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BLIND VOYAGE MILDRED SNOW

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE:

มน her childhood Both Teddy (Theodors) Raynor

+ Dr chum, Huco Albright, receive strange letters from Smiting, travel agency operator, soliciting their partielpa- tlon in a cruise aboard the yacht Golden Gull, Dr Sault- ting tells them it is being privately sponsored by an ecoen- Denia Graham in- tele who pretern to remain unknown. troduces himself to Teddy and tries to dissuade her from johning the cruise. He reveals that the Golden Gull was the name of a secret society of which her father was the head. Old Rayner had suspected a double-cross by a member of the society before his death. Graham points out the alm- larity of names and the queer way of selecting passengers make the eleme look arialer.

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NOW READ ON

and,

next morning she

but he doesn't look slick!

I

thought him very charming."

"Never mind--I've made in- quiries."

Albright-

"I thought you had more Graham rose, "I'd like to be senset cald Hugo, "Charming! friends with you, LA charming crook that's but apparently you don't wish

what he probably Isl"

it. I'm sorry."

"You're

He bowed stiffy to Teddy, the senseless one!"

and abruptly walked away. **Just be Teddy said hotly. cafise he's considered Rume- "Hugot" cald Teddy indignant doesn't ly. "Do you have to be such a

bore?"

thingt of an enigma mean he's crooked!"

מח

Hugo started

to make angry reply, then checked.him self and grinned.

"All right let's not quarrel. We're two idiots to be lighting over a prefect stranger."

Golden

she

The very you HAT do

think this sent a cheque to Dr Smitting to pay for cruise tickets for both person's pur- herself

She and Aunt Elsie,

Teddy, too, subsided. "Yes- роде i 87"

rather dreaded the prospect of and anyway, we're agreed that breaking the news to Hugo we're both going to be aboard

when he took her out the

Gull when to dinner that evening, put off nails two weeks from now, and mentioning i

"By Jove!" Hugo said sur dealy in a low voico. "There's He crushed out Gratiam now!" his cigaretle impatiently. he's following us I'm going to put a stop to it!"

anked Teddy.

"I don't know-but I'm very much afraid of what it

Then, might be. Whatever it is, I fear there is danger involved found for any one who takes the and

about it. cruise, and I urge you most strongly not to consider it."

At any

"You Agund Teddy laughed. awfulis melodramatic-bul

your think

letting you're imagination run wild. rate, you've made me really in- terested in the cruise Mystery appeals to me. I think I shall sign up!"

For

a

while

now.

afier Denis Graham left Teddy sat think

had said, ing of all that he Could his fantastic yarn about the Order of the Golden Gull really be true? It sounded like ahe her father, and yet.... wondered.

$O

she

to her surprise, that he already knew wan remarkably calm

"I dropped in to see Smilting again this afternoon," he salt, "and understand that you've decided to take the cruise. suppose there's no use trying to stop you?"

I

"No." Teddy smiled sweetly. Hugo shook his head. All I to say is, that you're the most ornery girl stubbornest,

ever knew!" "Thanks."

Then, grinned.

suddenly, "Well anyway,

Hugo

there,

bought ticket myself

alternoon."

She was still sitting when her nun caine In fran shopping expedition

"Austic," Teddy sald at once. "Pv news for you. I'm going on that cruise."

Aunt Elsie flopped into a

chair,

"Oh, Hugo! Did you?" "Yes--I

thought I'd better come along and protect you."

"What did you think of it?" Teddy asked eagerly.

BOUW

Teddy looked around and Graham standing in the doorway. He was in full even ing dress.

"Don't be silly, Hugo. This in опе of the best-known restaurants in town. It's just a coincidence that he's here."

As she spoke, Graham caught of them and came over sight to their tables

"Good

Ray- evening, Miss nor," he said, in his pleasant voice. "Evening, Albright, May I join you dor a few minutes?" Teddy smiled and Busa,

but "Please do,"

Hugo glowered.

