Evening star., 1921-04-11
CONTINUED from yesterdays Star.)

FOR ten minutes he spoke. while
his companion listened I'm silence.
| Gone completely was the rather
| vacuous-faced youth clad in gor-
geous dressing gown: in his place
| there sat keen faced man nodding
| from time to time as fresh point
listened in the years that were past
to their battalion commanders or
ders before an attack
At length Hugh finished. will you
do it. old man." he asked.
"Of course" returned the other.
he said pleadingly. Ito whip up two
or three of the boys and have a real
scrap? l don't seem to have any !
thing to do
Drummond shook his head decid- |
edly. NO. Peter. my boy-not this |
show. We're up against a big thing; |
and if you like to come in with me. !
l think you'll have all you want in !
the scrapping line before you've fin |
ished. But this time, low cunning is |
the order" |
Darrell rose. Right you are.
dearie. Your instructions shall be |
carried out to the letter. Come and |
feed your face with me. Got a couple |
of birds from the Gaiety lunching at
the Cri."
mot today" said Hugh. i've got
quite bit to get through this after
noon"
AS soon as Darrell had gone, Drum
mond again rang the bell for his
servant
This afternoon. James. you and
Mrs. Denny will leave here and go
to Paddington. Go out by the front
door, and should you find yourselves
being followed-as you probably will
be-consume a jujube and keep your
heads. Having arrived at the book
ng-ofice-take a ticket to Chelten-
ham. say goodbye to Mrs. Denny in an
impassioned tone, and exhort her not
to miss the next train to that delect-
able inland resort. You might even
speak slightingly about her sick aunt
at Westbourne Grove, who alone pre-
vents your admirable wife from ac-
companying you. Then. James. you
will board the train for Cheltenham
| and go there. You will remain there
for two days, during which period
you must remember that you're a
married man-even if you do go to
the movies. You will then return
here. and await further orders. Do
you get me?"
Yes. sir James stood to at
tention with a smart heel-click.
Your wife-she has a sister or
something. hasn't she. knocking
about somewhere?'
"she as a palsied cousin in Cam
berwen, SIR" remarked James with
justifiable pride.
She will daily until eventide with
her palsied cousin-if she can bear
it-and then she must go by under
ground tau to . Ealing. where where she will VIII
think there will be any chance of her
being followed--you'll have drawn
them Off. When she gets to Goring. l
want the cottage got ready at once.
for two visitors" He paused and lit
a cigarette. Above all, James
m "a told ..
tie while ago, the game has begun.
Now, just repeat what I've told you"
He listened while his servant ran
through his instructions, and nodded
snproviney app So To think ,s;R. the5s ts are
service a waste Of time!" he mur-
INJURED. -Four years ago you couldn't
have got one word of it right"
He dismissed Denny, and sat down
at his desk. First he took the half
ting it in an envelope, sealed it care
fully. Then he placed 1t in another
envelope. with covering letter to
his bank, requesting them to keep the
inclosure intact.
. Then he took q sheet Of mote paper.
ed to pen document which afforded
him considerable amusement, judg-
ing by the grin which appeared from
time to time on his face. This effu-
SION NC ALSO lHClOScC III q SedleO en-.
velope. which he again addressed to
his bank. Finally. he stamped the
first. but not the secondhand placed
them both in his pocket.
For tho next two hours he appar-
emily found nothing better to do than
by Mrs. Denny. and superintend his
visitor unwillingly consuming a sAgo
pudding. Then, with the departure
of the Dennys for Paddington. which
coincided most apuy with the return
commenced in Half Moon street. But
being interior activity. interfering in
no way with the placid warmth of
the street outside. the gentleman
without, whom keen observer might
the beauties Of that well known thor
embarrassing that he had been
there for three hours-remained Sc
renely unconscious Of it. His pal had
followed the Dennys to Paddington-
Drummond had not come out-and
beginning to get bored.
About 4:30 he sat up and took
notice again as some one left the
house: but it was only the superbly
dressed young man whom he had
clothes peg calling himself Darrell.
The sun was getting low and the
shadows were lengthening when .
taxi drove up to the door. Imme-
diately the watcher drew closer, only
to stop with q faint smile as he saw
two men get out Of it One was the
Immaculate Darrell; the other was a
stranger, and both were quite OBJ
viously what in the vernacular is
known as oiled.
You prisheless ole bean" he heard
Darrell say affectionately. "thish
blinking cabsh my show
The other man hiccoughed assent,
and leant wearily against the pal
fright" he remarked, "ole friend
of me youth 1t shall be ash you
wish"
with = tolerant eye he watched
them tack up the stairs. singing
Justify in chorus. Then the door
above closed. and the melody con-
tinued to float out through the open
window. J
Ten minutes later he was relieved.
It was quite an transformations relief:
another man merely strolled past
him And, since there was nothing
to report, he merely strolled away.
He could hardly be expected to know
that up in Peter Darrells sitting
room, two perfectly sober young men
were contemplating with professional
eyes an extremely drunk gentleman
singing in a chair, and that one Of
those two sober young men was Peter |
Darrell
Then further interior activity took
place in Half Moon street, and as |
darkness fell, silence gradually set
tied on the house. |