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NEW SERIAL STORY

THE MERAFIELD MYSTERY.

CHAPTER IX.

By R. A. J. WALLING. (Author of "The Third Degrue,"."Fatal Glovo," etc.)

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lady you could tell that by the style of her and the tone of her voice. But as for him, he didn't hold with young Indies being enough -with their chauffeurs to call them by their pet numes.

But before I had gone half a mile westward I had stopped the car and turned, and was. retrac-familiar ing my way.

I could not hope to catch At- kins. But there were other things I could do, new that could not be dono later. Principally, I could try to discover something about was at this Mrs. Briscoe. who' moment riding eastward in Mora- feld's

with car chauffeur.

"And did she do that, really?" "Oh, yes, she did. You couldn't help noticing it. Better hurry up, Boyo,' says she, or we shall be in the cart.""

was

SUN FO'S FINANCIAL ENDEAVOURS.

CIRCULARISES ALL..

DEPARTMENTS.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26,

1927.

WOMEN AND BARBERS SHOPS.

HANGCHOW'S BOBBED BEAUTIES RISE IN WRATH.

Bob haired women members of the Hangehow Kuomintang are un in arms against a new ruling of the provincial government which forbids barber shops from female customers accepting according to a letter from the capital city of Chekiang.

Nanking, Oct. 19. The sum of $3,300,000 has been secured by Mr. Sun Fo since his assumption of office as the Minis- ter of Finance. Of this amount, $2,000,000 have been turned over to the Military Council for meet- Ing the expenses of the Nationalist

The action of the Government Army while $300,000 has been distributed to various civil depart-was taken as the direct result of a recent incident in which a ments of the Government.

Chinese hair dresser attempted to take unseemly advantage of a maid servant while dressing her hair in the home of her employer.

In face of greater demands, due to the continuation of the northern expedition. however, Mr. Sun has despatched a circular order to all revenue offices in both Chektang and Kiangsu provinces. urging them to remit all available funds to either the Bank of China or the

Bank

of

Communications.

at Shanghai or Nanking to enable him to meet the pressing needs,

A member of the Hu family of Chin Nien Li in Hangchow city recently sent for an employee of the Oriental Barber Shop, as many members of the family wanted to The barber have hair cuts. answered the call, and after at- tending to the needs of six mem- bers of the family, he began to In fi petition circulated to government departments Mr. Sundress the hair of a maid-servant.

Maid is Saved reports that heretofore the prac- tice of various government organs has been extremely arbitrary,

both military and civil.

And which way did they go? Morafield's I wanted to know, for I was to meet them at dinner either at Up to this point I had, heen Taunton or Torquay, and we were blessed with incredible luck. to have s led the next stage. Atkins was & smart fellow, who-when we reached Exeter, but I had ever he might he, but he had made got left behind.

The intelligent mechanic the mistake of over-estimating his opponent if opponent I was to plainly a little ton intelligent to rendering thereby the work of consider myself. He thought swallow this invention. He look-effective centralization and sys- knew a lot more than I did. Ined rather sadly at me, as if he his anxiety to foll he had thought it was a deplorable thing actually presented me

for a middle-aged gentleman like open sesame to the confidence of myself to be careering round the the excellent Dr. Sandys, which country in search of a young lady should have had difficulty in penetrating without that key.

me

with an

who called her chauffeur "Bovo" He turned away, saying: "Then it must have been Torquay, for they went down the street."

And I did feel rather alarmed at the facility with which I found myself lying right and left.

But I had found out a part of what I wanted to know. Mrs. Reisen was a chit of a girl. with a free style; she was

terms

of close familiarity with Atkins; and they had gone westward

tematization of the control of finance practically impossible.

1

While the maid was reclining on the chair the barber suddenly threw a piece of white cloth over her face and proceeded to insult her. The girl struggled and screamed. Finally other members.. of the household rushed to her

rescue.

"Many departments," Mr. Sun's petition rends in part, "have taken upon themselves to approve of

The barber was at once arrest- their own estimates and apply.

ed and handed over to the bureau funds accordingly, while others

The bureau re-i of public peace. have even gone so far as to appro- priate sums before reporting to the ported the affair to the govern- Ministry. Such practices render ment and after a lengthy confer enen between the two organiza- the work of careful analysis and wise appropriations by the Minisans it was decided to issue a pro- try imonssille. For the sake of establishing an effective system of ontrol and clarifying financial Government responsibility.. the Cauneil is hereby petitioned to order all organs to remit the Cavernment's revenite Lo Ministry and to wait for their necessity of having to

allotments

the

nation forbidding barber shops ta accept women customers.

Women Up in Arms.

For instance, I could not have pounced suddenly upon Dr. Sandys and demanded to know who in his house had sent a tele phone message in the small hours of the morning of the 20th August. Thanks to Atkins, I knew to moral certainty that it was sent by Mrs. Briscoe. And as I had only been able to learn the very name of Mrs. Briscoe by pretend ing to know nfl about her, further from inquiries on that subject Dr. Sandys were ruled out.

