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Show j rf r V I "Holy smoke! S5."55TT j what" to SC SAX ROHMEU f Chapter VContinued -7- - 1 "5 BECh Hike" sne me from China, I h L.m happiness. a Lnrometotellme? Is it that embark . upon a ship, stifle In an all. " " train, or ne si en , snmPthinz. I see In your ..(. 51 1 , an sec iiee cf. ,i Is indeed h s.hih tou her. smll otr-hp- a further Jour- - niiiM iobc, sure,y you welcome U I you so happy in the house !r,ml Pasha that you regret to L fairo?" I have small' love for Aswami," s "nnd less for Cairo. We "i111 . . mere, mliis. then, to Araoia comforts my least, I have my "bt laid, He Bath, 1 3. r -- VD ants.1 Orange Blos- towards m 10U Have uiini me uunu v inorrow In which to talk to me, me with your beau- jjf bewitch and make me more completely l ai AS 500m A I'D Pcav, the morning. in walked slowly He or slave. US note of a gong sound nlace below. "Go now your room," said Tu'an Hee See, who has arrived, :1s Is Aswami ;hall be detained, perhaps for an fpimlv the some in nr. if I A r a small floor ind staiirant Suleiman Bey In Paris ie was Known as tne unier. dui nere an Egyptian gentleman of le was stabiished position. Nevertheless, I e watched the door of the room I a. TOM I Ith a itrictly slism. certain nervousness not In keeping with Moslem fa flee See stood framed In doorway, looking at the p.zyptian, nis eyes nearly closed, fJou are an hour late. What is the Ya'an on in; T T3ut r ) fie open ffiplanation?' I "It Is simple," was the reply. "The forced landing, but a We were ten miles from which I think, explains Rllot made a pood one. Hellopolis if t snuare room on tne of the house, fur hed very simply as an office, As-Ml Paslia sat waiting. To the pan? assembled In the !n Hint), IVEye in. A E.AUG SAX ROHWEW By atu..r. by them were discovered "Got those numbers?" "I am almost certain I have. My list, however, was made from memory. But ln a certain Paris cafe, which we believe to be a meeting place of these people, I recently had a sight of a certain man. Today he has Joined the Wallaroo, as a pasnger. His room, booked in W.N.U. St R VICE London, Is one of those which I have on the list! I think It's safe morass. "And I'm real sorry I to presume, captain, that the other started." four suspects should be watched?" "I entirely agree with you. Inspec"That's rather mean of you, Eileen," said Jack Rattray, the first tor." "The French authorities have officer, smiling his slow smile. "Don't Just notified me," Haig went on, you think sa doctor?" uoctor oetler patted Eileen's "that three other men all they could trace who were present at arm soothingly. "At least. Miss Kearney," he said, the restaurant I have mentioned, "It makes a small change. We shall have all set out by different routes not be ashore again until we reach tor the Near East. . . . Looks like Fort Said. Yes? And what does it a general assembly at some spot matter, this mud and the gray sky? unknown. It's my Job to find that na y resentiy we shall be convivial spot, captain ; because. If I do find with a little cocktail ha? And it it, I expect to meet there the man who murdered Detective Sergeant makes a small change." Eileen turned to him and laughed. Norwich In LImehouse the night beThe outstanding characteristic of fore the Wallaroo sailed." the Austrian doctor, as she had disAs a result of this conversation, covered during their short acquaint- a new passenger Joined the ship-o- nly ance, was his astonishing quality of a few minutes before she left soothing. Marseilles: a certain Mr. Smith, They presently reached a hotel, who wore tinted spectacles. He was turned Into the little lounge on the allotted a seat at the doctor's table right of the door, and sat down at next to the distinguished Austrian a table. scientist, Doctor Oestler. "Good Lord!" said Eileen. On the following morning, one of "There's that ghastly woman with the Chinese Mr. Len passengers, the chief!" Chow of New York, went to the Near a pillar, leaning very close purser's office. He had a serious together across a small table, were complaint to While he had the chief engineer of the Wallaroo been absent inlodge. some the bathroom, and a big, dark woman, apparently one rifled his cabin. half-casthandsome in her way, "Can you give a list of the missbut of a generously curving figure articles?" aked Mr. Winter, the ing not strictly fashionable. "Good old