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THE RETURN Of ANTHON
CHAPTER I
—1—
The Purser Who Interested j
Himself in Crime.
That windy night only one passen-
ger put out from Dover in the little
wave-buffeted tender to add his name
to the many bound for New York in
the waiting liner.
As he climbed the swaying ladder
to the Brabant’s deck, Anthony Trent
was glad of this absence of scrutiny.
More that three years absent from his
native land, he was again about to
place himself under her jurisdiction.
He was conscious that after a ‘ong
period of freedom from fear there was
again an aura ot uneasiness enwrap-
ping him.—If- there were those on
board the Brabant waiting to arrest
im they could choose their time. She
was not a fast boat and there would
be many days and nights to pass ere
the highlands of Navesink care in
sight.
Now that the tender had whistled
her farewell and was on her way, no
escape was possible. For six days he
would be as carefully imprisoned as
though the walls 01 an impregnable
jail rose around him.
The chief steward was summoned
early to Trent’s stateroom.
“1 want my meals served here,’
Trent said “and 1 want to see the
passenger list in case any of my
friends are aboard."
There was not a name on the pas-
senger list which awakened old mem
cries. And there was not >. mau
among the ship's officers he remem-
bered. Apparently Anthony Trent,
once known as the master criminal,
had come as a stranger aboard a
strange ship. The thought was curi-
ously comforting. In a week he would
be looking over the treetops of Cen-
tral park after an absence of four
years.
Four years. It was as a soldier he
had left America. What vivid years
they had been since the Levia han
pulled out of her Hoboken dock and
took him and thousands more to
France. He had fought. He had been
decorated for valor in the field. He
had put the old life, outside the law,
behind him. And then when the war
was over he had gone to England; he
had found happiness there, and then
one black day he had lost it. It as
a LianLO longer in love with life who
journeyed back to his native land and
desired solitude.
When the passengers observed An-
thony Trent and were not able to rec-
ognize him in the dining-saloon here
were many questions asked about him.
The overtures that were made were
ah courteously rejected It was plain
he walked the decks for exercise, not
companionship. At thirty-four Trent
was a presentable figure of a man. He
carried himself uncommonly well, but
there was little of the drawing-room
exquisite in his slender figure. The
trainer of athletes would have seen
in his straight and spare figure one
of lose slender men whose muscles
were wire strung, whose nerves were
perfectly attuned to uncommon effort,
and whose physical courage was high.
On the second evening out came the
first disagreeable incident of the voy
age. Trent was sitting in a chair be-
fore his open door puffing at a big
briar pipe. He looked up as an officer
passed. It was the purser, whom he
had not hitherto noticed, and as th ue
was about the purser’s manner an in
dication that he desired to chat, Trent
seized the moment when t‘ a officer
spoke for a moment to a passing
sailor, to shut his door
A little later there was a tap on
the panel. Trent knew it vas the
purser.
"Come in," he shouted.
The purser was a man of middle
age and of middle stature. He had a
shrewd, quizzical face, humorous and
strong; and there was a touch of the
bulldog in his chin.
"I was almost sure 1 smelled Han-
key,” he said, smiling as he looked at
the red-labeled tin on the table, “and
my heart warms toward those who
know that mixture. I hope you dor’t
think I’m taking a liberty?”
“Glad co see you,” Trent said, and
truthfully, “sit down and fill up.”
His manner was thoroughly ami-
able. It was as though a lonely man
welcomed the prospect of a chat with
another. In truth, Anthony Trent was
disquieted He could not feel sure
that the purser had followed a trail
of Hankey’s mixture all over the ship
and run it to ground as he was ex-
plaining. But the odds were that there
was nothing to be alarmed about. If
the officer had any unstated reason
Trent wanted to know as soon as pos-
sible.
“Comfortable here, I trust?” asked
the purser.
“Couldn’t be more so. I usually
travel on the big boats for the reason
one assumes they are more comfort-
able, but I’ve evidently been wrong.”
