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Learninz that the man had been :n China, he seeks the coâ€"operation oi PROFESSOR KARMEN, of the Britishn Museum. and finds that the Professor had met Nolesz:ue in Suchow less than a year ago. The Professor tells Beck that Nolescue was seeking the whereâ€" abcuts of TAO LI, a silk weaver. He also tells him that Tao Li had been tortured and put to death because one of the Chinese secret societies was trying to discover the whereabouts of a famcus jewel, the Five Eyes of Mediâ€" chus, whicth had been pillaged from a temple and since disappeared. It was believed that Tao Li had information and that before his death he had coiiâ€" mitted the secret to the silk he had heen weaving. CHAPTER V WARNED! Philip Slater had been at Oxtons for four yearsâ€"energetic years they had been, tco. His job was mainly in the office but his work made numerous visits to the shop essential. , It had been during one of these visits that he had first seen Phyllis Varley, and being a young man by no means insensible to the seductive allurements cf feminine charm, the sight of Phyllis hbhad rather knocked him sideways. Philip believed that he knew a pretty girl when he saw one, but the young woman who"presided behind the COhiâ€" nese silks counter was more than pretly. She was enchanting. SUPERIN'I’ENDENT JAMES BECK, of Szztland Yard, finds that Nolescue has been sirangled, and after interâ€" viewing PETER OXTON, the managing director, and Miss Varley, discover: that Nclessue appeared particularly inâ€" terested in Suchow silk. RBeck believes that Nolescue came to Lendon in order to lozate that particuâ€" lar roll of silk. START THE STCRY HERE NIKOLAS NOLESCUE, a departâ€" mental silk manager at Oxtons, a big London silk emporium, is discovered by PHYLLIS VARLEY, first assistant in the Chinese Silk Department, lying dead, his body wrapped in a roll of Chinese silk beneath her counter. He remembered having stood staring at her in mute unbelief. She seemed incredibls, unbelievable, unreal; thie kind of the romantic novelâ€" ists write about that cne is supposed to meet in railway trains, and on seaâ€" side promenades when the moJn is high and every ripple on the beach is 1 serenads. He remembered, too, that in an embarrassing moment, the girl had looked up frem the task that was orcupying her fingers and their eyes had met. It had been an important moâ€" ment in the life of Philip Slater; one cf these moments when theâ€" world seems poised cn the brink of decision, the months had gone by and yeung Slater (if 28 can be termed ycoung in these quicklyâ€"moving days) had disâ€" covered himself becoming more and more infatuated with the girl with tae hair that smouldered rather than tlamed. and it had not taken Philip long to decide that there was a girl worthy 0o‘ his devotion. Befcre a week had gone by, Philip Slater had made Phyllis Varley‘s acâ€" tb tb 4i cA es t / ol w y ) x sz quaintance and if he had found her subtly unresp;nsive he was not discourâ€" aged. After all he was confent, for the mcment, to bask in the aura of ner ernchanting personality. THURSDAY, APRIL 15TH, 1937 °l l Sprains .. . strained muscles ... bhanish the Phyllis Varley‘s reaciions to Mr @ CUTS AND BRUISES @ RHEUMATIC STIFFNESS @ LUMBAGO ©@ ACHES AND PAINS â€" DR THOMAS (Now Read On) muscles .., banish the in with f)r.Thomas’ clectric Oil . . . the liniment of so many uses ... relied on by If Philip had ever had time to analyse himself he would have agreed that he was conscientious concerning his work; had a passion for the mysâ€" tericus and cccasionally for the metaâ€" physical, and that one of his ideas of happiness was a newlyâ€"built villa on the cutskirts of London presided over by Phyllis Varley. In the store he was inclined to be somewhat selfâ€"effacing; an unfortunate trait in his character he had been fightâ€" ing ever since the day he first realized it. The books he had read described it as an "infericrity compléex," a chuarâ€" woteristic which, apparently, was as fatal to the mind is having no mind atâ€"all. He realized too, that this shortâ€" ccming must be almost blatantly apâ€" parent to Miss Varley and again the textâ€"bocks mentioned that no woman likes a man with a