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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, San Jay Morning. July 21; 1933 i ,"iVo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe ' " - - From First Statesman. March 28. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. ' Chauxs A. Spsagus - - - - - Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackxtt .... Managing-Editor Member tof the Associated Press The Associated Pros Is exclusively entitled to tha am for pabllca-tian- of -all MVI dispatches er4itd to It or not other wis credited H Uii paper. Oregon's Debt Limitation SINCE under our system of government, the state legisla ture may enact any laws it sees fit unless such laws are clearly prohibited by the federal or state constitution, many : hedges are put in the state constitution to restrain the legis ' lative power. The Oregon constitution is punctuated with such declarations : "No law 'shall be passed. . ."; "The state shall not . . ."; "The legislative assembly shall not. . ." One of the prohibitions which has bobbed up since the burning of the capitol is that which bars the legislature from creating any debt in excess of fifty thousand dollars, except in certain circumstances. The presence of that limitation, : together with the section forbidding the state, county or mu ' nicipality to become a stockholder in any corporation is not an accident It is the product of the times in which the state's constitution was written. It was in 1857 that the delegates assembled in Salem for the constitutional convention. Other states had been busy writing constitutions. Iowa and New York in 1846, Wisconsin in 1848, Michigan in 1850, Ohio and Indiana in 1851. Oregon drew on the accumulated experience of these as well as other states. These new constitutions were written in the backwash f the panic of 1837 and the hard times of the early '40's. So severe was the money stringency that Pennsylvania, Mary land, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan defaulted interest on their state bonds. Mississippi and Florida repudiated their debts. The money had been borrowed by these states chiefly to promote internal improvements and often to engage in bus iness directly or indirectly. Pennsylvania had bought stock in turnpikes, bridges, canals, railroads, etc. Florida had loaned her credit to the Bank of Pensacola, the Union bank, and the Southern Life Insurance and Trust company. Mis sissippi's loan had gone to finance a state bank. The depres sion was a consequence of too rapid expansion in- the west, land speculation, and followed the contraction of credit tf .the Bank of the United States when Jackson ordered the withdrawal of the depofits of the government in the bank, and the bank failed to receive a renewal of its charter. The memory of the unwise adventures of the states into business, the collapse of state credit when bonds passed into default, caused the framers of constitutions in the years of the 1840's and 1850's to put the legislatures in tight harness with respect to going in debt, loaning the credit of the state, and subscribing to stock in corporate enterprises. While the founding fathers set $50,000 as the debt limit of the state, our actual bonded debt is over $50,000,000, and reached a total of about $75,000,000. This came about through constitutional amendments: rural credit loans; world war veterans' state aid fund; state bond payment of irrigation and drainage district bond interest; highway bonds. There is also the power district amendment which has not yet been exercised. Another limitation in the state constitution is the one forbidding the state to establish a bank ; and prohibiting any bank to have the privilege of issuing any bills to circulate as money.' This too was a product of the experience of the pre ceding two decades, when states had lost heavily in banking enterprises ; and the people had suffered great inconvenience because of the shin-plaster currency put out by a great varie ty of banks. Oregon constitution-writers thought they would profit by that experience, and framed our fundamental law accordingly. Constitutions thus reflect the atmosphere of the times in which they were written. Though the writers seek to pro ject a document which will fit the needs for a long period of time, they cannot detach themselves wholly from their po litical, social and economic climate. That is why provision for amendment is made, so that changes in political tem perature may,'in time be reflected in the fundamental law. The Federal System THE whole theory of the constitutional government is pass ing under