Show J t J c NJ HEE SEC i Br SAX LAUGHS Vilify U W ROHMER v r COPYRIGHT By SAX ROHMER SERVICE CHAPTER Continued V-Continued V Continued 8 8 She slipped lIpped a n hand Into a 1 pocket ot of her tier Jumper Juniper an and a haIr sheet of ot thin paper When I saw this she continued and her voice grew very serious I thought you ou ought ht to know at once Halg Haig removed Mr Ir Smiths Smith's glasses and took the torn sheet from Eileen's Elleen's hand Scribbled In pencil upon the paper were the fol tol following lowing words Halg Haig chief Inspector Scotland Yard on board Identify and ad advise vise Alone once more Halg bent over his notes Eileen Elleen had slipped In unnoticed Sheer luck and her keen wit It had come to his Ills aid Doctor penciled scrawl VI was as obviously a translation of ot the message head keeper searchlight near home bome stop know tell Its deadly simplicity betrayed genius The I was wa elementary the letters being merely those next nest In the alphabet to HAIL HAIG but the fact that Head lead Keeper Searchlight meant Chief Inspector Scotland Yard wa was one which no crypto cryptographer ra pher could ever be expected to dis discover cover er Near home evidently e cor- cor corresponded cor corresponded responded to On board Known to Identify Tell TeU to advise It was n a system of ot analogies and he proceeded to apply It to the tM oth- oth other oth other er messa messages with the result that by lunch time he tie was vas satisfied that nt at lust least the gist of ot these was In hIs I possession lie leaned back In his chair and nn whistled softly Five Fh-e members ot of thIs mysterious organization pro pro- professedly professedly professedly strangers to one another were trl traveling In the Wallaroo and Doctor was evidently the chIef Three were ere booked to Port Said since Len Chow v had arranged to cancel his further passage e two i to Australia What did theIr presence In the ship mean A Auk Aw what was was- was the connectIon con- con with the Limehouse mur mur- murder murder der lIe He was baffled Perhaps the most alarming feature of ot the case was the tho fact that these people seemed 1 to be supplied with deadly d I accurate Information Durham had been Identified so much was evi evl evident dent Now they knew that he be Haig flaIg was on board I Since Sauce he could not recall having ever seen one of the suspects In his life Franz life Franz Hartog excepted he he Inclined to tho Idea that Durham as well as ns himself had been notified to Doctor some well informed source lIe He bent over the messages which he had decoded Those sent Bent by the woman oman obviously related to to the chief engineer one of ot them Ulem read readIng tag Ing Organ grinder Inder sure stop big boy and next of ot kin not running signed Val This he had translated as follows Chief engineer captured C Com Commander m mander wander and chief officer no good YaL That this meant that Corcoran had been bought over and become a party to some crooked deal Haig dId not believe for Cor a moment Ile He read It to mean that the tho infatuated 1 engIneer was placing Into the wom worn woman's ans an's hands lIe Ho was to be used usell In some romo way without his knowledge But Hal But stared up at the port port- porthole porthole hole and asked the question aloud In what wa way i Doctor radio correspond correspondence ence frankly defeated him lie He could co find no parallel amon among the tho ships ship's company to the strange names em em- employed And he had come to the conclusion that It related to some some- something tome thing thing taking place elsewhere here Evi I Evidently dently Doctor wa was waa a sort rort ot of chief of staff starr his out going meso mes- messages took mes-fages-took sages took tho the form of ot Inquiries as asto asto asto to the thc whereabouts of or certain per per- persons tons pcr-tons sons lions and tho the replIes replica presumably tho the desired Information which however conveyed nothing at all t to Dawson These These There messages were sent to a 0 telegraphic lc address In Paris which be had bad no means of or tracing I It was all ver very maddening be- be because be because cause Cluse one fact emerged from all an this mystification This complicated con con- conspiracy conspiracy had hall had nothing to do with drug dreg running That enterprise had been merely a side tide line abandoned 1 at the first hint of or danger danler What then did I It t mean Dawson lIall sat at his hl head rest resting ing upon one upraised hand for hand live for minutes minutes for ten minutes thinking thinking hard very hard very hard How flow bad had Jo Lung or the man mm or of whom Jo Lung was merely n crea crea- creature creature tur ture learned of or the Instructions sent Sydney They had been sent from J the Yard In code to the chief cu cu- cu cus customs toms officer Halg Haig suddenly stood up Dp ny By heavens hea 1 I he whispered They cant can't T have ha e they known known they cant can't hn have ve f known 1 I It wag tuns a definite change ot of plan on the part of ot the gang They removed their precious consignment beca because use r r Because Because lUW of ot what CHAPTER VI TIlE THE night ht train from Cairo to Asuan pulled Into the station at Kenell Only two first-class first passengers passengers gers alighted there