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THE QUEST OF MOHAMMED'S SACRED SLIPPER SERIES.
BY SAXE ROHMER.
(Continued from yesterday.)
COPYRIGHT 1916.)
THE CHINA MAIL.'
"From the papers, Mr. Cavanagh, began the old man, "I havo learned of the circumstances attending the death of Prof. Deeping. Your paper "--be smiled, and I thought how like his smile in its sweetness was to that off late cardinal your papers know
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BLESSED ARE THE PEICE- MIXERS
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,"
FINANCE COMMITTER.
TRE VOTES EXPLAINED,
To the Editor of the China MaË”) |
Sir, I write to suggest that your "A meeting at the Finance Com "Brawling Sailors" leader should be reprinted and some effort made to get
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1921.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
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all Now, I understand why a Mos- lem is required and I understand what is required of him. But, remember- ing that the object of his labour would
mittee was held immediately after be to place a holy Moslem relic on it into the hands of those concerned the adjournment of the Council, yes- exhibition. for the amusement of the sailor lads, to whom its obvious terday the Colonial Secretary presid
GRUYERE The Governor recommended the believers, can you fairly expect to sound common sense, its clarity and ing.
sincerity, should appeal. obtain the service of one?"
Not a few civilians might also have Council to vote a yam of $25 in aid "Perhaps not," I replied. "For my part 1 should wish to see the slip-a copy presented them. If this idea of the vote Public Works Establisk per back in Medicz, or wherever it appeals to other of your readers, per, ment, Special Expenditure, Type
haps they would join me in defraying writer.
The Chairman: Typewriters have Prof. Deeping was a thorn in the the cost of carrying out this sugges
been purchased for the Public Works flesh of the Faithful"
It seems spalling the apathy which, Department and the amount provid- "Nevertheless his wishes must be considered," I said," and the methods on the surface, exists, in the imported in the estimate was not sufficient, adopted by those who seek to recover alt matters which lie at our very so this mall amount is asked for.
alienate all doors. The Protestant Bishop prates about "the great possibilities" of the
came from. But Prof. Deeping——'
tion.
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Approved. The Governor recommended the
the relic are such as sympathy."
I can admit nothing against the work of his Diocese and does nothing Council to vote a sum of $8,200 in aid Guardian of the Traditions, Mr. Cay-in a matter in which, his professed anagh The Prophet taught that we knowledge of men would lead one to of the vote Kowloon-Canton Railway, should state the infidel. I ask you believe he would shine. The RCMaintenance of Way and Warin, The Chairman: This sum is re- have you the courage of your convic-Bishop appoints a day of prayer-in Personal Emoluments.
behalf of propaganda press peculiar tions
to his own beliels. The Padres are quired for the salary of Mr. Fenwick, Perhaps; I trust so." Then assist me to rid England of aunt and the other "leaders" are an additional engineer of the Railway what you call a survival of the darko engrossed in shares, tennis com- Department. His salary is £700 à ages. I will furnish the porters to petitions, golf, and dancing, to bother year, with $100 a month house al- remove and carry the sale, if you will their heads about anything outside lowance.
these attractions Yours, deliver to me the key."
ABOU BES ADHEM. Hongkong, Aprit 7, 1921.
"That is madness!" I cried. "In the first place
should be compro- mising with my conscience and in the second place I should be defenceless against those who might
I have with me a written promise from one highly placed-one to whose will Hassan of Aleppo bows!
My mind greatly disturbed. I watch- I was ed the venerable speaker. sorely tempted to accede to his pro-: posal. For nothing would be gained by any one if the slipper remained forever at the museum, whereas by conniving at its recovery by those who after all, were its rightful owners I should be ridding England of a weird and undesirable visitant.
I think I should have agreed, when
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The Governor recommended the..
