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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD behind a blue shade of an upper Indeed," said Haig. ndow. On the Im sorry. opposite side of a I am a police officer, ard I hold a thoroughfare warrant to search these premises. CfePt al0Dg Cl0Se t0 Really!" the Greek exclaimed. dingy shops, it paused, turned, and But on what grounds have you obslDk into the shadows tained this warrant?" Harboring a man wanted for It nest appeared, this 1" slinking was the grim reply. shape, at a spot east of the treas murder Come on, Warrender." ure house of Jo Lung. At the end Haig turned to a gronp of men or a little courtyard upon which who had followed him In, and: several mean residences opened, a Along the yard," he ordered. was dimly ilBear to the left and jouU find a luminated. door. Through lt and Into the wareThe lurking figure became merged house. There are flee small cases In shadows once more . . . then there, consigned fron Birmingham immediately opposite a narrow y R. M. S. Wallaroo to Sydney. per it stood watching. When you find them let me know. At the far end a dim yellow light "One moment!" Polodos was the was visible. The Indeterminate sneaker. shape darted across, then swiftly Well?" turned to him as slipped aside, and exercising a two men Haig set off. What Is lt? strange affinity with darkness, beOnly this, the Greek continued came magically lost exagain Your suspect cannot smoothly: cept that reddish eyes like the very well be hidden in one of the eyes of a watching leopard-glea- med small cases you speak of! And the in the dusk. door In question Is permanently Some one was coming out some locked. The warehouse beyond Is one who had stopped dead at the leased by Messrs. King. Are you moment that that elusive thing sure, Inspector, that your warrant darted across his path. extends to their premises?" There was a moment of silence Dawson stared at the speaka soft whistle two minor er. That Haig official red tape which notes. It was answered from the trammels the movements of an offlee of a high wall Thereupon a icer of the Criminal Investigation reed-likvoice spoke rapidly In Chidepartment danced before his eyes nese: All is here. Follow swiftvisibly, and he stifled language unly. Do not show yourself." suitable to the occasion, as: Yuan came out Into the street. H 1, Inspector! came a hall Beside him was a small figure so from the far end of the yard. muffled that, beyond the fact that Theres a door here, but Its she was a woman, no one could locked. Are we to smash It? have identified her. They set out No! Come Haig shouted. in the direction of the river. back. It doesnt matter, anyway. Ten paces they had gone when a Theyll have had the stuff out by figure appeared from the alleyway now. and glided In the same direction. In due course the search party Close behind him, stooping, ape- reached that business-likoffice uplike, came another. And this singu- stairs, and: lar procession headed toward the "You see, said Polodos, smiling Thames. and pointing to a number of books A wicket gate was opened, and a deserted yard crossed. Out onto a wharf Yuan led, and down slippery wooden steps to where, riding the sluggish tide, a boat was moored. Jo Lung assisted his pasa sengers on board. The following shades, one swift behind the other, leaped on board also. As Jo Lung cast the painter loose and took to his oars: . 5 St JVJ YUAN HSE SE i i r laughs S3i& ROHMER By SAX WjHT W.NU. SERVICE SYNOPSIS onng American y to s. the Wal- - jearneT. tendon, say on board F, een, , ., stl 2,000,-h- ls way Australia. to d od-b- conveying p la meets I nr arney very Scotland Eileen, Haig is is he l w of opium, Lung's . concealed In called to other duty, De- i (cates Kearney, l with place visit ihlle in what he can. Kearney picks up choose which tway a notebook, Yu 'an Hee iver to Haig. to vrwich ofa band of internation , lt Jo Lungs. Disi he loss of his notebook, . blue-shade- d more widely open, and, racing across, he craned out, looking down face the of the building Into the shadowy court below. Something that looked like a big cat was moving twenty feet underneath. Even as he looked, It had gone faded, had disappeared. . He would have been prepared to stake all he possessed upon the Impossibility of any human being climbing down the face of the building at that point Yet, he had seen It accomplished! Running back to Kearneys writing table, he pulled np, fists clenched. The memo book had disappeared ! followers after Kearney, one of whom It up. Absolute silence prevailed In the a must have picked notes office of Jo Lung. joiiled over cryptic The woman to the sok, retorting smoked cigarettes ceaselessly one leaving T' ,Mn after after another. Ynan paced the carli murdered. his ,0 of pa e pet with his heavy tread. Suddenly : We shall be trapped, the woman said. Why are we waiting? All or the Adder may be caught as they return. Came the muffled note of a phone belL" Yuan stepped quickly to the table and took up the receiver. Yes?" be said. Something is afoot, Polodos reShan announces that the ported. party which set out from Leman Street Is now leaving