Evening star., 1925-03-16

vaguely familiar. The man came
along the platform and began to
mount the steps that led up to the
bridge. Half way up he put down his
suit case, took off his hat for a mo-
ment, as if to cool himself, and stood
| there looking UP. Then he replaced
his hat, shifted the suit case to the
other hand, and came up the rest of
the steps. He seemed hot.
He passed Anthony and went down
the steps on to the London platform.
Anthony followed him.
When the big man stood stil and
looked up eight years were suddenly
and plays queer tricks. What An
thongs memory did was to set him
down in the year 1912 in the gallery
of hall in Chicago There was
packed and rather vocifeEous audi
ence There was a big man on the
platform-a big man who seemed hot.
His speech was, in fact, of suffi-
ciently inf1ammatory nature to make
any one feel hot. 1t breathed fire ANA
fury. Its rolling eloquence must have
involved a good deal of physical eX-
ertion. Suddenly. after period, the
speaker stopped and look up at the
gallery for applause. 1t came like
veritable cyclone. The meeting was
subsequently broken up by the police,
Anthony remembered that the
spea kef's name was Molloy. If Mr..
Molloy had come from Withstead, 1t
occurred to Anthony that his destina-
ton would probably be of interest,
The London train was due in 10
minutes. When 1t came in Molloy got
into a third-class carriage and An
thony followed his example.
1t was at T:30 on Sunday morning
that Mrs. March's cook, who was
sweeping the hah, was given what
she afterward described as a turn by
the arrival of an odd-looking man
xho would give no name and Insisted
on seeing her master
Awful he looked with that 'orrid
scar and his air that wild. and net
giving me a chance to shut the door
in his face, fer he pushes In the mo-
ment I got 1t open--thats what give
me the worst turn of. all-and walks
into the dining room as bold as brass
and says, I want to see Capt. March
and be quick, please
When Henry came into the dining
room he shut the door behind him
very quickly and looked as if he also
had had turn.
"Gnod Lord Tony, what's hap
pened?" he said.
Nothing" said Anthony. with non
chalance.
Then, in Heavens name, why are
you here?"
I'm through, that's all You can't
say I didn't give notice
IT'S not a question of what l say;
it's what Piggyll say
"Oh, I've got a sop for Piggy. Pve
been doing the faithful sleuth. I've
traiied man from Withstead to q
highly genteel boarding house in
South Kensington, and as l last. saw.
the gentleman addressing an !. w. w.
meeting in Chicago, l imagine Piggy
might be interested"
"Who was it?" said Henry quickly.
"Molloy."
You're Sure?"
Absolutely"
Good man, You're in luck. Mol
10y, under the interesting alias of
Bernier. has just been selling the
government Formula A He was
trsiled over here with the swag and
then lost sight of. For dead cert
he's been to LuttreH Marches by the
back way and seen Ember."
Anthony turned away.
There's the devil to pay down
there" he said. mo, no. the girls all
right. This is something I ought to
have told you when you were down.
I ought to have told you the whole
thing. / couldn't bring myself to-
sit down. Tony. What is it?'
mo, I can't sit He walked to the
window and stood there. looking out.
His hands made restless movements.
He spoke, keeping his back to Henry
You didn't go through all the pas
sages?''
mo. I was going TO tonight"
II ought to have told you. The big
place under the terrace, you know
they've turned 1t into laboratory
Molloy may have .beeh working there.
for all I know. He had the name of
an expert chemist"
Yes. Go on"
you'd have found it yourself to-
night, but I couldn't let you go blum
dering in unwarned. Ember might be
there-any one might be there. It's
damnable, Henry, but l believe she's
up to her neck in it
Henry was silent. There seemed to
be nothing TO say. He also believed
that Raymond Heritage was up to her