1936-05-30 — Page 11

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MEN BEHIND THE KING

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1936

He has that indefinable look!

Thirty-Five Minutes From

Broadway

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"Burt!" Eve screamed.

"Hey, hey what's this?" snort- ed her uncle.

"Who put those in my pocket*" of the sirmao-slim, sharp Eve," he admonished her. "There's

yelled Burt, scarlet with anger. featured and slightly wrinkled not the slightest danger. We can't

"Yeah!" drawled the lieutenant but keen eyes. His curly red-fall. The worst that can happen scornfully. "I just wonder. Come nish-brown hair ought to have to us is that we'll be stuck bere down from the fifty-first floor and earned for him the nick-name a few minutes."

got on the elevator at the fiftieth, of "Ginger." Instead, every. Her corpulent uncle seemed to didn't you? one in the flying world calls him have recovered partly from the Slyke just gave 'em to you for a Maybe Mr. Yan

"Mouse” Fielden. Why. no shock. He was puffing angrily

present " one seems to know, but prob-now. "On the 31st Boot, too!" ably because his modesty and he sputtered. "Somewhere right-Upstairs-three of you men

He barked at his companions. quietness are a by-word.

inear my office.

you beat with me. We'll take this Only 26

that for insolence gangstersalong, and this fat guy who says gir! He was only 26 when he was have the nerve to go to the 51st he has an office on the fifty-first." chosen to pilot the Prince of floor of an office building and

"Why, it's utterly ridiculous!" get away sidered. and from their ranks with it!

Eve cried.

"Why. he was with me in my uncle's office, all time we can prove that."

"Sure, we'll prove it. We're goi ing up to have him identified right)

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"I feel better," he said grufy, the only reason I'll go with you- But beyond that he has a clean sheet.

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He and King Edward fool doctor calls false angina. waste time this way? Why don't friends. Says that's all I've got But it go catch the real thief? He's great personal

getting away!” Many times as Prince of Wales įdidn't seem 'false' to me!"

They bundled Burt, Mr. Stotes "We'll the King sat side by side in his

take the ambulance,” aeroplane with Flight-Lieuten-Eve told him radiantly as they and Eve into the elevator and it ant Fielden, relieving him at reached the lobby floor, "and go fiftieth floor. They took the local shot up without pause to the the controls or assisting with right home." the navigation.

"Ambulance be jiggered." puz-to the fifty-first

In the offices of Mr. P. Barstow ed her uncle, straightening his

Van Slyke, the opulent person to It was "Mouse". Fielden who tic. "Taxi is what I want. flew the Prince of Wales to his two infernal rascals-if you had-whom the pearls were to have dying, father at Sandringham. n't come around to my office to bees delivered, they found more Some hours later he brought devil me. I'd never have been in uniformed policemen and a group!

King In The Air

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him for the first time as the spots shocked out of me." Edward VIII. In view of the!

"We got him," boozed the lieu- The lobby was crowded, and

tenant dramatically. suggestions that have been murmuros with small clamour.

"Caught made that King Edward may be For, blocking the entrance to theim-with the pearls on bing asked to discontinue his flying 30th Floor Express shaft, there

"Oh, yeah?" said a detective, travels. I can only say that no was a blue-coated ring of police-first-grade, who seemed to have one is safer in the air than the men, some with pistols drawn. been ranning things. "Somebody passenger who has "Mouse” Eve squealed. Mercy! They just phoned up that you did. Here, Fielden for a pilot. An engag- think we're the robbers-I'd for-Mr. Van Slyke-give a look-are ing young

man, whose very gotten all about that."

these the pearls?" quietness radiates confidence.

Mr. Van Slyke, who was tall, "Just a formality," said a There are other brilliant and brawny lieutenant. None of you elderly and suavely unemotional, tactful men who will take their people look like the rat we're examined them with cool interest -SAILINGS place in King Edward's little after. but we're searching every-Why yes, this is the necklace,

Cabinet There is Bruce body that comes out of this build-I'm quite sure." Ogilvy, lean, cheery, muscular ing-for guns and jewels."

"And the man who stuck you and young. He likes dancing

"Jewels?" snapped Mr. Stotes, and the messenger up, and cut the Port Swettenham, and hunting and has, a laughing who was no longer frightened but telephone wire and locked you in

dark eye that promises fun.

irascible. *Was it that inner office is this There is the discreet and diplo-was very matic Major Alan Lascelles, jewel robbery? There's no jewel-man?"

Mr. Van Slyke gazed keenly at! Burt Moss, and gave 2 short

"Nothing like him." He wasn't He is a raine of information re-thirty thousand dollar pearl neck- garding Britain in the Far lace for his wife, Mr. Van Slyke. tall, blond chap like this. East.

