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Pelham Affair ^ Tracu • NY JNUPBIS. ' JUtain Arthur Pelham, arriving 1n London from Bombay, India, after r* ?*»veraI years’ absence, ]n t0ld by a ' vJnqy porter of hia strong resem blance to Sir Arthur, who he sav* , was billed in France Pelham declares that his cousin if very much alive. Jenkins, the porter, telle of word* he heard the supposedly dying man repeat and declares that these namea * have been »e*n signed to personal i crns in the “Agony Column’ of a London newspaper, \ fter going to a hotel. Captain T eihain decide* to join in .the fun ?»"> v rites a personal addressed to 'Matador and Vaqusro’’ who had signed the on*s which drew hts at tention. He warns both that “Bull’' is «ft< r them. “Scotland Yard will know of this in tlic morning.■’ remarks one of the in 'tie advertising office. On a midnight walk Pelham walks through tin- gates of the family manor >nd inini“dlately is set upon by an “tlter intruder A policeman catches him but allows his assailant to es ca pc. \fier being questioned at police headquarters, Pelham returns to his lodgings. Next morning C. F. Prideaux o? Scotland Yard calls upon him and h;,*u*a bis stoiv from the time he ar •ved in London to his fight of the lotvioug evening. When tin official from the criminal investigation department hears that Pethani'a assailant appeared to be • h-rman. Prideaux. his interest in the ■ oso increases and he agrees to use t ho co-operation of Pelham in the ■ l ring of the mystery Ph> lllg Haunt, fiance of Sir Arthur PelhaiXL calls on Captain Pelham while Prideaux Is with him. She icily Of meeting the titled English man and of her suspicions. She feels \ in duty hound to marry the baronet. The army officer la impressed with -bo g-»i. (Continued From Yesterday.) ''M.v diminutive friend has been talking, eh?” laughed the other. “It is my only weakness, so he harps f>n it. No. My. Pelham, this is a • •ail year for small gardens, I bought those in u florist’s.” "So now you have met perfection, in an out size.” put In Prideaux. ‘I was prepared for something re narkable when you told me that Mr. Somers was twice your weight,” said Pelha ni. “Yes,” sighed Somers, “but it’s a dreadful responsibility to have twice Prideaux’s capacity. Sometimes I ^ bend under the load.” ^ “Bulge, not bend, you mean,” snapped the little man. “Well, well. If 1 said what I might say, Captain Pelham would Jeem me as as crack-brained as you. So I'll clear the ground a bit before our railway porter arrives. It will be best, I think, that for the present, st any rate, he should not know who .ve are, and he will never suspect one of us, at least, as being what the newspapers call a ‘famous’ detective. -Voir, Captain Pelham, no doubt you are surprised that the Yard should lake so much interest in the quee ittle comedy in which you have been playing an involuntary part, .bit we have reason to believe that Matador’ and ‘Vaquero’ are danger 011* fellows—dangerous to the state, tffotel Mere one has the comfy feel ing of individual attention, cheerfully rendered — the rooms are charming an* home-like; the service per sonal, an air of interest be ing rfiown for the guest, im possible in a larger hostelry. A few permanent guest rooms and suites are now available. Do you know that it costs no more to livp at Hotel Loyal this winter than to rent an apartment—No gas, no light, no coal, no water and no' other bills—we pay them for you. Just a minute’s walk from the heart of the shopping dis trict. 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"We have never come across them. If they operated in England it mujg have been during the early yearePof the war. Their Intercepted letters were posted in New York, Brussels and Amsterdam—a few in Madrid. And the cypher they employed worried ns for months. "1 take it they were German spies!” said Pelham. "Undoubtedly,” said Somers. “Then it Is wildly Improbable that they could have any connection, even the remotest, with my cousin, who held a commission In the guards, and was nearly killed at Goo*.” “Exactly. But who is '69?' Why are 'Matador' and 'Yaquero' threat ening '.69' now? Why are they, as we imagine, hanging about Cedar Gndge, Barnes, possibly with felon ious Intent, after telephoning there twice? And why has Sir Arthur Pel ham gone to Scotland today In such mysterious fashion? He. by