Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-08-08
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ustratiOn by Irwin Myers

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CHAPTER I-Tranot@ Ledsam defends
Oliver Hilditch, powerful business man,
In murder case and succeeds in get
ting him OF, only to be told by young.
prepossessing woman, who says that
she 10 Oliver Hilditch's wife, that Hill
ditch IL an arch criminal and that Led
sam has turned loose q dangerous man
to resume hiG preying upon society.
CHAPTER II-Ledsam, dining with
his best friend, Andrew Wtlmore, meets
Hilditch and his wife and IL invited to
dine with them At their home.
CHAPTER III-At dinner with the
Hilditches. oliver shows Ledsam how
he killed his victim and says his own
death the same way would make his
wife supremely happy. Returning
home, Ledsam receives q phone call
from Margaret saying oliver has been
murdered.
CHAPTER IV-Ledsam gets the cor
Onsr to set divers death down a.
suicide. Later on he admits to Will
more that he has developed keen in
terest in Margaret He meets her IA
ther, Sir Timothy Brast, the evil shep
herd, who tells him q crime will be
committed before they leave the cafe.
CHAPTER v-Ths crime 10 oom-
mittsd and shopland. Q Scotland Yard
detective. asks Ladsam 70 interview the
girl In the ease.
CHAPTER YI-Daisy tells Ledsam
nothing much, except that her COM
panion had led q pretty fast life and
was trying to break away from his old
MVil cOmpaniOna,
CHAPTER VII--By chance Francis
meets Margaret and asks for permis-
sion to call, which she refuses. He
tells her he will ask her fathers per-
mission and Margaret bsss him to have
nothing to do with Sir Timothy. al
though she admits he 10 everything
that 10 kind to her.
CHAPTER VIIY-Just ID Sir Timothy
appears to bo the murderer In the seq
end affair, another mAA suicides. &d-
mitting his guilt
CHAPTER IX-Brast displays an un-
usual humane side to his character
and mystifies Ledsam by L.
CHAPTER X-Fransis 10 invited to
dine with Brast at his cottage. Return
ing to his office he dnds an unfinished
scrawl from the brother Of Wilmore.
asking aid, but ending abruptly. Will
more then tells him his younger brother
has been missing for days and they
fear harm has befallsn him. Search for
him proves unavAaling.
CHAPTER xI-Under the influence
Of a 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 And Sir Timothy had taken
Lady Cynthia to see the Walled House.
The next morning Francis escorts Lady
Cynthia to London and finds Margaret
had left before them Francis admits
that he wishes to marry Margaret.
CHAPTER XII-Shopland tells Fran
els that he cnn find nothing definite
about young Wilmore's whereabouts.
Francis runs into Margaret and she
yields and becomes engaged to him.
CHAPTER XIII--Sir Timothy finds
the happy couple dining at Ledsam'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 ana discloses that he hopes to
get Sir Timothy in the tolls of the law
in q short time.
CHAPTER XIV-Margaret conresses
to Francis that she had never cared for
Hilditch. Sir Timothy offers Shopland
temporary truce, whereby Francis
Wilmore and Daisy Hyslop will be al
lowed to attend a party at the Walled
House and then tell him anything ills-
gal that has happened there. The Dc.
tsctive accepts.
CHAPTER Xv-Lady Cynthia forces
an invitation from Brast to a trip to
the London slums. Lady Cynthia falls
In love with Brast, . feeling he recip-
rocatss.
CHAPTER XvI-Plans for a party at
the Walled House are laid, to which
Lady Cynthia Is also invited.
CHAPTER XVII-A seedy looking in
diyidual 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 confes-
sions.
CHAPTER XvIII-As preparations
go forward for the party at the Walled
House, Sir Timothy is called to the
phone by Hilditch's former butler, who
tells him that he gives him a sporting
chance to leave the country before his
confession becomes public. Sir Tim
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stampede. They all go to the Walled
House and enter into the festivities.
MIR. Wilmore, / beg that you will
be reasonable" Sir Timothy expos
tulated. II saw your brother box at
his gymnasium In Holborn. My agent
made hiIa the offer of this fight. One
Of my conditions had to be that he
came here to train and that whilst he
was here he held no communication
whatever with the outside world. My
trainer has ideas of his own and this
he insists upon. Your brother in the
end acquiesced. He was at first diff
cult to deal with as regards this con-
dition, and he did, In fact, / believe,
Mr.. Ledsam, pay visit to your office,
with the object Of asking you to be-
come an intermediary between him
and his relatives"
"He began a letter to me-" Francis
interposed, "and then mysteriously
disappeared"
"The mystery is easily explained"
Sir Timothy continued. my trainer,
Roger Hagon, a Varsity blue, and the