Corky," said Jack Rat- purser. Mr. Len Chow, his spectacled face tray. "He's a fast worker. He's unemotional, replied that none were well away with the liou tamer." "Look who's here!" Eileen ex- missing. "Then what's the row about?" claimed. "The thief must be apprehended. Doctor Oestler and Jack Rattray stared across the lounge. Their He has rifled my papers. They are of great personal value." popular fellow traveler, Mr. Dur"But no value to anyone else?" to them. ham, was crossing "Ila!" cried Doctor Oestler. "It "No." "Are any missing?" is our Mr. Durham. He Is leaving "No." us yes?" There was silence for some mo"I "Yes," Rattray confirmed. ments. "I'll make Inquiries, Mr. Len should (ike to have a final word with him before I go back to the Chow, naturally," said Winter; "but as you say he has stolen nothing, I ship." to really don't know how we are go"He never even said good-bDo ing to identify this person. me," Eileen complained. But Durham had Joined them you?" "I cannot say. But I must be pronow. "Doctor and Mr. Rattray," he tected from Eueh visits." "I'll see what can be done." said, "I hope you will take a stirrup At about which time, Dawson Miss Kearney if cup presently. 1 m U vtuats spector?" If I knew that, sir, I should know what I'm here to find out," was Hair's reply. "Certain evidence came into our possession In London which seemed to point to the fact that members of a gang of dope dealers, receivers of stolen property, nnd other undesirable trades, were sailing in your ship. The exact number of the rooms occupied "Or should be." "Some are out of reach, I admit. but with the others we can get In toorh f ynu desire It." "I do not desire it. Touarerespon "oie. Fie raised a plump hand, y THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING nn'.n Matt Kearney, young American .iving In London . v.u...w...c sister Eileen, on board the waiiaroo. mo emy- meets Dawson Inspector Kearney "- -j (Tola 10 Australia In love with Eileen, Haig is on tne trail Haig, of Scotland Yard, very much Is concealed in Jo Lung's warehouse. of opium, which he Is convinced with riAtoMlvfl Norwich to Called to other duty. Haig delegates Kearney, 7n VhA warehouie Kearney Tetter ot " b.ndM ?lnt.r.t.on.I barney, r.Veaving Norw ch". IsCoring over While Haig It, and escapes. the "mSed" book, ca,-nfn- en-fn- lit-H- e : capi. "P 1 "That's clear enough," Haig mused. "He is Informing friend I'o-lod- that he has arranged to cancel from Port Said to Sydney and is lie later leaving at the former. sends the Information that there Is a 'friend on board, meaning Durham, of course. Durham thought he was spotted. He was quite right." Then, in order of date was an Incoming message which read: "Meurice Paris sixteen to eighteen signed Pascal." Mr. Len Chow's third message, addressed to "Pascal hotel Meurice Paris" read : "Your friend leaving us at Marseilles signed Chow." At which moment came the sound of a loud rap on the cabin door. Dawson Haig hastily adjusted his tinted glasses. The Japanese family system, described by Mrs. Hugh Eraser, Pierre I.otl and other European visitors to r days, is grad Japan ln the ually disintegrating, according to the Tokyo correspondent of the Observer of London, who explains: "This system, which still possesses a good deal of vitality, especially In the country districts, presupposes an attitude toward life utterly different from that of European or American individualism. "It Invests the head of the family with great power over the destinies and property of Its members, and at the same time Imposes on him a -strong sense of esponsibllity. It Is observation that the a frequent strongly developed sense of family pre-wa- tem and a rapidly growing population have brought to Japan. "But the family system Is being sapped by many nnd various forces, the influence of Christian teachings, the Infiltration of western moving pictures, which may be seen In every Japanese small town; translations from the literature of the West, the steady drift away from patriurcha) fanning and handicrafts to large ac torles and commercial enterprises, to mention only a few of the more obvious." Buried Where were you on First Girl your vacation? Second Girl (listlessly) land. No man's The Choice of Millions Doable Action Double Tested Manufactured by baking powder Specialists who make nothing but baking powder under supervision o expert chemista. Same Price Today as 44 Years Ago 25 ounces for 25 You can also buy 11 10 ounca can for 100 1$ ounce can for ISO AT Highest Quality Always Dependable THIS BREAKFAST IS GREAT, AND HOW CHOW thieves, U at JoLunf'g. D..