Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1929, Page 27

o Ean STAR, WASHINGTON., D. C. ' “l1 hoped—however. The girl's InI town now, eh? Staying at the Regency, your report said, Hum!" He beat a tattoo on the desk with his pencil. | “Ever thought of pulling her into SATURDAY, MARCH THE EVENING - THE RAGGED 1929, 27 better the illusion of omnipotence that ‘dmng where was the home of this ob- | The number of Audrey’s room was he was able to create. | vious and patent American. He searched | 269. He chose ‘to dine that night at the | the register—"461.” | hotel where Audrey Bedford was living, “That is a little too high for me. I'd E and after dinner he strolled from the | like a room somewhere on the second | dining room to the vestibule, where he | floor.” * able to help you from time to time— you'll remember I put you on to Slick Smith when he came east?” Dick, who had forgotten that fact, laughed, He's been an exemplary criminal HUGHES SEES 1., (Continued in Tomorrow’s Star) By 1 i ! . | this business? We ‘want a woman | since he's been on this side,” he said, | interviewed the reception clirk. ‘Again the clerk consulted his register. - SIEP WEI. DMED Edgar [sleuth badly. and she's the kind who'd | “That is how Slick always looks” “I find I shan't bo able to get home | “There are iwa roome empty Nos | ton o o e e O T e i | pay for dressing. Malpas’ secretary | replied Stormer dryly, “but he's making tonight,” he said. “Could you let me |255 and 270.” 1 is estimated to be withholding from the too! She’s out of a job, isn't she?” | “I've got an idea that Shannon s | sweet on her,” said Willitt. " a living somehow. But that isn't what I wanted to talk to you about, Captain. | I understand that my people have got have a room?’ “Certainly, sir, “I guess I'll take 270. Seventy's m}'l market the equivalent of a full year's said the clerk, won- 'lucky number,” said Mr. Stormer. 4 normal exports. Other Western Pleased by Signing of Pan- American Treaty. | ieme _(Continued from Yesterday's Star.) | Willitt gave a long and accurate de-| Willitt opened a little pocketbook and { on the roof of this house in Portman " CHAPTER XXXVIIIL seription of recent developments. searched its pages. | square, and certainly it looks a little Bs the Associnted Press. | . : | “Last night, eh? Do you know what| “Here are two numbers, the first is | unnecessary. What I want to say is NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 23—/ " {his flat, the second is his office. I|that I've given orders that they are to Charles E. Hughes, speaking at Yale cupied the first floor of a nmew | "I don' know, sir. Wilkes reported | think you're more likely to get him at | give the police any help they can, and University last night, said that signa- ture of the pan-American arbitration apparent, either from the dis-|lice.” cess. He then tried the treasury num- | see your difficulty treaty by the United States was & dem- | creet inscription on its doors or from| “Humph!" said Stormer and there |ber which connected him with Scotland | Stormer smiled to himself. onstration, “heartily welcome” by other | the indication in the hall, which said|and then dismissed the mystery of Port- | yard. 1 guess you don't,” he sald. “Have Tepublies of the western world, of this | country's “sincerity in renouncing war | s an instrument of national policy gnd | It ¢ | of his fugutive visits to his English " R it was not ! better success, for Dick had just come “Take a good look at him.,” said | In pledging itself to settlements by| ol B0 JECEVE TSSO Tas usual | o Norked Lke 10 men; and it mas noli i Stormer, and rang off before Dick could | o i through his own private door, and the | that night that he signed his last letter, | _“It's Stormer speaking. That Capt. | {rame an inquiry. ! The address was the first of two lec- | first intimation Willitt had that his| «apout that business of Malpas,” he | Shannon?” | " Mr. Stormer was chuckling to him- tures Mr. Hughes is giving here on | chief was in the building was when the | gaid: “the old instructions hold until| “Stormer? Oh, yes, the detective |self as at a good joke all the way back | “Pan-American Peace Plans.” buzzer on his desk purred angrily. He|theyire canceled by Marshalt’s lawyer. | agency.” to the restaurant where he dined that | passed down the corridor, unlocked the | mhe house is to be hed, a man re-| “Yuh. say, Capt. Shannon, I've been Inight. For he liked his mysteries; liked Domestic Questions Viewed. Mr. Hughes, who was chairman of the sixth Pan-American Congress at Havana, when the arbitration treaty was negotiated, said the pact recog- nized “that what might otherwise fall within the domestic jurisdiction ex- clusively may be brought into the in- ternational sphere through an inter- national agreement.” “States are constantly making treaties,” he continued, “removing causes of difference and establishing rights and obligations with respect to matters which are not governed by