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THE CHINA MAIL...
THE FLYING WITNESS ARRIVAL
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March 1. Friderun, German str., 1,470 tons, Capt. T. Engels, from Rabaul, buoy No. B12-Melchers & Co.
Hydrangea, British str., 561 tons, Capt. Grierson, from Swatow, Chiu On Wharf-Chiu On S. S. Co.
Wiers gathered the money together and stuffed it into his pockets. Then he It planed from the chairback be-glanced methodically around to be sure fore Wiers's nose to the floor at his he had left no trace of his visit.
A flying little shape toomed across! feet. It swept silently, like
an before his eyes, brashing his hat brim overgrown bat, from the top of the as it passed. Again Wiera bit back a bookcase to the telephone stand-y. He lashed furiously out as it, but missing Wiers's face by a
his fingen missed the bushy little tail scant by inches. linch. It chattered and scolded and Jicker crouched on the bookcase, tried to bite his ankles. In general chattering softly, peering at him with it irritated him so that he could bright littk eyes that seemed have
out with gleam with almost human intelligence. stamped its life
Wiers shuddered. He had the un- pleasure.
canay feeling that this deed of his had Only, of course, he couldn't let been carefully recorded and tabulated, Jicker was the as witnessed, in that quick little brain. 31ills suspect this.
"I've lonesome old man's particular weak tered aloud. "It might raise a fuss got to kill that thing," he mut- spot; he was pathetically fond
aw the neighbours' attention to the squirrel.
what's been done before T'm ready for Solen, British str., 3,385 tons, Capt.)
be found,"
of and draw
it
to
to
That was the excuse he gave him- self. It wasn't the real reason, His real thought was that he must kill the squirrel to eliminate a dangerous wit Otherwise thesu inquiring. Pete's her.
bright little eyes would haunt him in pre-
nightmares.
Kutsang, British str., 3,643 tons,
Capt. F. Mooney, from Osaka, Kowloon Dock.-J. M. & Co.
A. C. Vines, from Yokohama, Kowloon Dock.-A. P. C.
March 2. Baron Saltour, British str., 2,041 tons, Capt. J. W. Laidlaw, from Calcutta, buoy No. E25,-Gibb Livingston & Co.
"I think something's wrong with Jicker," he repeated now, looking ke a child that is about to cry. "What ought I to do. Mr. Wiers?"
"You might take him to Pet Shop," suggested Wiers, tending deep sympathy. "I don't
There commenced a grim chase, in suppose Pete has treated a flying which Wiers rushed stealthily on tin squirrel before, but he ought to be too after the doubling, feet little able to. He's a good animal doc-animal. It was an uneven chase. Wiers. Chinhua,
and panting, almost weeping with fear annoyance, couldn't get within a yard "I guess that's the best thing to of it. He was about to give up do," said Mills. "We'll go
right the squirrel scuttled into the small Here, Jicker," he crooned, kitchen. Wiers jumped after it, clos-
ed the door, and the chase was over. turning toward the bookcase.
In that small space he caught the His back was turned squarely to tiny beast easily. With venomous wards Wiers. His attention was pleasure he wrung its neck in his glov entirely occupied. Wiers's handed hands. After that he flung the Hmp, furred little body to the floor and He took out the stamped on it. venting some of the
pent-up hatred of weeks with
descent of his shoe,
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went to his belt. hammer.
"Here, Jicker.
when
onch
Poor little feller crunching he muttered, “I guess that
fixes you!"
your
It was the sorrow-stricken old
He went to the street door and look-i Once man's laat word.
more life ed out. No one was in sight. There had cruelly and gratuitously be followed two awful minutes while he trayed him. He crashed to the went from the house to the gate, and then down the sidewalk skirting Mills's foor.
No property.
one was near. With
long sigh of relief he hur- anried to the store and let himself in the back way. For the rest of the even- ing he worked there, all lights on so that passers-by could see him. Occa- sionally he called out to an aequain- tance.
Wiers gazed down at him, his face
for turning ashy pale instant now that he had actually done it. But in a moment, reflect ing all over again how safe from detection he would be, he recovered his wits.