severe scrutiny at the present day. The deci sions of courts invalidating virtually all of the new deal pro gram ofsocial reconstruction precipitates keen controversy. Some attack the power of the courts thus to render null the - acts of the legislative arm of government. Others demand a change in the constitution to vest in the congress poWer3 which the courts say congress lacks under the text of the present constitution. People need to have a clearer understanding of the FED ERAL system of our frame of government. Under the terms of the national constitution, amendment ten, the powers not delegated, to the federal government by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states re spectively, or to the people. In other words the congress may . legislate only in the fields assigned to it, though by the doc trine onmplied powerslhat field has been broadened beyond the strict letter of the constitution. . State governments however have wide latitude. They can do anything not strictly forbidden. Their limits must be positive, specifically set up in either the federal or state con stitutions. Thus it is that the supreme court of the United States frequently sustains laws passed by states on the ground that no definite constitutional prohibition appears; while at the same time the courts invalidate congressional en actments on the ground that specific constitutional authority is lacking. Citizens need to realize tKs fundamental distinction be , tween the powers of the federal government and of the state government, as defined in the constitution. The reason for the difference is that otherwise the states would become mere enlarged, counties or municipalities, and virtually all power would center in Washington. "Street Riots in Paris "TTANG Laval", people cry in Paris, capital of France. m JtX Why hang Laval? Because he has ordered a reduction in salaries and in pensions. And why was this done? To save the franc, to avoid inflation. - For months France has been pressed by the drive against the gold franc. The franc, on a gold basis, was being sold and gold demanded either for hoarding or export. France, having suffered agonies from one devaluation of the franc, in 1926, hesitated to inflict another such punishment on the people. For the French are very thrifty people. Their savings, those of the humble peasants are invested in government secur ities. Devaluation or inflation meant heavy loss to this class which already has suffered once. The other alternative was reduction in government ex penses to balance the budget. But the vast civil army rebel led, and the pensioners, and others on fixed money wages. , That is why the classes affected by the decree march in the streets, riot, threaten Laval, the premier of the crisis. All countries with swollen government expenditures face such protests when they try to shrink their costs. That is why days of strain are ahead for the United States. , .When granaries bulge in the midwest, lumber orders pile up at coast mills. The farm la the great consumer of lumber, since most of its service buildings as veil as the house are built ot lumber. So when farm Income is low lumber demand falls off. This rear midwest farmers will have good crops: they are getting AAA checks from the government. So they will hare means to make many long defer ; red improvements to their farm buildings. This will mean more bus iness in logging camps and mills of the northwest. man Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Diary 79 years old . yields -strange history: Journey to Oregon in 1851 : j S V (Continuing from yesterday.) I Captain A. J. Smith made his first entrance into Oregon at Port Orford in 1853, in charge of a company of U. S. soldiers sent to help finish the first Rogue River Indian war. 'm m Readers of this column are fa miliar with the meeting on Table Rock to arrange the terms ot a peace with General Joe Lane in authority for the state troops, and, by the same sign, hy gen eral consent and request,' over the whole matter. Readers will recall that General Lane arranged a conference with 700 armed hostiles under - old Chief Joe, with sub chiefs Sam, Jim, Limpy and George, and 11 prominent white men, including himself and Capt. A. J. Smith the whites to be unarmed. The date was Sept. 10, 1853. But for General Lane's unalloyed bravery and his clear understand ing of Indian nature, and his quick wits, the conference would have ended in a massacre. The particulars made one of the great stories of Oregon's early history. Capt. A. J. Smihfs life was that day saved by General Lane and the lives of the other white men. The