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Colonel Rafael
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MACAU RACES
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936
The Fatal Flash
(Continued from Page 10)
knocking up the switch of the light | which
was inside the door. Venturing into the room, the deHawke's gun flamed, but he was tective examined the empty table. blinded by that sudden darkness. He noticed a number of faint cracks and the shot went wide. running across the glass top, sad at Something caught him a terrible! the sight of them his eyes becatre blow on the side of the head.
It WHS Soni minutes before tart inlgrim«
On nearby bench he found a Hawke recovered from that blow. roll of adhesive tape and a pair off he had not instinctively turned scissors. Strips had recently been his head at the last moment the
instrument which had struck him! ent from the roll.
A jar containing some clear liquid would have landed with much Jin which a sponge foated caught his greater force, and he would have eye. Dipping his finger into the been unconscious for a considerable! jar. he touched it to the tip of his period. tongue. The taste was sharp.and familiar.
"Sult!"
Opening his eyes he stared up at the raftered ceiling. When he tried! Ito how he found that he had been Again the detective booked at tightly bound to some flat surface. those penliar marks across the His fingers touched smooth glass.
Hawke was fully conscious now, Igluss table. He sucked in his lips Juntil they were a thin line of red and was able to realise his position.
against the paleness of his face. He was strapped to the glass-top-1 He was beginning to understand. pel table with his arms, immov
Behind the table was an electric fable, at his sides. furnace. and two heavy, lend-Near the furnace stood Professor covered wires led from plugs in the Prothons busy fastering the loosel wall towards it. One of the wires copper plate to the wire he had just was fastened to its terminal on the removed from its terminal. furnace, but the other, disconnect-juan chuckled when he noticed [ed, lay on the four.
Hawke move.
"It was fortunate." he purred, fastened to a small copper plate that I was able to turn out the On top of the furnace a similar one light in time. Pah! but the great! ay, with a pair of electrician's Dixon Hawke was certainly not pliers near it. The plate was green Very cautious! Did you think that I would go away to attend to a loose Jon one side with a deposit of copper
shutter with this mor open to sulphate.
The bare end of the wire was
The
A fragment of wire on the floor you I merely wanted to confirm held Hawke's attention for a mo-my suspicions that you knew too
He finished his work of attaching
ent. Apparently the cable which much." was now connected to the furnace had once been attached to the the plate, and then approached the plate. The pliers had been used to prisoner. Taking the sponge from the solution of salt be carefully wip feit it loose.
dow.
To make a better connection,"
(Continued from Page 5)
By every sign the professor haded Hawke's wrist. ARELA PRATA HANDICAP been busy breaking up his strange
(Second Section)-One Mile apparatus and reconnecting the he jeered. "It's usual in electrocu This will prove an interesting cables to the furnace.
The detections!"
He clapped one of the plates to race. Valley View has been alive's arrival bad disturbed him.
The switch which operated the the wrist, holding it in place with lotted top weight, and with 165 lbs. to carry, it may not relish furnace was situated near a win-strips of adhesive tape. Then he The handle of vulemite, was rolled up his victim's deft trouser- a heavy im
leg and repeated the operation with running with such post. However, I believe that this the "off" position. pony can win, with Classic Hall the storm raged.
Outside the uncurtaized window the second plate.
It had worked i If you had examined Mervin (160 lbs.), second, and Emergency mound to that side of the house, and closer you would have found an Call (151 lbs.) third. Delightful the flashes of lightning played very oblong burn on his ankle." he said. Chance (157 lbs.) is capable of near.
The centre of the storm admit that it was the weak point causing an upset. and Gold Cur-seemed to be over the hors, and in my plan, but I was sure a local rency: 158 lbs.) should not be the roar of the thunder was deafen-Comner would not have noticed
anything strange." neglected.
ing.
He shook his fist in Hawke's
JOCKEY CLUB CUP
Mile
That
The big window causeri Hawke) One some uneasiness. He knew that face, and his voice lifted to a high-
lightning, when it does strike down pitched scream. This race should prove the main the earth, makes for the highest "Confound you! Why had vou attraction of the meeting, and,Į point. There was nothing for miles to appear on this night of all nights? For months I have waited for such to with several good ponies to pick around so high as the big house.
from, it is not so easy to nominate He swung round as a sound came a storm as this, that I could put the eventual winter. After its from behind. In the doorway Pro-my scheme into operation.
