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At the request of Detective Inspector Dawson Haig, Matt accompanies Norwich, one of Iiaig's Scotland Yard men, to Jo Lung's. Matt finds a notebook drotspad by Yuan Hee See, and Norwich is murdered soon after leaving Matt. The notebook Is Stolen from Haig and Yu'an and To Lung escape to Paris An entry in the note- book leads Haig to the Restaurant Sulei- man Bey in Paris. As a German is leav- ing Haig overhears him saying he win board the Wallaroo the next day at Mar- seilles. Haig boards the Wallaroo at Mar- seilles as Mr. Smith and tries to decipher Wireless messages sent and received by a Dr. Oestler, Miss Ednam and Len Chow. With Eileen's aid, he learns one message has informed Oestler that Haig is on board. Haig recalls the mysterious sinking of the ;-sort Miss Minnesota. CHAPTER XIV.— (Cont'd.) ', "Wasn't it funny they didn't send out a call for help?" Dawson Haig asked. Rattray stared at him. "No," he re- plied, "In my cpinion they hit some small heavily -laden craft, and the pair of 'em sank almost at once." "But surely there would have been a few survivors?" "Have you ever had a good look at it shark?" said- Jack Rattray grimly. Following a short silence, Haig asked: "Is there much drug smug- gling down that way?" "Lots! Hashish for Egypt, mostly. Also. the good old slave trade flour- ishes exceedingly. Um told the poor devils are driven across the old slave routes by the time-honored methods, Right ip from Central Africa! The ea,ras:ans travel at night, of course, and dig in during the day. They run motorboats across nowadays, high- power craft developing forty knots. I've seen 'em from the bridge onee or twice. They cross on dark nights, as a tele." "But tv)u•re ran the markets be, Jack?" "There's Mecca 'That's still a clos- ed city. Fez, up in Africa. And I'm told there's a-r.iall, :ort of exclusive market somewhere on the Nile in Egypt..' . A ear, on tie. door. "Conte in!" Rattray called. Tile door opened, and Eileen entered, clos- ing it carefully behind her. "I've caught them!" she declared, her eyes sparkling with excitement— "at fast!" "What'."' Uaxtion Haig demanded. "I saw the snake charmer slip a mote into the hand of Mr. Len Chow as they passed or the promenade deck, three minutes ago!" * 4: * * i There was a d:unee after dinner that night, Dawson Haig, desperately worried, went up onto the boat deck, quite de- serted at the moment, and leaned over the starboard sail, at a point just aft She bridge, staring; across calm sea in the direction. of the African coast. He fried to think—to think calmly, The problem was one demanding the exercise of all his powers. And, set Vise a jewel le this dark affair, was Eileen—a distracting figure (be could eat be blind to the truth) , and one upon which all too often he found his thoughts focussed. That Eileen had twice proved of incalculable serviee slid not alter the plain fact that many limes when he should have been eon. eentrating upon the mystery, he found himself concentrating upon Eileen. From a professional point of view lie was faced either with something eery like ruin, or, alternatively, with at triumph which must prove a big stepping -stone ie his far-flung ambi. iions. Greeted this success—now doubly be prayed for --he might dare to i' nnk about Eileen as he longed to nk about her; not as the charming Oster of an old friend, nor even a 'a pable little helper, but as.. .Eileen. Where did the clue lie to these mys- terious activities: What should be his next move? It was maddening to watch, to know some incomprehensible plot stretching from Limehouse to Paris, Paris to Marseilles, and thence to Port Said further, perhaps—was fermenting under his very eyes, com- ing to maturity, and yet—to do no- thing! At which poiet in his reflections, he was seized from behind in a steely grasp and lifted lightly, as a nurse might lift an infant! He was in the grip of that creature of Yu'an Hee See's called "the Hangman." But of this fact he was ignorant. Swung back over the shoulder of this unseen, hut incredibly powerful assailant, he recognized, with a cold chill of dread, that he was about to be hurled into the sea! Automatically to his mind sprang those instructions which every police officer receives in jiu-jitsu. His fists were useless, flung high, impotent, above his head. But the cunning grip which told him that he was dealing with an expert, held him so poised that only at one moment—for which, dangerously, Haig must wait—could he counter. That moment came—as the seem- ingly irresistible forward swing corn- nenced which was to hurl him into the sea. He checked a cry in his throat. He was icily cool. And, fol- lowing the curve of that mighty throrw instead of endeavoring to check it as an ill-informed victim would have ''one, he swung forward, drew up his knees, and kicked backward with all his strength! It was sheep guesswork, but one heel registered dully upon the head of the athlete who held him aloft. That death swing was never come plated. Haig dropped with a crash upon the rail, hung perilously for a moment—and felt a vice -like grip upon his ankles.... He was tipped forward, forward, ir- resistibly—until he saw the Lights of portholes beneath, the lower ones re- flected in the aea. He clawed at the rail. That silent horror was, behind him, hanging above him! Clutching grimly, he kicked --kick- ed