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CHAPTER XXVII With nlmost unendurable relief they grabbed the rope and held it. The gun was fired again and another life line hissed through the air above them. Gregory could Just reach it as it fell so he left the first for Wells. With their last remnants of strength, fortified by the frantic will to live, they hauled the slack end of the ropee in and coiled them round their bodies, beneath their armpits, by thrusting them through the unresisting sand which had welled up to their shoulders. “Ready?” came a hail from the group by the rocket gun. “Heave away," shouted Gregory and the strain was taken up upon the ropes. There followed the most ghastly struggle between the rescuers and those evil rands which were so loath to give up their prey. The imprisoned men thought that their bodies would be torn in half. They moaned in agony as the life lines gripped them like wire springs about their chests; cutting into their bodies and forcing the breath out of their lungs. They were lying at an angle now, with their heads toward their rescuers, their shoulders only supported by the pulling ropes, their torsos and feet still buried deep in the shifting sands. For what seemed an eternity they were stretched as though upon a rack, striving with the tired muscles of their legs for even a fraction of movement which would free them, but it seemed that they were too firmly embedded ever to be drawn out It was Gregory who, through a mist of pain, realized that now their heads and shoulders were supported there was no longer any danger of their arms becoming permanently imprisoned if they chose to use them, so he plunged his hands down and began to heave out handfuls of the soft semi-liquid silt from in front of his chest The struggle lasted for nearly an hour. Gregory was free ten minutes before Wells. As the life line drew him over a steep bank of sand he slithered into the water. Then he was hauled aboard a big flat-bot-tomed speed boat, where he collapsed on the bottom boards, unconscious. When he came to. Wells was beside him and their rescuers were applying restoratives. The ordeal had been such an appalling one that they were unable to speak and could not move a muscle without acute pain. Both of them lapsed into unconsciousness again as the speed boat’s engine began to stutter. With a puff of blue smoke in its wake it roared out to sea. They were vaguely conscious Os being carried up the steps of a stone pier and bundled into a ear, then through the side door of a hotel and up'the back stairs into bathrooms, where friendly hands relieved them of their sodden, sand-loaded garments. Then came the glorious ease of relaxing their exhausted bodies in clear warm water. It was late afternoon when they were aroused from the deep black slumber which follows intense fatigue, to find themselves in single beds in the same room, with Sir Pellinore Gwaine-Cust and Superintendent Marrowfat standing beside them. “How’re you feeling now, my boy,” Sir Pellinore inquired, his hand on Gregory’s shoulder. Gregory gazed round the strange room with a vacant stare. “Where —where are we?” he asked after a moment “Granville Hotel, Ramsgate. By jove you’ve had a gruelling—but you’re safe out of it all now.” “For God’s sake go away and let me sleep again,” Gregory muttered. “Sorry,” said Superintendent Marrowfat abruptly. “We let you He as long as we dare, but I mutt have any information you’ve got to give us. Come along, Wells, let’s have your story.” Gerry ’.Veils moaned as he hoisted himself up against his pillows. His body seemed to be one large burning ache, and he saw that under a

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pair of strange pyjamas his back and chest were bandaged, although he could still feel the vise-like grip of the life line round his body. Slowly and painfully the told his superior of the evil chance that had brought about their capture the night before and of the manner in which they had very nearly loet their lives. Gregory had been gathering his strength. He looked up at Sir Pelllnore. “What brought you on the scene so opportunely? If you hadn’t turned up when you did we’d both be fiddling in heaven now—or stoking up the coals.” Sir Pellinore grinned. “No thanks to me, my boy. Sabine telephoned to me from Quex Park a little after midnight. She said they had caught you both and that Gavin Fortescue had just left for Ash Levell. She seemed te know about the quicksand too and gave a pretty good forecast of what they were likely to do with you." Gregory frowned. “A little after midnight I Why the hell weren’t you thera before then I In a fast car you could have made that place in a couple of hours, whereas you took darned near six and very nearly turned up too late into the bargain." The fat Superintendent coughed. “I’m afraid that’s my fault, Mr. Sallust. Sir Pellinore got on to the Yard at once and they reached me at my home. We were down here by a little before three, so we could have raided the cottage, If we'd wanted to. But this thing's such a terrible threat to the well-being of the country that we’ve just got to get all the threads in our hands before we act. If we’d rushed that place we would have got you out all right, but we’d have been too late to pinch Lord Gavin and, apart from that, we hnven’t yet succeeded in getting on to the London organization." A sardonic smile twitched at Gregory’s thin lips. “So you took a chance ...” The