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MASTER MAN
BY
RUBY M AYT.rrS
Author of ‘‘The Phantom Lover." "The G.rl Next Door,- etc.
I
It was nearly one o’clock,
but lie had never felt more wide
awake in his life—what was
the good of going to bed if
sleep was an impossibilityt lie
wondered if Patrieif* was
asleep, and he thought again of
: her tears, which he had tried
not to see, and he swcro under
qis breath as he felt for his
rigarette ease. After ad, it was
her own fault—she might
have had five lmndrd or a
thousand a year, and her own
house at Clayton, had -lie only
•hosen to be reasonable; it was
by her own choice that she
had gone to live at Mrs. Flan
ungan's perhaps the e:;peri
em e would do her go d.
For ten minutes he smoked
hard, and tried equally hard to
persuade himself that it would
undoubtedly do her good—but
at the end of those ten minutes
be flung the stump of his cig
arette firewards and was up on
his feet, restlessly pacing the
room.
it was intensely aggravating
that Patricia should weigh on
his mind in this fashion—he
wished once again that lie had
let Chesney marry her and
ended his own responsibility.
And yet he knew that even now
he had no intention of letting
Chesney know where he coukl
find Patricia—Chesney was not
the man to make Patricia
happy—he was too slavish, too
ready to lie down and allow
her to walk over him.
In the rooms below bis own,
In spite of the lateness of the
hour, some youthful spirit had
itarted a gramophone going,
and tlie strains of a ragtime
eoon song floated up to Michael
Rolf with irritating clearness
as he paced restlessly up and
down:—
“When she said she lubb’d me,
she didn’t speak true,
S© off I’m wid de ole lub, an’
on wid de new.”
Michael listened to the silly
words with a feeling of famil
iarity—where had h • heard
them before? And then all at
once he remembered—a gramo
phone had been grinding out
the same • record that day at
Chesney’s bungalow on the
river when the news came of
Peter Rolf’s death. A lifetime
ago it seemed: and lie thought
with chagrin of Patricia as she
tad been then and as she had
been when he left her an hour
ago at Mrs. Flanagans.
And he knew that it was a
iheer impossibility to leave her
in those miserable surround
ings.
I hat sln> would never accept
help from him he was sure. Tn
spite of her tears and distress
that evening her pride was not
broken—very far from it!
Michael sat up till it was al
most light, turning over possi
ble and impossible schemes,
and at last he fell asleep in the
big chair by the dying fire and
and only awoke in broad day
light when his man came in to
pull up the blinds.
lie stared credulously at his
master’s slumbering face, then
he shrugged his shoulders and,
stooping, shook him not very
gently. Michael was on his feet
in an instant, lie laughed self
consciously, meeting the man’s
reproachful gaze. “I was late
home,” lie explained. ”1 sup
pose I fell asleep by the fire.
Get me a hot bath and break
fast.”
lie hurried through both,
and was round at Mr. Philips’
office before Mr. Philips him
self had arrived.
“Not here!” he said disgus
tedly. “Why, what on earth
time does he eome then?”
The office hoy pointed out
rather resentfully that it was
! rot yet nine o’clock and that
Mr. Rolf was an early visitor.
Michael laughed.
“Oh, all right! I’ll wait.”
Mr. Philips arrived punctu
i ally on the stroke of nine, lie
had no idea,” lie said, agitat
edly. “If he had only guessed,”
“ Von coiihln ’t have guessed”
Michael interrupted blunt
ly. He rather liked old Philips,
and trusted him, even while lie i
had no patience with his slow
methods.
“Look here,” lie broke out
again. “I’ve found Mi.:s Rolf. 1
thought you’d like to know. It
was quite an accident. 1 ran
into her on the street.” He
laughed at the elder man’s
amazed face. “She’s as obsti
nate as ever,” he went on
cheerfully. “She’s living with a
fat Irishwoman in a beastly
neighborhood—and refuses to
move.”
Mr. Philips smiled faintly.
In that case I should be in
clined to leave her where she
is,” he said. “A few weeks of
•—er-—comparative discomfort
may work miracles.”
“It may and it may not,”
Michael agreed. “Anyway, .1
don’t feel inclined to risk it.
and that’s why I’m here. I
want to know if she’* any
friends—not people like the
Shackles—but genuine, decent
people, preferably poor!—
whose address you can give
me.”
Mr. Philips cleared bis
throat and rearranged some
perfectly tidy papers on his
desk with irritating precision.
“I know very little of Miss
Rolf’s friends,” he said at last.
“Let me see now—not the
Shackles type, you say?”
“I do, most emphatically.”
“There was a little silence.
—then Mr. Philips said hesitat
ingly:
“There are some people—I
can’t quite remember the utinie
—I know your father objected
to them very much—because
they were not what lie called
‘shabby genteel’—they lived—
now let me see where did tliev
live?”
