Continuing the mystery thriller
BLIND VOYAGE
qHE two girls set to
work to
T
attend to
the lump over Hugo's eye. And then, when he had taken the edge off his hunger and thirst, and felt stronger, he began his story,
Denis, at
-By
MILDRED SNOW
GLEASON
"Have you any idea," he asked, "why our friend was so interested in secret codes? That bamNine!"
"After I left you,
I started on my three o'clock, rounds aft and had just gone up on the boat deck, when I found myself face to face with the binck phantom. But clidn't waste much time look ing him
over. I made a flying tackle,"
"I Hugo grimaced. Usrd to think I was pretty Dents, who had been lost. In fast, but this Mellow was thought, unexpectedly nodded.
"Yes" faster."
he said slowly. think I do. I might have "A man then?" Denis asked. guessed, before, what he was "Almost sure of it. I don't after."
Hugo snt think there's a woman on this
up. exclledly. boat strung enough to do what "What do you mean?" he did. Anyway, as I jumped,
threw something in my he's face ammonin, I'd say. It in blinded me just long enough for Golden him to knock me out."
Be
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"I Qhink," said Denis, "that after the key to the godde which the records of the Gull society were
· kept."
"But why?"
Hugo gingerly Angered
hin eye, Jump over inued.
the then con- records
"The deciphering
would be thousands to a crook!"
of
our lives?" asked Charis. "We haven't been very brilliant su far?
J
Denis sighed. "Let's sleep on it for the present--we're tlery from exhaustion at the moment, I'll have Perhaps, by morning, a pian. the meantime, be Aure you all lock your cabin doors."*
In
Cecil, at sight of the gun, stopped on the threshold, his eyes widening
"What-what's the Iden?" he alammered. He slowly raised his hands. "Do I have to be treated like a thug Just because I come to have a Lalk with you?"
"We're taking no chances just) now-that'u all." Denis motioned him into the cabin, and relocked the duor, "Are you armed?"
Crell's lipa twisted into an amused smile, "There's a gun in my right pocket. Take it if you want."
When Hugo haul relieved him of it, Denis pocketed .hla owes gun and turned back to Kelsey, "And now, whot were you going to tell us?"
The woman had calmed down a bit. "The meeting's a trap," she muttered "It must be."
"Why?"
"Because Parrin arranged it. They left it at that, and soun He told the captain to order it." separated for the night.
In the morning, however, they all slept late, and by the time they met again, in Dents' cablu, a new development bad arisen those to absorb their attention. This Captain Jorkes had worth was that
unexpectedly ordered a general meeting in the lounge at noon.
Hugo, Teddy, and Charis stared at Denis, waiting
"Now why do you suppose the
old keczer han suddenly come to life and decided to do some-
"When I came to, he had for him to explain. For several dragged me behind one of the moments, however, he sat lifeboats, and I was gagged thinking. and trussed up.
He began to "} see t now," he suld thing about this situation?" said question mothe darndest anally. "At least, I think I do." Hugo, "For days he has been sort of questions! I tried to "Will
bell you please
shoulders us just shrugging his
and
all of a now, you're talking about?" helplessly, Hugo said impatiently.
sudden, he gets businessliko and takes action! What do you suppose it means?"
place his voice, but I couldn't what
he talked in a whisper."
"But how could you answer “
"At the secret office where his questions if you were Mr Raynor conducted the
affairs gagged?" Teddy asked.
were
of
or
The fellow Was
hipped on the subject codes!"
the
of
it
was
interrupted by
"And why should that make it a trap?"
"Because Parrin did it under orders from the murdereri" was the startling answer.
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of the Order of the "I can't imagine," said Denis.
As EDLAM would be a
the defence effort gets child delivery in Washington is else hds Golden Gull," Denis continued, "Perhaps something
rest cure from Wash- moving with a thunderous rush £55. A friend in New York has while "They required only a nod
we've been
of inertin, a rash of new Gov- twice paid seven times as much ington it's almost
these or a shake of the head. They he kept a complete file of all happened
days. ernment agencies blatches the as this, which goes to prove that all about my
people the society helped, sleeping. Anyway, father, and
just wait Here is the vortex of now, so let's of all the information he noon
a bureaucratic face of Washington. the stork is still the bird with Was he in Henry Raynor's
from his received
various and see"
great nation's
bewilder- Sign painter, work late dissolv- the largest bill. confidence? Did he leave a lot
anal lot- sources. A great deal of that lic
ment, anger, anxiety, fearing names on doors, private
when he information papers
British Alms are proving was of an died? Did he know anything tremely
- violent knocking at the door, and frustration as it gropes tering in new ones.
popular temporary escape into private and dellcate When he opened it Kelsey came around in the twilight be- Civil servants-about one in forgetfulness from the problems About ever say anything
nature, as I happen to know, darting in. She looked terrified. tween peace and war. codes? secret
Rid I know since I supplied some of it.
eight of the population-foun-
cipital about one?
der in a fresh brew of alphabet of life in this harried "You've Fot to stop tho
makes Plain John Citizen goes about soup
the Marx city. People still talk admiringly meeting!" she cried, without
business "You've got his
amid an almost Brothers' padded celluloids scem about "The Third Man." told him that I thought any preliminarles
atomic din
controversy, like sanity.
