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SYNOPS,IS,
Matt Kearney sees his sister Eileen
aboard the Waname, bound for Colombo.
13iiteen tells Jack Itattray, chief officer,
that she is upset by the sight of a re-
nulsive looking man. William Dawson
Haig, who had also said goodbye to
Eileen,
tsiefluttthe
adrad o shipment oopiumothe
Wallaroo,
but it was unloaded before de-
tectives were able to search the ship.
Dawson is recalled to Scotland Yard and
asks Kearney to search Ding's ware-
house, which adjoins Jo Lung's place,
whom they suspect. As they are leaving
Matt picks up a notebook and is sur-
prised at the presence of a woman, who
quickly disappears. As Haig endeavors
to translate entries in •X'u'an Hee See's
notejibok a monstrous creature snatches
It and escapes. Yu'an and his woman
companion get through the police cor-
don with the opium and escape in a
motor cruiser to France. An entry in
the notebook mentioned the Restaurant
Suleiman Bey in Paris. Haig decides to
Make the trip.
CHAPTER VIII.
The Restaurant Suleiman Bey, ad-
joining the Place Pigaile, in contrast
k its apparently more prosperous
neighbors, seemed to be a quiet little
place, with sleepy, curtained windows
and a glimpse, when the door was
open, of a narrowed counter where
Turkish coffee might be purchased by
weight. Beyond was a curtained door.
The night was wet and patrons
were 'few, but presently two men en-
tered. The one who led, a gaunt,
pale -faced fellow, had something of
the appearance of the traditional art-
ist, notably a shock of greying dark
hair, a small mustache and a strag-
gly beard.
Since real painters have long since
fled that district, his'appearance was
no doubt illusory.
He was accompanied by a man who
might have passed for an. American
tourist. When, on entering, he re-
moved his soft black hat, he revealed
a closely cropped head of dark brown
hair crowning a. clean-shaven trucu-
lent face. He was buttoned up in a
white waterproof, and keen bine eyes
were visible through the lenses of tor-
toise -shell -rimmed spectacles.
Apparently the artistic gentleman
knew the place well, for he nodded to
a stout lady who stood behind the
eounter, raised the curtain in the
opening beyond, and the two entered
a long, rectangular room.
Faded plush seats lined one wall,
broken by a buffet and a draped open-
ing. A number of tables were cover-
ed with check cloths, badly holed
where cigarettes had been laid upon
thein; and a little stair at the further
end led up to a curtained doorway.
Only six customers were present:
four of these around a table near the
staircase, two upon the settee. The
new arrivals ordered coffee.
Their order was taken by an. Arab
waiter, very dirtily dressed. As he
departed, both stared without appar-
ent signs of interest, about the room.
The group of four by the staircase,
three men and a woman, might read-
ily be classified, in view of the repu-
tation of the Restaurant Suleiman
Bey as a meeting place )f advanced
Communists. One of the men was
speaking in a low voice, with great
earnestness. His audience of three
hung upon his words.
The two men seated on the settee
were of a different type. One, a slight,
dark -faced fellow, ]night have been a
Portuguese. He constantly glanced,
with uneasy curiosity in the direction
of the stairway, The other, one table
removed, was a thickset, debauched -
looking man of fifty -odd, smoking a
dirty old briar pipe and leaning back,
his hands thrust in his shabby over-
coat, who stared straight before him
at the opposite wall.
He had sandy hair and watery blue
eyes. Ile might have been Dutch—or
German, although, as a matterof fact,
he was Scotch. He badly needed a
shave; and except that he constant-
ly ordered more brandy, his presence
in such a spot seemed unaccountable.
"Nothing seems to be happening,"
said Dawson Haig. 1
"Nothing ever does happen here,"
replied M. Ballon of the Surete. "Plots
are made and perhaps carried out,
but as they are never carried out in
Pario—" he shrugged—"what do we
etre?" s
The big Scot Crew one gnarled hand
out of his pocket and banged it on
the table before him. The Arab wait-
er shuffled across from some hiding
place.
