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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-01-11, Page 2Outstanding Quality 707 Fresh from the Gardens • ...),*•.-rnsisrm•—uat YkilEE ANHSEELAUCHSP by Sax Rohmer SYNOPSIS. Matt Kearney sees his sister Eileen aboard the Wallaroo, bound for Colombo. 111een tells Jack Rattray, chief officer, that she is upset by the sight of a re- IMIsive-looking man. William Dawson Haig, who had also said goodbye to Bileen, meets Matt and tells him that he had traced a, shipment of opium to the WaIlaroo, but It was unloaded be- -fore detectives were able to search the. ship. Dawson is recalled to Scotland Yard and asks Kearney to search King's Warehouse, nixie"' adjoins ,To Lung's place, whom they suspect. As they are leaving Matt ,picks up a notebook, and is surprised at the presence of a Wo - Man, who quickly disappears. As Haig endeavors to translate entries made in Yu'an Hee See's notebook a monstrous creature snatches it and escapes. Yu'an and his woman companion get throug1. the police cordon with the opium and escape in a motor cruiser. CHAPTER VII.—(Cont'd.) Eileen, a light sleeper, was awak- ened by the revolutions of the screw of the Wallaroo. She sat up with a start. Dim grey light was shining through the slatted shutter over her stateroom window. She jumped out of bed and peeped out across a de- serted deck. That dreary panorama of the Lower Thames was slipping by, a drab and desolate picture. She watched fall a while, then clos- ed the shutter with a bang and turn- ed up the light. The expensive -looking box of cig- arettes which Dawson Haig had brought lay in a net rack above her head: Eileen took out a cigarette and lighted it. She sat on the side of the bed, hands clasping one upraised knee. The panic of waking alone in that grey morning had left her. As she sat there smoking and reflecting upon a hundred and one things, but chiefly -upon the problem of whether she should write to Dawson Haig as she had said she would do, or whether she should wait to see if there was a letter from him at Marseilles, she came aware of something Someone—someone who had a regu- lar, heavy tread—was pacing the deck on- which her stateroom opened. As this promenader passed and repassed, tale experienced a rising curiosity re- specting his identity. No doubt a felow passenger, unreasonably awak- ened, as she had been, and who, des- pairing of further sleep, had gone out for a walk. Presently she heard his returning fontsteps approaching from the after end. She turned. off the light, pushed. the shutter aeide and peeped out. She saw the promenader—a big man im a double-breasted blueeover- coat; a man who wore a bowler hat, and who glanced aside with what seemed like definite curiosity as he passed her door. He was fresh com- plexioned and had blue eyes—very friendly -looking blue eyes. There was nothing in the least de- gree alarming about him, except that he seemed to be interested in her cabin. Also she had not noticed him among the passengers who had cone aboard at the King George Dock. Eileen reclosed the shutter and turned in. And Detective Sergeant Durham, noting that her light had gone out again, passed along B deck to another cabin which interested him. He stood near the porthole filling his pipe, and then moved on. Opening a heavy door he stepped into a cross alleyway, then turned left into another running forward and aft, Peering curiously at the door of one stateroom, which was on the hook, he proceeded further to another. Some passengers on the night MSS - Channel steamer from Boulogne no- ticed a grey motor cruiser which passed them in a dead calm sea about halfway across. Her extraordinary turn of ;speed excited their curiosity. They must have been even more intrigued could they have witnessed the arrival of this mysterious craft off the French coast. Stealing through the have of a grey and cheerless dawn, the mystery boat edged in, point by point, to where a lazy sWell played idly upon a shelving heath beyond which lay desolate sand dunes stretching in the direction of Boulogne. Stern on to the flat beach they lay, showing no lights, their propellers turning lazily. Presently a boat came out from a shadowy inlet, the en- trance to which was invisible in that half light, Two rowers labored at the oars, and very shortly drew along- side. Those live small square elkKeS which had come from Lin -rehouse were tram - tamed from the motor cruiser to the boat. Orange Blossom tilos stepped glagerly into the little traft, earpaajt.. ed