The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-08
THE SOLUTIONS
OF RADFORD SH0NE
Continued from Page I.

the scene showing me that TakiShura
and Tremayne were each grasping
polished lever.
I'VE know you would like to say
goodbye to Mr.. ShOne," Tremayne
laughed up at me. He's going little
trip with US, to Gibraltar. or wherever
we can conveniently land him. Per
haps it will teach him a lesson in
veraclty. He tried to humbug you, and
he tried to humbug me-in both cases
with a lamentable want of success. In
twenty minutes this boat, which has
been built to Russian order, will be
shipped on a steamer which is waiting
for us outside under the nose of the
Russian steamer that would have taken
her to the Baltic tomorrow, but for
Mr.. GOulding's singular dntipathy to
me as a son-in-law. AS il is, since he
has made much profit by my brains, l
do not think that 1 am wTonging him
by transferring Bella and the boat and
myself TO Toxic. where 1 have been Of
fered a lucrative post as designer of
submarines to the Japanese govern
ment. My good friend TakIshura has
fooled the brilliant ShOne by making
faces as Bella calls it, at the drunken
Russian cur who is covering in the
house when he ought to be looking
after the boat which the Russians or
dered, but for which the mikadO will
cheerfully pay Are you ready, Tak?''
"All ready" chanted the little Jap,
with a grin at me from his almond
eyes.
Then farewell, Inspector Michaels."
cried Tremayne, gripping his lever.
Goodbye" shouted Bella, blowing
me a kiss.
"Au revoir," the little yellow man
said, Juggling at the brass handle, and
bringing down the lid of the turtle
back on the varying emotions gazing
up at me-ShOne's anguished scOwl. the
Jap's imperturbable smile, Tremayne's
defiantly friendly grin, and the girls
CHEEKY nod.
Ny duty, you ask me? What could
I DO? No sooner had the twin jaws
Joined with a snap than the boat slid
like an alligator down the -slipway into
the river and although I ran to the
brink Of the wharf no sign Of her was
to be seen but a fast receding eddy on
the surface Of the water.
But as, little later, l pulled across
to the opposite bank, I saw that the
farthest of the two steamers had got
her anchor up and was heading out to
sea.
No formal protest was ever made to
the authorities over Tremayne's auda-
submarine as means of clipping with
his employers daughter Indeed,
Schouvalinski and Shone, as the ac-
credited agents of Russia, had put the
cars government hopelessly out of
court by their representations that the
boat was being built on Japanese ac-
count. They made that statement in
bad faith, to conceal the contemplated
shipment Of the submarine on the
steamer that was ready to receive her.
little thinking that Tremayne and Ia
kishura's alliance would render their
statement true in substance and n
fact.
/ believe myself that the willy jap
anese had really instilled a fear for
his life into the Russian, though I am
doubtful whether Shone was equally
convinced that bloodshed was intend
ed. Rather am inclined to think that
he endeavored to make a catspaw of
Scotland Yard in order to get Taxi
shura put under lock and key while
the submarine was being shipped TO
Russia in defiance of the neutrality
laws.
In which case he was indeed hoist
with his own petard, and that he selt
his defeat keenly I gathered from his
demeanor when 1 met him in the
Strand two months after his enforced
trip TO Gibraltar. At sight of me he
drew his glossy silk hat down over his
eyes, and, gathering the voluminous
skirts of his frockcoat around him, fed
I'D a side street.
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