“This trip is a sort of holiday for
me,” the purser said. “I’ve been on
the big ones for twenty years and I’d
gone stale. A great school for study-
ing life,” the purser mused, “a ship is
Even a comparatively small one like
this, which is only 12,500 tonnage. Is
fuller of strange people than a city
with ten times its population. But
perhaps these things don’t interest
you ?”
"What sort of things?”
“Crime in general. Crime has al-
ways interested me,” the purser went
on genially, “and I’ve seen a lot of it.
( suppose a man like me sees as much
of clever creokdom as a detective.
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I’ll have some more tobacco if 1 may.”
“Help yourself.” Trent said cor-
dially.. He seemed unperturbed. "I’m
interested in crime only if the crime
or criminal is unusual.”
“The trouble with a purser’s life is
that he often sees just a chapter of
crime,” mused his caller.
Trent puffed steadily at his pipe.
Although he was convinced that this
talk of crime was but a pretext and
the purser’s visit made for some pur-
pose unknown, there was no tell-tale
twitch of any facial muscle to betray
his uneasiness. For the first time for
more than two years he felt he was in
danger, and. as always, he called forth
his reserve of strength and waited
the outcome unflinching.
Lue purser went on: “Sometimes
the chapters that open so promisingly
turn out most disappointing. Once in
Liverpool. It was on the Poitania.
Just as we were starting a young
man jumped overboard.”
“Was he drowned?"
"No. He jumped onto- the landing
stage unhurt. -That was a curious
case, Mr. Trent. He had engaged one
of the best staterooms aboard. It was
filled with his baggage, and he had
even selected his seat at the table
and tipped his stewards. Of course
Van
Trent Puffed Steadily at His Pipe.
he may have done that to give
strength to the theory that his action
was unpremeditated. A clever crook
would think of such things. Rut I
wirelessed to the office and found out
that he had satisfied them. He had
either seen the face, or heard the
voice of a long-lost relative and
jumped down twelve feet to make sure
of it. Some said the man was a
crook who saw a detective he feared,
and jumped overboard to escape him.
Others that he had heard the voice of
the wife be had deserted. I said to
myself that some day I should get all
the information I needed, and see the
last episode of that serial.” The
purser leaned forward and tapped
Trent’s knee. “Mr. Trent, just
why
did you risk a broken leg that eve-
ning in Liverpool?"
It was characteristic of Trent
that
he was ready to face danger when he
saw it. At all costs he must not evade
it now. The purser, who was a reso-
lute and educated man, was possessed
of some knowledge he had not yet
told Trent, which had directly to do
with his safety. His smile, had no
anxiety in it. What the purser told
him seemed to be of no special in
terest. ’
"I have almost forgotten the inci-
dent,” he remarked. “It was three
years ago almost."
"Less," said the purser, “a good bit
less.”
“Maybe you are right,” Trent con-
ceded, "and in any case you seem to
recall it to mind more readily than I.”
The purser sighed a little. It
seemed almost as though he were dis-
appointed. And, oddly enough, the keen
searching look gave place to one
kindliness.
"Mr. Trent,” he said earnestly,
hoped you would have threatened
kick me out of jour stateroom.
of
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to
A
man who had nothing to fear would
have done that. You may or may not
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Persian City Leads in Production of Henna
An important industry of Yezd. Per-
sia, is the manufacture of henna. This
product is used to wash and color the
hair and to stain the finger nails red-
yes, many people here have red finger
nails. I saw colored lambs, and sev
eral horses whose manes and fetlocks
were dyed fox red with henna.
Henna leaves come from the south,
principally from the Bam district, and
Yezd supplies all Persia and the sur-
rounding countries with this dye. The
30 or more henna mills in the city are
so completely inclosed that it is diffi-
cult to see what goes on within.
In the late evening a camel, covered
with henna dust, operates the mill,
plodding in a circle in the half dark
ness. A small round basket covers his
believe me, but I wish you had been
such a man. I wish you had asked
me angrily what the devil your busi-
ness had to do with me. Instead you
have not shown any anger at all. Mr.
Trent, that is the action of a man who
is afraid.”
Trent still preserved his air of ease.
But he was wondering how it was the
official had come so close to the truth.
