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0.000
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S'pere, Penang, Colombo, Bombay. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp Hull.
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Rotterdam, Antwerp & Holl Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseliles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
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Mr. Todmorden
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TELEVISION BOOTHS
IN GERMANY Planned For Munich And Berlin
Berlin. "Installation of television-phone! I shall never rest until I have friend. He had no doubt of it; booths in Munich and Berlin Is brought the scoundrel to justice. A the realisation filled him with an seriously contemplated by the Ger reward may help. I will person- agony of horror and grief. He ally give a hundred pounds for would gladly have died ratherman government following the eignal success of the latest moving than have done this awful thing. his apprehension."
demonstrated at the "Thank you, Mr. Todmorden. And how had he done it? How picture transmitting and receiving hope we shall be able to claim it, had he committed this crime with-apparatus as
Telephone and movie *screen though, at present, I see little out the faintest remembrance of present radio exhibition here.
lit?
would operate simultaneously in the chance of it."
At length, physically exhausted planned telephone-television booth, As Mr. Todmorden went home, he looked years older than the he threw himself on the bed and allowing each speaker to see every man who had traversed the same continued the struggle striving movement of the person at the A further improvement of the new invention ground 24 hours earlier. Grief- to sea light in this appalling my-other end of the Hne stricken though he was, at the stery. At last, he fell asleep.
At-length, physically exhausted. Is that the subject no longer is loss of his dear friend, his pre-
fierce he threw himself on the bed and required to sit in the hot glow of dominant emotion was a lust for vengeance on the mur-continued. the struggle-striving,
powerful lamp. derer. His fingers worked, grip-striving to see light in this appall
At last, he felf
LADDER EXPERT'S ped the air, as he brooded on him ing mystery.
the hated unknown--and his asleep.
FATAL SLIP step oscillated from fast to alow and alow to fast."
"The Cat" Dies In London
the
He woke and looked around him.] He was in a dark room. That was
Because he was so agile at lad-:
A black and bitter wrath seeth-(strange. He knew he had left the ed in him. It was, unjustifiably, light on. He was standing up. more bitter at the remem He held something in his hand-a brance that Fate had placed for a book. Puzzled, he put out his hand moment in his hand the power to to where the switch of the electric uvert the tragedy, had given him flight should be. It was not there, der work, Charles Matthew Hewitt,! a glimpse into the future-and In a new terror that surged up, 44, a plumber, of Netherwood-road, yet had turned aside his will. The obliterating the older horrors of Hammersmith, was nicknamed "The wickedness of it! The 'dcar, kind. the night, he groped along the wall Cat", by his 'mates.
Untying a rope holding a 90ft.| charitable old soul! Shot like for the switch, and found it. The
place sprang into light. He was ladder against a block of flats at dog!
double that reward if he in the dining-room! In his hand Baron's-court, W., he slipped and a week!" he he held the report of his grand fell with the ladder Into Hammer- isn't caught within
father's trial. The truth flashed smith Cemetery, dying four days decided.
later from his injuries, All through his solitary dinner on him. he brooded on the crime, and sat afterwards, for long hours, trying
He was a somnambulist!
With a wild cry he sank down in paint must be concealed. He slip- iped on a dressing-gown. Then he to think of someone who might a swoon.
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brooch. He went to bed at last, patches in the sun-light which fill-dropped it into his pocket. baffled, weary, heartsick.
ed the room. He struggled to his took a long breath. Now-was Putting on his pyjamas, he no-feet and switched them off. He there anything about him suspiel- ticed something unusual-some-stood for some moments unsteadily, lous? He opened his dressing-gown thing hard-in the pocket trying to adjust his mind to these and surveyed himself into the re-mirror. Yes! there was a button Mechanically he drew out the ob unfamiliar surroundings, to
from his pyjama-jacket|| Then his gone B'bay, Mara., Havre, Londen H'burg,ject and looked at it. He stood as member, something.
Where had he lost that button? Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hull.
on his if petrified, his eyes staring. ghastly situation rushed aweat breaking out on his brow. mind, vivid with a new light. He He would have given anything for In his hand he held Miss Hart-was a criminal! He risked dis- certainty. But he must not keep covery, ruin! He heard people the police waiting. That would ley's diamond brooch!
