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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-05-17, Page 6YU'ANU� SEI LAUCMS. by Sox Rohmer t SYNOPSIS Hurried removal of Ave crates of op- ium from the liner Wallaroo carrying wi 000,000 pounds in gold to Australia— discovery of a diary dropped by Yuan Hee See, in the Limehouse warehouse of Jo Lung, London's biggst "fence"—the snurder of Sergeant Norwich of Scotland Yard—discovery that Yu'an's agents on the VPailaroo are shadowing Eileen Kearney with whom Detective Inspector Dawson Haig is in love—all this occurs before Eileen is kidnapped when she goes ashore at Port Said aftr being induced by an Armenian fortune teller named Joseph to accompany Dr. Oestler to the Mystery Shop of Mohammed. Both Oestler and Joseph aro among Yu'an's agents. Haig, trailing Eileen, is plung- ed into the drugged Bath of Feathers but escapes and gets the drop on Jos- eph who topples in the Bath. Haig takes all his papers, nails the body into the packing case intended as his coffin, using Joseph's credentials, makes his way into Arabia. Escaping arrest Oestler disappears from the Wallaroo and appears at Yu'an's headquarters in Arabia where Eileen first regains con- atolousness. It is evident as Yu'an and Aswami Pasha talk that they intend to capture or sink the Wallaroo. Haig disguised as Joseph, gains entry to the house . He is assigned to outside guard duty at Yu'an's palace. As Jack Rattray paced morosely up and down the bridge of the Wallaroo, footsteps on the ladder aroused him, and Captain Peterson appeared, car- rying a radio flimsy. "Look at this, Rattray," he said. "We've certainly got a Jonah on board this trip." Rattray took the mesage and read: "'To Commandez RMS Wallaroo main steam pipe burst stop Chief and two hands seriously injured Stop Can you render immediate medical at- tention Stop Eighteen degrees thirty five north and forty one degrees five east S. S. Mount Jupiter, John Ken- dall, Master." Rattray looked up with a wry face. "One of the Samuelson tramps. She's seventy miles east of the track sir. Isn't there anybody nearer." The captain shook his head. "I have already inquired," he answered re- signedly. Peterson went into the charthouse. Captain and chief officer bent over the chart. Right off the northwes tpeak of Fa - risen Bank," Rattray commented. "The Samulson scavengers go nosing into places nobody ever heard of." And the course of the R. M. S. Wal- laroo was altered. * * In the lacq..ered study of 'Yu'an Hee See, the Marquis spectacles on nose, bent over a note which lay up- on his table. Aswami Pasha stood at his elbow. "It is regrettable," said Yu'an Hee See, "that such excellent business should be lost. The caravans have been delayed, as I ordered?" "As you ordered, Excellency. A- part from which, no woman as spec- ified is included in either." Yu'an ee See bent again over the writing. "These fellows insist so upon white skins," be commented. "Cir- eassians are difficult, now, and Eur- opeans to meet such a specification as this." He removed his spectacles, placed thein on the table, and shrugged sig - "You will notice Excellency, that the representative of the Bey is ex- pected at Keneh on Saturday. "I have noticed this, my friend," the Chinaman replied. "But we have other fish to fry. A young and plea- sant woman whose qualities answer to these specifications—" he tapped a tapering finger on the paper—"would be difficult to obtain in so short a time, even under the most advantag- eous circumstances." Many other matters had been dis- cussed before the Egyptian left the apartment of his formidable chief. His route led him through part of the gardens. As he passed a shady arbor, a hand lightly touched his sleeve. Or- ange Blossom stool: at his elbow. "Aswami," sh_ said softly, "a word etik you" A chill struck at the heart of he ]Egyptian. More times than he could remember, a mad desire for the deli- cate ivory beauty of this woman had possessed him. But always—always. He glanced about swiftly and then stepped into the shadows with her. "Stand still," Orange Blossom com- manded, "and listen. This afternoon you set out on a journey. Is it true?" "It is true lady," said Aswami Pa- sha 1. Instant RIt dissolves 2. That's why Instant completely In 40 seconds Rit givestruer, even, . Not Just a surface dolor then any