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THE CHINA MAIL,

THE TEA-LF AF

(Continued from Page 10.j

ous enemy.

her.

Then

EMPTY THRONE IN

EUROPE

(Continued from Page 6). that wound but would evaporate very quickly! Indeed, in that beat you'd against Willoughton, making have to see the wound indicted to Before I had reached the sixtieth- them sympathise with 1. father's know what had done it righteous indignation, and making yet:

She paused again to look round the page I was irritated. I wanted to more ebrious that he was danger court at about as rapt a lot of faces read Mr. Wodehouse, not to review

Yet she would not ad-as any narrator could desire.

him. The damned" stuff was as mit that her father was right in be- she went on: "I knew that that was spell-binding as ever. There was lieving that Willoughton and jilted what he had done, 1 knew it for a story with a moral about drink certain. Carbon dioxide ice would and diet and a dead hedgehog Hazeldean rose to cross-examine make 1 hard, tough digger, and it Buth with a wholly conndent air. He would evaporate quickly in the hottest and a horrid foreign cook which drew from her the fact that her father room of a Turkish bath and leave to was good as anything Mr. Wode- had been on excellent terms with Wil-smell because It is seentless. So there house has ever written.

And it ex- loughton until the breaking off of the wouldn't be any wespen.

Dad had engagement.

plained the tea-leaf, too. Then Hazeldean asked: "Is it made a carbon dioxide dagger perhap fact that since the breaking off of your a week before he used it, perhaps house plot beforehand? Suffice And he had put it into that there is a cracked peer, s engagement the prisoner has more

only a day. than once begged you to forgive him the dehehe thermos flash ka at sinister Press Lord, a couple of made it. keeps out

aristocrata, a defective the heat as well as the cold, you know, young

and renow

"Four times," said Ruth, And you refused !"

"

The plot? What monster could.]- The be so cruel as to reveal a Woda-`

But to make sure that it couldn't melt editor, and a beautiful chorus girl. "Yes," said Rath, She looked at at all, he kept the dash in ice till he Mix the usual Wodehouse in- Willoughton

I'

the only way you can explain that tea-gredients and guess the rest. wanted a lesson and added: "He was ready to use the dagger.

It came out of the flask stick- Mr. Wodehouse should be given The Judge asked: "Did you intend, lesf

the point of the dagger and was the EBE. He is a pillar of the Fing to then, to forgive him ultimately?"

Ruth hesitated; then the rather driven into the wound!"

constitution. Like Mr. Vivian, he evaded a direct answer; she scowled She paused again, and one might al-is on the side of the ""decent He would sigh) that the court heaved a people: In this book, as in every

frankly at

at Willoughton, and said: “Oh, most well, there was no hurry.

always marry me if I changed my

and wanted to,"

of relief.

it Wax

I was

But

why didn't you go straight to other Wodehouse novel, brainless the with this theory?" asked breeding triumphs.

police the judge.

"But that wouldn't have been any good," she protested quickly.

mind

"And did your father know this asked didn't tell him.

the Judge

angry with Mr. Willoughton, Ruth replied.

There was a pause. Then Hazel dean started on a fresh line.

In sympathetic accents he asked: "Is it a fact that your father was In a painful suffering from cancer form 7"

"It was beginning to grow very painful." said Ruth, sadly.

"Did he make a will and put all his affairs in order a few days before he

60.000 18th Sept Marseilles, Bavre, London, B'burg. dichree days," said Ruth.

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no use my knowing it myself; I had

to make other people believe it; I had down a vulcanite planger Into a rod; He added

to find evidence. I began to hunt for of the required hardness,

it.

beg

it I felt in my bones that there was that it was advisable to pack the con What I wanted was the mouldjtainer in fee while filling it and ràm- some in which dad compressed the carbon ming down the snow. Then put the found it!" dioxide,

snow and made the dagger. Irod into a thermos flask, and keep it

till it needed,

"And you have made such a rod?” She uttered the words in a tone of triumph and smiled at Willoughton; said Hazeldean.

the Professor, cutting then she went on: "At least, I found bits of it. In the box into which we the string of the brown-paper parcel.! used to throw odds and ends, scrapa of "When Miss Kelstern hauled me out material, damaged instruments, and of at half-past seven this morning | broken test tubes, found some plexes to tell me her discoveries, perceived "Did he ever express an intention of vulcanite; and I saw at once that at once that she had found the solu of committing suicide?" Bombay, Marseilles & London.

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puzzled I had breakfast quickly all," said Ruth. She paused and add-in rod about the right size, and siderably. ed: "And that is what he did do." then I pieces the container together and got to work to make such a

One might almost say that the Court on the outside of it at least most of myself for the started, think that everyone in it it-there are some small pieces mis- Court of the satisfaction

. It took

He drew a thermos flask from the nearly all night. But I found the most important bit brown

Land inner, unscrewed the top of 1.

ft the painted end

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moved a little,

kind

of

so that there wa rustling murmur.

