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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SHORT STORY.

DETECTIVE BURNS

GREAT

THE MYSTERY OF THE DOUBle eagles,

".' BY ARTHUR. B. RHEVE.

EXTRA

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1913, 1.30 P.M.

was closed. Some said they never UNCONSCIOUS DEFECTS, and the wives who do not see that ing, helps, governments, diversi- had others said they had on a low occasions. But all mid that homever they saw never carried package, a valise, ore suitcase, in or out after the mint was closed.

The Sex's Deficit in intellect And Temperament.

they are beholden to man for any-ties of tongusa." If you turn over thing, and those who consider to the Fourth of Ephesians, that they have not made a suf- eleventh and twelfth vereas, you "And ficiently good bargain for them-will find a similar passage; selves in short, all the ungrato. He gavo some, apostles; and some, Women, says Sir Almroth fal women-flock to the banner prophets; and some, evangelists,

Colton expecting to be able to get away with it? What puzzles me is how he could manage it."

"Well, I've figured out several ways. For instance, there are a number of large deg saitors who do a good deal of business with CASES: the mint. One concern al ne

If that were true, then the Wright, is an "insolvent citizen." of Woman's Freedom-the ban- and some, pastors and tenobers; dess from $50,000 to $200,000 a whole theory that Burns was The taxes paid by women would aer of financial freedom for wo for the perfecting of the stints, year. There might be some mix-working up fell to the ground, cover only a very small propor man at the expense of financial for the work of the ministry, for up there,"

theedifying of the body of Christ." The men went further and assur- tion of the establishment charges servitude for man.

Woman looks upon her mind Here is a cartain clause--"for the the action that had to be taken be shown to the man at the door. ly be assigned to them. It falls not as an implement for the pur-perfecting of the saints for the

After going over the draftsanded him that every package had to of the State which would proper-

to man to make up the deficit.sult of truth, but as an instra work of the ministry."-making on them by the shief clerk him-That also exploded the theory. The woman who has inherited ment for providing her with ores ministers, not a few set apart, He must self, as well as each step in the But Burns did not believe it was

property he likens to the man ture comforts in the form of agree- but some prophets, some pastors, (Continued from last Saturday,) a shift of watchmen.

come in, go to his office on a delivery of tho money, Barne true. ·

who has by inheritance come in able mental images.

soma evangelists, some teachers, Ho trak the men one at a time, as a eleeping partner into a Not a bit of it, Braden, re- plausible pretext, get the two readily convinced Braden how

The vote would not raise the for the perfecting of the zainte plied Atchison promptly. That

rabke hidden in the cashier's impossible it was for Colton to do and finally found that there was firm count is right,"

really only one whom he knew office, and in that fashion make anything in that way.

Woman's claim to control the wages of the woman worker and unto the work of the ministry, bring to her the financial, nor yet unto the building up of the Chur his get-away.

"Well, then, how about this?" must have be in the man on duly finances of the State on the the physiological, freedom she is oh of Christ. Our text enlarges upon that, gcea a little farther This was clear and clever suggested Braden, his relatince when the package on rii but ground that she is a tax-payer the phys reasoring, and it told Burns all gone now, "Toe carhier, ever it was was carried in and out.

No apright mind can fail to see the ministry, and building up of than perfecting the saint unto

to it.

mdob.

It was

them."

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is on a par with the claim

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Count and recount as they might, there was no straightening of it out. There was the mystery at the start, and that was as far

But it did not catch any when he is filling a truck in the He took this man aside and told to increase the political power that the woman who lives in a the church. It reschen out, and as anybody had got when Burns criminals- cauze, B8 y 866, vault with bis sasistent,-yon him directly bringing his outting and complete control over the arrived at this point. The money the route taken by the thief know, he is never alone, could res into play again, that he finances of the State which is pat condition of financial dependence teaches the world about the

Churob. was gone thats all there was involved the office of Atchie-n, surreptitiously miscount the sacks suspected him of being part of forward by a class of male voters upon man has no moral claim to

We have, first of all, a good No one lieved that it bad

Braden, and Colton, all thre. when the other fallow was off the conspiracy to let the mint who are already paying mach unrestricted liberty.

