Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1927, Page 27

LADY SLIPPER - 3 By Eila Wister Haines ; + » (Continued from Yes Star.) CHAPTER XXL Meestair Kellee. LL.” said the Zone off- clal to Marie and Helmer as they sat in confer- ence at his headqua ters. The glass slipper was still in his hand and his face wore & puzzled expression. “Where did Mac find the mate to this one?”| Planted in Dahlgren’s room?’ &1 “He found it fn his own cabin, where, you will note, Miss Morris had | been found during the night.” 3ut Mac hadn’t been in his room.” No. He didn’t go to bed at all. | That was the night he found the car- | pigeons in the lifeboat.” are vou sure about this| Morris girl? What took her to Mac's rom? He was making love to her, wasn't he?” | “Yes: trying her out. She’s all| right, though she has not been willing | to tell me why she went to Mac's [ t vou let her slip out to do that. | Th later she begged you to say you had asked her to go in search of your #on In other words, you and Mac fell in with her plan and corrobo- rated the story she told the captain?” | “Yes. It was the only thing to do | at (he time, but after Mac took the captain into his_confidence we told him about that. Mac had a good rea- son for bringing the girl into my room for the night. He was sure that | there was some troubls brewing in that corridor, and was afraid she would be drawn into it.” | “Of course, he already suspected | that Lady de Vere was the confed- erate of the stewardess. Funny we | didn't realize that the other alien was\ a woman. Guess we've been pretty dense, Marie. They've put it all over | ns and got away with it. Now, then, let's get down to business. 'If the De YVere is the one we're after, where is she” And if she really was murdered and thrown overboard, who did it? Some unknown enemy. trailing those reds on his own account? And if so, who is he? Dahlgren? Straine? Or| some one else? Had you been watch- ing the purser, as we directed, Marie “Yes. Got nothing at all. We were suspicious of only one of the crew. the steward, Fritz—but we couldn't nail him. 1 would think that Straine was hunting the pair on his own ac- eount: did away with the woman in the interest of his own government, | expecting to report the whole thing in detail later if it were not for one thing.” that he went ashore with | leaving the stewardess aboard. “He may have recognized you and Mac and left her to you.” | Marie shook her head. 0,” she said slowly. “That doesn't ain it. If we hadn't verified every- thing about the man from A to Z, had his photograph and full confirma. tion from Scotland Yard as to his presence in the country, I'd feel dif- , ferently about ft. Scotland Yard would never double-cross us like that. They always play fair, and these reds are just as badly wanted in England as they are here. “Well,” the official said, “there is nothing to do now until we can get held of Dahlgren and Mac. Keep under cover, Marie, and be waiting at the Washington Hotel for the ar. rival of the refugees. Then come over here. My wife will take you in for the rest of the day. I'll send you over to the house now.” And shaking hands cordially with this capable woman detective, he fnade the necessary arrangements for er being received at his house and went back to work. And meanwhile, through these noon hours of the day that the passengers ©f the Hope were stranded upon the shores of Panama, while Marie and Helmer conferred at the goyernment headquarters at Cristobal, while Christopher was making his long canoe trip under the boiling tropical sun, the young man called Mac, first known to us as Aubrey Winston, was earrying on some investigations upon his own account. Leaving Helmer at Gatun Locks, he proceeded to spend a couple of hours in that neighborhood, but he was no longer Aubrey Winston of the ahell-rimmed glasses, but Pat Kelly, gonial young Irishman, and appar- ently well known to several pretty maidens among whom he took time to bestow a series of liberal kisses, lin- | gering for a chat at a popular soda | fountain, stopping at a newsstand, al together making himself extremely at home. Later, and quite alone, he might have been seen walking through some ulet alleyways, looking carefully at the rear entrances of certain houses, ordinary enough to the casual eve, but evidently of prime interest to the young man himself. At length, leaving the more crowded section, he wandered into an outlyl district, strolling down a pathw most overgrown by vegetation, where perhaps a quarter of a mile iniand he ©ame upon an abandoned hut. It was a picturesque old shanty, the roof | thatched with banana stalks, an old board serving as the only door, but eddly enough it had a chimne: | Perhaps it was that idiosyncrasy in | & dwelling of this kind, unusual be-| causa Inhabitants of such primitive| spots are apt to do their casual cook- | ing out of doors, that made this young | man pause on its threshold. Perhaps he had been there hefore, and it was | evident that he was not sure he was the only person in the neighhorhood, for he did a sood deal of looking about before he actually entered this hut, and throughout his stay within its inhospitable walis he never took