parley ended in ar rangements for a treaty, signed a few days later. U. S. Senator J. W. Nesmith of Oregon long afterward told the story in detail it has been twice published in this column. He spoke of old" A. -J. Smith. Capt. Smith was then only 38. He told hew fast Capt. Smith's eyes snapped when the tense mo ments came in the parley on Ta ble Rock. Smith must have had trouble in making his snapping eyes behave on many occasions in his unusual career of fighting and venturing into the yawning jaws of death. Besides that day on Table Rock, less tian three years later, at tbe Battle of the Meadows, when, in the space of a split second, his life was saved, with the lives of his whole company, by Capt. Augur riding to the rescue with his dra goons at top speed. Or, five years later, with Col. Steptoe in eastern Washington, fighting the savages under Chief Kara a i kin. Or, 11 years after, wlyen chas ing General Price's raidefs out of Missouri. . V Picture the scene at the Battle of the Meadows, the closing ma jor engagement of the so-called Rogue- River Indian war: Old Chief John of the Rogues with hia bands was making his land stand at the big bend of the upper Rogue river. The wily old savage had agreed to come for a peace talk then refused to keep his engagement; parrying for time. Two Indian women from his camp had brought word that he was preparing to attack the next day. Then: Capt. A. J. Smith, with 80 dra goons, having sent a courier to Col. Buchanan for reinforcements, took a position on May 26, 1856, on a high knoll, with an open space about 250 yards long and 50 yards wide--overlooking "The Meadows." About 10 on the morning of the 27th the Indians appeared in force, and about 40 braves ap proached up the eastern slope to Smith's camp; declaring friend ship, saying they had come to lay down their arms. .They asked to see the captain in person. Smith, sensing their plot, told them to lay down their arms out side of his camp. The savages returned to their own camp, and old John's forces then commenced their attack charging up the east and west slopes of the knoll at once, but seeking to avoid the range of the howitzer which Smith had. right ing lasted all that day and night, and continued the 28th, until about 4 in the afternoon. "W "a By that time a third of Smith's men were dead or wounded, and the rest hungry and almost fam ished for water. Chief John had them bottled up, or "treed," on their high knoll. - - No sign of reinforcements. At about 4 fighting ceased on both sides; the only sounds in Smith's camp the groans of wounded men and their cries for water. Not a sound in the Indian camp. It was a tense hour "a silent and awful hour, in expecta tion of speedy and cruel death" wrote one of the dragoons in the trap, in a letter home after the event. He wrote further: "As by the baton of a concert leader, an infernal chorus burst forth the war cries of eatfh band in old Chief John's host joining in one blood curdling burst of fury, and the rush was made up the east and west approaches." S Behold a miracle. To the in tense surprise and bewildering consternation of the onrushing In dians, who expected to make quick work of Smith's thirsty and famishing men, they received the oncoming reds with cheers, and bravely, furiously, gladly re turned the charge! The sight that Inspired the cheers and the countercharge had escaped for the moment the eyes of the Indians, so intent were they upon the bloody and desper ate work before them, and believ ing their intended victims were too exhausted for effective resist ance. V s . But the white men on their knoll had seen Captain Augur riding up at utmost speed with his eompany of 75 dragoons, all eager for the fray for which they were bent, to relieve their brother soldiers, every man of them sens ing the desperate situation. (Continued on Tuesday.) Busiest People Bothered Least By Either Hot or Cold Weather By D. H. Talmadge, Sage of Salem Referring to the late hot weath er Folki were depressed Till a cool sea-breeie rose. And then half the valley With much blissfulness snoze. Rhvme is imnortant. Sometimes It becomes necessary to distort a nerfectly unoffending word to meet the requirements of rhyme. Probably seven-tenths or tne world's best poetry would not get through the public schools alive were It not for rhyme. Many of us devote the best years of our lives to learning of the beauty and value of simple blessings. Note the case of the woman who left Oregon 20 years ago for California, and who re turned not long ago and sat on the green grass and wept. It was the first time she had sat on green grass In 20 years. $ During the past 40 years I have drunk city water in many places. The orgy began in New England and ended in Salem. Standing at public drinking fountains, I have asked of bystanders (there are al ways bystanders) their opinion of the water, and they have invari ably said "terrible" or something to the same effect. Not quite in variably either. The bystanders at Portland gave a favorable re port, in which was included an uncomplimentary reference to the water In certain other cities. This was the first favorable report on city water I, a stranger, received from strangers on a long and checkered Journey. Personally, recalling waters I have drunk in various towns and cities, I have no fault to find with Salem water. With water, as with other food and drink, opinions as to quality are governed largely, I reckon, by appetite and thirst. Very bad wa ter may seem very good water and very good water may seem very bad water. Water may be synthetically glorified or contam inated by prejudice or by poli tics. All in all, it appears to be the case that the busiest people suf fer least from hot weather or from cold. There is an old codger in Salem who suffered so acutely from the heat one day back in the Missouri river bottoms that all he has to do during a hot spell nowadays is to remember. After he has remembered he goes on with his work, cool as a cu cumber. By the way, how cool is a cu cumber? I understand there are skeptics who do not believe that a sufferer from heat may find relief by as sociating with a cucumber. Probably a cucumber is re ferred to as "cool" because it is so seldom served hot. A boy on the corner asked to know Sunday if the flag was dis played on the court house because the bastile fell July 14, 1789. There is a lad who can remember dates. Also there is a lad who has his wires crossed. We hear it stated on the streets and we read it in the newspapers here and there that the Blue Eagle is dead. Dead all but the bill, dear friends. Fifty years from now men will be saying to the children at their knees, "Yes, it was a pretty fair eclipse, but I ree'lect an eclipse back In 193 5 that was a dinger. My dears, you should have seen that one!" Remodeling begins at the Grand theatre tomorrow, and the house goes "dark". May Robson observed .her 70th birthday last week by reciting a poem, "May I grow Sweeter as I Grow Old", for a news weekly. Somebody is mistaken. The World Almanac says Miss Robson was born in 186 S. Anyway, the poem was beautifully recited. Lewis Brown, author of "This Believing World" and other books, has been visiting his moth er in the old home town, Port land, where he graduated from Lincoln High not a great many years ago. Circumstances not infrequently alter viewpoints. The man with a sore foot turned in an adverse- report on the late eclipse of the moon. Twenty Years Ago July 21, 1915 A plan is afoot to raise $300 to establish a safe municipal swimming place in the Willamette river and to hire an instructor. An ad states that "if you would be in the swim, get pattern 7385 and 5 yards of Skinner's satin for your bathing suit." The supreme court declared un constitutional yesterday Salem's stringent ordinance providing for the summary killing of dos found running at large within three days of impounding. Ten Years Ago July 21. 1925 The city council voted in favor of headon parking last night. Less than one per cent of the 110,585 vehicles on Oregon high ways between 6 a. m. and 10 p. m. are drawn by horses, a recent survey shows. Oregon has fewer Questionable securities than any other state it was reported yesterday at meet ing of the state securities com mittee. f W f H. TALMADGE "Dream on! Though heaven may I woo our open eyes, Through their closed lids we look on fairer skies; Truth is for other worlds, and hope for this; The cheating future lends the present's bliss; Life is a running shade, with fet tered hands, That chases phantoms over shift ing sands; Death a still spectre on a marble seat. With, ever - clutching palms and shackled feet; The airy shapes that mark life's slender chain, The flying joys we strive to clasp in vain. Death only clasps; to live is to pursue Dream on! there's nothing but illusion true!" Steve Mergler, of The States man news force, whose record for dependability is above the aver age, 'reports the Mergler family dog to be suffering from a par tial paralysis of the tongue, due to over-panting caused by the ex treme heat." "A bit av a lie, wid a wink av an eye." Many things seem which are not. Folks hereabout usually folks who have recently come to this region say that Oregon sun shine is brighter, and