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Orange Pekoe' Blend mm m m m ei m mm @e m Si rlilb «■ SIS I THE CHINA STAR | By JOSEPH LEWIS CHADWICK i . gh IV.or.ey, U- S. Secret berries berries agent, is aboard the China Star, round from Shanghai for San Francisco, Francisco, to guard one John B. Ellis, icHerved to be Eli J. Brandon, inter- ■lstional financier, and said to be in langer --either from ra-d'cals, be- cause of a trade .pact he recently jigced in the Orient, of from jewel thieves. Morley is attracted to .the lovely Sylvia Ames, who is Ellis' Secretary. Secretary. Other passengers inciade the fvef-inquisiiive Phil Lon; the belligerent belligerent Richard Stell and his sister, Rennie; and Carl Van Doering, wealthy wealthy young sportsman. One after- 1KÎ.OEÎ, Ellis is slugged by a man in fc black hood., A little ïatèr, Van peering is also attacked. That night, a man is seen snooping near Ellis' suite. He is chased and escapes---but . drops a small camera. It. .belongs to IVongr Phil Lon, CHAPTER XII "Who is it?" demanded Benson. "Richard Stell," said Morley. "I've got the goods on him! If you go to his . stateroom immediately, you'll probably probably find him there with John Ellis' pearls! " Benson leaped up. "Come along!' he laid. He summoned a steward, armed himself with a gun and got guns for Morley and the steward. Then they hurried to Stell's room. They stood for a moment outside the door, listening. Then Morley reached for the knob, turned it silently silently and shoved the door wide. Stell, standing beside a table, swung about. Behind him, on the table lay the chamois pouch with the pearls all spread out on it. "Well, Stell, we've got you!" said Morley grimly. Stell stared at the guns for a moment, moment, then wilted. The game was up. He was seized and manacled. Benson then sent the steward to get Ellis. The financier was incoherent With relief as 1rs pearls were restored to him. "You are lucky," Benson told mm severely. "Perhaps you will listen to reason now and put your pearls in the ship's safe." Ellis nodded, "Yes -- I was a fool." Meanwhile, the others concerned in the mysterious happenings aboard the China Star had been rounded up -- Sylvia, Van Doering and Rennie Stell. Only Phil Lon was missing. Rennie was white-faced as she entered entered the room and saw her brother in manacles. She rushed to him. . "Oh, .Dick!" she sobbed. He hung his head. Then, he looked up at Morley and Benson. "I hope you don't think my sister had anything to do with all this. She knew nothing about it. I acted entirely entirely alone." Rennie was weeping uncontrollably. Van Doering went to her put his arm ■fflound ljgrj and gently led her to one side, soothing her. Morley glanced at Sylvia. He read in her eyes that she had told Vhn Doering what she had told Morley earlier in the evening. Rennie now had Curl Lack when she needed him most. Benson turned to Morley. "Well, Mr. Morley, I'll let you take charge." It was all very, simple. Stell, knowing knowing his case was hopeless, made a Complete confession under Moriey's probing. He had a passion for jewels, When he had learned from Phil Lon that Ellis had acquired some of the famous Fu W,along jewels, he had been insane with jealousy, and had determined to get those pearls. He had made the black hood, had entered Ellis' room and slugged him. He had made a search of the room but had been unable to find anything. Then, Ellis, in the bathroom, had come to and started yelling. Stell had had to make a, quick getaway. On seeing Ellis' gun on the table, he had seized it as he dashed from the room -- just in case he should be cornered. cornered. He had yanked his hood oft' and stuffed it behind the fire extinguisher, as he had darted down the corridor to his room. "But why did you shoot Mr. Van Doering?" Benson asked, puzzled. . Stell nodded. "Yes -- the attack on Van Doering had nothing to do with the pearls. I went to his room to tell him I had meant it when I told him to keep away from my sister. Ha got angry and took a sock at me. I lost my head -- I had Ellis' gun in my pocket and I -drew it. He tried, to wrench it out of my hand and, in the scuffle the gun went off. I suppose he got it just as it went off, and that is the reason no powder marks showed on my hands." ■ ' He turned and looked at Van Doer- ii.:„ -Lut 1 don't understand why you did not. give me away." Van Doering was looking at Rennie. Rennie. "I wanted to hush the thing up," he said. "I would have had to drag Rennie's name into it, if I had explained, explained, and I didn't want to do that." Stell, continuing his story under Moriey's questioning, said that he had discovered -- he didn't say how -- that Sylvia was Ellis' secretary and had realized that she might have the pearls. Last night, he had broken into Sylvia's room, only to find the pearls gone. ".That part