other dye .. dYee every thread package dye . . lasts through and through. MUCH longer. FREE—Send the front of 2 HIT Packages for FRES copy of The A 13 C of Home But Making" to John A. Huston Co. Ltd., 40 Caledonia Rd., Toronto. a EIT NEW! No longer a soap! Dissolves Intently. "Walk now up to the small saloon and wait for me Go at once" Between fear and triumph his brain was a wasp's nest. He had dared greatly all his life. But this he knew was the greatest risk he had ever ta- ken. Mounting stairs where none met him he came to the room adjoining which was that cupboard overlooking the apartments occupied by ' Eileen Kearney. A faint rustling made him turn. Orange Blossom, an ivory statuette enveloped in mist, came in, her finger raised to her lips. With a key she car- ried, she opened the door of a tiny an- teroom, and indicated that he should move forward. A dimly lighted grille appeared on the 'level of his eyes. "Look down," Eileen, 'wrapped in a delicate Or- iental robe, lay upon the divan smok- ing. Celeste the Frenchwoman, sat be- side her. "You see?" Orange Blossom pered softly. "This is a choice ure, my friend." Aswami Pasha, a connoisseur, filled his eyes with to gracious beauty of Eileen. He nodded slowly. Slender fingers gripped his arm and drew him away. Orange Blossom faced him in the room beyond. The woman in the lacquered room was de- liciously pretty. "She is Yu'an's new toy," he thought, "and this hell -cat, whom I could love or strangle with al- most equal pleasure, is going to tempt me to take the rose girl from him." "She is not for sale," said the Chi- nese woman. "You understand." But to -day and to -night the house will be empty. It might be managed that she should escape." "Escape?" The light of a new un- derstanding crosed the dark face of Aswami Pasha. "Hassan es-Suk is eager for his commission," Orange Blossom con- tinued. "She might be easily overta- ken on the road to Keneh. Better still outside Koseir, near to Dr Julian. How could they know that she was not for sale? My lord could not con- demn them for ignorance." Aswami Pasha cinched his hands and dragged his glance away from that compelling gaze. . "She is beatutiful—and would grace your great house at Aswan. Or perhaps, my friend, it is dark eyes that excite you?" He turned to her, and greatly dar- ing rested his hands upon her satin shoulders. The contact thrilled him. "Will you help me?" She smiled vol- uptuously. "You don't speak," she whispered swaying ever so slightly to- wards him. "Yes, but—" In a second he would have had her in his arms. Ssh! Quick! she hissed—and ed him away. "Go out by the door. He is corning. She walked swiftly "I shall remember, whispered. whis- trees- push - other acros the roonn. Aswami," she "Proud" Father Demands Recount Slightly Dazed When Wife Gives Birth to Four Sons —Good Start Towards Football Team Here are the views of the young man whose wife gave birth to four boys in Birmingham, England, as reported by a correspondent. First View: Nothing, just slightly dazed. Second view: 'More than a million inhabitants and it had to be me." Third view:"Well it's a good start towards a football team. Stanley Hitchins, the father, is twenty-six years old; his wife is only twenty-three. They have a daughter aged two. Mr. and Mrs. Hitchins live in the Washwood Heath district. I found Mr. Hitchins in the Bir- mingham Matrnity Hospital shortly after his family had been born. He was standing unnoticed by the fuss- ing nurses and beaming doctors. He had been called from work (he is a painter), and after counting the babies carefully, returned to his work After congratulating him, I asked him how it felt to be the father of four bonny bouncing baby boys. He looked round carefully, and then told me — with emphasis. 'When they told me the number," he said, "I almost demanded a re- count. AS LIKE AS PEAS "You are certain to get the Kings bounty," I said. "The wife's mother's sister nad twins," he said reflectively. "Perhaps that had something to do with it." He told me that, counting from left to right, the children weighed in at 3 lbs. 13 ozs. 3 lbs. 151-4 ozs,; 5 lbs. 2 ozs.; and 3 lbs. 151-4 ozs., re- spectively. 