It would be difficult to find any thing, and in the second place, a ten spirited away, but then, no Hurns had his suspicions, and the guard, and place a couple of extra That was startling news to the less than their pro rata share of

one who would trust a woman to better thing. The good thing is one knew what to believe. reade: probably has his. At any bags on the truck. Then, as it doorman, and he did some quick the upkeep of the State.

"I satisfied myself thoroughly," rate, Berns' were right.

If woman is insolvent from the was going through the office, he thinking as well as vigorous

the case where the material in-certain EL Bays Baras, "that it was not even a question of building up the might surotly shove off the esoka, asorting of his innocence. fiscal point of view (and "all lade just to the rights of others in that God has set in His Church specialists"I do not hide them, and later get off with Barns told him that be bad forturies," Sir Almroth adds, terests of her children, or of a call them" order," for the word possible to bring the money out evidenes. into the cashier's office in the j

stated positively that no one had and practically all the incomes devoted husband, wore involved. is often misunderstood-certain Bares was now ready to come time, then bide it until nicht. {

But there are too many lerks ever gone in or out with a grip which are furnished by invest And even to consider the question specialism or order in the work, out of ewer and baqin his “ open

whereas Burns knew better that ments are derived from man,") of being in such a case intellectu- There are eight classes in these. Every afternoou, before the dears investigation," Up to this time around," objected Buras." No:

he also holds that woman suffera ally just to any one who came in vertes of Scripture which can be were closed, the cashier and the he had ten lying low, but be you'll have to do better than that.omeone had. chief clerk counted every dollar, had now reached a pint where

The watchman looked at him from an equal deficit in intellect to competition with personal be described as specialists, doing "Well, how about this? pur. and, in the presence of the cashier, certain phases of the cass could sued Braden, thoroughly warmed to come over bis face. There fera from disabilities and lacuum would, of course, lie quite beyond pharacteristic of them." God blankly; then a new light seemed and femperament. The sex suf-longings like husband and child certain things which have become every day the 0. K. of the chief bo inquel into only by his up to the detective job.

ir Why

wee no fake about it. He had of which it is unconscious. the moral horizon of ordinary hath set in the Church." They clerk was placed on the cash."

coming out. For instance, be bid couldn't he have the other man forgotten, but now he actually That not very unusual type of woman.

are ordained and placed of God Buras went out and took a turn act yet even bon introduced to stand in with him,put on, gay, remembered that an officer of the spinster who is in a condition of It is not only the fact that the in the Church for a certain par or two up and down the street; Braden, though he had ben two extra sacks, and then later mint several months before had retarded development (and you ideals of abstract justice and pose, and it is something to feel then stood in the shadow of the watching every body and every-the two of them divide up?”

brought a suit case one night will find this kind of woman truth would inevitably be brush-that you are ordained of God, high Doric columns, thoughtfully thing in and about the mint. Burns picked that to pieces, too, after seven o'clock, and, with his even on county councils) is com- ed aside by woman in the Carey was an apostle whom revolving the matter over and

"I have nev、 met you, Mr. until oven Braden had to admit office door open, had disrobed plately unconscious of the sexual interests of those she loves which God called to open the work in over in his mind. For it is his Barn," aid Braden one day the folly of Colton's dreaming of almost in the presence of the element in herself and in human comes into consideration here; it fadis. Adoniram Judson was an theory, in every important ca80,

is also the fact that women is apostle, called to the United to put him sif in the place of the toon afterward, "but I think I such a thing. Then he began a watol man, put on a dress suit, nature generally.

