UHr VY, FEBRUARY 8, 1940
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SYNOPSIS
:.:.pin comes to and finds
'card a strange yacht.
3 can remember he was
. club. There had been a
""ft
I '.SI:
..9 was struck on the head.
t7idJ to the mystery, he finds a
' , laae in hia cabin
filled with
fees
his size and bearing his
ls. Chapm questions the crew,
05cinone of them speaks English.
Vi as he is about to approach a
bending over the rail violently
'he man goea into his stateroom
J1 locks the door. A moan and a
7 droning, "It's murder mur-"rV-I
tell you;" issues from the
"ige. Chapin rushes in just as
16eaiey Hart, millionaire publisher,
5"Jles to the floor dead! Hart
iChapin'a employer. As Chapin
over the body, Dick Hamp
advertising manager of Hart's
1 taine, "Cay Fiction," appears.
too, ia pawled by his own
03t yence on the yacht. Chapin and
'.ppton look up to see a white
1,1 ed woman standing in the door-
. ''What are you doing aboard
yacht?" she demands; then see
ajjj the body, exclaims "Daddy!"
ti(.pin wonders about her relation
retsi to the publisher for, as far as
id jjknew, Hart's only child a boy
upad been de ad twenty years. The
tltery deepens, with the appear
ie( of Grace Devin, Hart's secre-
t, and jl'hil Byder, his jockey,
l tjf also' Claim they were shang
it jd. Chapin goes to question the
who wa seasick. Getting no
dponse to his knock, Cbapin fears
j,," man may be dead.
r CHAPTER III
10Jne door of the lounge was
risked open. . . Voices were clearly
ipible, as the four approached. A
l's voice wag predominant,
ihapin entered first, and recog
id the stout man of Room I
:eE)m he had visualized just now as
''he man was dressed in a dark
'"y- business 1 suit He looked
,rH, well-groomed. He was con
'Vng with the woman with th
te hair. She was standing with
"back toward the dead man. The
was facing the doorway, and
"he caught sight of the four, he
"i: "I thought you said that there
"re two strange men on board?
Ig looks like three, and a wo-
"n ' , -i:
1 am one of Mr. Hart's secre
ies," Grace Devin began in a
U Voice, jWbich she intended to
ind calm, and averted her eyes
m the figure on the floor.
"'What are you people doing on
rd Mrs. Montgomery-Glass's
;ht?" the man barked brusquely.
?h! So this is Mrs. Montgomery
"las!" Grace said, ironically, and
ipin, watching her, thought that
"'. eyes betrayed a cynical expres
s's, as though she knew something
"agreeable about the lady in the
fee robe.
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"I am Mrs. Glass," the woman
maintained haughtily. "Mr. Du
pont is my lawyer. Will you please,
all of you, explain immediately the
meaning of your intrusion on my
yacht?"
"I was taken fer a ride lady
honest " Ryder burted, earnestly,
removing his cap. and putting it on
over his other ear, with a gesture of
nervousness.
"My father-in-law has been mur-
dered," she announced, grimly.
Chapin wondered why shi called
herself Mrs. Montgomery-Glass, if
she had been the wife of Hart's
dead son? Strange, also, he thougnt
that Sidney Hart had never men
tioned her. And that the woman
might know something about pri
sons . . . Her dramatic entrance into
the lounge might have been well-
planned. Her surprise at finding !
stranger on board well feigned.
She was saying: "AH four of you
will be held on suspicion. There Is
something very mysterious and
queer going on here. Four people
made a daek for him, and landed a imHag rlffat lat
- oa tlM jaw. DapoMt atanend back.
smuggling themselves on board my
yacht and Daddy Hart murder
ed" "Just a momen, Mrs. Glass. Bet
ter let me handle the situation,"
Dupont intervened, suavely. "First
I should like to know"
But whatever he wanted to know
Was evaded for the moment. A
screech, that was ear-splitting, nd
seemed to shatter the air, caused all
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of them to stand petrified for a mo
ment. Another wild howl, ami a
series of jumbled noises, forced
them into action. Dupont darted
toward the door at the port side.
The others crowded each other in
their haste to keep up with him
and were met in the doorway by a
gesticulating, brown-skinned man,
who in his panic, crashed into them,
and fell on his knees, frothing at
the mouth, muttering inarticulately,
a hideous expression contorting his
features,
Dupont seized him by both arms,
and jerked him roughly to his feet.
Dupont began to talk in the lan
guage that sounded like the lingo
used by the men on the forecastle,
and the white man on the bridge,
Chapin thought. He eemed to
Ht..k fluently.. It was obvious that
the brown-skinned man understood,
but whatever had terrorized him
had bereft him of the power of co
herent speech. Dupont shook him,
and thundered phrases that sounded
like threats.
Mrs. Montgomery-Glass kept
saying, impatiently: "What's the
matter with the darn fool?"