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noon, before Magistrate Orme of the vote Education, Special Ex-st The Pharmacy Drug Store penditure, Department of Director of All day tomorrow free sample pack Chinese youth was charged with the Education Equipment of Kowloon ages of the celebrated Schiffmann's
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of ill-fame in Belcher Street, Kennedy The doctor wants each sufferer, trom Asthma, Hay Fever or Bronchitis to this Town, on the night of March 18. town, who has not alreads used his
Mr. M. K. Lo who appeared for remedy, to call and get one. When asked regarding his ressors for giving the defence entered a plea of “not his remedy away in this maner, be said:"People ste naturally skeptical guilty." Mr. Hazelrigg, Assistant - bout an asthme remedy, and when Crown Solicitor, who outlined the
cares on the market you can hardly you consider the armber of so called case, said that the quarrel which re blame them. Now I claim that my sulted in the death of the deceased violent attack, no matter how separe or the deceased was stabbed in two"> remedy will instantly relieve the most was over a girl living in the house. obstigate the case. If I do not believe places. He was removed to the hospi it why should I be giving it away i
The Chairman: The numbers at the Kowloon British School have increased greatly and it has been necessary to indent at once for maps, books and other material for the school because there is not enough of these things. The present vote is $3,000 and this provision will be exceeded by $288.34, so we are on the safe side in asking for $290.
Approved.
IL-THE FIGHT FOR THE chambers to survey the position in which I now found myself. Indeed, SAFE.
it was a strange one enough, showing how geat things have small begin nings: for, as a result of a steamer acquaintance I found myself involved in a dark business, worthy of the Mid-
The Governor recommended the The suffer who gets a san ple package tal at 8 p.m. and died at 11.30 the dle Ages.
That Prof. Deeping, the
tall in two minutes whethe. it is same night after having made dying celebrated Orientalist, should have murdered Prof. Deeping and had George Marden respectively. In the Council to vote a sum of $3,000 in aid as I represent it, and it doeetit cost tim stolen one of the holy slippers of mutilated others wholly innocent of peaceful home of the Mardens Fate of the vote Public Works, Extract-any resenta, and is done declarations to both Inspector Willis Mohammed was no affair of mine, and offence. I looked across at the old one-day sends Mr. Pim-poor-Mr.dinary, Hongkong, Communications, certainly does not look as if anything, and the Magistrate. Dr. McKenny. said the deceased had two wounds that an awful being known as Hassan man. He had drawn himself up to Pin of very uncertain memory and branch road, from road contour-could be fairer.
Persons residing in other localities on the left. aide of the abdomen. ~`In *** of Aleppo should have pursued it did his great height and. for the first time feeble mind. Before he leaves, how-ing hillside in Wongneichong and Tai outside of this city, who desire to try both cases the intestines were pauctar- not properly enter into my concem: fully raising his lids, had fixed upon ever, be has resurrected a dead hus- Hang Valleys, to Wanchai Gap. this medicme, will be sent a free sample yet now, with a group of Eastern me the piercing gaze of a pair of
package, per post, providing they send ed, and were protruding from the fanatics at large in England, I was eagle eyes. I started, for the aspect
simply their name and full address bigger wound. Death was due to become, in a sense, the custodian of of this majestic figure was entirely
to other writing) on a postcard, within shock. the next six days, and address the relic. Moreover, I perceived that diferent from that of the old stranger
The girl gave evidence as to the way I had been chosen that I might safe-who had stood suppliant before me
MULLEE & FRIPPS (ASIA). LID, the men grappled with each other At one stage of the struggle she saw the defendant had a dagger in his "It is impossible," I said: "I can come to no terms with those who
hand, but she did not actually se shield murderers.
him stab the deceased. The case was adjourned until Monday after-
Prof. Deeping "amids Oncotalist, stole Mohamined's slipper and took it to England, thereby bringing down on himself and all others who had anything to do with it the wrath of the ashis bin, a Moslem sect that guarded the retics of the Prophet. Leeping was mysteriously killed, and the key to the sale exataining the slipper was left in the custody of Cavanagh Read his story of the meeting with Hasean of Aleppo, his second encounter with the giel of the violes eyes, and his harrow. ing experience in the moonlight in the room. There Deeping was killed.