"I'm waiting for a friend." Graham explained, sitting down.

thought you "And so you might pass the line telling somo more tall stories?" Hugo said rudely.

Graham

was

disconcertca.

"Knowing our two fathers as I did, I believed the part about the secret society. As for the rest of his yarn-well, I don't know. I suspect he deliberately knew !" she said, in ex made that up to scare us out "I thought I had convinced you

O: per last night." "I just know it. taking the cruise. asperation.

"I didn't know CO much he knew it would have I told Bugo that, if you went haps to see that Smilting man he'd the opposite effect, and subtly about you then,"

Graham raised his "So?" ! Your father made sure that we would make talk you into

appealing cruise by

eyebrows. "And what have you should never have left you in the

learned since?" control of all that money! Then our spirit of adventure."

wouldn't be able to do "Why Jou

are you suspicious of every crazy thing

**1 made some mquiries

into your head!"

that pops him?"

to

Teddy rated herself on the about him today. I found that

arm

dent," "We'l

a

of her aunt's chair, and he's known about town as

character-a strange rather put an arm around her.

"Be

have He seems to mystery.

of money, but no one pienly

from. knows where it comes And he has quite a faculty for disappearing."

a sport, Auntle shr raid roasingly, probably have a swell time"

Aunt Eisle sighed. You al ways get your way.

Theodora just like your father. I never could do thing with him, either."

Teddy was silent a moment, then

"Auntie. asked slowly, Father given to secret was pocieties and things like that?"

"For heaven's sake,

put that into your head?

he care "But why should whether we make the cruise or not?"

R

Hugo "I haven't an idea,"

THE

THE

USSIANS "warmly greet the workers of the Ministry of State firmly

ure and what said slowly, "but I doubt very Security

he probably was it would be terested

in our

Just the sort of things that isn't logical. No

to some game, would appeal to him."

"You don't know of any one

sure." in particular, though, do you? asked Teddy.

welfare. It he's up

re

GLEASON

"

who she is and what she wants?"

"With that beauty and chie,' commented Toddy, "she ought to be somebody prominent, but Charles doesn't know her, and it's care that he doesn't know anybody who is anybody in this town!"

"Now York isn't the only town in the world!" Hugo latighed. "But coine on-let's go and dance. I've had enough mys- tory for today!"

guess I did go a bit too far," apologised Hugo guilty. Then, looking after Graham, Bay! See the friend he's meeting"

Just as Graham had reached young door, a beautiful the woman had entered. He greeted her bending

her hand, 立您 the followed her then headwalter escorted them to a Teddy corner table.

uver

"She didn't glamorous drily.

Jook quite ro then," Hugo sald "That's why it took me a while to place her."

"Where did you meet her, by the way," asked Jake. "I mean hero in New York."

"We didn't meet her," Teidy explained. "But we saw her in where we had the restaurant dinner. She was with a man named Denis Graham."

"Oh, yoo-Graham. He's her usual escort. She's seen all over town with him."

They went on to a night club.

"Do you know Mr Gralışm7" couldn't Fot Charis

Teddy asked asiced quickcly. Winslowe out of her mind. When

"Yes but I don't know much she saw a friend of hors who about him. Nobody does. But Everyone tried to look at

was a newspaper columnist, she he's a prince of a fellow. Always her. Though simply gowned,

pays the bill." Then Jake

woman she created the most striking called him over to their table,

"Jake Hally-Hugo Albright," added, "Do you know him?"

"Jake does a hair was a she introduced.

"I've met him," said Teddy. appearance of any the room. natural gold that shone in the gasp column, Hugo. Knows "Hugo and I are going on a -in town....Listen, cruise in a couple of weeks, and light, and her face had a beauty everyone that was definitely distinctive.

Jake, to you know a woman

we-uh-happened to run into named Charls Winstowe?"

him in the travel bureau, and later he came to see me to talk about the oruise."

