brooch." Shaynon as serted defensively. "You saw bim take it." the detective persisted. "No. I didn't; I suspected him. It's you who found the brooch on him. and It's your duty to make the charge." "You're one grand little lightning change of heart artist gotta slip it to you for that," the detective observed truculently. "Now. lls'n; I dou't make no charge" . "Any employee of the establishment will do a well, for my purpose." I. Sybarite cut in. "Come. Mr. Manager! Efow about you? So long as 1 get my grounds for a suit against the Bizarre" The manager spread out expostulary palms. "Me. I have tiossing whatever to do with the matter," he protested. "To me it would seem Mrs. Strone should make the charge." "Well." mumbled the detective of Shaynon. "how about cha?" "Wait." mumbled Shaynon. moving toward the door. "I'll fetch Mrs. Strone." "Dou't go without saying goodbr," P. Sybarite admonished him severely. "It Isn't pretty manners. The door slammed tempestuously, and the little man chuckled with an affectation of ease to which he was en tirely a stranger. Ills head buzzed with doubts and sus picions, and with misgivings on Ma rian's behalf, but indifferently mitigat ed by the reflection that by now she would be at the Plaza.. "ITe won't be back." P. Sybarite ob served generally to detective and man ager and sat him down serenely. "You feel pretty sure about that?" thp detective as&ed. ; -tvajt and ee;' : ; AA- pending forward, ibe little man ex I amined" (Tie gTlt clock "on ITieTiiamiger's desk. "Twenty minutes after 4,' he announced. "I give, you ten minutes to find some one to make a charge against me." The detective took a chair, crossed his legs and produced a cigar, which he began to trim with loving care. The manager, anxiously pacing the floor, after another moment or so paused at the door, fidgeted, jerked It open and with a muffled "Pardon!" disappeared, presumably in search of Shaynon. Four minutes passed by the clock; no sign of the manager. Shaynon or Mrs. Strone. "Story?" the detective suggested at length. "Plant. retorted P. Sybarite as tersely. "Salted your "In tbe elevator, of course." "It come to me that was the way of It when he sprung that bunk stuff about you coarsely loading said loot into your coat tail." admitted the de tective. "That didn't sound sensible, even if you did have a skirt to fuss Into a cab. That was one swell piece of goods you bundled Into No. 230." "What?" cried P. Sybarite. The detective started. "Wasn't that the number of the lady's cal two-thirty?" "Good God!" ejaculated P. Sybarite. Jumping up. "What's hit yon?" said tbe detective Ills words were addressed to his own conscience and to the horizontal folds of the Inverness that streamed from the shoulders of P. Sybarite as he bolt ed unhindered through the Fifth ave nue entrance. The little man was ex claiming: "Dolt! Blockhead! Imbecile! Idiot! Numskull: Ass! Simpleton! Loon!" The chill air of early morning wiped the blistering epithets from his lips as he fled like a madman down Fifth ave nue. Deliberately had he permitted him self to by duped, circumvented, over reached. Why had he never for an instant dreamed that the words "two thirty" could Indicate anything but the hour of some otherwise undesignated appoint ment? Of course It had signified the number of Marian's carriage check. If he had ere this entertained any doubts whatever of the ugly grounds for bis fears, they were now resolved, by reccgniticn of Bayard's clumsy ruse, to keep him both out of the cab and out of the v,ny while November and his lieutenants executed their in famous commission. And aU that was now ten fifteen twenty minutes old! Marian's car was pone, and if it had not reached the Plaza the girl w as lost, irrevocably lost. On the way to tbe Bizarre from Peter Kenny's rooms, some freak of a mind superficially preoccupied had caused him to remark, on the south side of Forty-third street, immediately east of Sixth avenue, a long rank of buildings. Of these, one building boasted the blazing electric announcement, "All Night Garage." Into this last P. Sybarite pelted at the top of his speed and pulled up pulling, to stare nervously round a place gloomy, cavernous and pungent with fragrance of oil. rubber and gaso liue. Out of the shadows behind him, present fy. came a voire, drawling: "You certainly do take on like you'd lost a power of trouble." "Taxi!" the little man parted vo ciferously. The other yawned and stretched. "It can't be done." be admitted fairly. "They ain't no such animal on the premises." With a gesture P. Sybarite singled out the nearest car. "What's that?" he demanded an grily. "Ten dollars an hour" "I'll take it." "But you asked for a taxi." grum bled tbe man. rising to press a button. "Whereupon a bell shrilled somewhere in