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THE VANISHING VENGEANCE

By DOUGLAS NEWTON. Author of "Double Crossed," "Low Ceilings,"

"Green Ladies,” &o..

name.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

'came

found, as I had expected, that though every one connected with Consolidated Exploitations had been ruined, the five directors-not the shareholders, but the five directors

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1928.

MORE TROOPS FOR HOME.

TO-DAY.

only-were surprisingly rich. UNITS LEAVING SHANGHAI Pluck and keen business acumen, the world called it. But I knew the real reason, their thefts from Con-

•

THE HOUSEBREAKER'S' JOB.

AN INTERESTING.

OCCUPATION.;

The sight of workmen busily en- Boasting of no battle honours,

build- solidated Exploitations had made attracting: no tumultuous public gaged on the demolition of thom rich."

"It's a lie--prove It! mumbled acclaim by Impressive marchesing always has a great fascination through the streets of Shanghai to the onlooker. As the work is Otto.

"I set to work to prove it. I are a group of British soldiers of a very dangerous nature, it is studied the whale case. Disguised, who will leave on the troopship surprising how rarely an accident I was able to look at the files and City of Marseilles, which will sail occurs.

The men employed on the wall records in the Public Trustee's from Shanghai to-day, February itself are called "Mattock men," on office. I studied the lives of theso 28.

of the name.

death.

and

the

"

to work with care.

CHAPTER XXIV.

silent. Shall I read Hugo Shanly's

men, found out their investments,-Yet, these men have occupied account of the tool they use, which is like a pick-axe, being somewhat Otto Rigg ent bowed in his chair, note to that effect, Otto tigg!!!

Otto Rigg did not answer. Mar. and traced them back to Algoma key positions in the British smaller, and with both ends chisel his great hands stretched out on tin Stannard went on: "If I had stock. That is the root, that is military organization, which has shaped, enabling them to cut away his desk, his fists clenching and un- only known, Annie Purvis's case why Otto Rigg flinches at the sound defended Shanghal, and, moreover, the bricks from the wall in a fairly most of them were volunteers for clean line, without breaking them, clenching. His eyes stared at Marwas but a forerunner of my own,

"When I had studied the "altun-the job of helping to defend this As old bricks fetch nearly as good thy Stannard, hate and fear in I, too, was to be dealt with in the tion as far as I could I came down cosmopolitan city, says the a price as new, they are instructed them. Strouch Wils perched nervously on the edge of his chair ante way. I, too, suffered from here. I had to complete, my case Shanghai Times,

Incurable honesty. Time

The men leaving on this steamer, All fittings, such as doors, fire. glancing at Otto as if for some when I was ordered by the firm against them; 1 had, above all,

to build up a case to clear myself. "time-expired

men," are pro-places, &c., have to be removed care- ordar. Joyce drew up a small table abroad. I was to go to South Here, in Greenhayle, when I had ceeding to England, either to refully, as they are all saleable. and pinced upon it a pad, upon America-wait, Otto, until I am which she intended to take a short-nished. I was ordered to South completed my hiding-place, I studied join their regiments, or to receive Should they be of old design the the habits of these men, so that their discharge. All these men price paid for them is often con- hand note of all that transpired-Anteries. There was

a very de

the Command siderable. as Martin had asked her to. Martin cate bit of business to be done could be certain of approaching are attached to

them and tackling them.

headquarters and were detalled to! Great regard is paid to the took from hla pocket a sheaf of there, businces where we had to get

"Seward Gamlin was the first, Shanghai on special duty with safety of the general public on this Jahead of certain Continental rivals.

deliberately

WILS 80. He

the that part of a military organiza-kind of work. Hoardings and As he smoothed them in his hand, So that, I should take our rivals off wenkest, the most easily frightened. tion, which is absolutely indis-"fans" are erected to prevent any Mainwaring suddenly stood up, ap- their guard, it was agreed that I

the heads proaching Otto Pistol, please should book my passage unler an My cane, not too strong, was strong

the limelight.

of pasacra by. The foreman, in It is the law speaking." As Otto assumed name. I did al this, and enough for him. He became pante-pensable, but rarely strays into debris from falling on

stricken. He did what I demanded, hesitated, he ran a swift hand over sailed for South America under that he supplied me with facts, and men from the following units: 8th as to which way he will commence The details going Home include charge has to use great discretion Otto's big person and the hand assumed name."

Hussars, 1at the "pulling down," as a collapse; came away with a service revolver. "Lies, lies, lies!" burst out Otto, could not prevent me taking his

He performed the same office. You were to go to the United pers. It was no part of my plan Hussars, "11th over the reluctant Stroach, taking States. You were to go in your to make him commit suicide. That Queen's Royal Regiment, 1st Royal in the structure would be a serious he committed suicide I cannot even Warwickshires, 1st Suffolks, 2nd matter. Therefore, when possible, from him a big automatic. He ex-own

This is a tissue of

deplore. He was a partner in a Beds, and Herts., 2nd 'Leicester- the top floor is taken first, and so amined both these pistols with in-falschoods to bolster up your story." vile and cruel conspiracy to defraud shires, 1st Lancashires, 1st Essex, the building is worked to ground terest. and, after unloading them, "You say O

*Haid Martin,

a number of trusting people. He 1st King's Own Yorkshire Light level. a paper. "I

2nd Rifle held the cartridges in the palm of grimly.. He lifted

When only the skeleton of the building remain the girders are cut *he pocketed everything, sat back papers of Maker, Fedden, and Hugo theft. No, I cannot deplore his

his hand, scrutinising them. Then have here certain extracts from the caused untold misery among those Infantry,

who had lost all through a callous Brigade..

