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"Rippling Ruby"
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WI'NQI•I, .M ADV,A.I C -'DIMES
"Look you here, my lad!" he inter- question, I didn't want to bring La
rupted. "You're damned clever, .no dy Renardsmere into this business
)doubt, but there's 'other theories than at any rate, until I bad seen` and talk-
yours!
alkyou, si There's this --the Chink was ed to her. If only Jifferdene would
interrupted before he could gather up let me go back to Renardsmere I
the watch and the money! He heard could. tell Lady Renardsmere all I
somebody corning—and he hopped knew; all I had found out about Nee -
it!" more, whoever he was, and about his
"Tell that to the marines, Mr: undoubted association with Holliment
Quartervayne," I ' exclaimed. "It's a and puartervayne, and I would beg
theory that's full of holes! ; It won't her to communicate with the police
hold. water for one minute. He'd herself. For I was certain by that
time to rip up. Hollirnent's clothing, -time that Chuh. Sin and his English
friends would stick at nothing to re-
cover that Something, and we might
be leaving murder done, at Renards-
mere House. Tell Lady Renards-
mere the whole story I would!—as
soon as I could get at her, And Peg---
gie Manson, too—perhaps Peggie fir-
st. For I had seen enough of Peggie
to know that if ever there was a
young woman who had a headpiece
screwedon straight and tight, Peggie
was she.
But there was that infernal inquest.
I dreaded that business. I had ne-
ver given evidence in my life—before
J. A. MORTON
BARRISTER, ETC.
Wingham, - Ontario
DR. G. H. ROSS
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Dentistry
Office Over H. E. Isard's Store.
W. R. HAMBLY
B.S., M.D.; C.M.
to cut into the padding at his shoul-
1ders, to examine and slit his waist-
band, to find out if he was wearing a
belt under his shirt! No—he was af-
ter something; Now what?"
"I tell you I don't know!" he assert-
ed. "I know nothing about it!"
"Very good!" said I. "But do you
know a man named. Neamore—Percy
Neamore?"
He started as if I had held a revol-
ver at him, and his big face paled.
"What do you know about Nea-
more?" he demanded. "When—"
"Never mind!" I retorted, "Do you
know : him?. I think you do, Mr. Ieither judge, magistrate, or coroner. I
Quartervayne, and I'll tell you why. didn't know what they mightn't get
Holliment and Neamore were in the out of. me: I supposed—being wholly
Warrington Hotel, in Maida Vale, ignorant of the procedure in their afp
very late last night, and. when they fairs -that the police would have at
'left together they went to see some- any rate something to do with it; per -
body in Delaware Road, close by- haps, nay, probably, Jifferdene would
and not far from the scene of the have already suggested to` the Coron-
murder. Did they go to see you, er that.I knew a lot. I was afraid of
Mr. Quartervayne? Because I saw having to introduce Lady Renards-
you in Delaware Road this very after- mere's name --altogether, I didn't
noon, in a tali -cab! Now come— know with what questions I mightn't
who is Neamore?" be faced. And if I let things out,
He stared at me, hard, for a minute, about Lady Renardsmere and Nea-
in silence—then suddenly rising, he more, Jifferdene would turn on me
made straight out of the room. Be- and want to know why the devil ,I
fore I could follow, he had walked hadn't told him all that? Yes, cer-
out of the hotel and into the night. tainly, I said to myself as I tossed
CHAPTER XI' arid tumbled about, I know a precious
The Train Goes Out lot more than Jifferdene knew that I
I lay awake for a long time that knew! --and I heartily wished r didn't.
