Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1923, Page 30

26, 1923 once thore he turned to Tow) that train?’ Rennison querted. had been made in buttoning the vest, |lies is locked and carefully guarded. “As Mr, Horsford has told ¥ “Yes,” answered .Horsford. “In a|the top button being In the second | AI*has been put up to us by the local ompany, were en- . test was successful Towndrow went | telegram dated in New York at elght- ibuttonhole. Two pocketbooks were |police. Coughlin, however, has ‘been |gaged ‘in welding the street railway on quickly. ‘arefully guarded by |fifty this morning and addressed to|found. One of these contained $250 |assigned to work under i dlrm:(lunn.llral:km when, according to officers, they u X two submarines, a destroyer and four [ me he told me of this purpose.” in_ bills and some memoranda. The|He now is trying to lea t the hotel | were struck;by an automobile driven by % | small motor boats. the Dragonfly was| “Did he come on to Washington |other, apparently mew, was empty, |who had access to the room after |Jack Kontz son of i anchored about twenty vyards off the |alone?” and was thrust into an inside pocket |Channing eutgred It eity recorder of Afianta. ) {pler of a shipyard at Haynerville, “We think so, but are not positive |of the coat. Among the letters on the Coughlin a good man, but— | worker saw the approaching car in Island. "Channing remained |gs to that. We have learned, how- body one from Mr. Horsfa well, the trall 1s getting colder every |time to escape. The dri is beine | x ¢ Trlmn 2, 1 L lice headquart it t § A Story of Secret Service and Diplomatic Intrigue % {alore on the boat until 5 o'clock ves- | svor, that he was alone when he en- |dddressed to Channing, at Hayner- | minute,” Rennison muttered, tiought- at pol cadquarters withou o o - ENING _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, FRIDAY, JANUARY men. both emploves of the Georgla | ATD FOR RUHR INHABITANTE, bed bt the German colany in Mexico City for former | the benéfit’ of ‘th» inhabitants of 1l A ‘fellow- | Ruir. The money was forwarded Chancellor Curo at Berlin. terday afternoon. Ho then wa# noti- |tered the Weymouthshire—that he [ville, notifying him of the acceptance |fully. |fied that the government haud .nocepted | was alons when he went to bis room |of his device and direeting him t He picked up his hat and cane ab- his deviee, and that he should:mepoft [at three thirty-five.” come to Washington today. Ac stractodly and started, toward the S Y WHERE at the office of the Secrotyry 'Was he seén by any one after|ingly, Coughlin, before giving the|d | R O VER Y WHER BY J. AUBREY TYSON Navy at B o'cioon this shaa - 02| dares case publicity, promptly telephoned to g o ; %) BAKING POWDER | (Copyright, 1832, by the Macmillan Company.) @Continued From Yesterday's Star.) e e the purposo of signing the negegsary | “Not alivé—except by the person [Mr. Horsford.' Inasmuch as the secret ‘transfer papers, supplying _tq _ the [who is supposed to have caused his!wervice alrcady was at work on the proper authority all details coritern- | death.” Towndrow answered Dragonfly destruction case, 1 chanced ing the construction and operatfn éf caused his|to be in the office »of Capt. Reifsnyder, his invention and receiving from the | d who left Haynervillo vesterday. Both government a commission us director peculiar, | Capt. Reifsivder and mysel were : Idorly man, rose | Of \t8 manufacture. T may say here Towndrow explained after a | summoned by Mr. Horsford. lmmmu»‘r”‘ him a lean, elder . rO%€ | that Channing had declined 1o decept ‘At four o'clock a bellboy, ately after my arrival here T got into | I afi’mfil?fio;:‘:fi:flx ‘hbe Tz"::l: a nervously, clasped and u: .lul;|°d h:; any payment for the transfer:of his|passing through the hall, saw the |communication with Coughlin over | ¢ posal as long as he might require |shaking hands, then pressed lo;Th % |device to the government, but was to |door of room 415 was not quite|the telophone. and after vbtaining his | Them, - Rennison then went to tho | his eves. Iiis agitation indicated that |bo compensated for his’ services as|closed. The boy knew, as a result of | report suggestions stroet, hatled a taxi and directed the |he was on the verge of n{'"}]‘se- en; |director of manufacture. experience with it, that, owing to a concernin S in which he | driver to put him down at the Navy |nison, glancing at his watch, zaw i e was a man of independent | defect in the woodwork, it could be!should pre A few minutes later Department. Upon his arrival at his | was ten minutes after o. ted | MeaNS. then?" Rennison asked closed only with a little i Thus it has