mind subservient to octher minds stronger than itself. Which was all just a bit confusing but he had little doubt the writers knew what they were writing about. She discsvered, too, that he was clever in his way. He could argue things cut logically when it pleased him to do so, but though she had known him for twelve months he had never once told her that he liked her hair with the sun shining on it, even when cnce they had been out on the Thames at Richm>nd; neit,neg had he menâ€" ticned her eyes which were intensely blue and very inferesting when you Iocked at them long enough. Oddly enough, Phyllis Varley never regarded Philip as even a potential lover. Not that she wasn‘t romantic at times, but in those moments she never piciured the young man as a hero in love, althzsugh from the gossip she had heard in the staffroom more than one ol the girls would have given a great deal to attract his attention. And curicusly enough, Philip Slater was more than usually embarrassed. Vith any other girl he would possibly have made all the running; but with Phyllis he was singularly shy and it was this very shyness that gave the girl the impression that Slater was a vi:tim of an introspective mind. She found him quiet and somewhat studiâ€" cus; an omnivorous reader. So that Philip Slater rather surprised himself when he chanced to be passing thrcugh the store on the morning on which this chronicle opens and was in the act of coming upon Thyllis from the cpen end of the countâ€" er and found the girl falling backwards into his arms. Slater were not nearly so obvious as the young man might reasonably have desired. She was friendly in a way, but no more friendly than she might have been with anyone else inside Oxâ€" tons cr out of it. It was a moment later that he had seen previsely what Phyllis had seen below the counterâ€"the hand and arm ci a man protruding from between the folds of a roll of silk, and Philip, t3o, had recognized that ring on the little It had been Philip who had instructâ€" ed that the police should be notified and that ro sne should touch the body â€"â€"mnot so much as one of the silken foldsâ€"until they arr.ved. It had amazea him,. tso, how most of the people he had always regarded as pinnacles of efficiency and calm should have found these attributes deserting them in that mceoment of crisis. He alone had remainâ€" ed calmâ€"cutwardly calm, that isâ€"and it had given him a sense of infinite satisfaction to send one of the underâ€" managers to the staffâ€"room to inquire how Miss Varley was. The man had acted on his instructions without quesâ€" t‘ion. The situation flashed through his brain with the rapidity of a Morse sigâ€" nal. Nolescue was dead. Quickly he beckened to Miss Martram and told her to help get Phyllis to the staffâ€" rzâ€"cm. This azcomplished he returned to take charge of his first mystery. ° The new man emerged from the chrysalis of indecision and doubt was feeling his feet. In the first place, he was glad Nolescue was dead. Yet he realized that under the circumstances he had no right to allow his own perâ€" And Philip had still been standing suard over the body of Nikolas Nolescue when the Divisicnalâ€"Inspector had arâ€" rived cn the scene and had given such preliminary information as he was reâ€" quested. When once the police had taken charge, Philip Slater had gone baczk to his work. During the hcurs that followed, Philâ€" ip Slater felt that his newlyâ€"gained confidence was rather frightening. He felt that he had gained an altogether new personality, and that the stranger at ins.ructed to phone the police. And Mcrtlake had gone to the telephone without demur. There had been, ne recollected, something rather terrifyâ€" ingly compelling about Slater in that mement of crisis, and no matter how he regarded the affair he knew that ne would have acted similarly if Slater had told him to go and do anything beneath the skin would need a new understanding. Mortlake had noticed the change, too. Mortlake was an under By a process of adroit inquiry Philip learned that the Superintendent from Scotland Yard had interviewed Mr. Oxton and forthwith taken his deparâ€" ture, a proceeding that struck Philip ag ‘being rather odd. He had always understood that police