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Orme hoped that the blecoughs had Mr. Joseph Morris After
27 Years' Service.
"Why not? Even sleuths sometimes eat and alcop."
returned during the ceremony. "I wish you wouldn't keep harping] A fortnight later he was recalled. on my profession," Orme aald testily. He had made no discoveries about the "It's a far more respectable profes-murder. Indeed, he had..come to the sion tahn yours. I neve landed the conclusion that there had never been] country in a European war, and a murder. The doctor, questioned don't go about thinking myself a super-again severely, admitted that it was or being on the strength of having just possible that Blaber could have to attend vulgerly expensive dinners shot himself. He stuck to it that he
LAST LINK WITH CONSTRUCTION STAFF
Mr. Joseph Morris, Chief Accoun-
for what I believe you call potentates." did not believe the pig-dealer had done tant of the Kowloon Canton Rail- "No" Eliot protested languidly. "Not any such thing. Privately, Orme way, leaves for Home on September in my department. Wo call everyone thought him an opinionated fool. Has on retirement after 27 years ser- below the rank of emperor by his nick-was in a thoroughly bad temper. Ho
With his name. But that doesn't make
ushad wasted three weeks, been made to vice with the Railway. superior. What gives us this air of look a complete fool, all for a revolt-departure the last link with the Rail- concelous merit-pathetic if you like ing old wretch who had died a natural way Construction staff will be is that we are the last bulwark against and certainly merited death. Angrily severed. the roaring sea of democracy. We he flang his things into his suitcase) may be trivial, our occupations may and prepared to leave the place where]
Mr. Morris came to Hong Kong Ini be absurd, repetitive, and mysterious he had been an humiliated.
(1907 as Chief Accountant of tho but we are not vulgar. Using the He was just going when they sent to K.C.R. Railway Construction and word in its proper sense, as meaning tell him that J. Blaber's heir had when the railway opened in 1910, his STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF,jef or pertaining to the people. Welbeen discovered at Falmouth. A
WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS. EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, ¡do not pertain to the people. When nephew, who said that so far as he services were retained in a similar
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During the Intervening 27 years, ful crushing vulgarity the modern and scribbled a note to Catherine Mr. Morris, with the exception of CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE
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y past. In those days I shall have She was in the park when it came, periods of leave, has retained his reigned and be dragging out a squalid with Michaci Eliot, but one of her post with the railway administra- middle-age in Tunbridge Wells,' many allles-this one was the gar-tion, and has seen the service grow "Darling," Catherine Severn sald, dener's son-brought it out to her. from infancy to its present-size and light the spirit lamp." She had pro She decided that Michael must take the duced a picnic basket and a primus news to Sir Thomas, himself as if he
importance. from just Inside the door in the wall, had just learned it in the village. In Hla successor as Chief Accountant and was spreading the things on the the state of pleasurable excitement at the K.C.R. will be Mr. A. J. C, grass. "There's quite enough for you," that would follow the announcement Taylor, who has been associated. she said prettily to Orme. "We al-Sir Thomas would consent to anything.
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Pres. Harrison with a penniless Foreign Office clerk for over 25 years, and latterly has "Is this what you were doing the "I'm not quite penniless, darling." been Chief Accountant there. day Blaber was shot?" Orme asked Eliot protested. thoughtlessly.
"No. But you only have enough to
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Eliot pointed a long finger at him. buy those very suede gloves you wear What did I tell you? You must be in London and nothing over to buy mej careful. Cat. An unguarded word and hats and frocks, not to speak of all the I shall be on my way to Dorchester father things your wife will need (f shop Raol."
is even to be noticed in the same room with yourself. Don't you want people ta her laugh and her glance at Eliot. "No," said Eliot.
Catherine laughed. And again, in notice, me?" Orme caught that quiver of excitement glad the sleuth has gone. He was at the nations which composed the
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or apprehension. She turned tojways looking at you."
|League did not try to remove the solation," she said. "We'd hoped to Catherine said. Orme. "This lunch is by way of con-i "I thought him rather a nice man," economic causes of war, and because they remained economic`rivals, each be able to speak to my uncle again to- "Te's a fool." day. He was quite cheerful when ho They walked back to the Hall, and privately seeking Its own security thought he'd soon get rid of poor Bla-Ellot took the news to Sir Thomas in and its own interests, they were not Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & ber's cottage-but the police haven't his library. Sir Thomas was delight- loyal to their promises when the His fine, segaltive face softened test came over the Manchurian dia- as though everything might drag on as he listened.
"A nephew, you said?" indefinitely. He's very irritable again to-day."
"Yes, sir."
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He liked her very much. After-mured. wards, as he was walking back to the "He won't want to stay here any for the policing of the world against were ready to unite and join forces inn, he wondered what on earth she longer than he can help," Sir Thomas saw in Ellot, with his tart mind andjeaid meditatively. "All that money, any aggressor nation, they could drawling, provocative volee. He found He'll want to begin spending some of prevent war. It is possible to de la message. waiting for him to say that it at once. I shall get Nicholson to fine an aggressor, since refusal to
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"You're ant keep peace, they could abolish the loning of the porter who had seen the saying anything, Cat."
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Was he alone?" he asked suddenly. "Yes."
