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"Not me, ‘no. I stood to the agreed tale. But= that‘s all to the good, ibeâ€" cause you‘d naturally know more about your own childhood than I should, and be able to embroider it better. Weren‘t we ‘beautifully.‘communicative?" â€" They sat down upon the nearest seat to Peter , and contemplated him with some satisfaction, and more relief. He lookâ€" ed completely unsmiister. "But for your forethought ‘we should have been in a mess. . What made you suspect the old woman‘s kind invitation?" "I hope â€"not word for word," said Peggy. "They‘d be sure to suspect our good faith if we did. I ventured to add several details as I thought of ‘em. Let‘s hope ysau didn‘t." She looked at him with a queer little flashing smile. "We have more than that, haven‘t we?" said Peggy pensively. "Yes, I said you were right. The old woman‘s in it. She must be. Why else should she take you on one side, and spend the best part of an hour pumpâ€" ing you about your background, while her rranddaughter did as much with me? The idea, of course, being to reâ€" assure themselves that you really are what you seem, and no catch in it. They can‘t take any chances. Well, I hope they‘re satisfied. We both tcld them the same tale, word for word." "From certain remarks which he let slip," said Peter, "I gathered that he wroteâ€"also that he had certain inherâ€" ited sources of money which made it unnecessary for him to write unless he felt like it. The ordinary wellâ€"toâ€"do dilettante, I suppose; sccially popular in his small way, but nobody likely to call the attention of Bentley and such to himself. Well, that‘s one step furâ€" ther on the way. We have his numâ€" ber." "Not yet," said Peggy, "but he will be. That‘s been the beauty of this racket. None of the big numbers in it has been known to the police at all. That‘s how they‘ve kept it quinct and safe so long. But that‘s our man. I told you I‘d got him, and I have. What do you suppose he is? I mean, what ostensibly does he do for his living?" XI (Continued) MYSTERIOUS MERE COLIBRLI Peter stared, and snapped his fingâ€" ers. "So that‘s it! You had so many things on this morning that I didn‘t bother to mention last night‘s doings. But I don‘t mind telling you now that Bentley, who dogged you at the green Scorpion, reported late last nizht that he had failed to identify the fellow who came to your table. If Bentley doesn‘t know a chap, he isn‘t in criminal knowledge." Ly. TORONTO 8.15 a.m. Ar. NORTH BAY 4.10 p.m. UN'ON BUS TERMINAL . NORTH BAY Ly. NORTH BAY 8.40 a.m. Ar. TORONTO 4.05 p.m. MADE IN CANADA bgswow CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC WHAT COMFORT! EDISON, MAZDA The Parachute Mail LJ YKCKIT1 AmD #HORMANON AY <4 Phone 101â€"2â€"3 by PETER BENEDICT "No, I shouldn‘t think so. I imagine that a precaution like that comes quite naturally to them. They‘ve ‘been so careful abcut everything." "Then we‘ve satisfied them?" "I hope so. I think so. Thanks to you, of course. Your hunches are liable to work out rather like second sight, Peggy." "I shan‘t," said ‘Peggy promptly. "I hate the ‘phone. No, let‘s stay here,. We‘re not wasting so very much time, are ‘we? If you want to consult Scotâ€" land Yard, you can do it later toâ€"night. "It didn‘t take much guessing," said Peggy grimly, "once I‘d grasped her identity. I thought she wanted to satisfy herself, I mean about my creâ€" dentials; so I had to learn up my own pant; and it seemed such an obvious move for us both to get the same tale ready, just in case. But where do we stard, now? What do we do next?" "It‘s only a hunch, butâ€"well, it looks like a family affair, doesn‘t it? You agree she must be in it, because of this attempt to catch us out on details. Do you suppose I‘ve done anything silly, and made them doubtful, and that‘s why they wanted to test us?" "I‘ve been thinkinx about that. Let‘s go back to the Malbro, shall we, and think it uut. We may want to use the ‘phone." But its effect upon Peter was as deep and instant as she could have wished. "I mean, a colibri is a kind of parrot, isn‘t it? I think Lady Cowle is Mere Colibri herself. . She‘s clever enough, and unscrupulous enough, and masterâ€" ful enough. At least, T think she‘s unâ€" scrupulous enough. You called her the universal woman, as opposed to the Renaissance universal man. â€" Well, I think you‘re right about her morals, too:; I believe she‘s an absolute law to herself. There‘s something about these strong and clever natures that runs both ways, and doesn‘t always refer itâ€" self to rules other people have made. And can you think of anyone more likely to be deadly efficient and wonderâ€" fully secret about it, if once she did take it up?" "I wonder," said Peter dazedly, "I wonder if you‘re right." "And then I of other things about her that are like a parrct; the bright colours she loves, and her sort of gaudy selfâ€"assertive showmanship, and even her faceâ€"the beak, and those frightfully knowing eyes of hers. And it struck m>â€"d> you remember the nleasant isle of Aves?