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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-11-09, Page 6THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 1933 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE I*:L= ill TINY CARTERET BY SAPPER i “To introduce the beast into a „ room he could not reach otherwise,” And then from the other half of saiu Standish. “Ingenious: very. But I ought to have spotted it, Tiny.’ “I’m blowed if I see how,” cried the other. “Go back a bit, old boy. I admit we had nothing to go on over Jeb- son: nor did we have anything that helped us over Demeroff. It was when we came to Felton Blake—or rather Joe Denver—that we wren’t CHAPTER XI a shout of maddened table, Tiny,” roared with a splintering followed by falling on pick it other up, hand, cried the the poison grimly, the the as clever as we ought to have been, said that hav- have And cracks rang out almost then Ronald Standish gun. come out, Tiny, he said ‘‘The swine has cheated us the room came rage. “Behind the gtandish, and crash a bullet imbedded itself in the wood. Almost simultaneously came a crack from the door, and a howl of pain from Zavier, noise of a revolver stone floor. “If you bend to vier, I’ll plug your said Ronald quietly. “For God’s sake do,” other hoarsely, “before has time to work.” And Standish laughed “As I said before—the reward is just,” he said. “Ah would you?” The two as one and lowered his “You can quietly, after all.” And Tiny, stepping out from be­ hind the table, understood. The mon­ key was chattering angrily on chair, and beside it lay stretched body of her master, a smoking volver still clutched in his hand, vier had blown out his brains. the the re- Za- said think explaln, ‘‘At the mo- the same condi- at the hotel at table between You see, I was right wheh I Za_' that that was an accident, and I he had meant to get us.. Well, i ing got as far as that I should pursued it to the logical end. ' I didn’t. I actually said to you, if1 you remember, that he had set the I scene in Blake’s room, and I oughtn’t to have been so dense. He merely I left the monkey in the room pend­ ing our arrival.” “Awkward for Blake," said Tiny. “Why? He had a perfect alibi with Lady Mary if things had work­ ed out according to plan. It was leav­ ing young Denver out of the calcu­ lations that upset the whole arrange­ ment.” “I still don’t see why you should have suspected the monkey.” “Perhaps it is easy to be wise af­ ter the event,” agreed Ronald. “ButI that, combined with the affair at my flat . . .” “Who was it that was killed?” in­ terrupted Tiny. “Poor Stanhope—my man,” said Standish gravely. “I dead when I got back And I did some pretty ing, Tiny. It seemed able that in murdering had got the wrong man; but when it came to Stanhope it was an absolute certainty. So what did it mean? The window was open: the light was Therefore if Zavier had been to see into the room he would spotted at once that it wasn’t The logical conclusion there- was that he couldn’t see into he wouldn’t inoffensive found him that night, quick think- fairly prob- Denver they mon­ end, by a cent- CHAPTER XII ‘‘Touch and go, old lad,” Standish gravely. “I can’t what maggot atrophied my brain.” “For the love of Pete, Ronald,” cried Tiny, ment my own is in lion.” They were back Brigue, and on the them was the toy Swiss flag. At first sight it looked harmless enough and the sort of thing to be expected on a birthday cake or a Christian tree. But a closer examinaton dispelled the illusion. The little pole was about the length of an ordinary pen­ cil, and half the thickness. It was hollow and made of the finest steel, and a small chain with a little band on the end—a band that was fitted to the monkey’s arm—ensured that it could never be left behind. A special grip like a tiny trigger guard had been made for the key’s paw an inch from the and this grip was connected microscopic bar passing up the re of the tube to a little plunger, on exactly the same principle as a bic­ ycle pump, A slot rather more than two inches long allowed the grip to slide forward that amount towards the sharp end, thereby ejecting any fluid on the other side of the plung­ er. And at the sharp end there stuck out for the sixteenth of an inch a needle point. “Damned neat,” saiu Standish, a note of genuine admiration in his voice. “Look how beautifully the thing is made. It is nothing more or less than a perfectly disguised hypodermic syringe. W’ho would ever suspect a monkey waving a flag You’d merely think it was an acci­ dental scratch.” “He must have spent months training the little brute.” “Probably, ones pick up “I wonder said Tiny. “They’ll find that out at fast enough,” “Probably some such as they use darts.” He replaced it picked up a metal bar some three feet long. One end was curved to make it look like a walking-stick, but there the resemblance ceased. “Exhibit Number two for Gill- son’s museum. Pull on that end, Tiny.” The thing was telescopic, each new length fitting inside the previous one. Its full length when extended was five yards, and it formed a bar quite sufficiently rigid to bear the weight of a little monkey. be Though those small tricks very quickly.” what me poison