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Show i i w I' T j I r ZZZ Copyright, 1919, by Tho Whoclc- Syndicate, Inc. " I MANY OF THE MAJOR OPERATIONS OF THE WORLD WAR HAVE NEVER BEEN .WRITTEN MANY OF THEM H HAVE NEVER EVEN BEEN HINTED AT FOR THE REASON THAT THEY WERE UNDERTAKEN BY THE SECRET OP- IH . ERATIVES OF THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT. Ill FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS A FORCE INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF MEN AND WOMEN HAS BEEN WORKING DAY AND NIGHT, ROUNDING UP THE ENEMIES WITHIN JUST AS THE GOVERNMENTAL AGENTS ARE AL.WAYS KEPT lU BUSYN?Y THF. FORCES OF THE UNDERWORLD WHO CONSIDER UNC.LE SAM FAIR PREY. SMUGGLERS, COUNTER- H FEITERS, MAIL THIEVES AND MOONSHINERS NEVER APPEAR TO TIRE OF TRYING TO GET MONEY WITHOUT WORK- HI ING FOR IT. 9 I : J v. AMatGh for the Government! iljl . - w WOXDFR how Ions it will take," 1 0 mured Bill Qulnn, as he tossed B aside a copy of his favorite iic- B) IB lional monthly, "to remove the ethical Bill restrictions which the war placed upon Bjjl novels and short stories? Did you ever n!i notice the changing Stylc in villain-?, K for example"' A decade or so ago it ( , was all the rage to have' a' Japanese Hif " 1,10 illrty work f0r tllcn wc wcrc II III taking: tho 'yellow peri!' rather seriously K and it was refiected In our reading mal- H . ter. The tall, well-dressed Russian, til ' with a sinister glitter in ids black eyes. Bj next stepped upon tho scone, to be In followed by the vllllan whnfcc swarthy j Hjjl complexion gave a hint of his Latin Iljl ancestry. "For the past few years, of course, nil every real villain has had to have -U least a touch of Teutonic blood to ac- ijl count for tho various treacheries which HI be tackles. I don't recall a single ntl novel or a abort story, .cither that in has had an English or French vTnln nfl who is foiled in ihe Inst f?v pages. I ft il suppose you'd call St the 'entente eor- 1 dlalc of the novelists, a sort of con- ffjl certcd attempt by the writing clan to I) do their bit against the Hun. And Ijl mighty good propaganda It was too. . . Vl . "But, unforiunateiy. the detective of U ' real life can't" always toll by dotcrmln- Bfl ing a man's nationality whether, he's Rll go'ng to turn out to be a crook 'or a lj hero. "When you co:h right flown to lij It, every country has about the same Ijjl proportion of each and" it's only by ih? j closest observation that one can arrive ill at' a definite aria fact-supported con- jH 'Details trifles unnoticed in them- I selves play a far larger pun in the anal denouement than any preconceived I ideas or fanciful theories. There wau HI ihe ease of Ezra Marks and the Dllilitg- lu ham diamonds, for example. ..." ! II Ezra continued the former f ecret ! Service operative. hn he had eased , il his panic leg into a position where it ho longer h!m active trouble jl was all thai the name Implied. .Born in ', i ' Vermont, of n highly Puritanical fam- ; ! , ity, he bad been named, for his paternal ! I I 'grandfather and probably also for some j character from the Old Testament. I'm f not awfully strong bn that Biblical stuff ! J It wasn't long aftcrhe grew up. how- j r( evr. that life on the fi.rm began to , jl pall. He found a copy of the life of l Alan Pinkerto:: somewhere and'mid j it through until h knew It from cover J to cover. As was only natural in a boy ' 1 of his age he determined to become a j ! great detective, iind drifted down to j Boston with that object in view. But.. lf once In the city, he found that "detect- Cj ing" was a little more dillicull than he jj had imagined and finally agreed to com- 11 promise by accepting a very minor! lt position In the Police Department I Jj .Luckily, his beat lay along the water jl front and he got tangled up In two or III three smuggling cases which he man- jl aged to unravel in line shape and, in jH this-way, attracted the attention of the 1 j Customs Branch of the Treasury De- 1 'j prtrlmont, which is always on the look- I', out for-new limber. Tt's a hard life. f you know, and one which doesn't con- 3 1 stltute a good risk for an insurance : company. So there are always gaps