Woman's Morality.

almost without a moral sense in States to go and assist in that tlilof. Point-blank, he asked ought to introduce myelt. I'm a little quizzing on his own and had gone out to attend a

"Braden," he asked reception. About eleven o'clock There is mental disorder, Sir the matter of executing a public work, and open up a new work. himself, "If I bed access to this glad to know that you've been account. mint 1 night from the time of detailed og his case, for live vasully, "while you were out he had returned, taken off the Almroth says, evident in the trust such as voting, or attaching in Burmah. John Bunyan was great deal ing the cash with Colton every edit, put it back in the suit-case, programmes of the mil tant herself to a political association un apostle, called of God to write, the chief clerk's O. K, and after beard an read a

about you."

day, why did you fail to look be- and taken it away with him. Suffragist, and immorality in her with a view to influencing votes, and he was so busy about many the mint is closed, to midnight.

But this Buros abok bands, and as behind the trucks in the vaults? It This happened on several occas-aims and methods.

In this matter one would not things, that the Lord had to what possible chance would I have to steal thirty thousand did so he noted Bradan's clear, was your daty not to take for ions. But he had taken nothing point of morality has a section of be very far from, the truth it one provide him a study in Beaford steady gaze into his own eyes. granted that everything was out except the suit The man the book to itself, and its con- alleged that there are no good Gaol to keep him quiet enough dollars?

The mere he thought of it, the And that is amething for any there. It was your duty to count was sure of that So was Burns, cinsion illustrates the author's women, but only women who to write, and to carry out the

point of view.

have lived under the influence good work that He had marked clearer it be same, until firally man to do; for, if there is one all, all-not part, no matter what up to a point.

This, then, was an important Woman's morality, he says, is of good men.

out for him. Men and women be put the case bypothetically thing above the many that imprese Colton said. It was your busi

In order to do that you about Barna, it is those hor-ness to see whether the pigeon-clue. The man had taken not-personal and domestic, not public,

Practically every man feels that that are called to a special steel points of eyes of his holes behind the trucks were thing at all until, say, the last and while she will rise and there is in woman-petent, or

mission, and sent forth of God, it is neccasary to bave entree to which cut into your very soul filled or not. Now why didn't few times. It was all cleverly respond to the call of any strong hidden away an element of an-

ing

are apostles. The prophet was this mint at night under proper The bit and seem to strike hours you discover the shortage b done to "educate the watchman human or transcendental personal reason which, when you come without any language of his own

one who spoke God's message pretest, to have entree to the

fore?"

to see him going ip, and out with affection," it is cashier's office at night under at what is lying hidden there.

The chief clerk shrugged his a suitcase at night.

only a very exceptional woman | "pon' it, summarily puts an end that came with an authoritative

to purely intellectual intercourse. who would, when put to her.

message from the throne; an shoulders. "I took it for granted

There is no mistaking the ambassador of the King, he election between the claims of that they were all there," he

a narrow and domestic and a trenchant character of it all, simply spoke for God. Le was,

We .may

confidently in a sense, an apostle, too, but wider or publio morality, sub-and

plain speaking to in the apostleship the mission was ordinate the former to the count on

an equal degree from those latter.

emphasised, in the prophet's indio mut suporters of the Suffrage who place the mesange was emphasis

up the challenge Almroth has thrown down.

this way:

proper pretext, to be able to carry a valise or suit-case in and out of

"I'm satisfied," Braden adjoi, that ya'll find the thief, and, if the mint at night under proper there's anything I can do to aid pretext. If I had this entree 1 you, command me." could then go ahead It would "Thank you, Braden," return- then be necessary to manipulate ed Burns; "I'll be glad to call the time lock in such a way as to or you later.' render it inoperative. I should

It is always easier to pick also bave to know the combination criminals and pile up evidence in predigeated detective stories than

answered weakly.

continued Botas,

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that has

The trail was now hot. One

day Burns went to the cashier

himself. "Colton, "he demanded, without any warning," who changed that look on the vault?"

"Why,"replied Colton thought- fally, when I became cashier to be changed. It must have been year ago the combination had done by a locksmith."

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The Author's

cause is even stronger :--

pass over the recent epidemic against women's activity in the sake

SHORT SERMON.