is,” home answered the other, native concotion, on. their poisoned on the table and on. able have me. fore the room, otherwise have murdered poor Stanhope. Which carried me a fur­ ther* step forward: it wasn’t neces­ sary for Zavier to see his victim. Therefore there was some agent at work—not exactly a blind agent, but one that couldn’t discriminate. And it is then, I think, that I was not very clever. I should have spotted it. What happened, of course, is easy to reconstruct now. Zavier from the road outside saw the light, and Stanhope’s shadow. He assumed it was me and took a chance. He had brought the monkey in case; he must have gone straight from the Fifty-Nine to get it. He introduc­ ed the little beast by means of this stick, and that was that . . .” “I wish I’d known, old boy. Jove! it gave me a turn the next day.” “Sorry, ITiny; but it had to done. You had to be in ignorance. Otherwise you wouldn't have acted normally. You see, I had no idea what Zavier’s next move was going to be.” “Did Gillson know?” “Yes: he knew. It was a beastly job changing clothes with that poor j devil, and then burning him 'enough 1 to make him unrecognizable, but it I had to he done. The stakes were too big to hesitate.” “What did you do then?” “Shadowed you, old boy, disguis­ ed as a London telephone operative. And it was then that I read the note which got Lady Mary over to Paris. At first, I confess, I was completely dunmfounded: how had they come to make such a mistake? We know now: moreover, now we can see that it -was one mistake which has enabl­ ed us to pull the thing off. Thail­ and your girl’s priceless nerve. Had that message been in your hand­ writing she would assuredly have rung you up to confirm it. And then —no Paris: no dead Zavier: no film. But by acting as she did, she has let us win. “As soon as I read it I made a few changes in my rig, and rushed down to Croydon. I found you had Charteerd a special plane, so I took another ancl followed you. But I did what you didn’t do—I met the boat train at the Gare du Nord. Moreover, I had previously wired, and I had two of the best men in Paris with me. I saw Lady Mary get into a big car, and tipped them the wink. They fol- Constipation and Headaches Suffered ■M For For fcfllc at all drug and general Toronto, Ont. Mr. E. K. Devlin, Winnipeg, Man., writes:—^“1 feel it my duty to let you know of the help I received after having taken two vials of Milburn’s Laxa-Liver Pills. For two years I had suffered dread­ fully from constipation and headaches, and was advised to try your treatment, I strongly advise all sufferers to use Laxa-Liver Pills and feel well again.” stores; put up only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, ililllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllii lowed her, and I came straight i the Majestic.” “I never saw you,”| “You weren’t intended to, Tiny,” laughed the other. ”i realized, of course, that the thing must be com­ ing to a head. She was in Paris: you were at the Majestic: there would not be a moment’s unneces­ sary delay. What I thought was. going to happen was the receipt by you of a note from here—probably bogus—giving some specious reason why you should go to a certain spot. And I thought it more than likely that spot’ would be in Paris or just outside. “Candidly, I felt no anxiety over her, She was under the immediate eye of the police, and even without that there was not the slightest ob­ ject in doing her any harm. From Zavier’s point of view she had serv­ ed her purpose by getting you over, and he was far too clever a man to commit an unnecessary crime, were his hired, and to Gillson’s metaphor I arrival of the tiger at He arrived, or rather did, in the person of a friend of mine—one Perky Edwards. “Perky is probably the finest pen- and-ink draughtsman alive today, but unfortunately for himself the medium he prefers is not acceptable to the powers that be. The police have a rooted objection to dud fivers and as a matter of fact I didn’t know Perky was out of prison till I saw him soaking you good and hearty in the bar.” “I thought the little squab was a bank clerk,” laughed Tiny. “He told he was.” “He looks rather like it, doesn’t he?' Well, clearly, the last round had begun. I didn’t daTe go into the bar myself—the place was so empty—but I’d made ail the neces­ sary arrangements. A man was out­ side the door to note any address you gave a taxi driver: I was there in case you consulted the concierge'. Which you did, and I must confess surprised me considerably. I had not expected Brigue to be your des­ tination.” “But, good “you weren’t man with the “Guilty, old boy,” other. ing a sleeper with me came as no surprise. However, if you were go­ ing to Brigue, obviously I’d have to go too. Whether they were going to try and do you in in the train, re­ mained to be seen. Anyway I got in­ to the next compartment.” “I know you did,” said Tiny with a grin. “And to start with I thought you were Zavier himself.” “Now you’ve got to remember that I had no idea what particular yarn Perky had pun across you.” went on Standish. “But what I did know was that you were sitting in a position of considerable danger. So I went to ground in that hotel opposite and