"Brandy I"
The Arab retired, bet almost imme-
diately returned. And as he set more
cognac before the customer, he drop-
ped a green siip, not unlike a cloak-
room check or bus ticket, upon the
table.
Instantly the .oig man grabbed it,
drank his brandy at a gulp, and cross-
ed to the stairs. He mounted, un-
steadily, drew the curtain aside, and
disappeared.
"Hello!" said Dawson Haig. "Some-
thing has happened. Did you notice?"
"Yes." His companion nodded.
"But it is, I think, as• I have said.
There are other rooms here; no doubt
some company of fools is meeting in
one of them, to discuss the overthrow
of the present Russian misgovern-
ment, or something of that kind. Our
brandy -swilling friend has been sum-
moned to join them."
"Possibly," the other murmured.
"But I should have like a glimpse of
that green slip."
Even as he spoke, the Portuguese
clapped his hands, ordering the waiter
to bring eiagrettes. And when this
order was executed—a green slip
accompanied the little blue -wrapped
packet.
The customer visibly started at it,
stood up, a small, lithe figure, and
started up the stairs as the other had
done. -
"H'm," said Dawson Haig. "A sec-
ond chance missed. I would give a
year's pay, M. Ballon, to be present
at this meeting you speak of."
CHAPTER IX.
The meeting to which Dawson Haig
referred was taking place in a large
room two floors above. Heavy cur-
tains were drawn over windows com-
manding the side street, and on set-
tees which lined the walls a singular
company was assembled.
A case of champagne had been open-
ed in the centre of the floor, and the
carpet was littered with straw and
pink wrapping paper, Upon a big,
marble -topped table were bottles of
whisky, brandy, gin, absinthe and even.
Arak. Boxes of excellent cigars lay
upon many of the smaller tables plac-
ed before the settees. The air was
grey, almost unbreathable, with to-
bacco smoke. Out of those thick glass
mugs_ usually employed to serve lager,
the guests were engaged in demolish-
ing the various, beverages provided.
As the big man entered, pipe in
hand, and stood, swaying and looking
about him with bleared eyes, wild yells
of greeting went up. The newcomer
seemed bemused by his riotous recep-
tion. One could almost watch the
slow workings of that fuddled brain.
Then, evidently having discovered the
person Ile was seeking, he picked his
way through champagne bottles to a
narrow settee placed between two
curtained windows, on which one man
lounged in supercilious isolation.
This was a spiucely groomed Egyp-
tian, his sleek black hair growing very
low upon his cheek -bones. With his
clean-shaven, olive face and very white
teeth, he was a langourously hand-
some figure. A scarlet tarbush lay
beside him where he reclined support-
ed by many silken cushions, and there
was an open attache case upon the
floor, apparently full of papers.
"Hello, MacIles," he said, greeting
the newcomer in English, whoch he
spoke with facility but a slight accent.
"You are late. You and one other
are last to report."
Watching the heavy lip twitching
under a greying mustache, he thought,
"Only desperation has made you re-
port at aIl."
"I had hell's work and a'," was the
reply. "I hadna a bean. I've had bite
nor sup since yesterday morning, and
I walked here a' the way from Calais."
"You had a well lined purse the
ant time We met, Mac, and it's your
own fault if it's empty now, But—"
the Egyptian smiled meaningly into
the debauched face—"it will soon be
well filled again. Show me your pa-
pers, and 7 will see that you have
upper."
The Scotsman laid a number of pa-
pers, including a greasy passport,
upon a little table.
"There you are, chief."
The man addre,]sed as chief glanced
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through the documents and the pass-
ports; then, from the atteche,case he
took a long envelope. Ile removed the
contents with delicate yellow fingers,
enumerating them as he did so.
"One—fifty pouz.ds English," he
said, "Two --a week's pay in ad-
vance. Three—your ticket for Trieste;
you leave in the morning', Four—ca-
bin accommodation Trieste to Alex-
andria, Five—in the small envelope
—the name and address of the man
from whom you will take further in-
structions when you get there."
