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Page 10 "The Mandarin House CHAPTER X Scrambling to hia feet, Hugh North reached the hall just in time to Bave the report of a heavy re volver buffet him in the face. He paused, semi-dazed in that narrow hallway the shot had been deafen ing as the discharge of a fieldpiece. "Get 'em!'' he panted. Chao Ku was poised in the doorway of 1305 with a ponderous old-fashioned re volver raised, from under the big front Bight of which a wisp of gray smoke curled upwards. Even at this moment the little Chinese's round face was devoid of expression. "Tajen! Tajen! You hurt?" "Never mind me! Get those men!" "One have got. Major Kilgour, soldier man pursue other." His nostrils stung by the bitter reek of burnt powder, North plunged down the hall towards a figure lying slumped in an odd sitting posture against the corri dor's neat gray wall. The fellow was moaning while feebly clawing at the bosom of a shirt already soggy with arterial blood and his close clipped head swayed in small, des perate circles. He raised dazed eyes when North bent over him. "Why did you " But Marya Gallian's hysteric screams began to 'make the corridor resound. "Shut her up!" North rasped. "Who are you?" "Johann Metzger .Ich ich sterbe." "Why did you come here ?" North was speaking fluent German, but the dying man only stared stupidly at his own encrimsoned fingers. "Your friend knew Marya Gal lian?" Faint as the whisper of a duck's wing in an autumn sky came the words," Jas. Daisy as betrayed" NOTARY PUBLIC Services AT THE Mountaineer For Strength and 10UMMM CEMENT LaOGMQ) Phone 371 By VAN WYCK MASON Then a strong hemorrhage ex tinguished the last spark of vitality. Footsteps pattered and North glimpsed Marya Gallian speeding towards the stairs. Chao Ku, how. ever, was after her with a speed amazing in so round and short legged a man and caught her just as half dressed guests commenced to peer timidly out of their door ways. . : ' ' "What's happened?" "Oh Lord, look! Fred, that man's hurt!" "No, he's dead! How awful!" "Help! Police!" North leaped to the telephone in room 1305. .. "Desk, quick!" A voice, absurdly normal in this crowded moment, said "Yes, sir?" "There's been a murder on the thirteenth floor. Block all en trances! Allow no one to leave." North hoped he had moved in time and bitterly he lamented the precious seconds necessarily lost over Johann Metzger. Twenty minutes later North learned the unpleasant fact that the man called Kurt had successfuly eluded Kilgour and Spurr. Though The Mandarin House was thorough ly searched, not a trace of him could be found. Another disappointing feature was that the body of Johann Metz ger yielded no evidence of the least significance. Apparently effective precautions had been taken against carrying identification. Just who and what had Marya Gallian betrayed? The question be gan to gnaw at North s subcon scious mind like an imprisoned rat. To make things even more difficult her manner, nay her very person ality, had undergone a complete transformation. Vanished was the sprightly, well bred young woman of the Cerele Sportif, leaving in her stead a sullen, hard-eyed creature who only shivered and shook her head when addressed. Obviously she had been terrified by the turn of events. In a private office at the Central Police Station, North poured the distraught young woman a stiff tot of cognac and waited patiently until at least a measure of her ghastly pallor had disappeared; only then did he approach his objective by ad vancing on a tangent. "Why did you tell me you'd never been in China before?" "I haven't." "Miss Gallian, that's absurd and you know it." "Well then, what if I have?" "You were then known under an use Now Sold By DAVID UNDERWOOD, Owner Durability SIGKA1 jHE Murders' other name?" In a pathetic attempt at casual ness the wan creature dabbed aside a stray curl "I hope you didn't pay any attention to what that dreadful man in the green uniform said " "You haven't answered my ques tion." "I never had reason to change my name." '".. "Why did you return to China with Luther Adams?" "As I told you, my nance has bus iness here." "Then Adams and King are the same person?" Marya Galium shrugged. "Why deny ft?" "It's a peculiar sort of business which requires a man to change his name." "I don't know anything about his business." "Did you recognize either of the men who waylaid me?" "No. How could I?" Her reply was too emphatic to be credited. "What about Dave Spurr?" Into her eyes crept a look so puzzled that North made a mental note of it. "I met him in Hong Kong once. He's a low sort they say hell fight for anybody, do anything if you pay him enough. I can't under stand his being at the Mandarin. I'm certain Luther didn't invite him there." "Sure you didn't communicate with him?" "No! No!" North debated mentioning the cables between Adams and Wang's artillery officer, but thought better of it. So Adams had been under taking negotiations behind his fiancee's back? Well, well!" "How about another Cognac? No? A cigarette, then" "Thank you. Mein Got, what a night!";; In flawless German, North sud denly returned to the