British str., 1,353 tone, Canton, Capt. Gillies, from buoy No. B14.-B. & S.
Daibashi Maru, Japanese str., 2,407
tons, Capt. M. Nakajima, from Sakito, buey No. B26.-M. S. K.
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tons, Capt. T. Kawamate, from Swatow, O. S. K. Wharf-0.5.K.
Marly, Norw.gian str., 656 tone,
Capt. Hovland, from Bangkok, buoy No. B8.-K. Larsen & Co.
Shantung, British str., 1,568 100s,
Capt. J. Beck, from Swatow,'
oy No. B20.-B. & S.
Wilkins, from Swatow Douglas Wharf-Douglas S. S. Co.
There were nine thousand eight hur- dred dollars, in Ofties and hundreds, Svale, British str., 1,354 tone, Capt. There wasn't a lot of blood, but in the seat bundles Wiers had taken. nevertheless he drew on a pair of from the flour ean. Next day he made gloves he had brought with him, occasion to go to the chain store head-
in Chicage before be went further with his quarters
on pretext of Tchekam, Chinese str., 806 tons, business, put the money in a safe de- planned programme. Calmly ho nosit box in a big bank there,
Capt. Lal Yee, from Hofhow, and buoy No. B19.--Ping On & Co. 10th Apr. bent to retrieve the hammer--but threw away the box-keys,
there he paused. The contact with Now, with all his tracks covered, he Yingchow British str., 1,216 tons, Capt. Harris-Walker, from the dead body! His face shone was ready for the discovery
crime. with sudden sweat.
Swatow, buoy No. B15.-B. & S. His breath {whistled through his teeth.
5th Mar.
21st Apr.
of the
It came on the fifth day. Sherif Ahearn, a stout elderly man It was during that unstrung with a closely, clipped, greyish mous. moment, while he stood with the tache, was in charge of the case, aided
hammer held in slack fingers, that a shape seemed to materialise out of nothing and sweep ghostlike be- 0th Apr.fore his eyes.
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He bit back a yell of terror and Jones that knew the old man had hop Sang, for Canton. leaped away, Then he wiped the eash hid there," said Burke impatient. Hydrangea, for Swatow, perspiration from his face and ly." Lhink we ought to arrest 'em Juno, for Swalow.
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Tai Shan, for Samarinda. He bent over a stiff little thing, like Tjisondari, for Amoy. blood-bedraggled fragment from a lady's fur necklet, that lay on the cracked linoleum of the kitchen floor,
"That crazy pet of Mills's." he said. "pvé heard about the thing, but I never saw it before."
Jicker! The infernal thing had pulled its pet trick of planing unex- 6th Mar pectedly across in front of him. Now it was perches on the telephone stand, peering at him, with beady little eyes as though perfectly aware of the signi ficance of all that had happened, and only waiting its time to avenge its
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But that was ridiculous, Wiers knew. Nerves, that was all. He mustn't let himself go to pieces like this.
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He examined the dead flying squir- attentively. "Stamped on it, the killer did." he mused. "That's queer."
"What's queer about it?" demand-purt yesterday:-
He went to the kitchen with 11th Mar. hammer, held its reddened head under the hot-water tap for several minutes, 14th Mar. and wiped it carefully on a dish towel.
Having made sure it was stainless head Burke. put it back in his belt. Now to find the money.
"It shows the guy was sore at it.") Kald Ahearn. "And to be more at it, The search didn't take as long as he must have seen it before and got a he'd feared it might. Being there al-grudge against it. That indicates that ready, he started to look in the kit the man who murdered Mills has been chen; and there, tucked away in the here
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It was a quarter to seven. The gro-| cery store manager had just got up from the table, Smiling a little, per-| fectly calm and comenzed, he went to
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Ahearn glanced at. Burks, who re-Thurs. pressed his next belligerent remark.
“I don't suppose you do know much Fri. about this." Ahearn said to Wiers. “We want to talk to you. though.
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"I'll do anything I can," said Wiers Sun. “Thanks,” said Ahearn. And the thron men went back to the sherif". Mon. office.
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