in- ternational law. But when the treaty or convention is entered into and inter- national rights and reciprocal inter- national obligations are created, the interpretation of that treaty is not ex- clusively a domestic matter but one of proper international concern. Machinery for Interpretation. “The promise to have recourse to accful settlement is meaningless un- ess the parties agree to set up the machinery for the interpretation of | their international engagements. Where international obligations are involved, the treaty makes no exception, except as states not parties to the conven- | tion may be concerned. | “It is interesting to note that in the | course of the discussions at the con-| ference in Washington the Monroe doc- trine was not mentioned. The treaty | said Mr. Stormer with a grimace. | Bedford?” . e g S e mferioe o it Sl 1;.: rea--“\;zomenhnevul» borrot:; money }or them- | “Yes, sir; she was married in that | Seeing Them They l'la\e a son is obvious. The treaty is between | selves; they always borrow or some- | name.” | the American republics.” body else. There's never been & bill| “H'm!" | Message for You! 3103 14th St. | ]212 F St. N.W. | 5016 Conn. Ave. 1102 Conn. ADOPTS LATIN ALPHABET. Jugoslavs Drop Cyrilic Letters Used 1,000 Years. BELGRADE. Jugoslavia, March 23 (®).—King Alexander yesterday ordered use of the Latin alphabet throughout Jugoslavia, to replace the archaic com- licated cyrillic characters which have geen in use for the last thousand years. Although the change will involve mil- licns of dollars, it will place Jugoslavia . in line with nations of Western Europe ond will aid in unifying the present di- verse languages of the triune kingdom. Favor Votes fo; Women. PARIS (#)—Women's vote has many ‘warm supporters in that stronghold of conservatism, the French Academy. In fact, a majority of the 40 immortals | expressed themselves favorable’ when | asked by Mme. La Vert Chotard, presi- | Republics | Walla ce PRINCESS Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News city building. That it was a de-| that Shannon came on the roof and TORMER'S Detective Agency oc- | the trouble was S tective agency at all was not|that the house was surrounded by po- simply “Stormer’s” and left the curious | man square and devoted his mind and | s in what branch of commerce pressed, “Any man is sweet on a good- looking girl. | fully and pulled it toward him. non.” he said. the flaf | has been gone 10 minutes.” | to gu Stormer’s was engaged. That morning John Stormer paid one door of the sanctum and went in. Mr. Stormer, his derby hat on the back of his head, an unlighted cigar between his strong white teeth, sprawled in his office chair with an open copy of the Times in his hand. “Give me an English newspaper for news every time,” he sald with a sigh. “Do you know, Willitt, that it will be fair but colder, that there’s a depres- sion to the southwest of Ireland and an- other depression to the northwest of Ireland that will probably couse rain in the west of England? Do you know that visibility is good and that the sea crossing is rough? The newspapers over here give more space to the weather than we give to a presidential elec- tion.” He put the newspaper down on the floor, fixed pince-nez on his broad nose and looked at his subordinate, “What's doing?” he asked. “There are five new cases in this morning sir,” said Willitt. “Four of them husband and wife stuff and one a lady who is being blackmailed by a money lender.” N Stormer lit the stub of his cigar. “Don’t tell me about it; let me guess,” he said “She borrowed the money to save a friend from embarrassment and her husband doesn’t like the friend.” ‘Willitt grinned. “Very nearly right, sir.” ould say it was very nearly signed by a woman that didn’t have a halo over it. Now what's the latest from Portman square?” nature, to mankind, and to God. I have found Great Companions an An Exeellent Easter Gift (_(J/Tw the (lemuglzl_/t-i/ C@eac/er | thoughts to the routine of his business. He very seldom made his appearance | in his London office, but when he did ! | maining on the roof, and one of our | two best men always to be on the heels | of—Slick Smith! You understand?” “Yes, sir.” “It's too bad Slick should have to be trailed this way, but I'm taking no risks. Cable me if anything develops.” , Willitt made a note of the order. “By the way, how do we come’— Stormer frowned up at the other—"how | did we come to be acting for Marshalt at all?” ‘w“He wanted a girl traced and came us—" Stormer smacked the table with his| hand. “Of course—the girl! Did you ever discover what was behind his interest in_Miss Bedford?"” ‘Willitt shook. his head. 4 “No, sir; he was that kind of a man. You remember I told you he wanted me to bring her to dinner with him? I don’t think there was any other inter- est.” “Don’t you?" Stormer emphasized the first word. “That is surely strange —wanting that girl located. 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