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THE QUEST OF MOHAMMED'S SACRED SLIPPER SERIES.
IIL-THE HAND OF A THIEF
BY SIXE ROHMER.
가
(Continued from yesterday.)
(COPYRIGHT, 1916.)
In which is introduced Earl Dexter, American, who "onte goes in on the big times. The girl with the violet eyes appeam again and in this third
etory of the adventures attending the theft of Mohammed's slipper mystery and excitement are here mense than
*TCL.
He ceased, uneasily, and glanced at the tall Eastern figure. It had edged
THE CHINA MAIL.
MOSQUITO FEST.
MALAKIA PREVENTION.
SANITARY BOARD DISCUSSION.
these two east windows allbed a view of the lawn before the main entrance, these two west ones face Orpington Square; all are heavily barred as you sec. During the day there is a moan (always on duty in these two roÕESS. At night that cominunicating door is locked. Short of erecting a fadder in full view either of the square.or of
The fortnightly meeting of "the Great Orchard street, filing through Hongkong Sanitary Board was held four iron bars and breaking the win-in the Board Room, Post Office dow and the case, I fuil to see how Building, yesterday afternoon. anybody can get at the slipper here.” So 1 venture to predict finished the celebrated Orientalist, that the slipper of the Prophet will rest here
undisturbed."
He linked his arm into that of a
brother scholar and the little group straggled away, Mostyn accompanying
them to the main entrance.
"The real danger begins," I sag- gested to Inspector Bristol, when
the general public is admitted-alter to-day, is it not?"
-
"Yes. All today's people are especially invited, or are using special invitation cards," he replied. The people who receive them often give their tickets away to those who will be likely really to appreciate the op- portunity."
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Mr. G. R. Sayer presided, and Dumas is one of the most charming there were present the Hon. Mr. T.L. of French Comedies ever brought Perkins (DPW) Dr. W. W. Pearse East. The scene is laid in Paris MOH), Dr. W. V. M. Koch, Mr. about 1750 in a boudoir in the man- C. G. Alabaster, OBE, Mr. S. Wsion of the Comte de Candale (Mr Tso, Mr. Chan Shon-son, and Mr.
Chas. Quartermaine). The story M. W. Reynolds (Secretary), the following questions
Pursuant to notice. Dr. Kock asked opens with the marriage of the Comte
and Comtesse de Candale (Miss Jean FRENCH "Is there a periodical renette Sherwin). It is purely a
crudescence of mosquitoes to the residential areas of marriage of convenience with no the Colony?
question of love on either side. (ii)—If so, what are the apparant | However, as time passes Cupid makes causes of such recrudes himself felt with both but unfor cence?
tunately both are too proud to let (1)-What are the remedies the other see his and her real feeling's which have been, and should and complications naturally arise. be, put into forme?"
Matters are brought to a climax The Secretary read the following by Chevalier de Valdois
Christian Morrow) who is an eld (1)It is noticeable that mosquitoes weetheart of the Comtesse, engaging are more prevalent in the to fight a duel for the Comtesse's Spring and Autuma.
honour. The Comte hearing of this (2) The apparent causes of this declares that he only has the right to do this, so by a trick has the (a) Spring-The advent of warm Chevalier locked up, goes out to fight weather generally associated the duel in his stead, and on his with intermittent light rain return home is arrested for fighting been a sailor for 24 years, since you The sailor on the deck of the coasting What would you do if you had Seas every day of the year. causing small accumulations a duel which is then against the were 16 years old, to be more exact, schooner becalmed off Cape Cod of water on the hälsides. *. French law. (6) AutumnThe action of heavy forward. declares he is the Comte way around the world from home as did the maxiner on the Greek gallery The Chevalier comes and when you were exactly half whistles for a wind in the same manner rain in clearing all pools of and that he, and he only, fought the received a cable message informing becalmed off marbled Ithaca in the larvae having ceased, oppor duel, presents his sword to the guard you that you had inherited 24,000 days when "Homer swept the lyre." tunity occurs for mosquitoes in token of surrender, and with a to batch out again.
