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Sir Charles Abingdon. engages Paul know. I heard to -day from a garage,
Harley, criminal investigator, to find • with which Mr. Harley does business,
out why .Sir Charles is kept under c that he hired a racing car last night.
surveillance by persons unknown to ° He has often used it before. It met
him. Harley dines at the Abingdon him half -way along Pall Mall at seven
home. Sir Charles falls from. his o'clock, and he drove away in it hi the
chair in a dying state. Abinrigdon s direction of Trafalgar Square."
The telephone bell was ringing,
and as Innes eagerly took up the re-
ceiver:
"Yes, yes, Mr. Innes speaking," he
said, quickly.' "Is that you, Rector?"
The voice of Rector, one of Paul
Harley's assistants•, answered him
over the wire:
"I am speaking from Victoria Sta-
tion, Mr. Innes."
"Yes!" said Innes. "Go ahead."
last words are "Nicol Brinn and
"Fire -Tongue."
Harley asks Brinn .the meaning of
"Fire -Tongue," but Brinn refuses to
enlighten him.
Harley investigates the life of
Ormuz Khan, friend of Phil Abing-
don, daughter of Sir Charles. Nelda,
an Oriental, calls at the home of Nicol
Brinn.
GO ON Wllli THE STORY.
t' 1 iAl'TER XIX.—(Cont'd. i h "A very odd-looking woman visited
Right, left, it seemed from all about Mr. Nieol Brinn's chambers this even -
him, came swiftly pattering foot- ing. She was beautifully dressed, but
steps! Instantly he divined the truth."wore the collar of her fur coat turned
Losing Ms tracks upon the highroad up about her face, so that it was
above, a section of his pursuers had difficult to see her. Butetomehow I
surrounded the station, believing that think she was an Oriental."
1 he would head for it in retreat, "An Oriental!" exclaimed Innes.
Paul Harley whipped off his coat in : "I waited for her to come out," Rec-
a flash, and using it as a ram, smash-; tor continued. "She had arrived in a
ed the window. He reached up, found cab, which was waiting, and I learned
the catch, and opened the sash. In ten from the man that he had picked her
seconds he was in the room, and a up at Victoria Station."
great clatter told him that he had "yes?"
overturned some piece of furniture. I "She came out some time latex in
Disentangling his coat, he sought rather a hurry. In fact, I think there
and found the electric torch. He was no doubt that she was frightened.
pressed the button. No ligbt carne. By this time I had another cab wait -
It was broken! He drew a hissing ing."
breath, and began to grope about the "And where did she go?" asked
Innes.
"Back to Victoria Station."
"Yes! Go on!"
"Unfortunately, Mr. Innes,- my
story does not go much further. , I
wasted very little time, you may be
sure, But although no train had left
from the South Eastern station, which
little room. At last his hand touched
the telephone, and, taking it up:
"Hello!" he said. "Hellol"
"Yes," came the voice of the oper-
ator --"what number?"
"Gity 8951. Police business. Ur-
gent!"
One, two, three seconds elapsed,
four, five, six.
"Hello l" came the voice of Innes.
"That you, Innes•?" said Harley.
And, interrupting the other's reply:
"I am by no means safe, Innes! I
am in one of the tightest corners of
my life. Listen: Get Wessex! If he's
off duty, `get Burton.' Tell him to
bring—"
Someone leaped in at the broken
window behind the speaker. Resting
the telephone upon the table, where
he had found it, Harley reached into
his hip pocket and snapped out his
automatic.
Dimly he could hear Innes speak- 1
ing. He half turned, raised the pistol,
and knew a sudden intense pain at
the back of his skull. A thousand
lights seemed suddenly to split the
darkness. He felt himself, sinking
into an apparently bottomless pit.
CHAPTER XX.
CONFLICTING CLUES.
"Any news, Wessex?" asked .Innes,
eagerly, starting up from lids chair
as the inspector entered the office, she had entered, there was no sign
Wessex shook his head, and sitting* of her anywhere. So that I can only
down took up and lighted a eigaret suppose she ran through to the Brigh-
"News of a sort," he replied, slowly, ton side, or possibly out to a caw,.
"but nothing of any value, - 1 am !which may have been waiting for her
afraid. My assistant, Stokes, has dis-
thiguished himself."
"In what way?" asked5`Innes, dully,
dropping back into his chair.
