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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-07-13, Page 3THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1033 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE Si TINY CARTERET k BY SAPPER (Tiny Carteret was a free easy going young man extremely popular with both men and women and and with his income of five thous­ and a year enabled him to live in' an up-todate apartment in the city of London. He received a letter one morning from a friend, Ron­ ald Standish, which bore a post mark Grand Hotel, at Territet, on the Lake of Geneva. Standish appealed to him to meet him at once as he needed someone who had steady nerve, could use a re­ volver and could use their fists if necessary. Gillson from the Home Office calls Tiny and he goes there before leaving. Here he is instructed by Gillson to appear at a certain restaurant in Paris and after receiving instructions there to proceed to Switzerland, Just as Tiny was about to leave word came that Jebson, a mem­ ber of the force had been mur­ dered, he being th© fourth officer to be done away with in the same manner. Dexter came in and des­ cribed the facts. Tiny finds- that his friend Lady Mary is connected with the case. Lady Mdry and -Felton gether. Tiny calls gets no satisfaction terview. ' He takes Lausanne and has birth with a queer looking for­ eigner who dies through the night Blake are working on Mary from the the train to share to- but in- for j his CHAPTER IV try the his he llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll station officials spoke fluent En­ glish, and helped by the doctor’s professional opinipn, ?ney merely asked his name and destination and then allowed him to proceed, But one thing of interest did come to light. The dead man was a Russian namer Demeroff. And as Tiny got back into the train he wondered if he was the man referred to as D. in the letter he had received at Phil­ ippes. If so, the shaaowing was pretty effecient. There was no- -sign of Ronald Standish on the platform at Lau­ sanne, so he chartered a car and drove to the Ouchy Palace Hotel And there, as Gillson had said, he found a room had been reserved for him. “There is a letter for you ,sir,” said the clerk. “Delivered by hand." It was from Ronald and was as, terse as the one he had received in Paris. ! “Do not let Demeroff out of your sight. Midday—'the har.” . | j 'Tiny smiled grimly: it struck him! that the writer would require more than one cocktail when he heard the news. “There was anomer gentleman coming, sir, I believe,” said the clerk inquiringly. “A Russian.” “I fear that he has been unavoid­ ably detained,” answered Tiny quietly. The morning passed slowly: as he would he couldn’t get ghastly distorted face out of mind. , And try as he would couldn’t get any nearer to solving the- problem of how it had been done Ronald’s note knocked the bottom out of his theory that the thing was accidently self-administered, because it seemed to - show that the dead man had been on their side. At twelve o’clock precisely -Ron­ ald Standish came into the bar. His face was expressionless but, Tiny knew by the way he walked that his nerves were a little on edge. “What's this, Tiny, I hear at the office? Demeroff not come. “And I’m afraid he never will, Ronald. He died in the train last nght: his body is at Dijon.” For a moment of two Standish ~ said nothing: then he spoke,—very ing outside on the bare chance that; deliberately, such a thing would happen. UnlikeDj —but at any rate it did present a solution. Another idea. Was it concelv- that this man had been, one of the users of the poison himself, and had been carrying with him whatever it Was that they employed to commit their murders. Then, accidentally while he was asleep, he had run it into his own hand, and being half drunk had not awakened when he did so? If so, the implement would still be in the dead man’s berth, -or in one of his pockets. For awhile he debated whether he should say anything to the doctor. And then it occurred to him that to suggest the possibility of foul play could do no good, and might involve him in extremely awkward compli­ cations. For on the face of it to the ordinary outsider the only person Who could have murdered the man was himself. No: it wa? impossible to say any­ thing. All he could do was to hope that the French authorities would com© to the same conclusion as the doctor, and attribute death to natural causes, ta’t, and detained him mortem, he would have bear it. As h© reflected ically, it would only