Show refreshes your taste you smoke refreshed THE ROOM OF TH E SEVEN DOORS wu playing forget with fire but he could not blind himself to the fact that he had become hopelessly infatuated with the alluring French girl The building wu all but deserted It wu near to closing time He found the appointed spot and then decided to wait on the other side of the room pretending to examine the sketches and charcoal studies Few visitors came At every footstep Gregory turned One man dark of a saturnine cast of features and wearing a white raincoat strolled through twice but Gregory decided that he wu probably a gallery detective He glanced anxiously at hit watch And still Mignon didn't come He had begun to lose heart when he heard light footsteps and a slim girl came into the gallery She wore a scarlet cape and her auburn hair was almost entirely hidden by a g beret Mignon! But she gave no sign The dark man strolled in glanced around and went out by another door Mignon a moment later went out too Gregory followed She passed through several other rooms and stopped in a room devoted to French drawings There was no one close-fittin- there She turned and Gregory ran to her “Mignon!” He grasped her shoulders looked hungrily into her eyes those lovely eyes in which a shadow of sadness always lay “How won- derful!” She turned her head aside “I am glad to see you too Gregory But you must be mad You should hate me 1 have done you only harm” ”1 am mad Mignon — mad about you! Look at me I understand it all Nayland Smith hu told me Don’t reproach yourself I know!” ‘ She glanced up at him furtively timidly “You should not have come Nor should I You had one narrow escape from Fu Manchu Why do you take another risk? You must me — forget we ever “I can’t forget you” he said met” hotly ‘andl won't even try unless you tell am here and now that I have no right to think about you as 1 do” “There is no one else in the sense you mean” she whispered “Think me Gregory as you would think a nun — or a slave someone inaccessible” He held her dose “There are no staves” he said tensely “Come with d me— now Back to America Smith has the power of the government behind him You will be safe from Dr Fu Manchu” Mignon rested her head against His shoulder for a rapturous moment of of Nay-lan- Hi was beating hammer heart strokes wish it could be Gregory father hopelessly under the hypnotic power of Fu Manchu whom I must protect” She looked swiftly “Every moment you stay with me you are in danger My father is in danger So am I” He bent to her lips Mignon thrust Her hand against his mouth Her eyes “How 1 1 is 1 1 my up were “If wild you value my life Gregory dear please let me go! I mean it Don’t even look back Don’t try to follow me!” She slipped from his arms not ignore the urgency of her appeal But as he heard her light footsteps retreating through the next gallery toward the door he did look Fie dared back Mignon was out of sight Three minutes later Gregory was ora the Embankment in front of the Gallery staring right and left Dusk drawn in and the opposite bank oT the Thames was curtained in mist And then in the direction of Mill-ban- k under the light of a street he had a glimpse of the scarlet lamp had cape As he set out to follow another figure passed under the lamp close behind — Continued on next page CMMkariHUiMMiowi Just Is famous but the exploits of the as the creator of Fst wily doctor art not Manchu h hit only cotter lieu mus- diversion Mr Rohmer has published ical compositions written four plays end clashed off" some 50 books including a recognized texf on magic and sound of a rushing waterfall refreshes you sight the surprise softness of Salon refreshes your taste! With every puff the freshest taste in cigarettes flows through Salem’s pure white filter Let Salem’s rich tobacco taste Salem’s menthol-frescomrefresh fort your taste— smoke refreshed Salem -y- ou’ll love ’em! Oy OAX ROHMER Sax Rohmer as the A refreshing new idea in smoking I 23 |