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THE GIRL WHO WAITED A Short Story of the Dope Traffic in London England Salljr Deane hated Oiear AveBBen, the giant Swedo, almoat ai muoli tia ake land and adored ber abiettt sail- or-boy, pQter West, tlia Ocean Star and make sure it ha was on beard. She did not tell her mother the Storjr Oscar Svenseu had told hor. A Big One in I^ Dock More thait aU, sh* was afraid of tearloK to worry her until the truth Ohan(, the fat, squat wlnaman, who was out. was rich and powerful in Limehouae, •Bd had a shop at tha corner of the street where Sally lira|l< <>ot far from the docks. â- Every day, as Sally was either go- ing to her work at the factory In the Commerclal-voad, or^wlken she was re- turning home, she would see Chang: standing In hla shop door. His almond-shaped eyes would gilt ter as they looked at her fresh young beauty, and he would crease his yel- low face Into a horrible leer. "liOngee waltee till best boy comee back again: " ho would chuckle. At the dock gates, ho'^erer, she was unable to gain admlaaion, owing to some trouble with the dockers, who were striking. But an offlcial on the gate told her be had hoard something about the Ocean Star coming. back without one of the crew, who had been ashore and never rejoined ship. He believed he had heard the man'u name given as West. Blindly, with tears in her eyes, Sal- ly began to grope her way slowly back homeward. It seemed imposaible that she would And Saliv would feel curiously ne^'" f « ^^ ?«'«»â-  any moi-e-Peter, afraid, though she tried not to show ' ^ltl_\^ W« |'â„¢^^«.â„¢j'y ,^_a'^_ ^'^"^^^^^^^^ It, and was always polite In her smil- ing answer. But this morning, when he spoke j to hor, she was without fear. "No move waltlug, Chang!" she laughed gaily. "The Ocean Star comes into dock this afternoon. Peter wil be home this evening for good!" "Chang welly glad!" grinned the Chinaman. 'Muchee nice boy, Peter West! You Ukee velly well, I see. But Svensen fellow Ukee you velly well also. Plenty talk about you to me." "Oscar Svensen?" flashed Sally, losslug her golden curls derisively. •He ain't In the same street with my Peter, Chang; atid he knows It. Peter is corelng home this time for good. Got a. land job, and we're being mar- ried In a week or so." "AUee same, my dear, Oscar Sven- sen he swear he mally yoif^ and' not Peter:" chuckled the Chinaman smug- ly, sending a chill of fear through Sal- ly as 3h8 pas.-3ed on. • • • • ' It was not by chance that Oscar Sreusaii was waiting outside the fac- tory at the time when Sally would be maklstg hor way back home that Uight. >H« .Ht«4>j»ed in front of her, a big and uncouth man with fair hair and ctiiel blue. eyes. Her- mind was full of Paterâ€" she v.^»uld' l»a^«-:p*a*ed klm by. but he X JS»«*»«d! her wrist -and swung her round so that she was forced to stand beside him in a dark alley-way. 'You're in an almighty hurry, ain't youT' he sneered. "No time for me t»ulght~ah?" 'Never did have, Oscar!" retorted Sally coldly. "Let go of my wrist. I'm wanted home to gat supper ready. Peter'U ba back to-night." "Will heT" anarled the other. "May- be, and mayba â€" ^not. Supposing he don't comeT Supposing he's been kept out In China T" "Kept out in China?" laughed Sal- ly. "Don't ba soft! How'd that hsp- pan, I'd Ilka to know?" "It has happened, anyhow. Chang's seen to It all right." "Changâ€" seen to It? What d*yar mean, Oscar" gasped Sally, startled by the queer certainty with which the Swede apoke. •Vou remember, maybe, how the day after the Ocean Star left here this lust time for China with your Peter aboard, Iha police made a raid on Chang'.i plaoo?" Sally nodded. The police had ex- pected to rtnd a big haul of cocain?. the. drug popularly known as "snow," on'chang's premises. They had re- ceived information from someone to that affect. But the raid had been without ef- fect. Nothing had been