"Tonight Nicol Brinn had a visitor "Quite tight, Rector; you could do
—possibly a valuable witness. Stokes, no more. Did you see anything of De -
like an idiot, allowed her to slip tective Sergeant Stokes before you
through his fingers and tried to arrest left Piveadilly?"
replied the other. "Ile also
"You say he tried to arrest him.
What do you mean by that?"
"I mean that Nicol Brinn, leaving
Stokes locked in his chambers, went
out and completely disappeared!"
"But the woman?"
"Ah, the woman ! There's the rub.
If he had lain low and followed the
Woman, all might have been welL
But who she was, where she came
from,; and where she has gone, we
have no idea."
Innes Mood up restlessly and began
to drum his fingers upon the table
edge. Presently he looked up, and: 'MB $Ev>3rtTlif BAMA.
"There's a shadow of hope," he As Nicol Brinn strolled out frons.
said. "Rector. you know hector?- the door below his chambers ati Picea-
bad been detailed by the chief to`ovex
the activities of Nicol Brinn, He has
not repos -ted to hie so far.to-night"
"You mean that he may he follow-
ing him?" *tied Wessex.
"It is quite possible—following
either Nicol Brinn or the woman.°
"My God, I hope you're ri htr---1
even though It Makes the Criminal
Investigation Department look •a bit
Ole."
'l:hee,'f eentinued Innes, "there is t
lasu,t No,, 49—'27
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"Good evening," the Hindu said,
speaking perfect English,
somewhere."
"Is that all?" asked Innes; glaiimily.
"That's all, Mr. Innes. But
thought I would report it."
was intensely interested in Nicol
Brinn's visitor. And about five min-
utes before she came out he went up-
stairs."
"Oh, I see. She came out almost
immediately after Stokes had gone
up?"„
"Yes."
"Very well, Lector. Return to Pic-
cadilly, and report to hie as soon as
possible."
Innes hung up the receiver.
CHAPTER XXI.
dilly, a hoarse voiee made itself
'audible above his head.
"Police!" he heard over the roar, of
the traffic. "Ilaip! Police!"
Detective Sergeant Stokee had conte
out upon the,balcony. But up tothe
time that Nicol Brinn turned and
proceeded in leisurely fashion in the
direction of the Cavalry Club, the
sergeant had not succeeder) in attract-
ing any attention.
Nicol Brinn knew that death was
beckoning to him, 'He knew that his
keen wit was the enly weapon which
could avail him to -night; and he knew
that he nhuMt show himself a master
of fence.
A lonely man, of few but enduring
friendships, the had admitted but one
love to his life, except the love of his
mother. This one love for seven years
he had sought to kill. But anything
forceful enough to penetrate to the
threshold of Nicol Brinn's soul was
indestructible, even by Nicol Brine
himself.
Fust outside the Cavalry Club a
limousine was waiting, driven by a
chauffeur who looked like 'come kind
of Oriental. Nicol Brim walked up
to the man, and bending forward:
"Fire -Tongue," Ire said, in a low
voice.
The chauffeur immediately descend-
ed and opened the door of the ear.
The interior was unlighted, but Nicol
Brinn cast; a comprehensive glance
around ere entering. As ho settled
himself upon the cushions, the door
was closed again, and he found .him-
self in absolute darkness.
All the windows were curtained, or
rather, as a rough investigation re-
vealed, were closed with aluminum
shutters which were immovable.
A moment later, as the car moved
off, a lamp became lighted above him.
Then he saw that several current
,periodicals were placed invitingly in
the rack, as well as a box of very
choice Egyptian cigarets.
Lighting a fresh cigar, Nicol Brinn
drew a copy 'of the Sketch from the
rack and studied the photographs of
more or less pretty actresses with ap-
earent contentment. He had finished
the Sketch and was perusing the By-
stander when,the car having climbed
a steep hill and swerved sharply to
the right, he heard the rustling of
leaves, and divined that they were
proceeding along a drive.
He replaced the paper in the rack,
and took out his watch. Consulting
it, he returned it to his pocket as the
ear stopped and the light went out.
The door, which, with its fellow,
Nicol Brinn had discovered to be lock-
ed, was opened by the Oriental chauf-
feur, .and Brinn descended upon the
steps of a shadowed porch. The house
door was open, and although there
was No light within:
"Come this way," said a vele
speaking out of the darkness.
Nicol Brinn entered a hallway the
atmosphere of which seemed to be
very hot.
"Allow me to take your hat and
coat," continued the voice.
