Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1929, Page 25

The Wolves of 7 By Edgar Wallace. (Copyright, 1929, by North American Newspaper Alllance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service.) & Synopsis of Preceding Installments. | Just as the police conclude that they have ®vidence to connect him with a gang of employer; Mrs. Oaks. is also in league with | the india rubber gang. | - | (Continued From Yesterday's Star) | SIXTEENTH INSTALLMENT. | HE contents of the pockets of the dead man lay neatly arrayed on a plain deal table at police headquarters. A gold cigarette | case, a watch and guard, a tiny gold box containing a powder that John | Wade knew was cocaine, a small silver | knife, a platinum ring, keys and a| packet of medicine universally known as a specific against seasickness com- | rised the lot. There was no pocket- k, no document by which the body | might have been identified, although it was fairly certein, as Elk pointed out, | that the keys and the cigarette case would have been sufficient to establish an identity. | The fatal wound was hardly visible, | as Wade had seen when he examined the body. Lord Siniford had been stabbed in the back of the neck. Death | had been instentaneous | ve seen one or two murders like | that,” said Elk. “Original fellows, these Chinese. What do you make of this | stuff?” He indicated the articles on the | table. “Nothing much. Evidently he was a bad sailor and was going to sea. The murder took place between midnight | and 6 o'clock, the hour when he was | found; therefore it occurred somewhere in the region of Westminster.” He took down from a peg the heav. looking waistcoat the dead man had ‘worn. “This is proof that he expected to go to sea. It is padded with fiber, and is the sort of thing worn by nervous pas- sengers; it would serve as a life belt. His murderers didn't realize that it would cause the body to float. The watch stopped at 1:17—five minutes be- fore the tide began to ebb. That means the murder occurred six hours from Greenwich. The tide had turned just s the body was found.” “What's this?" asked Elk. He picked up the ring from the table and looked at it curiously. “Bit small for his finger, wasn't it?" “It was in his waistcoat pocket,” said Wade. “It was never intended for his finger—it is a wedding ring.” Elk whistled. “He was going to be married, eh?” He put the ring down on the table, and then he caught a glimpse of ‘Wade's haggard face. “You're getting rattled, Johnny,” he said kindly. Wade nodded. “I am,” he said. “All my ideas and pet theories are knocked sideways, I thought the scheme was to marry Lila to this fellow, and I've been counting on this as a respite for her. It lessened the danger, but now—" He made a despairing gesture. He left soon after, and had only been ne an hour when Elk telephoned, ask- g him to come to Scotland Yard. Weary of mind and body, sick at heart, ‘Wade obeyed the summons. Elk was in the superintendent’s room and the burly chief was studying a radio message when Wade came in. He pushed the paper across the table. “Here's the end of the Seal of Troy.” he sald. “Acting on instructions from the admiralty, one of our cruisers picked her up as she was nearing the Brazillan coast—here’s the report.” It was a long message, covering four sheets of paper. “Acting on_your XP.43/C/9A1/95142, 1 intercepted Seal of Troy latitude X longitude X. and made search. Ship carries cargo agricultural machinery and motor cars. Manifests in_order. Master Silvini, Chief Officer Thomas Treat of Sunderland. Neither Capt. Alkness nor Chief Officer Raggit Lani THE the Waterfront on ship. In cabins 75, 76 and 79 on | fourth deck below water-line I found | three men, two English and one Amer- | . who stated they had been de- tained on the ship six years and were employed in the melting down of the settings of stolen jewelry. Each man made an independent statement to the effect that the ship was mainly utilized for the reception of stolen property. In the cabin behind the paneling I found a small room that contained 1.250 karats cut diamonds. 750 karats | emeralds, many of a considerable size. 17 small ingots of platinum, 55 ingot: of fine gold. The ship has three re. frigerating chambers, one of which was found to contain negotiable bonds to | the value of £83,000, and, as far as can be ascertained, £184.000 in bullion and | currency notes. One of.the jewelers stated that these represented the pro- ceeds of six robberies, including a bank | robbery. Am proceeding . The two lines after this were in code and unintelligible. Then the message went on: | “Statements from the men have been | taken and will be verified before mag- istrates and_forwarded vou. Seal of Troy proceeding in charge of her own officers.” “This will be sad news for Capt ness, not to say Mr. Raggit Lane,” Elk Wade shook his head. “Not so sad as you imagine. My own opinion is that Aikness knew the game was up and allowed the ship to g0 to sea, expecting it would be held up. Somewhere in South America he has a | pretty large sum cached. This won't| hurt him—if he can follow up, but I| | | hardly think he can.” Elk look a little dubious. “Aikness? Hump! What is Golly doing in that galley? He's roped in | with the rest of the crowd. I rather | like Golly—even though he did buy pansies! But he's a tool.” | “A double-edged one, I think,” said | Wade. | He had an appointment at the Palice Court and found an unusually large PAINS HERE is no need to suf-| fer from headache—nor neuritis or neuralgia—longer than it takes to invoke the aid of Bayer Aspirin, These tablets are an, effective antidote for the most acute pain; and the quickest means of