to ykv bo tilled and Ezra plugged up one of 9 1 1 them very nicely. H,J As might have been expected, the ijj New Enclandcr was hardly ever ad- H !fi dressed by his full name. "E.Z." was H.j the title they coined for him and "E.." Jl ! he was from that time on at least to H everyone In the Service. The people B"j on the other side of the fence, how- ftj ever, the men and women who look jl "I upon the United States Government as 'Jl a joke and its laws as hurdles over l)i which they can jump whenever they HT wish found that this Mark was far m X from an easy one. He it was who H it handled the "Wang Foo opium case In H San Diego In 1311. He nailed the gun H J runners at "El Paso when half a donen IMlj other men had fallen down on the as- jff 1 I signment and there were at lca6t three ft I Canadian cases which bore the Imprint ji I of. his latent genius on the finished rc- IUHjfl in Ills particular kind of genius was dls- tinctly out of the ordinary, too. He ngfjl J wasn't flashy and he was far from a JSm U hard worker. He just stuck around and m I j watched everything Worth watching un- JjRrl til he located the tip he'wantcd. Then M he went to it and the case was fln- jilja I The chapwho stated thai "genius Is iM j Jfi the capacity for inlinltc attention to "HI IS details" had Ezra sized up to a T. And ffSl I HI 'L on onc oC lncsc tletalls prob- ?Sr I HI t,1c most trifling one of all that I'lPill If' let to most Htvtllng success. Mil Europe Reports Diamonds. jjljj'i l "Back In the spring of 1A12 tho Eiro- 'Sm I pean agents of the Treasury Depart- Pfc I' I meat reported to "Washington that a j i collection of uncut diamonds, most of ' 1 -hem rather large, had been sold to the lrlll'i I' German representative of a firm In Rot- I w'll 1 tcrdam. From certain tips which they II ffilij! (i pjeked up, however, the men abroad 1 LftljH' j were of the opinion that the stones j"2nl- were destined for the United States jl'Mili" i and advised that all German boat-s be LlS'i'i 'carefully watched, because the Dilllng- II t S i ' ' 'iam 'amon'13 as collection was I 1111; known had been last heard of en route j to Hamburg and it was to be expected JHt r that they would clear from there, j ', The cablegram didn't cause any wild ImCS" ii excitemcntln the Treasury Department. 'hV ' European agents have a habit of try- l IFOf ! Ing to stir up trouble In order to mako i I Ijyp; f jl 11 appear that they arc earning their I t'1 I nioney and then they claim that the people over here are not always alert enough to follow rhelr tips. .It's the old game of passing the buck. Ton have to expect It In any business. I But, as ovpnts turned out, tho men I on the other side were dead right, j Almost before "Washington, had lime officially to digest the cable and to mail j out the stereotyped warnings based upon it, a report filtered In from Wheeling. Wheel-ing. West Virginia, . that one of the newly-made coal millionaires in that , section had Invested in . some uncut j diamonds as large as the end of your j thumb. The report came in merely as I a routine statement, but It set the Cus-j Cus-j toms authorities to thinking, j Uncut stones, you knoiy, are hard to locate, either when ' th'ry arc . being brought In or after thpy actually arrive- Their color is dull and slate-like and there Is little to distinguish thorn from other and far leas valuable p:-bbles. Of course, there might not be the slightest slight-est connection in tho world between the Wheeling diamonds and those of the Dillingham collection but then, on the other hand, there might. ... TIence, it behooved the Custom people to put on a little more speed and to watch the incoming steamers just as carefully ns they knew.hqw." Some weeks passed ami the Department Depart-ment had sunk back Into a' SiUte of comfortable ease-broken (only occasionally occasion-ally by a miner case Or" two isn a wire n,r rived one morning staling tHnt two uncut diamonds mm apparcu in New Yprk under conditions' which 'appeared 'ap-peared distinctly suspicions. The owner Imd offered them at a price war 'tinder ihe market fisj'ire and then, rather ihan reply to one or two questions relative to the history of the stones, had, disappeared. dis-appeared. There was no record off tljo t ln.i"?fi)f any diamonds answering to tR? description of ihoss 'seen'" in Maiden Laife iajHb?"hp ipolicc fo?