He replaced them all, adding those
papers which MacIles had given him,
then, deftly slipped an elastic band
around the envelope and passport,
handing it back with a smile.
"And now go to it, Mac," he said.
"It's your last night. From now on
you are under orders...."
But his keen brain was busy, and
he was thinking: "This man is effi-
cient but dangerous. I must be pre-
pared to replace him,"
MacIles turned and looked about
the smoke -laden room. It would have.
been difficult to find within any sim-
ilar area a more complete set of ruf-
fians. Their nationalities were var-
ious. But most of them had at least
one quality in common—they were
drunk.
In the matter of villainy there was
little to choose between them: There
was a huge, cross-eyed Swede, bearded
nearly to the eyes, who apparently
possessed no name other than Red; an
:'talian with sly sidelong eyes'answer-
ing without resentment to the name of
the Wasp; a Chinaman with an evil
scarred and pock -marked face; this
creature was apparently known as
One Eye. Other ruffians there were,
black, white, yellow and brown, drain-
ing tankards of champagne and shout-
ing coarse personalities.
"You look rotten, Mac, you do!"
shouted a coarse voice. "come and
feed your face, old cock. Uncle Tom
wants to talk to you."
(To be continued)
High Water at London
This is the wave that rang from shore
to shore
With alien battle cries; this is the
wave
That stood at Caesar's prow, that
scornful gave
Echo to Norman shout and Danish
oar;
This swerving flood in many old.
nights has drawn.
Seaward with such rare freight of
dreams and fame.
Valor, and high adventure without a
name,
That even today its foam runs
dawn.
fire at
Ay, even today its tides go burnished
bright -
With pomp of kings and beauty of
watching queens,
Glint of old armor, arrogari flags
unfurled; r
And never this hour comes brimming
• to its height
But, slow and deep, an answering
pulse begins
In all the lonely waters of the world.
—Nancy Byrd Turner, The Atlan-
tic Monthly,
News Oddities
In Timor-Laut (East Indies) women
are compelled by law to keep one eye
closed in the presence of men.
Aeroplanes may be pawned at the
State Pawnshop in Paris, but not bal-
loons, as these have a habit of burst-
ing before the pledge is redeemed.
From a prison camp, where ,enemy
neutrals were interned during the
war, Kapuskasing, in Ontario, Canada,
has grown into a thriving town, boast-
ing a theatre and a £50,000 hotel,.
Fakirs figure prominently in many
native football matches in India, work-
ing their spells to confound the oppos-
ing side. A pot of Jadu (magic) was
recently unearthed from a playing
field in Lahore,
Submarine gardens, Bermuda's lat-
est attraction, may be '-sewed through
glass -bottomed boats, or by donning
a diver's outfit and exploring their
wonderful fauna and ficra in the com-
pany of a guide.
Whale poaching has become so ram
pant in the Antarctic that the Govern-
ment of the Falkland Islands has ap-
pealed to the League of Nations. The
greater part of the islands' revenue is
derived from a is. fid, tax per barrel
of whole oil,
A BaIIarat woman was married at
eleven, ,divorced at thirteen, remar-
ried at fourteen. She was a widow 'at
sixteen, harried again at seventeen,
at eighteen her husband ran away
from her, At nineteen she committed
suicide because she said she had been
disappointed in love and bad 'found
life doll.
A .sea cucumber has just arrived at
the London Zoo from Madeira, This
creature ensnares small fish, after the
fashion of a spider, by casting out
threads front its body.
Find Hole in 10,000 -Ft. Peak
For years Western mountaineers
have talked about a. "hole in a moult
tain," They said the passage was
large enough to accommodate a load
of bay, and pilots for 'one of the air
lines recently substantiated the re-
ports, The flyers identifiied the tiinmel
as a in Needle Rock, a Oak about
10,000 feet high, --popular Mere mil es
Magazine,
Bones which were, according to ex-
pert opinion, used as skates about
5,000 years ago have been found .div-
ing excavations in Slovakia,
Orange Pekoe
.blend
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Fresh from
the Gardens
British rational
Council of Women
Conference Discusses Ways
and Means to. Make
Things Easier for Girl
Who Takes Up
Nursing
"We must do something to make
things easier for 'the girl who takes
up nursing but cannot stand the
racket of her first year as a proba-
tioneer," said 'Mrs. Oliver Strachey,
speaking at the conference of the
British National Council of Women,
at Torquay.
