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THE HONGKONG | TELEGRAPH." FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1988.
ARSENE LUPIN
Corrent 2011 at Loews for
Chaptor, Ono LA BLAGAR POLODOKS
I were the figures of two men and a woman. The Inttor's hools, ware still tapping against the side of n dask. Blove leaned over, unlied her handa and foot and rolled her over. he was young and beautiful, dos- plie, the gag that distorted her inouth. Quickly be removed the a Un-h-h! That's one way to keep
woman team talicing!" who said. "I'm Emerson-Blave Emerson. wants happened?"
Steve Banerson of the Debaitment of Critatial Investigation, publicised by the newspapers as G-Man No. 1 For bis spectacula rounding up of Big criminals, received the reporteren with a petiafied amille. They woro his triendo; had helped to make his reputation.
"Thai mummy there's my uncle, Another big haul Stove," said Count de Orissac. The other is Hart of the Dispatch "Forty cornea Bouchet, my cousin. Help years for Butch Larrou! A nice ma release them." long stretch,”
The girl knelt by her uncle, har "i got him a permanent: address deft angers tugging at the knots 'at Inal, didn't I?”
which bound his hands and feet.
Ralph Gordon, star" rápotior on stove, kneelid boside, Bouchet, waw the News, looking bored with every” a bit of paper, the alzo of a culling Thing in the world, including him-card, on the floor. A name was polf, opuke: "Steve," my, paper will written on it. He pocketed It bo-
ive one thousand buckeroos for tween tuge at the rope. Your story of how you dleaned up The Harron məb,”
I HAVO
nothing
to
say,
"Now,” ho aald when they wore free, "spill somo information. Ifow many were thero in on the job?”
"Ono. 1o wore a mask and be
"Against orders," replied Stove, "but wait till I nón thô Chief and maybe we oni, kuinka a deal. Atand a pistol," said the girl. Арговел
"How did he tie you up?" "Ho didn't. Ho "mado my uncle Bi Hart gronnód. "Jiere we go! tie me and Georges then he tied *Ight columns of Apthing to say!“juncle.”
Stave continued: "And l'os here to -resign.”
Gordon's boredbi Janished at the prospect of a mon stóry....... "Rasign? Why? What's; MI" algasd us textop?"
1
"Couldn't you struggle?" asked the Count.
Slove
"He imprenend mo it wouldn't be wiso-by tiring a shot"
Georges Bouchet, was already at
"Quick! Tyron In- the telephone,
Got the manager! Call the poiton! We've been robbed!! He turned back to Stove, "What Inwless country! Wo might all have been killed!"
Aurance Underwalters #fo look after the boys who park, keep their hands off jawals, (Twedky, Krangda. year, and that's not peanuts! 2ẩy own office on Pack Avinud"
"What's the Chiet going to say '1′′* asked Hart
"No can help. Ive got to look out for a No. 1-Stove Emerson. It's going to break taq old mug's heart, Walt, I 800 m,now."
How long ago did this happen?” The young woman answered. "Half an hour ago. About the time we were expecting you to active."
"I hadn't started yet. Why didn't you put the emerald in the vault?" "We did. At least, I did, imme- Btovo loft the drooping over diately after Mr. Carter telephoned." chairs and his., desk, and wont Then the emerald is safo!" erled through the door marked "Buperin- the Count. "Why didn't you tell us?" tendent Privata”, David Pearson, } "As, I remember, when I came in. the "Chief,” a tall ypunt, gray- the göntleman with the gun had the
"I'm Emerson Steve Emerson. What's happened?"
BY
RETURNS
LEBBEUS
MITCHELL
Chapter Two
RENE FARRAND
prove you were in Rome when it happened."
*Will that beom convincing to our
feland?"
Definitely not,"
"Then I went bother about it, Instead, El spend my lite proving my dovelion to
st a Quocs! To your kennel of doga
"Only secondarily."
when your pizza!"
"You - Getting warm. But let'a forget them now. I adore you.”
he American police then," tho Protect was anying to Count do Grisso, "had ilitle to go on."
“It would be an imposition_to-ox- ipect you to solve a crime attempt- ed on the other side of the Atlan- itio,” Inforpaced Goorges Bouchat.
"Our efforts are neverting at your comuland," and the Profoot.
"My hunch,'? anid Slovo Emerann, that the job was done by a Frenchman.