-cn inqu!riHl ylCi' Vvashington thought they could have been smuggled. "Of "Course tliey could." snorted the Chief. "But there's nothing to prove it. Until we gt our hands upon them and a detailed description of the Dillingham Dil-lingham .stones, it's impossible to..icll.'J;: i. 'Marks "la Callecl. " ' So' lfe cabled abroad for an" accurate list of the diamonds wlileh had been sold ,a couilc of months earlier, with .jpfVlal instructions to include any. Identifying marks, as it was essential to spot the stones before a case could-be could-be built up in court. j The following Tuesday a long dis- ' IHitch from Rotterdam reached tho D- j pnrtment, stating, among other things, j that one of the Dillingham diamonds could be distinguished by a heart-shaped heart-shaped Haw located just below the surface. sur-face. That same afternoon came another an-other wire from New York m the effect that two rough stones, answering to th- descripton vof the ones alluded to in a previous message, had turned up In the i Jewelry district after passing through j half a dozen underground channels. "Has one of the diamond a hcar?r ! shaped flaw in it?" the Chief Inquired by wire. i "It. has," came back the response. "How did you know it?" ; "I didn't," muttered the head of the Customs Tervice, "but I took a chance. The odds were twenty to one against me, but I've seen these long shots win 1 before. Now," ringing for Mahoney. his , assistant, "we'll see what can be done to stop the rest of that collection fron ! drifting In 1 it hasn't already arrived " 1 "Where's Marks located now?" the ' Chief inquired when Mahoney entered. ".-omewherc in the vicinity of Buf- falo, I believe. He's working on that Chesbro case, the onc In connection with ..." "1 know," cut in he Chief. "But that's pin-money compared to this matter mat-ter of the Dillingham diamonds. Thousands Thou-sands of dollars are at ntakc here, against hundreds there, Besides, if this thing ever leaks out to the papers we'll never hear the last of it. The Xew York office isn't in any loo strong-as strong-as It Is. Wire Marks to drop the trail of those silk hounds and beat It to New York as fast as he can. He'll find r.cal work awaiting him there something that ought to prove a test of the reputation repu-tation he's built up on the other three borders. Hurry it up! Scanty Evidence. "E.Z." found the message awaiting him when he returned to his hotel that night and, without the slightest symptom symp-tom of, a grouch, grabbed the' next train for New York. As ho told me later, ho didn't mind in tho least dropping the silk matter because he had put in the better part of a month on It ami didn't seem any closer than when he started. It took Ezra less than live minutes to get all the dope the New York office had on the case and it took him nearly six months to solve It. "The two diamonds In Wheeling and the two that turned up here are the only ones wc know about," said the man in charge of the New York office. "The original Dillingham collection contained con-tained twenty-one rough stones but whether the other, seventeen have already al-ready been brought In or whether tho people who are handling them have shipped them elsewhere is wholly problematical. prob-lematical. The .Chief learned about the heart-shaped flaw from our man at "Rotterdam, so that Identities Due of the stones. But, at the same time, it doesn't help us in tho least for wc can't handle the case from thfs end." "Snmo rulci as on the Coast, eh?" inquired, in-quired, Marks. "Precisely. You've got to tackle tho other end of the game. No rummaging around here, trying to pick up the trail that ends, with the alone In Mnidon Dane. As .you know, this bunch Is pretty well organized, wheels within wheels and fences On fences. You get something on one of them and the" rest of the crowd will perjure themselves black in the face to gel him off. with the result that your case will be laughed out of court and the man you're really after the chap who's running the stones under .your