HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-02-16, Page 6THE 'GIRL .WHO WAITS
'A Short Story of, the Dope Traffic in London England
sally Deane hated Oscar Swensen, the Ocean Star and make sure if he
the giant Swede, almost as muds as eves on board,
the loved and adored her absent .sail -1 She did not tell her' mother the
or -boy, Peter West. 1 story Oscar Svenseu had told her,
'`'Moro than all, she was afraid of feariug to worry her until the truth
Chang, the fat, squat Chinaman, who was cut te dock.gates, however, she
was rich and powcrfdl in Limehouse,
and ,tad a stop at the corner Of the (was unable to gwitltein admissiodookn, win g
sstreet where tally lived, not far from to some
the docks. iwere striking,
Every clay, as Sally was either go- I. But
heard official something thgate
abotold
d Die
ing to her work at the factory in the he
Commercial -road, or when she was re- Ocean Star coming back without one
V ? turning home, site would see Chan:' rover crelle ew, who d ship. been He ashored bee and
standing in his shop door.
His almond -shaped eyes would glia• had heard the rnau's name given as
ter as they looked at her fresh young West.
beauty, and ho would crease his yet ly began to grol eears in h her wayeslowly,hack
low face into a horrible leer.
"Lougee waitee till best boy comae i h been ed impossible that she �ti oulcl
back again!". he `would chuckle. It
And Sally would feel curiously 1 never see her Peter any more—Peter,
afraid, though she tried not to show with his brown curly hair and his
it, and was always polite in her srnfl--`•laughing eyes, his tender but strong
mouth, his heart of gold, his groat
ing
But this morning, when he spoke love for her!
Reaching the corner where Chang's
to her, she was without fear. lighted shop stood, she saw the Chitia-
""No more waiting, Chang!" she man iusitle, talking to the Swede.
laughed gaily. "Tho Ocean Star The shutters had been put up, and
comes into dock this afternoon. Peter he was ready to close the door. But
wil be home this evening for good!" Sally slipped into the shop.
"Chang welly glad!" grinned the
Chinaman. R7uchee nice boy, Peter The Chinaman was asking Svenseu
West! You llelwelly well, T see. to step down into the room beyond.
But Swensen fellow likes You welly Sally followed, determined to con -
well also. Plenty talk about you to front the Chinaman wrath his villainy
me." and to bring'hinr to justice.
"Oscar Svensen?" flashed Sally, , Through the open door, she heard
tossing. her golden curls. derisively. Chang speaking.
`Ile 'ain't in the same street with my ,yon .gottee new lot of 'snow'?" he
Peter, Chang; and he knows it. Peter. was .saying.
is coming home this time for good.
"You bet!" laughed the Swede soft -
Got eland job, and we're being mar ly, showing a large packet in a ca-
rted in a week or so. pacious. pocket. "My pal on the Ocean
"Atlee saute, my dear, Oscar Sven Star dropped it me as they docked. I
sen he swear he malty you, and not wasn't able to get a word with him,
Deter:" chuckled the Chinaman siuig so I don't know if he's got any more.
V, sending a chin of fear through Sal -
Look here! That's all right about
ly as she passed on. West, isn't. it. Your friends kept him
• • • • back in China for.. good?"
It was not by chance that Oscar "You tlustee Chang to see Mister
Svensen was waiting outside the fat- Vrestee safe and soundee!" chuckled
tory at the time when Sally would be the Chinaman greasily. allow you
making her',way back Home that malty the pretty little Sally, you
night. thinkee?"
1{e ttepped in front of her, a big . eWlien •sh•e-e got over the crying
and uncouth Ulan with fair hair and business, But .:meantime I'm •off to
cruel blue eyes- get• rid .of the 'snow' up West----"
Her mind was full of Peter—she
would have passed -hint by, but he
gripped her wrist and swung her
rental -so that she was forced to stand
beetle him in a • dark alley -way.
'You're in an almighty hurry, ain't
you?' lie sneered. "No time for me
to-night—eh?"
"Never did have, Oscar!" retorted
Sally coldly. "Let go of my wrist. I'm
wanted home to get supper ready.
Petei'll be back to -night."
"Will he?" snarled the other., "May-
be, and maybe—not. Supposing he
don't come? Supposing he's been
kept•.out in. China?"
"Kept put in China?" laughed Sal-
ly. "Don't be soft! How'd that hap-
pen, I'd like to know?"
"It has happened, anyhow. Chang's
seen to It all right."
"Chang—sceu to it? What dyer
mean, Oscar" gasped Sally, startled
by the queer certainty with which the
'Swede spoke.
"Yon remember, maybe, how the
.flay after the Ocean Star left here this
last time for China with your Peter
aboard. the police made a raid on
Chleg .> place?"