attack. "You recognized Johann Metz ger?" "Ja ich no, no. I don't know him. I've already said I didn't," "Now that's odd. Miss Gallian, because Metzger knew you very well. He also said something not exactly complimentary." Suddenly inspired, North launched a chance shaft. "He told me that you had betrayed him and Kurt." Her newly returned color reced ing, Marya Gallian clutched the chair arms with such force as to whiten her knuckle bones. "That's a lie!" she gasped. "I I never did anything of the sort." "But you were badly frightened At the Depot Qui WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER A Kennedy in the Air Si 1 :v Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr aon of tba former ambassador to Great Brit ain, is shown at the Squantum, lfau Naval Air Station when to enlisted In the U. S. Air Fore. Ha? was quickly inducted into service fat duration of the national emergenej.' when you saw Metzger." "You imagine it," "Oh nonsense! Come now. Who is this Kurt and what is he to you?" Stubborn lines dominated the haggard but still handsome fea tures of the young woman in green. "I tell you, I don't know!" Smothering his exasperation, North tried another tack. "In that case, you won't object to helping me find him?" "What do you mean?" "In tomorrow's Daily News I'll run a personal in your name, asking Kurt for a rendezvous. All you have to do is to appear and I'll " "No! I will not do it." ' North did not raise his voice but its quality made her shiver when he said. "I think you will, Miss Gal lian."'.. "How dare you order me about!" Was there a trace of desperation now added to her face? "I'm leaving at once." She actually got up, gath ering her evening cape about her. "Sorry, but you're staying here as a material witness." Her face crumpled momentarily. "You can only keep me a few hours on such a charge I'll leave Shanghai in the morning. Captain North's good nature re mained unruffled and he even twisted his black bow tie into a straighter position as he drawled, "I sincerely hope you will, Miss Gallian; then I can have you ar rested.? ; "Arrest me? For what?" Her tone was shrill. "You can't arrest me. I've done nothing." "You labor under a delusion, my dear young lady. Long before you are ready to leave the International Settlement I will present the police with a Federal warrant for your ar rest In case you've forgotten the fact, may ! remind you that such a warrant can be served any place outside of the International Settle ment?" "A warrant? Why why, you're crazy!" "Possibly. But nevertheless there are penalties for criminal espionage even in an easy-going country like the United States. Don't you think you'd do better to stay in Shanghai and lend me your valuable assist ance? I want to find that sports man with the flashlight." "Very well, then, I will stay. But," she added vindictively, "I re- NOTICE OF SALE NORTH CAROLINA, HAYWOOD COUNTY. Haywood County, vs. Sara S. Sloan and James Andrew Sloan, Under and bv virtue of tha now. er of sale contained in a judgment of the Superior Oourt in the above entitled action, the Undersigned Commissioner of the Court, Will on the 18th day of August, 1941, at the Court House Door in the Town of Waynesville, Haywood County, N. C at 11 o'clock A. M. off ere for sale at public out cry to the highest bidder for cash the following described land, bin? and being in Haywood County, North Carolina, and being on Mam Street in the Town of WavnesviUe. ad. joining the Store buildinr of M Theo. McCracken and bounded as follows: Beginning at a fcoint in the lEasterlv Marrin of Main Street. which point is the Southwesterly corner of the building now occu pied by McCracken Clothinir Co mpany and runs with the line of the wall of said building South 69 East 110 feet to a state in Chester Walker's line: thence with Walker's line South 21 West 33 feet to an iron stake, Walker's corner; thence North 68 W. 110.2 feet to the mar. gin of Main Street; thence with the margin of said Main Street 31 feet to the beginning. Containing 3520 square feet. And beinr tha lame land that Gurney P. Hood Commis sioner of Banks sold to Haywood County and Sara S. Sloan and James Andrew Sloan as recorded in Book 90, page 169, record of deeds lor Haywood County, N. C. This the 16th day of July, 194L GROVER C DAVIS. 'lriA. T, TOwtlr Types Of Paper Forecast By the 0PM WASHINGTON A shortage in book, writing and some other types of paper was forecast by officials of the Office -of Production Man agement who said also that readers may find before many months that their magazines and books have a yellowish hue. Curtailment of supplies 01 cnio rine, used as a bleaching agent will remit In less "briehtening" in some kinds of paper, they explained. Chlorine deliveries to manuiac- fuse to help you." "Indeed? Then remember that if will not to to Kurt, it is always possible to bring Kurt to you. And sine f don't think you'd enjoy meeting him, IH give you some time to reconsider my request. An expression of terror was sua on her features when he bowed and with a pleasant, "Auf Wiedersehen, Gnadige Fraulein, ' leit ner aione again. . 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