nose is a thousand miles away with a grin on .his face. You've got to land him first and the others later. If 'the Chief wants them. The chances arc, though, that ho'jl -be well satisfied to have the goods on the crook that's doing the main part of the work." "Well," drawled Marks, "I trust he gels his sallsfaCtiQn. Got any ldea ,on the matter?" r "Nary an Idea. . Tho stones wore sold abroad and presumably they were headed for Hamburg which would appear ap-pear to point to a German boat. Four of them, supposedly one of them, -certainly turned up here without passing through the ofllce or paying the ous-tomary ous-tomary duly. Now, go to It I" When Marks got back to his hotel and started to think the problem over, he had to admit that 'there wasn't very much to "go to". ' It Avas the thinnest ease he had over tackled a p?rfoct circle, of a problem, without ihe slight- 4 BUT UNCLE SAM'S ARM IS LONG AND HIS MEMORY RETENTIVE. SOONER OR LATER HE NAILS THE MAN it WHO BREAKS HIS LAWS, THOUGH IT OF.TEN ENTAIuS MONTHS OF WORK AND FEATS OF DETECTIVE GENIU3 ' VHICH FAR OUTSTRIP THOSE OF FICTION. J THOUGH WRITTEN IN NARRATIVE FORM, THE' ARTICLES IN THIS SERIES ARE ALL BASED ON FACT FACTS, IN MANY CASES, AVAILABLE ONLY SINCE THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES. NAMES AND LOCATIONa HAVE HAD TO BE ALTERED, BUT A FULL REPORT OF EACH CASE WOULD BE FOUND IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE DIFFERENT DE. PARTMENTS IF THEY WERE THROWN OPEN TO PUBLIC INSPECTION, FOR THESE ARE BUT A FEW OF THE IN- STANCES IN WHICH THE LONG ARM OF UNCLE SAM HAS REACHED TO SEIZE THE MEN WHO BREAK HIS LAWS. f clent number to make It impossible to watch all of them c even to llx upon two or three which appeared moro suspicious sus-picious than 'the others. The Information from abroad pointed to the fact that a German boat was carrying the diamonds but, Mark figured, fig-ured, there was nothing In tho world to prevent the stones from being taken into England or Franco or Italy and re-shipped, from there. They had turned up In the United States, so why couldn't they have been slipped through the customs of other countries just as easily? - The one point about the whole matter mat-ter that appeared signlllcant to him 'was that two stonea had bjg$n reported in each case -a pair In Wheeling and another an-other pair in Nov YTork. This evidence ! would be translated. either to mean that the smugglers preferred, to . ofter the ' diamonds in small lots, so as not to center suspicion too sharply In their movements, or that the space which ihpy used to conceal tho stones was extremely ex-tremely limited. MnrU inclined to the latter theory, because two stones, rather than one had been offered In each Instance. If the whole loi had been run in, ho argued, tho men responslblcwould market thorn singly, rather than la pairs because this would not detract 1st the slightest from the value of ihe stones, as it isn't easy to match rough diamonds I size of the stones already spotted, he , was stumped. The list Included a walking walk-ing stick, the heels of a pair of women's shoes, two dummy pieces of candy concealed con-cealed In a box of real confections, a box of talcum, a bag of marbles, the handle of an umbrella, or any one of a number of other trinkets which travelers travel-ers carry as a matter of course or bring home as curios or gifts. Finally nftcr two solid months of unproductive un-productive work, he boarded the midnight mid-night train for Washington and strolled Into the Chief's ofllce the following morning to lay his cards on the table. "Frankly." he admitted, "I haven't accomplished a thing. I'm as far from breaking Into the circle as I was at the beginning and, so far as I can sec. there isn't any hope of doing It for sometime to come." ''Well," Inquired the Chler, "do you want to be relieved of the. case or do you want mo to drop the matter entirely en-tirely to confess that the Customs Service has been licked by a single clever smuggler?" "Not at all!" and Marks' tone indicated indi-cated that such a thought had never entered his head. "I want the Service to stick with the case and I wont to continue to handle II. But I do want a definite assurance of time." "How much time?" "That I can't say. The only lead I've located and that isn't sullTciont to bo dignified by the term 'clue will lake weeks and probably months to run to earth. 