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trails right along and peeks around
a corner of the corridor when the
page takes the honored guest to the
door of Apartment No. 80?
THAT East Indian plays right into
my hands like bush Lacquer. What
did he do but forget to tip the boy !
What does Jimmy do but hand the boy
n dollar bill What does the boy do
but lead Jimmy, as per request,
straight into Apartment "a, which was
considerate enough to be next door
and empty?
Now. Miss Beatrice, 1 ask you to
picture friend Jimmy standing on a
little table and peeping through big
| transom.
Pretty soon in comes a chap take
to be our friend Ali, all dressed up In
the robes know go with the priests
of Buddha. The stranger makes n
deep salanm and Ali graciously bids
him rise. Then the priest asks a ques-
ton and the caller replies.
Il was not quite positive of what
heard-but now 1t connects up. 1t
was 900 Pelham road The stranger
had followed to Ali's apartment
talked a good deal louder than the
priest, so 1 got what he said. The
next bit of repartee which came my
way was: Each night he takes 1t from
the vault and looks at It. With my
eyes ! have seen It
"And that stranger salnamed so re-
spectfully when he spoke of it that
all / could think it might be was a
pigeon blood ruby from the forehead
of Buddha or some little trinket like
thutl
AT the very end only, Rajo Ali
spoke loud enough for me to hear. 1t
was only one word-but that one word
was: Tonight"
Some plot with its focal point at the
address from which Dorothy McRay
had written me was to be carried out
that night.
'Tonight-I wanted to go there any
way to try to help Dorothy McRay,"
l said.
"And I've got to go there now that
I'm sure of the address which 1 didn't
quite get, but which your letter gives
me-" said Jimmy. I've just one more
useful bit of datum, Miss Beatrice.
You see, followed that Indian after
he left the Rajo's room at the hotel.
~And he led me to a cross street,
where be vanished into an empty
looking place with big For Sale"
sign across the front of it.
Il got that number all right-and
now, with the number you have, think
we're on our way to get our friend
AIS number. What do you think
about it?"
Pelham road No. 900 was a pretty
suburban cottage set well back from
the street. AS we drove up in the taxi
which the sudden need of haste had
made us feel we must take wild
screams rent the air and the first to
greet us as we started up the path was
uniformed policeman, who turned
into the gate just ahead of us.
rushed up the path after Jimmy
and the policeman. The door of the
cottage stood open. We entered the
broad hall and followed the sound of
the screams into room which was a
library. In one corner of the room
| strange group was huddled.
On the floor lay the body of mill
tary looking man of between fifty and
sixty. His face was set in an ugly
sneer-it portrayed utter hatred and
something of terror.
Above the body stood an erect, good,
looking chap in whose hand was a
blood-stained knife.
The officer seized the man who held
the knife and silenced him when he
made an effort to speak.
Then he turned to another girl who
was lurking so far back in the shadows
that had not noticed her. She was a
remarkably pretty girl of the flower
like English type. But her face had q
look of horror and suffering such as
l have never before beheld on that of
any human creature
1 knew instinctively that this must
be Dorothy McRay and that the man
who lay dead at her feet was her ia
ther. But who was the handsome
young fellow from whose nerveless
hand the officer had taken the blood
stained knife?
The policeman spoke to the girl. 'Do
you know who this young fellow Isl
Can You think of any motive why
he'd want to kill your father?"
She opened her lips to speak and then
stumbled back and fell fainting In my
arms. ! had seen her need and had
hurried to her side just in time tc
catch her.
We laid the fainting girl on O
couch and the maid silenced hei
screaming in order to meet the need
of helping me revive her mistress
At last our efforts We're rewarded
and the girl stared at me with thai
strange, blurred expression people
often have when they come suddenly
from the world of ,tncnnscinuenac,