Her

Alle later they had finished their dinner and wore about to go on somewhere else to dance. when the headwaiter came up to Teddy with a card in his hand.

*

"Bxcuse me, Miss Raynor."' "What is I, Charles?"

The lady there in the corner- with Mr Graham-asked me to elve you this."

Toddy took the card-a visit- with the engraved ing card

"Miss Charis Winslowe." name, On tt, hastily scrawled in penell,

was the message:

"Please forgive this lack of convention, but may I call on you tomorrow morning? Is Important.

Teddy hesitated a second, then made up her mind.

"Tell her, Charles, answer is yes.”

that the

The headwater bowed, and moved away.

A

"Am I allowed to know what is alz about?" Hugo this grumbled,

Teddy, without

word, handed him the card. He read it, then whistled softly.

"Well Life was never as crazy as this in Chicago! I wonder

Jake, who was a fat, amiable- looking young man, screwed up his chubby face.

"Winslowe? No, never heard of her....Walt a minute! What does she look like?"

Teddy described her. Jake was all ears. He eagerly chair closer to hitched his Hugo's,

"Listen, Albright--if you've got any dope on Miss Winslowe, give me the exclusive story, will you? Every columnist in town has been trying to and out who she is. Boy, what a scoopl"

Hugo took a deep breath. "Well, all right here it is. Four years ago the lady now rumoured to be a grand duchess was a nursemaid in the home of come friends of mine in Chicago."

Teddy looked incredulous. "Hugo! Not really!"

"Boy!" Jake exclaimed. "I I What a could only use that!

Glamorous Mystery story. Woman an Ex-Nursemaid!"

"I sec," murmured Jake. He "Well, pushed back his chair. I've got to be moving. Nice to see you, Teddy--"

"Walt a soc. Jake," Teddy us what you hesitated. "Toll

about do know

Mr Graham. Hugo and I are-er-rather curious about him."

nothing

to

"Sorry there's tell Jake evaded. "I've bold you all I know....Well, so long. I'll drop in to see you before you go on this cruise."

Ilo waved nonchalantly, moved off toward the door, and disappeared.

"Jake does know something about Mr Grahun," Teddy said thoughtfully.

Then,

"It's queer about the Winslowe woman, isn't it? What do you make of it, Hugo?"

"I don't know-but let's forget both of them and dance."

(MORE TOMORROW)

KREMLIN FETES SECRET POLICE

PATRICK

By

MAITLAND

Correspondent for The Times during the war and editor of The Fleet Street Newsletter.

But much whether he's simply inconvinced that the members of the Soviet intelligence I'm almost will always remain worthy

and reliable defenders of modern, thoughtful.the October Revolution con- courgetic

quests, and always remain form. Denis faithful soldiers of the

Party of Lenin and Stalin.".

Teddy weighing

was

of

CX-

Hugo's bluntly opinion pressed Graham.

"Hugo," she said finally, "I "Why

do you ask?" Aunt don't agree with you. I like believe Mr Elsie looked keenly at her.

Graham. I can't "Oh

something that he has .. just

a game or that he Hugo said."

-means either of us any harm.

sincere,"

most refined, most

and

months ago: "In 1945 I was sent by my firm to contact with the Russians in Berlin. I came back after a four-year last January

was a sojourn in Kazakhstan. bricklayer. We built every sort of construction, and at work one with had thi

to talk chanco others. In our camp were German who had been of their knowledge. to end their. then despatched

of Central days in the heart

Thera Asia es forced labour.

Russian scientists who were had done their best but fallen foul of the party line.

most ruthless what sort of fairyland of hap- squeeze

campment,

prison

The Soviet people know well pinos lies in store for those who must do the actual build- ing. Should they not otherwise If the public did not well have heard that these projects know what it was all

about, are the work of forced labour,

the Mololov has told them. these why

passages in Such was the final paragraph

**Even our

guarda of a panygyric of the Soviet Criminal Codex of the R.S.F.S.R.

