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Zurich Herald, 1928-03-22, Page 2Only teas grown 4,000 to 7,000 feet above sea level are used In " SAL.ADA" Orange Pekoe Blend— the flavour is therefore richer, more fragrant and much more delicious than other teas. Only 43c per t-113.—BUy it at any grocery store. 11 ORANGE PEKOE T 291 041111de LEGERDEMAIN BEGIN HERE TODAY. gutsts of the restaurant, an alterca- tion arranged, 1 suspected, for the sole purpose of affording time and oppor- tunity for the robbery of the jeweler. He began to argue with the crook. John Ainsley, a pian of education and breeding, whose war wounds left him unfit for manual labor, pawns an rrory miniature of his mother in order laughed. Then, though having recog- nized nze, he would have detained rate, I walked over to my table. What •did I, who was about to die, have in corn - mon with such a person? The thanks of himself, or of his pretty feminine companion, would notdo me any good. I paid my waiter and walked to the sheck-room, will confess thatI was , than the figment of a policeman s t myna , ' slightly embarrassed a blli i t3 to tip the coat -boy. But I need not imagination. I would bring to my new have been; for Daragon, just donning profession the brain of a gentleman,. his overcoat, saw me and seemed to! certainly fitted to cope with the intel regret hilt lack of courtesy. He handed lett of a detective. I would bring to the coat -boy an extra coin, my new art the culture of an aristo- "Let me do that much," he said, crat. I would raise it from the sordid "—even though you did me a shabby level to which such people as my fur - turn." to pay his landlady and to buy food. His hand reached for his waistcoat A prosperous -looking bootlegger and pocket, to produce the jewel. But the all-round crook, takes Ainsley to his girl had not had time to effect the sub - home and attempts to enlist him as an stitution. She went dead white as accomplice Insulted, Ainsley leaves Daragon leaped to his feet, overturn - the room. in his chair as he did so. For his Ainsley is disgusted at the sight of g a pretty young girl in the company of suspicions, never more than slumber - a gross -looking man in a restaurant. ing, I imagined, awoke to full activity. Later he sees the prosperous -looking Then, before he could attract the crook join the man and the girl at attention of the head waiter and the their table. Ainsley finally recognizes manager, I rose from my chair and the gross man as Daragon, a famous walked swiftly to their table. I had jeweler and roue. Daragon draws out no particular sympathy for the girl a ettle cardboard box and hands it to , and her crook companion. But I had the girl. even less for Daragon. For while I NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.watched him, I remembered some of I saw my acquaintance reach for !! the unpleasant tales that had been the box; though I could not see his icurrent about him in the years before face, I knew that his eyes were shin- the war. The girl was a thief, but ing with ill -suppressed desire. And Daragon was a filthy beast - then, as I saw his right hand drop 1 I gained their table in three strides. into the pocket of his coat, I knew „You dropped something on the floor," what he planned to do, even before I said. I spoke to Daragon, but look- £ caught a glimpse of the white abject ed squarely at the girl. If she had that he drew from the pocket. He the quit wit of her kin, I could save planned to substitute one box for the her. other. She had it; as I bent over, groping I smiled with amusement. Also I beneath the table, her hand touched appreciated his cunn'_ng, Unqupurchases tion- i mine and slipped into it a box. In her ably he had made purchases from s excitement her shaking fingers relax_ Daragon. Probably he had let the , ed their grip of the second box. ' I got jeweler understand that the purchases ithat too, and would have been at a were gifts for hi? sweetheart. Then . ' he had elmitted Dara n to meet his; loss how to proceed, but for the fact lady. The lady had sled upon the I that, leaning over until her face was jeweler. Daragon had seen an opper- j close to mine, she whispered frantic- tunity to combine business with plea- ally: The first one, the first one. sure, the sort of pleasure that appeal -1 I slipped the second box swiftly into ed to him. And it was not unusual Fmy pocket, arose and handed Daragon that, in trying to close a bargain, he , the first one. He took it from me, and should bring a jewel from his store.',immediately untied and opened it. He And the girl had been waiting for him sighed with relief. alone; her seductions were to lull1"Much obliged," he said. "For a Daragon's suspicions, if any might be • minute 1 though --damn it, I didn't I saw my friend's head shake in I in my pocket, and it couldn't have aroused. think! I know that I put that box negation. Argument, presumably fallen out-" over the price of the trinket, seemed "I picked it from the floor," I re - to arise. The girl pleaded with her minded him. lover. Oh, it was all well staged. "It didn't fall there," insisted the * * * * jeweler. Then decisively, my crook shook his "Then how did it