"Will you tell the Court your rea-

SODS for that statement?" said

Hazeldean.

ma

ing-

те

in a quiet, even voice: "one tok, and held it up far every-sce, and dioxide ice.

died down, When the applause Hazeldean, who never misses the right moment, said: "I have no more guts tiens to ask the witness, my lord," and

very

Mr. Willengatazz * •

-

me con.

weapon

of the

She dipped her hand into her hard-his gloved hand a white rod, with a big and drew out black object about faint sparkle to it, about eight incher He held it out for the jury to long. Ruth seemed to pull herself together nine inches long and three-quarters of sh

Is the she was looking very tired then an inch she began

Someone, without thinging, began to hardest and toughest ice we know of; never believed for a moment that Mr.

a storm of and I have no doubt that Mr. Kel- my father. If clap; and there came Willoughton murdered Mr. Villouh applause that drowned the voice of the stern killed himself with a similar rod. my father had

The difference between the tod he ton it would have been a different Clerk calling for order.

and this is his red was pointed.

that matter.

Of course, like everybody else, I puzzled over the weapon; what

had no pointed vulcanite container; but the container that Miss Kelsters it was and where it had got to. 1 did not believe that it was a pointed

pieced together is pointed. Doubtless Tt sat down.

Mr. Kelelerin had it specially made,. piece

and of a half-inch steel rod.

The Judge leant forward and said la probably by Messrs. Hawkins

rather shocked voice: "Do Spender." anybody had come to the Turkish bath meaning to murder my father and Ruth in

He dropped the rod back file the hide the weapon, they wouldn't have you expect the jury to believe that a used one so big and so difficult to hide, well-known man like your father died thermos flask and screwed on the top

Hazeldean sat down. Greatorex when hat-pin would have done just in the act of deliberately setting a trap

prisoner As well and could be hidden much to

rosith regard to hang the

to the shrugged her Ruth juoked at him,

point of the rod, inore easily,

would it remain "But what puzzled me most was the shoulders, and said, with a calm ac Professor Mozley,

of the facts of human naturo sharp long enough to pierce the skin tea-leaf in the wound. All the other cent would expect to and only in sin that heat?" he asked. tea-leaves that came out of the flask one

"In my opinion it would," said the were lying on the floor. Inspector much older woman: "Oh, well, Daddy

And i was like that. And he certainly be Professor, I have been considerlig Brackelt told me they were.

reason for that point, and bearing in mind the couldn't believe that one tes-leaf had leved he had

had killing

fects that Mr. Keistern would from fallen on to my father at the very

Greatorex did not re-examine Ruth; his vocation be very deft with hir place above his heart at which the

he conferred with Hazeldean. Then hands, and

á scientific man point of the weapon had penetrated zeldean rose to open the case for would know exactly what to do, be

and being the skin and got driven in by it. It

He said that he would would have the rod out of the flask was too much of a coincidence for me the defence. to swallow. But I got no nearer un-not waste the time of the Court, and and the point in position in very little that, in view of the fact that is more than a second-perhaps less BL. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for derstanding it than anyone else."

She paused to ask if she might Kelstern had solved the problem of He svall, I think, hold it in his left 1st and 2nd class passengers,

have a glass of water, for she had been her father's death, he would only tall hand and drive it home by striking the

one witness, Professor Mozles. butt of it hard with his right,

The up all night and was very tired. It one"

The Brey-headed,

grey-bearded, whole thing would not take him two Then she went on in the same quiet stooping man, who had come to the seconds. Besides, if the point of the voice: Of course, I remembered that Court so late, went into the witness weapon, had melted the tea-leaf would

box. Of course his face had been have fallen of it." dad had talked of putting an end to familiar to me; I had seen his por

Thank you,

ald Greatorex, and it; but no one with wound like that trait in the newspapers a dozen times. turned and conferred with the Crown could get up

still carried the brown-paper solicitors. So it was

Com-He

Then he said: "We do not prope Then, the night beparcel.

Σπ answer to Hazeldean's questions to proces with the ease, my Lord" that fore last, I dreamt went into the

he stated that it was possible, not eren .The foreman of the jury rose_qukk-| laboratory and saw a piece of steel dificult, to make a weapon of carbon ly and said: "And the jury doesn't rod, polated, lying on the table at

dioxide hard enough and tough enough went to hear anything more, my Lord. satisfied that the prisoner which my father used to work

and sharp enough to inflict such We're quite "Dreams!" murmured Greatorex, a and ab

stern's death.

The method of making i

"Very good ed with the way things were going. it was to fold piece of chamois out the question formally to the jury,

"I didn't think much of the dream leather into a bag, held that bag with wha returned Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.

verdict of Not Ruth went on. of course

“I had Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

a criinder contain- came out of the Court with Rats The Union S.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New been puzzling about it all so hard for the left hand, protested by a glove, Guilty." He discharged Willoughton,

the so long that it was only natural to over the nozzle of as

carbon Hiquid

and we waited for Willoughton. But after breaking dream about it.

hand

Carbon

Presently he came out of the doo fast I had sudden feeling that the dioxide evaporates so quickly that it and stopped and shook himself. Then The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and secret was in the laboratory I could freezing-paint; Bodeg. centigrade, he saw Ruth and came to her. They She furt only and it. I did not attach any importance to the feeling; but it went soon reached; and it solidifies in the not greet me another,

chamolileather bag as a deposit of slipped her hand through his arm and on growing stronger; and after Junch carbon dioxide, snow. Then turn off they walked out of the New Hallo I went to the laboratory and began to the

into together. A spoon that gas, vulcanite container

the of

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