His dark young fool allowed me to insure recently in Hongfessor Prothero stood. brilliant run
were fixed with a strange him for twenty thousand pounds, Kong. Tiny Star (163 Tbs.) will es
and the money would have been probably be raade favourite, fol-fascination upon the detective. lowed by Mayflower (158) and Fly-growled. ** at making experi-fired
You have no right to be here!mine-mine-if you had not inter- bynight (161). Pride of Tsingtao!
Hawke looked at the man coolly. inents-secret experiments." is very lightly treated and I un-
"The devil's own plan," he said. | Experiments which had som derstand that Mr. Ip Hui Ying will thing to do with this glass-topped You electrocuted Mervin and then be given the mount. In that case, table and a jar of salt! Hawke carried our his body and left by a bet each way may prove profit-said harshly "An experiment that shattered tree so that it would!
which made the lights fuse !** appear he had beer struck.**
"What do you mean?''
And even you would not have! if ridden by Mr. N. Deitz Tiny Star will probably win, as this -I The
Professor Prthro.been suspicious if the fool hadn't pony has had quite a few wins onjthat I have found a solution to a worn rubber soles!" yelled the the Macau track during the past mystery which has bem puzzling murderer.
"A serious oversight on your two years, and its present good You told me that Mervin left form is another recommendation. the house an hour ago. His mac-part, professor!"
Hawke was desperately playing Miracle (153), Great Hall (158) him to have been out so long.
kintosh was hardly wet enough for]
Heffor time. He knew that Tommy and Mersey (161), may be the other left twenty minutes ago and when was due back from the town, and starters, but High Speed will pro-vou carried him out from this house the young fellow would doubtlessly bably not accept on account of, the he was a dead man!"
bring a police officer with him. heavy weight of 168 lbs.
Hawke's hand came out of his "Another weak point," he went AREIA PRATA (First Section) pocket, and a formidable automatic on with a calmness he did not feel, was that the current, when it -One Mile This race will provide a return
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we leveled at Prothero.
"I want you," the detective said.flushed through Mervin, left-stress. for murder. You killed Mervin marks across the glass of this table. battle between Boxing Eve (159)r the sake of an insurance policy Naturally you had to place him on and Plain View (159). At the which you had taken out on him, an insulated bed to kill him. but Easter Meeting, Boxing Eve was You killed him by beaten by Plain View on the first
was
me
you should have found some way With a terrible ery the man to avoid leaving such evidence of day, but won perfectly on the sec-prang at him, at the same time your crime."
(158) ond day. Lemberg.
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Our lady riders will have the and this race should prove a fitting lights out.
A sudden elamour from the halli mounts on ponies that have start-lend to a pleasant afternoon's sport.caused Hawke's heart to beat more rapidly. The door bell was ringing. His play for time had succeeded, and Tommy was outside. Again the bell rang, and he heard a ham- mering on the door.
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hand go out to the vulcanite switch. ¡rang, through the house.
you. Hawke. It will take an hour He closed his eyes.
Lightning had struck the window,
to batter that door down, and by A light of fearful intensity struck and, being unable to find any that time you'll be dead and I shall through the closed lids with the ground in that non-conducting sub- be miles away. There's a secret force of a physical blow. A smell stance, had sprung to the next way out of this house which I can of sulphur and ozone filled the air, object in its path-which happened take after the er-execution!" and there was a crash as if the to be Professor Prothero.
Trembling with a fresh outburst bouse was falling down.
Awed by what had happened,
soper.
of rage, he spat at his helpless pri- Opening his eyes, the criminolo Hawke lay there watching the gist saw the glass of the great win-storm die away in the distance. The bell was clamouring again, dow fuse. A bolt of blue dame Heavy blows from the front of the but sudden peals of thunder drown- licked into the room, striking the house told him that Tommy and ed the sound. The great window man by the switch. He stood there the police were breaking down the of the laboratory blazed with light. for a second glowing from head to door. The storm was roaring at the height foot while the terrible discharge "The Judgment of God" the
passed through, his body to the criminologist whispered. of its fury.
(THE END) Hawke saw the bearded face of ground.
his executioner silhouetted against Then he fell in a crumpled heap. Another adventure of Dizon Hawke
will appear tomorrow. the lightning. He saw the man's and a triumphant roar of thunder