The Green Forest tribune., 1916-09-15

"@u any such intention. These small matters are of great importance Ill Iaylng the foundation for getting your man. They talked through the meal It was but natural when at o.i9' Gard appeared with his grin and started 10 enter his cab. that he should ask Peterson, who was inst 'hen ready for departure. to join him.
 At the station the smuggler. as a re- turn favor, advised Card not to nur- chase a ticket, as one could ride for uail the fare by handing the cash to tle conductor Gard, however. de- ciihed thls opportunity to save money, TOT he was looking to the future and the necessity of establishing himself ih given light with this stranger
 Peterson asked his companion as to the hotel to which lie was going in Kingston.
 The Myrtlebank," said Gard
 It will cost you six dollars a day. said the smuggler Come with me, and l will show you as good accommo- dations for three"
 detective less experienced in roping might have considered an op- portunity to go to this mans hotel With him as a piece of good fortune. Gard declined the invitation.
 'No,' he said. The expense is of little importance to me. I shall stay at the Myrtlebank. Won't you take dinner with me there tonight?"
 Peterson, being what the English call "bounder," was impressed by his friends disregard for money, and eagerly accepted all his invitations to share more expensive hospitality. So was the atmosphere created for which the detective was striving.
 The two men spent much time to- gether They automobiled about the city and dined at the resort of Fun Ken, back in the hills. The man who claimed to be retired glass mandfac- turer seemed to be careless sort of | individual with a disregard of how he spent his time. He was rather in different of his associates, it seemed and inclined toward those whose lives were free and easy. He was the last man in the world to appear to have any interest in the activities of his fellows. or to care whether their means of livelihood was honest or not He was the source of great deal ot satisfaction to Peterson, who was oft en embarrassed by inquiries into his occupation.
 And all the time Gard was picking up the details of the operations of the smugglers. It was through the negro boy who waited on him at the hotel that he learned of an opium shipment The boy had overheard the conversation that gave him the in- formation, and told of 1t amusingly in the cockney English of the Jamaican negro.
 Sing Foo was the moving spirit from the Chinese end in these snug gling operations. He was more inn portant man, in fact, than was Fun Ken, who ran the resort on the hill.
 
 with a large establishment in the cen ter of the Kingston Chinatown. Gard had been studying his establishment. The strange thing about it was that there were constantly two or three hundred idle Chinamen in it's Vicin- ity The presence of Chinamen not at work is a condition so peculiar as to require an explanation But with the smuggling theory in the back Of ones head, it was easy to conceive that these superfuous Mongolians were waiting an opportunity to be shuttled into the United States.
 The smuggling of opium and of Chinamen was known to go hand in hand. Sing Foo, according to the ne- gro boy, had arranged shipment of opium to Philadelphia. A French American named Flavot, whom Gard had met through Peterson, had been the intermediary. The captain of tramp copra trader was to carry it. It was to be snugly hidden and, when the steamer docked, nothing was to be done immediately about it.
 Presently a large negro wearing linen ulster would come aboard under the pretext of doing some sort of work ahout the ship. This negro was to be shown the opium. He would carry It out A few boxas at time.
 Gard cabIed his home office the de- fails of this deal in opium introduc- ton. He advised that nothing be done untiI the negro went aboard, actually carried out the stuff and was followed to his principal. There was slip Tn. philadelphia, however; the captain oot suspicious and the opium was thrown into the river
 Two months passed in this way. All the time Gard and Peterson were Incoming more intimate. One day the supposed retired glass manufacturer confessed to the. smuggler that he had once made some easy money by back inc some men who had system Of heating the poolrooms. This, he said, was in Vicksburg, Miss. The pool rooms in that city got their returns on the Memphis races on loop that was relayed out of New Orleans. That is, the results were telegraphed from Memphis to New Orleans and from there relayed to the smaller cit ies on telegraphic loop. This caused a delay of about four minutes. The men whom Gard had backed had es- tablished communication by telephone between Memphis and Vicksburg and got the returns in time to put down bets ahead of the receipt of the pool room's information Thus they made the cleanup.
 This not merely paved the way to similar condolences on the part of