Evening star., 1921-02-20

found in a wardrobe where she mis-
laid It," and it enabled the latter and
Lady Cockrill to announce to their
friends that "the seance of Nine.
Rodinsky, which was unfortunately
postponed, would take place at the
consulate on Thursday evening next
the day before her sailing for vladi-
, When Lieut. Pierson read in the
the golden fillet he sympathetically
opened his wallet and drew forth q
brand-new ten-dollar bill. Ten dol
lars Of good Shanghai money" he re-
peated to himself. ten dollars of good
United States coin-weii. it isn't very
much, I think I'll cancel that little
dinner engagement at the French
Hotel. and risk one more chance on
the old Russian girls second-sight."
So, skeptic though he was in his
saner moments and poorer financially
from his former visit, he did what
many another loye-sick young man
had done before him. and jumping
into a jin-rickshaw started for the
cairvoyant's apartment. After some
apparent reluctance, accompanied by
| exclamations that she was very busy
packing her baggage for departure,
she finally consented to a sitting
and. binding the mystic golden hllet
around her head, proceeded to catch
the floating thoughts In the ether
victim Of the aforesaid ten-dollar bill.
| Your fate will be sealed this very
evening." she said. after mumhlinE
over lot of unintelligible nonsense
| (Which he concluded to be a dialect
of northern Russia and not the Ian
gua<e Of the spirit-world).
This very evening? How and
where"
"At my seance at the consulate"
But why not here and now? rvo
paid you for the young lady's answer.
why can't have it?"
thoughts are floating in the air--T can
feel them even at a distance-but they
have not come near enough for me to
communicate them to you now. At
8 o'clock tonight. yes. at precisely
9. you will listen very carefully and they
| will reach you"
but / don't want my privte affairs
trotted out for the public" protested
the officer
THE public will know nothing"
was the answer II will simply say
he and She and the secret will be
yours."
| So ended the inerview and the re-
mainder Of the afternoon was taken
Iup with a regular naval attack upon
old Mrs. PufiinRton at the school. to
convince her that 1t was her most
sacred duty to allow Miss Atherton to
be present at the seance that evening
Though at first she put up q valiant
resistance. she finally yielded on the
condition OF Mra Holloway's con-
slant ohaperonage. and a solemn
promise to be home very early"
V1HEN the ONCE boy brought in the
w tea at police headquarters on
Thursday afternoon Wang Foo and
the inspector were concluding q most
important interview, which was des-
tined to have q very decided effect
upon Nine. Rojinsky's seance. though
she never for a moment suspected IL.
And you feel quite sure that it
would BE- better for US to wait until
the evening. instead OF making the
arrests now?" asked the chief.
tectivs' VS. I'VE ~cs.nnot afford to take
! any risk of losing them: They are az
slippery as eels' Gas tho Americans
say), and we must not only catch
them both together. but it will be
much more efieotive II we eaten them
Very well. Mr.. Wang. you prae-
tically have the whole case in your
hands. so we'll Just let you manage
1t as you have planned"
You will have Deputy OKeefe
there with several officers in civilian
clothes, and see that every doorway and
window Is carefully guarded. SO that
there IL no possible escape"
"He'll be there. sir. with his men,
and you can rely on him to see ite
thoroughly done"
And now let us make our final
call upon Sir Rutherford. and see that
he clearly understands the arrange.
ments'
The inspector rang the bell and in
Ia few moments more these two
guardians Of the secret Of tho golden
| fllat were speeding toward the
British consulate. On arrival they
were Immediately ushered into the
timer Office.