Limehouse bound In this direction. What are your orders? As already arranged," the high, piping voice replied. I am now going to join Jo Lung. There will be no sea tonight, so we shall cross In the cruiser." Where do yon wish me to Join yon? At Trieste on Thursday morning the usual place." Yuan replaced the receiver. The police I I knew It! cried the woman, springing np. With you, he He faced her. said softly. In Chinese, the police are like an evil dream. One would think. Orange Blossom, that yon feared them. This Is not flattering to cat-lik- Continued III jpTER as mangled a wild animal Jugular had been pen- was Uroat had met ie the Leman Street Automatically his what was sorted. little the ached leather-amo-boof- c In leaving the of Jo Lung, Matt picked np something life or death to . . . lent had dot and he knew elleved 3 et that to believe began pit( . . penetrated. longer doubted that poor had been followed by 4 that someone. And for very book upon the table! lay the clue. If only talar Lak ART Hi AM! apt some-n- id failed to find at Slnga it He here under his fin :op t that Si . n lt unravel ULTl . . . Here, something which hangmans rope for the able, ichw lay i It was maddening! over the pages of the -d! again OL d now, Lftal suddenly he found listening listening Tfec for me. His voice rose very high on The woman called thought of those last note. i, at the same moment, ange Blossom summoned all her it detected a faint sound ural arrogance to confront him, boom behind him I that cloak of high disdain which rigidly stllL Definitely, wore so gracefully somehow i death. to . . i Haig slloit IS I land I imnu( the Or- nat- but she had slipped from her. As the portly Chinaman moved In her direction she shrank ned very In slowly his quietly li id With a looked towards the half-f-t back, nearer to the door. EltS leading Into Kearneys curling smile of arched red lips he t j silhouetted against turned aside, slipped off his blue Cltr.l i crouching figure. . . . house garment, which he hung In a BEE? i Hashed through his mind cupboard and resumed his heavy 'ron j is unarmed. . . . overcoat, taking np the black hat from the table. he could hear opening behind him. With Then: Come," he said, "we are going. difference, he walked to-'- i, and went out . . . Jo Lung waits for us. seconds he had snatched wall a Inspector Eddy of Leman Street Japanese sword DeA 3 ,J the had placed his men with care. It room had sitting . died off), p unsheathed It H.d was i the moving In lightly. ill, on A bed-:8- -- . broad-brimme- d d Ital be turned he saw be It. could not regard this do fabulously had gained to these chambers. But He 1 Thing which, he could had killed poor Norwich oeidmg over the ;E 1 writing 'I thickset figure, enor-fmehumped, grotesque arms and dispropor-hands- . AM But the head! lapsed for a moment lAtt !S ! ; id light i over him at sight of malignant head, that to r, j cerW I !ept like the 7" heaJ. brow was no skull more and a half high, and 5bnn a small, dark face, by two distended ,.e cl'in retreated into a (si ?eiat I s, the upper lip below nostrils protruded nod turned Its little sunk-' Be saw two enor-exaggerated canines, 'Oil' "ard over the j lt !lll! icd 1m. CO. gleaming. 8 ... 8rt i!tant of 8U- held him spell- R?a vs sword In hand, he s mil v arit i'njL enn fa J? horrr h him f) O, f The Wade of Passpd com- wer pai)pI 88 active fugitive aSt be,llml him. tWhora maHv w the shadow, sprang VWly nn.h r..' "i 8 bedroom door. no s it he 1('aPPfl, 1' k"9 aalf against It. and idi,Pn he crnshed for-t- . nward up,,,, the bed- f ?e nntj IH fD l lnS,ant nnfI 81,t'h- - Ttl window was fan-lig- ... ... e e MT Yuan spoke the word Chinese npon a note high with excitement, Which of you has lt? A hand was large, claw-lik- e stretched back to him . . . and In memo book t lt was the green-bounHow many? he asked. Quick In d One." Whereupon Yuan began to laugh, that high, uncanny laughter which to harmonize with the seemed creaking of Jo Lungs oars. . Jo Lung rested on his oars, and: Shall Police patrol, he said. I pull for the bank, my lord?" Fool They would hear the oars. The tide Is carrying down to those barges. Stand by, my friend, with the hook, and when we reach the first of them, cling tightly." HOW WARS ARE WON AND LOST History Reveals Pestilence as Big Factor. War Is merely a gang fight between remnants of armies which have survived camp epidemics. Homers Iliad opens with a pestilence and so does the Oedipus Rex of The plague at Athens Sophocles. which slew Pericles may have collapsed the Athenian empire quite as directly as the Sicilian disaster. It was an epidemic which turned back Xerxes invasion of Greece; the diseases w hich thwarted the Carthaginians In Sicily in 414 and 300 B. C. contributed, by depriving them of that base against Italy, to the victory of Rome In the Punic wars and thus to the result that European civilization Is predominantly Hellenic instead of Semitic. The fall of Rome Itself may be explained by the epidemics which ravaged Italy from the First century to the Sixth century, for It would be Impossible tq maintain permanently a political and social organization of