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THURSDAY, DECEMBER TTH, 1039 ‘The Wade KIDNAP Case Published by Special Arrangement $0#9084048409800000884§0000000440084400448044 PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS SIR TEMOTHY WADE: dubbed "Tim the Teaman‘" by the irreverent. Selfâ€"made millionaire, with hobby o%f growing orchids. Nearing sixty years of age, but wiry. He is the victim of a kidnapping plot which later involves his niece. "H‘m, so I should imagine." Knowinz the mood the young man had been in of late, he rightly anticiâ€" pated his taking some independent course of action, though not knowing quite how this might be accomplished. He saw the morning letters already | sorted out into neat little piles and a FELICITE DELRBROCOS: Tall, slim and | thoughtful frown creased his forehead. FELICITE DELRBOCOS: Tall, slim and blonde; unexpectedly English in apâ€" pearance and outlook, despite her French name. Sir Timothy‘s sister married a Frenchman, but the daughâ€" ert was orphaned at an early age and has been brought up by her uncle. BELLAIR BROOME: Private secreâ€" tary to Sir Timothy,. Also tall, but dark. Precise in his habits until arousâ€" ed, when he becomes a man of action. He is in love with Felicite, who returns his affection. MAJOR MOSSCON: Employed in the Legal Department of New Scotland Yard. A pleasant man ‘without manâ€" nerisms. Is called upon by the CILD because his experience is valuable, and, in its early stages, the case requires very tactful handling. CAPTAIN â€" CAYTHERS: Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner. Quiet, incisive, and efficient, but with sense of humour, and known on occasions to employ unorthodox methods. Friendly with Mosson, and knowing just how much rope to allow his colleague. "THE CHIEF," alias "MR BROWN": Was a high Army officer in the war, but after reverses and disappointments, turns his organizing talents to crime. Ruthless, but not cruel. With him are three other disgruntled Army men, each a specialist in his particular way. Synopsis of Previous Chapters MAJOR MOSSON, employed in the legal department at New Scotland Yard, but also a successful "semiâ€" amateur" detective, is told by the Asâ€" sistant Commissioner, CAPTAIN CAY â€" THERS, to go down to Fairclough, the home of £IR TIMOTHY WADE, a selfâ€" made millionaire, in the village of Epworth in Surrey. , Sir Timothy has disappeared and is believed by his secretary, BELLAIR BROOME, to have been kidnapped. BROCME is engazed to the millionâ€" aire‘s niece, FELICITE DELBOS. Lac‘s aire‘s niece, FELICITE DELBOS . Broome receives three notes from Sir Timothy, one of which tells Broome to cash a cheque for £25,000 and hold the money in readiness for further inâ€" structions. The safe in which the money is stored is burgled, but the thief is Gdisturbed by Sir Timothy‘s butler. ) .2 from Sir: Timothy, and after a dangerâ€" ous car chase their quarry stops in a Guildford street, alights and â€" walks away. The dg}.cctivcs lose track of the chauffeur, Then under a plan of the police a rendezvous is arranged with the kidnappers, but apparently they know of the police plans and do not attend. Now read on‘ Sir Timothy Mentions Police The anticipated letter arrived the next morning exactly as forecast, bearâ€" ing a perfectly genuine but unhelpful local postmark. 0. ow Mpwy o e [ .. A . ied Mosson‘ and Brooms ‘d¢iscover that a uniformed chauffeur brings the notes from Sir: Timothy, and after a dangerâ€" Euks Cao anaxea‘thair‘ mmuarry â€"stoDs _ In a °C e D t "Dear Broome," Sir Timothy wrote.‘ "This time there must be no failure. | Brinz the parcel as previously directed to Reigate Station. Use the small car | and Gdrive yourself. Let Felicite come | with you. My messenger will meet you at five o‘clock on Wednesday. There must be no hidden policemen. I do not | want them prying into my private' affairs. Obey this without fail or thing serious may occur.â€"TM." Several things about this were adâ€" mittedly disturbing. There was the acknowledgement that police intervenâ€" tion was known. The concluding senâ€" tence was ominous. Worse still was bringing Felicite into the scheme. Knowing Wade‘s very deep regard for the girl, it looked very much as though dreadful pressure was being put on the missing man to compel him to write in such a strain. Felicite was more than willing to play her part, accepting it eagerly. "Don‘t you think we ought to put it to Mosson." he countered. "Certainly not!" Her eyes flashed angrily. Major Mosson, coming late down to breakfast, surveyed them and beamed, coughing loudly to indicate his preâ€" sence. "We wereâ€"erâ€"just discussing