found. Afterwards Chang had talked a good deal about wanting to know who had reported him to the police. He had mentioned the matter to Sally more than once, now she came to t'aink of It. •Well," laughed the big Swede liarshly, "it was Peter who gave Chang away to the police, only luckily Chang had been cute enough to have the stuff hidden where the police couldn't find it. But Chang didn't forget. Be- ing a Chlnlc, he took care to revenge himself, you can bat. When the Ocean SUr got to China this trip, and your Peter went on shore, he was met by Bomo of Chang's friends andâ€" that's the last to be heard of him. So you might as well make up your mind. Sally, that you'll not see him again." •It's a Us!" Sally was very near to fainting, so terrible was the fear that gripped at bar heart. She know enough of Llmehouso and Chinamen to understand that If Peter had given Chang away to the pollca tha Chinaman was quite capable of acting as Svensen had said. Peter, before leaving on this last trip, had bee» a good deal la Chang's company, and ha had lat drop la Sal- ly'a hearing some angry words about tha traffic Itt "snow" which was goiag oa. Peter had alio been very friend- ly with Detective-Inspector Wade at tha Limahouse pollca station. Sally,- trembling with a sudden dread in tha darkness of the alley. triad (hard to persuade herself that this story was not trua. ••You're trying to frighten me!" she said, wrenching her wrist free from the Swede's hold. "I'm going home, and If I'eter ain't thara alraady I'm goiuE to the doclu to flud out" ♦ • • • But Peter was not at home when Sally reached tha house, and, though her mother told her it was early to e-vpect him as yat. faajr took her slralgbtvfi^. to tlM daok gatas to find laughing pyes. his tender but strong mouth. h1j heart of gold, his great love for her! ReacUilng the corner where Chang's lighted shop stood, she saw the Chipa- man inside, talking to the Swede. The shutters had been put up, and he was ready to close the door. But Sally slipped iuto the shop. • • « * Tha Chinaman was asking Svensen to step down into the room beyond. Sally followed, determined to con- front the Chinamau with his villainy and to bring him to justice. Through the open' door, ahe heard Chang speaking. "Y'ou gottee new lot of 'snow'?" he was saying. 'You bet!" laughed the Swede soft- ly, showing a- large packet in a ca- pacious pocket. "My pal on the Ocean Star dropped It me as they docked. I wasn't able to get a word with him, so 'I don't know if he's got any more. Look here I That's all right about West, Isn't it. Your friends kept him back in China tor good?" "You tlustee Chang to see Mister Westee safe and soundee!" chuckled the Chinaman greasily. "Now you mally the pretty little Sally, you thinkec?" "When she's got over the crying business. But meantime I'm off to get rid of the 'snow' up Wast " "No you aln'tt!" demaadad Sally frauziadly, M^appiag Into tha room. • Co you two are playing that game, are you?. And because my Peter knew of It' you've triad to get rid of him? But I'm going to the police. I'm going right away to Inspector Wade at the station â€" " "You waltee!" Chang's squat figure prevented Sally from leaving the room, and she recoiled before his al- mond-shaped eyes. "What for you go to police, pletty little Sally?" 'To have you both put Inside!" blazed Sally, aflame with hate and de- termination to avenge Peter. "To hava that beast of a Swede caught with drugs on him!" "Your Peter tellae police about me last tlmeo ship in dock," said the Chinaman. "Mister Svensen know that for fact. Didn't you think if he give Chang away, Chaag going to get- tee own bac'i? But Chang no mur- derer. You can't jrovee that to police Chang know nothing about what hap- pen in China. Chang nice, kind, bim- ple man. Chang velly fond of you. Likee malty you himself. You go to police if you like. Chang know noth- ing. By time