Whether Mrs. Briscoe's tele. phone message was linked up with the murder of Sir Charles Mera- field or not, it was certainly was bound in that direction. Byla nice quiet, unassuming chap-vernment. closely connected with the events applying my question here and almost a gentleman, as you might of the Monday and the Tuesday,there, I traced him By guile, by force, or by any Briscoe as far as the hamlet of means that suggested themselves, I must learn all that could i Wickham, two miles from Mera-creature who couldn't get on with government.

learnt about Mrs. Briscoe.

I drove straight through Chit tlehampstead again and took the by this time Atkins had half an road to Exeter. I supposed that

hour's start of me: But there was the road and little traffic on Merafield's magnificent car could hardly have escaped notice.

I prepared a question to put to I could see. the likeliest persons Addressed to two loungers in

gain.

Alkins himself must be my nex: objective.

I drove back by the main road, avoiding Dartmoor." This was At- Kin's speedway to Merafield if he

respective

upon by the Ministry."

decided

"Yes, sir, it is. But Atkins is

and Mrs. say.

We get on very well." "Of course. It would be a poor field Bridge. At Merafield Bridge you, Mason. I

suppose Atkins Atkins had been in the car alone At home, I found my wife sur she said, Atkins had called round prised to see me so early. Yes,

drove Lady Merafield about a good deal?"

This roused the anger of the women members of the Koumin- tang who are thus reduced to the go to Shanghai for a hair cut. They at ence called an urgent meeting and discussed what steps should be taken against the measure of the After a prolonged decided to deliberation it was issue a statement challenging the legality of the action of the

The statement says that it is Kuomintang to visit the crime of contrary to the principles of the one barber on the heads of-all The rea- members of his trade.

son which prompted the govern- rment to issue the recent law is because an employee of the

But

Oriental Barber Shop has been guilty of unseemly conduct, that concerns one man only and there is no reason why it should The ends of affect all others.

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important. You might say."

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"Well, yes, sir, a ghodish bit. You see, she had lots of time to to ask for me, saying something herself, and was fond of going about a telephone message shortly about. It isn't for me to say any after I left. She had told him thing about Sir Charles, who was she did not know the direction alway's a good master, and I'd I had taken.

known him since he was a boy, "Which way did you go?" she but it was noticeable that after the first he and Lady Kerafield asked. "Did he overtake you?"

"Yes," said I, "but not till near didn't get on very well together.

Was nothing won't ask any questions,

I could not bring myself to the you?"

"No; but I suppose I may make question I itched to ask. I left a remark it at "Oh!" But Mason went on remark? Atkins is ably gentlemanly man för to answer it for me!

"Yes, sir. It began with the chauffeur."

"He is," I said. "But if I were fuss about Jane Enderby. And I you I would pretend not to have always did say to myself that if Sir Charles had done the right noticed it."

I knew that would be enough thing he would have got rid of or my wife always the soul of Jane Enderby before Lady Mera- their hair to grow it again. me

discretion.

field came home."

first village I passed, It worked perfectly:

some friends "I have missed motoring across the moor, Have you seen a large car pass" within the last half-hour or so, with a driver in a brown uniform?""

Aye, they had... It went through the village like a railway train about half an hour back, and would be in Exeter long before

now.

"Ah!" said

J.

3

"But let make sure. Did you see who was

After dinner I walked over to in the car? Was it a lady?"

"Aye," said the first loafer, "so Merafield Tower to see Mason. I you may say, if you please. Any told him I was sorry to have been wench-a'sittin' away when the telephone message how. 'longside the driver, her was. Little came for me. chit of a thing, puffin' away at a

ant, sir

twas

3

my supposed friend, thus describ ed. I thanked the

boafers and

big garage known as Stanbury's.

Not that I hoped to catch At-

h

"Oh !"

to field insisted, but Lady Merafield had to threaten to go herself, as I happen to know."

Was

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General places, the The fellow was as impenetrable different as a Chinaman. I knew he had Chamber of Commerce, the Bank brought me a bogus message, that of China and Bank of Communiea-| report further in- he had Hcd like. Ananias, that he tions. The had tricked me, or tried to all timates that the Central Bank has that he had redeemed $300,000 worth of its the afternoon, spirited Mrs. Briscoe away from notes, the Bank of China $30,000

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It was observed that most of those who gained admittance inte the Chamber and actually had "Jane Enderby?" I echoed. "Oh. well, sir.

"Yes. A ladylike girl enough to their notes cashed, were soldiers and military officers who formed I daresay you

all appearances. Not that any almost seventy per cent. of the

real thing haven't lived all these years in

crowd. The soldiers were allowed the world, without knowing what body who knew the

could have made a mistake, sir." gentlemen are where a pretty girl

to pass the gate freely, while But unless the intelligent "I hope it was nothing imports concerned. Jane Enderby was

the opportunity to enter tan pretty for a housemaid, and mechanic at Standbury's garage civilians had to struggle hard for had cigarette. Hadn't got no hat on, "No. not very. Only if 1 an' her hair clip short. Anyway, received it I might have been that's the truth. But whatever had made a mistake, Mrs. Briscoe an

happened before he was married,

was the real thing in Mason's premises of the Chamber. Accord sense. I think Sir Charles ought not to

The question had to being to a report, practically no 'twas a female right enough."

civilians succeeded in getting their I made no surprise at hearing saved a journey."