"Impossiblet" said Dausbat! "Tant would involve our having been fol lowed across the proan."
An emerald worth a quarter of a million buclis traveling around is liable to attract strango travoling dowel thief named Lupin who work- companions. There was a French fod on an international scale."
"When he was alive, yes” said the Prefcat: "Ho was killed by a detective on my stat."
You can't cross the Atlantic on boned the same vessel with a very beautiful and charming Fronch girl whom you know and admire, and expoot to arrive at Havre with a heart impervious to the tendor son d like to soo some picturea of timent Bo it was with an emotion the body." hot far from foalousy that Bleve Emerson nw Lorraine de Crissac ware to a tall, goodlociting man in the visitors enclosure on the dock and call "Rono! Rone!"
"There are no pleturen. He was hot as he leaped from a bridge into the river on a foggy night. But the detective saw Lupio bit; an im sink The body was never recov
I believe
The man had two French buttered." dogs under each arm and was ap "Mo, Steve Emerson, parently pleading with the guard to they are dead when I see the body. to allowed to board the ship, HeMen can swim under water. Look gestured with one arm towards the hero, would you say this bullet came throng at the ship's guard-rall, por from a Rossi Superiour pistol?" mitting two of the dogs to all to the ground. They made at once to wards the gangblank and were up on deck before the guard could pro- The man, Reno, made an
Yont.
The Profect examined the bullet. "ON hand, I couldn't. I might have it examined by a ballistic expert."
"I give you a copy of tho ex- port's report I had back home. This
By Panif
HOW IT BEGAN Bord anier
NATIONAL MORATORIUMS
WHEN THE FIRST MONEY PANIC IN HISTORY OCCURRED IN ROME ABOUT 29AR, EM- PEROR TIBERIUS EARMARKED, $4,000,000 OF TREASURY FUNDS FOR. LOANS TO CREDI- TORS, AND ORDERED A 3-YEAR EXTENSION OF TIME FOR DEBTORS WITH REAL ESTATE SECURITY —— THE FIRST NATIONAL MORATORIUM.
BIRDENER
ORCHARD
ANGLO-SAXON ORTGEARD": MEANT A YARD OR GARDEN WHERE VEGETABLES WERE GROWN, EVENTUALLY THE" WORD WAS APPLIED TO A
TRACT OF LAND FILLED WITH FRUIT TREES, AND IN THIS
SENSE IT SURVIVES AS WORCHARD.
kindred mari, was ruffling a batch of pross clippings. Stove got down to brusiacse at once.
"Chiot, I hate to do this to yau, brut
Boor."
"What kind of a robbery is this?" exclaimed Stava. "People tied up, und everything, and the emerald la in the hotel vault."
Just a moment, Emerson." Tho Calof's voleb was friendy but there was something la that caused much too valuable." Steve to wait. "You've been one of my most valuable mID.
"There was an exact replica. I was wearing it. The real one wee
Footsteps were hoard in the hall-
Everyone way. "Get this quick!" sald Bleva.
to the department appreciates the "Bay nothing about the emerald bo- Das work you've dono
Ing in the vault. Let the crook
"And I appreciate what you're think he got 1" done for me," Interposed Stove,
In the oxcitement following the "Unfortunately," continued Pear-jarrival of the hotel manager, before #on, "you've outlived your useful- the police put in an appearance ness. Whoever your preas ngent la, Stove Tamerson unobtrusively ma ho's good Too good-your face has aged to extract a bullet lodged in boon in every front page in Amer the windrow frame. Ho slipped it. unobserved, Into the pocket whore ica."
"Could I help that?" asked Stove, he had put the piece of paper. He defensively.
Inter took the bullet to a ballistica Maybe not, but every arook in expert whom he had frequently em the country knows what you look ployed. Under a powerful magnify- Iko, What they didn't son in the paing glass, the rifling on the bullet pers, they got in the theatres. Your was in whorls much closer together Ineo lina Been in more newsreels than would ordinarily be the caso. than the President's. I'm sorry. The export said the bullet had been Emerson, but we're not in the ad fired from a very unusual pintot vertising business. For the good of a Rons Superieur, made in Franco the servien, I think you should ro- until about five years before. Emer
son was looking at the card which vign."
Shocked, Blove put on a good ho had received. Written on it was "Okay, Chiot, Hore's my name, the name of a once-famous tace. badge, my card,"
French criminal, reported to have boon killed by the Paris police:
Arabe Lupin.
