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by Sox Rohmer
SYNOPSIS
Removal of five crates of opium from
the liner Wallaroo carrying 2,000,000 lbs
of gold to Australia—discovery of a dia-
ry dropped by Yu'an Flee See, head of an
interJo Lung, one ofnal nLondon's biggest warehouse in the tene-
es"--the murder of Detecetive Norwich,
of Scotland Yard—all these prooede the
appearance .af Inspector Dawsor. Haig,
stlarohen the 'ship
ops at he boardt Ma seWar le oo Eileen Kearney,
with whom Haig is in love is a passers..
ger. Tu'an has five agents aboard, one of
whom. Dr. Oesteler, 1s informed by wire-
less of Haig's presence. Another, a huge
Chinaman, tries to throw Haig over-
board but is himself hurled into the sea.
When Eileen goes ashore at Port Said
a fortunae teller induces her to accomp-
any Oestler to a native shop. Haig trails
them and is plunged into the Bath of
Feathers by a trapdoor as he follows the
proprietor. Haig escapes from the dead-
ly dungeon, and drops Joseph into the
Bath. Haig takes all his papers, nails his
body up in the packing ease intended as
'his coffin, and reports Eileen's kidnap -
pine to the British consul. He asks that
Oestler and Valerie Ednam, an accom-
plice, be arrested on the Wallaroo. i11
leen regains consciousness in Tu'an's
head -quarters. O'st1ar and. Miss 'Ednam
disappear from the liner.
INSTALMENT 21
Yuan Hee See was studying a num-
He had not availed himself of the
accommodation provided by the sec-
and class ticket in the Armenian's
possession. He was sole occupant of a
first class sleeper.
The "letter of travel" seemed to in•
dieate that the roan called Hassan es-
Suk did not known Joseph by sight.
But, as the train was nearing Keneh
now, one important decision remained
to be made: How was "Joseph" to ac-
count for his total ignorance of Ara-
bic? Upon the correct solution his life
might hang.
"Your staff work, my friend has
been good but not excellent. Myself,
1 should have diverted the p'ooker di-
rect
irest to our base, since Dr. Oestler
may be in possession of details touch-
ing our personal security. Well, it is
perhaps unnecessary that I should de-
tain
Ctain you any longer. Have you added
to your collection recently? Does some
new gem of loveliness Ball you to
clinging arms?"
"No Excellency . - and yourself?"
Yu'an Hee See raised closed eyes
to Aswami. "Yes," he ,answered upon
a tremulous flute note: "a fragrant
Western rose. But Y fear the thorns,
my friend. I could not resist. But . I
fear I have been rash. For her sweet
eee
sake I have imperilled our enterprise
—our lives. This you know. But the
Chinese are gamblers, and those who
join them in play must gamble also."
r * *
Dawson Haig adjusted the dead
man's tarbrush. Sea breezes and a
touch of African sun had already
lightly tanned his naturally pale face
And, as he saw in the mirror above
the wash bowl, the effect was not so
The Cairo police had proved to be!
surprisingly efficient, Keneh had been
advised, and a man whose job was to
cover all his, (Haig's,) movements,
was in the second class section. But,
fearful above all things for Eileen,
he had vetoed any raids or arrests not bad. He did not in the least resemble
authorized by himself. He knew some -1
thing of the resources of Yu'an Hee the Joseph who had died, but he might
See. One false move—and she might have passed for one of the lighter
skinned natives—for a Turk or for
be lost forever. a Greek,
As he pushed his way through the A tall Arab jostled him. "Telephone
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ber of messages, or, rather, staring atI jabbering throng, making for the ex- on your right!" said an English voice
them through the lenses of his glasses it at Keneh, his hand rested upon the It was the man from Cairo.
automatic in his pocket. Haig calledmup the Mudir, as ar-
ranged. "Inspector Dawson
with unseeing eyes. At last:
"Since the man Haig is dead, howHaig is
can this be?" he asked Aswami Pasha.
speaking," he said. "You have been
"The message from the consul states advised by Cairo?"
clearly 'upon authority of Scotland
Yard.' What can this mean? It is cer- "Quite right, inspector," the voice
tain that he is dead?" replied; to his great relief that of an
"Mohammed reported it," said the Englishman. "I have arranged to
Egyptian. "The doctor confirmed the' have the place watched. It's the Cafe
news, telling us that Haig was not on Magrabi Any one of the dri'iers out -
I board when the Wallaroo left Port I side the station will tee you. there.
Said. Then came his last radio from One of our fellows is inside There's
the ship advising us that the police a- nothing
t he's onspicuous n eking a al;out l him
except
1 c meer-
my
waited his arrival at Suez. Finally, as
my lord knows, we received a message! tschaum pipe! Bump into him on your
notifying us that he was back at Is-` way out so that he drops his pipe.
malia and claiming emergency air I Stoop to pick it up and give him your
transport. My own Fokker was under' next address."
orders to leave Heliopolis for Koseir.l A tired -looking horse in the shafts
I got a message through to my pilot , of an arabiyeh waited outside the sta-
ed it in time, he will have alighted be-
or I did my best to do so. If he receiv tion; and to the driver Dawson Haig
said briefly, "Cafe Magrabi."