Amnesties show that at least a which is in use throughout the secret polles broadcast on

themselves prisoners of the big public works were Aunt Elsie hesitated, then I thought his susplelons about recent anniversary of the Soviet Union: The rendering some

have been built that way. And banished to the thankless task said, "No-I can't say I ever this cruise were rather founding of the Cheka, now of assistance, by any mOBTLS

the public are reminded at each of guarding the watchtowers beard your father mention fantastic, but I thought him known as the M.V.D. (Ministry

... the inter- anniversary

of the Cheka's any such thing."

of State Security), by Felix whatsoever, to Teddy got

They were lonely, the impression "You would say that!". Hugo Ezerzhinsky, a former friend national bourgeoisie....and also foundation that the secret police at each corner of our bare en- that her aunt was holding retorted, "He's the type that ag- of Stalin, Trotsky and Lenin, to public groups and organisa- continues to exist and is always sad people who had given up

Looking for more Inbour. In- something

their families back, but she was peals to women. Stick, well His black memory was more tions, under the influence of or

Dr hope of seeing Soviet author, afraid to press the subject any dressed."

even whitened and recently

directly organised by that bour deed, the

Indeed, they admitted further.

"He's well dressed, certainly gilded by Pravda, This gukle gcoisle in the conduct of acti- Vladimir Grovsky, in his "Soviet again.

vities hostile to the U.S.S.R.

says of the that the regime aimed to des- Civil Law", openly of Soviet thought called him

"The Cheka en troy every recollection of home "the fearless knight of the entalls deprivation of liberty for system:

of .three years and deavoured

to produce such a and family in the victims not less than Revolution."

them confiscation of all or part of the looming terror of swift, direct its hate, then transplant

to colonise new wastes. Those culprit's property; to be in- and unpredictable measures....

solidier guards, whose freedom In recent years, and not least creased in especially grave cir- that even the mere mention of at each official anniversary of Cit

would destroy the of movement was limited to a cumstances to the supreme the name the Cheka's foundation, it has become normal in the U.S.SR measure of social defence, death desire to mabotage, to extort, to few miles, were expected even-

by shooting". (Art. 58.

plot." The name reappears, it tually to take local wives, then

Most down. may be observed, in the anniver settle to laud ar gentle and all-wize IV.). protectors of the proletariat the

sary radio broadcast cited above, guilty of having opened their mouths too wide on coming modern version of the feared Ochrana,

back from Europe."

SIDE GLANCES

'82-35

By Galbraith

COF9109EY SEXA MERÍTOR, MG, T; AU REDA, CL, B. PAT, OFF.

**They'll simply novor take the luxury tax off fur coats. {now!", [*] •qould get my hands on that doo.Stalin, I'd wring his nook!"

para.

tho Tsarist secret That passage should be read police; normal, that is, in the alongside these words columns of the Press and on Melator to the VIth tho radio.

Make-believe

Odd thing

Story of fear

wero

Here is the system of which Russia celebrated the 33rd December 20. anniversary on

of M. Congress of Sovieta: "Moss projects em ploying those deprived of The terror, In fact, exceedin überty are organised for anything known in modem times variety of different objectives; outside the Nazi regime. There for highway construction, In bro not known to be gas cham- particular for railways, in the For the same broadcast passage building industry, in peat ex-bers; but there a known to be This la the mory of fear, now quoted above began with this ploitation, In charcoal burning, torture, and there are persons subtly re-told on each anniver- lived through it sory, by a series of reminders. pasmge: The workers of the in metallurgical plante, in tim- who have

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that system you pendent on him as the time of against this perniciouzens.**

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Forces) are Implicit here is a deliberate the world's greatest hydra-elec on such; you just take care not member of the

at

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the · remote arvos of Siberia Grand Turkmen Canal, and is not. Indeed, Intended to

for five years.” (Art. 58)...

Plan

:

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