a n man and anda a woman a sma small very slender woman The woman shivered as they en entered terCa a saloon car which awaited a them In charge e of a n Nubian chauffeur chauffeur and groom room I You shiver little one sold said Yuan Yunn flee ee See Sec The woman leaned a against him himI I am so cold Yuan she ex- ex explained ex explained In two days you will wUl be In your own o apartments amongst apartments amongst your ou scents and Jewels and those other toys tOJ's you love with service and warmth and those hose treasures amid which I 1 delight to see you playing lie He stroked her slender knee with witha a plump tapering hand and his words came as a high croon Where a large mosque grotesque grotesque- grotesquely ly affected the continuity of ot the houses they swung Into a n narrow side turning The TIle driver skIrted one high wall of the mosque came Into the very shadow of the min rain minaret aret and turned left leCt again Twenty yards along they th y pulled up The NuLl Nubian an groom deftly deWy unrolled a length lenth of or carpet across the muddy path to a gate which was sud- sud suddenly sud suddenly denly opened In an otherwise blank wall An old Arab black robed robell and whIte turbaned stood there hold hold- holding holding ing a lantern high above his head Its yellow light fell Cell upon a n wrinkled face which had earned for Cor Its own own- owner owner er the title of or Father of ot Cunning Yuan lice Bee See and the woman passed across a roughly paved pared court court- courtyard courtyard yard Light shone out from rooms on the ground floor and there was an outer staircase loading leading up to n a bal bal- balcony bal balcony cony Illuminated by bI two fine lattice windows Yuan Bee lice See and his compan companion ion entered a n lI lighted room On the threshold they were met by Pasha He bowed low over the ex- ex extended extended ex extended tended hand of ot Orange Blossom mossom deeply saluting Yuan lice See We have hn done our best my lord he said I trust you will be happy here for Cor one nl night ht rie Ile lie clapped his hand bands and an old Arab woman appeared Sly My Iy lady Indy he bowed ted to Yuan lice Ilee Sees See's companion your apart apart- apartment apartment apartment ment Is prepared will at- at attend attend at attend tend you Orange Blossom mossom followed the aged attendant from the apart apart- apartment apartment ment All AH are here Yuan asked upon a very high note which betokened anxiety AlL AIL I 1 have the list showing where each man wan Is tonight Yuan lice Hee S See e wa waved ed a plump hand I do not wish to see it It The detective from Scotland Ia Yard who Is on the Wallaroo has bas been Identified He Is In touch with the American girl whom your excellency has hns taken under your our protectIon 1 1 Yuan lice lIeo See SO began Legan very ery softly to hiss It Is almost certain then that this man had bad read the notes In my book before I fear so Excellency lice See Sec his bis eyes apparent apparent- apparently ly quite closed 1 nodded slowly Even so said cald the tho Egyptian alone he could do nothing lIe He has bas had time to Inform oth- oth othera oth others ers era But nut ho he cannot know nIL all Yet this man It was who followed me mo to Singapore a n year ago Sand and has hasI I escaped escape the roe since The Hang lIang hangman Hangman I Iman man Is on board he be whispered lIe He He Is A pause A-pause pause then Instruct Instruct Doctor said fald Yuan lice Hee See A Pasha nodded compre- compre compre ly whereupon Yuan Yunn lice See began to laugh his red rell lIps seeming s to swell Vel but his bis teeth ner never r shOwing allowing the oblique sma slits ot of his eyes eyes turned In the Egyptians Egyptian's g direction The laughter of Yuan lIce Hee See a reached a note so so hIgh as to be al- al almost al almost most audible Dawson Dawson Halg sat Mt In the lie room or of Jack the chief officer or rather he sat at Intervals als pacing up and down like hike a wild animal I Its Ils a most unholy business fI said Rattray In his slow low fashIon Ive e 1 been looking on and Ive I've J seen en things First thing youre you're oure spot spot- spotted spot pot ted I I 1 know and know and h-and and I cant can't read Oest Oest- Oest-ler Oest lers ler's messages t I They're In a per per- perfectly perfectly undecipherable code Second thing Rattray went on Two T members of ot this slimy gang are watching EIleen meaning Doctor Doc Doc- Doctor Doctor tor 0 O and Mr Ir Chew Chow What for tor forShe's She's not In their way Is she he Dawson turned just Inside the cabIn door and stared at nt the speak speak- speaker er Then Youre You're right Jack he said Ire Ive seen them myself I dont don't like It and I dont don't understand It But nut what's It all aU about Rat lint tray Rat tray asked helplessly What are all these birds doing on board They're a pretty unsavory crew In my reckoning anyway plausible enough but theres there's a n nasty brute hidden under that amiable smile As for tho the snake charmer shed she'd drown her bet own twins Then there are the two Chinks on D deck The learned one with the glasses glasses- glasses the little bloke I mean Len Chow doesn't doesn't seem In th the Number One list to me But nut his long long pal with the strangled face ought to be put overboard It if Im I'm