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Pesk! ) MOT "ThiS EVENIN' I L GoTTA MW?iTe Some Letters For the firm i have 1 W/HAT/Ta-MATTE*. TWtf, 4»nt Y'Gonna Read VER PAPER T But MOW/ 4BouT Doir'r <5v nr ole Top, domt SiY IT, BBSS, WVF ToUU.S'rCP. j(rr will <Y0t S) CfET avjay Eaglebeak Is Safe from Skinny Shaner Registered T nlted State* Patent Office Y6l) CALL TtAT ’uuONFDt OH MR. it LEBEaK l HEARD BACK TtDO YEARS AGO 1 CHUCKED f THAT SHOWS ALL MOU SK1NNT( SHANER'S GQOCsCi DEPARTMENT ALL ABOl’T WHAT A'WONDERFUL (SAME TOO PITCHED YESTERDAY! i A “DOOMFULLER ' GAME as that, I V^DIP I'LL BET CHA i, ' KNOW ‘BOOT it STATUESQUE POSES. Ado 17. BOY STANDING STILL this owe is a cinch: OfAAWoL (VMy is THE LETTER. K LIKE A Pis’S TAIL? 'CAUSE (Ts AT 7HF END OF PORK AIN'T iT? THERE WAS A CATCHER.' NOW WQ\SL& tfr-(U)Jjk/ FKOM J/rO^lE THE QATe 7FWDER /U'GDR OFFICE M/HT DOES A FIREMAN, U/EAR RED SUSPENDED? HE INSULT ED NEQ SOME DAY WHEN I ~) AlNT 60+ SO MUCH< 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,