Michael frowned impatiently.
“If you don’t know their
name or where they lived—” ho
began, but Mr. Philips inter
rupted :
“Kensington| they lived?”
he said in triumph. “Kensing
ton, I am sure it is! And their
name—I believe it was Smith!”
Michael made a grimace.
“There are probably thou
sands of Smiths at Kensing
ton.“lie said with sarcasm: “so
if that’s all you can tell me—”
“Oh. but it isn’t!” Mr. Phil
ips hastened to assure him.
“At least, I can find out the
real address and all particulars
and ring you up. What time
will you be at your rooms, Mr.
Rolf?”
I am going out to lunch.”
■‘It you will tell mo where
you are lunching I will send a
clerk along with a letter.”
Michael told him.
‘‘And these Smiths—what
are they? Who are they?” he
asked.
Mr. Philips shook his Iread.
‘‘I m afraid I know no more
about them than that Mr. Rolf
objected to them chiefly be
cause Miss Rolf sent them mon
ey and clothes from time to
time,” he answered reluctantly.
‘‘It seemed to annoy him ex
ceedingly, though why 1 never
quite understood.”
“My father objected to
most things,” Michael said a
trifle bitterly, but his heart
warmed towards Patricia—per
haps after all she had not been
so selfish as he had believed.
“I understood also,” Mr.
Philips added, “that these peo
ple—the Smiths—thought a
great deal of Miss Rolf.”
“Naturally.” said Michael,
then wondered why on earth he
had said it. lie looked auieklv
at the lawyer and flushed rath
er self-conscious! v.
“Well. I’ll be off,” he added
hurriedly. “You'll s«>nd a note
along then?”
1
fjo went fcack to nis rooms.
There was more than an hour
yet before it was time to call
for Patricia. lie changed his
suit and wandered up Ilegent
street.
There was a great bunch of
hothouse violets in Gerard's
window, and with sudden im
pulse Michael went in and
bought them. They would
brighten up Patricia’s dingy
sitting room, and Chosney had
once mentioned that, violets
were her favorite flowers!
Michael was just giving Mrs.
Flannagan’s address to the at
tendant when someone touched
him on the arm, and a voice
said with a sort of vague sus
picion :
“Hullo! You! Who are you
buying flowers for?’’ and turn
ing swiftly, Michael found
Hern a ft 1 Ohesney at his elbow.
Michael flushed.
Chosney was the last person
on earth .whom he 'wished t«*
see at that moment; hut he
managed a not very successful
laugh and answered with sus
picious haste:
“Hullo!—wait a moment,
I’m just coming along—” He
turned to the girl who was
looking on impatiently. “Lend
me the pencil and I’ll write the
address down," he said. He
seized the pencil from her and
hastily scribbled Patricia’s
name and address, then, seizing
Chcsney by the arm, inarched
him determinedly out of the
shop.
llis one idea was to get rid
of him—the tine* was passing
quickly and he knew that it
would take him at least 20 min
utes in a taxicab to reach Mrs.
Flannagan’s uninviting abode.
“I was going along to your
rooms when I saw you,” Ches
ney said. “What are you do
ing today? Will you lunch with
me?”
A sleepless night had taught
Chcsney wisdom. lie realised
that h™ had made a mistake by
quarrelling with Michael and
that far better results could be
obtained by remaining friends
with him.
“.Sorry—got a business en
gagement,” said Michael brief
ly. “Tomorrow, if you like—”
“Business engagement ?”
Cbesnej echoed, the vague note
of suspicion once again in his
v*dee. “You with a business en
gagement?”
“Yes.”
“Well, can’t I come along
too? 1 shan’t interfere.”
Michael looked at him square
ly in the eyes.
“That’s just what you would
do,” he said calmly. “Meet you
tonight if you like—or come
around to my place if you care
about it. 1 must run now—so
long!”
lie had turned away when
Chcsney caught his arm.
“Is there any news of Pa
tricia?” lie asked, and his eyes
were pathetic in their anxiety.
“Nothing since yesterday,”
Michael answered hastily. It
was; the truth, and yet it was
a lie—he could have kicked
himself with pleasure as Ches
liey turned dispiritedly away,
lie stood for a moment looking
after him undecidedly. Why not
recall him and toll him where
Patricia was? She had liked
Chcsney and ho. knew that
Chcsney adored her. Surely it
was the host and easiest way
out of a responsibility which
was daily becoming more irk
some. lie moved a step forward
to follow his friend, then i
stopped. “I'll be dashed if 1
do,” said Michael Rolf, and,
hailing a taxicab, lie drove off
in the opposite direction.
lie glanced hurriedly at his
watch. Five minutes to one!
Whatever happened he was
bound to he late!
This was Chesney’s fault.
