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THE CHIRA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1935
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-thought of the Marquis Perello When PC Simpson had gone," "Count me out, he said. Take naturally for two reasons: the the Orator took from an envelope ane ticket-single. You're going first was that Len Witlon was in the Bitle half-burned slip of print-dippy”
town, and the second that in the ed paper that had been found în The absurdity of the very sug- Marquis's house, in a safe, and the grate of the dining-room.
and gestion that it was not a brilliant not a very safe safe, were four reconstructed it.......
ides brought a fleeting smile to packets of cut emeralds that had
the angry maZ arrived in London a few days be- fore.
Early one morning, somewhere *Listen! --You-know-- me! in the Bay of Biscay, a British know just wha that fellow's They were in transit to an destroyer came up over the horizon thinking. I've got right behind illustrious person in Italy who had behind the slow-moving steamship the thing he calls his mind. ↑ John, a passion for emeralds, and had Emil and signalled the captain to do you remember when I went! been purchased in the Argentine stop. The Emil was a small ship after the Infanta's pearls and then jat great, cost. The Marquis had that carried a large number of went back to Madrid four days notified the police, and Mr. O. Rater pleasure-seeking passengers to the after? Did anybody know me or had thought it desirable to station Moroccan ports and Madeira. She recognise me? I'm going to show a uniformed constable before and had left London at midnight on you my biggest bit of work” behind the house. He knew the the right of the robbery, and the He might have added his ugliest. names of those constables, and pretty Anglo-Spanish girl who had for in a tempestuous and sleepless leaning over the balcony, he ad-already become the belle of the might be had designed a crime dressed the Small gathering of ship had joined the Emil just be-that had no equal in his briliant! police officers
navement fore she cast of from one of the record. pn the below.
London docks.
A week later there arrived in Miss Avilez protested vigorous-London an elderly English gentle- y against her arrest, but rather man who gave his name at the blotted her copybook by attempt best London hotel as Colonel Per "Yes, sir." said another voice.ing to throw a small package over shin. He had a British passport: "Then asked the Orator gently. why the hell are you here?***
bcard-a piece of extravagance on he was apparently a fussy, rather her part, since the package con-quick-tempered man, who had a He was very hurt, because he knew just how quickly Len Witlontained 17 perfectly cut emeralds, special business in life. He stay ¡worked. He did not wait for the none of which was under ten jed at the Wheetham Hotel, which was at once the most obscure and PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS the rope to the steps, and fire min-
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The matron who looked after the most fashionable in London. utes later was knocking at the her on the destroyer brought her and he read the newspapers with door of the Marquis Perello's to London and to Mr. Rater. She great industry.
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long time. The marquis and his the hauteur proper to a daughter Mr. Rater received a scented let
ter. It was written by a lady who wife were at the theatre. The of hidalgos. three maid-servants were locked in
The next morning there appear-signed herself "One who Knows,” &a room upstairs. The armed valet ed in the London Press a com-and it ran:
who kept guard over the safe was munication very carefully, compos- found bludgeoned in the drawing-ed by the Orator himself. He room, and the safe was open.
wrote at greater length than he
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"He worked four-handed.” said spoke. the Orator philosophically.
Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-four-handed, so the Orator had Len Witlon invariably worked Rotterdam, Antwerp
made no great discovery. And after a job was done the four would separate and leave England by various routes.
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There is, for example, a steam- er that goes from Dundee to Hol- land and yet another that sails: from Plymouth to one of the French ports-Len never made the mistake of following the beaten track. His methods were unique; nobody but Len would have taken
square and staged an elaborate
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If you wish to know where the rest of the Perello emeralds are to be found, I can tell you. I want you to promise me that I shall not be arrested, but, know- ing that a police officer cannot make any such promises, I can- not ask you to put that into writing. I will come to Scot land Yard at 8 o'clock on Satur- day evening. Will you be in your room?
"Part of the proceeds of the! Burford-square robbery. Eave been recovered by the arrest of calling herself Inez Avilez It appears that the leader of the gang responsible for this cleverly planned rob bery, whilst he was careful of his own skin, had not only sent the woman on a route where she The Orator read and re-read the women could be easily traced, but had communication. Where left evidence possibly with the were concerned he believed in idea of using her as a decoy to miracles. And yet he was satisfied draw attention from himself to in his mind that behind the letter her destination."
was the inspiration of Mr. Wition.
On the day following the pretty For a long, long time he stood by a furnished house in Burford-Anglo-Spaniard's conviction (she his window looking
on to the Singapore, Penang. Rangoon and murder mystery in order to bring tar) a second inspired paragraph and thinking himself into the was a British subject from Gibral-Embankment, staring at the river.
mind of his enemy. appeared:
"This woman was deliberate- There was at the Yard at this ly sacrificed" by the man who time a most unpopular Assistant planned the robbery, and goes Commissioner, who did not like
ment of his crime." to prison to bear the punish the Orator. Major Dawlton had
had his police training in India
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all the police in the neighbourhood running to that one particular! spot and leave unguarded the place he wished to burgle,
A search of the house revealed nothing of valne except-in the
Sreplace of the dining-room were
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only half-burnt. It had apparent alter it a little, but the Oratored the Orator into his office. ly to do with passengers and knew his man, though he might Iguides and the difficulties of
Customs
He put
a woman.
dress
came
"Come. come, Mr. Rater," he not have recognised Mr. Le said, a little pompously." "This Witlon if he had seen him pacing won't do at all. Here are emeralds jed.
