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CHAPTER VIU--Continued.

But when l reached the open there
was no one 70 be seen," pursued the
butler, whose throat ached with the
effort to make his mistress hear;
there was, however, a dim light, a
mere glow, in n of the windows;
shouted, asking whose 1t was"
(Which Window" asked Mr.. Lambe
sharply.
81 am unable to say for certain
either her ladyship's or Miss S%croope's,
which is next to it. Perhaps, If we
went out"
Lady Erythea Immediately led the
way through the front entrance.
"There is a light full on in one OF
the rooms now !" said Alexander.
1T is Aimee's room," said Lady
Erythea. Like a thundercloud she
swept upstairs and beat upon the door
of her niece.
Aimee! Open the door. Why is
your light on?'
Tim so frightened, aunt" cried
a trembling voice. 81 dare not be in
the dark dare not"
II cannot hear you" said Lady Fry
thea.
"Have they c-caught the thieves?'
screamed the voice tragically.
"Caught them?' snorted Lady Fry
thea, shaking the doorhandle. SIS it
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"There Was No One to Be Seem" Pur
sued the Butler.
CHAPTER TX
"Marveious!"

"af S'N1S
Lady Erythea recoiled. There were,
after all, enough Mysteries in the house
already. Evidently nothing was to be
learned from her niece.
'Go back to your bed and don't be
silly. There is nc DANGER" snapped
Lady Erythea. The sharp whirr of a
motor on the drive below drew her
attention, and she fastened down
stairs.
The car drew up at the entrance
with a jerk and elected three police
men: a constable, a sergeant and In
spector Panke of Stanhoe, a man of
enormous energy for his bulk, with
thick black eyebrows and a ~slngularly
bitter expression. He ran up the
steps, but before he could open his
mouth Lady Erythea forestalled him.
"You are wasting your time here
Go at once In chase of a motorcycle
that got away ten minutes ago by the
Stanhoe road!"
"a motorcycle !" exclaimed the in
spector almost %joyously, as one who
seems his theories confirmed. Ser
geant, get after them at once in the
car-take Poison with you. As we
didn't meet them they must have
taken the branch lane at the cross
roads-away with you. man-quick !"
81 shall consider no reward toe
great, If my emeralds are recovered !"
exclaimed Lady Erythea, as the car
drove away. "Do you think your men
will be successful. Inspector? My but
Ter allowed the malefactor to slip
through his fingers in the most fatu-
Gus manner Can you
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Young WiIlie's mother wished him
to be a preacher and, as is sometimes
the habit Of good women, kept telling
him so. But Willie had other lean.
ings and never hesitated to a so.
One Sunday afternoon. however, after
an unusually long morning service. he
announced, Il b1ieve, after all, I'll be
a preacher" His delighted mother
embrsced him and then asked. what
made you change your mind so sud
denly?n oh" he replied, I've de
cided I'd rather stand in the pulpit
and do the shoutin' than sit in the
congregation an listen"
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APT X
Action and More.

Billy Spencer, sitting in his austere-
ly furnished bedroom, looked unusu-
ally thoughtful. The night was still
young, but his candle was not lit. The
whole house. indeed. was in darkness.
He sat on the window sill and stared
out into the night. At last he wan
dered back to the bedside, his hands
thrust in his pockets.
"The partner" he said pensively,
''has got something on her mind. A
fellow doesn't need any X-rays to see
that"
His lips curled down at the orners
"Td give a lot to know what 1t is.
| hate to seem inqulsitive. But I'd
hate a lot worse to have anything hap
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the collision-and learned that 1t could
belong to none other than Lady Fry
thea of Jervaulx abbey. He was told
a good deal about that establishment.
1t was easier to start Mrs. Summing
talking than to stop her.
Obviously, Amy had something to
fear from Jervaulx; something that
bound her to secrecy, and led her to
run risks. 1t annoyed Billy that she
should have anything to fear what
ever.
sometimes" said Billy to himself,
as the lodge gates of Jervaulx came
in sight, "a broncho FLY with the
spring blood in her will get dom
stunts an %galloping among the gopher
holes. When they do that they're
liable to fall an break a cannon-bone.
It's the same with her. If she doesn't
want me, why she doesn't. But If she
does, I'm going TO be right there"
He ~dismounted some little distance
short of the park entrance. The dark
pile of the abbey was visible. a quar-
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The Joy OF Living
"cLoSE CALL, PARTNER!"