any Judge Then theres there's the big German he Hartog-he Hartog seems harmless enough and not In Inthe inthe Inthe the same gallery at all alL I dont don't know what to make of ot It It And I said Dawson Halg Haig con con- continuIng continuing his restless pacing dont know what to make of ot my report to the chief Im I'm acting on information Information tion Rattray that this scheme whatever It Is comes to a head be- be before be before fore we reach Aden And as I 1 dont don't know what the scheme may be I 1 cant can't reasonably expect Scotland Yard to go on granting me len leave e of absence and paying my expenses Indefinitely You see sec Im I'm supposed to be In charge of the l Limehouse murder easel case I I know said Rattray and pro pro- produced produced his slow smile Its never been clear to me what the passenger list of oC the Wallaroo alia roo had to do o with It It Isn't clear to me lIal Haig con con- confessed confessed But nut I know there Is a connection And I 1 know I have bave my 00 hand on the solution of or the mystery If only I can grasp It He lIe paced up and an down awhile lon longer er then Do you rem remember emLer Jack he jerked suddenly the loss of a bIg bIgGerman bigGerman bigGerman German freighter somewhere off orr about two years ago Jack Rattray shook his hea head I wasn't on this run two years ago o Why Well theres there's no point In telling you why It if you dont don't remember I the case Halg Haig replied But nut do you recall the wreck freck of ot the Amer American ican lean steam yacht Miss Minnesota Clearly I t We were only forty Corty miles off orr at the time I I An aunt or of Lady Elleen's Lady was was lost lostIn lostin lostIn In her What's the chief Idea grill grilling ing lag In fn your brain pan There are several Ideas But 1 admit they're there a trifle hazy Did you get an S 0 S from her Not a n thing Then how do you OU know you were forty miles off orr at the time Ran Han Into bits of or wreckage and figured It out It funny tunny they didn't send out a call for Cor help Dawson asked Rattray stared at him No he replied In my opinion they hit hilt some small heavily laden craft and the pair of ot em cm sank almost at once But surely there would have been a few Cew survivors Have you ever er had hall a good goo look at a shark said Jack grimly Followed a short silence then Haig asked askell Is there much drug smuggling down that way Lots Lola I Hashish for tor Jg Egypt pt most most- mostly mostly ly Iy Also the good old slave sla trade flourishes exceedingly lint But where can the markets be beJack Jack Theres Mecca That's still sun a closed city Fez Fez up In Africa And Fin Im told theres there's a small sort ort of or ex- ex exclusive ex exclusive market somewhere on the Nile Ue In Egypt A rap on the door Come Como Ina In I Rattray called caned The Thedoor Thedoor door opened and Eileen Elleen entered dosing closing It carefully behind her ber Ive caught them them I t she declared her eyes sparkling with excitement vat at at last l I What han Dawson n Halg Haig demanded I saw MW the snake charmer slip a note Into the hand band of ot Mr Jr Len Chow as they passed on the promenade deck three minutes 6 a ago o I There was a dance atter after dInner that night THE STORY FROM THE BE BEGINNING Matt M att tt Kearney young American living JIving In London eay e y by good to hie hi slater sister lter Eileen nileen on board bourd the tb Wallaroo The ship hip I Ie conveying to tn sold gold to Australia On hla bia hl way home homo Kearney Ke-arney meets Inspector In Dawson hats ot of o Scotland Yard very much In to love with Eileen Elle n 1 on n tho the trail ot of opium which ho bo he 1 convinced ta is concealed In Jo Lung Lunga warehouse Called Called to other duty luty Hale delegates Kearney with Detective Norwich to visit lt the tho place and nod and out what hat he be b can cah While In the warehouse Kearney picks up and carrl carriee away a IL notebook which be lr turns turna over to Hale Yuan See See leader of ot a band of ot international thieves Is li at Jo To Lungs Lung's LunK lie He sends two of ot his hl followers follower after atter Norwich and ADo Kearney one of whom hI he realizes must raut have hav picked up the th notebook Hale Hass I la purled over cryptic notes nots In the book referring to 10 the Wallaroo Soon after leaving Ke Kearney Norwich is 1 I murdered but Kearney Is not Dot overtaken While Hale lIale li is por por- por poring Inc por-Inc Ing over the book a II monstrous creature creaturo enters enter seizes el It tt It and escapes P At Cairo Yuan Tuan confers conters with his bis lieutenant A Pasha over a my mys- mys mysterious my coup they are planning boards board the Wallaroo at Marseilles Alar lUe disguised dl rom l radio messages he decodes decode he realises that members member ot of Yuan gang sane are arc on board and that they have recognIzed him Dawson Hal Halg desk wor worried tied went UI up onto the boat hont deck quite deserted at the moment moment and leaned Ironed over o the starboard mil rail at f a poInt ju just t aft the lie bridge starin staring across s calm sea In the direction ot of the African const coast lie He tried to think to to think calm calmly I The problem was one ll demanding the exorcise exercise of or 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