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1913, National News Association.
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CLEEK OF THE FORTY FACES *
A Detective Story of Thrilling
Interest, Love and Mystery
Better Than Shericck
Holmes at His Best
for all he died in his bed from what
seemed clearly an. attack of pneu
monia. they may not have been at the
bottom of that death and brought it
about by some secret and unsuspected
means. At all. events, she seems to
fancy that upon one occasion he came
home with green chalk upon his
sleeve: and, although this ma? have
been nothing more significant than
just evidence of a visit to the billiard
room of his club ”
Nine Sets of Them.
“Certainly.” interjected Cleek. as
senting. "Many billiard rooms use
colored chalk these days. But way
does that fact distress her ladyship?
And what possible difference can it
make whether the chalk mark in
question was white, blue, salmon-
colored or green?”
“A great deal. The mark on the
doorstep of the flat building in which
she and her son reside was made with
green chalk—in fact, all the Three-
Seventeens were written with green
chalk. I have discovered."
" ‘The Three-Seventeens?’ What on
earth are the ‘Tbree-Seventeens.’
pleas*'* I’d like that put clearer."
“Well, to speak correctly, it would
certainly have boon more proper to
say ‘The Three-Hundred-and-Seven-
teens.* dear chap." replied Narkom;
“for they are simply the figures three,
one, seven set down in a row (three-
one parts with one’s wits. And mine
are my stock in trade. ‘Who steals
tm purse.’ etcetera—you know the
rest. What? Yes—straight along the
path in front of you. I’ll be with you
in a minute’* time.’
He was; for Narkom had no sooner
entered the little summer house to
which he had been directed than he
caught sight of him coming down the
path with his coat and hat on and.
with his handkerchief, composedly
flicking specks of dust from his cloth
ing as he advanced.
“Well, now what. Mr. Narkom?” he
queried as he entered—and forthwith
began to tie up a trailing vine which
had broken loose from its fastening?
and sagged over the doorway. "Whole
sale murder. I believe you said? Gad!
that’s a nice order to throw into the
lap of a peaceful citizen on a splendid
day like this. I,et’s have the details—
1 can listen whilst I'm working. But
first of all. who’s the client 0 '’
“Ladv Jennifer, of Crow n Mansions.
Holland Park.’’
“Jennifer? Jennifer? Any relation
to that S' Gilbert Jennifer who v.as
Lord Mayor of London some six ny
seven years ago?’
“Yes—his widow. As she was m c re -
1\ knighted of course the title docs
pot descend. >o hris von is simply
plain M‘ . Richard Jennifer and noth
ing more. However, that doesn’t
seem to cause him any regre
is a level-headed young chap
ing for the
left plenty
on that score
A pity
seventeen, as one would say), and up
to tile present l have discovered nine
separate and distinct sets of them;
and out of all the cases of sudden
death which 1 have^een fnvestigating
during the past two days—in the ef
fort to sound the probability of Lady
Jennifer’s theory before I brought
the case to you—the fact remains
that, whereas a number of those
deaths have been unattended by the
preliminary ‘warning’ of the green -
chalked Three-Seventeen, in no place
has it been marked upon a man’s
doorstep without that man’s funeral
following within the space of a fort
night ! ”
“What’s that? What’s that?” rap
ped out Cleek, screwing around on his
heel. “Let’s have that plainer, please.
Do you mean to say that somebody
goes about marking Three hundred
and seventeen’ upon people's door
steps and that within a fortnight
afterward the head of the house dies
suddenly? That’s it. is it? Good
God! and you mean to tell me that
you have discovered nine cases of
that sort—nine of them! -and yet
wait until now to consider the matter
worthy of Investigation. Why wasn't
a combination so suspicious looked
int" before?”
before you. Come as quickly as you
can. will you, Cleek? Time is of the
utmost Importance.”
"i judged that from what you said
over the phone. That is why 1 asked
you to come here. I should have
chosen some other place but for that
Perhaps- it would have been w iser if 1
had. This is my little ‘corner of
Eden,’ where I spend my odd times
and hide the savor of the Yard under
the cover of James Redway, an enthu
siastic amateur gardener. I shouldn't
like to lose it—as 1 shall do. if you
have been followed. What’s that?
Boyce and Hammond and the old red
limousine? My good friend, don't
count too long on the efficacy of that
pa in trick. "Neither Margot nor—
well, the other party, is a fool. We
deal with clever people, not with mere
muffs into whose eye® you can throw
dust with impunity. Mr. Narkom
Sooner or later they will find out how
;lu ' arc being ‘ha-1‘ and then,the new
limousine will bo no greater safeguard
than the old one. They mean to have
me, that lot if they can.''
Gad! You take it calmly. Cleek!”
“Why not? If one losr .one’s nervy
By T W HANSHAW
"Copyright b\ Doubleday. Page & Co,
TO-DAY'S INSTALLMENT.
Bar—and, as his father
of money, with nothing
either.
the father didn’t have a bit
of the boy’s eool-headedness and com.
He might have risen to
be anything before
mon sense.
L.I..„ - I'-TT he died, if he
had; for there was influence behind
him, and he had ability, too. of a
sort. But his peppery temper and
his utter lack of diplomat.-spoiled
everything. As a matter of fact he
was once appointed to an extremely
high post in connection with the
British Embassy at St. Petersburg—
even to the acting as deputy at the
time when the Ambassador himself
was stricken down with illness. That
was his chance—but the beggar was
a fool and muffed it."
“I wnow: 1 know." interjected
Cleek. "Interfered in politics, the
ass: stirred up the Nihilistic pie by
jabbing an impertinent finger into 1t;
criticised the Government after the
manner of a Trafalgar Square ora
tor; was ‘recalled’ in double-quicn-
order and had to be smuggled out o!
Russia to escape getting a Nihilist
knife-blade slid between his ribs or a
Nihilist bomb from Mattering wh.it
little brains he had. It wav a ma
re! that they did not get him some
how. at some time, the donkey.'*
“Lady Jennifer is beginning t<* :» -
lieve that they did—to question it,
And took it forthwith, walking out
of the oh op by means of a rear doo',
and dow n avenues of crowded bloom
to a very wilderness of roses, where
he came upon Cleek. with coat laiu
aside, shirt sleeves stripped up. a
budding knife in one hand and a bit of
woolen string in the other, engaged
in the task of budding foreign ros»s
upon English briars in a manner
which brought joy to the heart and
gladness to the eye of an elderly
Dutchman, who bent over and
watched the operation.
On time to the tick. 1 sec.*
said '’leek, pausing in lvi.< op
erations to pull out an open-
faced watch and glance at it; then,
having introduced Mr Narkom in
•fluent Dutch—to the aged florist o
"Th; gentleman l spoke of. the one
who hap invented the new system of
morrow,