Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-17

But Mimosa san only shook her head 81
don't remember | like TO oblige any friend
York so big I never ind my way same place
two time. sorry--l discree,ly sorry"
"Discreety sorry" Mimosa San remained' Dis
erection tempered he! thanks TO me--gracious.
sweet. indifferent thanks 10 a friend who
simply did not matter any longer.
She escorted US 70 the entrance of tho
coiored by any show of the vivid. eager
personality which had lcaped to greet us
at our coming.
Miss Fairfax. would YOU mind taking the
check-l've got To hurry ba ok TO The papcr"
SAID Jimmy. and, under cover Of Mimosa
men treated Western women. he whispered:
IF she goes ont. follow her, and meet me
At Morans."
Moran is the proprietor of the best dctcc-
tive asency in New York. He is n jovial,
amiabe soul whose looks belle his charac
ter and shrewd mind alike. But Moran be-
lied himself, as know him, in the OF
the Nippon Tea Garden lie wasn't amiablc
about our share Of il, he partcu-
larry am!ahlc about his share OF it'll"
to ali appearances. cavalicriy. and paid the
check and escorted myself out OF the Nippon
Tea Garden. It is under other management
now. but never shall return. The Nippon
Tea Garden was the setting for Mimosa San.
She viii never revisit it-nor will l.
found a taxi at the Very entrance and ]
hid myself in It's dark upholstered depths
After few minutes out came a cloaked
AND and yelled iEure knfw li',le Mimos at
and ordered the taxi driver TO follow her.
Slowly my little lady of Nippon walked
down the street Slowly my taxi followed
her.
Never chase more blind. Naturally
my sympathics were with the girl who had
daughter of the Orient had tacitly dismissed
me when her problem finally solved itself
without my aid
What message had come over the telephone
word Hako Satsn could send his neglect ed
sweetheart would be sufficiently persuasive
TO swing her from her jealousy of him to q
sudden attitude OF guarded enmity toward
us.
story could have for Jimmy and why he
had suddenly gone in search of our faith
ful ally. Detective Moran.
l found myself in labyrinth OF questions,
to which there seemed no plausible answers.
SO followed At last Mimosa stopped in
this would prove to be the apartment fat
of which she had spoken.
paid my driver. and cautiously on foot
! crept after the little Japanese girl. Once
in the apartment building. she climbed the
stairs. and mcckly followed after at last
she came To the apartment she was seeking,
rang the doorbeli. and n second later sho
admitted.
7 hurried down To n telephone booth and
called M"rans Then gave Jimmy the adj
dress and number Of the apartment i'm which
Mimosa san had sought refuge.
We'll he there in n jiny-twenty minut es
or half an hour at the outside. You hold
the fort, Miss Fairfax" came back Jimmy 8
voice over the telephone.
hurnicd back to tho building into tho
depth of which Mimosa San had vanished.
AZ one side of it a dark alley-way.
and sketched against the dnEy gray wall
was zig gag OF fire escapes. Beneath one
of them stood a large Limousine. There was
n gap Of two or three feet between it's top
and the lowest tire-escape. ! measured the
distance with my eye, n careful examination
or the muscular development Of my arms,
and climbed to tho top of the car. a mo-
ment later | was swinging in space
The threads OF the plot which was devised
in the Nippon Tea Garden must be gathered