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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1935

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RADIO"

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Piano Dueta

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Page 10)

"After the guests were gone," then they searched every inch of] thesheriff went on relentlessly, to find them."

"when I was about to go off duty. They soarched the man first; and myself, Mrs. Fulton camo runnin' the room-in vain. There were downstairs, 'most in hysterics. She'd three mere rooms. In the house— taken off her diamond collarette in another bedroom upstairs, and a her room; then gone to her hus- kitchen and altting-room down« band's room to take a bit. She stairs and, while it didn't stem wasn't gone more'n two or three possible that Walton, had left that minutes when she remembered that one foom, the others were search she ought to have put ber diamonds ed also. If there'd been any place Rale da Costa & Harry Jacobson in the safe; so she went back to to hide diamonds, the men would Bong-

her own room to do It. Just about have found it. There just weren't Villa (The Merry Widow")

that time Jim Styles, now you doin' any diamonds in the house; and, at Joannette MacDonald (Soprano).a sneak towards the rear of the the last, even the sheriff admitted Organ Solon~~-

Medley of Old Songs

grounds."

Goodnight Vienna-Medley Sunshino-Medley

Song

I Want a Fair and Square Man

Carroll Gibbons & John W. Green.;

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY Vocal Duets

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Looking for a little bit of blue What a little moonlight can do

Layton and Johnstone; 8.83-8 pm-Concert Items. Songs-

Bedouin Love Song (Pinsuti) The Bandelero (Stuart)

Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).

}]

"Suře, he may have seen me. The Webster twins exchanged Teslie James.]

The back gate led me to the short glances; then Ted, the elder by a Banke Gets In Your Eyes

cut home," Walton answered easily; few minutes, spoke a word aside Turner Layton (Tenor) "but I didn't have any diamonds with Niles. Worby. ⠀ Piano Dueteiro

with me, or I'd 'a' been headin' for looks as if you might Ain't She the Dainty

somewhere else."

been mistaken, after all, sheriff."" "We could have taken after you sald Niles, with mild firmness, by the short cut; but, if you'd "Just the same, I am holdin' Sam thrown away the sparklers, it might Waltin for Investigation," the have taken weeks to find them. sheriff retorted. That's why we came along. by the "All right, but I make you main road, and hoped you'd think smart for it," Walton growled. you'd got away with it. That's

As soon as he had lodged his what you did think, or you wouldn't have been playin' with the Fulton man in the county gaol, the sheriff diamonds when I climbed on to the returned to the Isolated house to porch roof and looked in on you by head, the search for the missing dia- the window, a couple, hours ago." monda. His theory now was that The other men pricked up their Walton, when he found himself run- cars at that direct statement. Sam ning out of shells, had thrown the Walton looked bewildered for a jewels out by the window. It Second or two; then he grinned, as wasn't easy to understand that the he held out a handful of the steel-act hud passed unobserved, "In the jacketed bulleta."

full glare of the headlights; but it "There's what you

saw, sheriff, was the best solution that suggest sure as you're born. I'd heard jed itself. that some of these hijackers was However, the most painstaking. plannin' a raid; but as they are just search failed to disclose the dia-

'Cello Salos

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Amelita Galli-Curei (Soprano).

Song-

In my Garden (O'Kerfe)

Richard Crooks (Tanor). 9-9.20 p.m. From the Studio.

A Violin recital by · 0. T. Lyon nc- companied by Profairs E. Gualdi,

Programme

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg Sonata No. 7. in F Major (Mozart). local lads, not hardened to the game,monds. The other men tuok it in-

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p.m.-Vocal Gems, |The Mikado' (Gilbert and Sullivan)

B-" at the Savoy

Music In the Air

I figured to scare 'em off with differently. They hadn't seen the blunks, if they came. That's why diamonds in Sam Walton's hands; I took the bullets from the shells and they doubted if the sheriff had and used soup pellets. You had the either..

,'

F

Fulton diamonds on your mind, and The sheriff, however, though when you saw the light on these compelled to abandon the search for bullets, 'you thought it was the dia-the moment, was resolved to renew monds, sure.”

it the next day, with the help of For a moment, the sheriff waver Jim Styles.f ed, shaken by this cool explanation. Unfortunately, no Jim Styles was 10-11 pm From the S'udio.

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Walton had them in 'his right hand, certainly did look as though a mis- and he was runnin' them over the take had been made. back of his left, admirin' them as It was a pretty short-tempered

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cart observation that he was off to thing that gleamed in the palm of have one last look about Walton's Jim's hand. place. If he didn't find anything he'd have to let the fellow go.

"I'll come along," said Jim, but without enthusiasm.

On his way to the door, he stop- ped to pick up a rifle that stood by the wall,

He examined it. It was a dia. mond, sure enough.

"You know I'm dippy on shoot- ing," Jim explained, “and I know that, wifle of Walton's well enough to be sure, it wasn't bullets he wasn't shooting at us that night we "Sam Walton's, ain't it?" he ask tried to smoke him out. That's ed, regarding it with interest. how I came to step out Into the "Why, it's sighted for a thousand light."

yards,"

"You're a nervy son of a gun," "Put that down if you're com- the sheriff remarked.HT ing," said the sheriff and Jim pbay- "I had a bunch. I wanted to tell- ed. Two minutes later he was be you at the time, but you wouldn't hind the wheel of the battered let me. I never did believe that roadster.

yarn of Walton's about soap pellata

"What you been doin' these last and I got to wondering if a man few days?" the aboriff inquired. "I could take soft lead bullets, hollow wanted you to help me search them out and pack a small diamond "I've been searching on my own, in each. Walton's rifle carried a Had a hunch

"Well?"

big shell, and he must have planned the thing ahead and made all his “It didn't come out. Say, there's preparations; so it didn't seem so a reward of five thousand dollars bad to me. If the worst tame, to been posted for the recovery of the the worst, he could shoot them into Fulton diamoods, hasn't there? It'd the trunk of a tree-we all know be somethin" to split if we found he's a dead shot theni

The sheriff gasped.

"If!" said the sheriff morosely

Jim did not reply. But suddenly

N

"But when I couldn't find a tree in the neighbourhood that had been

he jerked out an exclamations used as a target, 1 began to think I "Well, to think I could be so was wrong, after all. Until I came dumb

into your office this morning.”

"How d'you meati, dumb?" asked · "I don't see began the the sheriff.

sheria

''! Jim did not reply, for a moment. Then he said quietly inte

Didn't I tell you that rifle of his was set at a thousand yards? "I've been searching for a tres-- There aren't so many trees that can a particular" tres, near to Walton's be seen from the windows of Wal house; but there's an awful lot of ton's house at a thousand yards. trees there, and when. I didn't' find] Right away this morning, when 1 the one I wanted, I started all over knew where to look, I spotted this again. That's what took the time." feller

The sherif was puzzled, but be- His hand patted the trunk of the fore he could ask Jim what he was tall poplar under which they stood. talking about, they had reached spot near Walton's house and Jim pulled up

"It ain't going to take long now, he observed and

up the slope oppos down house The puffi along some WAY?

later he wad

I've got que of the diamonds. And if I hadn't been too dumb to think of looking at his rifle in the ret place we'd have had em al four days ago. You'll have me up so I can dig out the thest

out of reach.

and.

holst

the sherias!

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