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"THE CHINA MATE, MONDAY: NOVELBER 18,

THE ROPE OF PEARLS

""(Continued from Page 73.

He held paper in his hand Police post number three, situat-

|door-half-open "and-beside it mi

the atting lay a small bunch of "Tell me all you remember of keys.

[your visit "to. hi.** Kaplin Inelt down and, open "Oh. It was the same ana namala ed in the De-Bryter-avenue dis-ins the safe door wide, examined said Class. "I live near and have the content-documents and a few dropped in on him most nights trict, bad phoned reporting a

small articles of jewellery; nothing after dinner. We-nessly always the else.

play halma. We played last night.| murder just committed in Avenue, at the house of Mynheer Whie be was so engaged, Gun-1 won five salden."

derman, the junior partner of the "Did he speak to you about refer-firm, a sigantic man bearded to bearis?"

ress Kate.

Andress

Native

asked Thjark

-

the eyes, arrived; the news had "Pexcis? Yes, and what is more, been brought to him in the suburb he showed me some pearls in his

Dossession."

ring to the victim.

"No; Mynheer Katz, strangled of San Hoi. where he lived a

Thyark had, covered the face of -- "Tell me all about that. Where during the night, discovered by

the dead man with a

cloth, so were they?" this servent Pirolim.

**m the safe in his bedroom; & Thyark drummed on the table Gunderman was saved from seeing with his fingers, then he said, the worst. All the same, he was very valuable rope of pearls; he

be showed them to me.” "Send Inspector Kaplin to me."greatly affected and had to

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and almost on the words, and as given a chair and a glass of brandy "Did he lock them up in the if evolved by them, the door before he could speak or answer safe again?“

"Yes but why do you ask? opened and Kaplin appeared; a questions. dried-up locking man of forty or Then, on being interrogated by Have they been lost?** so, chief of the detective staff Kaplin as to what articles of value "Not exactly lost. Oh, by the the Sandahar Salons might have been in the safe, heway, did you drop your handker covering

told of the ripe of pearls and of chief on the vesands Thyark handed him the paper how for weeks past in fact, ever where

"Handkerchief? that contained a transcript of the since their purchase. Mynheer

Katz had made them a personal knowledge”, 'phone message.

"I know," said Kaplin, glancing possession. "Even sleeping with at it "I got the news as I came them, as you might say,” finished through the main office_irst now Gunderman, en whom the brandy and I left word for a car to be had produced a restorative effect fent ready. You'll come along. I

suppose?**

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Kaplin looked at him thought- fully, then he turned to Piroli.

*Did your master have any visi-

Outside in the street the police tors yesterday?” car was-waiting for them, and five minutes later they were

**Is this your handkerchief?" Claes looked at it.

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"Yes, that is one of my handirer- chiefs where did you And it”

"Boxed up and stuffed in the Idead man's mouth.*

“What?” said Claez "Mynheer Katz has been zanr-

"No, Tuan, hot in the daytime.dered, strangled, and the murderer, on hut in the evening he had the to make sure, stuffed

"My handkerchief?” cried Claes.

the veranda of the Katz bungalow, gentleman who generally comes to Piroli, the personal servant of the see him after dinner.” jeweller, standing before them and

"Who was that?"

"Mynheer Claes." "Oh,” said Kaplin,

At what time did

being, interrogated by Kaplin.

Piroli was a Java boy of about thirty, yellow, with seaweed-brown Claes. eves that seemed to look out of come?" nothing into nothing in. search

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turban and he had a gold front tooth.

"In the veranda."

11

Claes stared at the thing which Kaptin. had placed on his deck. There was dead slience for- ai mo- bement broken only by the sound. of the clock ticking on the wall and the murmur of traffic from Grotius street

he

"But that esanot be,” said Cises. suddenly and with vehemence:

like that."

"Did anything happen out of the "There must be some mistake."

**The handkerchief is yours?" Mynheer Katz generally rang way to your knowledgeTM***

"Yes I believe so. My hand- his bell at a quarter to eight for No. nothing had happened. His his bath to be prepared. This master and Myaheer Class had kerchiefs are like that and marked mcrning he did not ring-some-played. haima as usual, that was:

"The pearls he showed you have times he overslept. At half-past all He went on to say that he eight, about, Piroli came into the was the only servant who slept in been taken," said Kaplin. "You bedroom, saw his master lying in the bungalow the others slept in called on him last night; he show- bed, one arm hanging outs the annexe adjoining the outside ed you the gems; he has been found strangled and with, your “Come on," said Kaplin, cutting kitchen. the man short "lead the way to He had heard nothing during handkerchier stuffed in his mouth. the night. He had bolted the say nothing. But I must ask Katz was lying on his bed, the front door when his master had you to wait here, Mynbeer Clacs. coverlet was over him. ore arm gone to bed, and it was still bolted pending a report which I am ex- was hanging out: he was dead. this morning, but he knew how pecting from my agent.”

When Cizes had been conducted He had been strangled in his the man who had done this deed sleep. Kaplin looked at the body:had got in-through the back winto the waiting-room Kapäin tara- then, having drawn down the dow opening on to the hall. This ed to Thyark.

"What did you think of that

the room.”.

7th Dec. coverlet covering the chest and window was very small; but big

6th Jan right shoulder, he replaced it and enough for a man to get through; man?" said be

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began to examine the neck of the it was an air-space, covered with "I think he is in a had position.”

His said Thyark dead-man and the marks showing gauze, to keep inserts out

Then the Commissioner went off that strangulation had been ac-master had often spoken of put- complished not with a cord, but ting a bar across it, but this had to his work, leaving Inspector Kaplin still engaged in thought with the bands of the murderer. not been done.

Something showed above the He led the way into the hall and still making figures on the projecting tongue, a bit of white and showed the window, and, sure blotting pad with his pencil A Sat. 23rd Nov. silk, the corner of a white silk enough, the ganze had been ripped little later Heinz arrived. He took a seat and unfolded himself at handkerchies that had been rolled jasunder. Tues., 10th Dec.

At this moment arrived Heins, cace. up and thrust into the dead man's mouth.

the finger-print and trace hunter No fingerprints likely to be of the Detective Department, any "worth, nothing on the safe! Sun, 24th Nov. Kaplin unrolled the handkerchief of Thurs., 28th Nov.and examined it carefully. It was round as a turnip, with gold-or the drawer from which the pearls had been taken. It was of the finest material, and in one ritzed spectacles and with Sat, 23rd Nov.

corner the initial C showed, very manner "short to the point of evident that the robber, to make Istre, had passed a cloth over the irritability. İsmall, done in red sik

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His manner, though it clicked heels to his superior, said distinct- ly after the first few moments, "Now, will you get out and leave =*** [me to my work?””.

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