you go police, Svensen hldee dlugs all away. Better wait a minute " Here, to Sally's astonishment and amazed relief, someone pushed a way into the room from the shop beyond. She could scarcely believe her eyes. It was Inspector Wade himself, with another figure behind him. "Hullo," he said, as he saw her. "You here. Sally? Hullo, Chang! Has our trap succeeded? Has the Swede another haul on him?" Sveuseu, with a sudden cry, flung backwards, one hand held over his capacious pocket with Its large packet of cocaine, the other tumbling at his hip. But Inspector Wade had sudden- ly drawn a gun. "No. you don't!" said the Inspector. "You're trapped, Svensen, and you may as well make the best of it, You've been playing a 'snow' running game for a long while, and we've been waiting to catch you. I've someone here with me who can give evidence against you." Sally stared in greater amazement than ever. From behind the inspector there ap- peared Petai--Peter, whom she had believed to ba in China, and lost to her for ever! In a moment she was -enclosed in his arms, kissing him and crying with delight. "But they told me at the dock gates that a man named West had been left behind In China! " she said, "but Sven- soa told ma â€" " • • • • "There was another man named West on board," laughad Peter, "and Svenson believed I was to be left be- hind. But Svenson was wrong. Ho was told that by Chang." "But Chang Is in with him in this •snow' business. I heard them talking Just now I" urged Sally. "You're wrong, my dear!" murmur- ed Via iMPSCtor. "Chang has been han4 in poy with ma since Svensen Itrlfd to put him under suspicion and g4|i ]M to raldjilf place. Foj that I3 yrhUfi happened, though he told Chang th»t your Potar had given iiim away." "And Chang never forgives an enemy who stabs him in the back!" smiled the Chinaman Inscutably, rub- bing his lean hand« together as the Sir Thomas Beecham Explains I Hk Ant^thy to Broadcasfai He Berievea Racfio Improves ]azz, Bat Tones of Greatf Orchestras Suffer if Wafted iirto l^xtce as Ether Waves I cheatrad or good musical numbern* U) goes to m music Iwli.'' Tha Tsmaus Quataltan ] £Hr Thomas's famaHs quotatloii li regard to broadcaat, made lesa thai one 7«Rr ago, was; "Krer since iiu begtottinff Of tho present cantttrjl there lias been oonunUted against tin unfortuoats art of musio everj Imairlnable sin of conimlsslun taU emlssjim, but alt tho previous crlmMI and stupidities pale before tha latesfl Sir Thomas Beecham, Britlsii or- chestral conductor, following hia re- cent debut on the radio as guest con- ductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra over WOR, explained, in part, hl3 antipathy to the broadcwt- ln« of orchestral presentations at which he ofBclatea as conductor. "The broadcastluff nf Jazr orer tha wireless," said Sir Tliomas, "may actually succeed In making It soimd better from the loudspeaker than it attack on t» fair nameâ€" broadcastlni would .sound It one were present In I" by means of wireless." , person at the playing. However, or- Jnst before hi» radio debut ill chestral seleclioii.'i may suffer a groat I America ho ,<iald: "In England I hava' deal by virtue of 1U3 very complicated : never played for the radio becausv nature of the forte's from the many!' felt that !t had a bad effect on thW and widely different Instruments, that radio audience. I feol 1ha»t radlJ go to make up tho great modern or- receivers are not capable of doing tha oliestral organization. When one:l'est for the hlgh»r complicated typoa_ hundred or more Instruments are bft- of music. Inff played harmoniously the resultant tones are extremely complicated In structure. It follows that If they are taken out of their Tiaural medium, the air, placed on a wire a« electrical particles, then broadcast Into sp.ioe, they are bound to suffer in quality. "It I» unfortunate that orchestral music, which I consider the highest type