night, endeavouring to think things I rather overslept myself, out of
out It seemed to me if one was go- sheer weariness, in the end, and it
ing to get at any clear view of the en- was , past nine o'clock- when I went
tire; utterly puzzling " situation, ' one down to the coffee -room `for break -
had got to go back as far as possible fast. Half -way through it, and while
-at any rate, 'to some definite point I was reading an account of the Hol -
at which these present matters began. liment murder, a very guarded and
And as far as I was in possession of concise one, obviously inspired by the
facts, the thing seemed to have had police, and suggesting moremystery
its beginning, with, that astute, watch- in the affair than 1 knew it to possess,
ful, inscrutable old Chinaman whom 1 I was called to the telephone. Jiffer-
had seen at the Langham: Hotel -Mr, dene' was at the. other end. He said
Cheng. I tried to get the events into that he was busy about the opening'
sq
e uence-figuring, of course . very of the inquest on Holliment, at Padd
largely on probabilities. I put it in ington that afternoon and couldn't
this way—Mr. Cheng is a wealthy get on to see me for two or three
Chinese financier. He comes to Eur- hours—would I be in the hotel be-
ope on some 'business or other: he tween twelve -thirty and one? I pro -
has secretaries and servants with him, rnised that I would --and then asked
During his stay in Paris, one of these him a question.
followers robs him- of something -to . "Any developments?"
be exact, from what I have already "No!" he answered. "But I` may
learnt, the man is one Chuh Sin. hear of one or two by noon. Look
Chuh. Sin, having robbed his master here! you keep quiet till I come—
of this something, escapes to Eng- don't go wandering round, mum's the
land. He turns up at Portsmouth— word!"
perhaps he struck, there from South- "All right!" said I. r"Twelve-thirty
ampton, having travelled' by way of or thereabouts, then—here."
Havre. He put himself up at Holli- I rang him off before he had a
ment's' Temperance Hotel, andafter chance to say more. For already,
a time, being taken ill, goes to 'hospm- while we talked, and as soon as 1
tal, leaving all his effects in Holli- found that he wouldn't want me until
ment's hands. Coming out of hospi- noon, I had determined, having two
;tal unexpectedly, he finds that Holli- hours ,to..rnyself, to do a bit of deter-
tit has appropriated that Some- tive work on; my own account. ' I
Special attention paid to diseases of
Women and Children, having taken
postgraduate work in Surgery, Bact-
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Office in the Kerr Residence, .be-
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Phone. 54. P. 0. Box 113.
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Office in Chisholm Block.
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thing He goes for 'Holliment he went back and finished my breakfast,
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gets, a gang of loafers together and and then set about doing it.
conducts an attach: on Holliment's 1 was going to the Ritz Hotel, I
store. Holliment flies—and Chuh Sin had an .object in view. When Lady
somehow 'gets on his track. Prob- Renardsmere had carried off Neamore
ably Chuh Sin has English friends in in her car to .town, I had heard her
London -anyway somebody murders tell Walker, the chauffeur, to go
Holliment, and turns him inside out, straight to the Ritz -I wanted' to
as it were, in a frantic search for know if Neamore had gone there with l
that Something. All that seems plain, her, and, more important still, if they
precise, And out, of had 'been joined by anybody:'- For, it'1
n&
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straightforward, piaci , g
e's toils. seemed to me a highly probable thein
it rise some queer qu t car—she came iii' sand be-
in gentleman -a ai dsmere s
hat is .the Something? that the transaction which 'resultedrather over -dressed— ge
'4V 1 for four. Theo the
VJ'h watt': 1VCr.. Cheng tell
Y
lush police what it .is?
l E Lady Renardsmere handing over a! J ?" I enquired spoke a table
phone. After that lie and she waited
the
ng- a y ew.
young gentleman ,went. to the tele -
cheque for ten thousand pounds to
Neamore had been carried out there
—and possibly with the assistance bf
a third . and perhaps -a fourth party—
at
at y— leswhere.
before, -here or e
at whose indentt%es I was already „ in them?"
`That's - so," he assented.
Were Holliment 'Quartervayne and "Did you know him?" half est La -
002 cd them
, in the lounge. About_ P
i, eein him Yes, he replied. I sett'
Neamore partners in the approprla Not-miever remember s g •r—the man with La and liqueurs after
p1 t „ two 111211 came ti myself with coffee q
tion !n plain language, the stealing -
Y , lunch, �
of it?
"Did
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In the house of the late Jas. Walken'.
Telephone s,5o,
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wore town' clothes and a silk hat."
