The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-01

OF Guy.
No time to daily. Toni accepted
at once.
They bounded over the icy field
Took off in good style.
"How soon," she faltered, shall
we get there?"
Tomorrow at noon would be
good time" he replied. I'VE shall
have to make a few stops to take
fuel. Don't worry. Everything will
be all right"
One hour and a half later, a big
city cleaned far below the plane.
what city is this?"
washington" said Guy.
Almost another hour passed. An
other city. That's Charleston,
West Virginia." Guy told her.
GOOD TIME
"You think-we'll make good
time all the way?"
Certainly we SHALL" he assured
her cheerily. Then added, moving
closer, and watching her keenly:
"Antoinette, suppose I told you
that the telephone call from Cali
fornia and the telegram sent to
your apartment were hoaxes?"
She stared at him, dumb.
IT had to do it, Antoinette! You
were in such terrible danger. There
was no other way"
Had he gone mad?
"The club" he said, was about
to be raided. You would have been
arrested"
my mother-she-she met with
no accident? You-made that up?
She's not Ill at all?"
"Your mother, I am sure, is per-
fectly well. Be calm. You have no
knowledge Of the character Of the
man, the club in which you
worked, Antoinette? You don't
know that Niklas is head Of pow
erful international narcotic ring?"
Her face went blank. what"
she exclaimed.
"A dope chain. The club was to
contact rich customers, possible ad-
diets! Don't you know what that
gold pendant you wore contained?"
Unopened? There was some
thing inside?"
ut was packed with small cap
Sules. 1 opened the spring that
night at your apartment, and
pitched them into the fire when
you were not looking!"
That acrid odor! Now she under
stood.
A cache for dope!
CHAPTER XXXVI
"Niklas told me to give the PEN
dant to a woman at the club to-
night. I did so. But you had
already emptied it! Thank Heaven
for that"
"And this necklace in my pocket!
While you were singing, I got 1t
out of your dressing room, my
dear! It would have been held in
evidence against you by the police.
They're wise to all Niklas's tricks!"
Out came the imitation string Of
pearls!
Look, now, when I squeeze this
one pearlW He pressed a bead
hard between finger and thumb.
A white powder oozed from it.
He pressed a second and third.
"Chock-full of morphine!"
Good heavens! During the
singing of Aud Lang Syne' at
midnight, was to slip it to some
woman next to me in the circle
on the dance floor! Mr.. Flagg,
believe me when I tell you I had
no idea Of it's contentS!"
1t was half-past II o'clock. The
Chateau de Ia Marquise was filled.
After the theater the crowds
surged in. NiklaS was delighted.
It would be a wonderful New
Years festivity.
EXPECTS WORST
That bad news that had just
reached him anent Lola from her
Sanitarium did not upset him at
all. In fact, he expected the worst.
That overdose!
Indeed, if the truth were told, it
was through one of the promoters
TRUSTEES that the small package of
morphine had been smuggled to
the victim, this New Years Eve.
For Niklas believed that the means
justified the end. He brooked moth
ing dangerous in people that were
near him, if there were any way
of circumVenting it. Poor Lola
knew too much about his business!
Even were she cured of her NOR
phine-habit, he was through with
her.
Time, thought Niklas, glancing
at his heavy gold wrist watch, that
the Marquise appeared. She had
been in her dressing room too
long. Next to those clever pack.
ages Secreted for the chosen mem
berS who had money for them,
the lovely singer was the big at
traction.
After the singing Of Aud
Lang Syne"-the uShering in of
the New Year-some of the trick
grass and the perfumed sheep
would be removed from the main
floor, because, in those exhilarat-
ing moments of champagne Cor
little capsuleS) men and women
would Immediately want to dance
together.
That he was the beneficent pur-
veyor Of such Stimulants gave Mix.
las strange glow.
Wasn't he daily defeating the
best brain Of the law?
HUGE SUCCESS
Thus he unused as he watched
the crowds fairly plead with DiaS.
his head-waiter, that they might