He was relieved of these, guided
along a dark passage; and presently,
an inner doer being opened, he found
himself in a small, barely furnished
room where one shaded lamp burned
upon a large writing table,
His conductor, who did not enter,
closed the door quietly and Nicol
Brinn found himself looking into the
smiling face of a Hindu gentleman
who sat at the table.
"Good evening," the Hindu said,
speaking perfect English; "won't you
sit down?"
(To be continued.)
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Jack • Pine
Although at one time looked upon
as more or less of a "weed tree," the
Jack pine (Pinus Banksiana) to -day is
of considerable commercial import-
ance. The average annual production
of jack pine ties and lumber is prob-
ably not less than 35;000,000 feet
board measure, the greater past of
this being utilized as ratiway ties.
Some 30,000 cords are also cut -for
pulpwood and some 19,000,000 laths
and 1,900,000,000 shingles are made
each year.
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A young clubman irreproachably
attired in morning wear, but looking
extremely gloomy, came into the
smoke -mons and ordered a, double
brandy. "What's wrong, Charles?"
asked a friend, "you look hipped" "So
1 ern; Charles replied in a hollow
voice, "I've just returned from a
beastly wedding" 'Indeed, whose?"
'Er .. mine old boy.'
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In Barnacle
to Cause of Cancer
Liverpool Doctors Stumble on
Phenomena of Cell Re-
birth in Crab Parasite
London; --A clue to the cause of
cancer, supporting the conclusions of
Professor Blair Bell of Liverpool Uni-
versity, has been discovered by mem-
bers of the Department of Oceano-
graphy of that university, according
to a report from Liverpool.
The discovery was made while a re-
search party was studying the life of
the succulina, a variety of barnacle,
with no thought of cancer in their
minds.
Professor Johnson of the Depart-
ment of Oceanography said to -day
that the investigators had observed
that phenomena in the life of the
barnacle, which starts as a free-swim-
ming larva, were closely related to the
biological condition known as cancer-
ous.
"Tho barnacle develops into a
cypies; to do which it had to settle on
the soft parts between the joints of
a crab," he said. "We discovered.
that after this a wonderful thing hap-
pened—the barnacle reversed its or-
der of development, becoming embry-
onic again and forming a tumor in the
crab's intestines.
"The process is agate reversed af-
terward and the creature breaks
through the walls of the crab, becom-
ing a succulina.
"Dr. Blair Bel has shown that can-
cer is the result of a condition In the
cells of the human body which do not
take on new Iife and become malig-
nant, Exactly the same things ap-
pear to happen to the succulina and
there is no doubt that a study "of the
barnacle well make an important con-
tribution to our knowledge of canceie"
-N.Y, Times.
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the pick -pocket to his fellow prison-
ers, oas the result of a moment of''ab-
stractlon." "And' ,I," chimed in the
forger, "on account of a simple desire
to make a name for myself:' "And I,"
added the burglar, "through taking.
advantage of an opening which offer-
ed in a large 'mercantile establish-
ment."
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The important role played by adver-
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'different units of a Dominion and
bringing its far-flung members better
to understand each other's problems,
needs and aspirations, and in bringing
the members of an Empire closer to
each other so that they also might.
better understand each other's posi-
tion on questions affecting the welfare
of the whole community, was the
theme of .a naddress by Ald. Theodore
Morgan, delivered at tb.e weekly lun-
cheon of the Advertising Club of
Montreal recently.
Ho urged the great responsibility
that developed on the advertising
man, in view of his great opportuni-
ties for doing valuable -educational
work. The national' advertising man
was the only man in Canada whose
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same time. The advertises could car-
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National Asset.
Advertising was more than a means
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even, and much less to the outside
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The work of the national advertiser
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No editorial writer, for instance, could
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Canada's need of immigration was
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parts of Canada without the least fear
of danger, yet few Canadians knew
anything about it.' That was because
in the past only- the mistakes of gov-
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vertising. The British Navy .was one
of the greatest agencies for the adver-
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The nation had to depend largely
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People Would not often travel 1,000
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out what his needs and problems
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The things Canadians should take
pride in had not in the past been well
enough known to them. It was the
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as a unit _and of the Empire as a
whole. And it was the duty of the
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of the nation. '
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but none had ;given fore great men to
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University educational trips,, inter-
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this Winter.
Mrs. Jane Heard and Mrs. Mary
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Durham, delighted Princess Mary
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of the .National Federation of Wo-
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