... The Isla nd Trader Bv J Charles Hubbard i With murder in his Heart he went to Kill the man who had Stolen his Wife THE island was called Ao, from the cloud which hung about its central hill. During the forenoon a schooner worked in from the horizon. She was a typical trader, her white paint streaked with rust and her mast bleached grey by long exposure to the tropic sun. Near the land she got ...

... Passion and the Pilot Romance and Tragedy interwoven in a plot to sink a ship on the Barrier Reef By Beatrice Grimshaw IT had been wonderful, once. To step up from the already high places where the liner commanders stood; to become one of the sacred sixteen, the grand lamas of the sea. To be a pilot of the Great Barrier Reef, than which there is nothing more important in the merchant services ...

... By F. Britten Austin j A new terror from the Air Paris was in ruins The Germans had produced a new war weapon so terrible that it eventually abolished war IT was a hushed night of brilliant stars, so almost ostentatiously bril liant, multitudinous eyes winking abnormally close and clear, that a man could feign they had an interest in earth-happenings. Involuntarily, one kept looking up to them ...

... The Perfumed Ghost A case from a Parisian private detective's notebook By Peter Cheyney _ I WAS leaving the office when the telephone rang. Lefty took off the receiver. After a minute he put his hand over the transmitter and turned to me. It's a woman, he said, with a pretty voice. She wants to see you. Says it's urgent She's introduced by Van Dine. I don't usually see clients at nine ...

... Doomed, he sought his Fate, and found a Love that brought him Life By John Haggart JIMMY RANSDALL sat staring at his pale, tired face in the make-up mirror; or what passed for a make-up mirror in a theatre dressing-room in Bangkok. It was a cracked, fly-specked piece of glass hanging forlornly on a streaked plaster wall, which was sweat ing, Jimmy thought, as uncomfortably as he from the ...

... The Voice of the Sultan Bystander Short Story Max Murray JUST as one man is proud of his wife and another of his medlar-tree, so Alfred Horsborough was proud of his English accent. He was convinced that an educated Englishman spoke English, and that the rest of the English-speaking world muddled along with its various dialects. Fifteen years' residence in the United States had done nothing ...

... b3hL a the stricken heart. fi JfiMl US By CHARLES BIRKIN. FROM what she could see through the halo round the head of St. John the Baptist, the sky appeared to be clearing. Throughout the early morning a depressing drizzle had fallen, which, while realising the aptitude of a weeping heaven for a funeral, Elizabeth Penvill had found distinctly untimely, for owing to ...

... THE TYRANT of PISTOJ A By Marjorie Bowen if- Just a piece of HP P yellow ribbon but it saved the life of Love from Heaven wandered far With weary feet, ivith weary feet, Until he came to Pistoja, A nd found it sweet, and found it siveet. GIVE me the yellow ribbon, said the duke indifferently. He took it from Farinata; it was satin, glittering with gold and looped at the end with rubies. ...

... By Laurence W. Meynell V. It \s an ill wind that blows nobody good and Wanda Neelson certainly did a good turn unwittingly to IF you know at all, you know it, no doubt, as a compound of a blaze of blue lights outside; of the scarlet and gold uniforms of the two six-foot commissionaires; of music syncopated and seductive; of the hurrying feet of attentive waiters; of the shirt fronts and the ...

... Hearts i| in Concert 4 Fame and Fortune in Hollywood or Love and Duty at Home By Roy Wirgman HELEN DEWER answered the piano's final chord on a long- drawn, heart-catching note that throbbed through the crowded auditorium like the pure vibration of a harp. There followed a breathless hush, then the crash of applause thundered against her ears, blood stirring, intoxicating, before the curtain ...

... London night life, taking the war in its stride, has tuned-in to a mood of quick gaiety. Men get a break because white ties are definitely out. Everywhere evening dress is optional, but that does not mean that women should turn up in tweeds, unless they have no choice. Men, especially in uniform, are still susceptible to subtle flattery, and it pleases them to be seen with a girl who wins ...

... By Weston Martyr The ship was a marvel of gadgets and gave a death sentence to all enemy submarines that came within listening range SHE has no name. The navy calls her No. 33. What the enemy calls her and her sisters I do not know; but I can guess what they think of her. Those of them with whom she has not yet had direct dealings must think of her with terror and dread; and those who have ...