destination he dismissed the chauf As the Istant secretary "?flh“l Yes.” Horsford replied. *“He in-|When he attemptell to close se- happened that within an hour after | feur, entercd the huilding and hur- | himself, Towndrow, resting hia folded |herited a moderate fortune from his | curely now it resisted the offort. The | the dlscovers of the body w | ried along a corridor. The door hejar n the table. leaned forward|father. It was not as a means of | boy then saw that the lock had been |to give to you such a fairly o opened was that of a room near n;r» nn_gim':_v-"l}g-"mm O }le\;:l;rnod that he served as a pro- prEivate CMive o the ?;:[":,;""l °“‘eém tle that is known concerning this af- | ““Well, we last had .Channing leay- mttendant, who smiled suavely. falr has been communicated to me |ing Haynerville,” Rennison said, curi-. Al right, Cap'n Ren'son—it's all |AS prompt action is imperative, we|ly. “What happened to him' after “1%as ot 2 = ff»&dm(h:nm:nnc s’ar:zx‘ er‘:ko"no ;Eu'll nison in such a manner ase I WW‘:‘ York city and thence to his laboratory |saw on the floor the body of & man. | fin’ yo'se't ‘spected.” wish him to summarize it for me.|in Loudenfield, New Jersey,. Town-|The boy telephoned to the hotel office ATLANTA Hunter is dead a jaeritical condit pital authorities ort, as the result of an' automobile dent duriug a heavy fog here. The | frecumstances are LIBRARY 933 G5t thrown apparently by a person leav- outline of the cas ing the room in haste, and with the | “Coughlin has I impression that he or she had locked | the door. The key was withdrawn. “The boy thrust open the door and | = entered the room. Only a few inches “From Haynerville he went to New | beyond the door's range of swing he Grandad’s right. R:r the better part of a century, Heckers’ Buckwheat has been a favorite. It makes delicious, light cakes with the real, old-time buckwheat flavor. Ready for the grid- - Rennison smiled perfunctorily, nod- | With your permission and his, 1 will {drow continued. “Thers he spent the |and tha police were notified. —In ten : ded, and passed through the door the |40, ) i atecas: night. He left Loudenfleld:this morn- | minutes Coughlin, the best of Wash- attendant opened for him. When he ge-yes, Towndrow—go ahead”|ing, in time to take the nine -o'clock | ington's local detectives, was on the pad crossed the threshold the deor }‘?Ira\'ord assented quick! Ph' L a lrl.l_re from New York for Washing- | scene. A superficial examination of elicked softly behind him. Tiiis hostithe DrguNiv. eqiipped)ton - the body revealed no mark of vio- o with Channing’'s apparatus. had its ©ou have reason to belleve he took | lence, It was seen that a mistake | CHAPTER 111 first and only officlal trail three days et Towndrow began. “In order A Multiple Crime. sure secrecy, the boat was 4 3 i slowly into |handled by only five men—a lieuten As Rennison advanced slowly into|,ny poatswain, two seamen and an s ’ the room he saw five men seated |engincer. The others on board were # table—Horsford, one of the assistant |~rhu‘!’\nn|{g zudD:l\re? :a‘;lsm:e]:xauu::h P ds i A 1 > . Town- |°f the Navy Department, who were | secretaries of the department: Town- {5 L€ = o m’" tha amccits Of thel ounds Increase In sales drow of the secret service, Capl.|invention. They were Rear Admiral | . | Relfenyder of the naval bureau of |Longley, Capt. Reitsnyder and Com- in 1922 over 1921 i experimentation, Col. Hawkshurst of ::lfl;;f}:{ :}'i}mfilgu:‘m Sxpartalonathe | e & the bureau of military intelligence | ““Channing manipulated his device| * H . 2 . and Capt. Merschon of the bureau of | without assistance from others. He | PBo o oksin Ommutes raval intelligence, revealed only effects, but carefully use: { | S Sl rafrained from explalning the causes | Istant Seoretary Horsford -bo%¢ | which produced ‘them. The demon- | Iy and with unwonted awkward- | ¢t ration was as astonishing as it w. As he moved a chair toward convineing. he said: “Seated in a darkened cabin below we need the deck, anning had in front of Ihim in @ nearly horizontal position | what appeared to be the head of a ba: m about four feet in diam- {eter. Outlined on tho white rface of this was what might be desorib a checkered heart. By this I me; the heart was divided into squar each of which bore a number, .the | numbers, like the lines, being only but so long as it had to come at the blow fe! from our shores. & of the most ent hat on of almost And each move, st and set on the back of the stove for T E A be effected t in the direc- t single misstep might mar all.” The voice of Horsford was low and shaking. As Rennison seated himself on the proffered chair he laid his