"There is no doubt," said Mr. Rawson, that great personal danger attaches to any contact with this relic.
guard myself. What I knew of the moment ago. matter might imperil me, but while
I held the key to the reliquary, and held it fast," I might hope to remain immune though I must expect to be subjected to artempts.
a
band, proved poor Olivia not to be The Chairman: There was a stm really married to her present husband of $7,500 set aside in last year's and has upset things generally. Quite estimate for surfacing this branch unconscious of the terrible grief into road with asphaltum. Only one coat- which he has plunged the house Mring could be put on before the end of Pim takes his departure, only to re- turn later to inform the family that the year. This is in the nature of the he had confused the names and the re-vote to complete the second cost- information given applies to some one ing.
The Hon. Mr. Pollock: Is this a totally unknown to them. A charm- Sing love story of a certain Brian motaz road ?...
The Director of Public Works Strange, a painter (Mr. James Jolley) and Diana, the niece and pet of the Yes. household (Miss Edith Smith) ruis through the play and takes in not only one of great interest and charm but full of delightful touches of humour Marden is particularly good."
He regarded me fixedly, but did not
move.
"Es-selaam aleykum!" ("Peace be on you" I added, closing the inter- view in the Eastern manner.
**Wa-'aleykum!" (" and on you"
conducted him to the door and
sat down at my desk, glanticg with distaste at the pile of work which lay before me. Then my eyes turned It is the first time I have been con- to an open quarto book. It was the
plate Prof. Deeping's Assyrian Myth-he said. cerned with anything of the kind."
Mr. Bristol, of Scotland Yard,ology and embodied the result of his
Approved.
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standing stily military by the win. researches into the history of the closed" it upon his exit. In his last and pathos. Miss May Halatt as Lady Grant in aid of other Institutione ed each successive performance, has
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Hashishin, the religious murderers of salute I had noticed the hashing of dow, looked across at the gray-haired whose existence we had been sa skep-ring which he wore upon his felt solicitor. We were all silent for a
tical. To the chief of the order, the hand. And he was gone scarce ten few moments.
terrible Sheik Hassan of Aleppo, he seconds when my heart began to beat I snatched up the As- referred as a fabled being yes it furiously. was at the hands of this fehled syrian Mythology and with trembling
Mysterious outrages," said Bris- tol, have marked the progress of the stolen slipper from Mecca almost to
London."
being that he had mer his end! Singers turned to a certain page.
.. Each Sheik of the Assassins
Then upon my gloomy musings a There I read: **1 understand," interrupted the solicitor, that a fanatic known as sound intruded the ringing of my Hassan of Aleppo seeks to restore the door bell. 1 rose from my chair with is said to be invested with the Ring relic to its former resting-place?"
** That is so." **Exsetly; and it counts for the pro Jessor's wish that the sale should not be touched by any one but a Moslem
a weary sigh, went to the door and of the Prophet. It bears a greet
--for his instructions that its removal to the Antiquarians' Museum and the placing of the slipper within that in- titution be undertaken by a Moslem or Moslems."
without. He was tall and straight, or crescent..."
handsome features.
turban.
saluted me gravely.
waispered;
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
A MISSION OF HEALING.
MR. RICKSON'S FORTHCOMING VISIT-
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SUPERSTITIONS.
ST. SWITHIN'S DAY.