Michael cursed him roundly as
he leaned out of the window
and shouted to the driver to
hurry. Patricia would never
forgive him if he were late. But
in spite of reckless driving and
hair-breadth escapes round
corners it was a quarter past
one before the taxicab stopped
outside Mrs. Flannagan’s and
Michael flung himself out and
dashed up the steps.
Yt mod an eternity to his
impatience before he heard
steps m the passage—nn etern
ity before Mrs. Flannagii*1
opened the door a couple o!
inches. When she recognize*
Michael she smiled broadly and
widened the gap hospitably.
“Well, I never!” she said re
gretfully. “And the young lad;
only just this minute gone!”
“(lone!” Michael echo*,
blankly.
“Share, yes! And it’s herseli
that was put about,” said Mrs
FI a n n a ga n sympathetically
“Kept asking me, she did, il
the cloek was fast—”
Michael cut in bluntly
“Where did she go?”
Mrs. Flannagan did not
know. Neither did she know
what time her lodger intended
to return, but she cordially in
vited Michael to step in and
wait, on the chance that Pa
trieia might he hack soon.
But Michael knew Patrick
better. She would give him nc
second chance he was sure
He went hack to the waiting
taxi. What the deuce could he
do now? It was all Chesney’.<•
fault, confound the fellow.
“We came fast, sir,” the
driver said with a grin.
“We did,” Michael agreed
dryly. “But not fast enough.’
He gave the name of the res
taurant at which he had in
tended to lunch. She could not
have gone far and they might
overtake her.
“And drive slowly this time”
he added.
But though the taxicab went
at a snail’s pace, and though
Michael sat leaning forward
staring at every pedestrian in
the hope of discovering Patri
cia, he was doomed to disap
pointment. Presently he waf
sulkily eating his lunch alone
It was the devil’s own luck
he told himself. Everything
seemed to be against him; the
next disappointment would be
that Philips would fail him
too. But even as the thought
crossed his in:nd, a youth, h^g
gmg a bowler hat nervously un
der his arm, hesitatingly
threaded his way through the
rows of tables, and, spotting
Michael fell upon him trium
phantly.
“From Mr. Philips, sir—”
Michael grabbed the letter
and tore it open.
“Dear Mr. Rolf,—The ad
dress you require is 41, Ilehest
er street, Kensington, and the
name, as I thought, is Smith.”
“No answer,” said Michael.
This was something to work
upon anyway, and he finished
his lunch with more appetite
before lie started off to Iven
sington.
Ilchester street proved to be
so far out of Kensington prop
er that even the local police
disclaimed all knowledge of it
and it was only after making
dozens of inquires that Michae
found himself ringing the bell
of No. 41.
The bell was brightly pol
ished, and the steps were spot
less. He noted these facts with
Satisfaction before the dooi
opened and a girl stood look
ing shyly up at him.
She was a slim, pretty girl
with wavy brown hair and
dark eyes, that reminded him n
little of Patricia’s. He smiled
with a queer feeling of friend
liness towards her as he asked
if Mrs. Smith was at home.
The girl nodded: “Yes. it.'
mother. Will you come inf I’l
go and tell her. What name i
it, please ”
“Rolf,” said Michael, “Mich
a el Rolf.”
He saw the girl’s eyes wider
and the flush deepen in he!
checks, but she made no com
ment. She led the way into the
front room, which, though poor
Iv furnished, had an air o!
home comfort about it that
struck Michael agreeably.
One could see at a glance that
gentle people lived here, hr
thought.
He looked round the room in
terestedly. The carpet and char
coverings were shabby, bn t
there were flowers on the table
and a sleek cat curled up b\
the fire.
(TO CONTINUED)
Raid Proof Ship to
Foil Chinese Pirates
SH ANOHAI—-«AH>—Chinese pl
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bined with tj'phcons to keep travel
In the South China sea from be
coming boresome to mariners, will
do well to steeT clear of a new
passenger steamer which a Jap
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for use in the waters Infested by
sea robbers.
The vessel will contain none of
the time honored safeguards
against piracy. Instead the re
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upon to foil any attempts to cap
ture control of the ship while the
wireless is summoning assistance.
Automatically removable com
panion ways will lead from the boat
deck to the bridge. Pressing of a
button switch will charge these
| companionways and portions of the
bridge with a high electric voltage
that will mean death to the pirate
I who comes in contact with them.
The engine room will be auto
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I crew safe below deck and protect
ins the most vital spot on the ves
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interfering with broadcasts for
help.
The owner of the new vessel Is
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will refuse no passenger because of
nationality. But Chinese, as coun
trymen off the pirates, will have to
undergo a search of their persons
and baggage
Chinese buocaneers in times
past were the veritable Vikings of
the Orient. Thev ravaged coasts,
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up as rulers of considerable coast
al territories. But with the com
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they were routed from theii
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Q How far is is from Con
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H.
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