Pearson shook hands, wished him luck, and love boat it back to the waking reportata.
"So you up and did it," gold Gor-with the Insurance people and don. "How'd be tako It?"
"If you over saw an net, that bled did a honey. Another sob and I'd bave workened,"
"What about our thousand dollar offer now?"
"Firat job, boys. They can't wait to have me pitch in."
Pollco Inspector Hennessey agreed
Count de Grisane that the fact that the thier had failed to get the real emerald should not be made public: such a Jewel was a magnet for crooks, and other attempts to stent It might be made.
Count do Grissae had come to
"You've bought yourself a storyAmerica to sell the omerald which My motto is
Telephone, Mr. Imerson," called had been shipped over by express. the operator from the next room. The newspaper notoriety about the "Mr. Carter of the Tyron Insurance theft of the emerald had probably Įkilled, all chance of making the Underwriters."
sale: nobody would want to buy a jewel that desperate criminals were He entered the telephone booth after. And to can that climax of spoke jocularly into the mouth-disaster, Cartor announced that his ploce "What's the rush, Carter? company had decided to cancel ita I'm not due to start until tomorrow, polley of insurance on the emerald Oh, he's probably one of those at the expiration date eight days oxcitable Frenchman. The emerald's This is outrageous" exclaimed in the hotel vault, isn't it?
Bouchet. "When the express com- Stove's Josuarity vanished. tell 'em to put E thore at oncef In-pany learns of your action it may sist on it! Fit be right along. The reftise the shipment to France
invall
"I've covered that,” mild Carter.
Ritz Plaza? Sure. Don't worry."We've arranged for Mr. Emoraan You're in good hands."
to accompany you te Parla. Ho will
As he fort the booth, the reporter bo responsible for the safe roturn surrounded him. "What's the job?" of your property."
"Count de Grissac, a Frenchman, "And after that I can guard it my- his nloca and another mug—and not?" said the Count. *Wall, I sup- they're traveling with a quarter of porn there is no alternative.” a million dollars' worth of amorald.
Stavo_wont over to the Conat's Boom to be timid about fa in our niece, Lorraine. "Lucky girl!" Grent City. If you boys want You're going to get a chance to to dip your beaks in a farewell cup, show mo Francol. You're palling to
Come on. It's on mo"...
morrow, and I've booked a cabin on Eteve Emerson's knock on the the saran ship. Something tells me door of Butte 3820 at the Ritz Plaza T'm going to love France" But his was undawored for a moment. eyes told her that, to him, she was Thon there came a response from synonymous with France. within-a mumed, monotonous tap "If you're counting on me to maka plag. 'He stiffened into attention, your stay in France an enjoyabla rapped again, The only answer was one-prepare, for a lot of solitudo!" that rapid, mulled tapping. He tried retorted Lorraine. the door knob. It yfolded and he enterad. On the floor, faco down,
Miners' Blindness
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New measures to protect the eye-
Credit Refused, Kills Self
Cleveland,
Charles Storm, 53, shot himself
The man had two French bulldogs under cach arm.
apologetic gesturo with his othor is the bullet the thief Brod in Now arm as the guard turned..to berato York. It was partly buried in the him and the two remaining dogs, window alll of the room where the squirmed from his grasp and fol-robbery was attempted."
"But Arsena Lipia never used lowed thoir mates on board,
The four of them were soon con- violence," anld Duval, the Profecta grogated about Lorraine, tongues aide.
"About alx foot."
Toiling, bodles quivering, it but "This mug didn't ofther, He only dancing in the joy of rounion, when fired the shot to scare the Count the Frenchman hurriedly joined How tall was the man who robbed them. Ho embraced Lorraine affce-you, Cotint 7" tonately.