Sir

d. The prophet spoke the very word God gavo him in God's way, with God's power, to God's glory...

After the apostles and prophets, the teacher. The one who has aptness to impart knowledge, the one who takes the Word of God Miracles of To-day.

and explains.ii. It means an authoritative teacher, one that The Church, as taught in the teaches the truth, not in his own Scriptures, is a called-out sasemb-name, but in the name of his

Right here Burns stuok a pin The failure to look back of the tracks each day showed conclu- sively one of two things: either some one was outrageously de- of the vault.

relict, or be purposely avoided it is in rent life. Burne had made fading the abstraction of the "If that were all true, then

of political crime among womeo could come into the cashier's up his mind long before he came b1ge.

"Why,"

At once Burns began to trace to advert to the want of conscience office at 4.30 p.m., when the clerke out into the open, but there were had all gone.

At that minute still some email matters that he what was the pcs of counting at this assertion down through the which permits, in connection So it all, if you overlooked half a mil- labyrinth of fact. It didn't take with professedly idealistic cancer, the watchman on that floor, who did not quite fully, see. is aa regular as clockwork, has wasn't long before he decided to lion dollars or so hidden by the him long to find that the accounts not only misrepresentations, bat showed no charge whatever for the making of deliberately false lighted the lights in the cashier's take advantage of the chief clerk's two trucka?"

the services of a locksmith,

etitements on matters of public office and has left on his rounds, considerate offer.

"I didn't think it was necessary Burns confronted the cashier concern. not to return for twenty-eight "You're the best posted man to look behind thore," reiterated with this fact from his own re-

Feminism and its Evils. "I tiast" minates. That would give me a in this mint on the conduct of the Braden more strongly.

Here is a summary of Sirly an assembly called out for a Great Teacher. Now notice then chance to of an the vault.'

business and thinge in general," ed Colton, and-ob, say, here's cords. Then Colton said he had

made a mistake. He now recalled Almroth's distinction between the purpose. This called-out assemb-three words: In the apostle the Burns then sauntered in and whe sdled Burns, to start with, another possibility traced out the bypothetical course Now, Braden, as man to man, occurred to me. Why wouldn't that when he had assumed his trae chivalry and the false, and ly ie a spiritual house, built and mission is emphasised, and in the duties, be bad asked the chief. bis verdict on what would enene owned by the Lord Jesus Christ. teacher the method is emphasised; Some one, be continued to reason, give me the benefit for a moment he have taken out two sacks, put olerk, whom he succeeded as cas if the Suffrage cause prevailed: le intends it to contain and ex- he comes with his mission, and Every one who has a real feat-press His fulness; it expresses, to be comes with his message, but came in at half past four, opened of your intimate knowledge. Tell the money on the cash-table in

bination.

ing for woman, and who is con- the angels aven, the manifold God has specially endued him the vault, took out one or two me, how do you yourself think it the vault, and then carried in hier, what to do about the com- sacks, never more, for they in rear in possible for any person something-anything, potatoes

"Oh," said Braden, "there cerned for her naturel welfare, wisdom of God; it is loved and with the right method for his weighed nearly thirty p.unde, to steal that money? Of comtes, may bs-to fill up the empty sack

isn't any need of getting a look as a father is concerned for his cleansed and sanctified by the part, He is a specialist of më- and carried them out. Then he thote must be some person whom before he put it back?

Impossible, hid them in a box-counter in the you suspect. Who is it?"

ejaculated smith; I'll help you change it." daughter's, will, above everything Lord Jesus; it is the pillar and thod if you plesso, as the prophet Together the cashier and the else, desire to nurture and en-ground of the truth; and it will is a specialist in the message, and cashier's office under Eme empty For the first time Braden was Burns sceptically.

chief clerk had tet the combin- courage in man the sentiment of perform its mission in time and the apostle is a specialist in the coin-sacks.

reluctant to speak. It was quite heal it "

ation. Burns made the cashier chivalry, and in woman that dis eternity. Its mission in time is mission. The apostls emphasises Instead of going out to the obvious to Buras that he had his "Well", exolaimed Braden,show him exactly how he claimed position of mind that makes to gather out a people for the the fact that God has sent him." Lord; the Bidegroom is coming The prophet emphasises the fact main corridor by the natural way, suspicione, and also his reluctance somewbat nettled, "if you explode it was done.

chivalry possible. all my theories, I must confess

From every point of view, for His Bride. Its mission in that God has spoken, and the he must have gone on through was quite as obvious.