by Yu'an Hee See, who followed her. Finally came Jo Lung. As the boat swiing.away: "You will receive your orders to- morrow," said Yu'an Hee See rapidly in Chineee. A yellow face surmounted by a woolen'cap peered down from the deck of the cruiser, and: "I hear, ray lord," the man replied, and disappeared. There came a whirr of powerful engines, a deep forceful churning, and the grey streak shot away southwest, swiftly to be swallowed up in the morning mist. The two rowers bent to their oars. CHAPTER VIII. Some distance up the little creek, flanked by coarse sea g-rass, a landing stage projected, and beyond might be seen the roof of a wooden hut. At this landing stage the party dis- embarked. Yu'an Hee See stood staring out through the open doorway of the hut until the men had carried in all five boxes. "They must stay here for •the present," he said, pointing to the floor. A hoard wee quickly prized up by one of the two. Its removal enabled a larger section of the floor, a con- cealed trap, to be lifted. Rough wooden steps led down into darkness. The Chinaman watched the box's be- ing stowed in their hidden cellar. When the work was completed and all traces of this hiding place ,son- cealed -ogain• "Come," he said to the Milian, "we have no time to delay." Perhaps half•a mile away, guarded by a clump of funeral trees, a small farm might be seen. The woman was ill -shod for the journey, and clung to her companion's arm silent and fret- ful. J'o Lung walked behind. The farm appeared to be deserted. They crossed a weed -grown courtyard. Jo Lung unlocked the door of a broken- down barn. There, a vision of blue enamel and gleaming silver plate, appeared a large French touring ear, Jo Lung disappeared into the gloomy shadows of the 1 --)ate, while the others made themselves comfortable in the car, the Chinaman solicitiously spreading a fur rug over his companion's knees. When Jo Lung returned, he wore a blue and whte uniform with a smart, peaked cap. "Paris," said Wan Hee See— "straight to headquarterS." "The fact remains," said Dawson Haig, "there isn't a scrap of evid.ence to connect the establishment of our friend Jo Lung with the murder! If we could have produced the notebook —it might have proved to be a hang- ing matter for somebody. But, legally, it's valueless as evidence." Kearney nodded. They had just fin- ished lunch in a Strand grillroom. He sipped his coffee thoughtfully. Two days had elapsed, and little or nothing had been done. Dawson Haig lit another cig- ette. "That it contained valuable clues is proved by the steps taken te recover it. But these clues, or what you and I can remember of them, frankly convey very little. In the next place, I certainly had a gliinpse —a horrifying glimpse—in your rooms, of the murderer of Norwich. But, as you have pointed out, my de- scription might be that of anything from a ghost to a wild animal!" Kearney laughed. "That's true enough," he admitted. "You have seen the medical report on Norwich? The doctors agreed that he was bitten by long, curved teeth. So far, ao one has been able to iden- tify an animal possessing quite such teeth "In short, the eetablishment of Jo fain, with valuable property stolen from all over the world, with its so- called burglar alarms, and other novel features, most carry on as usual en- tirely undisttaled by Scotland Yawl!" He looked up, his keen blue eyes gleaming eavagely across the little table. "In spite of the fact that one of the most dangerous eriminals in the world used the place as his London base, ani that some hired killer of his murdered one of the best men in my department only two nights ago! Not to add that a consignment of drugs, which may have been worth several thousaud pounds, was lying about there under our very resod— . but, you may take my. word for it, is there no longer!" "Thet horrible laughter I Waned would certainly point to the feet that Yu'an. Hee See in perm was at Lungs en on Friday night." • "I'm almost certain," Haig snapped, "he was on the dock whezi the crates were removed from the WaIlaroal-He was the fur -coated man who slipped through the gates just before I spoke to you! 