Superintendent laughed. Not a very big one. We knew they wouldn’t shoot you unless you did something stupid. Our scheme went like clockwork. They think you’re dead and that they’re safe as houses, so no alarm will have been given. You’re out of it and well be able to pull them In just when we wish.” Gregory nodded. “Good staff work I suppose, but devilish hard on the nerves, and you've made a pretty fine mess of my poor old carcass.” “Maybe, but did you get anything? That’s what I had to wake you up to know.” “I did,” said Wells with new enthusiasm. “I managed to spot the address on that ease before they grabbed me. Mitbloom & Allison, 43, Barter Street, E. 1.” “Good boy,” the Superintendent chuckled into his double chin. “I’m leaving for London now and we’ll take a look over the place tonight. The doctor tells me there’s no damage done to either of you; although you’ll be a bit sore in the ribs for the next few days. You’d both better take it easy. I’m thinking, while I get on with the job.” Gerry Wells sat up, suppressed a groan, and said: “Half a minute, sir. This is my pigeon. Surely you're not going to do me out of it just because 1 was fool enough to get caught last night. If I caught the last train up then I could be in on the raid—couldn’t I, sir?” The Superintendent nodded. “Certainly, if you’re fit.” At eight o’clock the manager of the hotel called them and superintended the preparations for an excellent meal to be served in their room. Wells and Gregory both felt terribly stiff, but apart from that, and the soreness under their arms, perfectly well again after their thirteen hours In bed. Dressing proved a painful operation, but once it was accomplished and they had been heartened by a good dinner, washed down with a fine bottle of Burgundy, they felt as keen as ever. A car

was waiting for them when they came downstairs and they caught the 9:08 to London arriving at Charing Cross two minutes before midnight. ' . At the Yard all preparations for the secret raid had been completed. Mitbloom A Allison had proved to be a firm of wholesale tobacco merchants. Their warehouse, so the Superintendent had ascertained, was fitted with electric burglar alarms, but they did not employ a night watchman. Arrangements had been made for the electric current to be cut off at the main between the hours of one and three. The Superintendent, Gregory, Gerry Wells, a lock expert from the special department, and another detective, squeezed themselves Into one of the bigger Flying Squad cars at a quarter to one, and the driver turned its nose eastward. They parked the car at the end of Barter Street, leaving the driver with it A city policeman touched his helmet to the Superintendent, having been warned of their visit and remained on the comer to keep watch, while the five others made their way along the narrow pavement to number 43. Grimy window panes stared at them blankly from the street level; above, the big hook and ball of a crane for hauling merchandise to the upper floors dangled over their heads. The Superintendent looked at his watch. “Five past one. Go ahead, Jim,* he said. The lock expert produced a bag of tools and, selecting one, started work on the door. “Lock’s easy enough," he murmured. “Old-fash-ioned piece.” With a twist of his wrist it clicked back into its socket. Pushing the door open the five men entered the building. The Superintendent switched on his torch. It showed a dusty hallway with a flight of stone steps leading to the upper floors and, on their left, two glass-paneled swing doors giving on to the offices. Thrusting them wide, the fat Superintendent led the way in. The beam of his torch, as he flashed it round, showed shelves with rows of faded letter files upon them; an old-fashioned clerk’s desk, with high stools in front of it, and a rusty brass rail which carried a number of leather-bound ledgers. Another door with a frosted glass panel, on which was painted “Private” in black letters, showed to the right. The lock expert set to work again and soon had it open. The inner office was little better than the one they had just glanced over. A roll-top desk occupied a comer near the window; a meager square of turkey carpet failed tc conceal all but a small portion of the worn oilcloth with which the floor was covered. An open bookcase contained piles of old trade journals, samples, and miscellaneous paraphernalia. “We’ll come back here later,” said the Superintendent. “First I want to see the contents of the warehouse.” They trooped out behind him and up the stone stairs to the first floor. It was an empty barn-like room, containing only several stacks of cases. The Superintendent pointed; Wells and the extra detective pulled one out from the middle of a stack and, by means of a jimmy which the lock man produced from his bag of tools, opened it up. It was a longish coffin-shaped case and contained tins of leaf tobacco. They hammered back the nails carefully, so that it should not appear to have been opened, and replaced it in the center of the stack. The contents of four other cases were investigated from different portions of the room and the Superintendent noted down particulars of the goods they contained in his pocket book. Then they visited the upper floor and the same process was gone through with other consignments of merchandise which they found there. The top floor and the one below it were empty. (To Be Continued) Coprrlftol 1119. by King fMturw tyodlcaU, lno.

