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CHAPTER XIV On the Mail-Ca? 1 gazed studily at the departing platform, ' "Where are the pearls?" asked Maryella, joining me. "On that train," I explained. "He put 'em in mail and mailed them to himself, parcel posts' "And you let the train go off with 'out you!" she reproached. "He didn't tell me until it was too late for me to get apoard." I defended my action, or rather in- action as best I could. While we looked at the receding train it came to a gradual stop. I loked for the cause and noticed a water tank beside the track. ""Gond-bye," I said, with hastily formed resolution, as I leff Mary- ella and sprinted down the track. I caught it. No need to go into detalls of the red spots before my eyes and the dry throat that burned me as I ran, As it pulled out I swung on to the rear platform. 1 went into the car and went to the forward end where I could look into the coach ahead. Yes Julius was there finishing up his cigar all unconscious of my pres- ence, I decided it would be just as well not to make a scene on the train, but to follow him to his des- tination and get the pearls when he claimed them at the post office. So I sat where I could see the platform and know when he got off After all T was redeeming myself for any blunders I had made in the ast. "Tickets," sald a voice. The conductor had entered the door just in front of me, I had no ticket, and explained 1t to the official. He looked My clothing was cript. "1 had only"just time enough to catch the train without stopping at the station," I offered. My short-winded condition bore out my statement, "All right. I don't care," he re- plied. "You'll have to pay a little extra, that's all, by settling with me on a cash basis. While he was asking me where I wanted to go I reached in my pock- et for some money. I found nothing but a hole. Up to that moment I had forgotten that IT was wearing Comrade Dreyen- furth's "other" pants. It's a terrible thing to be with- out money among strangers. know of no sensation akin te it, "I left it in my other clothes," ¥ said weakly. "Is that so?" said the conductor scornfully eyeing me with a prac- ticed gaze. "Don't try to kid me. You haven't any other clothes." I was indignant, but what was the use? "Cough up some money," said the conductor crossly, "or get off." He reached up suggestively for the bell cord which signals to the engineer. "Wait a minute," I said. An idea had struck me. "I have a friend up in the next eoach who will pay my fare." . "All right. Lat me meet him." The conductor was frankly scepti- at me suspiciously. a trifle nondes- eal. I led the way with some misglv- ing across the swaying platform to the smoking car ahead. Yes, Julius wag still there, his back turned toward us. Evidently he was greatly contented with his lot in the world. T crowded into the seat in front of him, "Suffering cats." The cigar fell from between Julius's lips. "Yes, it's your old pal, Tom Bil- beck," T said reassuringly, at the same time drawing down my left eyelid. Mystitied, he preserved a discreet silence. He had no way of knowing what my next move was going to be. "Julius," T sald heartily, "I find that I have come away from home without any cash ,and I want you to pay my fare." Julius laughed a hearty, ringing laugh, "Me, pay your fare? I don't know you from Adam." 1 leaneq over and whispered in 'his ear, "There ig a sheriff in the next car behind," I said. "If you 'pay my fare I won't tell him you are on the train." It was a long shot, but he had no means of knowing whether I was telling the truth or mot and it won. "Why didn't you say that in the first place?" Julius said heartedly, reaching down iA his pocket and producing a roll of bills, one of which he handed to the conductor. "Where do you want to go to?" asked that worthy. Julius loked inquiringly at me. "I am going with this gentle- man," I said to the conductor. Julius grinned his appreciation . while the conductor made change, G and when he was gone he eyed me sardonlically. "What do you want?" he asked. "You or the pearls," I replied evenly. "I am mot very particular which, except that if I get you I "will get the pearls anyway." He sat in silence for some time digesting this. Finally he grinned. "How do you think you will get the pearls?" he asked at length. "Perfectly simple, my dear Jul- jus," 1 answered, patronizingly. "All T have to do is to go to the postmaster of your town as soon as this train gets in and ask him to hold all mail addressed to a man by the mame of Julius something or other. There can't be many Jul- fuses, and I will be pretty sure to get the right package." "Darn clever," he admired. "It would work, to, it I had addressed that package to myself, but I didn't. | Besides my real name ain't Juius." He leaned back and surveyed me 1 find all the THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1929 PACE SEVER, wity an impudent smile. My face must have shown how crestfallen 1 was at having my scheme . over- thrown. I wasn't much of a detec- tive after all, not to have thought me. Now TI had betrayed my plan to him and it was worthless, "Don't be down-hearted, pal," h said encouragingly. 