Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-04-26

and looked for and found leaflet re-
ferred to. It was one issued by the
steamship company, and it gave the
dates at which the Wallaroo touched
ports en- route to Brisbane, Australia.
Very deliberately, although his brain
was on fire, he compared certain en-
tries in the memo book with this leaf
let The date, the 18th, corresponded
to that at which the ship reached Mar
settles; the next-the 22d-to that
when she arrived at Port Said! The
final dates meant nothing to him, ex-
cept that he estimated them to cor
respond to the Wallaroo's position at
some place south of Suez.
Of course, Kearney might have set
him off on wild-goose chase, and
these entries bear no relation to the
voyage of the Wallaroo. But, consid
ering where the book came from, what
was he to think?
Eileen's stateroom!
What the devil does it mean?" he
said aloud.
He turned the leaves back If only
he could read those hieroglyphic notes!
But they were meaningless. He stared
again at the entries in the diary. Then
a possible explanation presented itself.
OF course He should have thought
of it before!
These notes related to 10 Lungs
abandoned dope-running enterprise!
This theory almost covered the facts
but left him uneasy about the entry
"B 4" until, sitting back in Kearney's
chair and smoking furiously, possible
explanation came of this also. The
cabins of all suspected persons, who
might be revenue or police agents, had
been marked by the plotters, and for
some reason Eileen had fallen under
suspicion.
That's It'll" he muttered.
At which moment the phone bell
rang, and:
rs that you, Haig? Kearney speak
ing. I'm hung up at the office. Have
you grasped the facts about the memo
book I pinched from 10 Lung's?"
Some of them. 1t needs a good
many hours work and man who
knows Chinese. But l think 1t does
the hanging trick. Good for you!
Shall you be long?"
II may be an hour. Can't say"
"Then l shall have to push off. I'll
take the book with me. I'm on my
way back to Limehouse-"
''Limehouse! Why, at this hour?"
"An awful thing has happened, Matt
Norwich has been murdered!'
"What!''
The words had Supplying effect
upon Kearney. Norwich murdered!
That cry in the fog The
shadowy figure in the doorway
the unmistakable figure which had
looked in at the back of the taxicab!
You left him somewhere at the cor
ner of Three Colt Street?" Dawson
Haig went on rapidly.
'Yes-yes-that's right"
HE was found, some time later,
dead in the door of warehouse. His
pockets had been rifled-everythin
taken. Looked like the work of COM
mon footpad, but know it wasn't!
didn't know until Wilson phoned me
and told me about the book Now I've
read your note and studied those en-
tries I'm pretty sure the murderer
was looking for this discriminating evil
dence on the table before me! You
had id lucky escaped"
But" Kearney gasped-"how was
poor Norwich killed?"
There was slight interval; then:
Il don't know" Haig replied. "From
the account given by Limehouse and
confirmed by Leman street. he seems
to have fallen in with stray panther"
STRAY panther? What on earth do
you mean?'
well, they tell me his throat is
horribly torn, but not by knife cut.
The things teeth pierced his jugular.
He bled to DEATH Thank God you're
safe, old scout"
"But-the Wallaroo. ;"
"Pm putting good man aboard
the Walaroo. :"