Sally nodded, The police had ex -
peeled to find a big haul of cocaine,
the drug popularly known as "snow,"
on Chang's premises. They had re-
ceived information from someone to
that effect.
But the raid had been without ef-
fect. Nothing had been found.
'Afterwards Chang had talked a
good deal about wanting to know who
had reported him to the police.
[Te had mentioned the matter to
Sally more than once,;now she came
to think of it.
'`Well," laughed the big Swede
harshly, "it was Peter who gave 'Chang
away to the police, only hipkily Chang
had been cute enough to have the
stuff hidden where the police couldn't
find it. But Chang didn't forget. 13e-
ing a Chink, he took care to revenge
himself, you can bet. -When the Ocean
Star got to China this trip, and your
Peter went on shore, he was niet by
some of Chang's friends and --that's
'the last to be heard of him. So you
might.as well make up your mind,
Sally, that you'll not see him again."
"It's a lie'."
Sally was very near to fainting, so
terrible was the fear that gripped at
her heart,.
She knew enough of Limehouse and
Chinamen to untierstand'that it Peter
had given Chang away to the police
the Chinaman was quite capable of
acting as' Sveusen had seta. -
Peter,. before leaving an this last
• trig, had. been a good deal in Changes
cofhpany, -and he had let drop,. in Sal,
ly's hearing some angry words about
the.. traftto in."snow" which was going.
on. Peter had also been very friend
ly with Detectitre-Inspector Wade at
the Li/teahouse police station. •
dally-, trembling with a sudden
' dread in the darkness of the alley,
tried' hard to persuade herself that
this story was not true.
"You're trying to frighten mei" she
!raid, wrenching her Wrlst free from
tho Swede's hold. "I'M going home,
attd if Peter ain't there already T'tn
gotrg tb the decks to Rad oral"
But Peter was not at home whoa
';Sally reedited the ]louse, and, though
her !']other told her it was early to
e dpeotHirci t � he deers gates to find
yet; oar took het
sUra1g19t`K'�iL� Ci
ur
""No you ain'tt?" demanded Sally
frenziedly, stepping, into the room.
"So you two are playing that .game,
are you? And because.mYPeter knew
of, it' you've tried to get rid of him?
But I'm going to the police. I'm going
right away to Inspector Wade at the
station—".
"You waitee'." Chang's squat figure
prevented Sally from leaving the
room, and she recoiled before his al-
mond -shaped. eyes. "What for you .go
to police, pletty little Sally?"
'To have you both put inside!"
blazed Sally, aflame with hate and de-
termination to avenge Peter. "`fo
have that beast of a Swede caught
with drugs on him!"
•""Your Peter tellee police about me
last timed ship in dock," said, the
Chinaman. "Mister Svenseu know
that for fact. Didn't you think 1f he
give Chang away, Chang going to get -
tee own back? But Chang no mur-
derer. You can't,jrovee that to police
Chang know nothing about what hap-
pen in China. Chang nice, kind, sim-
ple man. Chang velly,, fond of you.
Likee mally you himself. You go to
police if you like. Chang know noth-
ing. By time you go police, Svenseu
hidee dlugs all away. Better wait a
A 3g One in Dry Dock
Sir Thomas Beecham Explains
His Antipathy to Broadcast
Believes Radio Improves jazz, But Tones of .Gres .
Orchestras Suffer if Wafted ink Space as Ether Waves
Sir Thomas Reechant, British or- chestral or good mueleal numbest* be\
cliestral conductor, following his ve• goes to a music hell."
cent debut on the radio as guest con- The Famous Quotation
Sir Themes's• famous quotation in)
duetor of the New York Philharmonic regard to broadcast, made less than
Orchestra over WOR, explained, in etre ;gear ago, was: "TEver since the
part, his antipathy to the broadcast- beginning of the present oentury�
Mg of orchestral presentations at there has been 'committed against thea
which he officiates as conductor. unfortunate art of music every
"The broadcasting of jazz over the 'imaginable sin of commission and
wireless,". said 'Sir Thomas,"may omission, but all the previous trim
actually succeed in making it sound and stupidities pale before'tbe latest
better from the loudspeaker than It attack on to fair name—braadcastin
would sound if one were present in it by means of wireless."
person at the playing. However, or Just before hie radio debut hi
chestral selections may suffer a great America he said: "In England I have'
deal by virtue of the very complicated never played for the radio because
nature of the tones from the• • many I felt that it had a bad effect on the
radio audience. I feel that Tadiri
and widely different instruments, •'that
go to make up the great modern or- receivers are not capable of doing the
chestral organization. When one best tar the higher oompl�icated types ti
hundred or more Instruments are be- of music; Possibly radio is more fad a
ing played harmoniously the resultant vanced in America and may be mil
tones are extremely .complicated in moeof e faithfu
lly. rodu i the may have oneerts
to
structure. It follows that if they ly
are taken out of their neural medium, say after I broadcast."