'You've done pretty good for an amateur, but I am too old a hand for you. TI have been up against this game too of- ten." good he was when our train came to a slow stop. eW both looked out to see if it was a station. It was not, e were in he midsf of a snow- piled prairie. "What the deuce is the matter?" Julius inquired anxiously. Every one: was asking the same question, turning to one another in the aisles. Finally some one got out to see, ang returned shortly with the in- formation that we were stuck in a snow-drift with every probability of being there for some time. After we had waited quite a while I had a new idea. I got up and started down the aisle. "You ain't going to leave me, are you, pal?" asked Julius. "You better keep an eye on me if you ever expect to see me again." "T'll take a chance on that," I assured him. "You've got a fat chance of getting away in this kind of a country with the snow eight feet deep." My action in deserting him evid- ently puzzled him, but he did not follow. 'With most of the other male pas- sengers I got out and walked toward the head of the train, They went on to see how badly we were stuck, but I stopped at the railway post- office car. The mail clerks in the car apparently welcomed. a slight vacation before they got to the next town, and they were not averse tu talking to a picturesque stranger like myself. 1 gained their attention by an explanation of how there came to be only one leg to my pair of trou- gers, and I kept them interested py telling them about the robbery of the pearls. When I explained that the booty was in their own car in a parcel-post package mailed at Fair Oakes, they were eager to help me. "It will be a comparatively sim- plen matter," said one of them, "to packages which were mailed from Fair Oaks. I dont't think there were many, It will be against the law for us to let you examine them, but you can make a memordum of where they are be- ing sent and you can trace the ad- dress that way." That was even more than I had dared hope. It is rather difficult to. get Uncle Sam's clerks to do anything out of their routine busi- ness and the mail is an especially inviolable department, After a few minutes' search they showed me a dozen packages which had come on at Fair Oaks. All but three of them were addressed to a mail-order company in the city, and two of the remainder were ohvious- ly hooks. That left only one package under suspicion. It was about six inches long and eight inches wide, with a depth of two or two and one-half inches. Tt was a little bit heavy, but it was doubtless well-packed both to insure its arrival in good order and algo in order to escape detection, "All you have to do," is to take |this address, and when you get to the city go to the postmaster and have him hold this for indentifica- tion." T thanked the boys and returned to my car. As T had rather more than half susepcted, Julius was not there, nor did I ever set eyes on him again. I did not care. TI had the pearls once more;or at least I had them really safer in the mail-car than| they would have been in my own! possession, CHAPTER XV The Pearls at Last After half an hour of delay we got under way once more, and| shortly arived in town. I went a] rect to the post-office just as 1! was. Although the postmaster at firs regarded me with suspicion, To to my motely garments, I explained] my conenction wity the Daily Mail and gave him enough of my story to! arouse his interest. He sent for the package under | suspicion and assured me that he would kep it personally until I ar-! rived with Maryella to identify the! pearls. I went to my own room and chan- ged to a suit of regular clothes. Then I telephoned the Old Soldiers' Home to see if Maryella had gone back there. Colonel Stewart. in- formed me that the entire party, had left to catch the afternoon train, and that Maryella wag in Fair Oaks When the train came in I was down at the station to meet them. Maryella was expecting me, and her eye sought me anxiously in the throng that was waiting in the sta- tion. I greeted the others perfun- ctorily and drew her one side. "I have located them at the post- office, but you have got to come over and identify them." She squeezed my hand. "Oh Tom," she sald swestly, 'you are wonderful!" I swelled with pride as I dis- claimed any special credit for help- ing her out of her predicament, I hailed a cab and together we went to the post-office. The postmaster was expecting us and. we were read- ily admtited. - \ of this simple device for evading | He was still telling himself how |, where I could get them. They were {| waiting to be joined by the others. The box lay on pis desk, and af- ter a short explanation from Marys ella he opened ft. It contained large eggs! We left the post office absolutely castfallen, I had been so positive that that package contained the pearls that I would have staked my life on it. How had Julius fool- ed me again? Maryella was crying softly at my side. . "What shall T do?' she moaned. Mrs. Hem- twelve beautiful, "How can I ever tell ming way?" I was too humiliated by the fafl- ure in offering suggestions. I felt that I was in disgrace with Mary- ella once more, and T had planned to ask her to mary me when I res stored the necklace, "I just can't face her, that's all!" Maryella stated mournfully. "1'l1 tell her if you want me to" I offered. "At least I can do all the disagreeable work, even if I wasn't very bsight." "Oh, will you?" Maryella smil- ed wistfully, '"'That will make it a little easier. I don't know how IT can replace tbem, but I suppose that it I work my fingers to the bone all the rest of my life, like women did in the story about the diamond necklace, I can replace them before I die." "But the diamonds in de Maupas- sant's story were only paste. May- be Mrs. Hemmingway's pearls were imitation." "No such luck," moaned Mary- ella, "These were real ones." We took a eab to the Hemmin- ways' house to get it over with as soon as possible, 'We got there almost as soon as they did. They appeared very happy and were even nice to me; which was more than I expected, consider- ing the way they had left twoard me during the last couple of days. While Maryella stood tearfully by T told them the story of the neck- lace and how we had traced them and discovered only the package of egRs. Mrs. Hemmingway heard me through without interruption, smil-¢ ing sympathetically, At the end she laughed. 