He would have given a great deal to
have been able to betray genuine an-
ger. And he did not understand why
the purser seemed to be sorry for bis
plight.
As in other days, the atmosphere of
danger was about him. And he was
in that inescapable thing, a ship cross-
ing the Atlantic.
“You have not yet told me all you
know.”
“I know about Captain Sutton,”
said the purser gravely.
Trent’s action in stooping to strike
a match on his shoe’s heel was to gain
a momentary respite. He did not
know quite what his face revealed to
the observer. Captain Sutton was the
only man alive—so far as he Lnew—
who had definite knowledge that An-
thony Trent had won the title “mas-
ter criminal" by a series of crimes so
unique and skillful that he had never
been in the toils of justice. Two oth-
er men had known—Austin the butler,
whose grave was marked by one of a
row of white crosses in France, and-
Devlin, the detective, who had closed
his lips as death approached, and left
Trent secure.
“Captain Sutton,’ he echoed. “Are
you talking of my old adjutant?”
“I am talking of the Capt. Frank
Sutton whom you saw on the Poitania,
and jumped overboard to escape."
Trent was silent for a moment. He
knew Sutton was proud of him for the
mention in dispatches and the Croix
de Guerre he had won to the honor
of the regiment Sutton had prom-
ised hin that he would say nothing.
Why, then, this talk of the former ad-
jutant? He turned to his visitor.
“I don’t yet know your name," he
said.
“Warne,” said the purser, “Brunton
Warne.".
“Then listen to me a moment, Mr.
Warne. When 1 tell you I did not
know Captain Sutton was aboard I
am speaking the truth. If I had
known he was a passenger I should
have been delighted to see him.
Springing overboard was one of the
most unpremeditated things I ever
did. 1 heard underneath me the voice
of a man who saved my life. That I
swear on my honor."
“Explain why Sutton jumped to
your rescue so ardently when your
motives were attacked in the smok-
ing-room. I don’t mind telling you we
all thought you a crook, and said so.
Captain Sutton constituted himself
your counsel, and actually smacked
Colliver, the Troy millionaire, across
the mouth because he continued to
dwell on the subject.”
“Dear old Sutton;” Anthony Trent
said gratefully. “He has been a good
friend to me. Some day I hope I shail
be able to repay him”
“When the Poitania reached quaran
tine. Captain Sutton, your friend, was
arrested. He is now in /Sing Sing
prison. Embezzlement and attempted
murder were the charges.”
Trent was stricken dumb. Sutton
had never been an intimate friend.
Rather he recalled him as a benefac-
tor. He had know him as a wealthy
man of vast interests secured by posi-
tion and fortune from the temptations
incidental to poverty. To learn he was
found guilty of embezzlement and
murder, or attempted murder, came
as a shock, a blow of tremendously
devitalizing power.
“I see your point of view.” Trent
said presently. Are
you working
against me?”
“Not for a moment,”
Warne an-
swered. “If there’s one thing that
would please me, it would be to find
I’ve been barking up a wrong tree.”
Anthony Trent was now superbly at
ease.
“My dear Mr. Warne,” he said ur-
banely, “you have been barking up a
wrong tree this time, although no
doubt as a rule you don’t waste your
efforts. It amounts to this. You
think my knowledge of the embezzler,
Captain Sutton, suspicious. Is that
all?”
“Well, there was your method of
leaving the Poitania," the other man
said, almost apologetically.
“Apart from that there is nothing
else?”
“Absolutely none." The purser’s air
was quite apologetic.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
eyes to prevent him from getting dizzy.
One receives an impression of un-
reality, of something brought from an-
other world.
The mill is very primitive, standing
about six feet high, while the mill-
stone and the circular path around it
are sunken. Everything is covered,
with henna dust. From time to time
a little boy shovels the powder into
heavy jugs.—Bernhard Kellermann in
Berliner Tageblatt (Living Age).
Looks Good Anywhere
Another pretty sight under
moon is a big New England mill
the
with
a thousand windows, all lighted from
within.—Boston Herald.
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Answers No. 27
1—Greater Antilles.
2—Record of 4 min. 56 sec. is held
by Enoch Taylor of Lowell, Mass., in
1896.