the way, reached Edinburgh at 6:30 p. m., went to the Balmoral hotel, and told the hall-porter that he was leaving by an early train for Ayrshire.” “Ayrshire! His place is Craigal lock, in Perthshire.” / ".Just so. But, In bis case, Water loo this morning led to the north.” "All, l see. He may still be cover ing his tracks. Well, 1 have been thinking a good deal about this queer business today.Sand there are iioints In it. which seenv quite irreconclli able.” "What are they?” “1 met two men in the 'Rag' this afternoon who know my cousin well, and one has met him recently. His face is badly knocked about, so Major Drummer says. Therefore, it heats me how a porter In Victoria station, catching a glimpse of me through the window of a railway carriage, could possibly recognize a family likeness.” "Jenkins will tell us now.” said Prideaux, who sat near the window. “A Tommy in plain clothes Is stroll ing up the street and examining the numbers over each doorway. The British army has lt.s own order of Melchisedeck. 1 can spot nearly all ranks, from a major general retired down to a pensioned private who for the last fourteen years of his service was either in the iness or acting as an officer's servant. Once I even made a happy guess at a colonel who held an acting brigadiershlp for three months. Thqse old boys kick like a mule If you don't give them 'general' for It.” "Oh, he's a brainy little chap,” con fided Somers to Pelham in a stage aside. "I have never known hint con fuse a cabinet minister with a taxi driver—never." Pelham grinned. He was beginning to estimate these two correctly. In due course he would understand that when they were chaffing each other unmercifully some crime out of the common run was engaging their minds to the exclusion of all else. "Shall I give Jenkins a drink?" he inquired. "Certainly,” said Pt-ideaiis, fore stalling his chief. "A stiff tot of whisky will clear his wits. Mr. Som ers, too, becomes mellow under such inlfluences.” Pelham had a hospitable parade nf bottles and glasses on tbe table when Jenkins rang. The man looked rather surprised a' finding others present, hut the innate self possession of the born Cockney came to his aid, and he cried cheerflly: "Good evenin', gentlemen'. Jl looks like bein’ fine weather for Awacot ... Well, yes, sir. t don’t mind If I do, I likes a drop of Scptch of a night, but, Lord luv’ a duck, the price nowad’ys is somethlnk crewel.” While he was helping himself to a very small quantity of soda water from a syphon. Pelham caught Mr. Somer’s eye, and was answered by a slight nod. “I happened to tell my friends," he began, "that you knew’ me in an In stant the other evening at Virtorla, though you and 1 hfcd never met be fore, and I’m afraid they hardly be iieved me. It isn’t a matter of any great Importance, but would you mind explaining bow you really came to recognise me?” "It was easy enough, sir,” said Jenkins readily. ”1 thort I knew yer flee, an’ was sure when 1 sawr yer nyme on a tag.” "Of course. Rut I didn't gather that you wereAetl acquainted with Sir Arthur Pelham." “Acqu’lnted? I never set eyes on 'em afore we was stretched side by side in the quarry at Isxis. D’ye want the whole story? sir?" “1 should like immensely to hear it." “Do you smoke?” broke In Somers. "Try one of these." The chief had summed up his man quickly. Olven a glass of whisky and a cigar, Jenkins would talk freely. In fact, he would delight In an audience while detailing what was probably the one great experience of hla life. Ami that is Just what, happened, lie gave a really vivid account of the initial advance on ihe shell-shattered min ing village, not without some caustic comments on staff methods which In sisted on ascertaining the effecB-Df the first attack before the reserves were brought up. ' “If we 'ad men enough we ough ter 'ave gone on,” said Jenkins. “If we 'adn’t i we should never 'ave stawted. You can't 1'y telephones In a scrap like that, an' not one mes senger In a doasen could get back. Ho, the^e you are! Am) there we warf!