investigations on the site of a crime were meticulously thorough, and while he appreciated that the intensely obvious magnifying© glass of Sherlock Holmes was now considâ€" ered to ‘be rather redundant, he had expected the Superintendent to maks more inquiries at the store than he apâ€" peared to have done. For instance he had been confident that the Superinâ€" tendent would have wanted to question him. After all, he had taken charge from the moment Phyllis had fainted. He it was who had instructed Mortlake to telephone for the police. It was all rather a blow to the young man‘s unâ€" derstanding of poliee formalities. And thinking of Nolescue caused him simultaneously to think of Phyllis. He lhhad not been utterly blind to the faci that Phyllis and Nolescue had been somewhat friendly. They had Avery right to be friendly, of course, but that fact did not apply a layer of salve to the young man‘s emotions. Nolescue, however, had interested him. For a foreigner he had always apâ€" peared to Philip to be extraordinarily sophisticated. He ‘had scarcely a trace <f an accent and his manners had inâ€" variably been puntctilious. What he wanted to know was how Noâ€" lescue had died and the reason for his death. All the same he was anxious about \Telephone 229 Showrooms, 7 Third Ave. _ Timmins, Ont. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE. TIMMINS, ONTARIO news? Have they arrested anyone?" Philip accepted a chair and smiled. "I‘m afraid the police haven‘t done anything," he complained, lightly. "They haven‘t even inetrviewed me, and I reckon I‘m an important witness." Phyllis. He wondered whether the poâ€" Jice had been to see her, so for that and for other reasons he made his way rcur:d to Moore street immediately the store had clesed. Phyilis greeted him in her usual friendly way. "Hello, Philip, any news from the so important as Miss Varley, coced Mrs. Shapling. ‘"The police nave been _ here already, haven‘t they, dearie?" She had almest forgotten his question and he repeated it, more forcibly this time. Phy‘lis smiled and nodded. "Superâ€" intendent Beck from Ssotland Yard came around to ask a few questions,." she explained. Philip looked serious. "I wish Td known he was cominz to see you," he caid. "I might have given you a few tips. It‘s dangerous when you‘re not used to them." Mrs. Shapling, prevented from unâ€" burdening herself concerning ‘her broâ€" therâ€"inâ€"law‘s ordeal, and deciding, in ber wisdom, that t.-hp two young people would probably like to be left alone for a few fnoments, withdrew to her own rocm with a remark that if Mr. Slater would like a cup of tea, there was some still "on the pzt." Phyllisâ€"Varley had sensed something gifferent about Philip almost from the mement he had entered the house and she was, for the moment, perplexed to know just what it was. It was someâ€" thing indefinable, rather like an atâ€" mesphere. There was nothing shy or retiring abosut him; nothing apologetic. "That‘s just what I said myself, Mr. Slater. The police «zan make you say just whatever they want you to say. My sister‘s husband was cnce " Mrs. Shapling‘s personal rhetoric began to grow extensive, and Phyllis realized that once Mrs. Shapling got going she was a difficult person to interrupt. So she spoke. "Superintendent Beck was very nice," che assured him. "He wasn‘t a bit like a policemanâ€"not even a stage policeâ€" man." "What did he want to know?" asked FPhilip, intently. Mrs. Shapling was there and her ears "Oh, just a few things about Mr. Noâ€" ‘That‘s right Mr. Slater! What‘s the MARSHALLâ€"ECCLESTONE Limited THERE‘S NO DELAY WHEN YOU ORDER A NEW OLDSMOBILE lesoue." she replied vaguely; so vaguely, in fact, that Philip immediately conâ€" cluded that the girl was bent on purâ€" suing a policy of evasion. "Ard I suppose you toid him?" There was a brusquerie about the question Immediately his mood softened. "I‘m sorry, Phyllis. I didn‘t mean to crossâ€" question you like this, but we‘ll have that annoyed her. "Really, Philip, I‘ve been asked enough questions for one day. I‘m The girl‘s brows elevated. "Why, what iave we got to be careful of?" Philip grew more confidential as he leaned forward towards her. "If the policse have no idea who it was killed Nolescue