of musical presentation, should so suffer In the transfer." Sir Thomas likened the tones heard from tha loudspeaker to one spaak- Ing through an obstniatlng medium so that the tone and modulatloa of tha voice are renderad unnatural in He Ukenod tha tona* of SOME tOEA OF WOW BIG TWEV RSALkyf ABC The Giant Liner Bereagaria as she looks when ashore for her winter o<»«i^ ^^uty! hauling. The vast size of the hull is indicated by tha tact t)ba<t two man work- , complicated muaica^l anmbaW t» a ing on the ladders are almost completely hidden by one blade of bar stam maze af threads, all «ombbtg to pro- propeller. handcuffed Svensen was taken off by the Inspector. So the vengeance of Chang ended in a different way from that which Sally, safe in her lover's arms once more,, had imagined possible. JUST TItB THiNfll Lady Bufl: Laafc at Ilia niaa astapltiar naok#la«« 1 ••t fr SMstmasI « "CHAPARRAL" This uagallant verse appears in tha Stanford (Kentucky) ••Chaparral": â€" duce tha effect dastrad br the con ductor, which ara hopalesily thrown out of order by their transfer from their aaturat medium, the air. "If a slight detrimental effect is iatarposad," he said, "the whola snf- If trafBc'a choked for many blocks. ' f^rs." If horaa do sound and bumper looks I "i am yet In doubt whether tha ef- With bumper, you can bat your socks feet on radio listeners la good or bad A woman's at the wheel. When taxi drivers do4f and sweat. And bis cops waap. and people get Ail sat to Jump^ then you oan bet A womaa'a at the wheel. Wlbaa a car leaps as If 'twere shot. Wish caars that scream quite like a lot Of dying men, then like as not â-² woman's at tha wheel. when the higher forms of music are put on the wlralese," he said, after his debut with the Philharmonic musicians over WOR. "I shall have to listen to a concert In Amorica when the opportunity presents be fore making a aarious decision. Of course, I cannot decide for every one, but at least I can form my own Im- preseion of what one can hear over Possibly radio Is more ad'^ vanoed In .\mBvlca and may be capi able of repvoiluclog the coucerta more faithfully. I may liavo more tol say after 1 i)roadcas.t." Sir Thomas stepped out on th^ stage Rt Garnegio Hall when he mad his radio debut without tho slight resitancy at being plucjil, tor tho flr time, wltMn the lieai-lTi<; ot tho largest audience before which he had eve^ waved his baton. Tho preeeuce oil hla avowed euem.y. the microphone^ apparerttly UM not <rauBB hlin tUn loasK bit of worry, for ho condui:ted wlurf vigor and «veu grasped the nilcrgl phone stand between numbers. During the Intermissiuii he made s brief addresa over the annoimeer's Instrument and thanked the people of America for the v/nuderful reoeiB^ tion that luid been accorded hint. "Bo far as I am concerned â€" I du not) speak for the audience â€" tho ooiicerl so far has been a complete sucooss,*, he said.â€" (N.Y. Times.) ' Britain's Dumb Dora A woman's Tolca and a woman's amlle American wireless staUons and com Thara were no bakers in the New Year Honors list. Wa ara passing thronsb a time, we might say, when knilbthood Is not in flour. ♦ "80 you want to marry my daugh- ter?" "Yes." "Do you know much about business?" "Not much." "Do May ease dull oars, and a woman's gull* May bring ua Joy, but look out while A woman's at the wheel! Doctor: As I said, you've Juat re- gained consciousness after the crash. I'm Dr. Pater, and â€" Victim: Ohi For a second you gave me a shock. I thought you said you were St. Peter. » Success of recent experiment-s with mixed gasoline you kaow the difference between an » fei consiaUng of asset and a liability?" "No." "Wall, and alcohol indicate that the place for you will after you marry my daugh- ter?" the latter Is In the motor, not the motorist. Tha shade of Dora (hlslor'a,:i>i m«jH remember her more offlolHl name of Defense of the Realm .