THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SHORT STORY..
DETECTIVE BURNS' GREAT
CASES
THE MYSTERIOUS COUNTER- FEITER
(Continued from last Saturday)
But, as the story unfolded, it
EXTRA
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1914.
Hello, ie this Mr Sime?" he
"Ye," came back the hesitat-
ever a counterfeit bill. When they became restloss, the Nor- asked thickly. rico, taking a leaf from the Briggs book, told them that every-ing raply, thing was all right, that the final step would be taken soon, that all was not quite ready. They would hear something in shortum.
Ithe meantime, a dis.
"Vell, vill you call, or aball I send it--a letter for Mr, Sims at Otto's safe ? "**
Norrises and the rest of those who agreement broke out among the were doing the actual work of counterfeiting. They began to call. quarrol over the division of the spoils. And in their quarrel they ignored the promotere altogether, The result had been that the
chewing a olove, edged up closer.
STARVED MINDS.
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SAORT SERMON,
*Asfand it shall be given an
is called out by danger. Men who for years have not prayed pray in incidents in the loss of the great moment of danger. One of the
Why Many Children are, 'Unmanageable,”
to fou, ok, and ye shall find; Rook it shall be opened unto ship the Titanio, which deeply At the final sitting of the Cosoa "tott vii., 7.
impresse me was this, that when The thing appealed to Sims at ference on musical education bold. All
some of those poor fellows were once. This
pray; bat do we be must be a cafe at the St. Paul's Girls' Sobol, love to God answers prayer? floating about in the boats, won by liis pals. He wanted to know Fowlee pleaded for a thoughtful an Ana Let me try for a mo- some of them, we are told-and method of communication adopted Brook Green, W., Mr. Erst Do we expecting God to give dering whether they would be saved, they began to pray; and what had happened, Ele would selection of music by a lancher heat of two to show you how they told us themselves-aid the Children were not fools, he said. oripia reason, and experience Lord's Prayer over and over A few minutes later a tall, They wanted to know the why and all come to teach us that we slender young man, with light the wherefore of overything. hoald A only pray, bat expest they could use. They did not again. There was no other prayer audy hair and a thoughtful,
No Blase Children. God to Por and to answer our know how to pray, but they had refined face, sidled up to the bar
"They are profound analysts profers "[Blow will be foaudi the second showed how great à fire the little precious plate had been taken at Otto'sand asked for the letter,clared. Occasionally adults were to the of not only bids as pray, the day school or Sunday school; and deep philosophers," he de- first be Bible from one end at their mother's knee, perhaps at learned the Lord's Prayer, perhaps instalment of a short story con-old lady in the nation-stora had quietly up to Bay City, where Burns, who had been impatiendlydiecovered who wore tired of the but asave us that God answers but the instinct of these, men on tirbated to Me. Clure's Magazine quenched. A stop backward the papor the press, the ink, and by Mr. Arthur B. Rave on an-toward the real mystery was all the other necessarios bad been From his pekst he pulled the classics and said they wore played prayers, hear it said, I see it other of Detective Bu as famous taken when two more men who secretly gathered. There they original twent daar bill that out, but children were never done believes in the the great Atlantic in a little frail dason. Dotective Bucas bas mide" had hoon roon at the silent house actually started their "mint." John Petere hau tossed so jauntily found expressing these opinions. Bible ao days." That statement boat, when delivernoco seemed a world-wide reputation for him in Bay City were discovered.