"Tight Little Island" ("Whisky "Secret codes,"
dangerous Denis mur.
to keep those to! It's a trap!"
Booming orators vic like huck- they might fall mured. A little light of excite records-that
Phones ring and memos fly in Galore") is back for a secená sters for the public car with rival efforts to determine where DPA visit, and, with heavier taxes ment flickered briefly in his into
recipes for national salvation and PAD fit into NPA, and if so, around the corner levels SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM eyes. "What
Wrangling politicians, with one thai?"
eye on Russia and the other on what about ODM and RDB in and Coronets" by relieving many
relation to DPS. OPM, NSRB. an oppressed spirit. GTA, GSA, FSS, IDA, ESA, Before she could answer, how-
Shakespeare does not go down SFAD OHE and especially DFA, ever, there came a second knock,
times are and Cecil Stoddard's voice was
A gaggle of radio comments which means Defence Fisheries well here when the
not, in heard, demanding admittance. tors is the air from morn till Administration in charge of fish out of joint, certainly
Orson Welles' version of "Mac- Kelsey midnight with befudding dollops for defence purposes? The man beth," which looks as though it "Don't let him in
of punditry. Topping this fran- who runs DFA has hand-painted had been made in a cave by a sald
frantically. "Don't!"
tic Babel "Why not?" asked Denis,
is an unceasing bar- catfish on his neckties.
company of Mongolian yak When the maid didn't answer, rage of blowtorch editorials.
herders shining with bear hesitated a moment, then Commented
grease. his revolver
"No."
"And
did you
no was 专题
answer
Denis quickly closed
and
It was then locked the door: then faced her "What are you talking about?" he demanded.
bad hands. that he told me that they were written in code. And he said that
other only one
person besides himself knew the key
truthful to that code. answer?"
"Absolutely!" Hugo stared
song
at Denis curiously. "What have sponsor you got up your sleeve?"
"Nothing maybe," WDS the les
evasive answer. "What
pened then?"
hap
"P's my bellef that the of this cruise has, in way, got hold of those He knows their value knows that some of them would be a lucrative source of black- he mail-but he can't decipher drew "Oh, he kept hammering the corie. He
needs the key. pocket, at the same away
questions He figures that Mr Raynor the door. until he got tired of seeing me must have revealed it to some shake my head. He seemed to member of the Golden Gull think I wasn't telling the truth. society, or that le Finally, he jerked me to my have disclosed It to you, Teddy, feet and, at the point of a gun, or that knowledge of it might took me down to the store have reached you, Hugo, through | room."
your father."
"A big risk, that,"
the
me
"Oh, we took our time, and he was on the alert all why. Anyway, we got there without seeing # soul. He tied up my feet, shoved between some boxes, and put a couple of sacks of flour and potatoes on top of me. darned uncomfortable spot and Then, he said, "I'm
a tight t
over.
A
the next election. tub-thump for unity on their own terms.
dazed victim: from his "What this country needs is and cautiously opened more private thinking and legs
public speaking."
might NEWS FROM MOSCOW
"I see!" said Teddy. And so, he has got 118 all together on this yacht to try to and out
who has it, and to pry it out of that person!"
"Exactly."
"He has already got hold of me, and got nothing out of me," said Hugo. "I suppose his plan is to prowl about in his disguise
he until questioned each of us in turn,
wants. Meanwhile, with the
has nabbed and
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COTTON, FURS
AND BALLETS
From Cyril Ray
time in the
This
Fergana
themes from-io
Distant Caves
W tret
WHILE Government workers about plans to exile 30,000 of them and their families
to safer areas, the War Depart ment continues to swell its 25,- 000 staff concentrated in the vast Pentagon building, Alppant.. ly known as "Texas with wash- rooms,"
Burns Dinner
I LOOKED in the other day at a rehearsal for a stage show which must be without parallel anywhere else in the world,
2 A.P.B. ¡
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB NOTICE TO MEMBERS TOTALISATOR TRIAL RACE MEETING Saturday, 3rd February, 1951. There are four races. The First Bell will be rung at 3.15 p.m. and the First Race will be run at 3.45 p.m.