be in keeping With the whole state of affairs at the moment. But luck proved to be in at Dijon. Fortunately lor Tiny one of the Tiny shut the door, and the atten­ dant locked it at once. Then he. fol­ lowed the doctor along the train, hie brain buzzing with the problem. What had happened? What could have happened? Had it not been for the mark on the dead man’s, hand, he would have been inclined to think that the doctor was right, and that death had been due tohiatural causes.1 But now the coincidence was too ex-, traordinary. And yet how in Heav-| en’s name had the poor devil been got at? | A possibility struck him. Had he' got up and gone along the corridor' for some reason? That would pre-! suppose that the murderer was' lurk-. the man’s If they did- for a post- to grin and a little cyn- “If,” he remarked, “I ever did lose my temper, I would swear with­ out repeating myself for five min­ utes. How did they get him? TeB me exactly what happened.” He listened in silence while ran through everything from the re­ ceipt of the note in Paris .0 the examination at Dijon. “You assume they got him, Ron­ ald,” he said in conclusion. “So do I, because of the mark in his hand. But if you can tell me. how the dev­ il they did it I’ll be much obliged.” “What time -did you say it was when you looked at your watch?” asked the other. “Ten to twelve,’ said Tiny. “But what’s that got to do with it?” “Everything,” answered Standish quietly. “Oh! Tiny, Tiny, If only we as a human race, didn’t like air so much! Still, it can’t be ed.” “What can’t be helped?” Tiny peevishly. “You’re not going to tell me that he was murdered through the open window of a train travelling at sixty miles an hour.” “No, old lad, I’m not. He was murdered through the open window of a train standing stationary by a platform. All the fast expresses on that line stop at Laroche half-way between Paris and Dijon,,to change engines. 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And put h»s his i “So would a good many other people,” said Standish with a short laugh. “But it’s hardly worth while being hanged for exterminating ver­ min, No: it’s the other one that I want, Tiny: through wemeroff. You see, one of the most extraordinary things about this gang is the eluslv- ess of its members. Jt sounds fan­ tastic, but I can assure you that sometimes I have been tempted to think that they holo ine secret of becoming invisible, Not once, hut a dozen times have .people we wanted vanished from practically under our noses, It is incredible.” “Disguise of some sort, I suppose “You can take it from -me that it’s got to be a .pretty userul disguise to deceive our fellows. And yet— they’ve done it. Why only a week ago in Paris, we hunted two of them to ground in a smallish hotel in the Rue Tivoli. Men were posted at ev­ ery entrance, slipped clean It’s positively “And have whereabouts of their headquarters? “I believe it to be somewhere in this country. In fact I'm almost sure it is,” “Well, old lad, you’re the com­ manding officer for this expedition, said Tiny. “What does A do, beyond lighting an Abdullah?” And at that moment a page boy entered the bar with a telegram. “Monsieur Carteret?” “That’s me,” said Tiny taking the envelope. He glanced through the message: then with a laugh he handed Standish. “That would seem to give pointer, Ronald.” For the wire which handed in in Paris run “Can you go to Hotel burg at once. Mazarin. “As you say, Tiny.” said Standish. “It seems to give us a pointer. Well —the capital of BesBonra is. a de­ lightful spot. And since Demeroff’s removal prevents us getting direct at their headquarters, perhaps we’ll do it through the side track of Ber­ endosi’s little scheme. But I wonder what the lady can nave discovered in Paris to cause her to send that.” CHAPTER V Dalzburg, as Ronald Standish had said was a delightful place, when they day it was picturesque the Palace heights behind it, was bathed in the early morning sunshine, as they rat­ tled over the cobbled bridge which spans the river. But at the moment a nursemaid right, and a left, he con- sitting at the as being the < til after the train had started the poison began to work.” “Good God!” muttered “Then I’m responsible for the devil’s death. He said it was gerous to open the window, but I never dreamt he meant that.” “How should y«u?” answered Standish. “You needn’t worry, Tiny; ’ he was a nasty piece of work, and it was only a question of time be­ fore they got him, But, if only 1 could have seen him for five min­ utes! You see, to put the matter in a nutshell he