"So Atkins said, sir; and when have had her, in the house after reserved.

I saw Atkins for a few moments notes redeemed.

According to a report of the we had talked it over we agreed he was married. No guod could went on, as fast as the car would that he might as well go and try come of it, and none did. Of before. I left Merafield Tower.

to find you. But I didn't Wuhan News Agency, the notes he'd go so far. All the way

waiting for mo..! Exeter, wasn't it, sir?"

"Yes, he overtook me just this

"Oh, well," said "that's a kins there, even if he called. He side. The big car is so much

of probably would, to make sure

faster than mine that I suppose thing of the past, and Sir Charles corroboration of his story in case I followed him up. But he would he got home early."

"About five, I think," said Ma- is gone now."

"Yes, air, Poor Sir Charles!" be careful to have got out of the

son. "He said something about Mason sighed. "But it accounts way before I arrived.

stopping at Exeter to have his for what I was saying, sir, hat

some Buck

out driving Lady Atkins And so it proved. The big car wires looked at, or

Merafield about a goodish hit," had been in with a supposed, fault thing. I'm a fool about cars."

"Seems

nice. competent

"I suppose she had some fa- in its lighting circuit, which proved to be non-existent but fellow," said 1 "How long has vourite drives? Across the moors,

for instance?" then you never could tell with he been with you, Mason?"

weeks,

Yet I could not persuade myself "Not more than a few you?

"No, I don't think she liked the these chauffeurs, could

moors much. She was fond of to dislike and suspect the fellow, They were mostly incompetent, sir." and not to be compared with

"How did Sir Charles pick him the sea, and Atkins often talked as by all the rules I ought to have "Well, it was rather curious. bout the difficulty of getting the dene. I su: ered from what the car along some of the narrow psychologists would probably call "But I had to make quite sure

a sympathy complex. lancs by the coast."

"Cot back all right, sir?" said that the big car was the one I had He was really engaged by my

Bay. a lady w th lady, as you may missed. Was there

I made a note to find out what

of Jane Enderby. he, touching his cap. Charles did most of his own had become the chauffeur?

no harm. in "Yes," I said "You had the Yes. And yes, again, she was driving in that terrible fast little Perhaps there was a young lady. Hair shingled? car of his own. The chauffeur we

no-I went round by Exeter, but, of "I suppose Atkins knew Certainly. She got out of the car had to drive the big car and look putting one question to Mason. legs of me, Atkins, with that car.

News reached London in mailing freedom from constipation, hatless and strolled about the after the garage got an offer all

Merafield's long drives alone? me." garage while they were looking of a sudden from a gentleman in thing about the causes of Lady course, you were hours ahead of

of be-

"Very fine engine, that sir," he week from America that the Inter- liver attacks, biliousness, sick, at the wiring. A slight and short London he'd never heard

came remarked. "I called in at Exeter national Team Trophy match for headache, purifying the breath about the wiring. It was nothing small bore markamen resulted in a and aiding digestion. Of young lady-smoking a cigarette fore, and as it was big money Jane Enderby would have been

victory for the United States team mists, or post free, 60 cents the here?" No; smoking was not allowed in and all in a hurry, he accepted. Kone long before Atkins

"Oh, long before, sir. I don't much after all."

by the narrow margin of four vial, from Dr. Williams' Medicine

Ecore made by the Co. 60, Klangse Road, Shanghai. the garage. But she was the sort by telegram. And the very next of young lady who would doubt-morning her ladyship gets a letter

"I hope you think I did the right points. The less have smoked a cigarette on from Atkins saying he's heard that think he ever heard her name. provocation. Friend of she wanted a chauffeux used to We don't encourage gossip about

this particular kind of car, and that sort of thing, and Atkina is thing in going after you, sir? United States team is 7,807, a mine?,

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HERATA AND MENI. "No," said I, "merely an ac- would he do, as he was out of a very reserved kind of man- Mason thought so, and, of course, world's record score, while that of PINKETTES KEEP YOU WELL.

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Nevertheless, I elt curious as "Oh, perfectly right" said. 1.7,808, also a world's record. After

MASSAGE. CHIROPOPY, well, the intelligent mechanic She said if the man was any good aaying in"

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and... thought, you never could tell with it would save a lot of bother ad- to whether Mrs. Briscoe and Jane "You don't know how much trou- many years, the Britisk team suc

comes down

Enderby knew anything of each ble you saved me, Atkins."

MANICURE these young ladies any more than vertising. Atkins

"I'm very glad, sir. Good-night." coveted trophy with a world's re-

2nd Floor, chauffeur, cord score of 7,798 points, and the! you could with these chauffeurs. and la engaged on the spot."

An imperturbable "I suppose Jane Enderby was

trophy was brought across the At- "Very lucky," said I., "And

Yee Sang Fat Ballding. But he must say he faneled her ni

remark,

the usual housemaid type, Ma-that.

Iantle and handed over to the cure bit free in her language. Not very curious, as you.

(To be Continued.)

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