hotter than any other sunshine in the coun try. This impression may be the result ot contrast with certain other Oregon weather in which mist predominates. And it may be that the Oregon atmosphere, because of frequent and gentle washing, presents fewer obstacles to sun-rays than the atmosphere of other sections. Most of t h e weather talk here is done by folks from the east and south. The native Oregonian is not espe cially interested in the weather. Only once or twice in 40 years has he known weather sufficient ly removed from a general aver age to arouse him lo comment. A son of the president of the Chinese republic, who is to marry a Columbus. Ohio, shop-girl, is named Jim Lin. Something vague ly familiar about that name. When a man has nothing to say he should say it. There seems nothing to offer in response to the following, which fluttered in on a heat-spurt early In the week: "Aren't you ashamed of your self, Mr. Talniadge? The idea of advocating clean dirty handker chiefs and dirty clean handker chiefs, as you did in last Sunday's Statesman! Preposterous!" Anyway, thanks for the kind words which accompanied the foregoing outburst. The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers XERO HAS PROVED WORTH Salem, Oregon. Editor of The Statesman: In regard to your remarks with reference to the American Ne groes enlisting to fight in the war against Italy in Abyssinia. When Japan began her invasion of China an American aviator en listed and fought on the side of China and in the meantime was killed in action. What problem did that solve? The American Negr5 has prov ed his worth as an American citi zen in every walk of life espe cially on every field of battle where the country's honor was in volved. The noealled problem you re fer to has its existence more in the lascivious and lassitude mind of the misanthrope than anywhere else. Wilbert D. Henderson, S71 State street. Grocers Picnic Attracts Guests AIRLIE, July 20,Mrs. E. M. Turner accompanied Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Thompson and Mrs. John Thompson of Blodgett to 'Salem park where they attended the Willamette grocers' picnic Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bevens are moving to a hom near the Tam pico school house. They are sel ling their home here to Alvin Sams. .Mrs. Ralph Brooks and Mrs. Anna Allen returned to Portland Wednesday after a two weeks visit with Mrs. Anna Hadley. D. "Happy days are (nearly) here again!9 V oJf(ifl i &s&. mam rjM-.W. rI.. -c?.'if.l. HaLrr-j .., , ,r, teM jrr . "THE SNOW LEOPARD" SYNOPSIS Karen Sire, lovely daughter of the wealthy Maurice Sire, is bus pected of murder when her new Filipino servant is stabbed in the back and thrown out of the window of Sires' exclusive Park Avenue apartment. Dick Bannister, young geologist, witnessed the man's frtunge from the street. He is great y attracted to Karen and cannot conceive of her committing the crime. A valuable clasp and girdle are missing from a rare leopard akin robe belonging to Sire which had followed the Filipino in mi descent. At the Sire apart ment, where the inquiry is being held, Captain Boyle leaves Detec tive "One-Armed" Toole in charge and goes out. Dick finds a stiletto in the aquarium and slips it into his pocket, unnoticed by Toole. Boyle returns and orders Karen searched. The latter slips her band into Dick's pocket and relieves him of the dag ger, dropping it into Toole's pocket instead. Finding nothing on the girl, Boyle again leaves. Toole then reveals that he knew all about the finding of the stiletto and Karen s planting it on him. He re frained from reporting it because he believes her innocent and. be sides, he has an old score to settle with Boyle. "One-Armed" explains that, a year ago. he was on the trail of a pair of crooks, Big Jeff Whip ple and hia sweetheart, Brenda, vowing to lose an arm before he'd let them escape him. They did, and thereafter Boyle called him "One Armed" Toole. The detective con nects the so-called "Whipple Syn dicate" with the present killing, claiming they were after the clasp and girdle. Toole drops the sti letto back into the aquarium. He believes Brenda will try to get it that atternoon. Maurice Sire ar rives with a woman who intro duces herself as "Helen Calvert," newspaper reporter. Toole recog nizes her as Brenda, and sets a trap tor her, but she becomes suspSnous and leaves without trying to re trieve the stiletto. Later, Brenda telephones Karen. A helpless, stricken look comes into the lat ter's eyes. "What did she say?" asks Dick. "You'll never know from me," the girl replies. And then she dismisses him, but Mr. Sire