'That was his car ahead of us —but we failed to overtake him in the fog. He drove straighato Jo leunger He sighed, knocking ash from Ins cigarette. "The remote possibility' that he may himself be joining the ship at Mar- seilles, I leave dealt with, as you know. Durham is on board. Butetny first message was admittedly not en- couraging. It merely consisted of the words 'Nothing to report.' I take this to erman that there is nothing suspicious about the occupants of .the cabins mentioned in those mysterious notes—" "One of which is Eileen's!" "I know," Haig groaned, "and I can't get that fact out of my mind. I have checked the curious entry. re- lating to 'Suleiman Bey's.' Paris no- tified us this morning that there is a certain restaurant of that name near the Moulin Galette. It's never come under police notice, however. All the same, Pm going across this ottoman. I should like to lotate Jo Lung. The inquiry in' at a standstill here...." (To be continued.) Heating Plant Mad summers of a million years ago Are bringing me the mildness Of this Should be Flattering room; # Evenng make-up should be flatten - I tend the radiator as a groom ing. A light, inconspicuous, easy -to - Might swawt, a dinosaur, immense and apply make-up is perfectly all right lo for the street, bub it will look like At work. In flame -lit chambers far nothing at all under artificial lights. below Then you need a little more color and Black oil and coal from some earth- a bit of eye make-up which. you - hidden tomb The Good -Night Kiss Mrs, Nestor Noel Have you ever heard mothers say; "As yon were naughty to -day I will not kiss you good night?" Some mothers do say this. The lit- tle child who probably has forgotten how she Was naughty may ory herself to sleep and thus lose much of the good which a eight's rest should bring. Why keep up an unpleasantness with a child over night? The child Might have been suffering from $0.1210 child- ish indisposition, There is always a reason for a child's naughtiness. Per- haps we have been feeding her too highly concentrated food. Perhaps we have upset her during a meal. Per- haps some playmate annoyed her, There are so many possible reasons. We, ourselves, may be one of them! Were we feeling our best? Some days we overlook a great deal more than we do on other days. Whosesoever the fault, bedtime should be a time of peace, a time when Mother forgets the little hurts and grievances of the day. Quickly the child who feels your loving confi- dence will resolve never to offend again. This is a chance to show your understanding, that wonderful under- standing about which mothers boast! To dwell on an injury Inflicted by a friend is bad enough; to harbor ill will because of:the peccadilloes of a, little child is cruel. It is bad for the child's health, bad or its temper, bad for its character. Mothers should forgi4 and forget. I have heard some say: "Of course I have forgiven my little girl, but she must be taught to remember.' If so, try some other time than bedtime for reminding her. To -morrow will be a new beginning, You do not want your °Mid to be bur- dened with the wrongs of yesterday or to -day. Do we like to sleep under a heavy cloud, ourselves? Do you. remember ever crying yourself to sleep? If so, never subject your child to the same misery. It is a real tragedy to a chilcl to have to go to sleep without a moth- er's good -night kiss.—Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th Street, Ne* York City. These articles are appearing weekly in our columns. Evening Make Up svotildift ordinarily use on the street Are giving up the *tin-strettg4or in the office. locked in gloom, From lost and splendid summers none ingatabIe and stand so that it shines may know. on your face while you are making The wind and rain are battering out- uP. side Clean your face and neck with While here I sit, seeurely walled and cleansing cream and skin tonic be - Have a good light over your dress - glassed, And warmed. by long -gone summers golden -skied And dead. The buried, years are dim and vast, And though I hunt the future in my pride Both brain and body feed upon the past, —Gerald Raftery in the New York Sun. Increased Bacon Exports Discussed Guelph, Ont.—Opportunity for laaa ger bacon exports to the United Kingdom provided the central theme for discussion at a meeting of Gov - eminent agricultural representatives of Ontario at the Ontario Agrintlittirai College. It was stated that the Gov- ernment was anxious to have farlal- ers inerease bacon production for the British market and the eepresenta- tires were asked to carry the mes- sage to farmers with whom they come into close contact. fore you get into your bath. If your skin feels at all dry, put on a nour- ishing cream and leave it on until you step out of the tub. Be sure and re- move every trace of it before you use a foundation lotion, A good foundation lotion is a ne- cessity both at night and during the day. It's