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THE CHINA MAIL:
BEETLE'S CRIME RUSSIA GUARDS HER
of
FRONTIERS
(Continued from Page 6).
Italy's Own Pact Italy, on the other hand, might have frowned on the
If. Why (Continued from page 7.) him with sudden alarm.
was really unwilling to be found.
Rushdi Bey, in signing the Border Nevertheless, it was queer how it made the whole search tenfold that big point always evaded the harder.
"Get It. some day," Old Beetle States Convention, has placed, a He
in the way of any seeking Angers of memory.
murmured. "Stick to it--that's the new obstacles
the resumption of tried to get at it by a calm state- ment' of the facts, sitting on his notion. Stick to it. The penholder prospective
did it. Yes. Then there must traditional Russian advance on the bed with a purple dressing-gown
No, not a Straits. Moreover, if I understand folded about him in thick rolls and have been a cause.
cause that was, the penholder. Ajhim rightly, he intends to go fur:11 Wednesday, 18th Aug. at 10 am hummocks.
reason. No other word. Reason.ther, and to ensure his country's un- "I've killed him. With a pen-
If the penholder challenged control of the Straits by Wednesday, 6th Sept at 10 m Wednesday, 4th Oct. at 10 a.m. holder. How many years back? A What was it?
long while, anyhow never mind. was How, what was Why? Answer a third parallel Convention. This, What was Ime that. Don't know? Nonsense. which would embrace in its scope Well. What then?
Nonsense, I say! Well, then-Soviet Russia, Turkey, Roumania, thinking of? With a penholder, St|
stick at it till you do. Bound to Budgaria and Greece, might have Of course.
the additional advantage of reconcil- Wasn't there
get it some day. Bound to." something else?"
Then, just as he was pulling off ing these last two inveterate foes, He shivered, and stared at un-his socks one night, the brilliant The seen things beyond the walis
to him. inspiration came the coldly moonlit room. Somehow
method of finding out that elusive his thoughts seemed to elude any why. With a happy chuckle he be conceivably attempt to marshal them in order.
they liked. gan to draw on his sock again, but new Conventions, as constituting a Did pretty well as
he remembered that kind of riposte by the Little Entente in time Did pretty Funny thing, that.
nothing could be done so late. He and other smaller Powers to her! Now why well as they liked.
must wait until the morning, promotion of the Four-Power Pact. should they? That penholder. Then he would know. It was a But the circumstance that so close James Douglas Harrington. Years
gorgeous idea, and the only won-a friend and collaborator of Italy upon years ago. In another life-der about it was that he hadn't as Turkey has thought fit to adhere to both documents is well calculated almost.
Then at last his muddled intel-thought of it before.
The police. They would know. to allay Italian suspicions. ligence seized on the vital pith of or if they didn't actually know, Rushdi Bey, as a matter of fact, Their job is actually in Rome, explaining to they could find out. "Why? That was it. Why did paid for it, they were to find out Signor Mussolini the real origin and I do Itall those Fears ago? Dethings for people. He'd simply gomotives of the new diplomatic ven- cent fellow, young Harrington. `I to them and let them get on with apollt his chances for him, didn't
it. Have to confess, of course, but ture. Signor Mussolini, in any case, has already decided in prin- 17. And they never suspected. he didn't mind that. No. The
Queer how penholder.
a similar if separate pact of mutual things turn out in this jumbled old main object was to find out what ciple to negotiate with Soviet Russia
that Why was. Of course.. Him. world. Dead.
It might The
next morning saw Old non-aggression have been the other way round Beetle carrying out his splendid! Moreover. M. Titulesco, during his me, dead, him alive now. You can't
notion. He knew where he could present stay in London, has missed make these things out, anyway. find a policeman, not far from the no opportunity of emphasising that got him. With a penholder. But office, and then he would soon Roumanis is determined to remain that wasn't all. The penholder know. Up to the young constable on good terms alike with Soviet was How. What was Why? That's he shuffled, and spoke in nervously Russia, Italy, and Germany, the it. What was Why, if the pen- eager tones. After the first slight German and Italian markets being holder was How? Like a conua shock of surprise, the officer seem-the most advantageous to Roumania, drum, ain't it? A conundrum.”
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He as also to Jugoslavia. These two the Danubian States show little or none Awkwardly he scrabbled into ed to understand perfectly. took Old Beetle along to
bald- of that anti-German bias which. bed, curled up on his side, and lay station, where he found staring into invisible distances. headed man in uniform sitting be- may have coloured the attitude of Poland and of other Northern Euro- Presently a chuckle cut the silence hind a low table, Then another.
"I want to confess to the mur-pean States in connection with the "What was Why? That's beaten der of James Douglas Harrington. new pacts.
Years Unless 1 Am mistaken, the What was Why? The reason I did it with a penholder. me.
Whacks Whacks me.
original idea was to have, not two behind it.
ago."
a single and me."
"Eh?" Glances were exchanged parallel pacts, but by the youthful constable and the comprehensive, one. Poland, how- "I ever, was loth to be immediately Weeks sauntered past, and still bald-healed man at the table.
identified with the Little Entente as Old Beetle's puzzle gave no signs see. What was it, again?"
"James Douglas Harrington. lot 2 of solution. It mattered now. It intruded more and more killed him years ago. With a pen into his work. In fact, the austere holder." head of Pattinson, Gable, and Bat-
"Quite so."
A
I such, possibly because she regards Great of the herself Powers. So the decision was taken
оле
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Avoiding War
The bald-headed man's tone was! 6th Sept. tinson's had occasion to speak to
From the technical aspect, much 6th Oct. the submissive Mr. Gable about it. gentle, soothing. He gave orders, head of Pattinson, Gable, and Pat-pressed his broad thumb on bells. Old Beetle's behaviour had attract-made notes, and asked questions, criticism might be offered of the ed attention. Evidently he was Old Beetle was glad he had taken, two conventions just concluded in "getting past it." Pension, service, this step. Soon now he would London. The definition of the ag loyalty were words that played a solve the mystery of that everlast gressor might in practice be often difficult to apply with either equity ipart in old Pattinson's talk with ing Why.
the sober Mr. Gable.
"How long ago did you do it" or precision. That is why it is cer- Old Beetle knew nothing of this queried the man at the table, after tain to remain unacceptable to Bri- side of the affair. His own per-sitting a while in silence, apparent-tain, America, and to any but the plexing mystery filled his littlely waiting for the return of the Continental Powers. world of thought. He realised that constable, who had departed on But in so far as the new pacts, bred of a wholesome fear of war and and he had murdered Harrington, but some mysterious mission.
Old Beetle thought hard.
determination to avoid jot a Bomehow that didn't matter much.
"Forty-three years," he said pre-avert it, must tend to discourage in- Iternational querulousness, they may
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