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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1933.

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tremor, the fingers that manipuluted a fat cigar were pleasantly stable, and outwardly he was what he had been for the past eight years-B Įmoneyed, sun-lading gentleman of

the California strand.

Su Linton had chosen Albuquer-] qo. Albuquerque! Weir's oblique grin grew wider. What could be sweeter? No hanging around to 'be' traced, no hitch over the getaway: everything cut and tatlored GS though he'd picked out the locale The limited checked its pace, then

dimiutshed eld onward "at

speed long preparatory to entering the Spanien stucco station that trank.

continental travellers know so well | Weir rase majestically, a symphony in ivory from Panama to his very expensive rubber-soled shoes, and lunged toward the narrow corri. dor. Half an hour at Albuquerque for lunch and other things! The gun in its shoulder holster pinched lum trifle as he descended to the platform and allowed himself to be swept into the shadowy coolness of the restaurant.

Starring in Motherhood

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Playing her greatest role, Virginia Bruce, wife of John Gilbert, filmu star, pictured with her baby daughter, Susan Ann Gilbert, for whom she gave up her film career. This is the first picture made of little Susan, who is six weeks old. Maybe she'll be a star some day;

He munched a sandwich, eyes on easily in the club car, his smie now WHEN THE REICHSTAG|

the clock, then left the place by approaching

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side entrance. Seven minutes gone. shoulder holster frked his armpit, The little town was drowsing over for the gun had gone nurtling into Cik atenta as he turned into the a clump of tumbleweed a few mules į principal street, the location of Linback, and the little affair of black †

And it ton's bungalow already fixed in his nailer Linton was einged.

The public, of course, knows from of mind from the study of a map in had clicked with the efficiency

reports which the detailed the Los Angeles Public Library. clockwork.

Two

Three hours went by, four five, subsequently sent out to the world was to be seen in that de- snots at the most would complete and he lost himself in the mazes of what the work. then back to the station,)

The train vastated building. a magazine love story. LO

paused for a moment at a noddle of 1 spoke to the Director of the blush-green Calorado valley

until sattle houses, then gathered speed Reichstag, Privy Councillor Galle, some other headline claimed the Jugut, and a vague something about and naked him when it

was that His steps grew purposeful.

the Goering appeared at & water tower crossed Weir's mind Capt. as he read the harder, determined Reichstag and assumed the supreme. newest Sharpsnunter Linton, the

work of the command over

ex- to forget reality. resident of Yucca-avenue, was mix-

and over the. It was shortly after this that anjtinguishing the fire ng himself a drink. the correct

41 face the police investigations. "It was not was the proportions of which seemed to In-angular person with

shade of pemmican, and wearing a until a quarter to nine,' terest him intensely. Mr. Linton's

battered somebrero, sauntered into answer; "they could not find the eyelids were over-veinoue, his coun-

his eyes straying President of the Reichstag at once." tenance was a fish-belly white, and the club car,

door. Opposite And yet the Reichstag fire was dis- bashfully on the tumbler once he set down the

Weir he halted, apparently finding covered only shortly before could be seen that he was unable to control the trembling of his hands, something of interest, and then his o'clock.

If the doctor could have read his Rnze travelled slowly upward.

"She's warin," he pronounced, his

news.

.

it

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con-patient's thoughts as he lurched

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What To Follow? While within the work of clear- ing up was proceeding, in the streets one of the modern armoured) police cary was racing,with horn.

added something of importance to his diagnosis.

The Sharpshooter's to anyone?" unsuccessful struggle with hysteria.f

are "I suppose they his flaccid, yammering lips, his tergrunted Weir, and returned to his screeching, round. the Reichstag. staging a rified glances into empty corners all reading.

"Nice pair of

got threatening revolution for the bene- ted to one conclusion.

there," went on the stranger, balanc-fit of the simple German," a pro- ing one bony ankle over a knee. "Aminent observer whispered to me, Bight cooler than these here boots being quicker than all the other witnesses of the Reichstag fire to I'm wearing."

Baid reckon out the consequences that would follow this conflagration on

of

Mr. Linton was afraid-extreme Hy so.

