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

The little notebook in his pocket!
He had meant to speak to Norwich
about it, but changing his mind had
determined to examine it himself and
then to hand it over to Haig when he
met him. His idea that it might prove
to contain some piece of evidence of
value to Scotland Yard assumed a new
and grave Importance.
Coming upon it after the discovery
of the Dakenham opals, he had appro-
priated it without scruple. Now,
watching slowly approaching head
lamps, and questioning the reality of
that figure which he believed he had
seen dart into hiding, he remembered
that he was unarmed. And he Won
dered.
Nearer and nearer came the lamps.
He stepped out onto the edge of the
curb and raised his arm. The man
pulled up.
Kearney opened the door, uttered an
audible gasp of relief, jumped in, and
banged it shut behind him. Twisting
about, Matt looked through the rear
window.
Baleful eyes glared in at him
Someone, indistinguishable except for
his eyes, was clinging to the back of
the cab!
"My Cd" Kearney whispered
Suddenly, those weird eyes, which
seemed to belong to no tangible body,
disappeared. The taxi was we'll
under way now.
Kearney craned through the open
window, looking back.
Fog desolation moth
ing
But one or two belated pedestrians,
notably constable, as the taxi passed
into Fleet street, observed upon the
luggage rack surrounding it's roof what
looked like rolled up blanket, or, as
another thought, a very dilapidated
kit bag.
Dawson Haig hurried across the
little court in which Kearney's rooms
were situated. The old manservant
who looked after the place opened the
door at once. He knew Haig we'll.
"1'm sure it's very important SIR"
he said, "but Mr.. Kearney had to go
across to the Office the moment he ar
rived home"
But what's this about some book?"
"The book Is lying on the desk up
stairs, sir. with note, and my orders
are for you to go up"
Two minutes later he sat at Kear-
ney's table, reading the note which his
friend had left Haig had not removed
his white raincoat. Yard car was
waiting-and a CHASTITY duty called. {.
But, as he read, his expression
changed-grew puzzled-and then in
Dictated sudden excitement. The little
leather-bound memo book, to which
Kearney's note chiefly related lay upon
the table beside him. 1t was really an
advertisement issued by one Of the
shipping companies, containing a cal
endar and all sorts Of odds and ends
of information about tides, and such
like material.
He picked 1t up again, glancing at
the curious penciled entries it con
and these were few. Some were unin-
telligible, being written in what looked
like combination of cipher and
Chinese. But others, opposite to GER
tain dates, set him furiously thinking.
Suddenly he stood up, shed his rain
coat, and dropped it with his hat on
the floor. BY heavens he might be
better employed here than down in
Limehouse!
The first of these intriguing notes
appeared against the date the 18th
the day which had just passed. 1t
read as follows:
I'D 21-25-32 B 7-B A.
The last number-B 4Ehad been
written on the margin of the opposite
page as though it were an afterthought,
but delta and pencil line indicated
that it should be added to the others
Under date of the 18th was:
Paris. Suleiman Bey's."
For the following three days the
diary contained no notes, but under
date the 18th the following appeared:
sd A."
gap until the 22d, and then oc-
Cured the entry:
"Mohammed"
On the following day, the 23d, the
writer had scrubbed something which
Haig was unable to read But on the
24th came this curious item.
"1S0 "a N. and 40 s. e.
Finally, against date the 25th, APP
peared cross IT. red ink This was
the last entrJv