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staat and ran to the window.
Something struck the sill on
the little slip in his the floor of his expensive suite in of an enormous value stolen under "That, I suppose, is the art of pocket, very carefully and sent Aix, crazily incoherent, planning the eyes of the police, after you criminal detection," he said, with which his hand rested, ripped a forth widespread enquiries. The vengeance for the insult that had had been specifically instructed to heavy irony--the Orator was very jagged wound in the stone and only clue he had-and that o to him the next mornings
been put upon him.
protect their owner! Have you unpopular at that moment "Half brought down the plaster from the from a constable of the City police Orator laconically.
"I've got-Witlon, reported the seen this morning's newspaper the good work at Scotland Yard is ceiling. who, standing at the junction of And yet his superiors knew wearily, and waited long enough to see this woman when she dow, said the Orator gently. "I can't read said the Orator done by informers. I should like "T'd keep away from that win- Queen Victoria-street and Cannon-there was nothing in the world to for the Assistant Commissioner to comes street, had seen a car in which was associate Witlon with the robbery get apoplectic before he concluded she comes," said the Orator riflesbot, but I thought he'd "They tell me he's a wonderful He was not even certainHe had his perfectly turned alībis."newspapers when I have got softly." it was a woman, but she had that and witnesses to prove his pre-work on hand.”
operate from the Council building. You think it is a hou? The barge was certainly a bril- appearance, for her head and the seace in France at the hour the "It is a scandal, Mr. Rater don't agree. It is probably some liant idea."! upper part of her body were en emeralds were stolen.
Really, I am ashamed to meet my jealous confederate who has been Major Dawlton's face was white closed in a frock She was, in "I'm a mind-reader, too," said friends at the club. They are badly treated. These scrape of as death point of fact, at the moment he the Orator, when they asked him constantly asking me why we don't information have come to the Yard "Shooting!" he gasped. - *At EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS saw her, engaged in slipping on a for an explanation; and just at get detectives in from outside every day since I have been here..
this moment I'm reading Witlon's. And I think it would be an excel- They have come every day at me," said the Orator pen- Cannon-street Station drew What he's saying about me at this lent scheme." blank; no woman had arrived in minute is enough to make me turn: “You don't want detectives, you that's seventeen years.”
been here, said the Orator, and sively. "I hope those fellows have a car at that hour. Sydney viously gone east of
She had oh-in my grave. Only I'm not dead." want mind-readers to deal with
located him. I should think they Cannon-
Mr. Len Willon had a brilliant wition," said the Orator again. The Major snorted under this As he spoke he saw two motor
would" street.
associate, one John B. Stimmings, **Stoff The Orator was something of swho came
and » nonsense!” said implication of his inexperience. at the request of his Major. Dawiton. S
launches filled with men shoot out psychologist himself. He knew master to Aix not knowing the It was a peaceful Saturday France. That sort of scoundrel they were making for the barge.
Wation? Rabbish! He's in
from the cover of the parapet, Witlon's methods, and knew that condition of Mr. Len Witlon's afternoon at Scotland Yard The not going to put his nose into this that gallant gentleman would first mind.
day was warm and the double win-country, and if he did we've su assure himself that his beautiful Too bad about Inez," said Mdows that shat out the noises of cient evidence to convict him of terviewed P.C. Simpson, a crest ornate sitting-room and closed the wide open. Sunshine bathed the eight o'clock this evening. ** lady confederate was safe. He in Stimmings as he came into the the Thames Embankment were simple larceny I'll be here at fallen and resentful man, from door. "Clever kid that I'll bet deserted wharves and warehousesMake it a quarter to whom his first murder had been this man Rater, framed up-some-that form so fine a skyline on the gested the Orator, venom in his ruthlessly snatched.
thing on her
southern bank, and laid on the "Yes, sir, she talked with a sort “This man Bater couldn't frame river a sheet, of fretted gold. lof foreign accent
àpicture," spluttered Lez, his The tramway cars were more or “I want you to remember every ordinarily good-looking face swol less empty the promenade given word she said, Simpson," said the len and purple with anger over to leisurely sight-seeing folk Orator gently.
"Rater! They call him the Orator, who had brought their children don't they? I'll make him talk! for a stroll Look at this!
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P.C. Simpson thought very har trying to coax, by a vigorous sage of his bead, the ha ten facts of the com
can't remember an
The only
got He slammed down two press,
#cuttings before This visitor. “He she couldn't get anythin
· OB, IDE.
the
"She won't come but he willthing
eye.
Orator "Now we're got some
"That's all right," said the
thing to charge him with "
They were shooting at me!" sug-squeaked the Major
Major Dawiton, sitting in the office chair, yawned..
“She's sold "yon,” he said. “I told you not to come
"I told you not to come, said Mr. Bater, but the joy in his eyes belied his tone of sympathy.
"The general idea was a good one," said the Orator to the Chief Commissioner," "Witlon
my Inspector. Rater took off his Mr. Rater. He stood with weakness for fresh air, and he olded the back to the wall, glooming down must have made a reconnaissance and at the Assistant Commissioner and seen how easy it was to look
into He thoughtfully: The Major - looked
opez Oh yes,
at his watch
"I'll give her another quarter of
splinter dis
here was no sound of
land one of my him up when he landed at South ampton from Havre
"But you didn't dream he'd be your room, or you have allowed the Major
did not answer im
be sighed.
was on his feet in an in-
The En
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