The promoters had promoted a on the counter of the little Fowles finally, are the product prea & great number of
"Blase children," said Mr. poly false. I believe that almost hopeless, was to pray; 60 self by his clever, work, and has They were two brothers, ons en
donblo cross on themselves. notion-sture montba bifore,
they prayed the Lord's Prayer. boen concerned with numerous electrician, William Norris, the They had furnished the money "Rd that," he ground out.
of the imagination-they do people believing in the Bible, point, Who put that instinct there? Now I want you to notice thin investigations of a highly por- other a preaaman, Edward Nor is for their own buncoing. Which You are under arrest, Now, un plexing character),
Now at inst the trail was get all go to show, as Burns says, monkey business. The game Music at Dublin University. pus people. And I will tell you why
Dr. Peroy Buck, Professor of vor avand most leading stinct into a man's mind, into and amongst them as of the God. Now God never put an in- ting warm. For here wore the that there is no such thing as up. Sira, " men who had really conceived the innouamong thieves. Howeve., Ho was aaplendid young fellow,
in a strong plea for the lea uing believe the Bible, and why I, 3 mon's nature, but that scheme in the Grat place. A the truth had been told to the too or at least might have tsen. obloga strumenta and for appeal to it first of all. tvary"
Fastinct will be satisfied. clever pair they wore, these men promoters in one particular, at He had dous, some remarkable ensemble playing
the Bible because of einracter demands that we be I believe
ideal of God's who had laid the plans and had least. They board. It was not by work in his trade, was the son of
After drearing that it was An the work at the Biblo is doing. love Him, It would be cruel, it got the others interested. They their usual and exps sted under a ministar, and never before had good for parents to drevo are the work pich I have seen it do would be mockery for God to pat had received their inspiration ground method of communi- engraved anything the like often to learn music if the obildren. from the widow of a previous cation, but in the swapapers. It which had caned his arrest. It did not want to lesta, D., Buck rather noted counterfeiter named was the sartling information that was an actual fact that, except to aid the piano gave one re- gone by, th in London and in
Trave And Bible-clas63 in day mind, and then refuse to satisfy an instinct into your nature and Briggs, of Findlay, Ohio, and man named Peters had been two or three of the makora and which one could do with ringed to those Able-classed were men
little chance of doing thing Ord. eofthemon who came nature and mind the instinct of it, God put into your heart and they had received it by the rather arrested in passing the very firet utters of the counterfeits, he was peculiar process of having been one of the beautiful notes that scarcely more than a name. With instruments, as for instance in pa who dra hord, men who did prayer why? Because » Be a0-" themselves stung,
ware to have made the fortunes consummate aleverness, the Nor. orchestra where one was a wait in not hold A very good name. into the human instincts implanted swers prayer a Divine response of all of them....
rises had fitted him in as the
a complex body
baside, who were not very main cog in the money-making Orchestra Shampoo Sensation, reputable but I will tell you what by God Himself. Reason, then, machine they had devised.
Dr. Buck spoke of the pleasure Isay. I the drunken man that God answers
demands: that 70 believe. Never word did Sims Bay. very bad violin player, he wha
be got in his boyhood whep as graganlly
become sober,
prayer because this instinct. lives in osch the unclean
the most cruel times of danger,
"
Three of the gang hul been landed now. The plant had bin
raided. And yet the net result was only adding another man who would not talk, could not be made to talk, "about the one point that interested Butas The elusive engravar of that beautiful plate, the real man of mystery who alone of all the gang was sought as the 'gest menace to the integrity of the cur- reacy, still not only was not caught, but was not even kowa. He seemed to be a mere figment of the, imagination-except that there was the plate, very real and vory good.
was able to resume following the
trail of this mysterious and inter-
østing artist-crook, "With overy capture, he ecomod, if anything,
to get farther away instead of
nearer.
had been spirited off by some
telepathic warning.
One day Selby seat for Burns. He had felt the web tightening about him. One by one he had
experience, had introduced them ough to save himself. ench to a strange man who, ahe
Now, Ed, wo've been stung We know the game. Let's go to it; let na ating some one else."
