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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-04-05, Page 2859 "Pekoe" comes from the Chinese word i6Pak-ho", meaning silver hair, which was applied to the tip leaves on the Chinese tea hush. Tip leaves are wiry in shape. in India they were more orange in colour, so were called "Orange Pekoe" (Pak -ho). • IlleYsdie THE CLUB OF ONE -EYED MEN BEGIN HERE TODAY. The war : loft John Ainsley, a man of education and breeding, unfit for work, Hungry, poverty-stricken, he decides to become a master crook, a super -criminal. "To prey upon thieves; that shall be my career," he decides, "For if a thief is robbed, where may he look for redress?"' His first venture into theft is at the expense of Dare- gon, a Fifth Avenue jeweler. Now, installed in an apartment in Paris, the sight of all the d'ealth exhibited in the Place de .'Opera one spring afternoon gives a fillip to his ambition. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. I couldn't watch the papers, ascer- tain when a crime had been commit -1 ted, and then rob the perpetrators. No one but a detective genius could hope to find out who committed the armies in the first place. And having decided that my only safety lay in working alone, I could hardly cultivate the acquaintance of criminals, and learn their plans in advance. What had seemed, for several weeks, a most excellent theory, became suddenly al- most impossible of practice. And yet the theory was sound. I assured myself of this. Because I did not see immediately how to put it into working practice proved nothing against the theory. Still, though I cheered myself with the reflection that Opportunity is never so disguised but that keen eyes may learn her identity, I was rather depressed as, dressed for dinner, I left my apartment in order to keep an engagement with some casual acquaintances met at Maxim's ban a a * * They were Americans, like myself, who were in Paris on business, and Who had, in return for some little courtesies that I had shown then, ex- pressed a desire that I should be their guest on a tour of Montmartre. I met them at the appointed time. I had seen before, all that Montmartre offered, but these were pleasant chaps, gentlemen both, and it was a pleasure to associate, however casually, with one's own kind. And they could get something of a thrill from visiting the tawdry dives with which Paris is in- fested. We wound up late at night at the Jardin des Nymphes. I would rather have said good night at the door of this place, but did not wish to seem unappreciative of my compatriots' hospitality. Vowing that I could not hold another glass of wine, I yielded to their importunities and entered the notorious dance -hall. All Tenderloins are alike; the Jar- din des Nymphes has its parallel in New York, in San Francisco; I pre- sume that India and China could offer amused, they care not who furnishes their pleasure. Tonight 1 saw pillars of finance em- bracing in the dance, women whose faces told their trade, I saw slant - brewed youths,.but yesterday from the gutter, oneaatepping with women of assured social position. A philosopher,. noting how assiduously the upper world courted the lower,.might,wonder, at the pretense of difference between 'the two. But I was no philosopher; I was merely a bored and tired gentle- man who wished that his friends would permit hint to retire to his bed. One of my hosts ordered champagne, A moment later a bold -eyed girl smil- ed front an adjoining table, My friends rose gallantly to the occasion; in a moment the smiling fair one had ac- quired two other friendly maidens, and they had -crowded about our table at the edge of the dancing space, More champagne was brought, and in an- other few moments my two hosts wore dancing with their newly acquired charmers. * * * * I pleaded fatigue. The lady who had selected me as her gallant sighed With relief. "Me, I 'ave dance' my shoe almos' off," she said. "I am glad that Mon- sieur feels not too gay" I looked at her; I did not even wish to talk to her. But after all, my aeo I bade the driver follow the car ahead. friends had practically invited her to join us; common courtesy demanded speech. So we talked at random. Lit- tle by little I drew from her bits of information about the habitues of the place. She had brutally droll humor, the? vice hungry visitor something and was not sparing in its use. A similar.. The underworld must make I writer for one of the scandal papers its contacts, somewhere, with the up- per world on which it feeds, And nowadays these contacts are franker than they were a dozen years ago. The so-called upper world has been invaded and conquered by bar- barians; these outlanders bring to the would have reveled in the gross gossip concerning the great and the near - great, which poured from her lips. For she knew which matron had coniprom- ised herself, which man had succumb- ed to harpy charms. And then she emitted a whistle of circles to which their money has ad- i surprise. She had become intimate milted them the crude tastes of the with me by now. She gripped my arum, uncultured, So long as they are and pointed , at a talI, white-haired m man who was entering a box on the other side of the floor. In the bright lights that illumined the room I could see him quite clearly. Well groomed, with an easy, assured manner, a cer- tain droop at one corner of his wide mouth seemed to indicate that of the two worlds represented here, the lower had spawned him. "That," said my fair informant, "is the White Eagle. Monsieur has heard of hint No?" "Who is he?" I asked. She' shrugged her powdered shoul- ders, "He is the White Eagle, mon- sieur, If the name means nothing—" She shrugged again. I looked again at the box across"the, floor. The `White Eagle' had sat down now, and had accepted champagne from the gentleman already there, I observed that gentleman. Grose, val-. Outdoors or indoors -- whatever your task. Let refresh you—allay your tliiret, aid appetite and digestion. Helps keep teeth. clean. After Every Meal .... ;SSW! N6. 