of campaign," Broome stammered. tectives lose track of the Then under a plan of the rendezvous is arranged with ippers, but apparently they the police plans and do not \ _ ‘""Really, Major, it must be your imagination." ! "Afraid not, Miss Delbos. It doesn‘t function very strongly at any time. Both of you were disconcerted when I came into the room this morning. Al~â€" , most as though you‘d heard some news | you didn‘t want to share." "Why should we feel that way?" | "Why? H‘m. Because you‘d rather trust the kidnappers than the police, of ecourse. They offer to return Sir ‘Timothy as soon as the ransom is paid. wWe, on the other hand, hope to round them up, and save the money as well. Simple, isn‘t it?" "Very." "Well, if vou get a letter without telling me I can‘t do anything about it, can. L?" "Except, perhaps, to rely on yOur commonsense." "Your schemes haven‘t worked out very satisfactorily." Broome was on the defensive. "All those policemen round the railway station, for example." His own correspondence was uninâ€" teresting, except, perhaps a sarcastic reference to holidayâ€"making from Assistant Commissioner Caythers, who desived to be informed how soon the legal department of New Scotland Yard could expect back its truant member. "We can‘t detach you from your proper work much longer," he added. "So if you can‘t make a success of the Wade case you had better return to that sphere where your expert advice is of value. "Anythinz wrong?" Felicite asked. "Did I look purturbed? Sorry. No, it is only my chief chiding me for continued failure. He‘ll be recalling me and sending down one of the more exâ€" perienced chaps unlees something happens." "You wouldn‘t like that, would you?" "Not very much. We are happy to have you with us but . . . "It might help," Mosson said softly, "if you two young people gave up holdâ€" ing things back." Broome started. "What‘s that?" he exclaimed. "Not my idea at all," Mosson reâ€" torted. "I admit following the chautâ€" feur chap didn‘t pan out properly. That was as much through the accident of his coming face to face with us at the beginning and being led a dance. He was clever to lead us right up to a ‘police station and then make a fresh bolt. Don‘t blame me." "we don‘t, oh, we don‘t, Felicite said, with genuine contrition. "All the ! time you‘ve been doing your best. But (it is uncle I‘m thinking of." "Then, I have it, you intend to keep the letter to yourselves?" "What letter?" _ He sizhed heavily. "Never mind, my breakfast will be getting cold. Such a pity." 7 W W "Holding things back, were the words I used. While not claiming to be a top flight detective, I should have been blind not to have noticed the way you‘ve been getting into corners and nolding secret conferences of late." | Mosson "On the Carpet" The pity was not bestowed on the ‘ spoiling meal, but on the fact that his work would be made more difficult in having to keep an eye on the young couple, lest they slipped off without ‘taking such precautions as might be : geemed necessary to the occasion. Mosson felt quite sure of their intenâ€" tions. Probably he would have acted similarly in such a situation. Officially he had no power to compel coâ€"Operaâ€" tion. If they insisted on playing the kidnappers‘ game it was their own conâ€" | cern. That they had received an addiâ€" tional communication was almost cerâ€" |tain. Equally so was the intention to follow out such instructions as might i be contained in it without reference to the police. By Leslie Cargill As an additional precaution he arâ€" ranzed for a day and night watch to be kept on Reigate railway station, because he thought that the original plan which had miscarried â€" would eventually be attempted. It would act~â€" ually be a subtle move to arrange the meeting for a Sunday midday on the assumption that so complete a repetiâ€" tion would be unexpected. Mosson realizedwhis mistake on Wedâ€" nesday afternoon. Felicite had excused herself at lunch on the grounds of a severe headache. She was pale enough to allay suspicion. Broome was in the library attending to secretarial duties. "There is almost as much to do as if Sir Timothy was here," he said with a slight smile. *"You would be surprised at the extent of my work." "Then I won‘t disturb you for a few hours." Actually it was oniy about an hour later that he discovered their absence. Smith had been sent out of the way with the limousine and the small car was missing from the garagse. His own sports twoâ€"seater had been drained of petrol. Four flat tyres gave it a forlorn appearance. Mosson‘s language was a verbal reversion to his more unreâ€" generate army days. A lady‘s