breaking up a summer cold. Perfectly harmless to anybody, for doctors will tell you they do not depress the heart. So women need not hesitate to use them on days which would otherwise be fraught with pain. Just be certain to get genuine Aspirin—it has Bayer on the box and on every tablet, \ number of Mrs. Oaks’ friends there. The loungers stood with their hands thrust in their pockets, cigarettes droop- ing from their mouths, and scowled at John Wade as he passed, or gave him an ofly greeting. He suw Sniffy there, and the:sight of thosc unprepossessing features reminded him of something. “Didn’'t I see you at the Mecca the other night, Sniffy?” he said. “Yes, sir.” “What were you doing there? Put- 1 ting a little money in soak?” Sniffy was amused. “T went there on purely a personal and private visit,” he said unctuously. “A gentleman calliog on a lady, is there anything wrong ut that?” Sniffy sighed. “I've dropped all that low hooking,” he said. “I've had the offer of a regular job. A man like me, who knows the river backwards—I'll bet there ain’t another man in this room | that's followed the river to Gloucester —oughtn't to loaf round this hale.” It was perfectly true that Sniffy was one of the few Cockney rivermen who knew the stream in its more pleasant moods—the long, silvery reaches that wound between the wooded hills, the old mill streams, the green-gray locks, the tiny hamlets that cluster round anks of the river where it narrows. ve jumped across the Thames,” said Sniffy complacently. “I'll bet there's few people who can say that— jumped from one bank to another. I know the river better than any pilot; I | know the landlord or every pub from here to Oxford. He stopped suddenly, and then asked: “What are you going to do with Mrs. Ask your Barber fora Whte-Fox Massage. =Y p Feel Years Yonnger‘ Whyte-Fox (1 and 2) is the delight of those with skin ailmen: Corrects Pimples, Itch, Poison Ivy, Sun Burns, and No. 2 knocks Piles in about three weeks. 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She asked if he had been to the Mecca, and, when he replied that he had not, she said: “I hope you're going to settle this business today, Mr. Wade. I don't see how you can bring any charge against me, much less prove it. I've got the best lawyers that money can hire, and, if they don't tie you in knots, I'll be surprised. I don't want to make you look foolish in court, Mr. Wade. = If She | you'll withdraw the charge, I will say no more about it, and Il bear no malice.” He shook his head. “The case has gone forward to the public prosegutor, and I shall ask for a remand,” e said. “All right, you'll see what I can do! I've got some friends, you know, Mr. ‘Wade. Lord Siniford will—" “Lord Siniford is dead.” John Wade spoke coldly and deliber- | ately, watching the woman. She went | scarlet, and then the color faded, leav- | ing her face peaked and gray. “Dead?” she whispered. He nodded. “When—when did he die?" “He was murdered last night,” said Wade. “His body was found in the river.” She swayed forward, and he caught her and helped her to & chair. But she had not fainted. “They killed him—and he was going |to marry her! Why did he let them | do it?” she groaned. | " The reply came from Wade's lips Budget Your Buying A business-like method of purchasing the things you need and paying for them over a period of time. This convenient service is offered to you through The Hecht Co. Budget Plan. MAY 6, 1929.° an inspiration. He had pever thought of that solution. “Because hé wants to marry her himself,” he said, and she raised her hand, as though to ward off a blow. “No, no!” she walled. “He couldn't do that—he couldn’t do that!” “Mrs. Oaks, you're not so much a driving force as a cog in the machine,” he said. “I'm going to crop all pre- tense with you. Why don't you talk? Take your chance as King's witness? Aikness means money to you, and you know all about the Seal of Troy, all about Lila Smith.” She was silent. “I'm not trying to bluff you,” he said. “I'd like to help you.” “I don't know she muttered. “I don't mind the remand, and I shan't want bail. Perhaps I'll see you tomorrow or the next day.” She came into court, a drooping, listless figure. Her solicitor, with whom | she had a short interview, communi- | cated her decision to the eminept coun- |sel who had been retained overnight to represent her, and, when she did not | ask for bail, there was only one person in the court whe kmet; ferred Holloway Prison, person was pot John Wade. “That's the dame,” sald a rough- looking man who watched the de- 'f:'ndlnb closely. “Looks kind of crazy me.” His companion offered no comment, but eyed Mrs. Oaks, as she was led away. When he and the first man left the court they looked back several times, to make sure that they were not being followed. “Yuh . . . that's the dame,” sald the first speaker. “Say, do you think | it's O. K., Jakey? Listen, I've never pulled one like 'at.” . . . ‘They discussed the ethics of their task more fully when they reached their lodgings near the water front. she pre- that one (To Be Continued.) ————— During the locust plague in Trans- jordania 3,000 sacks of the insects, weighing 115 tons were gathered, and nearly three times that quantity were destroyed by flame-throwers. Monday, May 6th, to Monday, May 13th, inclusive - Homefurnishing Days At TAE Hecart Co. F Street at Seventh Entering the second day of the Seven Days with extraordinary events in the Furniture, Upholstery and Lamp Departments. How- ever, although not advertised, there are hundreds of items at rare savings in every Homefurnishings Department in the store. again tomorrow. 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