^ct) sMII iiangsj over Bngland. When tho lovwly l^dj) first appeared to hold up a for))!ddJng hand against the sale within certain hours of various commodltiee ranging from tripe to whisky siodas, there was a war. And, although Britons never, win be slaves, they bowed to neiosalty and submitted to the petty auoo.v- nnces prescribed by Dors with what grace they could. But when tlio wa» was over Dora remained and ICng!and has ever since rebollod. The matter has Just been ugain sub. mitted to Invnstigation and t!ie Dora Committed has made Its rst:.inini«nda- When he airlves iii the It'"'"*- '^ ^â- ""''^ ""' "^"""l' ^^'^-^ "" 3tav» home.!'*'* reKtrlcllons still left as war-llm* pare it with what Is heard wh»n one is present In the musio hall." "The average Brtish listener." he said, "Is phlegmatic, and therefore In many cases he may beu sing a radio receiver which is antiquated and not capable of Intercepting and reproduc- ing the radio waves with fldellty. However. I am told that many lis- teners in England have excellent re- ceiving seta. The Briton is a great home lover, evening he generally This nmkes for the general i)opuiarlty of wireless receiving .sets In Bngland, which are generally found Inteircept- ing the lighter musical numbers; When a Londoner wants to hear or A Sport Fast Becoming Popular in Canada THE GREATEST THRILL . EVER- STANDING ON AIR » A most unus-.ial picture of two Sw^Mli.sh «kicrs jusr as they look on' to r the bis jump oa th6 famous * torpet course near Stodtholm. Th.> nni.sh of tU« J"'"!' will Uind them, 160 foot, -low. relics, but it does HUggeat i-ertain con- (•eeslons to Hrlfish love of liberty. It would allow theatregoers to buy chocolates au late as the third act and permit vendors of spirituous liquors, witliiu certain preHcribed limits, to sell irlgarett^s, but It wo\il(l by no means permit trvily opsu shops â€" in a merchandizing and not industrial sense of the word. The London TInias declarea that thw recommendationa of the Dora Cnmmllteu will bo hallod with general r-^Hcf." but tho Saturday Review wants completn freedom and no compromise. "The majesty of th-i sovereign HriliBh peopln." it declares. "Is iiuleed reiluccd to a low .stats if we are to imagine it purrins with dt>- light at the.se prlvilesen. " In tho campaign beins waged asain^'t Dora there are corlaln vague remind- ers of the roaciion to ctMlatin Inw.s in thiii country. U is assarlciU that it is a vf.-!ri"llon upou per.<nnul liborty. that (icspita the pettino.HS of tho regu- Uitlona imposod by tins ai't an import- ant priuiiiplo i.'J involved and lliHl it result;j in contenn': C'"' "10 law. We wi.sh tho ICngliMh more po.vor in Iheii- struBg!-' •'"â-  freodom and hope that liiey may uphold .\ng!o-Saxon Ira- ditions n^latins to the right to person- al litaerly with greater succoss than in certain cases we havo succeeded in doing In this country.-N.Y. Tlmnn. Natural Resources ManUohi B-ree Vroaa (Lib..*: Tho feOfpr.iI (Jovoniracnt is to tako up tha questioii of tiio' return of Cha natural resources to tho Prairie I'rovlncas. .\ctioii Is long overduo on the pari of the authorities at Ottawa and in con- nection Willi Manitoba the need for an early decision is particularly pressing. The Manitoba Ciovornment has asked for arbitratloii. The matter of rlgh^ Is so obviously on the glde 0)! western provinces that tha E'edera Governniont would bo well advised to got down to business without delay. The people of the West have had enough ]oiik«ying-Oh lhl)» matter. •> ^*^\ â- â€"..â- ^, Try It, M«n^ ..*»'.*! T' Ono womairwriles tliat bar hntban^, hi a modal i)ec^us8 when >ia Is wi^aft ho says bo in plain Huglish inatesd ot hillng Hehind a bunch of reaas or • box of candy. â€" Woman's Home Com- panion. Incandeacent l^'aa- Sometimes an i^ea 1^ a« M>iVl| that it nuikas paoolo j^ij.nic <^i ^ originator is p^nalfsed t«.r not dm niing his hea4»IgUt».-,/;um A «r«i^ side. ...•â- ' -•tcS::«sr.*'