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The Governor, recommended the Connel to vote a sum of $3,690 in aid
The steady popularity of the Band- of the vete Miscellaneous Services, the consistent success that has mark- man Opera, Company, exemplified by
Imperial Institute.
received further Testimony in the The Chairman: The Government numerous requests that have been has agreed to increase its annual sub-made, to the management to extend the scription to the Imperial Institute present record season in Hongkong. Every year on the fifteenth of July from £125 to £500 a year, and this The management, however, announces millions of people in the English- sum is now required.
with much regret that it is unable to speaking world watch the skies anzi- Approved.
extend the Company's season here as ously to see if it is likely to rain before The Goremor recommended the the Company must positively leave night. And every year the news With the cordial approval of the Council to vote a sum of $99,000, in for Shanghai on Tuesday, April 12. papers state that the meteorological The announcement made by Mr. records do not bear ant the old say opened it An aged Oriental stoodstone, shaped in the form of a scimitar Senior Chaplain, and under sanction Bid of the vote Harbour Department, Bandman that he has arranged for the ing: To "Et. Swithin's day if it do of the Bishop of the Diocese, Mr. J. M.-Harbour Office, Other Charge, Company to revisit Hongkong rain fox forty days it will remain; "St.
purchase of buoys and moorings" had a snow-white beard and clear-cut, "God in heaven
Hickson will conduct a Mission of
The Chairman: The number of ships carly date will be received with great Swithin's Day if it be fair for forty sarisfaction by all those who have days 'twill rain no mair." "But what Healing at the Cathedral during the visiting the port, and a certain number enjoyed the Company's joyous pro is a meteorological record when con He wore well-It was Hassan of Aleppo!" cut European garments and a green
On the following morning I was week following Sunday, April 10.
fronted by a superstition ! It is not Tessa. "Takada" by which he is lying here for periods, make it neces-ductions. As I stood, staring, he awakened by the arrival of Bristol.
sary to increase the number of buoys The management much regnet 10. 1.hastened to admit him.
travelling has not yet left Singapore of 2 A class and 4 B class with the announce that owing to unforeseen necessary that a superstition, should Your visitor of yesterday," began A detailed list of Services will be he, has wasted no time!"
published as soon after the Missioner's necessary anchors and cabien. This circumstances, the Company will be work every time. If it works now What has happened?"
sum is the amount required for, doing unable to present "Afgar on Monday, and then it is enough to render it “exempt from mutability and decay” that.
April 11, but will do so on their re- "I don't know!" ke replied.Orival as possible."
No charge is made for ministering
turn to Hongkong. On Monday, April And the St. Swithin superstition does Approved course. it was no surprise to And that
The Governor recommended the 11, the farewell night of the Com- work-occasionally. there isn't a Mohammedan who'll lay to the sick and suffering, but any who his little finger on Prof. Deeping's wish to return thanke, and express Council to vote a sum of $2,000 on pany, A Grand Pot Pourri consist Swithin was Lord Chancellor of safe! There's no doubt in my mind their appreciation to Mr. Hickson, that every lasear at the docks knows can do so through their thank-offer- of Public Works, Extraor-ing of The Gems of the Repertoire England, a great lawyer and a great full strength Seats already booked education of King Alfred and installed "Many thanks: I understood so Hassan of Aleppo to be in England. ings which may be placed in the Akin dinary, Kowloon, Buildings, Tsim-ill be presented by the Company at statesman. He superintended the much. But, my position being a Some other arrangement will have to Boxes at the Church dooms, or sent The Chairman: This sum is re-for Afgar will hold good for the Pot into him those virtues and that learn-
Poar or money will be refunded on peculiar one, I wished to speak with be arrived at if the thing is ever to to him personaly at the Cathedral. "I can only pursue my instruc- you as a friend of the late profes-be taken to the Antiquarian Museum. It is to be understood that Mr. quired, among other things, for the application before zoon on Monday, ing which caused him to be afterwards known as Alfred the Great; It was tions," said Mr. Rawson, dryly. sor."
You will pardon me," I said: night," he went on, a policeman out of this he has to meet all expenses $782 on the buildings, and to that
Meanwhile we stand to lose it. Last Hickson receives all offerings, because "They are, that the work be done in such a manner as to expose all con."but the work is scarcely of a kind was on duty outside the iste protes of the Mission, as well as those of the tent this is a revote..
ser's house, and two detectives were work be left in England. actually in the room where the safe is. Result-some one has put in at least an hour's work on the lock, but it proved too tough a job !".