Finally, Dupont dismissed the
man, after he had managed a few
words. And, mopping his forehead,
and with a gesture of nervousness,
he said: 'This is terrible! The cap
tain is dead! That black was so
frieghtcned, he couldn't talk. From
what I could make out, he found the
captain on the bridge suffering
with pains in his stomach, and ran
to get the mate. When he returned,
the captain was dead. These Mao
ris always scream and carry on at
the sight of death I suppose the
captain was killed by tie same
hand that killed Mr Hart. It was
very unfortunate that I became so
beastly seasick the moment we left
port. Otherwise, I might have seen
something of what wag going on
around here."
"What are we going to do?" Mrs.
Glass asked, frantically. "We'll all
be murdered the next thing we
know. These people ought to be put
in irons."
"I'm thinking about how we are
going to make port, with only the
mate to navigate," Dupont said,
huskily.
"Hell!" enunciated Mrs. Class,
crossly. "I can run this boat. What
do you think I bought it for? I'll
do my turn on the bridge, if that
dumb mate can't stay awake long
enough. We can't be so very far
out. We didn't sail until after mid
night, did we T Hurry up and de
cide what you are going to do with
these stowaways, Paul."
Chapin grinned at the word, re
membering the carefully packed
suitcase, with his name printed on
the tag. He was also conscious of a
dual personality displayed by the
woman. One moment she seemed to
possess distinctly feminine quali
ties, and in the next to assume an
air of masculinity.
Hampton was saying: "We ire
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not stowaways. We were shang
haied, all of us, and put on board
while drugged, or something. Who
ever is responsible, didn't do any
slouch job either. 1 found a suit
case in the closet of that room that
I was thrown into, with a tag on it
with my name. And the suitcase
was filled with brand new clothes
that fit me to a T. Some of them
even had my initials. I'm asking
you if we are stowaways or what
kind of a put-up job this is any
way?" "Oh! I didn't know there were
closets in the rooms," Grace mur
mured, "I wonder "
"Cripes!" exclaimed the jockey.
"Did you say there was clothes in
the closets?" And started toward
the door. Hampton halted him.
Mrs. Glass said: "I can't imagine
what they are talking about, but I
wish you would get busy, Paul, and
lock these roughnecks up, beJore
they get a chance to kill anyone
else. You'll have to do something
about investigating them, before we
get to port and turn them over to
the police. The police will think we
are just plain, stupid, if we don't
know something about how they
got on here."
"Yes, yes," Dupont replied nerv
ously. "And I have to go up to the
bridge, and verify this story about
the captain."
''You must place poor Daddy's
body in his room, until we get to
port. 1 can't bear to have him left
like this" she paused, and wiped
tears from her eyes.
Chapin said, politely : "If we can
be of any assistance-"
"You mind your own business,
young man," she interrupted tartly,
and .trailed-majestically from the
lounge.
"I shall have to lock all of you in
different staterooms," Paul Dupont
said sternly. "I shall question you
separately,"
"You'll lock us up in a pig's
eye," Hampton sneered belliger
ently. "There's three of us to one,
not counting Miss Devin."
Dupont raised his eyebrows, and
clapped his hands. Hampton made
a dash for him, and landed a smash
ing right fist straight on the jaw.
Dupont staggered back, rubbing his
jaw. The blow had disconcerted
him, but he made no effort to strike
back. Hampton faced him, glar
ingly hands doubled expectantly.
The little jockey closed in ready,
and Chapin advanced to one side.
Grace picked up a heavy glass ash
tray, and held it aloft.
"You won't gain a thing with
your rough stuff," Dupont said,
sourly, and the expression iu his
eyes, made the others turn.
Four brown-skinned huskies stood
in the doorway, eyeing the scene
with bewilderment. Grace let the
ash tray fly. The heavy glass hit
one of them on the chest, and in
stantly, there was bedlem.
Dupont gave frantic orders in
the strange lingo. The men seemed
to sense a fight, whether or not the
orders were heard. Hampton threw
of his overcoat, and punched reck
lessly. Chapin tripped one of the
men, and sent him sprawling. Ry
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him through his business. , , t .
As we Compare this country with
others . . . and consider the howls
of tax payers, in the U. S. A., of
which we have to admit we have
been one . . and have often joined
in the LOUD COMPLAINT, of
where we are headed . . . we come
back to the thought . . . how much
wiser it is to pay out 'money to
make this Country a better 'place
in which to live , , . for our Com
munities to "have a heart" for the
unfortunates . . . than to spend it
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in, and Grace Devin unhooked a
chair from the floor, and battered
one man over the head from behind.
He fell forward. Dupont sprang
into the fray, and seised the jockey
and pummelled him, Hampton went
to Ryder's aid with an oath "You
miserable coward!" he hissed at
Dupont.:
(To Be Continued)
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