- - 'f w 11 Through a Partly Open Door Across the Narrow Alleyway, Dawson Haig Was Watching. Eileen Kearney stood outside. In a green Jumper suit and beret, her EAST OR WEST cheeks freshened and her eyes brightened by sea breezes, she looked absurdly young and disturbingly beautiful. "You positively startled me, Eileen !" he said. "For heaven's sake, Did anybody see cut in quickly. you?" "No!" she said breathlessly. "But I heard some one coming along the main alleyway and had to run!" She stepped Inside and closed the door. "It's good to see you," Haig declared. "But, according to our arrangements at Marseilles, I'm not supposed to know you yet I What's happened?" "This," Eileen replied, speaking very rapidly: "Last night I was awakened by some one banging at a near-cabidoor. I distinctly heard him say, 'Marconi message.'" "That would be Doctor Oestler's cabin," said Haig. ne stooped over his cotes, scanning them rapidly until he came to the last of several messages received by Doctor Oestler. "That must have been about half-pas- t three this morning?" he suggested. "It was. Have you the message there?" Dawson Haig smiled wrlly. "I certainly have it here,", he replied. "Shall I read It to you? "Yes, please do. Then I can tell you if It's the same." Haig stared at her In a certain bewilderment, then : "This Is it," he THE FLAVOR'S BEST i. I YIPPETY-YA- j Y WHADAYA SAY? n rlch and "w" y The messages themselves were simple enough. They were these: One: "Arranged to transfer or signed Chow." "Your friend Is on board signed Chow." , obligation and responsibility Is a Family System Is Cracking great palliative of the unemployment in Japan, Says Observer which a modernized Industrial sys- e, for a your friends can spare you message a momen- t-I have private the pointed Index finger curled. "I for you. But I sha'n't detain you io not wish to see your report more than two minutes." Tell me that there has been no walked They left the house and Hitch." a seat In upon to where, "No hitch." upstairs, outside the dining room, very pood. I am perhaps fool-lb- . an alcove A soft brown was waiting. man a but In London everything went hat and a white raincoat lay beside wroni?. Since this Is our biggest blm. tenture, I thought that the auguries "Oh!" Eileen gasped, and clutched were nnfavornble, Durham's' arm. Her face grew sudAcross the coarse but handsome was features nf the Egyptian a mo- denly pale. Then this pallor color. swift a mentary cinud passed, Its passage swept by Instantly detected by those Dawson Ilalg stood up, '"I haven't nearly d fftniitonprt vou. Eileen? I couldn't eyes nf Yu'an Hee See. "Von also have been of any other way. . . think disturbed?" The voire was , very soft but came on . When Mr. Franz Hartog to Marseilles at Wallaroo "No. no. Excellency 1" Aswami board the on D cabin his of forced a smile. "One of the men take possession " rather alarmed me on the (both norms in night we deck 1. own reserved In I.omlnlW. U""i'-- " In I'arls." - ..... door across im"It was the Scotsman? lie must a partlv open Dawson Haig was w watcln-d.row fllievway the tall. lini "V not Madles. I distrust him watching He saw with Mo.uly mou n, horn, en'y wi,en )tP German goher. Also. I have seen coming down the stairs rrnngf-- i to replace hlrn If neces-ry- . be bad Suleiman l.ej put K)(1 p,rown exchanged of the Restaurant left his ords with a Unseen. Dawson Haig stranger downstairs in the went up to the and rpvtnuranr. He went down was h Fr,m room. Captain Peterson llartog, our second was which whom he. had thrashed for seated at his desk, whs nnuij 4 Breach 0f orders. And this tered with papers. nhont this voyage. The gold ttranger, except for some Russian first responsibility. In the 1(""ts. wnS the only person In the was a big and now, i" jwnurnnt. Too late, he reported Js had been added this sudden matfpr to me, admitting that he o.Iicial from Scut-lany have been appearance of an Indiscreet" Yard. th.'re " momcntary "Hence; I was right, s ppent to me," said Tn'an nee son Haig. "It my smiled resignedly. "ln tn man's own cantain Th exact-In-- s words, , muddle to me, what he reported to yon. Inelnd "Whatever ieJtor." confessed. s he of this stranger." fellow Is