"'Dict you see any business transact-
ed between them,?" I enquired., "Any,
of papers or anything?"
signing
dy Renardsmere introduced them to and I saw Lady Renardsmere
'Then le w
I b S
her. Y mile to
d t
anybody �o ' the all 1Lmclied together.
writing a cheque, She
o "Can you describe the two meet?" I
Lady Renardsmere.for ten thousand tion was very handed it to the inti who came in
f i " 11 asked. with her at first."
fromLady
wouldhadandofother
propertieslittlethese
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Ren-
GEORGE
A. S1DDALL
RGE
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Rroker•----
Lucknow,Ontario.
whatever it may be, en- ,
en. Well c1i•essed m,cii, and "Did they all leave together?" I
iiiere to thing,
whith. bits? know who i gentlemen. arils f 1 i but you k
air to well behaved ,
Is It—this thiitt;, whirl: bids f r, .,, "'The three men
know what I asked.
e ie f li ' down as men also- No, he said.4 , h
sorts n with herb i£ferd i !Phone mean. ,I set, ens ti
cause murder and all poi is of horrors o w h w J 73• I'd seen
fel c elated with the T. of course; we went away soon afterLady
1
posing in Mr. Pennitle�.varte's sae in
I b
and unpleasantness—now safely
r - d real es-
tate
f a Renardsmere, and that Renardsmere,.wrating the cheque; she
f know Lady able rate of
I I"' ld while a blood o
she's a wall !:!town
.' owner that filly waited here till her car carne round
doubt,
than when I had got him aside. interest, also oil i of hers, Rippling; Ruby, is
Cl •shielded,
1 f thought if?f 1 t P
dere wide •course• you B t t air appearance?"
1t seemed to� roe as I lay there, s
1 t t1 blackness of
'Lincoln's ..un {ie s, ht first Chattel mortga
about: dead for lief at :hired o'clock,"
English
tes, . no thirsty n 1 motes"You reit man people, 1
' f f k' d ri parse aoff h Derby. 1 � ou sec 'i g y
bysonzC 'nga a relentless
s is prowl-
ing 'about, on arclentless search or Ya
> 1 'Heti revtou�sly?
vayaie to Lady Renardsmere at the.
Ritz' Hotel, and that in all .probability
she had there bought from the three
'of them the Something that Holli-
ment had stolen from Chuli Sin `and
that Chuh Sin had filched from his
master, the 'Spins like Mr. Cheng.
What was it? Why, once more--.
wouldn't Mr. Cheng tell us?
I went back to my own hotel, re-
volving these mysteries—and at half -
past twelve in walked Jifferdene, ob-
viously vexed.
"Hero's a fine do!"" lie exclaimed as
he dropped into a chair at my side in
the, smoking -room. "That infernal
old Chinainan's gone!"
" ?s`
Mr. Cheng. I said,
"No other!' Cleared out --last ni-
ght," he answered. "Not so long af-
ter` we'd seen him, either, Left by the
rent on easy terms.
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"One man' was tall, stoutish, florid- ver!` 'Absolute strangers to ries: all
awake, staring into the . c
No-
bly ream that I knew nidreabaut the Of Park Laiee. he replied faced the other was stoutish s' Agent
whale. thing than anybody! Riad the
ntiestion Iorce'd itself again and again
didn't know how to answer that "With a y'oUitgish, well-dressed
O- t I to tell al! I knew
short. Each wore a, grey: tweed stint town pretty well!"
"Well, you see,' he replied, "I ma.
"Did tome here to lunch three CULROSS iknbwtng now that de tip my mind, last `night, I'd have
I'rxd s11e c m......newt/ suints, they were, too. And I went away,
days:a o?" I asked. had
5
black bands,
whoever Neartiore !night be, he is
linin Lint grey Homburg hats with b1 1 b d
tipoh m$. tig i O r r Ifd �6 �Y in �* ,
iff rd ne at' ate? She did oh, yes! he answered. 'r
or Phone 46 r 2
hitt at the inquest. What he wot4ldw
The other man, who carne'with 1ler, introduced Ilollimeat amid �7uaiter (Continued on page seven)
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