pounds sterling? (3) Remedies-It has been cus and Coutesse farewell, advising them tar would do and it's exactly what trying to deceive his gods. To "put
last sweeping bow bids the Comte
The heathen of classical times-at. Well, that's exactly what most any least in the lower orders-was always, tomary to have undergrowth to seek safety in fight. The cut in the neighbourhood of costumes are wonderful examples of Frank Dupuy of Guernsey, England, one over on High Olympus was houses in the Spring and of the old-time luxury of the Kings did when he arrived at Yokohama a considered a proper and rather clever Anturin and to send gangs of of France. Miss Edith Smith as Week ago Friday on the British
I looked around for the tall Orient-reply al. He seemed to have vanished, and for some reason I hesitated to speak of him to Bristol for my gaze fell upon an excessively thin, keen-faced man, whose curiously wide-open eyes met mine smilingly, whose grey suit be- spoke the U.S.A., whose felt hat was unmistakably of Böstön. At the height of the season such visitors are Dotare, but this one had an odd personality and moreover his keen gaze was raking the place from ceiling to floor.
To the best of my recollection. I had never set eyes upon the man prior
To that moment and since he was sc palpably an American I had no reason for assuming him to be associated with the hashishin. But I remember: ed-indeed I could never forger-
a little rearer; the head was still bow-how, in the recent past, I had met. ed and the fine yellow waxen fingers
versation.
with an apparent associate of the Mas-
are:
men to clear away all tins and Marton broken bottles, etc., which are special mention. then exposed.
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HEIR TO £25,000.
NEWS RECEIVED AT SHANGHAI,
SUPERSTITIONS,
WHISTLING FOR A WIND,
This is a wide-spread superstition among sailors which is translated into practice somewhere on the Seven
the maid is worthy of steamer Grelcaldy celebrated thing to do. Now Aeolus was god In fact Dupuy, who, according to of the winds which he loosed from the the captain of the vessel, was "the cavern where he had them confined hardest working sailor on board to swell the lagging suil with favouring until the ship reached Shanghai," breezes or to lash the waves with the was resorted to in the case of other almost missed the passenger liner slept and the winds slept with him; celebrated so thoroughly that be fury of a gale. But perchance Aeolus diseases, venereal disease, for example, which he determined to take home or he gloried and drank deep on which was not nearly so prevalent to wife and fortune, writes the Olympian heights heeding of the or so deadly as malaria. The Board Japan Advertiser. would be justified in recommending
loitering ships and imprisoned winds. Then the Greek sailor whistled for The story of Boatswain Dupuy andļa wind. - his fortune was told by an Now when the sailor whistles for's"
RUNS AWAY, TO SEA.
Tow; no one beyond the circle could I encountered her again, meeting the with a view to fnding if any more what he would call an intensive official of Dodwell and Co. of Yoko-wind he does not really "whistle"
campaign
in
of the hand from which he had re-Tams as evidently European as this It has also been customary to oil moved his glove fumbled with the curiously alert visitor was American.. collections of water which can not be catalogue's leaves. It may well be
It was upon the eve of the death otherwise dealt with. Also on receipt that in those days I read menace in of Professor Deeping that she bad of any complaint of mosquitoes being every eye, yet I felt assured that the first traded her fascinating person- prevalent, it has been customary to yellow visitor was eavesdropping aliry into my tangled stairs. Patent- make a special inspection with a view was malignently attentive to the con-ly, she had then been seeking the to ascertaining their breeding places
holy slipper, and by, craft had endea- and to deal with them.
