The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-07-20


proud-spirited young American girl
might find your rules and regulations
In war time rather irksome, and get
up against 1t. If that's the case, and
there's such a thing as graft In this
country, I'll buy her or"
Tuppence reassured him.
'That's good. Then we can work
together What about some lunchT'
Oysters had just given place to Sole
Colbert when a card was brought to
Hersheimmer.
inspector Japp, @. l. d. Scotland
What does he expect / can tell him
that i didn't tell the first chap? l
hope they haven't lost that photo
graph. That western photographers
place was burned down and all his
negatives destroyed-thls is the only
copy in existence. / got It from the
principal Of the college there"
An unformulated dread swept over
Tuppence.
"You-you don't know the name Of
the man who came this morning%
"Yes, / do. No. l don't. Half a
second. 1t was on his card. oh, /
know! Inspector Brown. Quiet, un-
assuming sort Of chap"
A veil might with profit be drawn
over the events of the next half-hour.
Suffice II to say that no such person
as Inspector Brown" was known to
Scotland Yard. The photograph of
Jane Finn, which would have been of
the utmost, value to the police in
tracing her, was lost beyond recovery.
Once again ''Mr. Brown" had trt-
umphed.
The immediate result Of this set
back was to effect rapprochement
between julius Hersheimmer and the
Young Adventures. All barriers
went down with crash, and Tommy
and Tuppence felt they had known
the young American all their lives.
They abandoned the discreet reticence
Of "private inquiry agents." and re
vealed to him the whole history Of the
joint venture, whereat the young man
declared himself ''tickled to DEATH"
He turned to Tuppence at the close
Of the narration.
I've always had kind Of idea that
English girls were just a mite moss
grown. Old-fashioned and sweet, you
know, but scared to move around
without footman or a maiden aunt
guess I'm bft behind the times r.
The upshot of these confidential re-
lations was that Tommy and Tuppence
took up their abode forthwith at the
Ritz, in order, as Tuppence put 1t, to
keep In touch with Jane Firms only
living relation. "And put like that"
she added confidentially to Tommy
nobody could boggIe at the expense n
Nobody did. which was the great
thing.
v "And now" said the young lady on
the morning after their installation,
ITO work We should map out plan
Of campaign" ~
"Hear, heart"
"well. let's do II. To begin Will,
what have we to 60 uponr
absolutely, nothing" said Tommy
cheerily.
"wrongl" Tuppence wagged an
energetic finger. 1--WE have two dis
tinct clues"
"what are they9"
First clue. we know one Of the
gang"
"whittingtonr'
eyes. I'd recognize him anywhere.
"Hum,. said Tommy doubtfully, ~
don't call that much of clue. You
don't know where to look for him, and
It's about a thousand to one against
your running against him by acci-
dent"
"pm not so sure about that" re-
piled Tuppence thoughtfully. There
are places In London where simply
everyone is bound to turn up sooner
or later. Piccadilly circus, for in
stance. One Of my ideas was to take
up my stand there every day"
D"Honestly, don't think much, of
the idea. Wilmington mayn't be In
London at ALL"
"That's true. Anyway. I think
clue No. is more promising" n
Lets hear It."
.It's nothing much. Only Chris
tiap name-Rita. Wilmington men
toned 1t that day."
"Are you proposing a third adver-
tisement: Wanted, female crook, an.
swering to the name Of Rita"
II am not. I propose to reason IN
logical manner. That man, Danvers
was shadowed on the way over, wasn'i
her And it's more likely to have beer
a woman than man"
II don't see that at ALL"
II am absolutely certain that Il
would be woman, and good-lookini
one" replied Tuppence calmly. Nov
| obviously. this woman, whoever shs
was. was saved"
"How do you make that outr'
sIf she wasn't how would they
have known Jane Finn had got thu
papersr
dCorrect" s
NOW. there's Just . chance, I admil
| it's only 4 chance. that this wsmar
may have been Rita"
'sAnd A sor'
III 20. we've got - hunt throuel
re qgyivpEs = - 1naltanis ~