Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-11-02

in the midst of intense agony. But
there was something vaguely famil-
lar about the face. He stared, fas-
cinated.
A man Keeling drunkenly, with a
chair poised ready to hurl, whirled
dizzily into his subconscious vision.
This man who had called himself
Nichols had been in the Romaine-
Plaza on the previous evening. Cha
pin knew, now, how and by whom he
had been shanghaied. He moved
blindly after the others into the bath
room. Hampton was holding the
tooth brush. He noted that it was
still a little damp, and that shiny
specks glinted among the bristles. He
was wondering who had hired Mich
OILS to slam him over the head, and
bring him aboard the Carmen?
The engineer was busily search
ing a medicine cabinet. Hampton
said: "What are you looking for?"
"The COMPOUNDED Seribellissi," Mike
responded, and continued to push
bottles and pill boxes back and forth.
Whatever that u.s." numbled Hamp-
ton.
ats an herb the Maoris use for
cuts and bruises. It's also a deadly
poison that they kill people with. It's
tasteless, and it might have been mix
ed in with the glass in the tooth
PASTE" he muttered, excitedly. "Nich-
OILS always KEEP it here for accidents"
Couldn't it have been put in the
food?" Chaplin asked. "Anybody
would taste glass in toothpaste."
"Not with Serebellissi," he grunted,
"and the Serebellissi is missing"
Way 1 figure is, it's less likely to
be noticed in the tooth paste. Funny,
whoever did it forgot to collect the
tubes outer them other rooms"
Hampton said, nodding wisely. II
read a story once about Maoris mix
ing that poison stuff with powdered
glass"
"Who do you think did it," Cha
pin asked.
Montgomery, of course. Let's go
find him"
They left the engineer paving
among the bottles in the medicine
cabinet.
eve forgot to send Dupont up to
Mrs. Glass;" Chaplin reminded, when
they were back on deck.
"Let her wait. I want to tell you
what this engineer guy told me. That
heather language they speak is Poly
nesian. Archie gave orders to the
captain that the officers were to speak
nothing else. The crew can't. The
captain told him early last evening
that there were to be three men put
on board, and he gave Mike the suit
cases, and told him which room to
put them in. Nichols had some Of
the crew on shore all evening until
midnight. They brought US on then.
came aboard early, then
left and came back just before they
put up steam, with a girl and a suit
case-and the girl was not uncon-
scious. Mike saw them come aboard
-" He paused, waiting for gesture
of surprise.
Chaplin said drily: 81 thought as
much"
"Yes-you did," Hampton scoffed
II suppose you knew also that the
captain was mad as blazes about the
whole thing and wanted to resign?"
"My suspicious of Grace Devin
were aroused late this afternoon.
I'll tell you sometime. Go on"
"He tried to interfere with Archie
about the girl, and they had an ar
After the captain was found
dead the mate began to talk about
mutiny, unless more money was forth
coming. He wouldn't tell Mike who
he was going to demand this money
from. Although he promised to If
he didn't get the money. Evidently
he didn't get the money-but what
in the duece did he want to go brush
his teeth for?"
~ tell you that tooth brushing cpl
sode is out. If that stuff that the
mate mentioned is a deadly poison, it