SYNOPsIS.-Disliking the pros
pect of a months visit 10 her
austere aunt, Lady Erythea
Lambe, at Jervaulx abbey, ano hei
cousin, Alexander Lambe. Aimee,
vivacious daughter of the very
Reverend Viscount Scroope, wall
ders into the park, there
tering a strange youth. He rug
ingly introduces himself as Billy,
American. The two ride on ms
motorcycle, the Flying Sphinx
and part. With Georgina
her cousin, Aimee sets out LOT 1ef-
vaulx. She decides thai Georsiha
shall impersonate her at JervauiN'
while she goes on a holiday. Geor-
gina's Mortified protest. is w
ing Aimee again meets billy.
He tells her his name is
and she gives hers as Amy Shoohs'
at present 'ou of a Jop. biny
offers to take her into partnership
in selling the Sphinx. In a spirit
of madcap adventure. she accepts:
The two proceed to the own Oh
Stanhoe, taking separate lodgings
In Ivy cottage. That night Aimee
visits Georgina and learns that the
deception has not been discovered.
She compels Georgina to continue
the subterfuge. On a trial spin,
with Billy, Aimee almost collides
with a carriage in which are her
aunt Georgina and Alexander.
The pair escape unrecognized.
Georgina learns that Lord Scroope
is coming to visit Lady Erythea
and is in hopeless bewilderment.
While Aimee Is secretly visiting
G~eorgina at ~Jervaulx, the place Is
burglarized. Aimee escapes.
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pen W the partner. An L can sun
smell trouble coming. She doesn't
fear man or devil. But that isn't al
ways goin' to help a girl. There's
times when it's more useful to call up
a husky with big feet-like me.
shed sure be mad if she thought
l was interfering. And she can get
mad-the partner. Gee! but she's
greatl The dinkiest thing that ever
happened. But l don't like the way
things are framing"
He stood for a while, as If listen
ing then sighed and lay down on the
bed, fully dressed. In twenty seconds
he was asleep, breathing regularly and
easily.
1t was a doglike sleep, of which
some men hold the faculty, and very
dogllke was the manner in which Billy
reused himself some hours later. In
a moment he vas broad awake, and
swinging his legs off the bed, sat lis
tening with cooked ears. He moved
There was nothing to be seen. Billy
remained where he was for some sec
onds, all his senses alert. Then, with
a gesture of decision, he snatched up
his car, heaved himself out of the
window, and climbed down the trellls.
He came silently under Aimee's
bedroom window, glanced up at the
open easement, took a little nickel
torch from his vest pocket, and bent
down. Shading the glow with his
hand, he examined the soft soil be-
meath the window. There were five
unmistakable neat little shoe-prints
visible; the first pair deep and point
ing inwards TO the wall, the others
leading outwards.
Billy at once ran noiselessly round
to the garden gate and peered up and
down the lane. No one visible. He
returned quickly, got a rake from the
shed, and carefully raked over the
footprints; also those beneath his own
window. Then he made for the gate,
and, after a moments thought, I'M
locked the shed where the Flying
Sphinx reposed. He wheeled the
cycle out, freeing the engine, and tip
toed softly down the path with 1t.
Not till he was clear of the lane
and we'll out on the high road did Billy
start the Sphinx, and then only at a
very gentle pace. At an easy seven
miles an hour he ambled along the
road, heading for Jervaulx abbey.
1t would have surprised Aimee
Scroope considerably had she guessed
for one moment how far Billy was
abreast of affairs. The carefree, in
souclant Billy, who seemed to live for
nothing but the Sphinx, was infinitely
more wideawake than people gave
him credit for. The cool blue eyes
missed very little; the brain behind
gether shrewdly.
Aimee had not the faintest suspi-
cion that anybody at Ivy cottage knew
she had made an unconventional exit
by the window the night before. Billy,
however, was perfectly we'll aware of
the fact. Early that same morning,
before setting off for ~Syderford, he
had observed the footprints beneath
her window, which, to a keen eye,
told plainly that Aimee had dropped
from the t%rellis, and later on had re-
gained her room by the same path.
Clearly the partner had made a mid
night excursion for a very definite OBJ
ject; people do not roam the country
side In the small hours for nothing.
The incident of the carriage on the
Stanhoe road puzzled Billy; he had
mentioned the carriage casually TO
Mrs. Sunning-saying nothing about
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"The idea is" continued
Aimee, "that i've lost my char
actef."