1 don't see another earthly trail to follow, but I would like to have time to see whether this one leads anywhere. est sign of a beginning, savo the onc which was barred. Pondering The Caso. Anxious as he was to make good, he had to concede that the Department's policy of working from the other end I of the caso was the right course to follow. fol-low. He had heard of too many arrests ar-rests that fell flat, too many weary weeks of work that went for nothing because, the evidence was insufficient not to realize the justice of the regulations regula-tions that appeared to hamper him. "No," he thought, as he half-dreamed over a pipe-load of tobacco, "the case seems to be impregnable. But there must be some way to jimmy Into it if you try long enough." His first move was the fairly obvious onc of searching the newspaper files to discover just whal ships had docked during the ten days previous to the appearance ap-pearance of the stones in Wheeling. But this led nowhere, because thai week had been a very busy one in maritime circles. The "Celtic", the "Mauretanla". the "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grossc", the "Kronprin,zessln Cecello", the "Deutsch-land" "Deutsch-land" and a host of other smaller vessels ves-sels had landed within that time. Just as a check upon , his observations, observa-tions, he examined the records for "the week preceding the first appearance of the diamonds in New York. Here again ho ran into a snag, but ono which enabled him to eliminate at least half of tho vessels he had considered before. However, there still iemalned a sutll- and thus Increase their market value. Ho Waits Hopefully. Having settled this mailer to his own satisfaction and being convinced that, ag not mor9 than two stones were being run in at one time. It would take at least eight more trips to import the entire shipment, "E.Z." settled down to a part, of the Government detective's work which is the hardest and the most necessary In Iris life that which can best be characterized by the phrase "watchful walling". For weeks at the time he haunted the docks and wharves along the Now York water front. His tall, angular figure became a familiar sight at every landing place and his eyes roamed restlessly rest-lessly over the crowds that came down the gangplank. In a number of Instances In-stances lie personally directed the searching of bags and baggage which appeared to be suspicious. Save for locating lo-cating a few bolts of valuable lace and an oil painting concealed In the handle of a walking stick which was patently hollow, he failed to turn up a thing. The only ray of hope that he could glimpse was the fact that, since he had been assigned -to the. case, four more stones had. been reported again in pairs. This proved that his former reasoning rea-soning had been correct and also that the smugglers' evidently Intended to bring in all of the twenty-one stones, two at a time. But when he" came to catalog the hiding places which might be used to conceal two articles of the ' An Extension Of Time. "All right," agreed the Chief, fully realizing what "J'l.'A " was up against and not being hurried by any pressure from tho outside for the case hod been carefully kept out of the newspapers "this Is September. Supiiose wc say tho first of the year? How does that suit you?" "Fair enough, If that's the .best you con do." "I'm afraid it Is," was the .comment from across tho desk,, "because that's .ill the case is worth to. us. Your time Is valuable and we can't afford to spend a year on any case unless it's something some-thing as big as the sugar frauds Stick with It until New Year's and. If nothing new develops before then, we'll, have (o admit we're licked and turn you loose on something else." "Thanks, Chief," said Marks, getting up from his chair. "You can depend upon ,my doing everything possible in the next three months to locate tho leak and I surely appreciate your kindness kind-ness in not delivering an