'We've named then John, Fred, Ar- thur and Stanley to save them get- ting mixed up," he explained. They are as like as two peas in a pod ex- cept the big one who has got a snub nose." I told him of Birmingham's declin- ing birthrate, and how glad Dr. News- holme, the medical officer of health would be. He reminded me of the o- ther million or so inhabitants. I reminded him of the football team Mother Drops 41 - year Pose * "No sign of her, sir," Jack Ratt- ray dropped the glasses back into their case. "I can't make it out. It's clear too, that her wireless has failed' The first officer turned to the coni- mander, who stood upon the bridge of the Wallaroo beside him. It was perhaps an hour before the dusk swept down over the Red Sea. A long, low island lay off their port bow; an Arab dhow was creeping out from th tail of it. "That will be Jebel Sabaya," said the captain. "Yes, sir. If the Mount Jupiter lies inside—and it's quite possible as the Samuelson tramps poke into all sorts of rat holes.—we can't do it" Rattray, taking the glasses, searched again, anxiously. He was a- bout to drop the glasses again„ when: "By God, sir!" he said, "]ook— quick—under our port bow!" The conning towers of a big sub- marine were rising above the surface. A. Marconi operator came bounding onto the bridge with a message. Rat - tray grabbed it. He, the captain, and the third officer read it together: "Commander R M. S. Wallaroo ani sending boat for surgeon stop Lie to. Urgent Stop John Kendall Master S. S. Mount Jupiter." Captain Peterson glanced from face to face. "What's this?" he repeated huskily. "It's a message we dare not diso- bey, sir!" Rattray replied. "If any- body else picks it up it sounds harm- less enough. Don't you understand?" The mysterious vessel, now on the surface, Ken along beside therm, two German quick -firers trained upon the Wallaroo—then came the shrill howl of a shell; the shattering bark of one I of the four -inch guns. The mainmast of the IVa la'oo cnr- rying the wireless crashed with its rigging to the deck. she l YMO ' Alan is City clIte Pt'eeminent hotel, Achievement Reveals Herself As Mother Not Sister of Own Daughter Ouray, Colo.,—For 41 years Mrs. Charles N. Jones as a sister to her daughter. Up and down the continent they trouped in a vadeville act called "Maxine and Maxie Marshall" and the daughter never knew that her "sister" was really her mother. The story carne out when the daughter, Mrs. H. E. Williamson, sued for and won the right to administer the estate of a father she had not seen since she was a baby. Mrs. Jones, who was "Maxine," took the stand in Mrs. Williannson's suit to become administrator of the large estate of John Donald, pioneer mining man of Ouray. She told how she left Donald in 1893; taking their daughter with her, and how she pre- tended they were sisters to prevent Donald from finding thein. Mrs. Jones said that after leaving Donald she worked as a dishwasher and waitress until she perfected a vaudeville act into which she and her daughter fitted as sisters. From the time the child was six years old, she said, they were known as Maxine and Maxie Marshall. When their vaude- ville engagements took them to Al- aska in 1905, Mrs. Jones met and married the man whose name she now bears. It was not until last January that she told her daughter of their true relationship. There were shouts—shrieks—exe- crations, Captain Peterson a very old and haggard man walked to the tele- graph and jerked it to "Stop." The Wallaroo lay almost motionless upon an oily sea. The submarine, running alongside within hailing distance, moment, nt and off at the same no e lay rang , there beside the liner. To be. continued 4. , Dr. Wernet's Powder For FALSE TEETH A Joy To All Users Can't Slip or Slide Sprinkle on Dr. Wernet's Powder and you won't have to think about your false teeth all day long. 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Introduced more than a decade ago and foster- ed by the larger Japanese univers- ities, it has become one of the most popular games in the country. It is not uncommon for a crowd of 60,000 to see a contest between two college teams. Picked American teams have tour- ed Japan, receiving rousing ovations wherever exhibition games were play- ed, so that now the names of such 'stars as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are familiar to many Japanese. _ The visiting major leaguers have been beset by autograph hunters. Accord- ing to Gehrig, "the interest in base- ball in Japan just