— the Highlanders an' ourselves bein' shot to pieces after ’ammerln’ the Boshes owver nearly two miles of ground. No supports, no nothink, an' a counter attack cornin' along like a dust storm In Injia. That was Ihe time 1 got mine—three machine gun bullets through my left shoulder. Funny, isn't it, 'ow they knock you aht? I fell as if I'd bln puwl axed. A few of us Wjja lifted into a small quarry, an' left there till we could lie stretchered to the rear. Nex' me was an Officer, a captln In the tiHWds, an’ 'e was wiihh ner me, cosh they'd caught 'Im, lower dahn. Iu less'n an hour, or It might ha’ bln longer, the Boshes kem peltin' through, though I did hear afterwards as how s battalion of Jocks held aht all d’y. Well—now, gentlemen, I s'poae you wants the reel fax?" Jenkins paused, and glowered at the three with fiery eyes. lie was passing again through an inferno, and did not wish his truthfulness In be doubted. • "Just so," said Pelham quietly. "You won't surprise any of us If you tell a strange story. We all know things that are not written in books " “I often speak abart this part of the affire!" explained Jenkins. "II sounds like a fairy til*. Yer see. It was this w'y. Frltxie, as a. man. was rawther like other men, but some of 'Is officers, an' specially 'la non corns, were reg lar brules, an’ one o’ that sort gev' sn order, so they began baynlttin’ us on the ground. The Bawds captln got one. 'e did, an' It was that which put Im on the Blink. It fair treats me to know ow > ever recovered after that. A Roeh • imes at me, an' 1 aer, ter meself, Kies where 1 'op It,' but 1 coitldn t elp lookin' at 'Im. and dash me. if It wasn't a whiter from the old Duke o' Klmebridge at Aldershot. W'y, *e an' I used ter warble duets together: So I, bein' crazy like, sings aht, ‘Lar board watch, atm* : an’, e looks at me as though I'd it im wiv' a brick. Then > mikes a pass at me gentle like, through me tunis. an' sez. 'Act was. Jenkins, you sehafskopf, die quick:' I know now wot e said, as 1 picked tip some of their lingo In the 'orspltals an' camps. Any’ow, I twigged 'is meaning', an' curled up. an' that's w'y I'm ere this blessed night, in another hour or so another lot comes along, an' we survivors, precious few at that, was picked up an’ tyken to a jiressin’ stytion, an' from there to a field \irspltal. An' then I sawr the caplin again. Mor tal had, 'e was, too." "How did you ascertain Ills name?” ‘"E tole me." "He told you!” "Yes, sir. Saiii it teas all up wiv’ 'im, an', if T got through, ter write an' tell 'is people, as they'd like to know wot 'ad 'uppened. Well, 'e was gorn ncjft morning', so I s posed 'e had pegged out afore daylight. Mind yer, they doped me when they took aht the bullets, so I wasn’t wot you might call very chirpy meself.” "Did you write?” v "L'ert'nly I did. sir. Said nothink abaht the dirty work in the quarry, of course, as they read all letters, an' I would ha' bin eourlmuwshalled for givin' that a w'y—tollin' lies about the great Merman Kultur they called It. So wasn't I the surprised lad w’en you said the gentleman was alive an’ well?" “You received no answer to your letter?" put tn Somers. "Not a word, sir." 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I believed the sime nia-| chine-gun got hn a* got me. ’ "Rut wasn’t his face Injured’.”' "Not that I satvr." / "At any rate It was not so damaged that you would fall to recognize his resemblance to Captain Pelham’.’’ “\\”y that must tie so. sir. I ain't mykin’ up a tile.” "No. of course not. The puzzle is that Sir Arthurf Pelham's fane is now somewhat disfigured. On which side of him were yuu lying in tlie* quarry?" “On is left side; an* in the orspitnij ;i« well. I don’t pretend to remember every officer'* fire | pawl- in France an’ Germany, l»ut I’ve read sum* - whores us *o\v some things photy* graph therrfaelv** in yer mind, an* them twelve hours stick out so clear that I'll never forget ’em as long as I live.” "How did you know he was In fhe guards?*’ said Prideaux. “Py his buttons an’ badges, of course.' said Jenkins, smiling at this amateurish uuestloti, and little real ising that he had said exactly what tlic detective hoped lie would say. “Excellent !’* announced Somers, lighting a new cigar. “You have set tied a heated argument once arid for all. Mr Jenkins. 1 am sure t’aptain Pelham would like you to hove an other drink.” Pelham gathered that his official visitors were not anxious to discuss the advertisements which had at tracted Jenkin** notice; the man him self did not mention them, as he was led to talk of this subsequent adven tures in Germany and return home after the Armistice. 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