1935-11-18 — Page 11

THE CHINA SHA

MONDAY, NOVEMB5 18, 1935.

MANKIND'S TWO The Rope Of Pearls BARBER-WILHELMSEN

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past. He heard his mas”

Well, there were footprints, ter bolt the door. He did not we should be," said Cavour, the outside the window which had been thes his master go out again.” HiS disciple of Machiavelli and the entered the ground was of soft red master might have gone out with-- tator of Mussolini. "if we did oil eminently adapted for taking out his knowing, as his (ang's) for-ourselves what we are doing footprints. The prints were very bedroom was some distance, from for Italy!

distinct, not of bare feet or sandals the hall door. Some writers have maintain-ut of European boots. They were

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ed that nations which have fal- of a man who had got in through! Kaplin, giving Heins orders to bolt lowed universalist ethics have the window. but had not come out and abolt the front door several been ruined by the decay af

times with different degrees of public spirit. They think that Sain

"Ha," said Kaplin; "toe-prints force Bang was right; scarcely Christianity wrecked the Roman

a sound teld of the door minipuiz-

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"Yes," said Helm Then he tion.

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went on. The patch of soft soil) Kang's room was spotless, the was a vampire which

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Zone provinces and produced none and was 12 feet broad; boot-prints wood box, chair, and table.

22nd Dec. only showed going to the window. j the table lay some Dutch picture (There

were other canser which I cannot discuss here.) If the man had come out again newspapers and on the newspapers With even less reason, it is his prints would be shown. Theja book.

Kang was evidently of the said that Islam, another uni-thing was a certainty. versalist religion. decayed after Kaplin, without speaking, wrote studious type of Chinaman, a good a short career of splendor, the word “Pirol" on the blotting linguist, for he talked Dutch with But Arabian civilisation was paper. The man who had come in fluency and ease, he was also a destroyed in the West by Spain, must have been let out by the front reader who evidently enjoyed fo in the East by the Mongols door or have broken his way out tion for the book which Kaplin Paris, London and Rome would There was no sign of the latter picked up and looked at out of certainly have shared the fate mode of exit, therefore he must curiosity was a work of fiction; of Baghdad if they had been have gone by the front door; yet it was well thumbed, evidently a within reach of the horsemen Pirali said he had found it bolted second-hand volume picked up at

Lone of the stalls. of Jenghiz Khan,

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Heinz almost grew excited: the ment which we are justified in he was too big to have

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so outside the fatal window. scepticism. If I do not love my mained Piroli and Claes.

Piroli, without the slightest Kaplin showed nothing of his feel- countrymen whom I have seen. is it likely that I should love doubt, was an "accessory, but logic-

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I Claes had not committed this was seemingly covering up the with the help of Piroli, the ser-Claes from the moment when it

Yet he vant of Mynheer Katz. blander, then either he had pat fact of his slovenliness.

there to implicate himself or was of a type that Kaplin knew

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But are the two principles! really antagonistic? Is there any reason why we should not behave to other nations as we do to our private neighbour, › someone had put it there to im well, a robot for cleanliness and did this thing, or a man who-thing, Claes was a European, and plicate him and that someone was efficiency: the condition of his listen to me, Kang-taking a hand- it is rare for a European to join This does not mean that we; must leave our houses, open at presumably a Europei, to judge room and of Chaer's room told kerchief of Mynheer Claes and hands with an Asistic in crime.

that, everything was exactly in putting on Mynheer Claes's boots, **The thing has been stewing. night, nor that we must not de by the boot-marks.

stole from this house last night for weeks. 1 have just had a fend ourselves against unpro-

Meanwhile, and putting all that order. neat, clean. trim.

But there was another point: a and did what I have said, rolling second interview with Firoli, and voked attack. Nor does it aside, where were the pearls? The mean that we must invite the chief witness in all cases of rob- bit of red clay adhering to the the handkerchief up in a ball and he has made confessions. It was yellow races to come and set-bery is the booty. If Claes was right-hand boot near the toecap leaving it where it was left, so all Kang's fault, naturally. Any- tle in England. But it does the criminal the pearls would was in such a position that that the police, finding it and how, I believe him when he says mean that we should forswear either be on his person, or his pre polishing cloth, if used at all finding the footprints outside the that Kang was the chief movers window, and the earth of the gar-what brought the thing to a head utterly the double standard of mises, or passed to a confederate. would have removed it ⠀⠀

Kaplin was convinced that the den bed still on the boots, would last night was the fact that Katz Kaplin, touching the bell, order morality, one for private life

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“So that the murderer and thief show him the pestis, and Piroli, sent to him, gave directions for the boots in the way of cleaning

would be, safe to dispose of what on watch, thought that he was the searching of Claes, and then them. Not Good Business

Was this from pure laziness, or he had stolen or, if caught with arranging for their immediate calling up a police car, started

The it, would be safe at least from sale, so he sent Achmet, the house- McDougall thinks that we with Heinz for. De Ruyter-venne was there another reason?

Leaving the car in the avenue book which he had picked up to the charge of murder; could only boy, running to Kang with the necd a "synthesis" of the two loyalties. In a sense, I agree the led the way to the bungalow Kant's room had suggested some gay I found the pearls where mesage To-night's the night'.

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about those footprints; it never we can hardly speak of it as a Chinese servant, a man of good affairs."",

"It is not for a servant to ask synthesis.

Father - sleepy

Next moment, crash! Kaplin was oceanzed to him that the fact of type, placed, and

on the floor with Kang on top of their all pointing to the window The old acquisitiveness and looking in a blue silk jacket and questions," said Kang.

All the same, it is him Fighting like fiends they would inevitably convict Piroll of imperialism is not only a nega white linen trousers. Very urbane. tion of Christianity, but an an- Kang, as afterwards appeared, as well that I should tell you rolled over and over, the grasp of conspiracy.

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"He's done for said by turning the ody over

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real criminal only for the fact that have iz book 1 Lord in his room: Ché was of the reading type) 'comece ed itself in my mind. with the mad I found on Cises's books"-I "“his said to myself,-- Kang had got

enough detective methods out aft

book to me

He opened the blouse to feet for

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Kang-had-gone to his dení

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