Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10

uldl4lAS 4ued cut OF your Aedds ANOn
here: stay and have lunch with me.
and Well discuss the m1tter over al
cigar and q glass of VINE"
I should 10 taking your luach
under false pretences." I replied,
rising and bustoning my coat. You
shall have the four days grace
Which have promised"
He followed me TO the door, en-
treating me Tor my address. So con- I
WINGED was he that would change
my mind, that he sent his secretary
out into the street after me. In the
end l made my escape by promising
to see him again or the evening Of
the third day.
TOOK my usual leisurely lunch
T. AMI afterward made my way to
tbs uninspiring neigEb0rheod Of
S.rectham. THE Towers" which
tAad discovered from a book Of ~efer-
-cnce to be MIR. Edward RendalTs adj
dress, was q hopelessly vulgar edI-
fee Of gray stone, approached by
what is generally described IS
short carriage drive The popular
NJ. p, as was his boast, was not in
the least difficult Of access. He can
into the room within a few minutM
pipe in his mouth, and giving EVIL
dence of all the easy gSod,nature
which beftted his position.
Don't know who you are, Mr.
IBuckross, he said, noticing with
some surprise that l had not awaited
myself Of the opportunity Of shaking
hands with him, but sit down, and
welcome. What can do for your"
Il have brought you bad news, Mr.,
Kendall" announced.
The devil you have" he an.
swered, removing his pipe from his
teeth and staring at me. "Who are
you, anyway? don't seem to recog-
nize your name"
That really doesn't matter" I re.
piled. You can call me a journal.
ist, if you like. It's as near the truth
as anything about myself that I'm
likely to tell you. Something very
disagreeable is going to happen to
YOU on the fourth day from now, and
as am partly responsible for it,
have come out here to give you a
word of warning"
You're getting at me-" he pro-
tested uneasily.
Not in the least" I assured him.
THE facts to which l alIude are
these: have in my possession a
copy Of the speech which you ought
to have made at Liverpool last
March and didn't, and also the origi-
nal letter from Lord Kindersley,
Offering you $4,000 pounds to hold it
up. 1 also know that you received
that money on the following evening
at the National Liberal Club, and
know what banks you intrusted it
to-"
ID ENDALL was, I believe, at
In heart, just as much of a coward
as Kindersley, but he showed it
in a different fashion.
you lying blackmailerr' he shout
ed. How dare you come here with
such a story! Get out of the house,
or I'll throw you down the steps,"
Il have fulfilled my mission" I
told him. Il shall be very glad in
deed to go"
Stop he shouted as I turned to.
ward the door, How did you come
by this coclz-and-bull story?" DIT
How should I have come by it at
all unless it We're the truth?" I an
sWered. 'gThe whole world will
know the facts soon enough. I OBJ
tanned the papers from your wife"
That's a lie, then" he declared
truculently. for 1 saw her destroy
the letter"
smiled. The man. after all. VI
a poor sport.
She deceived you," 7 replied.
you saw her destroy a circular. She
kept the latter. Perhaps she had her
reasons. / bought it from her and
another man at Frascati's restau.
rant last night"
Conviction seized upon Mr.. Ed
ward Kendall. His eyes narrowed q
little.
How do 1 know that the whole
thing isn't a bluff" he said suspi,
ciously. Have you got the docu'
ments with your
Il have" I told him.
He attempted nothing in the way
of subtlety. He relied, 1 suppose,
upon his six feet and his brawny
shoulders. He came at me like a
bull, head down and fist swinging. 1t
was very ridiculous encounter.
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