bicycle, in decay, offered an inefficient means of conveyance, and he decided to make his way to Reigate on the offchance of picking up the trail. Not that he was sure this was again to be the rendezvous, but it was better than inactivity. On the man road he dumped the cycle in a ditch and hailed a bus, which dropped him in town about 10 minutes past five. Another five minutes on foot brought him to the station, ‘where everything seemed normal. There was certainly no sizn of Broome and Felicite. Somewhat disconsolate, Mosson made his way to the police station, where his forebodings were confirmed. Detectiveâ€"Sergt. Bigley had already made his report. His instructions had been rather too vague, being merely to look out for the Wade limousine and use his own discretion according to cirâ€" cumstances, Actually he knew Broome and Miss Delbos by sight, so he was not put off by the appearance Of the smaller car. with a taxi pretending to ply Phone 229 THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTAKO for hire," he told the Scotland Yard representative. "The twoâ€"seater drove up abouw five miniutes to five, Shortly afterwards a man approached and handed over a letter. I was able to stop him. but he had been paid a small sum for his services and could provide no useful information. By this time I was ready to follow Mr. Broome and the lady in my taxi they had had too good a start, and I couldn‘t keep up." Bigley was quite sure the farm hand had nothin: to do with the kidnappers, but they could soon verify his innoâ€" cence. The fying squad had not been mobilized, and no other direct action had been taken as an arrest was out of the question. "No use trying to blame anybody," Mosson said. "But I‘d have liked someâ€" thing to have been done to establish the route taken by that car." However, as admitted, it was useless complaining. Personally he was alarmâ€" ed as to the possible consequences, though not too pessimistic about the safety of the couple. The best thing to hope for was that the kidnappers would be satisfied with their £25,000, deliver up their captive, and leave the authoriâ€" ties with the task of taking on again from this point. Wade, at least, should be able to help with a knowledge of what they looked like, perhaps even to give stroncer evidence of identification. At this stage the Assistant Commissioner‘s advice was indicated. When it came to the point Captain Caythers had none to give. He was unusually angry. Some people in my position would accuse you of bungling," he snapped. «Mosson had never seen him in that state before. "Aren‘t you beinz unâ€" fair?" he remonstrated. ‘"Nobody could have done more. The fes«â€"sw and his girl were determined to carry out their own scheme, and I couldn‘t stop them. Nor could any of your most experienced men. It took hours to get my own bus on the road again, which shows what pains they‘d been to:" Car Was Abandoned Caythers relented somewhat. ‘"Perâ€" haps I was putting it a shade too stroncly," he admitted. "This business is a damned sight too worryingâ€"not as though â€" we could set about straightenâ€" ing it out in a conventional manner. Right from the beginning it has been holeâ€"andâ€"corner." "Do you think I ought to go back to my department and leave the rest to your experts?" "Not yet. At any rate, you must have acquired local knowledge which may come in useful. Get back to worth and await developments." v‘:Hea\'ell knows! Providinz the crowd turns up, with Wade safe and sound, we can look forward to getting on the track. 1 hope so. The devil of it would be if none of them came home." "You don‘t mean . . . ?" The Assistant Commissioner looked srave. "I‘m afraid I do," he muttered. "Desperate men are liable to do desperate things where such a huge sum of money is concerned. You know the old saying?" "Dead men tell no tales?" "That‘s the one. And we don‘t want this case to end up in murder, which wouldn‘t redound to our credit, seeing that the Yard was consulted almost at the outset." "I should come off the wOrSt, ic Major hazarded. Caythers looked grimmer than ever. "Â¥ou certainly would," he agreed. "*Now you‘d better pull up your socks." J\Ju“ e e o ie m d A ies ds i ol "Righto! First of a{ll. I‘d better make a belated attempt to trace that twoâ€" seater." . o "For the first time during the interâ€" view Caythers smiled. "It was found on a side road near a place calledâ€"erâ€" Ket*ham about eleven milées Reiszate." (To be Continued ) The characters in this story are entirely imaginary. . No reference is intended to any living person Of to any public or private company. 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