Romance and Mystery.
Zora, the Invisible
By J, R. WILMOT.
(Author of "The Moorcroft Manor Mystery.")-
Blayne, with all thoughts of trains out of his head, not off for the post-office at Chessington and got into touch with Webster at Scotland Yard. Briefly he related what had occurred, and suggested that someone should be sent down immediately to investigate the mystery house at Oaktree.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
CHARABANC SPEEDS.
HOME SECRETARY'S HINT OF POLICE TRAPS,
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1928.
COURT TEST OF WOMAN IN A TRANCE.
SELF-HYPNOTISED MEDIUM.
Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, the Home Unprecedented in judicial his Secretary, in the House of Com-tory is an experiment In court, mous dropped a hint that heavy charabanes which career at high speeds along country roads may run into police traps.
The responsibility for enforcing the law as to the speed of motor vehicles rested in each case with the police. They were aware of the advertised speed.
HELPING HAND FOR INDUSTRIES.
ALLOWANCES FOR NEW MACHINERY DEMANDED,
carried out at the trial, at Inster-Chambers of Commerce, at their The Association of British burg, in East Prussia, of a woman annual meeting asked the Chan- charged with "fraudulently practis-cellor of the Exchequer to include ing as a medium."
an
A series of instances were sub- In the presence of experts on in the Finance Bill for this year mitted to him in which long hypnotism, telepathy and occult allowances to industries to equip journeys were advertised to be sciences, this elderly white-haired themselves with new and efficient completed within a space of time, wife of the head of an agricultural machinery, which compelled the drivers to in- school was tested as to the gift
A resolution was carried urging dulge in excessive speeds at some with which she claims to be en-
on the Government "the impor part of the route. The Homedowed.
tance, in view of tho, present Secretary confessed that he had no power to control the programme of into a trance, and was then asked carrying into effect the recommen- By auto-suggestion she passed period of trade depression, of journeys which might be so adver- to detail unsolved crimedation of the Royal Commission on tised.
mystery-a robbery in a lonely Income Tax,, that adequate allow castle of which she had no pre- ances should be granted for depre vious knowledge. -
ciation of wasting assets used for It was a burglary committed last trade purposes, and for 'obsoles- February at a School on a remote cence of all parts of machinery, Prusshi estate that the trance-whether replaced or not.” woman was asked to describe while Mr. H. D. Leather (Leeds), who "self-hypnotised" in court,
moved the resolution, said it would taken to verify that the "clairvoy-year to adopt the recommendation, Strict precautions had been not cost more than £1,000,000 a ant" woman had no prior know Mr. John Emsley (Bradford), in they will take the necessary steps."ledge of the castle, crime.
seconding, declared that there was ability of setting police traps?" "Will you consider the advis-
now no incentive to people to lay naked one member.
down capital. If allowances were Subsequent examination of the made for new machinery, great there were minor errors in the ae-installation of up-to-date evidence disclosed that, though strides would be made in the count given by the woman whilst efficient plants. The benefit would in the trance, it corresponded with extend to machinery manufac- the facts.
turers, and the iron and coal in- dustry.
Then the Home Secretary drop- "I'll hop down myself," came Webster's voice over the wire, ped his hint. "If they succeed in "though I don't quite see what we speed at any part of the journey is obtaining any évidence that the can do. Can you ax up some-grossly exceeded, I have no doubt where where I can meet you?"
"I've a mind to atay, overnight at The Golden Goose," said Blayne. "What time shall I expect you?"
MONTGOMERY GAYNOR, a tree. He'll understand, and it wealthy diamond" merchant, is may be to your advantage, also," found dead in his office under "Certainly, sir! Pil keep a sharp mysterious circumstances. The look-out, though I can't say as I Home Office experts believe that remember seeing it'afore." death is due to natural causes, but DR. PETER BLAYNE, a young medical criminologist called in by INSPECTOR WEBSTER, "of Scot- land Yard, helleyes, in consequence of a blood test he has made and also an analysis of some peculiar hard ash he has found in the fire grate, that Gaynor was murdered by some mysterious polson not known to science. SONIA GAYNOR, the dead man's daughter, with whom Blayne is accretly in love after seeing her at the inquest, makes him feel suspicious that she is shielding someone possibly the mysterious young man who is known to have visited Gaynor on the afternoon of his death. While in Oaktree, Blayne, on walking past a bouse known as "Red Gables," finds him self shot at by a dart from a blow- Blayne know how those demon pipe from someone under the trees drivers of Scotland Yard could put in the grounds. On his way home the miles behind them when oeca-: by train a young woman alights atsion demanded. There were no the next station and when she has speed limits when, a
man like Rone Blayne finds a note on the Inspector Webster was in a hurry, acat telling him that warnings are and Blayne could tell by his tone not intended to be ignored and that what he had told him hid 'signed Zora, He immediately aroused his interest. jumps up and pulls the communi- cation cord.