a good idea to have. one which =Mlles the tone of your skin and be sure and put it on your neck as well as your face. After the foundation, blend on either liquid or cream rouge. See. that there are no rough edges and that it is not placed too Iow on your cheeks. Powder follows the rouge and then an eye -shadow. Be careful not to get powder on your eye -lids. Brush your brows and lashes after you have powdered. Eye shadow should not extend out on the cheek bones. Mascara and eyebrow pencil, if you use thein, are the next to the last steps. Lipstick is the final one. Truth never dodges, eo matter who throws nod at it. Another Hollywood Romance 1'170(1(1111g bells and Christmas bels played a etiorne—kicardo Cortez, popular With the flicker. fans, took the plunge again, this time With Mre. Christine Connlff Leo, New York soolety matron, • The Royal Bank of Canada General Statement • 30th Nov ember, 033 LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid up. • •,4 q ••• 6.0 4,6 ••• T.* Reeerve Fund, , wr 1.0••• •.• 6.18 ••• ••• 06: eee,000,000,00 Balance of Profile carried forward ....... 1,383,604.18 821,383,604.18 Dividends Unclaimed 12,745.75 Dividend No. 185 (at 8% per annum), payeble 1st December, 1933, . . . ... .. . • 7'00,000.00 Deposits not bearing Interest $1 Deposits bearing interest, including in term t accru,ed to date Of Statement 4 Balances due to other Banks in Canada Balances due to Banks and Banking Correspondents elsewhere than In Canada ...... Notes of the Bank In Advances under the Finance Act •NO•WI Dille Payable f•s000 Liabilities not included An the foregoing' Letters of Credit Outstanding ....... ASSETS Gold and Subsidiary Coin on hand Dominion Notes on hand „ , . , .. . ................ Deposit in the Central Gold Reserves United States and other Foreign Currencies 28,829,494,46 50,463,265.41 841,498,81 20,313,902,13 $35,000,000.00 22,094,349.93 S57,096,3119.98 600,448,360.$1 29,349,801.14 20,0011,900.00 255,089.91 57,985,74 22,052,888.91 8729,360,476.44 814,117,560.37 48,922,334.75 3,000,000.00 21,713,830.99 Notes of other Canadian Banks........................... Cheques on other Banks . ... , ..... Balances due by other Banks itiCanada Balances due by Banks and Banking Correspondents elsewhere than In Canada Dominion and Provincial Government Securities (not exceeding market value) Canadian Municipal Smithies and British, Foreign and Colonial Public Securities other than Cana- dian (not exceeding market value) Railway and other Bonds.Debentures and Stocks (not exceeding market value) Call and Short (not: exceeding thirty days) Loans in Canada on Bonds, Debentures and Stocks and other Securities of a sufficient marketable value to cover Call and Short (not exceeding thirty days) Loans else- where than in Canada on Bonds, Debentures and Stocks and other Securities of a sufficient mar- ketable value to cover . , • • • • • • ........ Current Loans and Discounts in Canada (less rebate of interest) after making 1 ull provision for all bad and doubtful debts 5216,849,534.86 • Current Loans an& Discounts elsewhere than in Canada (less rebate of interest) after making full provision for all bad and doubtful debts 95,237,013.78 Non-CurrentLoans, after providing for estimated loss 4,032,843.75 316,119,392.39 Bank Premises at not more than cost, less amounts written off 17,015,987.02 Real Estate other than Bank Premises a .. 2,424,277.85 Mortgages on Real Estate sold by the Bank a .. 883,009.27 Liabilities of Customers under Letters of Credit as per contra ...... 22,052,888.91 Shares of and Loans to Controlled Companies 6,328,039.58 Deposit with the Minister for the purposes of the Circulation Fund, 1,500,000.00 Other Assets not included in the foregoing.. , a, . • ........ -........... . • , 464,035.98 81,811,091.43 18,384,822,88 2,814,09 49,746,460.79 587,754,426.0 69,945,189.18 106,850,615.53 24,198,073.90 11,970,90542 28,771,273.71 32,981,561.27 $362,471,645.4 0729,260,476.44 atomemoommamakum•11 NOTE—The "Loyal Bank of Canada (France) has been incorporated under the laws of Prance to conduct the,busleem of the Bank in Paris, and the assets and ilabilitiee of The Royal Bank of Canada (France) are included in the above General Statement. R. S. HOLT, President AUDITORS' CERTIFICATE To TIIII SHAREHOLbaltS, Tn ROYAL BANS OP CANADA: We have examined the above Statement of Liabilities and Asset s at 80th November, 1083, with the books and accounts ot The Royal Bank of Canada, at Head Office and with the certified • returns front the branches. Wo have verified