The Electric Totallentor will be in operation. The ticket Issuing machines are of two kinds:-
High Value machines which issue $50, $100, $150, $200 and $250 tickets, and
Low Value machines which issue $5, $10, $15, $20 and $25 tickets.
and these are clearly marked in the Selling Booths.
Crush barriers have been erected in the Betting Hallo at are particularly cach ticket issuing point and backers £ve
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On П platform were Cabinet Ministers, four Supreme Court Judges and scores of Gen- Cautious bankers are towing crals, Admirals, Senators and their microfilmed records in dis- Representatives beating tant cave and General Mac-
washtubs and cake-tins, blowing Arthur's former wife has dug an French horns made out of gar- A-bomb shelter under her den hose and vacuum cleaners, house. But nothing hinders the playing Japanese chimes, sing- £2,700,000 transformation of ing in sextete, and fitting home- the rickety old White House into made verses to the tune of "The a place sturdy enough to with Thing" stand the furious scratching of
Moscow. ballerina is based firmly on the THIS is cotton planting successful ballets here in Russia Harry Truman's ballshot pan.
classical tradition, so the most
They were getting ready for an are either the nineteenth-cen-
annual charity show to be leaving you here to think it using threats to get what he Valley, Uzbekistan. the So- fury classics such as "Swan A mile away, a £2,000,000 broadcast and televised on the an face-lift on the dingy halls of evening of January 25 about the Tell me where the key radio and engines out of order. viet Union's "Land of Cot- Lake," or, if new, are based Congress has produced a riot of time Washington's loyal Scots to the code is, and nothing will, we're all in his power out here ton."
one senso or happen to you or Misa Raynor, at
of cotton is being "Don Otherwise....* He
"The Fountain and a first-class row. me "I suppose that's his plan," type
(from a Push- what the otherwise said Denis. "No telling what he planted which was success- of
Some self-elected art experts superb snort about a chamber of hor- be," Hugo laughed has in mind."
fully picked last summer for kin poem)
"Romeo And Juliet." "But are those files really the first time at the experi-
The che 'Ideological' ballet valuable enough to warrant this "But we searched the store elaborate set-up?" asked Teddy mental cotton-breeding sta- regularly performed at the Others talk of an escape from
tion there.
Ruese would grimly.
TOOM!"
let
ས
Denis exclaimed. can't understand why we didn't.
find you."
spot unable to
tion."
"How
that there
did you
"After a
Out?
*Day.**
"Did you meet anyone your way up just now?"
DX
"No-and I toole darn good
sea."
In
year a new P5251 works, as are
listening marble, stainless steel gather at dinner to honour the
press was
OF the
"The
rors.
High Prices
to
now
America 15
192nd birthday anniversary of Robert Burns,
the
a few
Woa torn
The Stone
The main speaker was to be Rev. George M. Docherty, formerly of North Church, Aber- deen,
пош and Red Victorianism.
minister of Bolshol Theatre,
been re-
Washington's leading Presby- Known as 142, a development Poppy," has never
Washington's uninstruct- terian Church. "They're valuable enough all of fast-growing varieties already garded by the Moscow public- "You came pretty close to it, right!" Denis said grimly. successfully grown and gather any more than it is by me-ased majority, whose cultural urge
is satisfied by a stimulating No sooner had Mr Docherty but no one would have sus "Don't forget that the Golden ed in Uzbekistan, it is said to an unqualified success.
half-hour with the comic section arrived in Washington pected
was room Gull society aided
particularly long bre the rich en have a
or an evening of televised all-in months ago than bis church. enough to hide a man in the well as the poor, and in the and to have been bred for its
wrestling (preferably between dating back to the days of
Abraham where I was, and I was course of its existence your suitability for mechanical plek-
Lincoln. Now, however, there is news women), appears content attract your atten- father came into possession of Ing: its stems are straight and
that
down. Until it is rebuilt towards Congress lot of people's excrets-damag-strong and it throws its leaves of a ballet intended to have it think
both ways, Khachaturian dedi-operates in a setting somewhere the end of this year, he and his dnally get ing secrets, They were safe early.
enough with him, of course, but "Not every collective in the cates his "Spartacus," which is between Hollywood and Heaven. Block gather each Sunday in the auditorium of George Washing- ton University. few million hours, in the hands of an unscrupulous Soviet countryside is a collec- to be staged this year In Len- I managed to work some slack person they would be worth tive farm, not every Stakhan- Ingrad, to the gladiator whose become the symbol of ovite a miner: honoured recent name has in the rope, and got my hands plenty of money!"