(Now read on.}
CHAPTER XI.
Rayne Decides to Stay. As soon as the train had slowed down after Blayne had pulled the communication card, he swung open the door of the compartment preparatory to dropping down on
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to the permanent, way, Glancing along he driver dismounting from the cab of the engine, while from the other end, the guard was already running towards him,
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"I'm coming down straight away in the ear," responded the detec Live. "We'll probably do it in less than an hour,"
more curt forin what I was en- "That is only putting in a little deavouring to explain," replied Sir W. Jovnson-Hicks.
answered
Hooker.
"Very good,' = air,"
strolled to the front door of "The Blayne hung up the receiver and
Golden Goose."
Dramatic Dialogue.
Experiments began with the woman sitting on a chair in the match-stick in her hand. centre of the court and holding a
After about three minutes her into a condition which doctors head sunk backwards, and she pass- in court described as "undoubtedly one of a self-suggested hypnotic
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and
Loftus, has been prohibited by a A ship's greaser, named Robert evening after the unusually warm
from bringing any further actions: It was a delightful late April
King's Bench Divisional Court day. The fading 300 was
or litigation without the consent bronzing the thatched roofs of the
of the High Court or a Judge. The So it was with a feeling of con-cottages and throwing dense trance."
application to prohibit Loftus was siderable satisfaction that Blayne purple shadows among the squat Then there came to her side a went along to "The Golden Goose" chimneys and and booked a room. Then he wan-irregular gables. A few children familiar with the crime in ques-Lord Hewart said that Loftus con- the delightfully forester (the only person in court made by the Attorney-General (Sir Thomas Inskip, KC, M.P.) dered into the har and remember were playing about the cobble-tion), and a well-known Viennese tinually brought actions, which ed that he had had nothing to eat stones that formed the fantwalk in
were dismissed with costs, which he since an early lunch before he left front of the cottages. Blayne
never paid, nor did he obey any glanced at his watch. It was half past six.
orders with regard to them. He seemed to be a person of a litigioua Webster ought to be
nature who should be restrained, and an order so restraining him would be made.
London.
specialist, Dr. Thoma, who has been summoned from Austria to assist the Court.
She was told that a theft had been eammitted; and then the crime was between the described in a dramatic dialogue forester and the
medium (as the woman had now become). It ran as follows-
Forester; When did this hap.
Medium: Last February, Forester: Where was it? Medium: In a big building. Forester: What do you see? Medium: Silver objects, gicam-
ing.
Forester: Where are you now? Medium: You are taking me into a large room. There are big curven chairs.
Forester: How old is the owner of the castle?
lower court, which dismissed the
Case.
The trial is taking place on the appeal of the Public Prosecutor of the province.
She disavows any occult gifts, claiming only intense powers. of visualising places and persons,
Her clienta have actually included official detectives who have gone to her for help in their investigations; and none of the witness .80 for suboanaed by the prosecution has complained of feeling defrauded or deceived,
The landlord was a genial soul, wants, ushered him into a tiny sit- and when Blayne nade known his here any minute now. ting-room at the back of the house again into the inn when the sound He was just about to turn back and promised that ten would be of a mater-car engine caused him forthcoming in a few minutes. to pause. Quickly he glanced
Left to himself, Blayne once along the rond in the twilight and! again marshalled his facts.
the next moment a powerful carpen? Leaving out of account his inter-flashed past him travelling in the Blayne made up his mind quick view with Sonia Gaynor, the main direction of London. Ita speed ly and dashed along in the direc- case centred for the moment amazed him, but it was not its tion of Chessington sistion.
around the mystery house among speed so much as the fact that It. "Here's my card," said Blayne, the trees, That was the begin-was a Rolls and that the curtains almost breathlessly thening. Then there was the Oaktree across the windows of the saloon astonished official. "I pulled the sergeant's information that the were closed. card, and if you want to know why house was tenanted by a woman
Blayne whistled softly. He fell get the company to communicate and her daughter, and that that that was none other than the with Seatland Yard.. Everything niggers" had heen seen wander-ear that had carried away the will be all right," and before the ing around the grounds, What mysterious young woman from guard could utter a word, the the connexion was between these Chessington station. young man was sprinting along two statements he could not con-back that way, however, he would towards the platform which he fecture. Then
the make quite sure.. could see quite clearly a matter of mysterious woman in the railway Webster arrived punctually at But he is very elastic in his move, six hundred yards distant.
seven o'clock bringing three pick-ments, and I see him riding.