â€" She said it a little shyly, for you cannot convict ancient and distinguishâ€" ed women of being involved in drug rackets simply because they look and sound like parrots. "It was the telephone," said Peggy, not very clearly. "I was asleep when she rang up, and I awoke quite sudâ€" denly at the noise, and my mind wasâ€" you know the feelingâ€"brilliantly clear but not prejudiced, as it cenerally is in the nature of things, by any sort f knowledge or expectation. And so when she screamed over the wire, and sounded exactly like a parrot, the very first thing I thought was: ‘There‘s a parrot ringing me up.‘ Silly I know; but afterwards, when I realized who it was, the connertion stayed in my mind. "The colibris and parrots they were zon~ecous to behold.‘" WHO IsS NO. 4? 1J# "It ran well in." said Peggy, gravely. "In any tase, say they met at amdnight, even (which isn‘t likely) on Thursdayâ€" well, they could get the results through comfortably for Saturday. Very well, "It‘s a possibility; but, on the other hand, that makes it almost a week beâ€" fore the day of the performance, and miuch can happen in a week to make them risk it if they could help taking the risk. There‘s got to be a scare to make them alter their plans at all, but a scare would make a new scare possible in six days. You take the Any amendment, partner?" PETER PLANS BURGLARY said: "Supposing they meet in the evening, after the last safe post, or too late to get the news across by next day? Wouldn‘t that put them forward to Wednesday?" "Simple isn‘t the word for it,"‘. said to the sky. "I should think we could easily arrange to get an invitaâ€" tion, if we ask Mere Colibri about it." Peter laughed. "I know it sounds a tall order. But we can narrow it down a little, you know. Eo far guesswork seems to have got us along very neatly. Now guess on this. September the fifth is on a Tuesday. Now they have to transmit the new location so as to leave at least one full day‘s grace after its reception, in case there is an objection at the French end; but not too far ahead, in case there arises an objection again here at the English end. That means that the supply depot must reâ€" ceive their orders at latest by next Satâ€" urday. I think Friday is more likely, because of postingâ€"I can‘t think how they would dispense with the: post. That makes next Thursday, to my mind the most probable day for the meeting. "And the second reason is, that whoâ€" ever is bringing this stuff to the supply depotâ€"I should. think Frenchâ€"from which it‘s ow over here, is running iterrific risk. and will certainly cut up rougzh if the arrangements aon‘t run to schedule. So what? They run it on September the fifth, wet or fine, police ts â€" Ts thints tE * Ar ul m oi d on n ie e 4. o k o on P s n c uie i k the two reasons areâ€"first, that they want the stuff. This isn‘t the sort of racket where you can just run out of stock, and say to your customers: ‘Sorry no more ccke, no more opium, no more morphia for another month.‘ _ They can‘t do it; they daren‘t. They‘d have raging fiends moaninz on their doorâ€" <teps, and policemen coming to see what the row was about. The lid, as I think we remarked once before, would blow off London. or no police. What will be changed is the place; that‘s what the list of locaâ€" tions is for. All No. 4 will have to transmit across the channel is a new number. ‘Agreed?" "Very well, T give in. . That‘s the probability, as you say. Then what?" "Then all we have to do is find out when the conference is to be held, and arrange to be present." "Dear woman, for two reasonsâ€"they wouldn‘t.