Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 86

ILLIAM most popula There could L that. And unuel Lir when it gave 1 . which ship boasted Clyde, had thre iprocating ¢ 115,000 RAMSAY was a captain. no doubt the Green benefited on decks the ms, run on London-Buenos Aires she 1 of me was near Vears younger charmin to one 10 than that personality the best Iand wariably - with mo and po < <hip when strc Funnel Ratnsiy sed many William necd Yes, to give Line the well € kuew it trouble was And he knew was al ware well blue serze tnitorn | the wwoad binds of gold that oted He was inclined to be Dot lit »d the captain the line knew that he looke v nd 1 1 1elor < ived 1 ient had fallen iie deserved 1lor Micl wits early nd hard living reises over ok very old wore ind Col a0 had ind life blue uni- | hid he ed Tines in A, indecd. 1 ] dressed and med of He " his i ssing even o workin, pants, < when let, and wide-mesher nt and Knotted time cle lit and | Calvanian | furnaces. | s the dim smoking the roaring and no pass noticed him | Now, Capt. Ramsay K ings At ir how ind 1 ntle to drinl work in gami wn in the oveling coul ew many seaman e dan calm. Rig bt chiefly work like Tours below son bet the st. there was philosophy W K knew knew b was comps None 1 e apparent ed half somew her to dress irse A he on [ ireate Aint him nit ahtful even hether nehed sufe she wus What pan s guelled and by down on th dmi Ramsa o Hiena e words. He laughed at flustered rom ant 1 tiie soothed the a drink Tie 15 moder nfident wis He manner of leman sined The quarter of hief's fuce nearest reaching < more the and m indin 1ie <hort paus drink SOMETHING WAS GOING WRONG INSIDE BIG MICK. THE KILLING ALMOST THREE HOURS INTOXICATED HIM. command nes upon | | plung | water te DAY STAR WASHINGTON, D. ¢ 3 JANUARY L 1926—PART Revealing a Difference in Ideals of Duty and of Position. By ALBERT RICHARD WETJEN | captain and then | chief looked at him. | Chere’s | sir; we've waited until the e spoke evenly: inches over the plates, got the pumps going. The second says he hold the water down to about § inches an hour, so far as he can tell.” The chief nodded. « minute.” The junior went closing the door softly behind The captain waited, fumbling the lower button of his jacket our hours,” reps the chief at last. He w owni “Of course, we shall do our best The captain answered. “Of course It's in your hands, Treevillian He smiled thinly Water-tight compart ments are not much the bottom’s gone.” “No sir,” agreed the chief They parted with words, the one to his to his engines. The m the northwest. The sea rose surely and tremendously. Spray com menced to break over the Calvanian's lower dec A mist seemed to creep over the face of the sinking sun, but there was still no panic. A calm man in command saw to that. Capt. Ram say was justifying the four gold bands o his sleeve They “I'll be down in away, him. with of “That further the other moaned wind below sent all the oom of the amed steadily ht ve'sle. trimmers into 1kers so th 10 the w fires. The cla shovels and the choking rasp of the slices grew in volume. The chief steward sent down a jar of rum. The steam pres sure rose in th zes. The pistons a1 ound at inereasing speed. The sweat streamed from naked chests of the firemen and the inch by inch round the v all the sobbing pumps could the watches the ankle the firstc lx lounge the band played, 1d the purser kept smiling face. There was no dange Emphatically, there wgs no danger. ome of the men knew: a brigadier zeneral, bound on & diplomatic mis- sion; a famous journalist who had been sinking ship before: a re- red ptain, who eptitiously stuffed in his pocket @ patent rubber belt that could be quickly in- ed. But the women did not know At first they rather regarded the mat as a joke. something to talk about be ship had to be heached. The coust was very near. Well, that was (dventu On the second-class i were much the same down in the thirdclass no band. and the purser time to waste on such people there order was maintained were two masters-at ‘uneheons cursed their officer who did the on sex s ut hadn 15 existed True. 1 arms with 1 several stewards who luek and a junior third commanded instend of Of the pussen- did that. N know hird-cld coulil hear wate nd rush below their feet through torn and Plit There is even stinction up the gates of death on cours not that sted class ht o he bridge Capt. Ramsay slowly to and fro, Officers from every corn Qua stood by waiting for orde The sea- men were along the hoat deck mak- ing all ready for lowering, in case Jut the captain knew that fallacy. And the junic cors the seamen, looking to windwa at the swells, knew w alvanian must b would be another to g0 on record in the annals 2 paced watehed exmaster overside fall be disasi of the ter-covered plates before | | spat blood into the water about him. He lunged down automatically, thrust under wuter and brought a shovelful of dripping coal to the surface. An other lunge and a twist and it was hissing