1 gazed at her anxiously. she going insane at her loss? No; her amusement was genuine. "Oh, I am sorry," she said at last, "that I caused you so much trouble; but here are the pearls." She reached in her hand-bag and produced the strand, lustrous and satiny against her throat, arouna which she clasped fit, "Why, how did you get them?" stammered Maryella, confused. "I saw them lying on your dres- ser the night that John came back to the Old Soldiers' Home, and as I knew you were through with them I picked them up!" It seemed simple enough, and Maryella and I laughed with relief as we went down to our edb once more. , Once inside, she laid her hand on my arm and said: "Anyway, Tom, it was splendid of you to make the effort you did, and I will never forget it." "Never?" I asked. "No," Not even after you are married to Jim Cooper?" I asked gloomiy. She laughed. "No, because I am never going to marry Jim Cooper!" "Not marry Jim Cooper!" T re- peated. 'Then whom are-you go- ing to marry?" "That depends entirely upon ou," she said, and TI startled =a traffic policeman phy making my next remarks in pantomine, We went out together the follow- ng wek after the snow had melted nd operated on Grandmother Page or a new pump-gear. She was ab- urdly grateful ,and didn't stop once all the way home, although It took us nearly three hours to drive using only one arm, It's all for the best! } THE END Was TWO ARE DEAD IN TRIANGLE TRAGEDY Deposit, N.Y., Aug, 29.--The mother of three children was the only member of a "triangle" alive today, her husband, having shot his erstwhile business partner while she looked on ,and later having taken his own life with the same gun. Chester Fields 28, of Afton, kill- ed Norman Price, 29, as the latter sat in a car here with Fields' wife, yesterday, after following the cou- { | ple here. 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Hon, Philip Snowden, Socialist Chancel- lor of the Exchequer of Great Bri- tain, finds himself today in the to- tally unexpected role not only of hero of his own party, but one en- | thusiastically backed by the oppo- sition parties, lauded with unun- imity by the entire British Empire. He is the miracle man of latter- day British politics. If six years or even six weeks ago, anybody had been rash enough to predict such a thing, he would have been marx ed as crazy. And it is all because, for the first time in six years, a statesman is battling for the hard- pressed British taxpayer and ten- ing Britain's late Allies that Bri- tain is not going to be the goat of their financial plans. Mr. Snowden's career is ome of the romances of world politics. He was born 65 years ago, his father being a poor weaver of Cowling. The son had an aptitude for books. Largely by his own efforts, he edu- cated himself and entered the Brit- ish governmental service throuzh its eivil service ranks. But when he was 29, one day while riding on a bicycle, he had an accident which broke his frail body. He hovered between life and death. His former work now was impossible, and for a year he lay in bed passing the long hours by reading. He had been a Liberal in politics. His studies made a So- cialist of him. His Political Rise When young Snowden was anle to leave his rooms, he was doom- ed to go through the warld with the aid of a pair of sticks. jHe made his living by lecturing and writing. He became chairman or the Independent Labor Party for a long period of years. He contested the House of Commons seat in the impregnable Tory town of Black- bura in 1900, but was defeated, because, like his chief, the present Premier MacDonald. he was a con- vinced pacifist and said so all dur- ing the war. In 1922 he went back to Parliament. His greatest triumph Thitherto 1924, when, as Chancellor © of the Exchequer in England's first Socialist govern- ment, he introduced his budget. Tt was a dramatic scene. He stood there in the House of Coiwn- | mons, his sticks by his side. His face attracted attention with fits blue eves hollowed by suffering. his strong, well-formed his thin, determined lips. He spoke for hours, The Increasins pallor of his alwave white face showed the physical pain he wua | But from every side of the House, regardless of party. came the cries: 'Go on! Go on!" It was a very rarely paid tribute, suffering. Mr. Snowden is a master of lu- | cid exposition. He revels in fig- ures, He is a formidable debater. with an acid style that burns. And he flashes out memorable phrases as he goes. He is credited with having originated the "the idle rich." A popular and more recent saying of his is: "A few years ago it took four sheep to clothe one woman. Now one silk-worm can do it." 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