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THE RETURN of
ANTHONY TRENT
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STORY FROM THE START
Anthony Trent returns to New
Tork ufier nearly four years' ab-
senco. Once known as the mas-
ter crlmlna.1. Trent Is bo Inn
strain lit. The purser accuse*
Trent of jumping overboard
from the Poitlanla at Liverpool,
but Ik disappointed when Trent
sho\^ no surprise. He learns Us
friend. Capt. Frank Sutton, Is In
SlnK Sing, At New York Trent
Is startled to find somebody oc-
cupying his house. The stranger
Is Sutton Campbell, the brother
of his best friend, who Is serving
ten years In prison. Trent Is
asked by Campbell Sutton to
force Payson Grant to a written
confession, having crookedly ob"
talned ull of Captain Sutton's
possessions and later married his
wife. Trent, after long hesita-
tion, consents. Trent starts on u
campaign to accomplish the
downfall of Payson Grant, He
learns from an old friend, Clarke,
that Captain Sutton has escaped
from Sing Sing, and also learns
that Captain Sutton has no
brother. Coming home one eve
nlng threatening to expose
Campbell Sutton, Trent finds, to
liis great surprise, that Campbell
is the escaped Captain Sutton.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
Neither of thein l-.m-w thnt Sutton's
large mining Interest.* in South Amer-
ica were in a pailms stale from the
beginning of the World war In 1! 14.
Sutton carried i Is loudens alone. And
when he knew he wus to go overseas
and had those premonitions of death
which are as often wrong as right, he
made over nearly all of his fortune
to his wife. A (Id to Payson Grant he
gave larger control of the ofiice
There was nn old and trusted hook-
keeper who was left to watch. This
aged and deserving keeper of ac-
counts was dismissed h.v Payson
Grant while Sutton was still on the
troop ship, eastward hound. Ilis pro-
tests were ineffectual. The old watch
dogs who had the traditions of an
honorable firm In their blood followed
tiie head bookkeeper.
It was fortunate for Grant that a
loaded revolver was found In Sutton's
pocket when he was dragged from be-
laboring the man who had wronged
him. It was, to begin with, an In-
fraction of the Sullivan act and as
such punishable with seven years'
imprisonment as a maximum. And
every minute of the trial swelled
Grant's ultimate triumph. It had been
easy to buy false testimony from a
former maid as to cruelty. And Sut-
ton Insulted the Judge and turned the
jurors against him. It seemed that
fate, after smiling on Sutton's career
nnd bringing him fortune and honor,
was now bent on his utter destruction
Considering Sutton's long absence
abroad, and the martyred years Ids
wife had spent, the divorce and mar
riage to Payson Grant seemed to the
sympathetic world neither hurried nor
unjustified. And, since Payson Grant
had plenty of money to Indulge his
tastes, and had not yet met a woman
he liked more than Natica, happiness
seemed in a fair way to be a settled
state.
Then Frank Suttrn escaped from
Sins Stag and. notwithstanding the
precautions Grant had surrounded
himself with, he was uneasy.
"Nat." he said, coming up to the
room where she was breakfasting In
bed, "Frank has got out of Sing Sing 1"
Her alarm was not so noticeable as
his.
"They always capture them," she
observed. That he was troubled did
not escape her. She knew he was
physically afraid of her ex-husband.
But the modern society woman Is not
to be won by the hard-hitting male
us are the women of other spheres.
She thought lighting was a stupid, ar-
chaic practice and counseled Payson
to get a permit to carry a revolver.
"You think he'll come here?" she
demanded, A vulgar brawl which
might he seized upon by the Saffron
Press distressed WW* Immeasurably.
Why couldn't Frank stay In prison,
she wondered. He had been tried and
. convicted. She felt she would always
detest her former husband for the no-
toriety he had brought her. It wus
quite easy for her to forget that she
was the cause. All emotions of a vlo
lent nature were wrinkle-producing,
she believed.
"He't\after me," Payson said gloom-
ily. "And he may get me."
"Not If you're careful," she said.
"Frank was always a most obvious
person without subtleties or nuances
of any kind. The sort of man who
remains a grownup boy Is fatiguing.
He Is just as likely to ring the front
diMit bell and ask vou to step Into the
hull and tie killed."