the dark backward of the establish ment. "Deposit?" be suggested, turn ing back. P. Sybarite' disbursed a golden double eagle, and to the operator who. roused by the bell, presently drifted out of the shadows, gaping and rub bing bis eyes, he promised a liberal tip for haste. In two minutes be was rolling out of the garage ensconced in tbe body of a luxurious and high powered touring machine which he strongly suspected to be somebody's private car lawlessly farmed out while its owner slept. Self conscious and ill at ease, ho pre: spiitod himself to tbe amused Inspec tion of the night force in the office of the Plaza, made his halting inquiry and received the discounted assurance that Miss Blessington. although a known and valued patron of the bouse, was not then its guest. He turned away, sobered, baflled, outwitted and miserably at a loss to guess what next to do. Gloomily he paused with a hand on the open dour of bis car. thoughts pro foundly disturbed and unsettled, for so Ions that the operator grew restless. "Where next, sir?" he asked. "Wait." said P. Sybarite In a mau ner of abstraction that did bim no In lustice. (To I5e Continued.) Dizzy, Dilious, Constipated? 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The great effort of the allies to en velope the German right may there fore be said to be again in operation, and it is believed that the whole French column from Roye northward to Arras is moving eastward against, the German position. It is the same operation that has been tried repeatedly for the last three weelts in an attempt to reach the German lines of communication and encircle the German army form ing the right wing or force it to fall back to Belgium and Luxemburg. Tt is believed that the British Tn dian troops are now on the line and possibly some of the British terri torials and it is known that the Ger mans have sent up heavy reinforce ments from the center to aid the hard fighting soldiers on the right. Invaders on Defensive. The Germans have had a long time in which to make their position se cure, so there is a lot of hard fighting ahead for both the attacking forces and the defenders. The defensive role is now apparently being assumed by the invaders. In the center, from the Oise to the Argonne, the two well entrenched ar mies are still watching each other, ready at a moment's notice to mee: attacks or on the advance of aerial ob servers to move to some point where the line is threatened. In the Argonne district, where the crown prince's army attempted an ad vance a few days ago. there has been additional fighting, with the result that the Germans have been pushed back northward. In southern Woevre the French are "making progress, but very slowly," against the Germans, who crossed the Meuse at St. Mihie', but were forced back over that river. Quiet In Lorraine. In Iorraine and the Vosges there is no change In the positions of the op posing armies. This probably is ac counted for by the fact that the Ger mans have not sufficient forces to at tack the almost impregnable line of fortifications, while the French are too busy elsewhere to attempt an in vasion of the lost provinces. They have set themselves the task of get ting the Germans out of northeastern France, and if this can be accoir. plished they are faced with the neces sity of attacking the German positions in Alsace-Lorraine. Of the result of the operations around the line of fortifications of Antwerp there Is considerable mys tery. Belgians Fall Back. The Belgian legation at London an nounced that the Belgians had been compelled before a violent artillery attack to fall back east of the river Senne, toward the Nethe. This was taken to mean that some of the forts had fallen, and the German official re port asserts as a fact that Forts Lierre. Waelhem and Konigshoyck had been taken, with redoubts and earthworks, and that the Germans had entered the line of forts through the breaches. Later the. Belgian minister, on au thority of a telegram from Antwerp, declared that the forts had not been captured, although Waelhem was bad. ly damaged. In the battle of Augusfowo. In Rus sian Poland, victory is claimed for the Russian arm, the official eommunioa tion from Petrogard declaring that the German defeat Is complete. The Japanese In their campaign against the German concession of Kiauchau have been reinforced at Weihsien. In Shantung province. Hv. In made answer to the protest of the China government, they are proceed ing with the business in hand withoul further comment, i SCENE OF BATTLE. Map Showing Location Of Opposing Forces In Eastern Arena of War. OO AUSTRIAN TROOPS mi GERMAN " ia "'U RUSSIAN POINCARE GOES TO CHEER TROOPS President o! France Takes Auto Tiip Along Fighting Line. Bordeaux, Oct. 5. President Poin care, accompanied