ITO BE CONTINUED.
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Evening star., 1923-04-16
Idealist Chief Dreams Peace
While Soldiery Loot China

it requires a lot OF mechanism. If
DIR. Sun can accomplish the first step
in Kwangtung province alone. he may
be able to force 1t through in the
where his influence is the strongest.
After that the Fengtein. Chilhi and
Anhui factions. which dominate the
rest of China. must be considered. At
present they indorse his program m,
with the important modification that
unification shall come first and de-
mobilization possibly discussed later.
To them unification means dividing
China into spheres, over which they
shall be dictators. not the Semblance
of popular government which DR.. Sun
advocates.
TsO-lin Powerful.
The genteel ex-bandit, Gen. Chang
Tso-lin. at Fengtien (Mukden) holds
undisputed sway over Manchuria and
Mongolia. He may not be able to
whip Gen. Wu Pei-fu. at Peking, and
probably will not try again this
spring. but there is smaller chance
plains. The Chilli element is split
between WI Pei-ru and the aged
Gen. Tsao Kun. Tsao wants to be
president before he dies. but Gen
Wu, realizing that it would relegate
him to the outside of Chilli councils
protests that Tsao is intellectually
incapable.
Tsao cannot whip WI, and the best
strategist in China would lose face
by accepting Gen. Chang's aid in such
an undertaking. The Anhui element
holds the YangtZe country. 1t, DR.
Sun and Chang Tso-lin are ready tC
CO. cooperate for unification. If Wu is
able to dominate the Chilli faction
it will not come into the combination
Since last years campaign he and
Gen. Chang are mortal enemies. How
ever, all that is a stage beyond DIR
Suns demobilization plans.
Wants Big Loan.
A loan of $6.000.000 is being dis
cussed for the purpose of disbanding =
gle province of Kwangtung. Anti
mtlitaristS who can back up theil
| convictions to that extent now have
an opportunity. There are guarau
| tees of repayment of the loan--if DR.
| Sun remains in power. The soldier.
! are not going to give up their $4 I:
month and chow, which they occa
| siopally get, and the perquisiteS
which they always take. for jobs ear
| rying coolie baskets at the same pay
! Coolie pay is sS a month, hence tn.
| need for Il loan. This trif1ing prelim
mary applies to all other provinces.
! Soldering is less dangerous il
| China than in any other part Of tn.
| world. A soldier can stick his dirt,
| fingers into the cigarette cans or int,
| the picked almond jars of the stree
peddlerS and help himself. He ma.
intimidate prominent merchants int,
! paying squeeze" or stop prosperous
Evening star., 1923-04-16
BY JUNIUs Il. WOOD.

