Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-08-01
"THE EVIL SHEPHERD"
BY E. Phillips Oppenheim
and
WYMopMs
Illustration by Irwin Myers

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CHATTER y-TFAnola Ledsam Aefsnds
ONvsr Htlditch. q powerful business man,
In murder case and succeeds in get
ting him on. only to be told by young.
prspossessing woman, who says that
she 10 Oliver Hilditch's wife. that Hil-
ditch is an aFch-criminal and that Led
sam has turned loose q dangerous man
to resume his prsying upon society.
CHAPTER U-Ledsam. dining with
his best friend, Andrew Wumors, meets
Hilditch and his wife and IL inviteA 70
dine with them a& their hemA
CHAPTER IU-At dinner vita the
Htlditches, Oliver shows Ledsam hew
he killed his victim and says his own
death the same way would make his
wife supremsly happy. Returning
nome. Ledsam receives o phone call
from Margaret sAyiAg Oliver has been
murdered.
CHAPTER Iv-Lodsam gets the eeT.
ensr to set divers death down a.
suicide. Later on he admits to VIII
more that he has developed q keen in
tsrest In Margaret He meets her ia
thsr, Sir Timothy Brass. the evil shsp-
-
committed before they leave the cafe.
CHAPTER V-Ths crime 10 som-
mittsd ana ghopland. O Scotland Yard
detective. asks LaAsa@ 70 interview tAs
girl In the ease.
CHAPTER vI-Daasv tells Laasam
nothing much, except that her COM
p&nion had led Q pretty fast life and
was trying to break away from his cid
evil companions.
CHAPTER vn-By chance Traaeis
meets Margaret and asks for permis-
sion to call, which she refuses. He
tells her he will ask her fathers per-
mission and Margaret bsgs him to have
nothing to DO with BR Timothy, al
though she admits he - everything
that 10 kind - her.
CHAPTER vuy-yuss % Hi1 Timothy
appears to hs tbs murderer In the See
end aHaiR another MAA DulsaaaA eA-
missing Ais saalA
CHAPTER N-Brast displays an un-
usual humane side 70 his eAarastsS
and mystAss Ledsam BY It.
CHAPTER X-FrAAeis 10 invissd 90
Ains with Brast a4 his cottage. Return
ing to his once Ae Ands an unfinished
scrawl from the brother Of Wilmors.
asking aid, but ending abruptly. Will
more thea tells him his younger brother
has bssA missing for days and they
fear harm has befallsa him. Search for
ham proves Wnava1lin@.
CHAPTER u-Undss the influence
OF lovely moon and the quiet Of the
river Francis kisses Margaret, and the
latter does not resent 1t, although ask.
ing Francis to escort her back to the
house. They hnd Sir Timothy had taken
Lady Cynthia to see the Walled House.
The next morning Francis escorts Lady
Cynthia to London ana Ands Margaret
had left before them. Francis Admi~s
that he wishes to marry Margaret
CHAPTER XII-Shopland tells Fran
sis that he oan hnd nothing dshnits
about young Wilmore's whereabouts.
Francis runs into Margaret and she
yields and becomes engaged 10 him.
CHAPTER XIII-sir Timothy hnds
the happy couple dining at Lsdsam's
chambers. Unable to forbid the mar
riage he secures their consent to keep
the announcement of their engagement
secret for two weeks. shopland meets
Francis and discloses that he hopes TO-
get Sir Timothy in the tolls Of the Law
in O short time.
CHAPTER XIv-Margarst eonfsssss
to Francis that she had never cared for
Hilditch. Sir Timothy offers shopland
temporary truce. whereby Francis,
Wilmore and Daisy Hyslop will be nj.
lowed to attend q party at the Walled
House and then tell him anything ills-
gal that has happened there. The de-.
tsctivs accepts.
CHAPTER xv-IAdy Cynthia soros,
an invitation from Brast to q trip to
the London slums. Lady Cynthia fails
In love with Hrast, Q feeling he rseip-
rooAtss.
CHAPTER xVI-Plans for q party az
the Walled House are laid. to which
Lady Cynthia In also invited.
CHAPTER XvII-A seedy looking in
dividual tells Francis he was Hilditch's
butler at the time Hilditch was killed.
and that he saw Sir Timothy commit
the murder. Francis buys his silence
and receives In exchange two eonfes-
sions.
CHAPTER xvIII-As preparations
10 forward for the party at the Walled
House, Sir Timothy Ia called to the
phone by Eiiiditch's former butler. who
tells him that he gives him q sporting
chance to leave the country before his
confession becomes public. Sir Tim
othy Is thoughtful. but declines to
stampede. They all 60 to the Walled
House and enter into the festivities.
Father seems thoroughly medieval
over this business" Margaret re-
marked. looking about her with inter-
est. What a quaint courtyard. tool
1t really is quite Italian"
"It seems almost incredible that you
have never been here" Lady Cynthia
exclaimed Curiosity would have
brought me II I had had to climb over
the walll"
"It does seem absurd IN one way"
Margaret agreed, "but, az a matter Of
fact, my fathers attitude about the
place has always rather set me against
it. I didn't feel that there was any
pleasure to be gained by coming here.
Iwon't tell you really what did think.
We must keep to our bargain. We
are not to anticipate"
At the front entrance. under the cov-
cred porttco, the white tickets which
they had received in exchange for their
tickets of invitation, were carefully