by Premier Reno Vivian! and Minister of War Alexandre Millerand, left for the battle front. He will spend a few days visiting headquarters aud personally congratu lating the officers and men. The party traveled in an automobile and will be absent from the temporary capital for three or four days. The president goes to the battle line, not to take part in the strategy, as is the case of Emperor William and possibly Emperor Nicholas, but that he may personally congratulate the troops upon the bravery they have displayed in the long and stubborn lighting. M. Poincare long ago determined upon this project, but until now has been prevented from executing it eith er by the necessity of presiding at the daily cabinet conference or by the wishes of the military authorities, who deemed the moment unfavorable for the trip. The news of the president's depart ure for the front has given rise to ru mors that the allies have gained a great victory, the news of which is withheld, and that M. Poincare has gone to witness the final discomfiture of the Germans. The correctness of this deduction Is officially denied and it is repeated the situation in the fighting zone is as described by the war office. It is added that the president's soie motive is tn convey the nation's appreciation and encouragement to the troops in their long and difficult struggle to free the soil of the invaders. The president will first visit the headquarters of General Joffre, com mander in chief of the French army. URGES PENSION SYSTEM Says Britons Disabled In War Should Be Paid $5 a Week. London, Oct. 5. Every man perma nently disabled in the war and unab'" to follow his former occupation ought to be paid $5 a week during his life, in the opinion of George Xicoll Barnes, the labor leader, and .a member of parliament for the Blackfriars division of Glasgow. Mr. Barnes advocated this plan at a mass meeting here. Heretofore, he said, the disabled had been allowed to beg in the streets. Now, however, the government was giving serious consideration to the subject of these unfortunates, and a like situation would not again exist. He estimated that the sum which the government would be called upon to pay the de pendents of breadwinners in the field would net reach $23,ooo.ono. Serbs Return From Austria With Booty Rome, Oct. 3. The correspondent of the Tribune at Nish. Servia, tele graphs that the Servians, alter pass ing the river Save and occupying the Hungarian town of Semlin, seized the Austrian batteries, -ammunition and supplies and destroyed the forts, re turning to Belgrade with immense booty. Entire Regiment of Germans Killed. London, Oct. 5. Fort Waelhem. one Of the defending strongholds out side Antwerp, destroyed an enUr? regiment of the besieging Germans The Amsterdam correspondent of the Central News has forwarded this state tnent, which, he says, was received in a dispatch from Antwerp. Italians Landing Troops at Avlona. Londcn! Oct. 5. A dispatch to Rpu ter's Telegram company from Rome says the Villorla has published a spc clal edition saying a rumor is in cir culation that Italian sailors were land ed at Avloaa (a seaport of Albania or the Adriatic). There is no confirma tion of the rumor. , New Fall Suit Fred P. Busch Hotel Riley Building Main and Diarrhoea Quickly Cured. "I was taken with diarrhoea and "Sir. Yorks, the merchant here, persuaded me to try a boltle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After taking one dose of it I was cured. It also cured others thai. I gave it to," writes M. K. Ciebhart, Oriole, Ja. That is not at all unusual. An ordinary attack of diarrhoea can almost invariably he cured by one or two doses of this remedy. For sale by all dealers. COl LAPSED LEAHNt! CHARGE Prince Oscar Has Hcsrt Attack When Turcos Repulse Imperial Guard. London, Oct. .". A dispptch from Copenhagen reports that the corre spondent of the Berliner Tagebiatt, who witnessed the battle at Verdun, when Prince Oscar led the imperial guard, says: "Though the Germans fought like lions, tbe Turcos climbed trees like monkeys, bidii'g in the leaves. The Germans and Turcos J"o-"i?ht' and wrestled in a territde hand-to-han 1 struggle and many German officers fell dend s'lo iTid the prince, who there after bad the heart cttiick already de scribed." Hospital Ship to Rotterdam. Faullac, France. Oct. 3. The Amer ican hospital ship Red Cro.-:s. which brought provisions, physicians and nurses and hospital supplies for Uk French at Ilordeaux and other pointf. sailed for Rotterdam. Pope Aooeals for peace. Home, Oft. r. I'ope Ilenedict hns addressed an autograph letter to I'm peror Francis Joseph of Austria again urging the emperor to use all his fn flueuee to shorten the war as much as possible. 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