â€" For three reasons, if you take into account their insolent pride in doâ€" ing a job well against the odds. But "And like sensible people," said Peggy triumphantly, "They‘ll vote to postpone the <Tun. Anyone would! Change the dateâ€"have it a few weeks later." "Now, of ccourse, the head could conâ€" sult only her own convenience, and isâ€" sue orders on her responsibility, but does that look like the careful soul that‘s kept the business flourishing for eizhteen months without giving away one scrap of information until now? I think not. No, if they get wind that location number 4 is unsafe, there‘ll be a solemn conslave to decide what to do about it." "That means that if there should be a scare here, the gang would have to go into conference, and evolve a plan to suit the changed circumstances. I imagine there‘d be more than the three of them present. No. 4 evidently has an executive part, and must know the instructions if he‘s to transmit them. Then I think it likely there would: be. helpers for Graham; the responsibility for receiving a cargo only they know how biz is tco much for one man and one car, especially since that near shave on the moor, when he had to abandon a part of the cargo because was hard pressed. "Of course," said Petéer promptly in his turn, "we‘ll stay."" He looked thoughtfully into the cup made by his linked hands, and began with careful accuracy: ‘"We worked out the probaâ€" bility, if you remember, that the note pinned to the parachute meant there was to be a run on September the fifth, at location number four; always supâ€" posing, of course, that nothing went wrong at the other end to interfere with the arrangements. In which case, the continental end was to ask for fresh instructions, explaining their difficulty, of course, throwzh one No. 4. "Now, suppose the difficulty occurred at this end, it‘s obvious that the same No. 4 would be goâ€"between for any shange of plan. Well, who makes these plans? Not one person. They have to suit the convenience of, Graham, obviâ€" ously, since he‘s the collector; and of Corrie, who seems to hanmnt around waiting to deal with little emergencies like you; and naturally, if we‘re right, of Lady Cowle, or Mere Colibri. Will it matter? I would like to stay outside for a little while. To tell the truth, that last hour has given me the creeps." point?" THRB POROUPINE ADVARNOER, ONTARIt A boy (or girl) who must control the| ton are now available for deaders 0f impulse to play unfairly (commit a foul), thus controlling the temper when temptation is great, for the sake of his or her team, is developing self contrcl for the days to come. 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"The end and aim being, of course," said Peggy, very seriously, "to listen in to all or some of the conference on ways and means, dlways assuming that such a conference exists, that it‘s timed for Thursday evening, and that you have the remotest chance, even when you‘re in the house, of getting within yards and yards of it. Good heavens, Peter, is it worth it?" "I think so. Don‘t worry about me." "I wasn‘t" said Peggy, with no candour at all. "I‘ didnt say you were; I said don‘t. Always provided the results of our probing by telephone are satisfactory, that is what we are going to do about it. You asked me; now you know." "Just that! But not weâ€"I. You may have noticed that the house next door to it is empty and up for sale. Curiously enough, if all goes well I shall be viewing that house some time beâ€" tween now and Thursday." He smiled at her alert but mystified air. ‘"There are tricks in all trades, and I‘m not new to this one. Wonders can be done, my dear Eleanor, with a key, a handful of wax, and a good bread parapet. The whole block of houses are Queen Anne, and every one under the same roof. If I can‘t get from one into the next one, may I never climb over a wall again." should ring up and say that weve got a box for a theatre for Thursday night, and can they join us. Theatre ‘ime covers a good part of the evening, which is the most likely time for holding meetings. If they put you off, you can suggest trying to get the ni ht changed, and see if that fetches them. We can always pretend we couldn‘t get another night afterwards. If it turns out that they can join us any night that week except. Thursdayâ€"well, on the balance of probability it will be worth risking something to be in the house that night." _ "You actudlly mean we‘re going to csatâ€"burgle Lady Cowle‘s house?" she asked, staringz. 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