1936-04-18 — Page 11

RAJPUTAN

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1936

The Riddle Of The Library

some

(Continued from Paga 10)

ashes from burat papers. After changing into posh clothes, į most of them were tiny pieces, but they walked down to Charing Cross, guise, he believed in doing the jobone fragment larger than the rest where they got a taxi, and drove properly, and many a time he had showed traces of writing,

straight to the Regal, to give the proved the value of the little finish-

Tommy bad not partnered the impression that they had just arriv- ing touches which made a disguise world's most famous private detes-jed by traia. perfect.

tive for nothing, and he was pretty The lounge was almost deserted! They slighted at a place some soon at work on that piece of paper. at this late hour, but a sleepy clerk distance from their destination, and Taking out a bottle of gum, be was on duty, and booked them a walked the rest of the way through meared some on a glass plate, and room, registering them as father the distal, dirty streets, made on this he laid the charred paper. jand son.

Using an extremely fine spray. Next morning they were carly worse by the fog drifting in from the river At the corner of Mertone dampe it with special vapeur, astir. Lane a figure slouched past them. and in a few seconds the fragment The clerk was sorting the mail had become soft. Then taking out as they passed his office and Hawke [and Hawke stopped.

another square of glass, he pressed skilfully slid angenvelope among the

others. "Got a lighty boss?" he asked.it tightly down on the other.

It was a coloured envelope, and· The writing now showed up clear- H 30 M-for that was who the ly as white marks on the black addressed to Mr. Franks.

Presently the clerk came out and man was stopped, too, and gure background. the secret countersign which

"It's stuck the letters in the ruck. Wait. "Crikey!" he muttered. Hawke immediately returned. some sort of shorthand code. Betling a moment to see that the boust

By gun, sir, I'd never have re-the gur'not'll know what it is."

murraured the

Dixon Hawke, came over at that cognised you,"

He now knew the number of the agent. Well, I've been hanging moment and saw what his assistant Job, but up to the moment he hasn't had been doing.

room occupied by Mr. Franks, who **Good lad!** he said approving was Three-Fingered Jake in dis- jcome out.

"He's slipped you." snappedly, as he studied the mysterious quise. Hawke. "You've seen nobody at marks, "Do you know what it "He's in room 223, sixth floor,"

is?"

he told Tommy.

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His boss smiled.

Yes, admitted R 50 M: "a big I'm dashed if I do!" exclaimed fellow came from Hacket's yard Tommy, "Looks like a lot of about twenty minutes ago, but if looney shorthand to me.' that was hit, I'm getting blind."

Hmmused Hawke.. "How! was he dressed?" › **Very swell,**

Right, that'll do..R 30 M," said Hawke. You can go. If I want yen, I'll phone."

When the agent had slouched of

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was clear, Hawke walked over and casually picked it out again.

"You'll find Rood outside there somewhere. Tell him to get assis- tance, and then come to me," hel instructed:

"It's the German code written in In a few minutes Rood came in, Yiddish," he explained. "Paper and Hawke told him what to do. and pencil, young wi: this may be When Raol Levy comes down important.

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read the words aloud.

scene in the hotel, understand?” "Franks at regul wait arrival "Very good, sir." saluted the ser That was Three-Fingered Jake

raol.

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Marseilles & London. The fet slip. Somehow, the fellow:

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"Well, what do you make of it, luck. bars, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Fallt out of the place without R 30 Mad asked Hawke, when the

Minutes dragged on-twenty, Marseilles & London. sporting him. Our bird has flown, youngster put the sheet down again thirty, forty-and Dixon Hawke Emelles, Haire, London, Ham-but we might as well have a look and looked at the detective with a was beginning to think that some.

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"Come on, lad. Fire escape for

you. Keep out of sight."

Tommy nipped out of the sixth floor corridor window, and his un.manded Hawke.

**Gosh! Baol Levy, the Jewguvnor strolled on to room 223. In whispered Dixon Hawke, as they fence! Why, of course, guv nor. response to his knock the door stole into the bit of waste ground This is part of a message to Three-opened, and a huge fellow stood which had once been a nice garden. Fingered Jake to meet him at the scowling at him. Silently they approached the door,

Regal Hotel." which they found to be locked. Tommy produced skeleton keys,

Three-Fingered Jake's disguise Hawke nodded.

was as near perfect as it could be, That's about the size of it, but it didn't fool Dixon Hawke. but the door was bolted from the young on. and Jake's name for One glance at his ears told him (inside.

Take too long to open that."-night is Mr: Franks. Come on, that he had found his man.

we can't go to the Regal in these "Mr. Franks," he inquired pleu- *There's murmured Hawke.

togs, so quick change is indicat-santly. window at the side which ought to be a simple matter."

But it wasn't such a simple job, after all, and, several attempts to slide the catch having failed, the detective opened the bag and took out a square of sticky paper, which

Three-Fingered Jake nodded,

they had entered, but as they were

They left by the same way as watching him closely,

"I've called on behalf of the crossing the strip of waste ground Hotel Servants* Widow and

my suddenly gripped his Orphe

"Oh, have you?" szarled Jake, "Well, "Something moved over there." starting to shut the door. he placed against the glass. and he whispered. Somebody gol us you won't get anything- then, using a diamond. cut around taped."