It had been on
"You see,
is
did not shake him. But his story
currency,
New Holt Steamer.
not exist."
it
B
The streas of modern life and are still standing as firm and true on the engine and
swung
Briggs und died, and; his wife, Gertrude, had actually lived on his ainister reputation. Pouple with shady designs on the car yas not until smother tall in advice and aid. Among them arrasted. It had been too much syllabio in the way of confession his school orchestra. He degoribed an the Apa who had no prin-sad God would never put an in- rency had often gone to her for zeen the members of the gang Even after months in jail, not a allowed to play second violin 14 nên gially become. pure, one of us, is called forth even in the work of the Sporet Service had been the Norris brothers, for his nerves. Who knew when could be wrung from him. He his sensations then as like "solyoiples apparently become honest atinst into a man's asture and office at Washington that Burus Gertrude Briggs had taken them one of them might tell all? It remained a man of mystery to the ing a chess problem and having and diligt trathful and trust then refuse to satisfy it. I pass
all to her heart, had given was not much that he could tell, end. Even conviction with the them all the benefit of her large but that little might be just ea- eight other members of the gang (Laughter.)
a shampoo at the same time/ wory. And the reading of the
∙Bible did.
this most wonderful on the third point-experience. One lady speaker said the Book, Ilieve in the Bible to- he explained, ne was that of some of the greatest principal reason for the falling dep bow I have seen the expressen was rushing through Some years ago one of the great said, was a very skilful engraver. he paced the floor and rubbed counterfeiters that ever lived off in the learning of stringed in marvello results of the Bible's had to get off his secure place to It was as though he Sho had taken their money, and the moist palms of his hands the downfall of a clever workman struments by girls was the in work, so it in the parishes do something to his engine, and the night, and the engine driver then, her dupes hecame restless, pervously, "most of d's don't who frequented a saloon where orease in feminine aporta. A where I be boon working, nesu missed his footingand fell. How she had showód encl a letter know who this engraver is, the other fellows had laid the I think this would be a good that settled' the case boyond except as a name, and we're not plans for getting rich quick by other reason was the tremendous it in the of of individual men, he saved himself he never know. time, to see if you can't land the peradventure. Having got their quite are even of that. The fact means of his skill,
inorease in homework.
who After wenty or thirty years, hat he caught hold of something man who made that plate,'
money, she got rid of them by is, Mr. Burns, the man who
And so one of the most baffling
Rush and Precocity, remarked the Chief, recalling the simple expedient of concoct-made the plate is a mystery even attempts ever made to debase the the problem of the precious
AU GYDE. the progress that had alreadying a letter which told that.some to us. I think his name is Sims;
himself back again to a one had tipped off the Secret at least, that was the name fications that the chase had ex raised at a meeting of the Pars about prer Of course I cannot home it was the early hours of the
no wide in its rami child were among the matter been made by Burns,
No, Book speaks much place of safety. When he reached The only thing to do, then, was Service. That always atlie it. have overheard the Norrises tonded over half a dozen States enta National Educational Union, give you all the instances or morning. He took off his hat and to follow out his policy of one The dupos retirod quietly, sadder mention.
and months of time, was frustrat-held in connection with the cones.
will remind you how boots and went quietly upstairs quiot arrest at a time, to lauste, and wiser and poorer. It was a "Where is he?" asked Burna, ed. Sims learned that he was not ference of Educational Associs the Ardous Christ Himself, not to awaken his sleeping chil the men whom the inquisitive clever scheme, and among those covering his eagerness with the man to break Uncle Sam's tions at the University of Lador, who was th God and man, who dres, and as he passed the room neighbours had seen going in and who fell into it were the Norrisea, carefully assumed nonchalance. out of the plant. One of them
monopoly of the money haginess. But the Norrisca were differ-
Dr. Helen Wabb argued that to al God to us, in words where his little daughter was "Even that I don't know. I Burns had rent asunder the veil there ought to be plenty of routine Rae ja real to you, and, sleeping the door was burst open. proved to be a railroad man named ant. Instead of heating a hasty haven't the slightest idea where of mystery that shrouded what and a good deal of (as it might "Ank, aut it shall be given auto and out she rushed in her little Leonord. He also confessed, retreat in disorder, they had he can be found. but it was just a repetition of collected their scattered faculties, that Sims has covered his track and he had disclosed the thing in monotony in the life of the little knock, it shall be opened unto arms, put her arms around his All I know is seemed like a romance of crime; seem to grown-up people) absolute you; Bod and ye shall and nightdress, flung herself into his the other cases: Io was only and, onco having realized how by working a short time in all its sordidness. The nervous small part of the plot, and sither neatly thoy had be a trimmed., veral cities and then moving en storions ununterfeitor was captur-abild for the sake of its heye have know, and did know, of the and said, "Oh, daddy, daddy, I am sus Obrist must neck and her cheek against his, did not know or would not tell Willia, the electrician, had to othere, But, and Falby ed at least. anything that pointed toward brought his fist down on the pauard in his nervous pacing up
abundance of occupation, and the diff culto of prayer, of those glad to see you. I had suck an the engraver. That made four, table before Edward, the press and down,-"I do know this
more it was of the child's owe men of philosophy killed on the railway and I digalt which to-day men of ugly dream. I dreamt you were however
man, with a resounding oath There's a girl in Detroit named
Goding the batter. The next step was learning
Elizabeth Cornell. If you can
The modern child could not, big ford. He knew them all got out of bed, and I knelt down, from the others of the exisvoace
find ber, you'll find this Sims, or
as its ancestors did, slowly as yet he command to us is, end I asked God to take care of of still another member of the
whatever bie name is."