,, Payson Grant frowned. Tills was
callousness he did not suspect.
"I>—ti It, Nat." lie expostulated,
"you might he serious. I leli you
Frank Is a whole lot deeper than you
ever suspected."
"Dear hoy," Nntlca pleaded, "you
are trifling with m.v digestion. I've
a most important luncheon party and
I want to feel at nn best Don't
worry about It. I' n no|."
"You take It altoa .tier too lightly."
he said, frowning He started as he
heard a knock on 'lie door..
"It's ptohiihix Mademoiselle Dupin."
Natica told him "I take an hour's
conversational Fren.'h now."
A quietly dressed woman entered
He hardl.v glanced at her. It was the
lady ot distinguished French family
who o-as to enable his wife to con
vet•-e iii polite and idiomatic French
She Mud set her mind on a chateau
near Paris next year and the capture
of the old noblesse.
Although Natica Grant allowed bet
husband to think she was not con-
cerned about Sutton's escape. It, In
truth, bothered her more than she ad-
mitted. When he had been sentenced
and public Interest had centered upon
other matters of the moment, she sup
posed the scandal would soon he for
gotten. And now there was to he
more of it. It might conceivably In
lute her In her campaign against the
noblesse who were destined to he her
neighbors. Mademoiselle Dupin was
coaching her In the foibles of the
people she desired to conquer.
Since two weeks had gone by with
out the apprehension of Frank Stilton
and (fie police confessed themselves
without clews of value. Mrs. Grant
hoped lie had escaped, lie had spent
some of his early years In South
America at his father's mining prop
erty, and knew a little Spanish. Frank
was one of those strong men who
could readily do laboring work. Pay
son was different; she could not linag
Ine her present husband In overalls
Payson. for all his air of careless
ness about the result, was in secret
eaten by dire fears. He added two
alredales of blood to his estahllsh
ment. He bought 'hem because they
were one-man dogs, he had heard, and
turned them loose at night In the
grounds, lie was their first victim
The fact that he had paid for them
was, perhaps, not sufficiently im
pressed on the canine intelligence, for
they treed him as he crossed from
the house to the garage to tell Regan,
his head chauffeur, that a police ofti
cor had warned hint of a pilfering
tramp in the neighborhood.
Nntlca was shown this new and
nervous mood when lie threatened to
assault a small, defenseless man who
had called to Inquire if the new
porch was satisfactory.
"You are drinking too many cock
tails between meals." she said.
"It may he I am." he returned. "1
feel shot to hits, and that's a fact.
Nat. II—I!" he exploded, speaking
truth for the moment. "Frank got a
rotten deal all round, and some one's
got to suffer " '
"A Judge sentenced him. I didn't."
she said coldly. She had convinced
herself that Sutton merited punish
ment. and Payson's imputation seemed
both annoying nnd false.
Grant had not been so anxious to
leave ills own country for the untried
delights of the French chateau as
Natica. Rut he found a new pleasure
In the Idea now. He could he more
Inviolate In the Chateau St. Ilemy-les-
Chevreuse than In Deal Beach. It
• ltad its consolations, being only an
hour's motor trip from Paris. He told
his wife he was ready to go whenever
she pleased.
"We shall stop here for the sum
mer," she said. "We've Invited too
many people to run away like that.
Also, I've sworn toy accent shall be
.perfect before I go."
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Never during the long hours In
which Frank Sutton spoke of the
wrongs he hnd endured ut the hands
of Payson Grant did he use the
threats which Cainphell Sutton had
swung over the head of Anthony
Trent like a club. In one mood ot
.despondency he advised Trent to give
up an Idea born of hate that the at-
mosphere of prison nurtures. But he
had reckoned without his friend's loy-
alty.
The spectacle of Frank Sutton
brought to the dust, his name dishon-
ored, the woman he loved married to
the man who had doubly betrayed
him, was not of a nature to lessen
Trent's determination to Inflict pun-
ishment. And It was not to be an
act solely of vengeance. He resolved
t< vindicate Sutton's name. He was
not sure how this would affect the
convict's status legally; but there
would he money enough to retain the
best of counsel, and In the end no
doubt a pardon could be won.
"I shall seek quarters In a more
fashionable locality," he told Sutton.
"While I want nothing better than
this, It is not from Central Park,
West, that those who storm society
proceed."