about borders on the fanatical." THE NIMBLE JAPANESE Naturally nimble and active, the Japanese have proved to be excellent fielders and base runners. Their pitchers are clever and well acquaint - rd with the various curve balls. Japanese teams have played Ameri- can college nines, and have been more than a match for some of them. Baseball has been well developed in Africa; North and South. Last Fall it was reported that more than forty organized teams were active in Tunis, where there are more than a thousand ballplayers of at least a dozen nation- alities. Organized amateur leagues play regularly and many fans turn out for the games. The first contest between an American and a North African team took place in July, 1932. On the North African team were five Arabs, six Italians, one Frenchman, one Anglo -Frenchman and one Berber. Teams in the Ligue Tunisienne include also Turks, Gre- eks, Spaniards, Portuguese, English, South Africans, Americans, Moroc- cans, Tripolitans, Egyptians, Sene- galese and Maltese. Within the past three years the rise of baseball in South Africa has been swift. Cricket and football clubs near Johannesburg have been turn- ing their attention to the American game, .and last Summer a league of eight teams was in operation. The sport has also thrived in Cape Town; last year the• Cumorah team of that city made a tour through the Trans- vaal. The standard of play among South Africans is high. South Americans have also grown to like the American game. In Ven- ezuela baseball is fast becoming a national pastime. There are teams not only in Caracas, but in Maracaibo, Valencia, Maracay and La Guayra. Many intercity rivalries have already been established. VENEZUELAN FANS That the Venezuelans are enthu- siastic fans is evident in the account of a recent games between the Santa Marta te,. ,n and the Royals. Protest- ing a decision, the Santa Marta team and many of their rooters warmed the playing field, yelling, "Ladron! Ladron! Protesto! Protesto!" in a spanner that would have put even an American bleacherite to shame. They fought to induce the umpire to change insisting his decision, finally that he be ejected and a new one procured. It best .74, -You and Baby Too et 4® tett' Its fragrant lather soothes A cleanses Bee Issue No. 19—'34 was the fifth inning and he was the fifth umpire to be chased from the field. Baseball is played to a limited ex- tent in France, Italy, Spain, Portu- gal and Rumania. There is a base- ball league in operation in Paris, and at the Barcelona Exhibition in 1930 a picked French team turned back the best Spanish nine before 65,000 spec- tators. In England and Wales there are also baseball teams. The game has been well developed among the Mexi- cans and Cubans, and the Filipinos have been expertly taught at school by American coaches. In Moscow baseball classes have been opened at the Physiculture In- stitute, where the game is being taught by an American and by a Rus- sian who learned to play in Japan. While America's national pastime has been played abroad for many years, it is only recently that there has been such a definite rise in its popularity as to bring about the suggestion that baseball be made an Olympic sport—a suggestion put for- ward by the French Baseball Fed- eration, which includes France, Tun- isia, Algeria and Morocco. Old Shoes How much a man is like old shoes, For instance both a soul may lose, Both have been tanned, both are made light, By cobblers, both get left and right, Both need a mats to be complete, And both are mate to go on feet. They both need heeling, oft are soled And both in time turn old to mould. With shoes the last is first. With men The first shall be last And when the shoes . are mended new, When men wear out dead too. They both are trod upon and both, Will tread on others nothing loatlsr,. Both have their ties and both incline When polished, in the world to shine And both peg out. So would , ou choose To be a man or be his shoes. wear out they they're 'nen Pedestrians John O'Rew in the Baltimore Sun While I like to think of the kinship! between the British people and out there is actually any affinity. My,. skepticism on this point intensified, a few days ago by the receipt of te. circular from the Automobile Asso- ciation of Great Bain on the sub-! 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