She was a member of the "Lancet"
Commission, which inquired recently
into conditions in the nursing pro-
fession, and was speaking after Mrs.
Keynes, the Mayor of Cambridge, had
urged that it should be possible for
candidates for nursing to take part
in a preliminary State examination
before leaving a secondary ,school.
Mrs, Strachey said the commission
found that in many places proba-
tioner nurses were so miserably
overworked that during their first
year of training they broke down.
"We found," she added, "that one
fifth of the girls who go into nursing
break down under the strain, and
have to leave the profession during
their first year.
"Another serious factor which
keeps girls out of the profession is
the -gap which exists between the time
when they leave school and the
time when they are old enougb. to
enter the hospital.
"Nursing is losing thousands of
suitable girls because of this age
gap,,'
One wee of filling the gap, Mrs.
Strachey 3a agu:ea:'i was to allow
girls to prepare for the theoretical
part of the State examination before
they went into hospital.
Married Women
The conference passed a resolution
deolaring that regulations having the
effect of dismissing women from em-
ployment on marriage were unjust,
uneconomic, and contrary to public
interest.
"le Germany," said Mrs. Eva Har -
tree, of Cambridge, "150,000 young
women have been bribed to leave in-
dustry to get married, We claim,
however, that it is a fundamental
right of every individual, regardless
of sex,, to sell his or her labor for
gain.
"It is a private matter between a
woman and her husband how they
arrange their lives. It is no business
of the employer.
"The only business of the employ-
er is whether the work is well done
and what payment should be given
for it."
Mrs. Hartree declared
to allow married women
putting an obstacle in
marriage.
"To .make a woman give up her
work on marriage Ieads. to many
secret marriages and even to a great
number of immoral - marriages—of
people living together," she said.
"We all know that young people are
the worse for having to wait to get
married. It has a shocking effect
on young people that they cannot
surly with the thirties."
that refusal
to work was
the way of
Named Physiopolis
Paris.—The first child to be born in
the Paris nudist colony on an island
in the River Seine arrived recently
and was christened Physiopolis.
The infant, an 8 -pound boy, Was
the first Child to be born on the is-
land in 200 years, records showed.
Tho parents are a French professor
and his wife, prominent nudists, who
decided 'to have a 100 per cent. nud-
ist birth as a scientific experiment.
Despite the fact that this so fa,r
has been the coldest winter in years,
the mother took a daily swim in the
Seine and walked five miles around
the island, completely . nude.
Through Dr. Gaston Druville, nud-
ist leader, the mother announced:
"I did this for all the women of
the world, to prove that child birth
is just a normal function, Without
danger, if we lead a natural life:'
Both mother and child were report-
ed doing well,
Hold Wordless Wedding
San Francisco,—A wordless wedding
ceremony was performed here when
Judge E. P. Morgan married Miss Mil-
dred K. Quadra, of San Francisco, and
Everett Yearger, of San Jose, Both
are deaf mutes. Miss Iiclna Edwards
acted as interpreter,
ISSUE No, •2----234
Relaxation Necessary
To Healthful Sleep
Relaxation is absolutely necessary
to healthful, restful sleep.
When you get into bed,. try to relax
completely before sleep conies to you.
One of the best ways to erase lines
and wrinkles around the eyes and
mouth is to get eight hours of restful
sleep.
Lie flat on your back, without a
pillow, with your arms at your sides.
Breath deeply but do not count your
breath or be conscious of it. If wor-
ries of the day persist in coming into
your mind, think of yards and yards
of black velvet or some other soft,
rich but dark fabric. You'll find that
relation will come sooner that way.
Counting sheep makes• ;your mind
work --and that's exactly what you
don't want to do.