3—Seven, four in the American and
three in the National.
4—Gen. George A. Custer.
5—Sol Smith Russell.
6—Aconcagua, in Argentina.
7—Benjamin Franklin.
8—Nineteen amendments.
9—It is fourth in order from the
sun, or the next beyond the earth.
10—William Rockhill Nelson.
11—Five. Three of the sun and two
of the moon.
12—Any formula or confession of
religious faith.
13—Any of the planets, Venus, Jupi-
ter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, when it
precedes the sun in rising.
14—William Cullen Bryant.
15—Dunlap and Claypeole’s Daily
Advertiser, Philadelphia.
10—From Panama to Cape Horn.
1T—Buenos Aires.
18—Twenty-fve years.
19-—In 1850 by Frederick J. Good-
rich, a sophomore at Harvard.
20—Gen. Joseph Wheeler.
Philology Tells Story
of Long-Vanished Race
Somewhere, and so long ago that it
is equally impossible to say when,
there dwelt in Europe or Asia a most
remarkable tribe of mankind, says a
writer in the Kansas City Times.
These people are not mentioned in
any ancient history and no legend
gives a hint of their existence.- Not
even an authentic grave of one of its
members can be traced.
Yet this ante-legendary race has
been raised from the dark past and
displayed in its ancient shape until
modern historians know as much of
it as of many peoples yet living. The
words spoken by that mysterious race,
the gods it worshiped, the laws it
made, the character of its industries
and possessions, its family and politi-
cal relations, even the conditions of
its intellectual development and its
racial characteristics, are all well
known.
These people were the fathers of
the so-called Aryans, who in growing
numbers swelled beyond the bounda-
ries of their ancestral home and went
forth to conquer and possess the
earth. Knowledge of this ancient
race has been brought about solely by
workers in comparative philology-—
the study of words. Word by word
the language of the original Aryans
has been exhumed from the descend-
ent modern languages until, pieced to-
gether, they tell the story of a van
ished people.
Famous for Ability
to Design Furniture
Important as. an influence on furni-
ture forms of Eighteenth century
America was the work of the four
Adam brothers of England, chiefly the
work of Robert Adam, whose influ-
ence on the furniture of England from
1760 to 1780 was marked.
He was a man of means, a traveler,
but he was not a cabinet maker. He
never made a piece of furniture in his
life, though it is on his furniture that
his fame rests. When he designed a
house he also designed the furniture
to go in it, even going so far as to
mark chalk spots on the floors to
show where each piece of furniture
was to stand. His designs were pains-
taking, exquisite in the spirit of an-
tiquity, says Sarah Lockwood, author
of “Antiques.”
He drew his inspiration directly
from ancient Pompeii, uninfluenced by
his trip through France. His furni-
ture legs were straight, his lines were
straight, his backs round or oval. His
decoration was purely classic; he
often employed the well known classic
urn. Adam may have snubbed Chip-
pendale, for not one trace of Adam’s
influence is found in the other’s work.
—Exchange.
Islanders Evade Tax
Eddy island, off the coast of Gal-
way, Ireland, is so close to shore that
its few inhabitants can observe boats
leaving the mainland and prepare an
appropriate reception for visitors. No-
body on the island has paid anything
toward the maintenance of the Gal-
way county council for years, and the
last time bailiffs landed the inhab-
itants repulsed them. Little possibil-
ity exists of seizing the cattle on the
island as they are driven to almost in-
accessible hiding places when bailiffs
appear. The islanders owe the county
about $100,000.—New York Times.
Various School Terms
The bureau of education says the
school term extends over a period of
180 days in Italy (exclusive of Sun-
days and holidays); 215 days in Estho-
nia; over 200 in Germany; over 200
in France; 202 in Czechoslovakia; 227
in Hungary; 200 in Lithuania; 250 in
Denmark; 200 in Finland; from Oc-
tober 1 to July 21 in Portugal, with
six to eight weeks’ vacation; from
September 1 to May 30 in Latvia, with
four weeks’ vacation; from October 1
to June 15 in Spain.
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