"Where did he go?"
aurprised.
man left no doubt in his mind that it "I was thinking how nice it would private manufacture of arms, pro- was Eliot, So there had been no pic-be if you and I and Michael were al-hibit the export of those rare metala nie under the wall of the park that ways friendly and happy together like which are specially used for arms day.
this," Catherine said wistfully.
manufacture, internationalise the Sír Thomas looked "Well"
air, insist on all grievances and dis- "Darling. I can't not tell you," putes being settled by arbitration, "Oi dunno where he went tu," the Catherine cried. She jumped up and and enforce peace, by economic or, porter said craftily. "His ticket might ran towards him with a have took 'ee to Borchester if so be calculated air of love and shyness against any recalcitrant nation.
carefully if necessary, by military sanctions "I'm so happy. And you're the only
Policies Leading To War for Eliot's having committed so nordid and We were married
to keep his mind to the impossibility of about it. Michael and I are married. But they show no signs of doing
fortnight ago. The anything of the sort. apparently meaningless a murder. Yet very day that poor man was shot,”
They seem was it so meaningless? Eliot needed The very day," Sir Thomas began. intent, as they were before the war, EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, kept large sums of money in his cat-tage at the very moment," Eliot inter- which never remain secret, on build- Everyone know that Blaber "I must have walked past the cot-on making half-secret alliances
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"What am
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fence), and in pursuing their own. stifle the scandal. Fantastic! And
"Say you love me just a little, rivál economic policles which must yet-Orme was coming to believe that Catherine murmured.
once again lead us into war. more likely it was to be strictly true.
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There are to-day a far larger. Murder itself, done by a civilized man, Thomas said more than that. He made number of people than ever before was fantastic like mooting a naked settlement on the young couple who understand the causes of war
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ed suddenly that on that evening atly adequate, He gave Ellot two sufferably, he had also talked a great deal of advice, both of which the young look round at the dictatorships. that Oxford, when Ellot had behaved no in- boxes of his special cigars and a great another national dispute. As ther deaf about the poetic charms of mur-man accepted with a perfect courtesy have sprung up in Europe and at Then he sent them off in the second the destruction that was brought To be truly poetie, of course, it had car to spend the last week of Elliot's about by war, they know that they to be completely useless and dis-leave honeymooning in Looden. interested an experiment In the
The day they left was the day J. will only be deceived if they again macabre, undertaken in the spirit of Blaber's nephew and heir arrived in rally to the cry of a war for "demo- The Union 3.3. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis Now cathetic research. At the time it the village. After dinner Sir Thomas cracy" or for "civilisation."
had seemed Just the sort of blague strolled through the warm scented one would expect from Ellot. Now dusk to the plantation behind Blaber's
I believe that the best hope of Ha took himself firmly in hand. He cottage. He went by a way known peace lies in the man in the street
one thing he must never do form a theory and try to only to himself. When he reached it discovering the truth about war. If fit the facts to it, instead of letting the and large red hands superintending the ing the economic system which he saw a young man with red hair he does so, he will insist on chang- theory evolve naturally from the removal to the cottage from a cart of facts, He decided 10 think of
He will insist that' Catherine Severn.
some pieces of dilapidated furniture, leads to war. Sir Thomas watched him for a few our financial system should no It struck him that she had never moments, with a chill slowly freesing longer be manipulated in the inter- answered his Idle question as his heart. The young man was very whether thers had been a plenic on the like the late unlamented Bisber, except ets of a small class, and that the day of Blaber's death. Could she was it possible that she was afraid for that he was even more unpleasant to new opportunities of plenty which look at And he was young, and science new offers us should no Eliet?
would live for years, whereas the pig-longer be thrown away because 3 MONTHS' HARD LABOUR Speaker of the House of Repre- dealer had been elderly,
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sentatives, Mr. Henry T. Rainey, At last Bir Thomas spoke.
Found guilty on the charge of the who died yesterday, was taken to At Dorchester he picked up the man must be Mr. Blaber's nephew," he said burn goods than to distribute them who had driven Ellot from the station, in a quiet voice,'
We cannot ensure peace until manslaughter of Chan Man, a vegea hospital in Saint Louis, Mo., laat Amey, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. He had driven him to a register office. "That's me, the young men sald. goods are produced and distributed table gardener, Mok Ti-pang, 40, Tuesday suffering from pneumenia. S'hal, Moji, Kobo & Yokohama. No, he had not waited. Orme drove He was evidently labouring under an in the Interests of the majority, and. Mok Kan-hing, 21, father and Physicians then told newspaper- there. Under the appropriate date he intense though inarticulate excitement and that cannot happen while the son, were sentenced to three months" men that the speaker's condition found the record of a marriage be- "I should have thought you'd want
central sources of wealth remain hard· labour each by the Pulane was not serious. tween Michael Nicholls Eliot and to sell the place." Catherine Severn.
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Interest, and once we begin to do fact that the deceased was in a poor secutive. He had been in continu- unless he is insane, stop to commit a Sir Thomas went slowly back. The that we shall not have our present physical condition, according to ous service; however, since March murder on his way to be married, night stents of his garden rose round Orms saw Ellot hurrying through the him. The white front of als house incentive to quarrel about markets medical evidence That did not 4, 1923. plantation and along the path, strugglimmered ghostly against the wine or to arm against each other In-Jewonerate the defendants from
riing desperately with the spaams, dark skyre committed perfect stead, we shall have a great con-mame, but there was an element of EN Parcel measuring not more than 6 eu will be received at the Commeeting his beloved, giving har hely hseless murder he said to himself structive adventure to offer young misfortune in the case, wife of the deceased. He was set sany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sanding,
tween gasps-final instruction and gentlyan suprotsen
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