He threw away the contents the tumbler, and busted himself; with a fresh concoction. He had

Weir "I guess they are," absently, duplicating the other's!

been a fool he mumbled, to antagomation so that the sole of one shoo the evening of February 27.

nнe a man as ruthless LA Jullan

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When that armoured police car drove away on its round of the The pemmican-faced man's eyes When a man's nerves Jinve been

seemed to glaze as he stared. "Yes, official quarter of Berlin, most drawn daily into a quivering knotj

sir." he said softly, "they're high people laughed at the Government's over the running of a horse race he

How many thinking people born shoes, the stamina for anything brand in Albuquerque,”

Nobody sells that alarm. lucks

are there to-day who genuinely be-- more prolonged. The Sharpshooter]

lieve that the Communists set fire The murderer closed his maga. commenced to quake as he recalled

Ito the Reichstag

Lo as a preface informant. zine and regarded his

revolution? the way McCutcheon had described "I suppose not," he said evenly. the killing of Bender. Wiped him

Manila, Rebaut. Brisbane, Sydney right out-pffft! like that. Had

Melbourne.

Weir-would Weir-but по this

"That's why their police telo. phoned me to climb this express," explained the other. "There's no was different; it had to be! He need to get loud about it, mister, what remained of Sharpshooter but some guy got bumped off on Yucca-averue about lunch time.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan Linton, would make it 60. and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

The following Britlah and for- The trouble was that you couldn't. The fellow who did it left a nica eign warships were in port yester- reason with Weir. He let you think rubber-soled trafl most all the way day:

The Union 9.3. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New You were doing it, but you weren down town, which made it look like!

Zealand. Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & O. Branch Service of eieamers to London via Suez.

really.

last.

Linton saw him clearly al

he was heading for the depot. Sit A killer, sure enough, who

The descrip casy, now, mister, could look at you with a quiet ferotion I got of the print don't make The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and city altogether surprising in one sulit necessary for me to look any fur-

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Weir laughed, though his heart so, to hell with him! Linton ran was racing. You're shooting in feverish tongue over cracked lips,

the dark, sheriff. Five thousand for, like many a specimen that lives | by its wits, he shrank from nothing like mine

men are probably wearing shoes but physical pain. He wouldn't)

"Not exactly like them. have risked baiting Weir a week ago if he'd known the sawbones for instance, where the rubber is eaten away. Makes it sort of pro-1 minent doesn't it?"

Jelant on things. If only he could throw off the feeling that Weir was on the prowl but, again, to hell with him!

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US. Destroyers Smith Thompson; Weir's heavy mouth sagged as he Paul Jones, Pillsbury, Stewart, saw the yellowish stain outlining Parrott, Edsall, and Bulmer. A boltla gurgled musically as if the area where the crisp pattern was tiited, and, oniffing with anticl-had rotted to a smudge.......

"But they were never worn be- pation, he laced his drink with fore this week! How-

Time Meridian 120 deg. E. (Zone---- grenadine for the sake of the

"The guy was killed while he was 9); poh. is midnight, 12h. is noon. colour. Then, while he was prying)

the largest scale. Admiralty chart of loose a couple of ice cubes, there pouring himself a drink, that's how Heights are referred to the datum of came a sound that turned him to a dirty trick in tell, to kill a man the place and should be added w ghastly waxwork. Exactly the right then. Naturally he dropped deaths, unlias proceded by an asterisk stealthy, gliding noise that would be the glass, and the murderer hap()" when they, should be subtracted, made by an intruder, but here Ppened to step across the body on minded himself that intruders his way to the rear door. Kind of never came when the sun was high. careless, that was, because one foot Darkness was their shield But came down in the patch of wat, and

Sharpshooter Linton shook a litle that acid sure does bu

"Wait!”Julian Weir said thick- more violently, and the tumbler des-

Mon. 80 "Are you trying to tell me cribed a bashing are before it splin-that

TUOI BÍ tered on the Boord

"The guy was about to commit Vengeance, he knew was upon uicide? Yes, mister, that's just Wed. him. He turned half-way around.what I'm aiming to do. And seeing {gibbering."

that we've got on speaking- terms," It was

I'm inviting you to come back to Fet, Albuquerque with me on the earliest

Bat The limited rushed eastward west-bound train. Half an hour through the eye-searing pinks and there isn't enough you'll. And it a Sun. lemons of the desert, and Weir tolled real nice town."

October

High Water Low Water Standard It. Standard Ht.

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THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION,

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9,000,000 EGGS

MONTH

20 07 5.2 18 19 2.5US. Conservation Corps' 07:50 6.2 01 65 8.1

Big Appetite.

2

Washington.

|

Department

by War [prepared

statisticians. Labour in the forests

is developing tremendous appetites for everything.../

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jack-census at the Vermilion Camp 21-487.6 14 60 6.0

ata 11061 01 26 Le civilian conservation corps are cop at Missoula, Mont, 200 men 24:22/09/ 7.74 15. 15 3.7 auming eggs at the rate of 9,000,- 2,200 hot çakes at one bre

11 52 4.6 05 10 10

7.7 15 20 2.9 000 a month, according to Agures Reuter.