He was alone in his cffice and was short and rather dark. Hel Master Of The Horse

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for some reason as "Fruity" Metcalfe to nearly every hunting and riding The lieutenant man in England. When King Edward is astride a horse in the were busy slapping the pocket tioned Eve and Mr. Stotes, field, "Fruity" Metcalfe is sure areas on the clothing of all the called in Mr. Stotes secretary for to be in the vicinity.

As fel- male passengers as he talked. Hea confirmation of their alibi.

"Then," he barked

angrily, low-members of the Bath Club, zave Father Carolan a couple of

"somebody who was on that stuck they could at one time be seen good-humored pats.

elevator-by heaver-did you let together regularly playing al "Don't pack a gun, do you, 'em all go, lieutenart?” hard-hitting

Lieutenant O'Rafetty helped him game

the Father, to keep your flock in line. in

The Keutenant purpled "Why into a taxicab and told him please. squash courts.

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--sure. I got names and Finally, discreetly aloof from crowd for the priest to depart.

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For Next Monday sydney Inspector David Storier, of Ian.

"Priest?" shouted the detective ing indignantly. "He was such a "Oh, no, no, no!" Eve was cry- Scotland Yard's Special Branch. "They'll be along in a minute, "What was his name? This is the man who has been Father. You can wait over by the get his address?"

Did you sweet man. It simply couldn't Office and Kowloon Central Post Next Monday the General Post

appointed principal guardian door, where there's not such a

be. Why, the's a brilliant man, Ofice will be open from 9 3.m. to "Father Carolan,” said Eve of King Edward VIII, and it is mob."

cultured - man, a student--" breathlessly, "and the most charm-

11 a.m., Sheungwan Post Office his duty to protect the King The priest called back to them:ing, gentle ".

"Sure he's a student." growled from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and the from every untoward danger or "If I can be of any service, my "Gold-rimmed spectacles?"

The

defective bitterly. "He's other Post Offices from 9 a.m. to embarrassment which may be friends-" set him in the course of his

detective dived for the telephone studied this racket coming and go-

There will be one collection from The crowd had closed around which technicians had just re- ing. He's done time în Sing Sing public life.

them again whet the officer who stored. He sputtered more ques-and Joliet, too. Used to be a con- pillar boxes, one delivery of or was searching Burt Moss gave ations as Burt exclaimed!

fdence man, till be found this dinary correspondence as on. Sun- few years ago. David shrill shout:

"Yeshe had, gold-rimmed high-class stick-up business paid days and one delivery of registered Storier was teaching a class of "Eere they are!

He probably thought he correspondence at 10a.m. By heck, Iziasses."

The Money Order Office will be boys, but the life of a school-knew we'd get him and we did!" "Collar that buttons in the back was trapped, this time, in

entirely closed. master grew irksome to him

He had withdrawn from the-that black what-you-call it the stalled elevator, so he slipped the and he joined the police force. right side pocket of Burt Moss' priests wear in front?"

pearls into this young fellow's With an extensive knowledge of coat an

pocket. He had thrown away his astonishing string of **Yes.** Languages, he soon won for him-pearls, which he dangled trium-

Mr. Van Slyke showed a little 800-even if we'd held hira self promotion to the coveted phantly.

emotion now as he broke in: "But couldn't have hung this or him. Special Branch. He is the

Mr. Stotes didn't know whether the hold-up man didn't wear any-

(to laugh or to blow up. "And you thing like that!”

The detective nodded, shouting two young idiots were just about where King Edward is appear-hind King Edward to-day.into the phone: Gimme Chief ready to let him marry you! False applying, you will see the athletic Upon, their advice, upon their Sullivan. Of course he didn't," angina-false arrest-false ́ wed-

figure of Storier with the tact and wisdom, will deperd to he added to Van Slyke. "He never

ding-" watchful eyes a few paces be-some extent the place in which puts on that rig till after he's] "But that wasn't a false pro- hind.

Comparatively, he is a King Edward VIII will stand in pulled his stick-up-that's the way mise you made us--was it, Uncle Already acknowledged: newcomer to the King's en-history. Those who know the he's got away, clean, three times lhia nfece asked softly.

T. P. Seabourne tourage, beginning his duties entourage intimately have no before this." He barked into the "Get out of here, two," C. C. Black P&O BUILDING. 'CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG when the King went on that fear of the future They form phone: "Chief-it's Pete the famed Mr. States. "When I say S. 3. C. Stanesby

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famous business tour of the a brilliant little Cabinet of a Priest again. Sure, same old a thing I stick by it. Go get S. Jarvis Argentine.

King who enters upon a brilli-stunt. Sure, we got the pearls, another license!” These, then, are the men be-ant reign.

'but we ain't got Pete... Naw.

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