13---'2$ gar -seeming, his ostentation of dress and !'Wanner was only egnalloy by the painted and bejeweled .Fat olcl woman who was hie oomnpanien. I sat them down lmlnediately as persons• of int - Manse and repent wealth. The White Eagle turned his head, and even at that distance I undirstood. why he bore his picturesque appella- tion. For his nese was a great curved beak. In profile one could not avoid noticing it, That, with his white hair, sufficiently explained his nickname, "Who is he?" I asked of my cont- panian again, "Monsieur evidently doesnot read the Paris papers," she conimeitted. "With difficulty, mademoiselle," I admitted, "And I have been in Paris only a few 'months," ' "Ah,, that explains." • She lowered her voice. "The White Eagle, mon- sieur, was tried for the theft of the Lagan jewels. He was what you call acquit', se he has always been acquit', every time the police try to put him in prison." "A criminal?" I said with interest. She 'shrugged again, "It has never been prove',". she smiled. I nodded understandingly; I felt a thrill chase np and down my spinal column. Here, perhaps, was that op- portunity which I needed. For the White Eagle was hovering around that vulgar couple in the box opposite for reasons, I shrewdly surmised, con- noted with his profession. I was looking, then, at another of the so- called supercrooks, the class upon which I had determined to prey. I turned to my companion. Shall we dance?" I asked, She was tired, but could not afford to offend. We went together upon the, oar, and it was not difficult so to manoeuvre that we remained for fully five minutes close to the box where sat the White Eagle and his prey He seemed on familiar terms with his quarry. Indeed, it seemed that he and the other man were discussing some matter of business. I would have given a great deal to overhear their conversation. Some cunning', swindle inure to my own profit if I could but learn its nature. But that was impossible. I return- ed with my partner to our table. As I sat down, I saw the White Eagle rise, kiss with great manner the pudgy hand of the overfed woman ep-. posite, shake hands with her gross husband—the other two must have been• married; certainly nothing but that inexorable relation would stake them endure each other's company and leave the box. A moment later the other two `rose. The man draped about the fat and wrinkled shoulders of his companion a cape of ermine that must have cost two hundred thousand franks. He handed a bank -note to his waiter, and the servant's forehead almost touched the floor in the excess of his grati- tude. I too rose abruptly. I pleaded a sudden headache of a severity too great to be endured. I refused, almost,. harshly, the offers of my two hosts to escort me hone. I would not dream, I told them, of cutting short their evening's entertainment, And so they let tine go. I gained my hat and coat from the cloak -room, and raced out into the lobby of the dance -hall in time to see. the couple whom Lwas following enter a limousine.. I hailed a taxi and bade the driver follow the car ahead. I did not wish to do anything so crude as (his, but I could not follow on foot, and I wished to know where the friends of the White Eagle were stop- ping. I found out in a few minutes, when their car stopped before the Meurice. I dismissed my taxi and entered into conversation with the hotel porter. From him, without difficulty, and without arousing 'Suspicion, I' learned the name of the couple who had just entered the hotel. Then I turned and walked to my apartment in the Rue Daunou• (To be continued.) Keep Minard'e in the Medicine Cheat. Gaping • Cavity. NuIl—"I started out on the theory that the world had an opening for Vold—"And you found itt?" Null—"Wal], rather. Pm in the hole now." 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Kinkead, of England, ! condemned to pay the heaviest fine Major Mario de Barnardi, holder of, ever imposed in Canada, was tie inno- the world's speed lacerti, was ready to Cent viptiln of an act of injustice, attempt to create a new record. which if not remedied -would be a per- 13,3,1 er- Ue-”mwtenistainuponon theadministration hal•tp postpone hie attempt cause of a strong wind and rough seat f justice in this province, They coal - but will try to -break his own meek of pared his ease with the Dreyfus case 298 miles an' hour,. Hinkeacl was !Gill~ 11l Prance, . 11 was hardly as bad ase ed near Calshot, Eng„ in an. attemptthat. Dreyfus was the victim of,, to beat de Barnardi's record. malignant conspiracy; Mr. Jarvis s' 9 the victim of a series of errors al( an-, fortunate circumstances. 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He has served the prison sentpnco imposed on him, The large sum which he has paid as a fine Is still in court. Of course it should be returned to him. But it is not easy to see how this can be done so long as his conviction stands. Both the Ferguson'goyernment and the city of Toronto have claimed that .$200,000. If either of -them were to take it, it would be tainted money—tainted with injustice. ''Surely Premier' Ferguson is too decent a man to countenance such a wrong. The civic authorities of Toronto aresaid to have become ashamed of having claimed it, and are not now pressing the city's Claim. Theonly way in which Mr. Jarvis can obtain the vindication which he,, seeks is through another trial. One correspondent has suggested that he should be granted'a free :'pardon. A pardon for what? Pardons are for wrongdoers, . and Mr. Jarvis is not a wrongdoer. He should be granted a new trial in order that evidence which was not available at the first trial can be presented. 'That is all he asks. It• is not much" to ask. One would think„ it an act of simple justice to grant what he:asks.. It tests with Hon. Mr'. 1 Lapointe, ministerof justice, who, it Is reported hesitates to make' the or- der for a new trial because hefears it might establish a precedent which, would be abused in future. But it Is certain that a refusal to make the or- der is .in itself an act of injuctice, Gan it be right td act unjustly lest by act- ing jjustly .there may perhaps be an abuse of privilege sometime in the futufe? Premier Ferguson would do the right thing—the magnanimous thing, and also, we believe, a popular thing --if ho were to make a personal re- ' quest to the ministc of justice to is- sue an order for a. second' trial for Aemilius Jarvis, so that a stain which mars the record of the administration or justice in Ontario may be removed. Make It Snappy. 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