agatn....got ' hold with his left 'nand higher up, and realized that the man was crafting right over, was reaching down to relax that detaining grip, In desperation, resting his heal against the levee rail, he managed at last to free his anldes, to draw his legs down - Then, with all his remaining strength, he shot both feet upward! There was an impact—a stifled cry. His jacket, held in clutching fingers, swept down over his head, but he clung an --clung on dizzily. A wrench --a bulky shape streaked past him, ...a dull splash. The Hang- man had failed! Dishevelled, panting, Haig dragged himself back to the deck. He leaned dizzily against a boat, striving to ad- just his disorder. Already the plan was forming which later he canted out. No one knew that the thug was overboard, No one should ever know, but the sharks, until his absence was discovered. When, bewilderingly, came the swish of a silken sfnawl—a patter of feet ---a soft, terrified cry.... and Eileen's sweet arms were about his neck! "Billy—Billy dear! Oh, you're cov- ered in blood! What is it? What is it?" "My dean" he said—"it's nothing. I'm safe --and no one must know—" She was staring into his face eager- ly, her own raised in a sort of agony of apprehension. Haig began to tremble, His heart was thumping so hard that its pulsation seemed to stifle him. one was every resolution be so recently had made'• 'less-•-ehopeless, He held hen e. . ioen that she 44. MANY SECURITIES Wot Listed on Ex:clentges Have Markets. WE FIND TETE IVIARHET W. J. MARSHALL & C'OMV1PArtY S:i Richmond W',alt, Est, 1919 Toronto, Oast, thought, "He will break me in. half," and exulted. He kissed her until she was breathless, helpless. "Oh, my darling," he whispered. Ile had so little to offer this wonder girl, locked, happy, in his arms -.-so much to tell her --so much to explain. Yet somehow all he could say over and over again, was: "Oh, my darlitg, , .." CHAPTER XV. A, few moments after the WaIlaroo dropped her anchor off Port Said, the British Consul came aboard, There was a conference in the captain's cabin. Haig had deliberately failed to no- tify the fact that there was a man overboard, It hae gene into his Scot- land Card dossier, but he had sup- pressed it from those on board, with a specific object, The first news was given by a stew- ard entering the missing man's room in the morning. They were heading, for the Canal e, the time, and the ship was searched by the purser's orders. The conclusion was come to that the morose Chinese passenger had committed suicide during the night by jumping overboard.... Now, in the closed cabin of the commander, Dawson Haig revealed the truth to Captain Peterson and the British Consul, "I take full cesponsibility," he said; "you can see for yourselves the sort of gang I have to deal with. First, the Limehouse outrage, and now this mu_ derous attack on me. I got off lightly with a cut scalp and a torn sleeve!" The commander: scratched his grin zled head. "What do you wislr"to do, Inspec- tor?" the Consul asked. "In my opin- ion pin ion the persons whom you suspect of being associated with the missing assassin should: be detained. Dawson Haig stood up, grinning savagely and shaking his head. "Upon what evidence?", he demand- ed, "I assure you that except for a scrap of paper providentially discov- ered by Miss Kearney, there's nothing to associate Dr. Oestler, for instance, with any consiracy directed against me. And even that is far from con - elusive. I mean., he coald explain it in all sorts of ways. 'He doesn't ap- pear to be acquaieted either with Miss Miss Valerie Ednam or with Mr. Chow, and certainly not with the German, Hartog, on the lower deck. And what have I against these three people which would justify detention? I asure you" ---and he shook his head emphatically—"absolutely nothing." "Then what are we to do?" asked the Consul. "Of course, I could detain them here, for a time—" "No, no. Nothing official," was Haig's reply. With the coming of daylight, the babel of that curious port rose to full blast Sellers of all kinds of wares-- carpets, lace, jewelry, Birmingham antiques, and the rest—set esse tt it shops on deck, turning the ship into a miniature bazaar. The inevitable conjurer was there with his little brass cups. And there were divers in boats who shouted—and never stopped shouting—except when they actually dived, which was rarely. (To be continued.) Orange Pekoe Blend 71/ Fresh fr the Gardens An Eminent Victorian (From The London Spectator) I am the Poems of the late Eliza Cook, For sixty -odd years I have occupied this nook; I remember myself as a bright young book On a bookseller's ormolu table. Just beside me I had quite a mice friend, Mrs. Hemans's Works, and at the far end Was one called "It's Never Too Late to Mend," And a print of the Tower of Babel. '- We were a pretty pair, Mrs. H. and I, , My crimson velvet was the best you could buy; She wore green—and a love of a tie, -- I suppose it would now look tawdry. One fine morning she was taken, as I heard, For a prize to a Miss Georgiana Bird. Then my turn came—I'd to carry the word Of "Podgers, with love to Audry." ♦4. WeII-Dressed Male Will Wear Pastel Shaded Host Suit Coat Has Shawl Collar and Sash of Silk — Will Do Away With Customary Dinner Jacket Chicago.