"Some one has been at the lock
But that is impossible, I cried. with two men, in the room-unless
Bristol frowned. "Any one who has touched the re- ceptacle containing the thing," be said, "has either been. mutilated or murdered. I want to apprehend the authors of those autrages, but I fail to see why the slipper should be put on exhibition. Other crimes are sure to follow."
cemed to a minimum of risk from
"Mr. Cavanagh?" he asked, speak- ing in faultless English, "I learn that the services of a Moslem workman are required.”
"Quite correct, 'sir: but you should apply at the offices of Messrs. Raw son and Rawson, Chancery Lane."
The old man bowed, smiling.
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He raised his thin hand.
these mysterious people; that if pos sible Moslem be employed for the "I am not undertaking. it myself. purpose; and that Mr. Cavanagh, I wished to explain to you the condi- here, shall always hold the key or tions under which I could arrange to keys to the case in the museum con- furnish suitable porters." taining the slipper. Will you under- His patient expression disposed me take to look for some Eastern work-to believe that he was merely some man, M. Bristol? In the course of kind of small contractor, and in any your inquiries you may possibly come event I had nothing to fear from this
frail old man.
"Step in, sir," I said, repenting of my brusquerie, and stood aside for bim.
across such a person.”
"I can try," replied Bristol. Meanwhile, I take it, the safe must remain at Dulwich?”.
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He entered, with that Orience! **Certainly, and it should be guard- ed."
meekness in which there is something Shortly afterward Bristol and I left majestic. 1 placed a chair for him the office and, his duties taking him in the study, and re-seated myself at to Scotland Yard, I returned to my the table.
י.
shatsui Police Station
presentation of Irene from the seven state of the Heptarchy were London Comedy Theatre, was re-, consolidated into the Kingdom of Approved."
ceived with undiminished enthusiasm England. The chancellor died, direct-- The Governor recommended the by yet another crowded house. Of ing that his body be buried in the Council to vote a sum of $7,000 on the same high order were the contribu- church-yard among the poor. One account of Public Works, Extraor- tions, both individust and concerted, legend says he chose a spot where the dinary, Hongkong, Communications, while the dresses, scenery, and or rains might drip on his grave kom Bonds: Pokfuiura Boad Improve chestral effects were again a notable the church eves. On July 15, one feature. The gratifying success hundred and nine years later, with mente
achieved was fully deserved.
great pomp the chancellor's remains were removed to a tomb within the BOWEL COMPLAINT IN
church. A great storm came onland CHILDREN.
it rained for forty days. And there months children DURING the summer orders as you have a full-baru, robust super- bowels and thould receive the most stition which grows young with tha
As soon as any ages. It is said that Swithin was? careful attention. noticed Chamberlain's Colic and Diar unnatural looseness of the borals is never regularly canonized but was thara Bemedy should be given. For sale Called samt after his stormy protest
at his team
tion! by all Chemists and Storekeepers."
Apply and firing of three geysers. April 11: There was an unexpended balance of Last night the Company's capable through his statesmanship that the
they were badly shaken, and one had a cracked skull. The constable was conscious again, too,"
"What! "Was he attacked?"?
In exactly the same way! Marden said they were sitting in the study,
The Chairman: This is for widen "They were both knocked on the smoking and with both windows, opening a portion of the Foktulum Bead head! It was done artistically. TheyIt was a fearfully hot night. West both came around about 4 o'clock this sat in an armchair near the writing from the junction of Victoria Road to table; Marden sat by the window next Aberdeen Docks. A supplementary morning."
10. the door. I had arranged that vote of $16,000 was provided for "They have no ides, but their state every hour one of them should go out this, but owing to the large amount irents tally exactly. When I got on to the gate and take the constable's of rock work it was found insufficient the scene, about 5 o'clock, Marden report. It was just after Marden had and this $7,000 is required to com- and West, the two detectives, had been out at 1 o'clock that it happened. plete the work quite recovered their senses, though
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