asks him to return that night with his brother. Hod, a friend of the, mil lionaire. Before she left, Brenda had tried in vain to get some infor mation rrom Boyle concerning Karen. CHAPTER X Brenda had fooled Boyle. there was something consoling about that. The woman began to have a fascination for Bannister. Uncon sciously, he clothed her figure in. a leopard robe, remolded her into a wild creature and felt himself tak ing the trail with the savage joy of a hunter. The leopard woman 1 What diabolical secret did she pos sess to prevent her vie tan from mak ing an outcry? What was it that Karen had to whisper in he leather's ear when they were alone together? Bannister was promising himself the pleasure of a call that night when Myers appeared at the door. silent but with a convulsed face. Sire lifted interrogating eyes. "Another robbery, sir J" quavered the butler. "Here?" shouted Boyle. "No sir at the Southampton house. It's just been discovered, one of my men tells me ever the phone. Happened while I was away, sir, coming to New York. The lock on the wall safe was burned off with a torch." Boyle turned to Maurice Sire. "What were these people after?" he asked. Sire shrugged. "Jewels, perhaps, and a lot of old family documents." "What use could they make of family documents?" "Families sometimes have a way of becoming divided." "Oh, this is famHy affair, then?" Sire laughed. "I didnt mean to imply that. But there is a collateral branch of my family that might have some use for certain old parch ments I kept in that wall safe. How ever, I have never seen any of them. In fact, they live in the Orient." "In the Philippines, maybe?" - "Ridiculous 1 Please don't asso ciate the murder of a Filipino serv. ant with what I have told you. The documents relate to a period of fam ily history datinr back several hun dred yean. They were heirlooms. ! Sorry I sparked off your suspicions aiong inai line. "You have nothing else to tell me 1 1 AM no ieaa r "Absolutely non!" "Then," said Boyle impressively, "111 follow that one." Like a gray wolf he left the apartment. Maurice Sire turned to his daugh ter. He forced another lanoi Knt there was little gaiety in it "There goes my dream, Karen mine and yours!" Bui Karen did nnt lunirti Ran. nister's gaze was fixed upon her witn strange mtentness. She closed her ve Bnrl thrat- m tian1 fnvnxl him. What vision had she shut out? Did she ae him 01m ham4 aaal. ing- down the purple mountain slonea. atmlkins' a mnvnifirent mm leopard? Did she see him laying the 1 . m . ..... . rooe at ner lees wun tne clasp and eirdle reatnrmT? Tn a eyes opened but she kept them avert- --a a . M ... ea irom canmsxer. (jiotcnmg at Brenda Whipple's note in her bosom she fled from the room. Bannister wu .ttnunried at tK Inaction of Maurice Sire. Where was the vaunted lightning that was rennted in ho n reaHv nt th! o-iant'. hand? Why the coot almost indif- ierenc atmuae toward the murder and robberv tinder hia nwn rnnfT Again, only a few minutes before, Sire had heard that his Southamp ton home had been despoiled of treasure and had merely smiled. What was all this a calm before a thunderbolt? Meyers again was at the door Mr. Whipple on the telephone, sir. "Wiinnle!" before Sire had time to sneaV "Know him?" Sire asked, pausing on ms way to the telephone. der case mentioned his name," Ban nister answered with difficulty. "Ah!" Sire showed only a polite walked to the desk. Before picking up tne receiver he called back: "See vou tnn i ri t then?" Bannister. hwiU mmAm ks way out of the apartment. Twelve m r a noors neiow, m uoa s apartment, he found Toole atanrfrnv near a arrin- dow, under Bully's somewhat criti cal survey, txe looaed tired and blown; defeat was written all over him. "I'm licked " he said. "She trot wy zrom me. ib kept behind you all the way,' Dick feered. "If von wsTYpH ward, you'd have stepped on her Dick told him of the note left fcv Brenda. Whiimle and her ous telephone call te Km. Fen. Ha omraea nis own painful experience as a detail wnicn was nnna nf the detective's business. -Brenda is getting reckless, aint she?" was .Toole's onl-v enmment. Dick showed his next card the invasion of the Southampton house A 4.1 a. 1 . a a k - . ana uie men ox vaju&Die old parch ments. "Done bv the same mob." aaM Toole. . Bannister yawned. He was pre-narino- tn nlav hia " To Jtri,; pie had Sire on the phone old inenas, 11 aeems." Toole leaned over and natted Billy's head. "Huh!" h nt.Tt anally, "Jeff and Brenda must have quarreiea. Bannister growled. I'm stating some important facts," he said, "and you re answering me like a gypsy reading cards." "Yen. that'- what