—lIere's news for the men —they can decide for themselves if it's good or bad. A. host suit in pastel shades, with a shawl collar and aewide sash of silk, has emerged as the latest dictate of what the well-dressed male shall wear', when entertaining at home or on semi- formal emiformal occasions. Walter A. Stresen-Reuter of Chi- cago, chairman of the fashion show at', the joint convention of the national association of merchant tailors and the merchant -tailor designers associa- tion at a local hotel, told about it. He said it would do away with the', customary dinner jacket and in con- trast to the sober black it would be available in maroon, light blue, wine and green. s A dash of Worcestershire sauce add- ed to the French dressing gives a very pleasing flavor. Some little time I was much in re- quest, Either she read nae or hugged me to her breast, And several sorts of ferns were pressed Between my red -ruled pages. Then, one night (I can almost see it still) A letter came, and stormed, "I should like to kill That two-faced miscreant Podgers"; And she flung me under the settee, where I lay in want of light and air, And endured the supercilious stare Of the Works of Samuel Rogers. That always stood on the bracket— well, -. There's not much really left to tell,. I was rescued by the housemaid Nell, Who hadn't no time for reading, • And hers I am, and yet I suppose I'd better not grumble, as this world goes, For I see I'm outstaying rows and rows Of the newest immortal fiction; And Rogers has vanished—I don't know where— With his "Pleasures of Memory"—and I don't care; I presume he's propping the leg of a chair With his sniffy, elegant diction, —Edmund Blunden. Longer Skirts the Rule in Spring Mode Paris.—Longer skirts were the rule in fashion shows, which are beginning to indicate what's what in the spring mode. - "No more striding about in short skirts,' is the present decree for all hours of the day, following a general trend toward greater feminity. Althougbethe length is far from ex- treme, there is a tendency to lengthen sports and street outfits to nine to eleven inches from the ground and to make informal • afternoon clothes slightly longer. Spring coats, a big item in feminine wardrobes, appeared in sober tones of black, brown and navy in beige and wools, often brightened by scarves of gay colored suede silk, It is poor economy to buy cheap fix- tures for the bathroom as they require more care and soon need refinishing. If you must replace bathroom fixtures, replace them with the best quality pos- sible or make the ones you are using do until you see your way clear to buy good ones, We recommend the purchase of TALISMAN GOLD MINES LTD. As an outstanding low-priced stock with possibilities of enhancement in value. We will be pleased to •Flu'nish full information on request. J3eilby, Coleman, Evans Members Toronto St ark leech nnen 364 BAY STREET, TORONTO Branch at 21 MAIN STREET EAST, HAMILTON ISSUE No, 8—'34 G4'ai.nt AWlnide 6061 Baker 1126 Says Missing Link Found in Plants k rain Doctor at Michigan Museum Finds Six Seeds Dating Back 325,000,000 Years Ago New York.. --Ever since the theories of evolution were advanced, artists have searched for the "missing link" to carry over the hypothesis from the highest of the animals to lean. The missing link was some undiscovered (and hence "lost") common, ancestor of man and the apes. Evolution, of coerce,• does not apply solely to the animal kingdom. There is evolution in plants as well. And plant evolution, like animal evolution, has its "missing link." The still - sought key in• botany hinges around the search for a common ancestor of seed -bearing Plants and non -seed bearing species. The analogy for ani- mals would be those which reproduce the species by laying eggs and those which are vivaparous, or give birth to live young'. The botanical "missing link" is to find a common ancestor for plants that prodece their own seeds like our fruit trees and most modern plants, and the ferns which continue the species by growing spores on the leaves; When ripe the, spores fall off and are blown away by millions, . to become seeds only after hit-or-miss fertilization. This is characteristic of primitive plants. More evidence that some 325,000,000 years ago there existed a "missing link" in the plant world is reported by Dr. C. A. Arnold, curator of fossil plants at the University of Michigan Museum, upon examination of several seeds found last summer in Pennsyl- vania. Seeds as old as those found by Dr. Arnold have been discovered only twice before, once in the Catskill Mountains and once in Ireland. He found his specimens in northern Penn- sylvania rocks dating from the De- vonian period, at least 325,000,000 years ago, and about 30,000,00.0 years ago when the great coal beds of the region were deposited. The newly -discovered seeds, six in number, are about a quarter of an inch long and were inclosed in a fib- rous husk. Although pressed fiat and reduced to a "coaly" material, with. the interior structure unrecognizable I detail, their size and shape are clearly revealed. Near the seeds were found numerous large fish scales, an inch in diameter, and several primi- tive forerunners of the modern crus- taceans and bivalves. Everyone Criminal, Sags Judge, Denyir.:£, Criminals Are Born Montreal.—"There is no such thing as a born criminal," Judge Amedee Monet told the Business and Profes sional Men's Club in an address. 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