one ! eve from the entrance. Nor did he linger, for once convinced | that thers was no one within and | after a thorough examination of the outlying premises, he hastily ap-| proached the chimney, reaching his hand far up. A smile of content lighted his face} as his hand came in contact with something hard and metallic. | “I thought so,” he said, beaming | from ear to ear. Clever boy! [ And as carefully as he had entered | he retreated again, strolling back the way he had come. If any one had been following his trail closely—and ! he v ar from sure that this had! not case—he might presently have hee n another cafe, taking with a business-lfke native. d dusk. he made , and as the shadows thicket in the| beautiful garden and fixed | upon a building which had | 1 1he stable, but was now the | arage belonging to the owner of the garden and of the handsome house which was set in the middle of the! property. Here he waited, never re- moving hia eves from the small open-| ing in the garage loft, watching in- tentl: And presently his patience was re- warded, for just at nightfall two! pigeons appeared overhead, soaring a | moment in circles, then without fur- ther hesitation flew directly into the | loft and vanished from sight. The| young man drew & long breath | “So that was it.” he exclaimed un der his breath. “Who'd have thought | it { He expressed his wonder several times and in different ways, but he did not leave his hiding place. A mo- tor came into the garden, driven by an | elderly man. and was placed in the garage. A young girl brought in a| Ford sedan, a gardener put away a wheelbarrow and some garden imple. ments, shutting the door of the build- ing behind him. Lights appeared in #ha house, the sound of music coming . Author of “MYTERIOUS SWEETHEART.” Covyright, 1926. Thomoson Feature Service. Ine. in over the radio, and from the rear windows servants could be seen com- ing and going. The family were at their evening meal. Then, and only then, did the young chap creep from his hiding place, steal | into the garage, opening the door with the greatest care and closing it hehind him, grope through its dark inclos ures, make his way up the ladder to the loft and crawl about among the roosts. His hand touched one pigeon after another until he came upon one with a message attached in the usual | way. Slipping this off, and with the | id of his searchlight, carefully con- | tra, besides having the advantage of cealed within his coat, he examined the message with a sigh of satisfac: | tion, replacing it where he had found | it, and repeating his performance un- | til the second bird was found and treated similarly | He was about to leave the loft when sounds came from below, the door was heing opened, voices were heard. and | he had barely time to duck behind a Dale of straw when footsteps mounted | the ladder, and from his corner he saw | two men come into the loft and go directly to the roost. Both held flash lights, and these men knew the birds, | went directly to the two new: releasing the messages they “Read them,” one said to the other in & low voice. “Can you see?"” “See!” his companion returned, ex- pressing astonishment, “There's nothing to see! These are blanks. What does this mean? “She’s got hol of some invisible ink. Clever girl!” the other one com | mented after he, too, had examined the tiny slip. “Bring these into the house and we'll use the usual meth- | ods. 1 didn’t know she expected to| did you? Wish we Kknew | what was delaying th: ip. Suppose | it was the storm, but it’s inconvenient, | for I don't like what's going on at| headquarters, | “Don’t worry about that We've | always kept them where we wanted them. Come along. we're wasting | time.” | They were gone, and after waiting | until he was certain that nobody else | lingered near, the young man slipped | out of his hiding place and made off | toward the more congested quarter of | the town, and entering a cafe ]7r(\-‘ ceeded to order a meal, his general air | one of intense satisfaction. “Big time they’ll hav FACTORY-TO-YOU HOUSE PAINT The high quality of HPC will always be maintained. No other Paint can justify a higher price. City Deliveries and Out-of-Town Shipments J. W. HUNT PAINT MANUFACTURER 1221 NEW YORK AVENUE N.W. 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Deing well within the limits of Colon, | where no dry law could prove a kill- | joy, he began to have a very, ver: good time indeed—a good time which lasted until the whistle of the govern- | ment tug announced its arrival, and | grabbing a girl under each arm he hurried off toward the dock. “Meestair Kellee, got friends on the ship?” the girl inquired, Meestair Kellee got friends every- where.” He stopped long enough to bestow two kisses of appreciation. “This tug won't dock for several min- utes, zirls. Will you wait here for Then T'll show you a wild night, all right. We'll dance from here to Paris. Watch me!” % The girls gigeled, and arms en- | twined waited while the young man | disappeared through a door lead ing to an office helonging to the docks, and producing a key opened an inner dacr, entering a small private office. 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