Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1942 — Page 17

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CHAPTER FOUR YES, Number One™ mut-| Allan “More eommonly to hic friends ag Harty Lets get down to brass tacks, Senor Sun, while we have this moment alone. I'm anxious to get on the job, you know. What can you tell me about Number One?” “He cathe here one dey, ag you have done this afternoon, He was in search of two friends of his. a Dr. John Sargent and the doctor's daughter, a Miss Kay Sargent. They had dizappeared, and people in the States were uneagty about them. Sener Bishop was an agreeable young man—> | Exguse me. The news we had of the Sargents was very sketchy Can you tell me how they disap-| peared, and where?" i They were stopping at Ense-| nada. The doctor, I believe, is a| most distinguished scholar, specializing in chemical research. He) it also interested in the study of fish. Our Gulf has many varieties of fish not found along the Atlantic coast, & while Dr Sargent was really at Ensenada for a rest, he| decided to cross the Peninsula and spend a fortnight here, gathering | specimens. He and his daughter | left Ensenada one morning with t¥o Indian guides—trustworthy men. The party was last seen at) Alamo. Somewhere hetween Alamo | and San Saba, they—vanished.” 8 » .

“PEOPLE CAN'T just vanish like that, Sun Su. What did the police —the Guardia Rurale—turn up in| the way of clews®” “Nada. Nothing, senor. I am gure of that, for I have it on the word of their commander, Col. Es. | cobar, who is a frequent visitor here We discussed the affair and he told me himself he was completely mystified. A search of the road beteen here and Alamo revealed no traces of any trouble, but a night and day of heavy rain just before the search may have washed away anything of the sort. The theory among the natives around here ig that the party was eaptured by brigands.” umph. Does Escobar think so®” “Ah, no! That would not look go well for him and his rurales, you understand. The colonel! is mote inclined to think it was a voluntary disappearance, that Dr. Sargent had some private affair to pursue in georet.” “Baloney!” muttered Allan Steele “That's the regular police excuse] when they are stumped, or do not! wish to put themselves to a lot of] trouble. I've the best of reasons| for knowing Dr Sargent wouldn't) gtage a ‘voluntary disappearance’ right now.” Allan frowned, tapped the desk freitably with his fingertips, serue tinized the placid yellow face of the Chinese. “I'll tell you something, Sun Su—something confidential ® he said abruptly. “Dr. Sargent was not on vacation: he wag down here on an important mission for the United States government. It is they who are troubled by his disap. pearance, but they do not wish to advertise their interest too hroad-

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THE PROPRIETORS rose and fell “So!* he nodded. “That helps me understand, Senor—?" “Steele. Allan Steele” “They sent No. 1—-Senor Bishop— to look for the doctor, and now they send you to look for Senor Bishop. Yas “You make it sound a little like & daisy chain” said Allan with a smile, “But you've got it nearly right. I'm not looking for Bishop, though. You see—we found Bishop" “Found him! Where, senor?” “He was wandering by the northern edge of the Grand Desert, north of here. Apparently he had been lost in the desert for days, from his condition. He was at the point of death from hunger and thirst when @ couple of Yuma Indians saw him and took him to their cabin. A few

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he belonged-to us. a few days ago in in California” “Extraordinary! the Grand Desert, you sav? He left here—one morning—taking a lunch with him. That it the last we saw of him! How was he when you left him, senor? Well on the road to recovery, I trust?” 4 4 4 “NO. He is insane’

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“In that case, yes. But the hos-igyestion is, who are ‘they’ and pital doctors think it may be some-’ thing more than that, Sun Su. They| noticed a tiny puncture on the back nothing, senor?”

of his neck—the scar, possibly of a hypodérmic needie.” “Hola! “They think some virulent poison may have been injected directly on his brain. If that should

be so, the effect may wear off In thing of the truth in order to learn time, or he may be permanently more. His thoughts went back to

mad. They do not try to say which, for they cannot determine the nature of the poison, or drug, if that's what it was. If they're right; 8un Su, it means there's been a dirty bit of foul play somewhere™ The Chinese nodded and uttered a sibilant hiss of surprise. “That how it strikes you” “Yes, senor. It sounds as if Number One must have found out something that somebody did net wish known. So somebody took him and put him somewhere and did not let

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o ® | “THEY would have had to hide the body. That would have been another unaccountable disappear ance on top of the Sargent pussle and they were afraid to risk a {thorough investigation by the Mexe ican authorities, prodded into aetion. by your government.” | “Okay, Sun Su. You figure it just about as we did. Now the

iwhere are they?®™ “Senor Bishop could tell you For the second time, Allan hesic tated, his nervous fingers drums

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