Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1926, Page 34

The Romance of a Race Around the World BY LINTON WELLS Special Corfspondent of The Star and North American News Alliance, who is now engaged in for circling the globe. CHAPTER X. SYNOPSI Jimmy Brandon. A YOUDg newspaper man nocke down Austin Rogers. millionaire. i \r club barroom for proposing the nam Frances Lasster as a toast nended. The two are preparing to rac the world for the zl. and for N0—Jim: tast cent. dim e the a licensed plan \lls Crane B 2 Jimmy.Jimmy Pt 1w Sdmirer ot Qo Yok erashes in the Allechenie A myst him up and leave him at Chic es Seattle to fin the mysters plane h A Ris hoat. the A does Rogers. Tapn blane pirks He r nese’ s < to make bel the. A mysterio under M door warnine him not dnnk. He orders a drink m the ha fends to drink 1t and goes to his cabin At 2:30, there was a rap on his door. It was Capt. Olson. He leaped ou of bed, fully dressed, and griabbed hi ease. “The lights are off to starhoard, Olson reported. “All set?" “Correct.” They hu would be breaking. hour lzhts bore down. asleep, pushing gently water af just steerage way, gines scarcely turning over. Jimmy the rail Jacoh’s ladder tnosed and a small hoat awaited him The Minato schooner neared “I've found.” said Olson, “ii messa Tol ed out on deck. The Adrienne wa through the en. from changed That operator gets fired when he hits |} your Do want to alter port plans> ‘Changed?” Jimmy repeated mean—it was approved " “Exactly. There's dirty work, as #mid. But vou'll he ahead this way. and vou'll have the laugh.” Jimmy nodded For stood silent hand. “Thanks, “I'll go on.” ‘Get going." “And luek—son!" Jimmy descended the waiting hoat In 24 hours, Jimmy Rrandon had exhausted the =social possibilities the staunch little Tokitsu had taken him from the he was spending his time in the ! 1v fore part of the deck watching th you “You skipp he said Olsor, commanded the . ves that threatened momentarily 1o |* mp the little hoat: and mean while praying that the ship would gain the protection afforded by peninsula before the storm broke Since taking him & previous morning. the Tokit had neatly navigated the Ntraits of Tsurumi. separating the islands Honshu and Hokkaido. and was now well on its way across the Sea Okhotsk to Viadivostok It had heen. neve: journey. In Jimm. was the memory of the Adrienne’s speed riun across the Pacific and his flight ac the American continent ®nine before. It contrasted oddly Marn <. a tedinus days gained from the leaky hoilers of the little Japanese ship. He was the only foreigner on board, too: but he had soon tired of tha pas- | time of improving the raptain’s atro- elous English. He was devoted now to planning ahead and checking up on all that had passed. Jimmy was ready to suspect Rogers of having used unfair methods. Capt. Olson’s last _discovery had almost de- elded him. He doubted no longer that there had heen a real attempt. to drug him in his eabin that night. And the radio message—somehow it had heen tampered with. After all. the govern- ment had approved his request! This reflection. as the harometer fell and the Tokitsu Maru neared the pro- tection of the peninsula, drove his mind from the rapidly approaching storm. If it had heen Rogers who had doped him, ostensibly, and Rogers who had intercepted hiz radiograms— then Rogers had another move! 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No obliga- tion on your part—just 10 minutes of your time, race from with at the start from | Dawn | & Jimmy saw, in an Off in the north red and green the and the captain halted by wax a moment he Then he put out his ladder into | rd at sea the | of of | with the | annoying 12 knots that were somehow | vapaper n an effort to break the record time l |at Yokohama who knew Jimmy Bran- don, what would prevent Rogers from taking the plane that the government would have waiting there? Jimmy growled deep in his throat s [ with the thought. It was too much. a | And vet it could not be prevented. It 0| would mean, at worst, that he and Rogers would catch the same train ut of Harbin across Siberia. His train for Harbin, he discovered, departed at 1 o'clock in the morning. If the present schedule were adhered [to and he met with no adversity in hetween, he would arrive there with everal hours to sp: The Tokitsu Maru passed safely ont of the storm and sailed into the murky waters of Viadivostok harbor at 10 o'clock. Jimmy, with a flippant wave of his hand toward Russian !Island, disembarked and set out .| the customs jetty. The trip wcross from Minadio had cost him 1,250 good American dollavs: but, to his mind, the ntage gained more than compen- sated him for the expenditure. | viet officialdom at Viadivostok reeted him courteously. Jimmy's wide acquaintance was beginning to | make itself felt. One of his first acts, when he had begun to plan his route, |had been to communicate with U'nion n n 4 % | o Al = | regues Adrienne, Capt. Ol had |ahead and asked that they be grs |at Viadivostok. 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He grinned as he threw the last of his belongings into his little bag. It was his intention that Rogers should of his seif-confidence. So far am he knew, of course, Jimmy had been lefc behind, drugged, in the cabin on the | ienne; he supposedly had only a ght chance of going across to san by train and reaching Harbin in time for the carrier which left that night. There was a chance, however, he had discovered that. A train was ar- | riving from Fusan just a few minutes | hefore the one which to carry him | and Rogers 1o Moscow, the connect{on Ile went down to the station I and was there when it TRY LEMON JUICE TO WHITEN SKIN The only harm- less way to bleseh t! n white is to mix the juics of two lemons with three ounces of Or- chard White, which any druggist will supply for & few cents. Rhake well in a bottle, and you have a whole quarter-pint of the most wonderful akin whitener, soft- ener and beautifier. Massage this sweetly fragrant lemon bleach into the face, neek, arms and hands. 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He was nowhere in sight on the dimly lighted and lonely platform when the Fusan train came in, He watched idly the sleepy and disgruntied pas- sengers of coache: Not a white face in the lot-—Chinese, Russians, Japanese—even Koreans. It was a lonely sight. For the briefest second, Jimmy had a thought of home —wherever that might be--and for the same second he had a keen desire to see a white face. Cold, chilly, dark and gloomy, the atation was. “And not a white face,” he mut- fered again. “Lord, I've half & mind to go up and chin with Rogers!" It was the first time in his life he had experienced loneliness or the faintest touch of homesickne: Yet it was neither of these. Somehow, of there had the desire to one hea he might warm himsel n who cared, even if it were onl r the most fleeting instant, whether he was in Zanzibar or Rarawak. ‘He thought of Frances. she was his. that, Yet the thought of claiming her lacked its wonted thrill. Wan that what he wanted, after all? 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She was alone. not %o curfous. stant he rea That, in itself, was But_in the same in- sed that she was a white womar. Romething about her | carrlage told him that—a certai poised assurance and a way of carry ing herself that spoke subtly of the | Occident and left no doubt. A white woman-—alone It was astonishing. none too safe at night for uny woman; but this lonely station her to be traveling here, unprotected, unwarned | { the dangers ahead for making for the here! Harbin was He glanced at his watch. she had just left was the one he might have caught from Yokohama had Rogers succeeded in drugging him. It was nea 1 o'clock A sudden of gteam from hehind him The train | JUNE 24, 1926. spegking to her, correctly, of course, and offering his services; but he de cided ngalnst it. Jimmy never ran the chance of a rebuff. Suddenly he gasped. From out of the dark between thg emptied coaches, there sprang without warning five armed men—Chinese. 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