in the red fire. Another shovel- ful, two: a brief rest to wipe off the sweat and look around, Then the slice came in play with another fire. | Then more shovelfuls. He saw his companions stealing |away one by one, and he laughed. He | knew very well just what the pos | tion of the Calvanian was. e had { not been to sea | And he was reveling in his strength |and the unshaken heart of him that enabled him to keep on at work while the others fled or crawled away ex | huusted. Another hour, the chief promised from the throttle, only an- | other hour. But the work was getting harder. Water made the shovels heavier to lift, and missing men did not ease | matte Later one or two of the junior engineers, sick with fatigue and fright. crept un on deck and joined the throng milling about near the boats. The seumen stood before the boats, what of them were not | pumps, and kept the uneasy | back officers talked and som And through clear to the after back, went Capt. Ramsay, calm and unrufMled, justifying his posi tion and the gold braid he wore. Darkness came, pitch darkness, not even a star showing through the greasy scud. Something happened to | the dynamos and the lights went out, but the captain already had hurri- 1e lanterns handy. and their feeble glow flickered in the high wind and zave some small reassurance. After | the throng was stilled somewhat the stewards served hot coffee, beef tea and biscuits. The band had long ceased playinz. The boat deck was choked with passengers of all classes and with terror-stricken members of | the crew. The hand pumps were | helping considgrably and the rise of | the water was slower. But just sime when the chief engineer demand- ed men for his stokeholds only seven or eight would go down, and these | by vnes and twos trickled back | It was hot and ghastly below. Two urricane lanterns served to light the ice before the many fires. The engine room had three lanterns, but they no more than drove K the | shadows until they danced between the plunging pistons that each | drive sent up showers of spray. It was easier to face death on the decks above, in the wind and the driven spume, than in the thickness of the wels. And through it all worked, feeding his fires and other men’s fires intervals to cough up blood and wipe the sweat from his distorted face With him there was a Frenchman. savdonic fellow. and a li tle Cockney far gone with exhaustion These three out of all the firemen the ship carried remained at their posts. The rest had fled. A couple of stew ards and three engineers were at the shovels. The men trimming ceased one by one. It was too hard to fill a | barrow and force it against surging | water | ing, shooting down in the bunkers in | owd s ~ TOIL HE HAD DONE FOR chief m. 1 set down & tw looked at each other We must beach her. At full speed wo can make the coast within four hours. The point is—and I understand ther is water the stokehold already—can you me full speed?” “Jour hours.” sald the chief quite neecdiessly. le twisted his gray mus- tache and thought. There was a knock on the cabin door and a junior engineer came in. 18 podded to the The in n give New Anti-Freeze. <THYLENE GLYCOL replacing aleohol an anti-freeze m- pound for automobiles, the American Chemical Society reported recently at 19 Last Twenty-fourth street. The new substance meets the requ ments Jlaid down by the United tates | Bureau of Standards. according to Dr. C. 0. Curme of the research laboratories of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation, Long Island Cit In ethylene glycol the valuable prop- erties of alcohol and glycerin are com- bined. The new substance is held to be an cutstanding contribution of chemical science to the automobile in- dustry Previously, alcohol has bheen used. The advantage of the new anti- freeze, it is said, is that, unlike alco- hol, it will not boil . and it ean be left i a motor mer and Winter without f lamage. It said hining the qualities of b ol and glycerol, ethylene to satisfy the most ments for an antifreeze 1 1t affords posi- tive protection against freezing, is not corrosive or harmful to the engine or radiator and does not lose its effective- ness through evaporation or decompo- sitlon. Moreover, it is odorless, free from solvent action or lacquer or var- nish finishes and permits efficient mo- $ur wperativn under all conditions. is 1vcol exacti smiled apt. Ramsa assed to and from sight in his stead, ing. How weil he lovked, They felt safe with him. THe was brave. Iie was a hero. And he smiled back and his chest filled a lit- tle, for he knew what they were thinking. But nobody thought of the sweating men below, ruddy-tinged as the fire doors opened and clanged shut and eventually glowed red-het. On the gratings above them engineers watched and sometimes shouted. At throttle stood the chief to ease the | screws as the stern raced in the windy air. crept inch by inch up the calves of the men before the fires. Most of them were half drunk with the enor- mous