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Was his mind unhinged by the dy, an old man, he tottered up the event of the morning, was this an stairs to his own bedroom. hallucination? All that was. hie
Escape escape from the conse- familiar self. prayed, prayed hard, quences of his involuntary crime that this might be madness. Or was his master. ímpulsc. He was tor," said the old gentleman, notic -his instinct of self-preservation no longer the benevolent Mr. Ted-ing the look and feeling his hag. "First sailings from Hongkong: .M.S. "NEPTUN" 31st Dec., 1934, caused him to clutch at the morden, successful, respected, the gard appearance needed explana-
tion. thought was he the victim of eminent solicitor; he was a hunted some atrocious trick, Impossible criminal, happed by Furies. He "My God!" said Mr. Todmodern must not be found out. He sobbed
found a slight clue to the criminal, sinking into a chair. The in self-pity and strove for the con- familiar concrete surroundings trol of his faculties. He must Mr. Todmorden," he said, looking were dis-think. The brooch must be got rid again sharply at the old gentleman. B.I. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for crumbled about him
sipated. He gazed into unfathom- of. He would drop it over London Mr. Todmorden felt he quailed fet and 2nd class passengers.
under the glance. "It's a button. able mysteries.
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"Yes?" Mr. Todmorden's mouth have put it there! Someone! Who?
pect him?
went dry. Who could have come, into bis But suppose there was some
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the inspec brooch into the pocket of bis must make sure.
The inspector's Pyjamas," commented Melbourne, and Hobart
pyjamas. The servants? He restory of the light-suited fugitive tor. reviewed them swiftly, Impos-came into his mind--his pyjamas! Very curious," Mr. Todmorden sible! Then who? Not surely That fugitive must have been recognised the urgent necesalty for not he must be going mad--not himself
Hela normal voice. "Yes; very curi- in his pyjamas.
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DO DO
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· 1934.
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"
His mind flashed on the portrait
rejected
all. Everything
able. He had gone to bed and slept of running, running silently. He thing! "By the way, inspector, without a dream. Or, was there doubted no longer, but examined I've been thinking about that ro- a dream-a dream of running in the pyjamas on his body, searching ward. I've decided to triple it." the darkness, fast, barefoot? Non- for a spot of blood, for any sign "Very kind of you, sir. I hope sensel Noncsense! He did not that might betray him. Yes! There we shall ask you for the cheque, Pool-get up in the middle of the night, on the trouser-leg was a smear of We're on the road, anyway. We've walk down the street, murder his stone-coloured paint-the paint on only got to find out where those dearea friend, and come back as Miss Hartley's windowsill,
pyjamas, came from, and, .quito He must get those pyjamas away, likely, we shall get on his track
"Yes, yes, quite so.". Would the He them somehow. destroy of Miss Hartley, and he felt the thought of half a dozen plans and Interview never end? Mr. Todmor
he den agonised. and cruel irony of the supposition, though he himself made it. Then who-who. A wave of supersti-thought of seemed to proclaim his "If we can only find some but There are differences evon in tion swept over him. Devils? It guilt. The problem was still un tons like this, we can make a start was inexplicable. He revolted at solved when another danger occur:
red to him. His revolver contain-pyjama bultons, you know, sir. I something obscura within him,
have compared it with mine, but Iti ed discharged cartridge. He must! something which pointed a finger reload it. Feverishly he did so. doesn't tally. Would you mind Shanghal, Hoj, Kobe & Yokohama to the accusing brooch, which he clicked the chambers into comparing it with yours?"
Mr Todmorden stared at him,! whispered the inexorable corol- Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
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not be! He was innocent.
listened in sudden panic. The "Would you mind comparing It But was he?
knock was repeated. He tried to with yours, sir?" We must not The something whispered per-speak and could not. At last neglect any chance of getting a
clue., Allow me!" sistently. An idea came to him words came... the proof. He, went quickly across What is it?" Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kebe & Osaka.to a drawer in his dressing-table
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For hours, he strode up down.
the room
mona in the night He
his dearest with
night He had killed his
"All right. Tell him Fll be down presently
Please, sir, he says
he can't
Discovery? Not Impossible- He kept a tremor out of
He stepped quickly to the old gentleman and flung aside file dressing-gown. The buttons, with the hanging thread of their miss- ing fellow, were revealed: Triumph flashed in the inspector's face.
"James Henry Todmorden, " Mr. Todmordenjumped back from his grasp. With a sharp cry he drew his hand swifty from his ocket There was a report, and
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