These men were selected from away, thus leaving a vacant spaco with a smile, and said, “Go on, Mr. Shanty on that paint. These ex-

the eastern eommand, at the be- for a new erection. Should there Stannard."

tracts when linked up make it

"His confession and papers ginning, of the emergency which be premises on cfther side theso Slamard looked at his papers, obvious that my voyage to South glanced up: "You know why I am America under an assumed name strengthened my hand enormously.started last year, for special must be "shered" up with heavy thereby ensuring their safety, as by here, Otto Rigg. You know I've was part of your deliberate plot to 1 was able to put before Henry duties at Ifeadquarters, Shanghai, timber before the contractor leaves;

in most cases, -got you pinned at last,"

make me appear as a criminal fee Maker facts that were absolutely and they are,

among a block of others the sup "Blackmail," snarled Otto Rigging from justice. The voyage to dumning. You know how he acted volunteers. The main party tra- taking away one building from flash of his old' arrogance. the United States, the buying of a Maker's papers added strength to velled, out as far as Hongkong ports are often weakened in tho "I knew it was blackmail. You ticket for that destination, and some cy's, so that's have with the Cellstream Guards, where foundations. tried to blackmail the others. forth was also part of that plot. Hugo Shaply's, that now I have they transhipped on the Kurmala And you," turning to Mainwaring, Those extracts prove it. They also my dual case complete, Otto Rigg and arrived in Shanghai at the those jobs, especially if the bulld "are an officer of the law, coun- prove that l never heard of the the case which shows me completely beginning of March, a few daysings i un old cat. Coins which have slipped between the floor- tenancing, ay, supporting such voyage to the United States, of any innocent, tic.case which condemns before the Guards arrived.

The City of Marseilles is the boards, old-fashioned candlesticks, blackguardism.”

voyage other than that to South you, Olto Rigg, as the prime mover "Be of good heart, Otto,""smiled America. Shall I read the extracts, of one of the vilest and most heart-last troopship to leave Shangha secret closets, wall safes, &c., all of total and less conspiracies that the human during the present trooping sea- which have their own particular of blackmail I can arrest Stannard convincing."

mind ever stooped too; Listen."

son, and it is unlikely that any values to the dealers who follow Martin Stannard then began to here without warrant

"Damn you!" snarled Otto RIES. |dictate to Joyce detail by detail the more troops will arrive until the the workmen from job to job. Dur Otto Rigg decided on a “bold “Damu_yoit?" · stroke. He reached for his teles "I left for South Amerien under whole process of the gigantic fraud, et son, which starts in Seping excavation of the basement tember. The steamer is due to bones are sometimes found; should phone. "I'll not stand this," he that assumed me," Murtin went from the moment the first great arrive at Southampton on April 6, any of these prove to be human this, sum of money was taken from the snapped. "I telephone Scotland on evenly. "My destination was

Good Friday. Yard. They'll stop this blackmail." four weeks and three days away. company, apparently by Martin "While you are telling Scotland Mark that time. Four weeks and Stannard, but in reality by Otto Yard, Otto Rigg" said Martin, two days after I had started a war-tigs and the other directors, and evenly, "inform them that the bandsrant was out for my arrest. I had, invested, in the name they intend- of the blackmail in a certain deal it seems, embezzled nearly all ofed Martin Stannard to assume, in in Algoma Stock."

the capital of Consolidated Exploith-South American securities. It was The effect of that name on Otto tions, and bolted under an assumed a long, brilliant, and intricate pro- Higg was startling. He half rose name to South America, the natural cess. As the structure of duplicity out of his chair, his hands flew to hiding-place of rogues. I learnt Krew up to the point when all the his throat, and he seemed to be that news in a Buenos Airea news threads were gathered together choking. In a minute he slumped paper on the same day that. I learnt back in hin, chair again, and sut another thing. That other thing there absolutely collapsed, his mouth was that the group of people I had loose, his eyes wild, staring, and been sent over to a certain inland hopeless.

town in the Argentine to see was non-existent. I was in that town when I read of my 'crime."

with

Mainwaring "At the first hint Otto Rigg? They

"You see, Oulp Rigg, I know. This is not blackmail, or anything else. It is your crime come home to roost. It is retribution."

He paused for a minute.