a I a about? If this arres h im? you don't Those desperately drab streets criminal, why which end from Mm Anrhm f Xtor. Wiles to the more habitable qnnr-wj- i the as that nut here's ,f tne clfy wprc ..gj.gj )nrhp(t t0 .Tmpto In an unpleasant kind of light Jellnw mud. f.;rrV ...snect with agood reason dimply too unbelievably dangerous of rley." .'l'rn l,elared. as the taxi fionn-0Pr"- of being members gang. International and thumped through the e'o-e- Umdon" was the address, nf Jo Lung's establishment in LImehouse! f mj delaj." "It explains it," the reedy voice conceded. "I accept this explanation. I would add that If mich accidents occur to others of our com pany disaster lies before us like a plf which no man can pass." "I have no fears," the Egyptian usnred htm. "Here Is the roll. can tell you where every man of the company Is at the present ung Causeway a to the Wallaroo. Soon but Kearney Is not overtaken. monstrous creature enters, seize. Haig, with his cabin door locked, was rapidly making pencil notes, while his memory served him. He had been unable to complete his Investigation, owing to the unexpected movements In the cabin which Immediately faced that of Mr. Len Chow. He much regretted the disorder In which he had been compelled to leave the latter's apartment. It had been this or discovery, however. Briefly, he had learned that Mr. Chow, according to his passport, was an American citizen, and that he could have been In England only a week, or possibly less, at the time that the Wallaroo sailed. He found a receipted bill from the Grand HoIt was sufficient tel. Birmingham. to convince Haig that Mr. Chow had been engaged upon the frustrated had enterprise; dope smuggling for safe been responsible probably which port, delivery In Sydney, to he was booked. ONCE you taste Grape-Nut- s Flakes, youU cheer too I You'll love the flavor of these crisp, sweet flakes and find them nourishing. One dishful, with milk or cream, contains more varied nourishment than many a hearty meal. Try it your grocer has it I Product of General Foods. said: "Oestler passenger rms Wallaroo Ibjh keeper searchlight near home stop know telL" He looked up smiling. "Does that convey anything to you, Eileen?" "No!" she confessed blankly, watching him. "It Isn't the same. Of course, you can't possibly know what I'm talking about, so I must explain. While I was in the bath this morning that sudden squall of apparently, wind and rain came. ,Do you reHale presently presented himself member?" he cabin. There, In the captain's Haig nodded. remained for a whole hour, busily Marborrowed had opened the porthole and the from "I transcribing coni books a number of Incoming fastened the door hack to freshen messages and outgoing messages, re- the air ln my cabin, and Doctor ceived or dispatched by the suspect- Oestler, whose cabin adjoins mine, While some of the mes- must have done the same. Because, ed five. Innocent enough, when I got back I returned first seemed sage sent by Doc- a lot of papeis which had been lythose notably others, tor Oesfer. quite obviously were ing loose 011 my table had been blown right out Into the main alleycompiled In some sort of code. cabin and set- way. to his went Haig "1 didn't realize, until I looked tled down before the little table to see what he could make out of this through them, that some of the panew material. pers didn't belong to me. There notes In Herman, The half caste woman known as were sheets of scientific leaflet and sort of a be to gome and supposed Ednam. Miss vaudeville artist, Mr. Len Chow, and one or two other odds and ends, I to the stewardess, askDoctor Oestler were the suspects which gave out where they had find to Marher in the ing names appeared whose come from. I suggested, as his coni books. ad- door was open, that they probably Studying a list of telegraphic borhad belonged to Doctor Oestler. I was the which captain dresses, room. wireless Haig right and he sent a message back, the from rowed two first Chow's thanking me. But later, when I Mr. discovered that was dressed, I found another fragto addressed been had messages ment" "I Hung Causeway London." -(TO BF COrmNUfJi) Excellent," he murmured. "LU- jj&lffibff , J ffj a XiMg THE 9 txmszajzsa HTIEIL - A iMI if Jfy , vassBEssssm 01 Sv 1 mm Distinctive Residence An Abode. ..renowned Throuzliout the West A Mrs. J. H. 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