to the Government that the Sanitary The curator'spoke lower than ever youred to bend me to her will. Then
A special survey is being arranged Board be empowered to carry on possibly bear him as he proceeded: glance of her unforgetful violet eyes permanent works can be carried out,
malaria against We discovered an Alexandriar outside a Strand hotel. The encounes more training of rullahs and for the Colory. Many new buildings hama, steamship agents, and is briefly but expells his breath from between. Greek who, for personal reasons, col ter had presaged a further attempt alterations of bouse drainage. unconnected with marbrony, bas upon the slipper. Certainly she acted In spite of any permanent works were being put up everywhere, as follows: Duppy was the youngest his lightly closed lips with a peculiar and it was a matter of com-son in a big and highly respectable sibilant sound mingled with a slight turned Moslemn. He carried the slip on behalf of someone interested in it mosquitoes will breed in flower pots, men knowledge, that the mosquito family in Guernsey. He saw little per here, strongly escorted, and placed and since neither Bristol nor I could eaves, gutters if choked, and other parasite was more prevalent bot on hope for the youngest son in England whistling noise very much much a it where you now see it. No other conceive of anyone seeking to possess collections of water in private pre-account of the earth being turned up and at the age of 16 became the found as the radiator makes some hand has touched it." (The speaker's the blood-stained thing except the mises voice was raised ever so slightly.mysterious leader of the hashishin Dr. Koch asked permission to move accumulation of pools of water away to sea. And at sea he has been to get up. It is supposed to mitate but on account of the consequent had boy" of the family and ran times when the steam is just begining You will note that there is a rail Hassan of Aleppo as a creature of a resolution on the matter without especially in the hot weather. There ever since; he is now 41 years old. the first sounds of a breeze beginning around the case, to prevent visitors that awful, fanatic being I had written giving the usual fortnight's notice were parts of the island where He was married at the age of 13 and to stir in the rigging. from touching even the glass.”
her down.
The matter was now arrest and a malaria was rife and everybody was his own family is also in Guernsey, Accfus beaves, What! Ess Bome- "Ah," said Dr. Nicholson quizzic
Why thee, if the mysterious East-resolution now would make the a reservoir of malaria. He knew but he has been back at his parents' une usurped his function↑ Or. has lower end of the case. It contained ally. And has anything untoward en employed a European girl, should Board's decision effective without loss several such cases. He proposed the home but twice since he was a lad. a breeze gone out without his permis but one exhibit a dirty and dilapid-happened.co Our Graeco-Moslem he not also employ an American man?
following resolution:-*:-
He was chief sailor on the steamersion 1 He gets on his job at once and ared markoon or slipper of morocco friend?"
"That this Board recommends
"Grelcaldy and, with the one excepthough he may see that he has been leather that had once been red.
"Our latest acquisition, gentle-you." replied the curator inen," said Mr. Mostyn, the curator. "It has been left to the Institution by the late Professor Deeping He de scribes it in a document furnished by his solicitor as one of the slippers worn by the Prophet Mohammed. I, my- self, cannot quite place the relic."
A little group of interested specta- tons, stood at the head of the square glass case in the centre of the lofty aparment in the British Antiquarian Museum known as the Barton room by reason of the fact that a fine paint ing of Sir Richard Burton faces you as you enter). A few well-dressed people looked on curiously from the
Mecca, as I understand it does?"
**I cannot positively assert that comes from Mecca, Dr. Nicholson," Mostyn replied. The Professor may
assure you that what little we do know
of its history is sufficiently Savoury."
BA-
of time.
I might well be that the relie, inj The Chairman said the matter "Perhaps Inspector Bristol can teh entering the doors of the impregnable could be treated as one of urgency if that the Sanitary Department beflon already noted, was a good sailor. ticked releases the desired breeze
Antiquarian Museum, had passed two-thirds of the members present
where the diabolical arts of the hashi- agreed.
Fear of the fanatics grew.
น
You, who have not read poor Deep ing's Assyrian Mythology, cannot pic- tare a creature with a huge, distorted
percentage of about 25.-The incidence of Malaria in the New Territories had not been recorded in the Kwong Wah Hospital, but it was a notorious fact
authorised to undertake an intensive campaign against mosquitoes in the
Colony."
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When the good ship reached Sang unless he should be in bad homout, bal, Bo'sun Dupuy received a letter when he releases a storm-wind and
from his wife telling him that his
Mr. C. G. Alabaster seconded, and mother had died and had left him makes the whistling milor rue his the resolution was carried.
£24,000. The bo'sun told the cap's whistling. So through the long ages The Chairman proposed the forma about his fortune, but the ship's the custom of whistling for a wind. tion of a sub-Committee to give effect master had heard fairy tales before has come down from the sailors of to the resolution, consisting of Dr. and would not release the sailor. Jason's fleet the fishermen of the Koch, the Medical Officer, the The sailor, however, believed the Grand-Banks. Director of Public Works and himself, news and did a little celebrating of
WHY GERMANY LOST.
PATRIOTISM AND MATERIALISM.