An order for a vessel, which similate knowledge from the world" kasok."
Ay, you
"That strong man believes gang. He proved to be a stall
From city to ity Burne faced the East Coist of Scotland, has time.
will be the largest constracted on around it.
and Heed Himself. Those that God heard the prayer of дя not business man in Detroit, whnee thought to look forward to the Elizabeth Cornell. In each city been received by the Caledon for the old way. Each esge Manto, equally emphatic in he owes his life.
short who ea after like their that little child, and that to ber name was Fuerat. Then from day when they, too, could bunco he sought out every photo-engras-Shipbuilding and Egineering mind must think out thing calling us prayer, and telling him was loaned the existence of by the improve! Briggs procesing establishment, large or small. Company, of Dandes, from Messrs for itself, and have opportunitions that a sixth member a small mou- Their first move had been to get it was one of those apparaly Alfred Holt and Co., of Eivorpool. for acquiring the knowledge it out. facturer named Selby, who ran a real engraver interested. Ho as taske that only patience The vessel, which will ta of the needed and craved. little factory over in Wisconsin. lng got the cleverest man in that and tras intuition "of the
Gradually Burns was working line for miles around, their press detective can accomplish. But type, will be 470 ft, in length, ron from six to ten years of age prayer af supplication, which and brings with it in God's passenger and cargo-carrying "Dealing with instances of child, for nothing but in everything bouly a daty, but a privilege, backward toward the truth, Ile ing need had been to find some the result was foreordained. took a long, stop in that dir- one to finance the Robere.
50 ft, 4 ins, in breadth, 35 ft, 3 who were "asmanageable," Dr. hanging let your requests be time and God's way the richest Oce day Elizabeth Coras!! ection when he found that Fuerst They must have Rome Don who returned, apparently . from
ias, in depth, and of 10,000 tons Webb said the school was genade kaunto God." answers. But now this is my and Selby had put up most of the had money, some Maecenan who nowhere, on a
carrying capacity. She will be erally blamed, but the child wo para to reason. Res point. If God hears the pray- visit home to money to finance the scheme-in would support them. They look. Detroit. From her long. wavy triple-expansion engines of about intellectus! starvation, Hot from payet?ayer is on a woman there, of a child supplied by the builders with probably in reality suffering from tees to pray. What era of individuals, of a man here, short, were the "promoters," the ed about, and at last hit on willow plume down to her swag capitalists who had backed the Fuerst in Jetroit and Selby in gor new boots; she prosla 5,000 i.h.p., designed for a speed over-repletion. The chances were of weak to power: The ury there-how much more will He that a full diet of wholesome ideas of a wild Amal when a stronger hear the prayers of men, women, or 14 knots. thing.