The woman who works very hard
or who has many things on her mind
should try to get a few minutes com-
plete relaxation in the middle of the
day. A two-hour nap isn't necessary,
but twenty or thirty minutes will do
wonders for her nerves. The thing
to do, of course, is to . select a quiet
lunching spot and go there alone.
Don't try to talk or think. Simply eat
a light, well-balanced ]meal and then
lie down somewhere for a little while.
If it's impossible to stretch out on
a bed, try and find a comfortable
chair in a secluded corner and relax.
Close your eyes. You'll be surprised
how much easier the afternoon's work
will be.
Protect Child's Feet;
And Legs from Cold
Some mothers muffle their children
almost up to the eyes in cold wea-
ther; others don't give theca enough
to, wear in the belief that they will
become hardy.
Now there's a happy medium. The
parts that matter most are the ex-
tremities. Hands and feet, legs and
arms must be protected. ,
You often see children with their
chests swathed in heavy clothing, a
thick scarf wound round their necks
and not nearly enough covering on
-their legs. -
Too much clothing round the chest
cramps the Iungs; it prevents the
child from running about, for he
soon gets breathless; it also leads to
excessive perspiration after exercise
which may be followed later by chill.
Another thing to remember is' -that
if the extremities are cold a larger
proportion of the food intake has to
be used to provide heat when it is
needed for growth.
A commercial traveller who had re-
moved his spectacles after completing
phis business in a furnishing shop at
Coalville, Leicestershire, walked
through a plate -glass window, which
he had mistaken for a door. He was
uninjured.
Prevention Proves
To Be Best Cure
Philadelphia Bureau to Pro-
tect Young Boys From
Entering Erring Paths
Philadelphia.—The Crime Preven-
tion Bureau of this city, slightly over
a year and a half in operation, has
had definite results in crime reduc-
tion
edce
tion among boys between 10 and 21
years of age, the group it seeks to
reach, in the opinion of Mr. Thomas
A. Meryweather, executive director of •
the Crime Prevention Assoeiation1
which co-operate with the bureau and
was instrumental in its formation.
Comparing the figures for arrests
among boys of this group, designated
as "older boys" by, the association;
a significant reduction of 30 per cent
is shown for the months betweex
July and November of this year, ea
against the same period for last yea]
in the four districts of the city where
the association, together with the of-
ficers of the Crime Prevention Bureau,
are functioning. In addition to this
reduction in arrests, the association
notes that there are fewer repeaters
among those who are arrested.
The plan of the association has,
been fourfold, according to Mr. Mery
weather, attempting to reach the
boys through. -their homes, througb
their play, or recreation, their worst
and their worship, as too often it has
been found that the youth has drifted
into crime because of the lack of home
ties, little or no supervised recreation
or work, and no active religious con
tact.
One of the most valuable results
of the crime prevention work has bees
i.. the development of a friendly re
lationship between the boys of the
neighborhood and the police, Mr.
Meryweather ppinted out.
Through a periodic personal inves•
tigatian of all places of public amuse-
ment in the district, the crime,preven.
tion officers are able to keep a check
on the moral conditions of the neiglre
borhood..
Bug Sleuth: At last 1 have dia.
covered the mystery of the dig
appearance of Mr. Tick, he's Imp
prisoned In that wa\ch-case.
Rabbits a Plague in Australia
Recurrence of the rabbit plague is
Australia is causing national concern
It is estimated that 1,000,000 rabbit
infest the State of New South Wale
alone.
Here's Quickest, Simplest
W.y to Stop a Cold
1 Take 2 Aspirin Drink full glass of water.
e Tablets, to Repeat treatment in 2
hours.
Almost Instant
in this Way
The simple method,picLured above
is the way doctors throughout the
world now, treat colds.
It is recognized as the QUICK-
EST, safest, surest way to treat a
cold. For it will check an ordinary
cold almost as fast as you"caught
it,
Ask your doctor
about this, And when
Relief
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you buy see that you get Aspirin
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and the name Bayer in the form
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Aspirin 'Tablets dissolve so com-
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