ultimatum that you want the smuggler or my Jobi But then I guess you. know that I couldn't work any harder than T'm golng to, anyhow." "Possibly," agreed the 'head of the Service, "and . then, again. It may be because T have confidence that you'll turn the trick within the year. Want any help from"thl3 end?" "No, thanks. This looks like a one-man one-man game and it ought not to take more than onc man to finish it. A whole bunch of people always clutter up the place and get you tangled in j their pet theories and personal Ideas. What 1 would like, though, is to be kept in close touch with any further developments concerning stones that appear later on where they are located their exact weight and diameter and any other facts that might Indicate a possible hiding place." "You'll get that, all right." promised the Chief. "And I trust that you'll develop a red-hot trail Of your own before January first.' With thai Marks shook hands and started back to New York, fairly well pleased with the results of his trip but totally disgusted with Ihe lack of progress prog-ress which he had made since leaving Buffalo. Early in October, a message from Washington informed him that a couple of uncut diamonds had turned up in Cincinnati, stones which answered to the description of a pair in the Dillingham Dilling-ham collection. Around the tenth of November another an-other pair was heard from In Boston and anyone who was familiar with Marks and ins methods would have noted a lightening of the muscles around his mouth and a narrowing of his eyes which always indicated that he was Hearing the solution of a difficulty. diffi-culty. After receiving tho November message mes-sage he stopped haunting the wharves and commenced to frequent the steamship steam-ship offices of the Hamburg-American, North German Lloyd and Uanarch Lines., The latter, as you probably know. Is operated by Welch and British capital and runs a few small boats carrying car-rying passengers who would ordinarily travel second class, together with a considerable amount of freight. Onc Out Of Three. When the first day of December dawned,' Marks drew a deep red circle around the name of the month on his calendar and emitted a prayful oath to the effect he'd "be good and eternally damned if that month didn't contain an unexpected Christmas present for a certain person." He mado no pretense of kpowing who the person was but he did feel that' he was considerably closer to his prey than he had been five months before. f Fate, as someone has already remarked, re-marked, only deals a man a certain number" of poor hands before his luck changes. Tometlmcs It gets worse, but, on the average It Improves. In Ezra Marks' case fate took the form of a storm at sea. one of those winter hurricanes hurri-canes that sweep across tho Atlantic and play havoc with shipping. Ezra was patiently walling for one of three boats. Which one, he didn't know but by the process of elimination elimina-tion he had figured to a mathematical certainty that one of them ought to carry two uncut diamonds which were destined never to visit the customs office. of-fice. Little by little, through the months that had passed, ho had weeded out the ships which failed to make port at the ; -s s 1 e time the diamonds arrived calculate 1 Ihe lime by the dates on which 1 ' stones appeared elsewhere and tht I were only thrco ships left. One "H thorn was a North German Llovder second belonged to the Hw. American fleet and the third pos ' an unpronounceable Welch name aTl i flew the pennant of the Llenarch Lin. ' As it happened, tho two German shi I ran Into tho teeth of th gale andc t delayed three days in their trip j the Welch boat missed the storm P tircly and docked on time. " V. Two days later came a message fro- Washington to the effect that two dh l monds, uncut, had been offered for In Philadelphia. j "Have to have one more month." rt. t plied "Marks. "Imperative' Can Prac. f.. ti-ally guarantee success by fifteenth ci' P January" for that was the dai3 H which the Welch ship was due :o t. !