the Wisconsin as promoters. Fuerat ed
prosperity of But even so far the Govern proved easily interested. As for Sims. He must
was what what he really faded spil caught it in its and children who meet together be working
Hampers for Cripples. ment had not intended to proae- Selby, one
Close upon 5,000 poor little of brothers somewhere in a good position. crippled Londoners recently re-Dr. Wobb advocated satisfyive Twist look of some dumb hearts and voices? "If two or A subsequent speaker asked it dates bat is that but prayer? and pray to Bim with united. cute the six already caught. In remembered that, years before, Burns ie not an expert in fushions, ceived hampers of food provided" the precocious child who asked all which you have caught, three agree on earth na touching fact, they would never have spent he had had a briet criminel but he saw the possibilities of out of the fund arguised by Sir all sorts of questions." Was there pleading a moment in jail if they had record himself. He had spent a that trim tailor-made suit, and he William Treloar. Each hamper not danger of over-working the life what is that
for anything, it shall be given them with the name few years in the penitentiary for was satisfied. It was not six contained a cooked ox tongue, a brain?
but of My Father in heaven" Great and whereabouts of the elusive grand larceny. True, he had hours after her arrival that he plum padding, a plum oake, tea,
prayer on appeal of weak are the answers given to the engraver. As it was, most of lived a life of honour since then, was speeding up to Wisomai sweets, a New Year card given must judge by the individual bedsperson; you cannot and if possible-surer are the Dr. Webb replied that they to over? A prayer must prayers of individuals, but greater them were being hold merely as and had nover strayed from the The label in the suit bore the by Sir Adolph Tusk, and a letter She thought the child certainly pay one, you cannot pray to answers when God's people meet witnessed, for the Government straight path. But a threat of name of a department-store in from Sir William Treloar. The wanted more knowledge. Tre was ever mindful of that engraver exposure had helped along Sel- Milwaukee. At least, that was King is the firat subscribes to precocious child ought to bava pro person, and that a house.
od, of a fire or a storm, you together to worship Him in His whose capture would be the by's natural cupidity. He had what the Cornelle maid told a each year's fund, and the money plenty to think about, and the Divine on. So prayer may be greatest deterrent of all to any joined the gang,
Secret Service man who had been comes from all over the world. future master who contemplated
described the appeal of weak- Fuerst and Selby, promoters of cultivating bor. acquaint1023 (on
brain good opportunities for
eto or in the Person of taking up the trade.
Death After Leopard Mauling. healthy work.
Dairen Shipping. low finance, never reaped a pen-her Thursdays out."
The next morning, in a dis- Roland Smith, while in nesrolr of
God Ourther. So far, the men cangut, as very ny in return, however. They
A young man nowed William
The number of vessels entered Now la a point I want you at Dairen during January were Most of them were business men, down a rat-hole, like the man in called up the engraving depart-Bengal, was mauled by the animal The new 10,000-tons steame often happens, were not thugs. bad been pouring their money guised Tentonie voice, Barne a leopard in Domor, North of
to notice This instinct of prayer 180 vessels of 312,851 a decrease artists, artisans mon who were the fable who sent one coin after ment of one of the Milwaukee which suddenly sprang on him. building on the Clyde for the
described as a prea- before. Of the total entered, is Arenguversal hist of 15,496 tons from the month respected, for the mat part another to bring the first one papers, where a new foreman of He died of blood poisoning at ibe Knight Liao, of Livorpoal, is Even the gambler stood not ill back. Nothing came back-not superior ability had just been Presidency General Hospital, ported to have been soki to
ongaged.
Calcutta, leaving a young widow. Busburgsämnetics, Läule,
come across
in his owt fraternity,
the
inspiring
Life
"There
POS too
New Steamer.
Ah, yee, God is a God who
er is answered. Take hears and answers prayer. The writes from a prison Bible, reason, experience all in mod says. "Ee refu alitke teach us that prayer is not
10 it ..were
.
yine
tora
that yeye. In all countries, 148 vessel of 240,853 toan were
in
all a man has retained this Japanese and 32 ships of 65,793
wait a gray, and this instinot other flags,