(To be Continued.)

except perhaps that of the ex- eternity, as well as in time, is to teacher emphasises the fact that the weighing-room to the receiv-Yes," be parried; "but you have no others to offer. I can't

ceptional woman who would be glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. God has given the truth that needs ing-room. In this way he would know yourself, Mr. Burne, that it see how else he could have done

able to hold her own against maa The mission of the Church, the to be imparted in its fulness. be out of sight of the watchman is a serious thing for one in my it. What's your own theory?"

called out assembly, is to gather After the apostles and pro- who was always at the main door position to condemn a man on Burns briefly outlined the case

culine competition-and always issue informal letters of out the people by evangelising photo and teachers," mirsoles." in the main corridor, looking suspicion, and, and-woll, I he had worked out.

naturalisation to such an ex- the nations, preaching the Gospel it is the same word translated right down to the cashler's office. should hate to do it."

to every creature. Her mission power in that Scripture, "power In the receiving room he would "But you must do it," urged Braden. "Why, the time-look Mr Walter Wood, whose ratireceptional woman-the

on high," "Tarry ut be very active in the service of Jerusalem till ye receive power then have to climb a counter, Burne, with a boming show of was on, Mr Burns. He couldn't ment from the Indian Railway salirage which leads up to is not to sit still and wait, but to from and could leave by a door open warmth; "it is your duty."

come back and open it. No; there Board is announced, has been a feminism would be

the Lord, to prepare for the return on high," "Te shall receive Ing into the transverse corridor.

of the King.

power after that the Holy Directly across from the door, Braden still besitated, but it are no other theories if you rejcst member of the Board for eight disaster.

and half years, although bis "Ungrateful Women."

Let us enter into this spiritual Here are a few detached and only ten feet away, was the office was evident that a name was all those I—”....

"Think it over," cut in Burns, original appointment was only for

word, throbbing with the heart This but borating from his lipa. Berns of the superintendent:

five years. Before he went to characteristic passages from the building and examine some of its Spirit is come upon you." This furniture-look at the constituents and arm of God, is taken to apply India, V Wood was traffic man-book- office had a door opening into the pressed him. Finally, with re-turning on his heel. office of the chief olerk. If the luctance, he whispered the name Barns stuck to his theory, too. ager of the Hall and Barnsley If woman had to fight for her of it, find what it is made of, and to a class in the Church Does He went to the men who, cover- Bilway. His appointment was position, har status would be that what the different parts of it are it mean simply the Worker of gold were hidden, it might be the cashier. done up in some sort of package "Yes-Colton, mused Borns. ing the period from the previous a great distinction for an official which is designed to her among intended for, "God hath set in Mingles that by faith perform and carried out that night or the There was nobody in a position settlernent to the discovery of the of a relatively small railway, as the Kafire-not that which the Church in this called out the supernatural, with win G following day. Probably the to do it except the usahier. But shortage, had been on watch. the Indian Railway Board con- civilised man concedes to her, assembly first apostles, second works? Oh, yes, it menus that, We find the women who want prophets, thirdly teachers, after for, you know, a miracle means thief returned at, say, eleven then, Braden, can't you see the He asked them if they had ever trola the working of the entire

to have everything for nothing, that miracles, then gifts of heal- God Elmself at work, g'olook at

i night, when there was utter futility of any one like seen any one there after the mint system in the country,

"How could

**Impossible," interrupted

Indian Railways.

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