they provably suspect all of us. They might even suspect me." Alarm showed in the girl‘s face. "Susâ€" pect yosu, Philip? But that‘s nonsense. Ti was someone in the shop late last night." "That‘s just it," he went on, "it might have been me, and it might have been you. It might have been both of us." happy; They shall sit on a cushi¢ned chailr, Each weary and separate Martha So cumbered about with care. They shall have real leisure to draw dried ; Whoen the oidest grease spot has faded And the youngest dust germ has died. We shall rest, and faith we shali need it; Lie down for an aeon or two. With never a shrill alarm clock To s2t us to work anew. (After Kipling) When earth‘s last kettle is spottiess, And the dishâ€"cloth‘s all twisted and from, With never a stcreâ€"man‘s calli And feet shall have done with aching And never zo tired at all. With never a caller to gossip And never a neighbour to blame. And no cne need scrimp cn penniles Or care for her housewife‘s fame. But each for ever and ever In a separate star alone Shal do the things she has longed to In time that is all her own. And those who were neat shall be Ottawa Journal:â€"The harder a man works the more he earns for othners. "L‘Envoi â€"Martha Haskell Ciark (From Children‘s Newspaper) Paderewski‘s spider may not take its place in history with that of Robert Bruce, but at least it deserves honour- awhle mention. It was a friend of his student days, of which he has lately been telling the tale, and it was musical, One day in his humble room in Vienna, while he was practising an exercise of â€"Chopin, the spider let itself down from the ceilâ€" ing by its silver thread till it came on to the piano desk. Paderewski looked at it and went on playing. His exercisso was in what muâ€" sicians know as "thirds,"" and while he continued the spider stayed, seemingly «n enthralled listener. At the end of the exercise the pianist turned to anâ€" other one, this time in "sixths," But this had no charms for the spider, which immediately rolled up its cable and went back to the ceiling. This performance: was repeated for weeks. Every time the pianist played in thirds the spider took an orchestra seat on the piano desk to listen, and Paderâ€" ewski got to know his musical admirer so well that he used to watch the tiny creature‘s eyes while he played. The odd friendship came to an end when Paderewski left Vienna for the summer. When he returned in the auâ€" tumn and opened his piano again he sounded the call in musical thirds, but no spider came to hear. Acton Free Press: Can you imagine Chief McPherson and Reeve McCutâ€" cheon creating such a public fuss over Sunday selling as has been done in Toronto recently betwesn the Mayor and Chief of Police? And Acton is a small town. Little Friend Delighted UIndia Lotus Wreath to Be . with Music of Paderewski| â€" on Gown of New Queen Was it a coincidence? â€" Paderewski wondered, and began the exercise in thirds again. Down came the spider. r£00 yW1 ERr10RS The Queen has further approved the design of the robes she will wear at her Coronation in Westminster Abvey on May 13. The dress of ivoryâ€"tinted satin, in "princess" shape, with a full train, will be richly embroidered in gold, with gold beads, sequiins and diamante. Twelve girls areâ€"now working in a New Bond Street dressmaking estaboâ€" lishment completing the elaborate hand embrcidery. Two complete sample designs have been approved by the Queen. Each rad taken a week to cmorgn"m Thaere are eight scrolls, combsining, the filoral emblems of the British Isles and the Dcominions. Realistic effects had peen cbhtained on the sample designs by the use of different gold threads, lames and The robe will have a square decolâ€" letage and small sleeves, slashed on top, ‘with a flounce of fine gold lace. All the material to be used in the aress is English. Even the cocoons from which the silk was obtained were bred in England. At the front, along the foot of the dress, large gold lotus flowâ€" ers will "float" in an ~eimbroidered "lake" of silver. These emblems of the Indian Empire are given ‘a prominent place, as the dress is also to be worn at the Delhi Durbar.: English oak leaves and azorns will be used as the boraer design Cleans Dirty Hands 301