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The whole thing was brilliantly and ingeniously managed. I was out there, a month away from home,

"Tolve this in order in the with all the implications of guilt

agata in reinvestment of half a score of amounts of the stolen money, in Algoma Stock, the guilt of Ollo Rigg and his co-directors was ruthlessly and finally manifest. Otto Rigg saw it, he shifted and squirmed under it. And then In a wild ery of fear and rage, he cried, "Stop stop_____

Martin stopped and stared at him, they all stared at him. He recover.

shorthand note I will begin with the fon me-the voyage to Southed his nerves and wits with a great formation of Consolidated Exploita-Amerien, when it should have been effort.

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

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Here is the solution to the puzzle on another page.

LAND LAID PAID PAIL

JATL

Many curious finds are made on

means a delay in the work, as the job has to be closed down while an inqueat is being held upon them.

EMPRESS OF MEXICO'S

FORTUNE.

ESTATE APPROACHING £1,500,000.

Her Majesty Charlotte Princess, of Belgium, Duchess of Saxony, and Princess of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha, widow of the Emperor Maximilaň of Mexico, of the Chatenu de Bouchout, near Brussels, n sister of the late Leopold II. of Belgium, left estate in England, of the value of £116,214. The pro- perty abroad is anid to exceed £1,250,000.

Letters of administration have whom I been granted to Mr. Arthur Keel-

tions. The Public Truster has the to the United States, an assumed "A pretty tissue of lies!" he full details of the inception of that name, and my story of being there shouted. "A very pretty display company. All I need say is that on business absolutely discredited by a scoundrel trying to save his Mr. Mainwaring Otto Rigg was chairman of diree by the fact that there was nobody neck.... Yes, his neck. The command you to arrest now-now!" ing, of Newsquare, Lincoln's Inn, Otto Rigg was making his last Holleitor, attorney for King Albert tors: Hugo Shanly the managing there to do business, with. I was effort of a murderer to obscure his director; Fedden, Maker, and Gam trapped, firmly trapped, and I knew crime... A murderer. The mur-effort to stop Martin Stannard's of Belgium, her nephew, one of the fin directors; and myself secretary Fit.

derer of that poor man Dudley, mouth.

· with

the a directorship. I was

"saw that in my month's whom you ought to have arrested. youngest, and simplest, of the Board. I was an outsider. I hadisenge these scoundrels would be able to falsify the books and

a reputation as a clever manipula-manipulate money in such a way tor of fluance, a reputation which that 1, after being absent so long, Otto Rigg and his brother directors could not possibly hope to establish ussiduously spread,

"Consolidated Exploitations had innocence. I saw that if I been in being some time, and all the wint heme and faced the music, as was my first intention, my position shares of its two-million-pound capital had been paid up, when, the was hopeless. I should be arrester, charged, and I should lose my case; Directors began sending me about art, because the crime was a parti here, there, and everywhere, on the cularly heartless and cruel one, I Continent and in this country, onshor be sentenced to a long term the company's business. It was of imprisonment. By the time I my return from one of came out of prison they would be these journeys ihat 1 Journ

secure, for they would have do

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that ane of our book-keep-stroyed all evidence that condemned ers---a Miss Annie Purvis-them:

had been sent to prison for stealing and altering the books. I was

"deelded not to go back and rather surprised, and very sorry, give myself up. I decided for my for I had thought Miss Purvis un own sake, for the sake of those honest and intelligent, even a con-many poor shareholders who had scientious giri. My brother direc-suffered in this cruel crime, to hide tors, however, were able to prove, from justice-until that time when with regret in their voices, that could be sure that real justice there was no doubt about the girls would be served. Incidentally, I guilt-hypocrisy was always the might way that, without reckoning strong sult of Otto Rigg and Com-on it, my decision proved a wiser step than I knew As long as I pany,"

The words were spoken bitterly, was not arrested these rogues had scornfully. Otto Rigg stirred un- to keep the secret papers that they der the lash of them, but did noted. In se intricate a fraud ng this would most willingly have destroy- speak. Martin went on:

they dare not dispose of any

J-

"If I had only not trusted my evidence, even that against them- fellow directors-If I had only gone into that matter carefully,I should selves, for fear of making elips have found out that the girl was in-when, if I were arrested, they had nocent, that her one crime was this was so when I examined the to prepare their own case. I found honesty-that, coupled with the fact that she knew too much of the dis-sceret papers of Gumlin, Maker, Fedden, and Hugo Shanly. I shall

honesty of my brother directors, undoubtedly find it so when I ex- and was threatening to expose

them."

amine the papers of Otto Rigg," hidden there in that safe."

. "That's a Be!" snarled Otto Rigg. Otto Rigg gulped and made a con- "It is the truth," said Martin, vulsive movement towards the safe, coldly found a note in Hugo but at a gesture from Mainwaring Shanly's diary, which acts all checked himself. doubts at rest. Annia Purvis found "Having made my decision, I that Hugo was tampering with the came by gradual stages to this cour company's books. She was silenced try and got in touch with my by a countercharge, and clapped in mother, who has been the staun- to prison, where she would remain chest friend a man ever had.

$5,000,000. DRY FUND

VS.

$3,000,000.

WET DRIVE

1

(To be continued.)

persons entitled to share in the catate.

PULL FOR THE SHORE!

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