Especial Dispatch to The Star and the Chicago
Daily News.o
CANTON. China, April 16.-Sun Yat-
sen has program for China which is
as broad as the world. 1t is good
program on paper-academic approVal
which can be given to most or MS
programs since the Chinese republic
was launched twelve years ago.
He has always had programs. Natur-
ally the first step in each of them has
been TO establish order and govern
monal credit in the country. The first
step never has been accomplished.
Each year the country seems to dis
inteErate farther away from ". put
every time that the Chinese political
merry go-round swings DR.. Sun into
power he has a more ambitious pro-
gram. This one proposes not only TO
settle the troubles of China. but also
To Soothe the grievances OF Afghanis-
tan. Tibet, India and few other
countries.
In Power at Canton.
pr. Sun has been ensconced in Can
ton for ten days The time is too short
To hazard gueSSes on the outcome.
Forecasting Chinese politics is like
betting on a l.000-to-l shot. Little
change has been effected in the gar
bage laden. gambling-infested COM
n"rcially crippled city. This is mere
detail in the world scheme of DR.. Sun,
but il would be a good start.
Canton is important and influential
though q comparatively small part Of
china. Or. Sun has brought lull in
the struggle of four military factions
tor rule of the city and kwangtung
province. His close advisers say con-
ditions are better than they antici
pated. He is optimistic--one OF the
worlds perennial optimiStS. AS a re-
former who keeps his eye fixed on a
star, DIR. sun is an inspiring leader
That is the secret of his indominable
it-unaccomplished practical frs,
steps do not matter. A newer and
brighter picture is always painted in
the clouds.
Plans Four Steps.
Ills steps in the present program
are as follows:
troops and their employment on per.
Hianent national improvements.
=. CnitiCation of China on a peace
ment.
in developing the country, impartially
Britain, the United States and Others
OF the basis of their friendliness tt
China.
!. carry the torch of democracy 70
the downtrodden races of other lands
he program is beautifully ideal
!slc. but. like beautiful spotlight
Evening star., 1923-04-16

feared and hated DIR. Sun--to lend a
helping hand to his efforts to restore
order in Canton, a few miles up the
river.
Until his overthrow-he says by
Hongkongs assistance-last June.
South China had a semblance of gov
ernment. Now, it is ruled by bandits.
pirates and dozens Of rival generals.
Peking as government has been a
myth for years, a diplomatic fiction
perpetrated by outside powers Even
those who dislike him and scoff at
him as a dreamer cannot suggest
any other than Dr. Sun who can
bring order out of chaos in Kwang-
tung. The Kwok Ming Tang. the
worldwide secret society Of which
he is head, is more persistent than
Evening star., 1923-04-16

soldier looks cross, the civilian shiv-
ers and scuttles' around a. corner.
Lack of civic consciousness and indi-
vidual courage is China's fatal weak
ness. DR.. Suns evangelism may
arouse them some time.
Next come the generals-two rival
forces. Yunnan and kwangsi-each
with a general who wants to be su-
preme in and around Canton. DR.. Sun
has two groups of loyal Kwangtung
troops. one at Honeymoon, down the
Pearl river, and the other at Taipuh,
just across the border from Fukien.
The Cantonese would like their home
boys in the city. but the Yunnan and
KWangsi soldiers prefer to remain.
The Haklo troops of Chan Ching ming.
DIR. Suns disloyal general. who is
Evening star., 1923-04-16
ESCAPED GIRLS FOUND.

Lena Xander, Congress Heights. nd
Janice Champion. Hagerstown, Mo-
two of the three girls who walked
away from the National Training
School for Girls last week, were
found last night wandering about the
vicinity of Cherry Hill, a suburb OF
Baltimore. Baltimore police took
charge of them and notified the local
police. The girls will be returned 4
the school.
Evening star., 1923-04-16

armies. If he can give a government
to South China again. there is
chance that the rest of the country
will follow. 1t is the one best bet
Evening star., 1923-04-16

now a fugitive in Hongkong, are
around Waichow, between the Talpuh
troops and Canton, while Wu Pei-fu
has a division just across the border
In Kiangsi, a nucleus for various dis
satisfied remnants which wish to
march on Canton.
Blocks I'm Path.
Such is the actual situation facing
the first move toward step No. l. All
of DR.. Suns genius and personal pres
tige will be needed to even get it
started. 1t will be several weeks be-
for No. is ready for consideration
and months or years before the others
come down to the pearl-inlaid council
table.
DR.. Sun says he hopes it will not be
Evening star., 1923-04-16

necessary to restore the constitutional
government of the Chinese republic,
meaning the South China government.
1t will depend on Pekins attitude to-
ward troop disbandment. Though his
Cantonese admirers continue to call
him president" DR.. Sun officially
signs himself "commander-in-chi of
the Kwangtung army and navy"
China's Only Hope.
In sporting parliance, DR.. Sun is
China's best bet today. If he can do
nothing, there is little hope for order
in China or for the outside powers
to continue their present policy to-
ward her. No. 10 Downing street
seems to have believed this when it
ordered Hongkong-a colony which
Evening star., 1923-04-16

individuals on the street and con-
vince them that they will not get
home to their wives and concubines
unless they make E. spot donation.
He can go A. w. o. l.. for few weeks
with his rife. and cartridges for the
excitement of holding up trains, pi-
rating junks and shooting at other
solGiers-always kidnapping a few ci-
villains to pay ransom or cook his
meals. according to their social stand
ing
Evening star., 1923-04-16
Civilians In Terror.