At a house agent's whose clientele
was a distinguished one Trent learned
of several furnished apartments for
subtenancy along the Avenue.
was looking at one In the rear of the
house in the Fifties.
"I'd like one facing the Avenue."
lie remarked. "Is the one In front
occupied?"
"That belongs to young Stratford
Van Boden," the agent said. "1 let if
io him, hut he's abroad now."
Trent knew a good bit about this
youngest disappointment of one of
America's most celebrated families
He had likeable* qualities, but little
moral stamina. And of course Ids
enormous fortune had attracted to him
ttie least' worthy if most fascinating
of Hie demi-monde.
"Would lie sublet?"
The house agent was doubtful. Ht
considered it unlikely because tin
monetary need did not exist.
"He is always hard up," Trent re
marked. "I'll send a cable."
It was a cosily cable and Hie an
swer prepaid. Stratford remembered
Anthony Trent well and was pinched
for ready money. The terms wer<
generous ones and acceptable.
Within a week o. meeting Frank
Sutton. Trent was established in the
•most luxurious apart men is he had
ever seen; the home ot one whose
place in society was unquestioned.
it was Trent's first step, lie had
paid attention to ids base as military
tactics laid Instilled in him (he ad
vlsahllity of doing. The advance was
liis next problem lie found in Van
Kodeii's rooms the men.hers' lists' of
all the exclusive clubs a Van lioden
need belong to. TI.ey were clubs to
which Trent could not hope to enter
other than as a gaest. He wus not
deceived as ic this.
lie glanced down the columns with
Interest. Presently he found the
name he was searching for. It was in
tiie most exclusive young man's club
New York possesses.
Anthony Trent remembered very
well ids first meeting with Swlthln
Weld. He had gone Into the super-
smart Bachelors' club in Hamilton
place. Park lane, will, his friend, Ar
tliur Gretivil. At dinnei lie was among
a group of men ot rank and fashion.
And, since so many foreigners imagine
all Americans of a ijpe lit to be guests
ut such a club us the Rachelors' must
lie glad to meet one another, Swiihiti
Weld was introduced tn his tellow
countryman by a marquis who thought
they would full into one another's
arms.
Swithin Weld had never heard ot
Trent, and said so. He remarked it
In a tone that was not conciliatory.
He thought lie knew every eligible
American. Those he did not know
were uot eligible socially. Weld sup-
posed that this Anthony Trent was
one ot those Americans, to be met
with all over Europe, who have a gen-
ius for understanding alien people, are
welcome visitors in great houses, and
visit their own country but rarely.
One night, after a successful duy at
Sandown, Weld had gone to one of
the most notorious supper clubs In
London. There he had taken too
much champagne for one of his tem-
perate habits, and had been Inveigled
into a secluded eardroom where three
experts* had taken what he bad won
at the races, and left hltn heavily In
debt. It wus while the winners were
waiting for the cluK'k which he hesi-
tated to draw because he had not suf
detent balance nt the bank to meet It.
that Trent came along. Trent knew
the men with whom Weld was pla dug
to be notoriously crooked. Apparently
the gamblers would not accept I. O
U.'8. To obtain d check drawn when
funds were not In the bank to meet
It was a serious offense In London,
and would enable them to make the
Weld family pay through the nose
for Its return. The sum was two
thousand pounds.
Trent strolled over and spokw ami-
cably to his fellow countryman, lgnor>
lug the sharpers entirely.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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A painter got up a sign for a mer-
chant and misspelled a word or two
and turned an E backside before.
The merchant was angry and re-
fused to settle. The painter proceed-
ed to argue.
"Plenty stopping to read that sign?"
he urged.
"Well, yes."
"Don't see 'em stopping to look aI
■ay other sign on the street?"
"No."
"Well, then, come across.'' ,4
His Hand
A certain member of a country club
was unpopular because of bis ostenta-
tion and Jewelry.
One Sunday two club members were
watching this gaudy personality back
his way round the golf course.
"Weak with his clubs, isn't he i" bald
one.
"But strong In diamonds," added the
other.
FROM PEARS TO PRUNES
She—it's wonderful what they can
do with fruit trees now—change one
kind into another.
He—I didn't know they could do
thnt.
She—Oh, yes; I heard the farmer
say he was going to prune his pear
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