Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1924, Page 34

I'The Ark of the Covenant B A Story of Mystery and Adventure BY VICTOR MacCLURE. Copyright, 1924, by Harper & Brothers. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) The feeling had not worn off when Dan Lamont came back with a small kit-bag in his hand. “What's the Smug contentment for, Jimmy?” he asked. “Have you just heard that the President has resigned and you've been offered the job?" I told him, and his eyes lightened up- “Say, Jimmy,” he pleaded, like any “I'm coming with you, old man ‘re taRing me with you, aren’t arting about 3 in the “That doesn’t matter, Jimmy. J'd ltke to come along——" 1 said he could, and he danced a little breakdown to show how pleased he was. Dan Lamont's an awful kid in some ways, for all his high position in the scientific world. We drove down to the Battery in ®0o0d time, and walited to see the Mer- lin come in. Dan's man drove the fved. Dick ane moored d he waved h In a little > like a dot in came speeding a Schuyler had little way hand tted my bus as Milliken at feHow's going to-crash her— ep.an angle! serenely, and e} into Wis seat to watch, f he expected 1 to to the up. to Merlin began dad,” e sl together. didn’t ers per, but well behir that much particular flig ibove 400 Ik Jimmy,” was —but he bad to the Par- e ea of making ken one of the council of war on the head. I might have ed another of my fellows to go Merlin preparatory to the flight, but T knew that Milliken would not let any one else do it. An extra gasoline tank had to be shipped and fixed with new connections, and the job wanted a sure hand. Milliken promised that everything would be . ready.by 3 o'clock, and <ed out a squad of the more skill- ies to do the work ranted that he the extra tan I had to leave It Ve had to let Dick uyler get off his opinions of the Merlin at dinner ‘before we could fall to discussing the robberies serfously. And I am afraid that the dinner was unduly prolong- ed before I satisfled his curiosity by the ald of a whole thick pad of scrib- bling paper. The funny thing was that neither the banker nor the man ©f science seemed to be bored by the erguments. Dan and my father were as keen as a mustard box. When at length we had the Merlin thoroughly explained, we were ready for coffec and other drinks in the smoking room, and there Dan and 1 put forward our theory of the rob- bery. e “Pinkerton & Co.” said Dick. “I'm pleased to meet you. I often won- dered who you were, Well, well—so you're only you, after all!" “Don’t you think it's feasible?” I demanded. “Ah, if you come to feasible—it's just feasible, Mr. Pinkerton—or are you the Co.?” “I wish yow'd quit kidding, Dickie,” I sald. “Do you consider the notion reasonable?” “Reasonable? Mr. Pinkerton, I—" Then Danny and I both set on him “I'll be good—I'll be very good!" he yelled presently. “Shurrup, Jim- my! Stop it! TI'll be good. We let him go, and after telling us that we were a couple of thugs, he became very sound on welghts and gases and hot air of that sort. He had the latest statistics about dirigi- bles at his finger- “l think you discount the s blue-wall idea. vould be n dirigible of any to come gs. On a the wind | ther lways be |2 gooa d {is not the sort of thi an push do a ship's vside agree with you” k went that the Wall street robberies are linked with the gaso- lUne and store affairs in Newark. The ks them up. But why drag to explain the possi- b done by one gang— inclined and worked not said triumphantly put a jolly old moto ¢ about twenty tons— e little gasoline sta we have four-thou truck. The otor-ship dr to the gasoline station, and whangs in the dope—gas, or whatever it is, then proceeds to run a pipe up to the tank. It takes its fuel. In the meantime the gang with the truck is operating on Schomberg's Stores. When that is done, the truck moves off across the Hudson by the Cort- landt Street Ferry, wh runs all night. It drops its dope in Broadway and down Wall street The gang bursts the ban and collects the goods, and off out of the district to a private wharf, say, on the Jersey City side of Newark Bay, to where the jolly little motor-ship has swum over. The little lugger is loaded with the booty, and drops down elther side of Richmond—and there you are!” “Now, do you know,” sald Dan La- mont, “that’s & very pretty story, Dickie—and very well told, tool But how do you Eet over the fact that all the automobile engines stop- ped in the doped district?’ “Ours s a special automobile, ours it! Maybe it's an electrically-driven truck——" “It now appears,’ father inter- | posed, “that streat Broadway were stopped Office Square, nobody kn We all turned to star we had almost forgotten he was so silent. Dan was the first to recover. “That washes out truck, Dickle,” he sald. “You can have your airship,” Dick aid. “When you get crooks that can ope a whole district, stop-automobiles and electric cars, spread stickfast, so to speak, on all movement two hours over an area of a square kilometer— what's to prevent them having an afr- ship that can nestle down on Broad- way? r your electric A'Hl BEVENING STAR, WASHINGYTON, D. tenderly of my little motor-lugger. I was 8o fond of it.” Boon?' Dan asked my father. ting, and of getting away undetect- od, points to an approach from an un- expected quarter—so L say the air. The Finn's dream ls tdo exact to be alcohol. Jt's simple. Just a cabin coming down fromi the ain—then a blue wall—apd sdme noises that to my layman, ear sound uncommonly like machinery. No alcohol dream that. So I say the air. Seems to me that whatever theory you try to de- velop, you always get about half- way with it. But 1 have a hunch that the solution will be found In the air Dick shbwed more surprise over Jim- my's new seaplane.than over the whole robbery. Why?” “Because Jimmy has evolved & new principle, sir,” said Dick. “Well, Jimmy hasn’t got the mo- nopoly of brains in the world. May- be somebody's evolved & new prin- ciple for dirigibles,” sald the old man. “I'm golng to have one more drink. Then I'm going to bed. And if for once I may play the heavy father, T'll advise you all to do_the same. Seven hours from now, Jimmy has got to be 600 miles out at sea.” “So have 1" sald Dan Lamont proudly. . We all had another drink, and the ol!d man told us exactly how he got on the long green in four and holed out with a handsome putt for a five CHAPTER V. Modern Piracy. 2 It was 3 o'clock on the Tuesday morning, and Dan Lamont and myself were standing In the porch of Hazel- dene with my father. The roadster was purring out on the avenue. 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