labor and the rum. The trim- mers, mere vouths most of them, whinipered every time they went into the bunkers, for it was gloomy there, aull electric globe every few yards, and terrible things could be imagined. But—and this was what mattered— the Calvanian was hurtling toward the coast, toward a sandy sheltered bay at the rate of 19 knots an hour. The water was almost at the knees of the firemen, and the trimmers pushed thelr iron barrows only with iremendous exertion. Every time the Calvanian lurched the water surged in a broken wave, well-nigh knocking men from their feet. Even the. offi- cers on the gratings above began 10 grow nervous. The ship moved less y than hefore as the sea lifted or dropped her. Her speed was decreas- ing. too, with the greater weight. Night. too, was creeping over the face of the world, and darkne: threatened to add to the horror of it all. lifted and they - o HING was going wrong in- side Big M He was per- fectly sober now as far as liquor went, but the killing toil he had done almost three hours intoxicated him, He coughed frequently and v b OME’ how | And the water | '-\Hl'l“ av | soggily. One man was killed, and after that | they trimmed coal from near the doors and stopped nervously whenever the roll was extraordinarily heavy. A few more feet and the water would reach the fires. Iven now it splashed | against the red-hot doors and sent scalding steam billowing upward. * kRN SO the Calvanian went through the night, an uneasy, frightened and murmuring crowd on her boat deck, her funnels belching fire, her lights extinguished and certaln swearing blackguards below saving them all. Twice attempts were made by pas- sengers to lower boats against all warning and advice. One w launched by some mad miracle and quickly capsized with every soul in her. The other was smashed to atoms against the steep hull long before it reached the water. After that there were no more attempts. And the calmness of Capt. Ramsay, who was still moving among his charges, gradually sank in so that men became fatalists and even the women grew resigned. The sea tossed mountainously and the wind screamed over the liner's superstructure, then through the driving smother ahead an officer saw the flicker and wink of a light, and there was no more fear of panic. For Capt. Ramsay told them all that that light marked the entrance to the har- bor he was heading for and it was only an hour away. All of which Big Mick did not know as he bent and straightened and heaved in the semi-darkness, with the water rising lowly to his waist. Co one trimmed coal now. Tt was too fearful a thing to go into the bunkers and too grueling a task to force iron barrows along. But there was enough on the plates below water to last a while. Big Mick and the Frenchman and two stewards were all that were left at the fires. In the anches as the ship rolled 1l his life for nothing. | t the | it | d ceasing at | Besides the wet coal was shift- | v engine roor doors from and the junior an oil It was A C between the harbor heads and into the bay Leyond, where the waves subsided to swells and finally to noth- ing but uneasy muttering water. 11 took his ship driving past stumpy tramps—ships at anchor and tall masted sailing vessels riding at the buoys. And he rang down thank- tully for low And then he stopped the ti cngines. And he beached the Calvania . sand that she one. and then was sti that gave certain ord, sealed by the stokehold, second remained ran along the gratings with can. All the rest had gone. sier to die in the open. * % the nd one s0 de he about sl two mile Then he went down to the b smiling, to reassure his ch was over. n the and the the jar rges stokehold wards of the k the 1 zone as soon as on the sand had beenfelt. Only Kiie Mick. drume wiin toil. was left.” And it wus he drew the fires and e things safe for those above in the w should ch the boilers. After | be leaned against the bunker de wondered there was any rum in the jar, though he knew it useless “to’ look in the dark coughed continuously now After the had repaired to their r pective decks, Capt. Wiliam Ramsay received his congratulutions. | gadier general rushed f. rward | i outstretched hand. bald head glistening in the lanttern light, his | eyes glowing | “Good work, sir. Goed work," 1l and Tert Ie | he | water-tight | chief | PT. RAMSAY took the Calvanian | it | Frenchman | stuttered near averted. You went throu hero, siv. Does yvou credit.” And, ir deed, no cne could deny that the ealn her master had been a ing for the Calvaniun. The women came, pratt nd admiring him. He f ve hapy like ness’ of great | ing pretti It his tonch the | BETTINA HII heretofore r less canfi ious enthusiasts ¢ yearn to remake rotund f nal figu t day, when eversthing must into cash, fasting has beer taken up as a profession will be agenci ply for a n; fast, to empl at v par substitute sxional 185 cases in their fo will come the great hordes amateurs, if the cruz will invite their fr ing parties ers keep fast in | ther's rec i ¥ 1o lose i merely a populur g h tt S bee to relig wh over ir | ishion jour 1 fal | seriously 3 to which v on his fift h duy [ il societ keeps up, who nds to rotation » watch the ttempt to b Thus, fast dignity wnd become ¥e Thie fasters And .I f \ ing of Wolly, the Dutehma closed in a small gluss cage in the fices of Le Petit J recently | tempted 1o break With a chair fort s of cigarettes, materials and plenty 1o read, surrounded night nd day by a crowd of curiosity seekers anxions to guard im from any possibility of being fed Smartly clad in evening clothes, he ap peared completely at under the close serutiny of the o oker The first few days he engrossed him self in ardent work with pencil and paper. his wife explaining th he w writing his memoirs and that he could concentrate much better when he didn’t eat and when under the scru [tiny of many eyes. However, his ideas | seemed to run out toward the fifth dav nd he be, acing about the small | confines of age, keeping his eves | on the floor the smali air holes in | the top his box. as if to avoid the | hunger-satistied aees of the crowd. | | The newsboys banded together, at the sight of his nervousness their lunches before the encs T . But | their efforts did it succeed in dis turbing his concentration, for after two da¥s of thinking and reflection he returned once more to his work. The streams of people who filed be- fore his cage became thicker and |thicker as the ninth and then the tenth |day of his fast arrived. Hoboes off the street swarmed into the building to | warm themselves and try to learn the | secret of how to keep serene and Lappy on an empty stomach. The | {newspaper reporters would lounge round, hoping for some extraordi nary move on Wolly's part to fill up their daily column, The hours after | the theater would see smart women in deep fur capes on the way 1o the | Bayety of Montmartre trying to catel 4 glimpse of Wolly napping. And the early hours of dawn would usher in the straggling end of the night's revelers to say an unsteady greeting to the extraordinary man who not only refrained from eating, but also turned away from the offers of champagne. “Let me shake your hand!” says one drunk, “trying fo thrust his arm | through th glass. Another calls, | “Fire: Fire! in an effort to disturb | the tranquil faster, but his nerves| stand proof against excitement as well | {as food. ! The night of the | gamins from the [ feast before his eyes jenously all the delicacies that their | hearded centimes could buy. However, | | they dispersed dejectedly toward mid. | night. without having been able to de- | tect the slightest reaction on the part of the faster to their tantalizing ef- forts. At 1 o'clock in the morning, when there were but few visitors to witness, Wolly arose suddenly from a deep| lethargy and wildly bit at his hands as if to quench his thirst from the blood that began to flow. Then he fell {prostrate on the floor, and the official | guards were forced to open the cage and take him immediately to the hos- pital. His wife explained that fasting had | nothing to do with Wolly's “cries des nerfs,” but that it came from over- concentration on his work. “Wolly,” she said, “has fasted pro-| fessionally too long in England as well as in Holland to be bothered by the antics of the spectators, even if they held great banquets before him. Why, food never interests him, and at best I can get him to eat only one light meal a day. His breakdown came from too great a mental strain. Although the 50,000 francs that he made would keep us well for a year, Wolly is anxious to show the Parisians a real record of fasting as soon as he_recuperates.” Le Petit Journal announces that he will be back again in his cage shortly in readiness for a long-distance fas Amiens already boasts of an eatless | record much greater than that made | In Paris, when Harry Toock stayved for | 30 days sealed in a coffin with neither food mor drink. Air was pumped in through a smail hole, and he showed definite signs of life and interest dur- ing the entire period, which takes him-eut of the Hindu fakir class. The public of Amiens witnessed the nailing down and binding securely with iron bars of the coffin, and saw that no secret provisions were hidden within for quiet little midnight suppers. A I tenth street day the prepared a devouring rav Men Whoi tand was startled {0 see the complet» Fast of pompousne iad tandled @ bad fine suilor. trifle. He kne uniform. He k & coming back. ftuation well. He was His chest swelled a e looked fine in his W also that fa- mous journalist who was presen would Spread his name a long way s answered the women as was his le | HE FELT HIS TOUCH OF BACK. SITU wont. There had been no real He had seen to that. He was Willian Ritnsa The famous journalist was elbow, hand thrust out, assuring he would be famous by next There would be a purse, 100, of cot token of appreciation, almost POMPOUSNESS COMING HE HAD HANDLED A BAD TION WELI I 1 unsonsciously, lashed to He