during the two hours you were here I had this verandah covered the whole time. Then the monk arrived and wih him came the first flood of light. “I don’t wonder you didn’t spot it: you had no suspicions then of any trap. Whereas I knew the entire thing was a plant. I saw at once, the significance of that heap of torn-up cloth we found at the Fifty-Nine and the cord on the other side of the door. And so, later on, Zavier’s re­ marks to you came as no surprise. Ingenious, you know, Tiny: he was perfectly right. It is the easiest of all disguises to assume and the least suspicious.” “You have probably guessed by now that it was I in the car follow­ ing you, and so you have got most of the rest. As soon as you had gone into the so-called monastery I knocked in the same way, and though he was a bit suspicious at first of me he let met in. And then it was a question of move and move quickly. I went for him, but before I outed him he gave tongue once.” “I heard him,” saiff Tiny. “Just before the grille over the door shut.’ “I put on his rig and all through your interview with Zavier I was just outside in the passage. Perhaps it was an unfair risk, to expose you to, but I was so desparately keen to find out his secret. Then he left and you very wisely went to ground be^ hind the table. Now from where I was I could watch the door by which hr. had left and I saw that darned little monkey come in. And still my brain didn’t click. Which is why I said, Tiny* it was touch and go. Gad I’d never have forgiven myself if he 1-ad trot you.” “What did make it click at the end?” said Tiny curiously. “For some unaccountable reason there flashed through my mind the last word that man Demeroff had said in the sleeper, You remember you told me he called out what sounded like ‘Bazana/ And it sud­ denly dawned on me. What he really shouted was 'Obeziana,* which is the Ik. to You come back to expected the any moment, his emissary very dear old Lord!” cried Tiny, that damned French­ beard, were you?” laughed the “Aind your distaste for shar- Russian for monkey. Whether in his half-drunken stupor he had seen the little brute come through the win­ dow at Laroche, or whether he knew Zavier’s secret before, we shall never know. In view of his determination to have the window shut I think the latter.” He got up and stretched himself and a look of surpirse dawned on his face. “Bless my soul, if it isn’t Lady Mary herself,” Tiny sprang to his feet. “Where? It is, by Jove! Mary, dear,” he called out, “what under the sun brings you here?” She was in the street below and turned at the sound of his voice. “Tiny,” she cried, “is it really you? My dear, I’ve been sick with anxiety. And Mr. Standish there too “Oh! I’m inot dead,” he grinned “Come right up and take a. pew. We’ve been having a topping time.” She came up the steps towards them. “You see, I went off with that, woman to house on the outskirts of Paris, where I had dinner. And af­ ter dinner she left me to go to the telephone, I waited and waited and she never returned, so after awhile I had a look, around. My dear—the house was empty: there wasn’t a soul in it. iSo I left, and met two men outside, who spoke to me. They were in the police and I asked them what I should do. Their advice was to go back to Paris, and one of them got .me a taxi. I drove straight to the Majestic, and found you’d come here What was the idea?” “To keep you out of the way, Lady Mary, sufficiently long to. de­ coy Tiny here.” said Standish. “Our friend the late Mr. Zavier was no. slouch.” “Late?” She stared at him incred­ ulously, and he nodded. “He died unpleasantly a couple cf hours ago and left you this.” With a grave smile he produced the film from his pocket. “I can’t believe it,” she said very low. “So we’ve won after all.”' “Thanks entirely to you,’ he ans­ wered. “If you hadn’t deliberately walked into th"e trap with your eyes open we shouldn’t have this. What will we do. with it-” “Burn it,” she cried. “Bura the beastly thing at once.” In, silence they watched it fibre up and sizzle away: then Standish began to laugh. “I’ve got an idea,” he said. “It just breaks my heart to disappoint Berendosi. Supposing you two pos­ ed in a similiar attitude, and we sent him the film of that.” “Men have died for less infauous suggestions,” grinned Tiny. “How­ ever, we have no objection to you joining us at lunch provided you pay for it.” The End EDDIE, THE AD MAN OFF COLOUR? HOW IS YOUR LIVER? Wake up your Liver Bile —Withput Calomel Your liver's a very small organ, but it cer­ tainly can put your digestive and eliminative organs out of kilter, by refusing to pour out its daily two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels You won’t completely correct such a condition by taking salts, oil, mineral water, laxative candy or chewing gum, or rohghage. Wnen they’ve moved your bowels they're through—and you need a liver stimulant. Carter's Little Liver Pills will soon bring back tho sunshine into your life. They’re purely vege­ table. Safe. Sure. Ask for them by name. Refuse substitutes. 25o at all druggists. 48 WHALEN Russell Morley spent the week-end in Exeter with Mrs. Alice Gunning. Mrs. Thos. 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