Civilians In Terror.
If China were the United States the
village barber, the corner druggist
and the legion commander would lead
n posse of citizens to chase the raga-
mullins into the river. In China, if "A
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F0RD0v0 JMEN0 PtJDE Ma LlsTEK.
MICHIGANSTt VOLICI BUDOU HLASOVATI
o JEHO KANDIDATURE.

Detroit, 27. listopadu. Pred
volebni petice ma umistenf jme
ma Henry florida ma demokra-
ticky presidentsky ballot sta
tn Michigan, budou dany do
ob9hu, vyslo ma jevo dnes.
Edward Frensdorf z Hudson,
jden z demokratickych cinov-
nfkl, bude pry riditi tuto ak
ci.
Frensdorf byl jednim z tech
kdoz ma statni demokraticke
konvenci v Bay City usilova-
Ii, aby strana Sc prohlasila
pro florida, coz vsak zmareno
bylo hlavne w. N. Ferrisem,
move zvolenym senatorem.
William A. Comstock, predse-
da demokratickeho statnfho
vyboru, vyjadril prekvapenf
mad tim, kdyz mu bylo rece-
no, ze Ford bude president
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"Jest to ponizujici, ze ne
muzeme fici, co name ma N.Y.
sli, lee Sc souhlasem jinych
narod1, neb We spojeni nj
mi. Zdali Sc administered ne
libi prftomna situace "a hra-
nicemi, proc to nefekne?
''Nase postaveni We sv9t6 je
takove, nase financnf =, mo-
censka sila tax velikay1e ma
Sc vyjadreni by m3lo svrcho-
vanou dilezitost. Vrhnete je
do konference, kde nenf zad-
ne mravouky a 'kde bude v
beznadejne mensine vse jest
ztraceno.
"Jest to v zajmu kazde ze-
me, ably vsechny ostatni zeme
prosperovaly a aby cely svet
t6sil Sc miru. Zdali administra
ce We Washingtone, ze sve
znalosti diplomatickych fakt,
mHze videti v Evrope rfilezi-
tost pro americke zasazeni,
ia il zadam, ably fekla jasne
a primo, jaka ia pfilezitost je
a jake ono zasazeni melo by
byti. Jeji jedinym Isilim by
10. zavesti mas do mezinarod-
Mich organisaci, jichz cile
isou nsznamy apeb aspoh me-
byly prohlaseny. @%
"Co dovolim 81 odsuzovati
a proti cemu protestuji Ge-
mu vzdycky Sc budu vzpira-
ii, Jest usili ma odlozeni anne
ricke smernice a odporucova
nj vstoupeni do evropskych
mezinarodnich organisaci, kde
sm6rnice, ku ktere Sc dospeje.
nebude americkou, nybrz T.
vropskou."
V one casti reci, venovane
domacim otazkam. senator
Johnson Sc primlouval po-
moe pro farmare a vojensky
bonus, ktery mozno pry vypla
titi a zaroveh sniZiti. dane.
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" zkk0N PR0TI kU KLUx kLANU.
PREDLOHA BYLA PRIJATA v OKLA
HOMSKEM SENATE.

sovala, ably byla odlozena az
jak senat 8 nj nalozi.
Senator Harry O. Glasser
z Enid, jenz vedl neusp6sny
BOZ o odstavec predlohy, ably
tajne orgsnisace byly donuce
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prohlasil, ze v jeho mineni bu
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principu, o ktery vlastne jde.
Pravil dale, ze hodla navrh
nouti, aby ODE strany vypra-
covaly nahradnf osnovy "a
onu, o nfz Sc pfitomne iedna
a tyto aby pfedlozeny byly IL
du We zvlastnf volbe.