One interesting point jurists Reaching the booking hall he
ed men with him as well as the Forester: What else was stolen 7 make is that people she names as found a clerk standing beside the
Medium: Material
thieves are in danger of achieving door leading to the booking office.
kind. I cannot see it clearly.that reputation even though they "A lady passed through here a
Where are you taking me?
be innocent. few minutes ago," said Blayne,
A young lady wearing a scarlet Those were the facis up-to-date. bat and a black ailk coat. Which So far as he could age there was way did she go? She must have absolutely no link between then
"Frankly. I don't like the sound handed out her ticket, and I should and Sonia Gaynor who, earlier in of it." mused Webster. "It's darn say she was about the only pas-the afternoon, had given him the cd funny that no one knows the senger,"
impression that she was, abfelding woman's name and she's been someone and that she knew more there three months. I wonder about her father's death than she
what the game in with those cared to tell. If that were so, niggers you mentioned?
I .sup.
"That's right," agreed the clerk. "I remember her. A regular
right out of the station. There was a car waiting for her."
but somehow he had pover count- ed on her having things arranged so well, as this, even if she had
there
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carriage and the note she had obviously left behind. From there he came to the episode of her neat escape at Chessington station in the Rolls"car, driven by a man of foreign appearance,
Then there was Zora. Here
driver.
If it came Medium: Nearly 70.
Forester: No, older? Medium: Yes. Nearly
He greeted Blayne cheerily in the bar and the younger man, after a few words with the land- lard, indicated the room where he had lately had ten.
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this
Forester: What docs
It is also revealed that arrests material look like?
have actually been made on different Medium: I see now; it is fur. occasions. on the strength of state. Forester: What else did thements the medium has made whilst thief do?
Fin a state of trance.
Medium: He sat in the room, ate some meat and drank something. Forester: Do you see any other object that he held?
ESTABLISHED FACTS. The Mind not Fixed by Laws of Time and Space.
Medium: Yes. It is lying on sluhner, wasn't she? Watched her there were two lines of theory pose it's struck you, Peter, that it's the window-sill. It is a pistol,
Facts such as are reported above Funning with each other in this mighty queer that this should have
Test for Unknown Names. astound the layman, but in a less A sense of acute disappointment case, then there must be some happened less than a mile from amination and asked the woman if ledge to those practising kypnotism Dr. Thoma then took up the ex- dramatic form are common know- nasailed Blayne. Of course, he point at which they must meet where Gaynor lived. That's what
and auggestion," says a Medical had known it would not be easy mythical one in mental perspec-The only difficulty is that we can't murmured something indistinctly
even though that point was a pure-made me come down here to-night she could name the thief.
She hesitated a few seconds, Correspondent. Live..
Hypnotism came into discredit ro harging up to the house and and was then given a pencil and when the wave of materialism was allowed for her atopping the train Blayne had to admit thai he was demand to know anything unless piece of paper and asked if she at its height in medicine and the
we've got some definite excuse could write the name.
discovery of chloroform frankly puzzled. Obviously Zora Even if we trumped up something This she did that is to say, she anaesthetic gave the doctors the was the outstanding figure in the it might seem suspicious and we wrote a name.
chance to eschew "spiritistic in- flucnee" and rely on the quantita- tive methods of chemistry,
Now the balance has turned, and there is no great London hospital that does not have on its staff a man who has knowledge of hypnotic methods.
and coming back.
"Which way did the car ga?" asked Blayne. "Towards
tree?"
The clerk nodded.
Oak-drama. It was Zora who had com- certainly can't go on the pretext There followed a similar test as
It would be useless, he told him
self, to go back to Oaktree. There was probably not, a
Chessington capable of catching
the fugitive. What a pity it was,
mitted the crime-for crime he that an attempt was made against to the name of the owner of the was convinced it was-Zora again
who had repeatedly issued these your life by someone inside the castle, and the medium answered grounds. That would give the that there were two syllables in the
blown that evil little dart at him
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Yus. Jolly fine car it was, too. Looked like a high-powered Rolls." peculiar and somewhat daring whole bag of tricks away. If name, and she appeared to be try-
Thanks," murmured Blayne as warnings; Zora probably, who had there is anything there at all. Ing to say them but without suc he strolled out of the station.
