Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1927, Page 35

teees e : : i (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER XXX. INSTON was gope, leaving | the charred remains of the wooden leg behind him, and the chief. protesting the ab- surdity of keeping such a A Scrap of Paper. Donsensical thing, put it away care- “Mac gets all kinds of ideas, and you seem to have gone dipy your- | solt," he said to Chris. “Better x along to your hotel now and do your Dbest to get something from Holmes in | the morning. Good-night. You need | & rest.” Chris reached the Washington Hotel without further adventure and went to bed, wishing with all his heart that he had gone with Winston, yet so un- utterably weary that relief came im- mediately—a slcep filled with dreams of Anne, the charred leg, Winston and the bontire, with carrier pigeons floating in the ofting. And when you stop to think of all that had happened, you realize that-his dreams were no ! more than natural But if Winston needed a sleep, no- | body would have suspected it. Within a few minutes he had boarded a Gov- ernment launch and was steaming along through the harbor, headed for the old De Lesseps Canal. “Hell of a difch to go into at nigh the engineer of the launch protested. “And what are you going to do when you get there? If you're looking for night life, I can show you a better| place. And, by the way. Mac, those} two queens you were trailing around | the dock last night were hunting for you this evening; said they had some- thing to tell you. Who are they. any- i 7y Playmates, my dear fellow—recrea- | tion for the tired. business man. Gu 1 know what they had to tell me, all right. ‘Oh, Meestair Kellee!' is about their complete vocabulary. If I had to live on this Zone, I'd go mad in a week. How do you stand it “Oh, 1 dunno; not so bad. Got the wife and kids here. Say, you came in on the Hope, didn't you? Fierce pas- sage you had. Ship disabled, passen- gers sat ashore, and two women miss- ing!’ Yeh. Lots of talk around the docks, I suppose?” Winston drawled, lighting a cigarette. | i “Yes; everybody’s popeyed, listening n. rcu heard it first-hand, 1 suppose?” es. Young fellow named Garton, nephew of my wife. She generally tries to get a word with him when he goes trough. Kind of a wild kid; ran away from home, his mother fret- ting herself to death—all that kind of thing. “Garton!” Winston's tone expressed polite interest. ‘“Seem to remember that he rowed one of the lifeboats. Staying at your house now? I heard the crew had shore leave.” “Yeh. Seems to have a lot of friends around. Can’t quite make him out. He's not more than 18 and get- ting next to no pay, but if he didn’t blow in with a big wad.of money! My wife’s worried sick over him—afraid he's been gambling.” “More than likely. What kind of friends do you mean—cabaret and fluffy ruffles?” “No. That's the funny part. He seems to know regular folks. Went up to dinner tonight at a swell house —name of Holmpes; English outfit. w them?” 'No,” Winston drawled, not a trace of interest visible. ‘“Don’t come down here often enough to get next to any- body but the barkegpers. Wouldn't] worry about the kid. Boys that agé try out a lot of games before they settle down. -I'd likesto meet your family, though. I get so darned sick of wandering through life in hotels and restaurants that a home looks like the top of the world to me.” “Don’t blame you. FII be glad to have you drop in and make yourself at home. But, say, I don’t like this trip we're making, Mac. That old ‘anal’s an awfully creepy place. Can't we lie off outside and wait till morn- ng? That’s what I'm planning. But I want to be Johnny on the spot when dawn breaks.” ‘Looking for the missing girl?"” No. She's gone through to Pan- ama, all right. They'll pick her up there tomorrow,” Winston lied easily. “I'm after a fellow who broke Sing, Sing—a lifer, dangerous chap.” How'd you know he was here?” Didn’t and don’t. Just looking; got a hunch. Killed a whole family in a farmhouse. Name of Hills. You're right, 1 don’t want to meet him at night.” The conversation languished, die out altogether, for Winston was piec: ing together the bits of evidence so fortunately picked up—the boy Gar- ton and his roll of money, his friend ship with the Holmes family, British- | ers so far above him in the social | scale. uch a kid,” he said to himself. i A new modified Brogue in imported LADY S B;Ella Wister Haines Author of “MYSTERIOUS SWEETHEART." Copyright, 1926, Thompson Feature Service, Inc. 0060000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000, | stealthi +o000000 LIPPER + with such a big deal. Too bad!” And he shook :‘us head solemnly, drawing you're about worn out, aren’t his companion inquired. “Why don't you take a nap? I'll run along to the inlet and then stand by till s; think I wi Winston curled upon the seat and closed his eyes, but he didn't sleep, not for an instant. The night passed slowl ably to Winston, but d: lert and fresh for adventure. nerve steeled for action. “Atta boy!” He roused the sleepy engineer. “In we go! And in they went, the launch creep- ing slowly through the winding water- way, the remains of what had once been such a high adventure. Here the gallant Frenchman De Lesseps had come with his men and money termined to cut a waterway between the earth’s : Here he had sunk hi and finally returned France, bankrupt, world. Winston shivered, as he W did when he entered this for- aken waterw Masts of sunken ships, partly submerged hulks, old wrecks, lining the shore, and here and there a larger ship still well above the water, offering a shelter for des- peradoes fleeing from justice. Many a poor devil had been picked up along these banks, many a de- pairing soul had gone down into the l‘al's black depths never to rise ain. “Which one?” the engineer asked. “I'll board every one that can give me a footing,” Winston replied, and hegan sulting his actions to his wi One, two, three old wrecks wi rched, the launch lying alongside Winston, pistol in hand, went ily along, and on the fourth two men suddenly appeared. half- naked wretches, knives in hand, peer- ing over their deck to Winston, stand- ing erect in his launch. “All right, all right!" called. “Not after you! body around lately? No.” one of the men replied in good English, “Who're you after?” “Looking for a friend,” he said, “missing a while back. Thought he ® wandered in here.” v's been through here in a the man replied. *‘Better move mighty unhealthy in these intermin- found him every c: a; as Winston Seen any- “Don’t like the place myself, but guess I'll look around a bit further.” He put his hand in his pocket and produced a small roll of money. “Will this do?" he asked. The man advanced, reached out his hand and seized the money, speaking in a low tone to his companion. “Got any more?” he asked Winston. “That much more if you know any thing.” And Winston tossed his pis- tol lightly into the air, catching it again, while his eye never left the faces of the two desperadces who &tood above him on the deck of that derelict, knives in hand. “Nothing more to tell,” the man growled. “Native paddled around here today, but haven’t seen a white man.” “Well, I'll run in a couple of hun- dred yards farther and give you the rest of my pile as I come out,” Win- ston remarked. “We've got some grub aboard you might like. 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