hat and walking stick on the table and anced about hi Upon him rested @ gaze of each pair of eves. But it s only the gaze of Towndrow of © sccret service that held his own. He knew that in the past Towndrow bad disliked him. Why this should 15 » understand. i efliciently, but temper- liv they had always clashed. . however, Rennison was con- of the t that the secret | man was regarding him with sion_of eloquent, though mute, appeal. It was plain something had occurred that had baffled_even ihe resourceful and confident Town- drow. Horsford, seating himself at the ta- ble at Rennison's left, went on: nasmuch as the situation require haste, T will outline hrieflv and has to do w As vou know, »odand’ its argely depend him to the botton » Atlantic in one of his sybmarines, there ix little doubt but that cach of | the great powers would be able to bring to an end all land activities of he brotherhood within its borders. ‘The t. of capturing or destroying the Seafalcon submarines, therefore, is one of the most serlous problems that the navies of the world ever had 10 face. Three davs ago we solved the problem. Today we lost the solu- o) “Lost it!” Rennison muttered in- eredulously. xaotly that—by the destruction a motor boat at Haynerville, Lor.x| and. and a murder about an hour o in the Totel Weymouthshire, | thin ten minutes’ walk of where | Rout itures ive. suggestive o the Watching Town. | gnized the significance of | 218 attitude. In the course of frisndly | onversation the face of Rennison would brighten with pleasure — or soften with sympathy. but whan he heard the trumpet call to action he assumed this mask of indifference, in the spirit in which a knight of the olden time drow down his visor, me ‘was boas Begtroyed?” he asked. i At nine-thirty this morning.= hat relation did the boat bear €0 the Seafalcon submarine problems: “The boat was squipped with a de- ¥oe which bad bsen demonstrated i be unerringly effective In locatin ind recording tho movements of &) | moving steam vessels, {ncluding sub. | merged submarines. within a radjus of Bfteen miles. This equipment. o an excesdingly Intricate and delicare nature, was the only piece of mechan. {sm of fis kind that ever had bean produced by its Inventor. whe 2 his dimovery eo jealously ¢ applied for n any plan or specification empio: the construstion of the dgvvlo:“A[l’; ba#h bee; e motor boat. how- over, had been plased at his service by our department. It was one of the submarine chasers built for the government during the late war. It was turned over to the inventor of the device two weeks ago.” “What {s the name of the in- (aly ith wonder. :ing. Me was only iwenty-six years old, and wae pro- fessor of chemistry in a New York college. He had apartments in that Sity. but was Jnmarried, His labora- ory was in a tle village in XN Jozey Lonaendeia® 7 s uch &3 you say he was twen- ty-six years old, I am té infer it was Ohanning who was murdered in the EVERY BOOK OF NEW AND POPULAR FICTION You read Sayve money, and rent The Book You Want || When You Want It | Tha oaly library in the world o rer® 5. siop B Dleace. Pay @ smail restal feo whils beok is in your ‘passession, The miscellaneous library supplies all the newest and popular books of nom-fic- tion, including travel, his- tory, biography, etc. WOMRATH’S LIBRARY 607 13th Street N.W, Reem17 Washingten, B\ G, faintly perceptible. This big disc was lighted by a ray which was projected upon it from a cylinder near the roof of the cabi Towndrow nodded curtl “ Army man. familiar with the use of mortar batteries, the sig- nificance of what I have described is You." Towndrow nts in this application of the prin- obscura. On such director of a mortar bat- may see distant ships move from square, but this man, Chan wchicved something whi rt_of supernatur he revealed the move- ery screw-propelled ves- submerged, by . within a'ra paused as Rennison night as well as by dfum of fifteen miles:” Rennison stiffened suddenly. o .8 few minutes. Pleases every one who has ever tried it t | assumption of indifference was mask- ing his new-born iInterest. ¥is face had lengthened, and his eyes were b Horsford, lean- ing toward him, clutched his shoulder. nd all this the poor fellow dem- onstrated beyond the peradventure of oubt!” the assistant secretary said quavering voice. ppears. therefore, that Chan- had discovered some method ¢ it was not only posstble to the presence o 10VIng screw miles, but the distance to | visualize on t positions of the nly defect in the device lay in the fact that it was inoperative while the screw of its own vessel was vibrating,” muttered Capt. 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