of our mystery has not yet been cleared up," said Morley. "We've got to find our elusive friend Phil Lon --" . > At that instant, there came a knock on the door, and, to the wide-eyed astonishment astonishment of everyone present, the "elusive" Mr. Lon stepped into the room, grinning amiably, as though nothing nothing had happened. Morley gasped. "Well, where in thunder have you been?" Lon was suave as ever. "That is my secret, Mr. Morley." "About time you showed up!" said Morley. "You've got a lot of explaining explaining to do! Why did you steal Mr. Ellis' Ellis' papers and pearls from Miss Ames' room -- and then, why did you slip them to me this evening?" "I did not setal them, 'Mr. Morley," said Lon blandly, "I merely borrowed them." Who and what are you?" Morley demanded. demanded. "I am a newspaperman. My assignment assignment was tP get a photograph, of Mr. Ellis' -- or Mr. Brandon's --- trade pact. Only by borrowing the papers could I get i;il ° Photograph. I took the pearls, too, because this mysterious masked mal' was after them and I thought I could prevent him from getting them. "I got my photograph -- it's the scoop of the year -- and then tried to slip the papers and pearls into Mr. Ellis' room last night, but before I could do so I was chased, unfortunately unfortunately dropping my camera, which I hope you will return to me, Mr. Morley. I decided, after that, it was best to disappear until I could find an opportunity opportunity quietly to return the papers and the pearls. "I knew all along who you were, Mr. Morley, but I hinted to Miss Ames that you might be a jewel thief, working working With the purser, to make her and Mr. Ellis suspicious of you and Mr. Benson, so that Mr. Ellis would not put his papers and pearls in the purser's purser's safe. That would have thwarted my plans." "Why, you scheming little devil!" Morley ejaculated. "Incidentally, just when did you succeed in getting into Miss Ames' room?" "Just before Mr. Van Doering was shot. I had seen Miss Ames go to your room, so knew that the coast was all clear. That was why I was missing at the time of the excitement over Mr, Van Doering. 1 decided that, to explain explain my absence, I had better pretend pretend that I had been asleep." Every one had listened spellbound to this amazing story. It seemed to clear up all that was still unexplained and so, after a few more questions, the gathering broke up. Stell was left locked in his room, with a guard outside. outside. Morley led Sylvia out to the promenade promenade deck and found a secluded little little spot. "Sylvia," lie said tenderly, taking her hand, "there is just one more mystery mystery to be cleared up. In the ball room when you took me for Van Doering' Doering' and said your answer to him was 'No,' you said there was 'another' man -- tell me who this other is." She nestled close to him and murmured, murmured, "Don't you know Hugh?" He slipped his arms about her and crushed her to him. (THE END) » raa | M By Martha Banning Thomas An Absorbing New Serial Starts In This Paper Next - Week , Did Slue Love Ham--Or the Other? IC&resi Cob Id Not Decide Where Her Heart Belonged Till a Strange Trick of Fate Made the Decision For Her. I aises ear ss Ocean PACKAGES 10c POUCHES 15c 4-lb- TINS 70c Bottles Tested in Ocean Currents" --Fan-Shaped Drift Discovered. Discovered. A test of ocean currents, in which 17 bottles ranging from castor oil to champagne empties crossed the Atlantic Atlantic in seven months to one year, was disclosed this week at the. American Museum of Natural History. One hundred corked bottles were dumped overboard on July 26, 1936, by a museum expedition, 35 miles off the north Newfoundland coast. The idea was to test direction and speeds of the sea currents. E. Thqmâs Gilliard, the staff assistant at the museum, and Samuel Knox George, of Baltimore, made the experiment. Results will be published in Septemeber Natural History, History, the museum's magazine. The first bottle showed up on the west coast of Ireland last February 14 and the airline distance from Newfoundland Newfoundland was about 1,800 miles, but the bottle .drifted a longer course. England and France got bottles later. later. In July two of them broke into Spain's revolution sufficiently to attract" attract" attention of fighting men. Every bottle contained a card to be filled out with position and date of finding, Felix Bartanedia,^ commander commander of military marine, ma'iled a card from a bottle picked up near Bilbao. "Viva Es pana. Second year of the triumph," he "wrote. The other bottle in Spanish waters was picked up by Frank Lowell, chief petty officer of the British warship, Kempenfeldt, on patrol duty in the Bay of Biscay. Ireland got six all told. On July 1st a bottle .hit the Scilly Islands j'on the nose." 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