the cash and securities at Head Office at the close of the 13ank's fiscal year, and during the year we counted the cash and examined the securities at neveml of the important brancbei. We have obtained all the information and explanations that we have required, and in our *pinion the trarmaetions of the Bank, which have come under our notice, have been within the powers of the Bank. The 4bove sbstement is in our opinion properly drawn up so as to disclose the true condition of the Bank as at 30th November, 1938, and it is as shown by the books of tiaa Bank sitar giving effect to the transfer by the Directors of $15,000,000 from Reserve Fund to reimbiuse the inner reserves of the Bank and to provide reserves which theyaconsidea ade- quate for future contingencies. A. B. BRODIE, C.L. of Price. Waterhouse & Co. JAS. G. 11035, G.A. -Auditors, Montreal, Camels, 28rd Deeember, 1983. of P. S. ROSS & bOWS. PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT Balance of Pratt and Loss Account, 30th Noyember, 1933., 81,166,954.95 Profit* for 'the year ended 311th Noveraber, 1933......„. 3,901,649.23 $5,068,404.11 M. W. WILSON, General Manager APPROPRIATED AS FOLLOWS: Dividend No. 183 at 10 per annum Dividend No. 183 At 8 per annual . 6 6.6 •••••• St. ••• •••. Dividend No. 184 at 8 per annum Dividend No. 185 at 8 per SUMUM • • ••• ••• 11.60 1.6 060 1••• • Contribution to Officers' Pension Fund . Appropriation for Bank Premises... ......... ••••••••• Reserve for Dominion Government Taxes ,......... Balance of Profit and Loss carried forward ..... 81. 8, HOLT, President Montreal, 23rd December, 19.3. Claims Newsprint Production Had Origin at Phelpston That the first newsprint manufac- tured from pulpwood had its origin at Phelpston, Simase County, is the claim of a correspondent writing on the Homemakers' Page of a, recent, issue of The Globe, "You all know that newsprint is manufactured from pulpwood (spruce), but this is not an old process. In the early part of 1875, A. 3. Phelps of the N. & A. J. Phelps Lumber Company, eperating a large mill at Phelpston, Flos Township,. County of Simeoe, received from John Riordan, who owned and operated the Lincoln Paper MI1L at Merritton, an order -for Orin carload (8,000 -feet) of spruce for experimental purposes, The late Matthew Lawson Jr. and William Js Patton, who' now resides In Hamilton, felled the trees and cut ,them into logs. As the G.T.R. would not carry round timber, the logs were taken to the mill, where sips were sawed off, after which they were hauled to Barrie, loaded and shipped on the old Northern Railway to Tor. onto and transhipped from there to Merritton on the Grand Trunk, "Bxperimentsi proved that spruce could be bleached and manufactured into newsprint, and that was the first, carload cf spruce (c.rr any woo) used far .the purpese. Since then it has been found that poplar, basswood and other woods can also be nand. Prier to 1875, pine (sawdust and shavings) wore used with rags, ,felt, rope, etc., in • the manufacture of wrapping paper, which was not like the line quality papers used for this Meese nowadave. • ' "In the book", "Pioneers of S:incoe County", "you may read of A. 3. Phelps, but you'll not read or the car- load of spruce,' 7 got the story from my father, W. J. Patton, who is still halo and hearty, although November 20 marked the seventy;.eighth stone -of his lifes journey." ••••••••••••••.....• ••••••,•••••••, SHYNESS IS EXCUSABLE, Lost: Female, black head, lag black ears, bluish body; speelded legs; very shy. Name Helee.—Spokane (WW1.) paper. 4875,00440 700,000.00 700,000.00 700,000,00 32,975,000.00 200,000.00 200,000.00 310,000.04 1,383,604.18 04684044g ••••••••••••••••••mromma• K. W. WILSON, General Manager "Does your dog ever growl?" "No. He knows that my_husband has him hopelesslyoutclassed." Gems from Life's Scrap—book Doubt "Never do anything concerning the rectitude of which you have a doubt.". —Pliny, Junior, "Human knowledge is the parent of doubt."—Lard Grenville. "When you doubt, abstain,"--:-Zoro- aster. "Let neither fear nor doubt - Ceeeie shadow your clear sense and calm trust."—Mary Baker Eddy. "Doubt indulged becomes doubt real. ized."—F. R. Haxergal. "Doubt is the accomplice of tyrate ny."—Ami el. "Doubt is hell in the human scut"— Mme. de Gasparin. Society is well governed when tha people obey the magistrates, and 1:N magistrates the laws,—.Solon. take a bracing, sparkling glass of ANDREWS LIVER. SALT23 ..TQ PICK YOU UP rith%35, ,bd Cpc • fiC1A, LarAe, kaitfe, 75, ISSUE No. 1—'34 alliatiossaia