He had made a fool of himself from among the trees just to show nod's as good as a wink to a blind
horse."
Again she was given pencil and Two cases similar to the one re- this time, but fortunately the him how utterly at her mercy the
"I've been thinking the same paper, and, with her eyes closed, corded have recently come within elegantly dressed young woman medical detective really was. Yet
my personal knowledge. would probably be unaware of it, why, with the opportunities this myself ever since you mentioned she wrote "Von Reibnitz."
She was then awakened from the. The first was a trival crime--a unleas
Elayne had really nebulous individual had already that you wanted to have a look at no idea to what extent the rami had, he did not render Blayne im-the house," said Blayne, "and I trance, and, once more in a normal theft of whisky. A medium far was wondering whether it might condition, smiled at the Court, rose away from the place described the fications of the organisations he potent once and for all, was some-not be advisable to go to the house from the chair, and went back to thief, the circumstances and time
hing that escaped comprehension. and inform whoever you find there her place in the dock. was up against extended.
of the theft, and the motives for The landlord of The Golden that it has come to the knowledge
As compared with the woman's it, when no one present knew any Goose" arrived with Blayne's meal of Scotland Yard that Mr. Gaynor "reconstruction," the circumstances more than that the whisky had been and the introspective meanderings was friendly with a great many of the theft, so far as they are stolen. ear 111
were temporarily interrupted.
The second case was of a man Blayne had finished his excel-people in the neighbourhood and known, show an amazing correspon-
The owner of the castle is Herr and other troubles that would not suffering from persistent headache lent tea, and was sitting by the that you simply want to know if dence. too, that he was not in possession fire when he remembered he had which will give some tangible clus von Reibnitz. He ta 89 years of yield to treatment.
they can render any assistance of the car's number.
not told his man Hooker about his to the unravelling of the mystory of age. He rides daily. Outside, however, he came up change of plans,
The articles stolen were a fur Finding the his death.
He was examined by a doctor with a taxi-driver just about to
In short, treat them
coat and 12 silver coins. The thief practising hypnosis through a friends. confidentially да start up his engine, and Blayne telephone, he put through a trunk decided to ask him if he had to London, and soon heard they've nothing to hide they'll be hud eaten the remains of a sausage medium. It was found that he was
Hooker's low, almost dreamy volée quite frank about it."
drank wine. He left a re- convinced that he had been desert- noticed the car.
volver behind.
ed and robbed by someone he had "Good man,' complimented The taxi-driver had, but unfor-answering at the other end.
Enormous Interest and a lively trusted as a friend. Briefly Blayne told him that cor-webster. "Of course, you'll come discussion tunately he had not noticed the tain circumstances had arisen along, too. I shall want to know strange experiment in a court of though there were grounds of
have followed this
The story of robbery was true, number, although the registration leiter of London he remembered which necessitated his staying out whether the young lady of the law, but commentators are shy of justification, but the medium was
of London ntil the morrow, but house is your frlord of this aftor-jumping to any conclusions. quite well.
ablo to add that the friend was in a that if any pecial messages came "I suppose you didn't notice for him from any of the hospitals,
It is pointed out that the crucial specified town, anxious to restore "If you insist," amiled Blayne, test is the identity of the thief. anything peculiar about
the would he please ring up Chessing "but as a stroke of diplomacy I
the money. He has not been traced, and even driver?" Blayne persisted.
Investigation showed that he was ton 347.
don't appreciate it.”.
If the name written by the medium in that town: the money was re- "That I did, sir," the man Hooker reported that nothing of "Rot!" retorted Webster.is the correct one, he is hardly like turned, and the patient recovered.
"Foreign-looking he importance had transpired since "They probably know you wollly to come forward and testify to wad, sir. Not exactly black, but, the morning and respectfully enough by this time and the fact her powers as a clairvoyanti
The reasons given by the practie hoped that Blayne would find that you are with us will certain-
in hypnotiet for such phnomena as near it as makes no matter."
Telepathy is advanced as one ex-are (1) that some are fraudulent; "Thanks," said Blayne, slipping everything to his liking.
ly do much to allay any suspicious planation of the success of the ex-but (2) that still unknown factor, him a coin. "If you should notice "And, Hooker," added Blayne,
periment.
the mind, must be in some way in- that ear again, perhaps you "you may as well go off duty about they may already have."
"Right!" Blayne responded. Frau Guenther-Gessers, the ac-dependent both of space and time cused woman, has already been adequately to explain the proven (To be Continued)
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