I'm At Toole admitted. "This robe and gir dle job was botched with a murder. When Jeff fnnmrf rait Vi m.j had written a note to Miss Sire he maae up his nund to give his little playmate the works and save his own pelt. What else, sonnv?" Bannister told him nf Matt coviea return to tn hnna Sire s amilmv ldmiuim tV v murder and robberies might have oeen executed Dy certain "oriental relatives" whom he had nm a and of Bovle'a anHHen ananMva the little Filipino himself might u ueioogea vo tne crew, tie quot ed Sire's1 words to hi nhf,.. I "There goes my dream. Karen, and yours 1 "So Mati thnno-fct lif- Cm nino mic-ht ham luwi relations, hey?" Toole chuckled. Took the tip hot off Sire'a bat .He looked over the little fellow's body for fifteen minutes without noticing inai ina nails were manicured and that the fixurers vera lnna at 4ir Cate Dot a aerrina- nama- flnMM And lfatt acre noticed that the By Chris Hawthorne Filipino had been used to wearing six rings." "There were no rings I saw the body first, you remember." "The rings had been removed, but not by the killer. They were taken off slowly probably with warm water and soap and that only a day or two before the murder. "This so-called Filipino had six ring circles on his fingers and the skin near these circles wasn't scratched or bruised. He took the rings off himself. For what? To conceal the fact that he was not a servant I" "Who was he then?" "Well, he was a light smoke who had some money." "Light smoke?" "Some kind of a mixed breed." "Did he look like a fellow who'd wear a leopard robe with a jeweled clasp and girdle?" "That's the hook-up. Maybe he was an okoond or a mary-aw-ja w." Toole gave a touch of reverence to his mispronunciations of those ex alted titles, as though they encom passed all human glory. "Do you think he was working on his own hook against the Whip pies?" Toole shrugged. "Maybe the stun belonged to him. He might have failed to get it back by legal means and resorted to this plan to recover it." "That would let the Whipples out." "It would and it did." "Not altogether they got the girdle, evidently." "And vou got the robel" Toole grinned down at Bully. "Toole," asked Bannister anxious ly, "what do you make of the fact that the killer was alone on the same floor with Karen?" "Yon might misunderstand my answer to that and sock me on the jaw," the detective laughed. "Hon estly, I think he was there all night, but not with Miss Sire's knowledge. Anyway, you're seeing her and her father tonight. Perhaps they'll be able to clear up that point." "What are vou enine to do about the stiletto in the aquarium?" "Leave It there I Some servant will be freshening up the water and will find it. -That's the only way it will ever fall into Matt Boyle's hands. I was on the job about- ten minutes ahead of him sent from a precinct station but when he ar rived he took the search out of my hands and turned me into a watch man and telephone boy. At that, I saw the dirk in the water just a few minutes before yon spotted Tt. I waited just to see you play the hand out." "What are yon going to do about the murdered smoket" "Noihina-. He's an imDortant and he'll be missed. Bis identity win come to tne sun ace in a few hours. Even Matt may find out about that." Bannister grew sarcastic. "So you're going to squat back on your haunches and wait until the news papers tell all about it?" "Not exactly. I'm going to have a little chat with Jeff Whipple. He came out of hia hide-away about an hour after the papers announced what they cajled the suicide of the Filipino. He dived back again when they learned tlat it was murder." "Who told you that?" "Confidential information my own secret service." "Do you know where Whipple is now?" Toole became more avast ve. "Vnn know how Brenda got away from me. They say tbe surest way to es cape a detective is to follow him. Well, Jeff has a few little tricks like that in his hat. If a general radio alarm was sent out for him he'd probably stand on the front tna nf the public library or the City Hall, where nobody would expect to find hhn." Mavbe voull catch him with Captain Bovle ." Bannitr , ges ted gravely. "That aint as funny as you think," the detective retorted. He stood op and took off hia derby a sign that he was going. "Learn whatever you can from Sire and his daughter tonight." he said. "Ill be aeein' yon. And here's a tip don't ask Sire any questions, just listen. It wont help much, either, if you tell Swr brother all that I've told you. member that." Toole natted BnDv'a head and lf k the apartment. ' (To Be Continued) IIJ. an 1 BMTMai ft. Kias rttm tjwBarta, laa.