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FOR KENT 'J FOR RENT —6-room modern du- j plex, newly decorated. Three bedrooms. Three-room apartment kitchen furnished. Close la. pi lono | 123-tl FOR RENT 6-room modern house. Immediate possession. Garage.! Phone 102. Inquire 430 N. sth St. FOR RENT —Two light housekeeplug rooms, furnished. Private) entrance, first floor, garage. 310 3rd. Phone 511. 12s-3t FOR RENT — 6-room, all modern house, furnished. Inside rail roads. Call 716. IM-3tx FOR RENT—Pasture. J. F. Nun nink, 114 miles east on state road 224. Routh 3. Phone 5421. 12\-6t WANTED WANTED r- Experienced saleslady to take charge of ladles ready-to-wear department. Good salary for right party. Address Box ”500" care Democrat. 12S-3t o— LOST AM) FOUND LOST — Brown tarpolin on 224 between Prebie and Decatur. | Finder please notify Milton Girod. Decatur R. R. 2. Craigville phone ! 128-3tx MISCELLANEOUS CALL FRANK BURGER to move dead stock. Will pay for live i j horses. Day or night service. Phone ! 'collect. Harley Roop 870-A. 111-ts NOTICE—Parlor Suits recovered. We recover and repair anything. 'We buy and sell furniture. Also ! good used Ice boxes. Decatur Upj holsters. Phone 420. 145 South Second St. 125-30 t SLICK ORDERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE I 1 photographs of the defendant exe-j cutiree. “We do not egard these defendants in this case as criminals in that sense of the word.” Campbell said. DECATUR YOUTHS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) : games, musk' and othe recreation. Boys' State Is approved by the najtional oganization of the American ; Legion, and at a recent conference •held at Indianapolis, 20 states in the nation reported the formation ot Cove’ State. Eight states conducted these schools last year, these liejing Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, { West Virginia, Ohio, Kansas. California and Oregon. PUN PROGRAM FOR FARM AID Gigantic Farm-Aid Urogram being Prepared By Officials Washington, June 2—(lJl’)—-De-partment of agriculture officials prepared today for a gigantic farmaid program to bolster the purchasing power of six million farmets. Tentative plans drawn by aides of secretary of agrictulture Hem> A. Wallace, presumably at his direction, call fur a federal lending- , spending farm program involving $1,300,000,000 t(* $1,40', 000, 000 in the next 12 months. Direct aid to farmers in soil con ' scrvatlon payments, rural relief, purchase of surpluses, afbusidy parity payments, to be either ohllI gated or paid in the next year, will j total approximately one billion dol- • lars. In addition, government agencies expect to lend fanners up to s ; "d. 000,000 for storage of surplus wheat, cotton and corn. The farm security administration plans to loan farmers approximately $100,000,000 to make crops and buy farms. —o Timmons Is Named As Acting Dean - Bloomington 'ind. June 2—(CP) 1 Dr. Gerald I). Timmons has been appointed acting dean of • •"’ lana university school of demstry. Dr. Herman U. Wells, president ot the university, announced here ?< s j terday. , A nation-wide search will made so ra permanent Dean, W t said. , Timmons succeeds Frederic h Henshaw, who died Friday a el serving as dean for many J' 1 * 1 ’ The new dean lias been a mem e of the dental school faculty sw i 1931 and was appointed asms ' to Henshaw last January. ICECREAM factory packed pints, l&c. two for 25c, Green hetllt.

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