the struggle of the enslaved GHOULD you have been led to Hy in the Russian free. After that, the rest was
Vera peoples for their liberty," and think that all "But consider what this cruise elahty-odd year old Vera For must have cost its sponsor!" sald | Vasilyevna, who
hopes to Introduce into his engrossed in the so-called Great Is new church is still in the for sixty-six music, as the decor will intro-Debate on foreign policy, you steel birdcage stage. Re- Charis.
shooting and yearu has been year In Siberian forests duc
duce Ancient Rome, the impres- would be in error. The fact is aldents of the old steeple, a flock so much," Denis dis-trapping in the since the Revo plon Italy made on him when that the ordinary citizen is less of starlings, are acting as bulid- "Not CATE not to!" Hugo grunted, agreed. "We all paid a high lution, has been bringing fore he visited with a delegation concerned about how to stop ing inspectors, and can be heard "I didn't feel equal to another price for it. Probably
Stalin than he is about how to every night twittering, probably a good and prosperity to the "Red of Soviet artists, bout with our friend."
part of the expenses has been North" hunters' collective, Her
is one of the stop inflation. Retail prices are about the difficult housing prob- four Soviet "Our idea of patrolling the covered."
composers. at their highest ever, and Icm. reindeer sledge has been laden His bout does't seem to have been
along with
basket of groceries which cost that of work, "What fools we Denis muttered. #72
werel" ex-
and £2. Is. a year ago, how costs "Liberation" of the Scone game and fur-bearing animal, Shostakovitch, Prokovlev do any more of it, we'd claimed Hugo.
was denounced in the £2. 10s-a jump of 22 percent. Stone struck a chord in long Central Committee of the Com-Pubile irritation grows as the Washington memories becausa Yes it was curiosity that got from clk to crmine better allek together."
un," said Denis,
munist Party's Decree on Mule Government continues to something of the same kind hop- of February
1940 consumed with
as being shadowbox will soaring prices. paned here many years ago. were willing to
formalist perveE- Furs are the Soviet Union's "marked by satisded."
biggest single export, and there and anti-democratic ten- Taking time by the forelock, During the building of the "And now we're in a flendish are always two or three fur-
Their
work rejected Washington's barbers have just 500ft monument to George Wash
worldwide appeal mess--and the question is, how buyers in Moscow from abroad "the basic principles of classical raised the price of a hair-cut ington, a No," Teddy said quickdy, to get out of 11 sald Hugo. Ho many more in July, when the use only," and it also preach-
tant a thing from 88 74d, to a 11d. important a B
was made for contributions of "Not now."
was thoughtful a moment, then auctions
held. Persian as melody."
Пло stones. The Pope sent a Huga, however, insisted on said "One of the lifeboats has lamb, one such American buyer
The doctors, too, are getting niece ed "atonalism, dissonance and
of marble from the and restive. They say they cannot Temple of Concord In knowing, and so she reluctantly a small auxiliary engine. We has been telling
the disharmony" and strove after me, id
and Rome, told him. His face mirrored his might ity to make an escape in biggest single item in the list, "chaolle and neuropathic dia-sppendix at the burgain price up there was consternation when it pain as ho listened.
a good second cords, reflecting the present-day of disappeared ono dark night. "My poor darling!" tic We might only
music of more in groaned, reaching for her hand into a worse mess that way,
for leos in value, .
Vasilyevna Europe and Amerion." "You're you're #UTO you're we'd have to take the villain has caught more than twenty
Sinco Then, however, all right now?"
and his aides along with as thousand squirrels in her time, more melodious works of all room Sho amiled at him. "Por not knowing who they are. No, to say nothing of tens of thou head composers have
no hot,"
wc
Charis glanced
at Teddy
1x-
"Tell Hugo of your perience,"
that.
"We were all
curiosity, and
pay to have it
KCL
with
almost every
arc
kind
Khachaturian
"big
of
ourselves Walk Butte Pro y though modernist bourgeois
£60.
foctly-now that you're found the best thing in to stick it out sunds of foxes and ermine, ao widely performed, and has three times as dear he whiskey as it was 25 years before the monu-
This "deed of barbarism", as the They never charge less than
sputtering National Intelligen- the 22 for a home visit. A hospitat cer called it, was attributed to costs £3 & day or more, named "The Know Nothings." an anti-foreign group nick- been and if you need blood it 1 The stone was never traced and she must rank high among the takovitch has just been nominas 385, a bottle. Soviet Union's dollar-corners. Ted for election to the Supremo
ment, now a Washington land- Just as the art of the Soviet Soviet
The cheapest quotation for a mark, was completed.
That's all that matters."
Hugo "mucored. bir hand, then turned back to Denis,
and catch our man.”
But how are we going to do that, without endangering all
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SECOND
FIRST....
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Etute the kind of bet -- WIN or PLACE state the number of the Pony
$5 WIN Number 4
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