The straight, military figure of the shin had no power to reach it-where well-known Scotland Yard man was
Permission having been granted, conspicuous amongst the group of discraft of Eastern man were equally use
the beauty of Western woman and the Dr. Kock said that arising out of the tinguished--and mostly round-should-
answers to his question he would like
ered-scholars.
less weapons. Perhaps Hassan's to point out that although they had campaign was entering upon a new been slumbering under the happy "Sorry gentlemen," he said smil-phase.
delusion that malaria had been prac ing, “but Mr. Acepulos has vanished Once I had seen the venerable tically wiped out of the Colony, still " Nor 1M Interrupted ont of the from his tobacco shop in Soho. I am Hassan of Aleppo a stately, gentle it could be judged from the few group. "It is not mentioned by any.
official statistics that bad appeared of the Arabian historians to my know. not apprehensive that he has been old man; but I knew that the velvethat that happy state was not quite excused owing to the pressure of account for the conditioral portion The Hon. Mr. Perkins asked to be the turn of fortune, which may kidnapped or anything of that kind. eyes could blaze into a passionate fury ledge that is, if it comes I think rather tha: the date of his dis- that seemed to scorch, whom it a fact. He found from the last other work,
of the captain's praise. The letter appearance tallies with cut on which upon: I knew that the saintly Hassan ment Civil Hospital that there were solution and the sub-Committee was Yokohama and when the sailor | returns available from the Gover Mr. Alabaster seconded the re said that money would be cabled to he cashed his check for service ren- was Sheik of the Hashishin. And 218 cases of malaria admitted, with then appointed, as above, with the received three cablegrams, contain- MARSHAL FOUR'S VIEWS. dered."
familiarity with that dreadful organiza-nine deaths, and in the Turg Wah omission of the name of the Director ing a total of £100, the captain gave "What precautions," some one tion had by no means bred contempt. have taken it from Al Madinah-per- asked, "are being taken to guard the was the bolder of the key, and my Hospital about 207, with 57 deaths, a of Public Works,
in and agreed to release the man haps. from the mysterious inner pas slipper?"
and permit him to go home. sage of the baldaquin where the trea
OVERCROWDING “MORE HOUSES” sures of the place lie. But I can
"Well," Mostyn answered, "though
GOES THIRD CLASS. THE REAL REMEDY. we have only the bare word of the late
That was Friday, March 18, at Professor Deeping that the slipper
that malaria was widely prevalent matter of numbering houses under sentative of Dodwell and Co., and journal, the Reve de France,
London, March 13.-Marshal Foch Among the other business was the Yokohama. The captain, a repre- contributes to the new French was actually worn by Mohammed, it head, and a tiny, dwarfed body In this Colony from time to time the Overcrowding byelaws, ie, post the bo'stin left the ship to go ashore ticle explaining the German-defeat. I fancied that the curator's tired cut. { has certainly an enormous value ac- thing inhuman, yet human man epidemics, occurred which greatlying on each floor the number of and arrange the sailor's passage
They had people who might reside there.
He draws a parallel between the tured voice faltered as he spoke; andording to Moslem ideas. There can stunted and malformed by the cruel stirred the population.
be no doubt that a group of fanatics arts of brother men-a thing obnoxi- had epidemics of cerebrospinal fever,
home. On the deck the captain saked | German armies of 1916 and 1814. now, without apparent reason, he
In a minute on the question Mr. the sailor if he had his papers. He says that Blocher, York, Deltum, moved a step to the right and glanced known as hashishin are in London ous to life, with but one passion to of plague, and small-por, and the Tso asked why the old zumbering The, sailor had forgotten them and and Kleist were inspired by holy oddly along the room. I followed the your to recover it."
engaged in an extraordinary endea kill. You cannot conceive of the people nearly lost their heads because practice was being revived now, went back to get them, a trip that passion. Ludendorff was an excel- years, of agony spent by that creature of the very acute incidence and of when the housing problem was so should have taken 10 minutes.lent staff officer, but nothing more. direction of his glance, and saw a tall
Mostyn's voice sank to an impres strapped to a wooden framsin order the dramatic nature of those cases, acute. man in conventional morning dress,
The Chairman said that the reason began.