ns Attract French Crowds ' In Remarkable Craze Now Being Revived tors to watch him | permitted the tly & the K gave to his hunger pains n Dur My, Hos ond and t zns of gr cramped posit n and WOLLY, THE DUTCH FASTER. AGOG FOR 10 DAY | refu Le ouch ng steadfastl from his coflin or to ! » fourth d t f caim then rema food reluxed and apparent on no change except in the He appeared WHO RECENTLY KEPT PARIS THEN SUFFERED A NERVOUS COLLAPS| | tunny faces The townspean ind superstitious | fifth day move the faster and kept thirtieth d revived nd ne childrer fed mor sle gullible “jeunewis.” Recently fister was tional record he peasants tricts arour The wife of t child in arms t make him zive up his task risking his life just for his and child, having heen unable to find work. She tried to divert hin his resolution by helding the child before him and weeping over sufferi swd ously to the apparently and tried to gzet the man his_ordeal—all to no avail The proceeds from the pe were reaching tremendc propor tions, when the police grew suspicious Investization followed found 1 the faster secretely during the night through tubes holes bored in the wife were arrested and while the peasants went fields and their great loav poorer but ofessionul makir oSt sensa o faster cime with he implore the cr 1 ed ve up and eld for fraud wiser al starving nce. As f: Arman franes on Olympia Music siders himself fasters, and at one will these “‘voung rank impo: starve is. Liv the middle of haps in doyen’’ 5 declares tha him up he will show bloods. who are only * what a real record g in a small hut in 1 vegetable patch—ps honor of all the vegetable if an) statement head of the Pr. J. W Th the rad D Treses M de preser tube h tungsten use Ina il is of extr medical profession as a target ma Xoray De muc than the sten Secret of the “Flowers of Death” Revealed in True Detective Sto (Continued from Third Page.) about him gardeners, men, women and | children. were busy in their fields They paid him scant attention. ¥ eign visitors in the citv frequently umble through the countryside dur-| ing the midday. and when the A‘hhu‘u\‘ are busy in their fields they are not | curious, When he had located Neu's ant, busy in the garden. the can stole into the white house. time he was convinced the girl had fled, or that something had happene to her. There was no sign of hel Unlike the majority of the Chinese huts the house held two rooms, a large and a small one, with a partition that reached almost, but mot quite, to the raftered cefling. The appear- ance of the interior indicated that the owner was of far different quall from the usual gardener-tradesman. The furniture was almost luxurious; the rooms were neat and comfortable. Markham examined the smaller room araphernalic of a small laboratory. idently Neu Chikwei was a stu- dent and semi-scientist when he wa not delivering cabbages and raslishes to his customers in the city. A noise attracted Markham and he | swung around with his revolver drawn. A little laugh drew his atten- tion to a corner of the room. Mura Vidal had dropped from above onto a cushioned chair and bounded lightly floor. Her first words came in ky whisper: “Get ma water, quick! She had remained throughout the night and day, except for her one es- cape to the road to leave the mes- sage and mark it with a bit of white torn from her underwear, stretched her face downward among the ceiling afters. Through the night she had watched the movements of Neu on the floor below. Sie had been un- able to move, for the slightest sound A have alarmed him. Yet I am felt my pres- ence.” she whi “He worked In his laboratory a_while, making a brew from flowers, but he was nervous. Twice he walked about the big room looking under the furniture. Then, at last, he gave up and sat for hours, readirg, before he went to his couch.” * X % X HILE she watched the garden througsh a window Markham hastily searched the hoyse. He gath- K ered handfuls of dried pies of a peculiar color and form— specimens that differed from any that he knew. He also put into his pockets a glass test tube and a nickel-plated instrument or two. The girl declared her intention of remaining in_the house through another night. she bad provided herself with ater in a little earthen cup, and had laid out bits of the sandwiches Markham had brousht. she climbed back to her hiding plac The American stole irom the house and soon was stroll- 1z along the path and into the Nan in road Chemists flowers, pop- began their analysis of the drvinz poppy blossoms at once, and examined the test tube and other things filched from Neu's laboratory. Markham, his appearance changed, visited the house again, and this time called to the istant in the garden for a gourd of water. He noticed that a corner of the garden was given over to poppies that resembled the blos- soms found in the house. In pidgin English he remarked to the Chinese upon the strangeness of their ap- pearance. gesture of his hand he glow them muchee with, Markham as