Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
By Edgar Wallace.

in war. and these had evidently been
read and re-read, for In the margins
we're innumerable notes, most Of them
indecipherable.
A number of the books dealt with
! the theory of music There was a
volume on voice culture. and the rest
OF the library was made up OF books
on travel and philosophical works in
! German, Spanish. French. and Italian
Caesars Latin Commentaries and d, .
magyar primer lay on table. Inc
tiny desk in the corner was spotted
with ink, as was the floor. Evidently
Golly was untidy.
Searching the drawers of the desk.
John made another discovery. The
astonishing Golly was dabbler In the
occult.
There was no evidence as to his
financial position; no bank-book,
nothing to indicate the extent OF MS
possessions.
Wade shook his head. Golly was the
greatest puzzle Of all. He pulled up
the carpet, and went carefully over the
floor space, tried the walls but could
find no secret place.
He had made one find that greatly
amused him. It was a small book.
gilt-edged and platitudinous, that bore
on the inscription: Presented to G. H.
Oaks by his employer, William Dean
Well done, thou good and faithful
servant.
Wade could have laughted at this. IL
he had been in a laughing mood. The
character of Deans business was I'M
eXpectedly revealed. for between the
pages was an ancient bill-head, Dean
& Abbit, surgical instrument makers"
while along the bottom was printed:
Deans patent rubber gloves for all
surgical work" Was there an as
ISOLATION between rubber gloves and
rubber masks?
The remainder of the day was un-
satisfactory. The police of four
counties were conducting diligent.
painStaking search, but no news of
Lila Smith had reached headquarters.
That evening Wade paid. visit TO
Mrs. Oaks in Holloway prison; she was
moroSe and communicative and the
talk ended in a storm of abuse, the
woman flying into fury that cut short
the interview.
Wade himself stood in even greater
danger than he had realized. at first.
He was constantly meeting several OF
the men he had seen outside the police
court when Mrs. Oaks was charged.
They appeared in the neighborhOod OF
his home; - he met them on his way
to report for duty; once, when he was
engaged in a special patrol OF the river,
he passed three of them in a boat, two
rowing and one sitting in the Stearn.
He met them again the same afternoon,
coming up the river as he was going down,
and they obviously altered their course
to pass him at shot range. Fortu-
nately, there was another police boat
across the river, and he Signaled 1t to
close with the craft. No sooner did the
rowers see this than one of them stopped,
and, picking up something from the
bottom of the boat, dropped it into the
water A minute later, Wade's launch
was alongside.
What did you throw overheard just
now?" he demanded.
The stroke rover rested on his oars
and stared at Wade insolently.
''Groundbait." he said. We're fish,
ing. Is that against the law?"
Fishing with Mills bombs is forbid
den," said Wade, land, If they weren't
Mills bombs you dropped over the side,
I've never seen one"
He took the boat In. tow to the nearest
river station. The men were unprepared
for this, and were, moreover, embar-
raised by the fact that the second police
boat had come alongside. As they
landed one Of the men tried to drop
something into the river. It fell on the
landing, and policeman picked it up
Browning pistol. with one cartridge
still in the chamber and nine in the