the type and magnitude of Rome in the face of complete lack of modern sanitary The Crusaders were knowledge. balked by epidemics more decisively than by the Saracens: In 1098 a Christian army of 300,000 melted In a year to 20,000, and If one would read the details of their sickness and still keep an appetite for luncheon he needs to be a doctor. The Thirty Years war was blown this way and that like the damned souls In Dante, by deadly epidemics; dysentery, In a decisive campaign, threw victory to the French revolution, with os, , then phus to annihilate Napoleons army on Its retreat from Moscow. Thus disease has decided more campaigns than Caesar, Hannibal s General and Napoleon, omits to reflect tlint be they brave as Lucifers, your soldiers cannot fight when they are dead of disease. The epidemics get the blame for defeat, the- - generals get the credit for victory. . . i This Is still applicable to modern times. Experience In the cantonments of 1917 and in the sanitation of active troops showed that war is today 75 per cent an engineering and sanitary problem and a little less than 25 per cent a military one. Other things being approximately equal, that army will win which has the best engi Jingle-breeche- neering and sanitary services. , . , The only reason this Is not apparent In wars Is because the military minds on both sides are too superb to notice that both armies are simultaneously Immobilized by the same diseases. 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Outside in the Chinese quarter, at four points unsuspected by the police, blue lights were burning, for no orders had been given to extinguish them. When, half an hour later, the search party left the treasure house of Jo Lung, Dawson look. The river police drifted alongside Haig drew Warrentler aside. he Take charge, Warrender, craft a forty-fothe spruce-lookinmotor cruiser. Her paint work said, and stand by. Walt for me was very new, but of a queer bat- here. Ive bungled this job badly." deserted He set off through tleship gray, unusual In pleasure boats. There was nothing to show streets. And presently he found himself that there was anybody aboard. But when, half an hour later, Jo In a mean little yard with three opening upon It . . . that Lungs party drew alongside, two doors from which the one who above yard very active Asiatics appeared and the bows of the motor cruiser. Hav- laughed, the Chinese woman, out hour an come had shadows two woman and the ing assisted Yuan Ail three doors were aboard, they rapidly hauled up and before. No closed. light was visible. number of a of great disposed a constable on duty. was There small packing cases stowed In the stern of the boat These contained the opium destined for Australia which Dawson Haig had been covering. It had been removed that night under the very noses of the police and was now safe from their curiosity ! In the luxuriously appointed little cabin of the cruiser, Yuan drew d coat from the pocket of his a string of blazing fire opals, roughsilk. He ly threaded on waxed threw them around the long slender throat of his companion. Tonight, I can afford to be generous," he said. They suit you, Orange Blossom, who are all fire and Ice. , , Youre absolutely sure, FOR . be-sid- Silhouetted Against It H Saw a Crouching Figure. would have been difficult for a rat to enter the premises of Jo Lung without attracting the attention of one of them. His dispositions effected : That ought to do, he said to the detective sergeant who accomseems panied him. "Scotland Yard to think that the murderer will make for here tonight; If be does, hell fall Into the not." In a mean house near the corner Street Good evening," he said, smiling corof a mean street, outside the I in afraid confusion. In the apparent don drawn by the police around me." alarmed shone you hove suspected premises, a light ROBBED, THE,', EXPRESS, CAR I SHUCKSfTHAT'sNOTH , Ilalg that nobody has gone challenged, In or come out? yA Positive, sir." Carry on, Haig snapped, lie suspected this to be the Big Chiefs private entrance. But If he dared to force it he would be in bad trouble. He muttered savagely, and walked away. The light of a gray dawn was stealing through the Temple. Well, Matt," said Dawson Haig, so "you asked me to let you know, I blame to yourself you have only Kearney nodded, smiling: Im glad you came. And were both used to late hours. Fill your glass and go ahead. Conies to this, Ilalg continued. I should have started by covering out of Three Colt street. the rat-ruI only suspect but all the same Im moderately sure that the leakage was there. But If King Rat Is inside he wont get out! Every hole Is stopped. Unfortunately, I think King Rat has slipped away again. "They were warned In some way, or Eddy would have netted them on the way back. These people are artists one must admit It, That display of day books and ledgers was surely Intended to lead up to the one entry the one to which the Greek drew my attention. "You mean the sale, some time after poor Norwich and I were there, of a set of opals to a mythical customer?" Dawson Ilalg nodded. 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