certain Neu Chi; kwei was not so crazy as his helper thought him to be. Mura Vidal kept her vigil (hrough another night. When she crept out the next day and vined Markham on the road she knew that Neu Chi-kwel brewed a polson from his flowers and with it impregnated leaves of cabbage, hand- fuls of fruit and the little lemon-like oranges that grow in China. She knew the secret of the poison which the chemists were unable to analyze. They discovered in the blossoms the usual traces of that insidious poison which is in the Chinese poppy nat- urally—the poison that becomes opium, but they had found no such traces in their various autopsies on the bodies of the murder victims. Yet Mura Vidal knew, for she had seen. t Neu Chikwei distilled some- thing from the flowers which transferred tc his vegetables and fruit. In the home of the Russian priest. where his daughter and two refugee princesses lived with him, a watch ‘was placed on the produce merchant. ‘When he had left his cabbages and radishes one morning, they were taken hastily to the chemists. They found in them telltale traces of the same Neu Chi-kwei, diffelent. He plas e clazy E When | The boy observed, with a | he | ter which had been re. is of the grafted poppyflowers. Whatever his Neu Chi-kwei had marked the priest_ and his little family of dependants for the same death he had meted out to Boddy, Goodrich Forrest and four others. Physicians provided the family with such anti dotes as they could agree on, and, for nately. one of them was successful None suffered from the poison that had been fed them. The high commissioner of police agreed with Number 1312 and the American secret service agent that be- | fore the arrest of Neu more must he | | learned about the flowers and his mo- | tive for wholesale a: ssination. And too, who i lly was: fo# it was plain he had not alv heen a dealer in small garden produce The officials knew quite well the | utter futility of simply asking Neu | kwei to explain after his arvest. | Mura Vidal was not satisfied, how ever, that the garden boy was as ig norant as he appeared to be. At least he could tell, she concluded, how and when the hybrid poppies were culti- vated. vealed in hybrid E HEY arrested the Chinese chant in the morning, and within an hour the American and the girl| detective confronted the Chinese hoy in Neu's big room. ife stubbornl maintained that he knew nothing ex cept that his master “plaved like clazy” in his poppy garden. Constable 1312 asked her companion if he would mind standing guard outside the cot- tage door. “And,” she said, “do not be concerned If you hear some shots from my revolver. When I wan I will come to the door myself. Agent Markham stood guar < rently he heard a shot, and a shout of pain. He did not leave his post. There was another shot, and another—at in tervals. Then a sudden volley of them. Presently Constable 1312 opened the cottage door and beckoned to the American. Her face was very white, and there was strange light in her black Asiatic eyes. “We must get physician at once,” she said. “You go. 'l wai Markham strode across the threshold. The Chinese boy was lying on the floor, twisting. “Oh. he's quite all right!" the girl an- nounced. “I just grazed his flesh with every shot. My last ones went a little deeper and he knew I meant what I said.” | brought | sion atever it was hreatened little v were to the with deeper.” had gh commissioner 1 Chi‘kwei had lost his grar I grandmother and in the Roxe day fath, cthers of his * ncestors not ne ew ather umst, repeated circ of vengeunce in the name of his cos He learned chemistry in the Singape And he learneq much of botany. Through many years he labored in his poppy garden to crease the poison duct in the popp bloom. and suceeeded at lust when he had successfully grafted to his popp plants sprigs of the deadly “chulkow or poison weed that resembles t nightshade. 5 It was 2 new poison . like many Oriental toxics, untrace able. Its effect w and 11 death while vietim slep It was Neu's dream fo create a ne and secret method of death that ¢ be left to his descendants and through many generations for ympletion of his vengeance agains 11 foreigners. And, as the Oriental usually doe he had found a diabolica of e caping detection—his masquerade as a dealer in vegetables, and his method of distributing his poisons in foods that would never be suspected. The International Police Commis gathered the blooming “‘flows of death,” as they are described i the Shanghai records, and destroyed the garden. The secret of the polsor is preserved in the police archives Of the case there is nothing left ex cept the hope that Neu Chi-kwei hac not vet confided his secret to any of relatives. He was executed in the anghai prison. nstable 1312 is still on of the International Police Shanghai. n its us the staff Force of aht 7:\ ?{eal Job. “I have a fine job now. ing in a shirt factor “Then how does it happen that you are not working today?"” “Oh, we're making night shiri Bow. I'm work