was biowrng the gaff I don’t know how much Gillson has told you; anyway I’ll fill in the gaps later, the man who was murdered last night was a member of the gang we are after. And our people had got at him in Paris. His jour­ ney here was simply anc solely to split on his former pals. From the note you got at Philli,pipes our people realized the danger. But nat­ urally no one thought of the damn­ ed window.” “How did they get at him, Ron­ ald? Hoiv was it done?” “If I could tell you that, Tiny, I should have solved one problem that is worrying us all. Obviously the man who did it was out of his carriage at Laroche, saw his oppor­ tunity and seized it. If the window had been shut, of course he could­ n’t have done it.” He lit the cigarette thoughtfully “Bazana. I wonder if there’s any significance. Was he trying to tell you something?" “Quite possibly,” said Tiny. “And don’t forget that’s only what it. sounded like to me. The poor -blight--, er’s teeth were clenched, and with the noise of the train it may not have been that at all.” . “Let’S have another spot, Tiny. Because we’ve got to decide that we- -re going to do. I hear incidently that you agree with Gillson and me that Lady Mary is acting as go-be- ’ tween.” j “How do you know that?” said Tiny with some surprise. I “I got a cable in code from Gill­ son yesterday.” ‘ | “Well, if we wanted any further their thoughts were centered on the confirmation I got it in the Golden ninudane questions of bath and food 1 and it was not until eleven o’clock 1 that they sauntered forth from the hotel for a stroll round. It was Tiny’s first visit to the ’ place, though Standish knew it well And since they hah further at the hotel Countess’s telegram there seemed to be except kick their heels and Presumably in time its reason i become clear. “I seem to remember,” Standish after a while, “that make a not indifferent brand of What about it Tiny?” “Lead me to it, old boy. These damned continental sleepers give me a mouth like a lime kiln.” They found a vacant table at a shady cafe on the main boulevard and sat down. The place was full ot people bent on the same errand and as luck would have it, their late neighbours were not but natives of the place. “You’ll often get more information from the f apparently idle chatter in a place* like this,” said Standish, “than from a score of agents. But you must be able to speak the lingo.” “How many can you speak, Ron­ ald?” asked Tiny “About fifteen, the other. “They me naturally.” He half closed his eyes, -and lean­ ing back in his chair lie relapsed in­ to silence. To the .casual observer he seemed almost asleep: ih reality every sense was alert. Times out of humber had he pla-yed this same game, and even if it was only once in twenty that anything tangible re­ warded his efforts, It was at arty; rate good practice in the language. The first essential was to shut out as far as possible the people Who were obviously useless to hlih Tiny poor dan- but they got through our uncanny.” you no idea away— fingers1 of the it to us a v>eenhad as follows: Royal Dalz- and arrived there the next looking its loveliest. The old town, dominated by standing on the wooded Arrow yesterday,” said Tiny. “De you by any chance know a Countess Mazarin?” “I know who you mean, though I don’t know the lady personally.” “Well, she admitted it to- me. By God! Ronald,” he went on savagely [ “something has got to be done to get Mary out of the clutches of that exresence Felton Blake. The Count­ ess actually told me that she thought he was in love with her.” Standish raised his eyebrows. “He aims high,” ne remarked. “Still I wouldn’t be surprised if you aren’t right.” • “Berendosi was on said Tiny. "I heard England. Lord! Tiny, end.” He got up and up and down, his hands dee© in his trouser pockets. “If only Lady Mary or the Mazarin woman would tell us what the mystery was! ThbUgh to be perfectly frank, I don’t know that it would do us much good They’ve got some form of proof— faked or otherwise, it matters not —-which they are going to spring at the last moment.’” “And Mary thinks Blake can get back for her?” “Presumably. Otherwise why should she be mixed up in it at all That’s where the devil of it comes in Of course he is double-crossing her. “Why should you think that?” said Tiny slowly. “My dear fellow, it's obvious. If this proof lies out here in the hands of Berendosi’s crowe, you don’t suppose they are going to give it up to help Blake’s love affair. But as a matter of fact, I don’t think for a moment it is out here, st’s locked Up in Felton’s