Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1924, Page 27

A Story of Mystery and Adventure BY VICTOR MacCLURE. Copyright, 1924, by Harper & Brothers. Up on the roof we found Klenski, a n, b America, whose faded in movements and in- wed at once the soaker. eaten into by alcohol. was it you saw last night, 1 asked him, as seon as we'd t on the roof. - 1in the corners of his mouth, o stop the twitching of the ays preceded his speech. a rail'ay coach— b'ropes tf'm sky . . . was this? At what time?” his hend toward the rall- parapet wall, odded Jerkily. at time was this, Klenski?” morning—s'm'time — coon- this morning, maybe?” Dan ned to him gratefully, and ¢ nod at him. e you doing about at that him. s'm'thing-—c'm’out see ht ‘twas—saw cabin—like own out'n sky ead and gazed at the our feat. 1 up &t the sky, thinking d not understand. But the “inn did not follow the realized that the man to 100K up at the sky. ne disability in an happened then?” Dan ngs 'nd looked | M 'N_blue wall came over my 'Sall. Went back t' bed. Cold.* “What sort down eyes. “Blue wall?” said Dan. of blue wall?” The Finn gased at him pathetically. “Blue wall,” he said In his gentle indistinet way. “Blue wall . .« other side 'frallings. Down—down— 'slike that. . . .” Again he made that downward ges- ture of the hand. “Did you hear any noise?” I asked. The lips twitched desperately, and & sllly smile came Into the Finn's sper. Binz-z- z!" he imitated. 1 d'n' know any more, please.” We left it at that, for it was pain- ful to talk to that man, he had such terrible difficulty in talking—or even thinking. “Dare we interpret the maunder- ings of that dipsomaniac into evi- dence for the airship ides, Jimmy?” Dan asked when we were in his road: again. " sald I, “and see what it got up_for another drink, you know,” said Dan. “It might all be drunken imagination.” “Possibly. The only concrete thing about it Is the cabin—whcih might be the gondola of & dirigible.” “And the blue wall, Jimmy—the blue wall? Some effect of alcohol on the eyes, maybe?” “Maybe,” 1 agreed. “Unless what he saw was the side of the airship—" “Could an alrship venture so low?" “How can I tell, Dan? If the crooks came out of an airship at all, it would be less likely to be spotted it it came as low as possible over the area of operations, where all the inhabltants were unconscious. The higher it remained, the wider the fleld from which It was visible. You've §ot to remember that the llurgical Is only a little less high THE EVENING than the 'worth, and "that thé few overhead cables stIT inexistence’ are well under roof height. Say your’ supposed alrship had a- width® of“just’ under 30° mieters—there's nothing to \5top it from nestling in Broadway.” ' Dan let out & chuckle. et “Columbus! ~ This s deep -stuff, Jimmy. - We'll have to do a lot of sleuthing before ‘e through.™ “I'll tell you what, Dan to get Dick Schuyler on the phone, and sk him to join us tonight' at Hazeldene. With' the old man and Milliken we'll have a fine' counctl of War—a regular powwow." “Has Dickie any-sense?” “You bet you,” said I. “Dickie not only_has “sense, but ne knows more about lighter-than-air machines than I do. I don't favor that sort of fly- ing_at all” When we arrived at Dan's labora- tory, he went off to see his research chemlsts who had been working on the tarnished gold. I didn’t go with him, being on the phone to Dick Schuyler. T was lucky enough to find my man at home with his squadron, and he fell in with the ides of join- ing the party at Hazeldene. “I'd like to come across on your new bus, Jimmy,” he said, “but I'm on duty again at five in ths morning. I'll fiy over on my own bus if you 2an berth her for me." “Tons of room, Dick,” I told him. “When do you start for Hezeldene?" “At 7 from the Battery stage”" “Right,”, said he. “I'll stert with you. “Very well, old son,” I said. “We'll wait for you at the other end.” I heard a splutter come over the phone. k2 , what the devil do yow mean by that, Jimmy Boon?” Dick demand- ed. ¢TI have to inform you that my bus is the quickest thing in the service.” “Can she do five hundred per? I asked casually. 5 “Good Lord!" he yelled. Merlin?" “Start at 7 and see for self,” sald I, and rung off. Dan came back just then, but had no discovery to report. “My fellows are in the air,” he sald. “That locket and coin of yours have got them going. There seems to be the faintest trace of a radio- activity filming the gold, but they have not determined what it Is yet. “Can the your- I've indicated new tests, and they'll _ Santa’s Own Crubrs Z: KNABE STORE 1330 . G ~ STREET DECIDE NOW! JOIN Pay Only $2.50 Per Week! A Brand-new 88-note Player-Piano; full scale; plain colonial. design; late style expression devices. TODAY! FRE I'm going? He went off to pack a kit-bag, and ‘while I waited I ran: through some newspapprs we had bought on the way up town. THe columns wers crammed with talk of the robbery, and it was evident that business was badly jolted. Every paper spoke of the “panic” on Wall street, of the | run -on the branches' of the banks, and none of them could make head or tail of the radium mystery. Since the passing of the Personal Liberty Laws, which restored to Americans the right, among’ other things, to drink when and where they liked, and what they liked, the newspapers had not shown such scare lines. But in all the mass of written stuff there was uot*a single helpfu} word. The phone buzser went, and I found my father at the. other end of the.wire. . “Say—is that yeu, Jimmy? Your father speaking. Is that new. plane of ‘yours up to picking & passenger off a lfner which is now 36 hours away from Sandy Hook?" “That’ll_be about 1,600 kilometers away—eh?” Thie 0ld man swore. “Durn y ew-fangled measures, “I make it 900 Amers “Same, thing. When do you want him.to be in New York?" “Could you land him at the Bat- s. I can pick him—or her—up od time for that.” I said ‘him,’ Jimmy. Lord Almeric Plauscarden, deputy governor of the Bank of England, it is. He's on the Parnassic due off Sand Hook on Wed- nesday morning." “Right. Il do it.” “Thank you, €on. expect you—when?" “Just before 6 tomorrow morning.” T'll radio him to “Good. See you at the Battery pre- sently.” If the old man had patted me. on ically, he would have There was some- | way he had pro- posed the trip, a certainty of my straight answer, that made me feel good add chesty. I'm sure If I had said no, he'd have taken It as cas- ually. (Continued in Tomorrow' Star.) 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