There was, where the chief trouble He lacked the true comprehension The sailor didn't reappear of the character of a national head was instantly. bent upon his cata- the tall Eastern visitor and was held conceive of his fierce hatred of all į maiming in its effects, and the deaths why the old practice of numbering and when found on deck was war, whereas the Allies were inspired irreproachable in every detail, whose sive whisper. My gaze sough: again to prevent his growth! You cannot whereas malaria, was much more
But before his eyes feil. If fascinated by the baffled straining inumanity, inflamed to madness by the in one form or another, either from had fallen into disuse was that be oblivious to the necessity of hurry in by the loftiest spirit of sacrifice; con- logue.
Eastern drug, hashish, and directed itself or from one of its consequences, tween 1908 and 1912 the number of doing anything. He had a passport didence, dash, and sacred ardour, as well as from the peculiar, burnt lowered as I looked and the effect was against the enemies of Istam-the out-numbered the deaths from all the square" feet per head was reduced to be made out, two --vizes to obtain, | making it a real national war zad knew from their long almond shape, those velvet eyes. But the lids were
bolder of the slipper-by the wonder other epidemics. Malaria was not from fifty to thirty. That, of course, a release to be drawn up and signed, the principal cause of victory. pallor of his countenance, that they that of a fire suddenly extinguished fu! power of Hassan of Aleppo, regarded with any dread, and people necessitated an alteration of every tidings in the way of red tape and were undoubtedly those of an Orient-1 determined to draw Brista's atten-
But I had not only read of such naturally became notoriously indif number, and it was considered at the paper work which anyone in the Farisional qualities against this spirit? What valled. Ludendorff's profed beings. I had encountered one! ferent to taking steps in order to time that remumbering would not be East can imagine and all to be done He and his brother officers were an And he was but one of the many suppress the possibility of the necessary, as it was understood that, before the French steamer Cordi-admirable troop-direction. machine, steps, the Chairman allowed per square foot, overcrowd the next morning. He was taken were tospired only by vulgar: ma- Do you wonder that I feared? De In view of the widespread pre- it had become more and more evident to do, even to posing for the "Exactly. Professor Deeping was about the pisce, as he went on to hoped that the slipper might be re. ought
The party, myself included, stared
you wonder that I hoped. (I confess it) valence of malaria, the Board that overcrowding had occurred and passport picture. During one delay undoubtedly among the victims. His
take more definite steps they found it advisable to resume he is said to have been chained explain. instructions were explicit that the relic
covered, without further bloodshed? to enlist the interest and co-operation the old machinery. There was no to a desk and during another should be brought here by a Moslem:
"We have four large windows here I stepped over to the door, where of the inhabitants of the Colony, Idea of taking sudden action to deal to have been closely watched not poor family, but he had beer a Dupuy had come from a good and but for a long time we failed to dis-as you see; the Barton room occupies a constable stood on duty.
"That might be done by public ad with offending householders. No by the steward, a big man: But sailor since the age of 16 and a mar: cover any Moslem who would under- the end of a wing; there is only one
"You observed a tall Eastern vertisement in the papers, or by doubt the real remedy was to build through it all he remained happy and ried man since he was 19 and hence take the task; and, as you are aware. Coor; it communicates with the next gentleman. in the room a while ago, telling them what to do and how to. It was decided without further dis- though not so hilarious, a mood when § is not strange that he booked a third
leaving leaflets with house-holders, more houses.
good natured and was in a pleasant, had his own ideas of economy. So It while the slipper remained at the Pro- room, which in turn opens into the officer?" fessor's house attempts were made to main building by another door on the
do it. Propaganda, against malaria cussion to revert to the old number on board the French Hiner he left for class passage on the steamer for steal it.'
landing We are on the first floor;
ought to be carried on. Propaganda ing system.
al.
"There have been mysterious out- rages committed, I believe, upon many
tion to the man.
"Accordingly," Mostyn continued, we have placed it in this room, from
Those
of those who have come in contact which I fancy it would puzzle the instruments of the hashishin. Per- carrying by the malaria parasite. with the larger number of people Bere left the Hatoba at daylight but lacked the internal fame. They with the slipper?" asked one of the most accomplished thief to remove haps the girl with the violet eyes, was told them, the Board had taken. | ing would not occur. Since that time from place to place and told what terialiam,
ERVANTS.
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another.
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**1 did, sir."*
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(To be continued.)
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