hind Ismalia to pick up the doctor." The Cafe Magrabi fronted upon a
"In the interval." street in which there were tawdry
Aswami Pashanshrugged. He, laces of entertainment. Painted wo-
may have been traced.—arrested. I I men's facespeered out from the upper
phave done. Julian Hess has been ad-, p
vised. { windows. Soon Haig stood staring into
Yu'an Hee See hissed softly for l a sort of cave in a high wall—presum-
some moments. "Iis the man Joseph ably the Cafe Magrabi.
here?" he asked. ! There was a wooden seat along one
"His instructions were to report to' side, and a few low stools. There were
Hassan es-Suk, and Hassan's orders no tables, and there was nothing in
were to facilitate his journey to Kis- the nature of a bar or counter. Four
eir, where Hess will see him and ar-i or five Arabs crushed in the shad -
range for his crossing." owl of the place. Outside on the foot-
Yu'an Hae See relied a plump, tap- ath, two chairs were
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A Judge's Oath
Minneapolis Journal; The new year
of 1834 was well under way. It 'was
just 100 years ago. It was a year.
destined to fill a fairly important
place in English history. heelittle
girl who was to become Queen
Vic-
toria in 1887 and Empress of India
in 1877 was then 15 years of age.
On the new railroads trains were be-
ginning tntear e cpeaceful farmer
oss the country-
side, filling Then
with astonishment and dismay.
occurred the deaths of Charles
Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Malthus, whose name still looms large
in the annals o political economy
because of his ' issay On Popul-
ation"; Edward Irvling, great in-
spirational preacher; William Black-
wood, founder of Blackwood's Mag-
azine, and Alexander Chalmers hadof
the "Biographical Dictionary",
this date year inscribed on their
tombstones. But to make up for these
losses to letters, George Du Maurier,
author of the immortal "Peter' Ibbet-
son" and of "Trilby", was born this
year, as were Baring -Gould, who
wrote the words of the famous hymn,
"Onward, Christian Soldiers", that
has gone around tke world; Sir
John Lubbock of "hundred best
s Hare,
books"fame, and Aug
the biographer. Among the famous
books that appeared. in 1834, and are
still living were Bulwer's "Last Days
of Pompeii," Captain MarryatSs
"Midshipman Easy" and "Jacob
Faithful," and John Galt's "Literary
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"I, do sincerely
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e set. Haig. ea ops
ering finger upon the messages, and. ping down upon one of these,
'Good intentions may lead to discs- i into the semi -darkness of the place an-
ter," he said softly. "We have now no xiously.
agent on board—and it is late to alter The tall "Arab" who had come from
plans so delicate."
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Cairo was approaching in long leis -
"I quite agree," the Pasha replied., urely strides. A slovenly -looking negj
"But except in respect of exact infer -i ro emerged from the blackness at the
nation regarding the ship's position, I end of the cave and approached.
I don't think the situation is serious.
"You don't think so?" Yu'an Hee
See whispered even more softly. A ra-
dio message will tell the truth to the
i world, and we shall be helpless to si-
lence it."
"I have provided for that," the Eg-
yptian answered. "Emil Gratz was
one of the four best gunners in the
I German navy. Before any notice is gi-
ven he must shoot down the main-
mast. This will disable the radio. If
he should miss, which is unlikely,
there is the second quick -firer in
charge of Jo Lung, your Own gunner.'
Yu'an Hee See began hissing again;
then:
"We cannot know how much has
leaked out; cannot know. This new
danger is one we owe to the man Haig
Ile died too easily. I should have liked
to supervise his death. It may mean
disaster, but we can only hope. Fur-
thermore, it will have to be a torpedo
after all. Do you realize this?"
Aswami Pasha inclined his head. "I
had already arranged for it"
Life".
Seek to Abolish
Plain Gold Ring
London, Eng. — Lady Mount Tem-
ple, wife of a former minister of
transport, wants the plain „old wed-
ding band abolished. She told the
National Jewellers' Association at
their annual dinner that it was a
"monstrosity," and she appealed for
its depdsition in favor of the much
more beuatiful gem -set eternity ring
or the plain platinum circlet.
"My main objection to the gold
But Haig had not yet discovered his
man. Then he observed a customer,
who, unlike the rest did not smoke ci-
garettes—an Arab, apparently, muf-
fled up in many -coloured rags, and
crouched in a dim corner. A glass
rested upon a small stool beside him.
TO BE CONTINUED
It's a Queer World
Hero Receives
Bronze Medal.
New York -- Mrs. J. Dyneley
Prince, president of the New York
Woman's League for Animals, be-!'
stowed a bronze medal on Chingy, a
dog whose barks aroused .tenants e
a Seventh street tenement in time for;' ,
them to escape a fire a few weeks;
ago. The dog's owner, Samuel spell-'
Man, perished in the fire with his
wife and children. The dog escaped
with a broken leg and has been' at
the Ellin Prince Hospital for An./
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There are more than 400,000
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Two unemployed men have just
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completing 52,108 miles in twelve
months on a tandem machine in
search of a job.
A baby born with a curly tail, which
has grown to a length of two inches,
is attracting attention at a London
hospital. According to Sir Arthur
Keith, such a phenomenon, further
proof of man's animal ancestry, is
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The emerald, when large, clear and
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Lady Mount Temple said that with time occupation of Mr. Toni Smith, of
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