- turn. " ' ( "Extension granted," came the word from Washington. "Rely on vCn Z t- make good. Can't follow case at- If longer than a month under any cir' & cumstances." & Marks grinned when he got that m- f sage. The trap was set and, unltis & something unforeseen occurred, "EZ" If felt that the man and the metht-i K would both be In the open befoie lojg. U When the Welch ship was reportfj,?! otT quarantine In January, Mark.? f bundled himself Into a big fur coatarj B went down the bay in one of the Cor- b eminent boats, leaving Instruction-that, Instruction-that, the moment tho ship docked, si- was to be searched from stem to stfn. "Don't overlook as much as a pill boi w or a rat hole," he warned his assistant! and more than a scoro of men saw to h that his Instructions were carried mi to the letter. t Beyond exhibiting his credential Marks made no effort to explain wb; the ship was under suspicion. HY "-watched "-watched the deck closely to prevent lb! crew from throwing packages ore:-' f board and, as soon as they rcachd f. clock, he requested all officers lo jcis v;: him In one of the big rooms bclongis; E lo the Customs Service. There he ci I plained his reasons for believing tbU some one on board was guilty of 'A frauding the Government out of da!; j-on j-on a number of uncut diamonds . "What's more," he concukled, at tbt to end of an address which was purpoait , lengthy In order to give his men tlc. j lo search the ship, 'I am willing u K stake my position against the fact thitMi I two more diamonds are on board tti k I ship at this moment!" t I He Offers a Light. Ijucklly, no onc took him up for i! K was wrong. 5. The captain, pompous and self-asr- t , live, preferred to rise and rant agalcj! j , the "infernal injustice of this hlrh- handed method." f Marks settled back to listen In silewi r, and his fingers strayed to the sic4 J pocket of his coal where his pet pip' t reposed. His mind strayed to tt thought of how his men were gettlr; t along on the ship and he absentmira!- r, edly packed the pipe and struck i ? match to light it. , rt It was then that his eye fell upos' p. the man seated beside him Holler, tit ? British first mate of the steamer. He a had seen him sitting there before, ta!' had paid little attention to him. No, he became aware of the fact that tb j.; mate was smoking a huge, decp-bowkl meerschaum pipe. At least. It lwd beta' In his mouth ever since he entcrec, fc. ready to be smoked but unllghted. ( ; M Almost without thinking about i'". Marks leaned forward and presents t the lighted match, holding it abo mate's pipe. . "Light?" he inquired, In a matler-- g fact tone. , i. To his amazement, the other stai.w ft back as if he had been struck, and ttts. recovering himself, muttered ?- thanks. I'm not smoking." fj "Not smoking?" was the thought lt - fiashed through Marks' head, why. ... . ti. But the solution of the matter lU-' upon him almost instantly. Bcf;r Vj' mate had time to move. Mark?' W-1. L snapped forward and seized the PjK N With the same movement he tUI?-V': (& upside down and nipped the uowi k-tho k-tho tabic. Out fell a fair amouni . tobacco, followed by two slatc-colo m pebbles which rolled across the fa under the very eyes of the captain. "I guess that's all the evidence need!" Marks declared, with a lauS" ; relief. You necdn's worry about - forming your consul and c"1"1 1 protest, Captain Williams, m ' , t. charge of your mate and these f10' rE: and you can clear when you wish. , "So." added Qulnn. as he rcacig W his tobacco. "I never light a pU ' I don't think of the match that - a good many thousands of do'ur5l4-t LUr, tho Government, the match tna i- , , a man to the Federal prison, the n .JH thai landed the Englishman'' ; more than a match for the Co .ty ment. ' "Bui. as I said at first, the war , t. along shortly thereafter and ciu ; not only the nationalities of j,,-villains j,,-villains but those of real life .j ihe girl at the Konnoc itcbb jl found out in a case thnt can? ffiif5 , close to ending disastrously ana tbJs ' I contained more excitement for ne j a dozen of the novels which an . j fond of reading during her spare "The Girl AtThT SwiJ0? No. 10 in the "Long Arm of Unci a, sories and tho account of tow . Lano landod a trio of a'lfncrVef-' 1 who had defied the Secret Mr I will bo published noxt. fl |