the air, placed .on: a wire as electrical Sir Thomas stepped: out on thei
Particles, then broadcast into space, stage at Carnegie Hall when he made
they are bound to Rutter In quality. his radio debut without the slightest
"It is .unfortunate that orchee.tral resitancy at being placed, for the first
musics, which I ,consider the highest .time, withinsthe hearing of the largest
type of musical presentation, should audience before which he had ever,
so suffer in the transfer." waved his baton.' The presence of
Sir Thomas likened the tones heard his avowed enemy, the miorophonel
from the loudspeaker to one speak- apparently did not cause him the least
ing through an obstructing medium bit of worry, for he conducted .with
bo that the tone and Modulation of vigor an& even grasped •the micro
'the voice are rendered unnatural in phone stand between numbers.
SOME IDEA OF HOW BIG THEY REALLY 'ARE
The Giant Liner Berengaria as she looks when ashore for her winter over- quality. He likened ,the tones of During the intermission he made a
hauling. The vast size of the hull is indicated by the fact that two men work-. complicated music* niumbeaie to a brief address over the announcer's
o ladders are almost completely hidden by one blade of her stern maze of threads,
all desired by theto pro- con- ofstrument America and
the thankedthe people recelx
ing duce the
propel ..._.— _ { ductor, which are hopelessly throwntion that had been accorded him. "So
"CHAPARRAL" bout of order by their transfer from far as T am concerned—T do not
This ungallant verse appears in the their natural medium, the~ air. speak for the audience—the concert
It a slight detrimental effect is so lar has been a complete success,"1
Stanford (Kentucky) "Chaparral":— interposed," he said, "the wbole suf- he said.—(N.Y. Times.)
If traffic's choked for many blocks, tease, •
d b m er looks ""I am yet in doubt whether- the ef-
n the
ler.
handcuffed Svensen was taken off by
the inspector. w
So the vengeance of Chang ended in
a different way from that which Sally,
'safe in her lover's arms once more,
had imagined possible, a
JUST THE THING!
Lady Sup: Look
•ateptitar neckpiece
Chr'istmasl
at the nice
I got
for
There were no bakers in the New
Year Honors. list. We are passing
through a time, we might say, when
knighthood is not in flour.
Tf home do sound an u p I e
With bumper, you can bet your socks fact on radio listeners is good or bad Brit s . to ib
when the higher fortes of music are.
A woman's at the wheel
"So you want to marry my daugh-
ter?" "Yes." "Do you know much
about business?" "Not much." "Do Success of recent experiments with
you know the difference between an a fuel consisting of •mixed gasoline
asset and a liability?" "No." "Well•, and alcohol indicate that the place for
you will after you marry my daugh- the latter is in the motor, not the
motorist. ,
ter?"
P*
When taxi drivers dodge and sweat, .put on the .wireless; ire.: said, ter cora
And big cops weep, aitd pe.aple get ihis debut with the
Philharmonic
..over WOR. "I: shall have — -'
Ail set to jump, then you can bet to listen to a concert in America. The .shade of Dor2 . (liistortae may
A woman's at.the-wheel. when the. oprartttnity presents be remember. her more -oillviai iia.ttreof
car leas ns If 'there . shot, fore .•making , a serious= decision, Of Defense"" of the., ealn1 Act) utill.hapga
When a N over England. .When the lovely ly lalY,
With gears that scream;quite like a -lot course, I cannot decide for everyone, first appeared to hold up a forbidding
Of dying men, then like as not but at least I •can form my own im hand against the sale within certain
A woman'sat .-the wheel. pression of what one can hear over
hours of various .commodities ranging
A woman's voice and a woman's smile American wireless stations; and com from tripe to whisky sodas, there was
May ease dull care, and a woman's Pare it with what is heard when one a war. And, although Britons never
guile is present in the music ball"
will be slaves, they bowed to necessity
May bring us joy, but look out while I "The average Brtlsh listener,"he and submitted to the to xi easlty�
A woman's at the wheat? said, "is phlegmatic, and therefore in antes prescribed by Dora with what
h y ben sing a Tit die
' j which ti sled and not grace they
"-i
many cases a may could. But when the war
receiver w h is is an qu.. was over Dora remained and England
Dealer: As I said, you've just, re capable of intercepting and reproduc- has over since rebelled.