"I read about what happened to "How tall was Arnene Lupin?" ba
America, You weren't asked the Prefect. you in
"About six feet," replied the of- hura
"Not a bit, Reno. I've been shaken cink, rather reluctantly. He or up much worse by a masseuse. Why changed a quick glance with Duval, didn' you answer my radiograms? and then addressed Count de Gris- I sent one every day to Rome." sno: "I'll send defectives to guard
"I changed hotels, Lorraine. Thay the house until you can put the woro forwarded to Parla only thin Jewel in the bank vault on Mon- morning. I'm terribly sorry! Ho day."
turned to Count do Grissac and Stove Emornon welcomed Lor Goorges Bouchet. "Welcome home raine's suggestion Sunday morning and safely, my friends. I'll never that he accompany her on a harne
Tho forgive myself for not going. to back ride into the country. Amerlen with you."
ride wound up et Rone Farraud's "It could hava boen worse," said country ostate. They found Farrand Bouchet. "Wo might have lost the fat a small targol rango back of the stables where he was fring at the real emerald."
target with a long-barelled pistol of odd design, and hitting the bull's- eyo at every shot. Two odd-looking men stood by, watchings
"I'm a little bewildered. Tell me what happened, darling."
Lorraine gave a happy laugh, "Everything's all right, denr. All
we lost was our sense of humor and
"I've brought you a visitor," muid
mal husbandry, too."
a perfectly good copy of the or-Lorraine. "He's interested in ani- iginal."
Then the emerald
atolen?"
wasn't
"Welcome, both of you" replied Farrand, putting the platol in his "Those gentleman seg wish it had been." sald de blp-pocket.
and Mr. Hammond Griesac. "Our insurance expiros Mr. Doyle Monday night. The Count, becom- Mlle de Grissae and Mr. Emer ing aware that Stove Emerson had son. Mr. Doyle and Mr. Hammond Now they're inter joined them and was giving the man were retired.
They Reno a thoughtful look, introduced ested in resuming activity. him hastily, "This is an American conducted a physical culture insti coquaintance of ourn. Mr. Emerson tuto and are looking over Paris as of New York. M'alau Rene For a possible fold for a new venture." "Did you ever have a place in the United Statos, Mr. Doyle?" inquired Stova.
rand."
"Or Rome?" naked love. "No." replied Farrand. "Of Paris. I was in Rome for but a short stay." "Dont talk geography to MT Emerson!"
"Buro. In Chicago,"
"We gave it up." said the man exclaimed Lorraine. introduced as Hammond, "bocati
all the customers-at, cilentan "He's a self-invited globe trotter."
When they word all installed in trouBOÐ VE“
"I've been trying to tell them," his car, including the four bulldogs, Rene Farrand drove the party to sald Farrand "that physical cultura his Paris residence. The butler and is of no Interest to Frenchmen. another servant hastened out to Their culture is manial I think it's belp with the baggage and the dogs. a poor part of friendship not to tell
The Profect of Police and anthem the truth about their prob other gentleman are walling for lom." you," he said to Farrand. They came twenty minutes ago.”
"I'll say one thing for the Wrench police," observed Stove Wors got ting action from the dead man."
"Roma" laughed 'Lorraine, "al ways tell me the truth unless you' think I'd like a lie better!"
"I couldn't le to you, Lermine." "That's an examdis of when I like
The Count, Bouchet and Steve a tio better! But I came to ask if wont Immediately to the room you would come to dinner tonight" where the police were waiting.
ENTER American
"Even if you barred every door acquaintance, I'd climb in a window."
"Odd-looking pistol, you've got,” ·
who is ho?" asked Farrand.
"An American detective, retained paid Stave. Never seen one "like
by the insurance company."
"Detective? Interesting-typo.
must make a study of him."
it:" I
"An old favorite of mine. Como
He has been studying you, al-over some time and I'll let you rendy. So far, de suspects the job-shoot it. if you're interested." bary was attempted by my mole,
"Ta liko to." aùld Stovo, “I'm in-
-myself, my cousin, all the stewards torosted in odd pistols." on the linor, and possibly, you, n little, darling. Of coureo you onn),
(To de contingLod).
SEAFORTHS
HALT
JAPANESE
March Them Out Of
Defence Area
Shanghol, June 9,
Japanese and British troops were involved in ar argument at the Wing On Department Store. Nanking Rond, to-day, when a party of eight Japanese military police were stop- ped by a purty of Seaforth High- tanders.
The Japanese were going along Nanking Road through the area now regularly patrolled by Groups of Seaforti Highlanders, since it forms pact of the British defence rector,
When they reached the Wing On they were stopped by the Seaforths, who refused to allow them to go further into the British defence sec- tor.
After ແກ altercation lasting 15 minutes and in which the Seafortha and Japanese were joined by the Shanghat Municipal Police, the Japanese withdrew, marching back towards Lae Bund escorted by the
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