safe. Otherwise why should he have com® into it at all? He was no good to them:they didn’t want him if they held it themselves No: he started the liare himself the train too,” he’d been in I’m at a dead started pacing it found nothing to explain the in any way nothing to do wait would said they beer im med­ tourists reliable curiously. old boy,’ laughed seem to come to I He holds tile trump card, though he and long, pratice had enabled him to is probably pretending to Lady, do this in the most amazing way Mary that he is moving heaven and lie could deliberately as it were 1 shut down parts ot nls brain, till only one particular conversation came through, while the rest it earth to help her,” “I’d like to wring the blighter’s heck,” grunted Tiny. seemed merely an now, having cut with children on loving couple on centrated on two men table just behind him only source of possible interest. At first he drew blank: they were discussing some recent reconstruc­ tion scheme in the business belong­ ing on one of them, The other he gathered was interested financially: the matter of mortgage cropped up Influential men evidently: rfien ot substance. And he was just prepar­ ing to relax and get on with his beer when a name caught his atten­ tion. One of them Mentioned Ber- endosi. But luck was out: both at once lowered their voices, and strain his ears as much as he could he was un­ able to catch more than an odd word here and there. Suddenly, however, one of th«m made a re­ mark which he heard perfectly and which riveted his attention, “There. That man the other side) of the street. The tall Englishman. I tell you it’s obvious." He opened his eyes and looked across the road. ‘There was no mis­ taking whom they were alluding to: there was only one man who could possibly be an Englishman. And even as he was idly speculating as to what was obvious, he heard a sudden exclamation from beside him. He glanced round: Tiny Car­ teret had half risen from his seat and was staring at the Englishman himself. Now S'tandish was a man who thought quickly, and though he was completely in the dark himself as to why two prominent jjessonians and Tiny should both be interested in the same man, his brain reacted in- tinctively. “!Sit down, Tiny,” he said curtly “Don’t pay any attention to that men across the road. I’ll explain later.” A little, bewildered, Tiny obeyed and once again Standish leaned back in his chair. Had the two men be­ hind him noticed Tiny’s movement? [f so, good-bye to any chance of hearing any more. Apparently had not, and stray snatches of conversation came “Undoubted. . , . Gregeroff him. . .Hotel Royal. . .Must he the same man. . . There won’t be much trouble . . . Berendosi must see him ...” And then their voices mere whispers, anet not word could he hear, during maining ten minutes they their table. “I will now have another beer?” said Standish, as he watched their retreating.- backs. “What was the great idea, Ronald?’ “Well, old boy, it was obvious that you knew or thougnt you knew the Englishman on the other side of the street. It was equally obvious that the two men who have just left were interested in him too, as they were talking about him. And I thought I might hear a good deal more if your mutual interest wasn’t paraded too obviously.” “What did you hear?” “Only snatches of conversation. He is .stopping at the Royal, and he is obviously the same man. Same as what I can’t tell you. They also are anxious for BerencrosI to see him Not much, I admit, but one often finds that little clues like that help one later. Now—your turn. Who did you think he was?” “Three years ago when Princess Olga, as she then was, was over in London, there were four of us .who used to get about a good bit togeth­ er. She Mary, myself anct a fellow called Joe Denver and unless I am very much mistaken that was Joe Denver himself. A bit more tanned but I’m almost certain it was himi— same walk and everything. And if it was him, it is the most extraordin­ ary coincidence, because Mary and I were only talking about him the other afternoon and wondering where he was. And here he is ap- parantely stopping at the same hotel.” Qtye Exeter Established 1873 and 1887 Published every Thursday morning at Exeter, Ontario SUBSCRIPTION—? 2.00 per year ip advance. RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c, each insertion for first four insertions, 25c. each subse­ quent insertion. .Miscellaneous ar­ ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c. per line of six words. 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