The matter has just been again sub-
mitted to investigation and the Dora
Committee has made "its recommenda-
tions. It would not sweep away all
the restrictions still left as war-timo
relics, but it does suggest certain con-
cessions to British love of liberty. It
would allow theatregoers to buy-
chocolates as late as the third act and
permit vendors of spirituous liquors;
within certain prescribed limits, to
sell cigarettes, but it would by no
means permit truly open shops—in .a
merchandising and not Industria,'
sense of the word. The Loudon Time
declares that the recommendations of
the Dora Committee will be hailed
with general relief," but the Saturday
Review wants complete freedom and
no compromise. "The majesty of the
severeiku British people," it declares,
"is indeed reduced to a low state 1t
we are to imagine` it purring with do -
light at these privileges."
In the campaign being waged against
Dora there are certain vague remind-
ers of the reaction to bertatin laws in
tine country. It is asserted that it is
a restriction upon personal liberttf,
that despite the pettiness of the regu-
lations imposed by the act an import-
ant prenciple is involved and' that it
results in contempt -for the law.
We wish the 'English more power in
their struggle for freedom and hope
that they may uphold Anglo-Saxon tra-
ditious relating to the right to person
al liberty with greater success than in
certain cases we have succeeded in
doing in this country.—N.Y. Times.
.y.
Natural Resources
Manitoba Free Press (Lib.) : The
Federal Government is to take up the
question of the return of the natural
resources to the ,Prairie Provinces;
Action is long -overdue off the part of
the authorities at Ottawa and in con-
nection with Manitoba 'the need for an
early decision is particularly pressing,
The Manitoba Government has asked
for arbitration. The matter of right
is so obviously on the side of the'
western prbeinoes that the Federal
Government would be well advised to
get down to business without delay.
Tho people of the West have had
enough jockeyingra'n this matter.
gained consciousness after the crash.
I'm Dr. Peter, and— Victim: Oh!
For a second you gave me a shock.
I thought you said you were St.
Peter.
minute--"
Here, to Sally's astontshment and
amazed relief, someone pushed a way
into the room from the shop beyond.
She could scarcely believe her eyes.
It was Inspector Wade himself, with
another figure behind him.
"Hullo," he said, as he saw her.
"You here, Sally? Hullo, Chang!! Has
our trap succeeded? Has the Swede
another haul on him?" flung
Svensen, with a sudden cry,
backwards, one hand held over his
capacfious pocket with its large packet
of ,cocaine, the other fumbling at his
hip. But Inspector Wade had sudden-
ly drawn a gun.
"No,' you don't!" said the inspector.
"You're trapped, Svenseu, and you
may as well make the best of it.
You've been playing a `snow' running
game for a long while,.and we've been
waiting to catch you, I've. someone
here with me who can give evidence
against you." -
Sally stared in greater amazement
than ever. •
Froin behind the inspector there ap-
peared Peter—Peter, whom she had
believed to be in China, and lost to
her for ever!
In a ntomeat she was enclosed in
his arms, kissing hint and crying with
delight.
"Bat tlt,ey told me at the dock gates
that a man named 'West had been left
behind in China!" she said, "but Sven. -
14011 told •mem-„
w
"There was another roan named
West on board," laughed Peter, "and
Svenseu believed I was to' be left be-
hind. But Svenson was wrong, He
was told that by Chang."
"But Chang 10 in with hum in this
'snow' business, T heard them talking
just now!" urged Sally.
"You're wrong,t my dear!" murmur-
ed the inspector. , "Chang has been
hand in glove with me since Svensen
tried to put him und'br suspicion and
got us to raid his place. For that is
what happened, though ho told Chang
that .your Peter had -given him away.
"And Chang • never forgives an
enemy who stabs him in the baeki
smiled the Chinaman lnscutably, rub•
bang his lean hands together as the
•
A Sport
ing the radio waves with fidelity.
However, I stn told that many lis-
teners in England have excellent re-
ceiving sets. The Briton is a great
home lover. When he arrives in the
evening he generally stays home.
This makes.for the general popularity
of wireless receiving seta in England,
which are generally found hytercept-
ing the righter musical numbers;
When a Londoner wants to hear or -
Fast Becoming Popular in Canada
THE GREATEST THftILL EVER_-•STANIyi!`l0 ON IRuurp on the famous lrisltar
A most unusual picture of. two Swedish skiers just as they took off f;) the big
orpet course near Stockholm, The lint h of tlje, Jetts) will land there, 1„GO feet beloW.
Try It, Men,
One woman'•wi•ites that her husband
is a,model because when he 1e wrong,
he says so in plain English instead of
letting behind .a bunch of
f roses or a
horde
box of candy.—Woman's
Com-
panion.
Incandescent Ideas.
Soinetitesee an idea is so brilliant
that it makes ,people blink and tl)d
originator is penalized ft7r dot dim,
ming his headlights...--I"'arm & lira+
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