get there?" Be- head. He pushed the box across the mended the crook. table, as though the incident were "I don't know," said Daragon. '"If closed. Daragon argued a few min- I did, I'd call the police." Utes, seemed to make concessions "What do you mean?" demanded which were not accepted, then slowly the crook. wrapped up the box and tied the "I don't mean anything; I don't string around it. He placed it in his• have to mean anything, do I But waistcoat pocket. I wondered how that box didn't walk out of my they planned to get it away from him, pocket," snarled the jeweler. to substitute the box which, under- "Are you insinuating—" began the neath the table, the crook held in his crook. right hand. Daragon interrupted him. "When Then I saw. My friend the crook a fifty -thousand -dollar diamond ring turned in his seat and pointed toward leaves my pocket, I can insinuate all the door. Daragon looked in that di- rection. irection. The girl's hand .shot out; deftly it flicked from his pocket the box which he had just placed there. No one but myself was placed so that the action could have been seen. I Brook. waited for the next move, which must "Don't worry about me. You said be the substitution of the other box. you'd give me forty thousand; you But although the crook handed the said you'd bring the cash here. I said girl the other box, Daragon's atten- tion was not held by the incident near the door, which was nothing more than an altercation between two given me, for the one that lay in Daragon's pocket. I nodded farewell to him—to more than him: to all the past that lay behind me. And I kissed niy 'hand to the future. I was nothing within the law; I would be the greatest living figure outside the law. I would make the supercriminal something more I stared at him. "What do you mean?" I asked. - We were at the cloak -room entrance now. • Daragon jerked a fat thumb toward the dining -room. "Don't you think I had that crook's number It was the girl I wanted. I guessed their game, and played the come-on simply to get her where 1 wanted her." "And where was that?" I asked. He grinned. "She's stuck on him. But I figured that if I caught them. with the goods, she'd forget how stuck she was on him if I didn't prosecute. Get me?" "I do," said I coldly. 'I suppose she dropped it, and you saw it fall. If you hadn't stepped in, I damn please.. If you don't like it, lump it. I was a fool to bring it down here anyway. My store is the place for nie to do business." "Better be careful," warned the I nodded farewell to him. RIG PRICE REDUCTION IN ROGERS BATTERYLESS RADIOS Canadian Company Leads Field In Production of Batteryles>i� Sets g Price reductions of $28, $46 and $60 economies at the Price of an ordlnar) r e on the new 1928 Models of the famous battery set, Rogers Batteryless Radios Were an•- A.0 a representative of the Q,R.S4 nounced recently by Rogers dealers. Music Co,, the Bogen distributors ik These drastic changes are not a Eastern Canada., expressed it: "Tlire4 price "cut" on special models, but years ago when the Rogers was farsti constitute the creation .of an entirely introduced it was the only Batteryiesei new and lower price Level for all Radio on the market" collared friend repressed it. I smiled Rogers Radios from now on. These cheerfully as I set out to dispose of big reductions represent savings, the diamond ring gained by my leger- passed on to the public, through demain.- Beginning in our next issue "THE CLUB OF ONE -EYED MEN." The Wanderer Love comes back to his vacant dwell- ing— The old, old Love that we knew of • yore! We see him stand by the open door, `With his great eyes sad, and his bosom swelling. He makes as though in our arms re- pelling He fain would Ile, as he lay before; Love conies back to his vacant dwell- ing— The old, old Love which we knew of yore. Ah, who shall help us from over -spell- ing That sweet, forgotten, forbidden Love! E'en a e, doubt, i nour heart once ams 'With a rus hof tears to our eyelids . welling, Love comes back to his vacant dwelling. —Austin Dobson. I'd have had them dead to rights Oh, well, a man can't get everything he thinks he wants." A sense of the monstrous injustice of life came to me. That injustice could be remedied by money. For in- stance, that jewel in Daragon's pocket could be turned into thousands of dol- lars. Even I, a gentleman, had heard, in recent month of poverty; rof "fences," those men who buy the loot of thieves; I even knew where one or two of them. resided. The skirts of poverty brush the feet of criminality. I was about to die, because I had neither productivie nor constructive brains. But perhaps I had the third kind, a destructive brain. If my fur - collared friend could make a success of crime, despite the paucity of imag- ination which his clumsy scheme for robbing Daragon had disclosed, what a tremendous success I could achievel Honor? Adherence to it led me to the gutter, was about to lead me to the river! Daragon stepped aside to let me precede him through the restaurant door, I exercised the only talent that I had, sleight-of-hand. I substituted I the second box, which the girl had re '. 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