Dixon Hawke acted with the

guv'nor's arm,

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the edges and lifted out the piece i Not by the flicker of an eyelid did speed of light. of glass, which stuck to the paper Dixon Hawke, show surprise, but A pair of handcuffs. flashed out and was prevented from falling in kept straight on until they were and snapped over the crook's wards

At the corner stood the big doors trapped man leaped back and and slid the catch.

Tommy followed him in, unding in, a place of deep shadows, sprang for the open window.

As his feet touched the iron of where it would be impossible for found himself in a narrow stone-anyone to see him.

the fire escape Tommy Burke floored passaĒT. For fully five

Keep right on, young 'ur," he sprung from cover and hurled him- minutes they stood stiffly in the ordered in a whisper, and a second self at the gigantic crook. darkness listening for some sound later he had attened himself Taken by surprise, Three-Finger-

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against the doors, completely hid-fed Jake slipped and crashed against hone carne.

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locked in a deadly embrace disap He moved cautiously towards the came rapidly after him. latter, and, to his surprise, found As he arrived opposite the doors peared over the side.

Hawke Bashed his torch around. revealing a fight of stairs at one

Hawke was on him like a flash.

Put 'em up," he cried, sticking

it open.

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No person could fall that terrible The fellow staggered back as if forward, he had actually been shot, and his distance and live. Then suddenly regaining his normal senses, he EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS Hawke went down the steps to a hands streaked skywards.

cellar which smelt old and musty. "It's all right, Mr. Hawke," he dashed out of the room, along the

"I'm Ser-corridor, and down the stairs." It was empty, but across the other whispered unsteadily. 2nd May 1

As he gained the fifth voor land- Manila, Rabaul Brisbane, sydney side another door stood slightly geant Rood, of the Tard." Sed July Melbourne & Hobart.

That's where our friend ↑ open.

But Dixon Hawke had recognised ing the window opened, and the cheery face of Tommy Burke; pale slipped R 30 M." he said. “That's him even as he spoke.

and scratched, but still grinning, an underground passage leading to the yard."

**Good evening. sergeant," he appeared. ssid coolly slipping the gun back Dixon Hawke was too shaken to "Anything I cap do more than grip the youngster's into his pocket. do for you?”

and. He'd been half crazy with Thee C.I.D. man looked uncomfzer for Tommy when he saw hit, "Gosh, guv'nor, you're right,fortable, he was a great admirer of go over. the exclaimed.

As he looked out of the window, Hawke nodded, and turned to the Dover Street detective, and dis- mount the steps again.

liked the job he was doing very he found how it was that they had frot crashed hundreds of feet to cer- "Nothing here, young 'un," he much. announced. "We'll just have a "Well, sir, it's a fair cop, as you tain death. The fifth floor escape I've been trailing you was set farther out than the sixth, quick look over the upstairs roots, may say.

so "that"instead of dropping the though I don't suppose we shall all the evening.

Hawke smiled sarcastically." whole ghastly height, they had find he has left any traces worth mentioning.

**Quite," he snapped. So Ford fallen on to the next turn of the More C.LD. men arrived at that Jake written all over them. Levy set you trailing me in the hope that fire escape, only about twenty feet moment, and it was not long before has been in Belgium for nearly But for once the great criminolo I would lead you to Three-Fingered below, and the crook being under the limp figure of Three-Fingered three months, and this is the first

Death had acted 16 gist was wrong. Three-Fingered Jake, eh?".

a cushion, Jake was being conveyed to a wait-opportunity the crook has had to

fing taxi te

meet the fence England. I Jake had not suspected that any- "Orders are orders, sir," Bood breaking Tommy's fall.

guessed he would hand them over · (one would be on his trail so quickly, said "I can't help doing what Sergeant Rood came tearing up **He ain't hurt a lot, comment. to-day 2′′ headge

and he had been careless.

I'm told off to do."

the stairs. When he saw Tommy ed Eood. "But what get's me, In the front bedroom they found **All right, sergeant, smiled he blinked as if he had seen asir, is how you knew about the Sergeant Bood scratched his the suit of clothes he had been Hawke in 6. friendly manner. ghost.

Comber pearls and the emeralds. head wearing when R, 30 M had pickedAll's fair in love and war.

By gosh, boy, ain't you even Real Lery had 'em parked away in "Well, all I can say is that I him up.

"Dixon Hawke hurried" on," and hurt?" he exclaimed.

his silk topper. We've been sear-wish we had a few such good gues While Hawke was going through soon overtook his young assistant *Don't look much like it, grinching for ein for weeks."

sers at the Yard," he murmured. PGO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG the pockets with systematic tho. A few minutes later they boarded ned Tommy. But there's a gent

Dixon Bawice smiled.

(THE END) roughness, Tommy did a bit of a bus to the Mansion House, where tying outside on the fire escape who besse 27721

sleuthing off his own bat.

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the wakes up.

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