Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1924, Page 29

he Ark of the Covenant A Story of Mystery and Adventure BY VICTOR Cepyright, 1924, by MacCLURE. Harper & Brothers, (Continued from TYesterday's Star.) Milliken relleved me at midnight our time, and I took my turn on the bunk. “Where are we now, Jimmy?” asked | Lord Almeric sleepily. Just clearing the Newfoundland 1k, we should be— 400-odd kilo- t a point or two south of * murmured his lordship, fell asleep, ceeded to follow It was bright day when I woke to! Milliken, 4 o'clock by our and about 7 in the longi- passing. Purthalia about 15 min- " said Milliken. “I'd say a hundred kilometers to the north.” “Then we've drifted a bit, but not 20 much as I expected.” “Ah-hah!" he yawned ed around about 2—blew again.” He fetched me a cup of coffee, and then turned Two hours later Ireland came up lke a smudge of blue smoke on the horizon to port. and the Lizard widened out into | arhead of Cornwall and Devon. relieve “Wind shift- us back the patchwork of flel purple of her woods, a white ribbons of her roads, the slender threads silver that mark her v ¥s. down clo of enough to get the shape ©of her red roofs, all the jolly, homey | villages, or sprawled over nestling in wooded hollows low downs, each with its church spire or tower rising | m a patch of green, green sward, i with the headstones! ent dead. Tt was April re was no time to unter, but 1| We had to He was drinking coffee. is is the first ed of five hours in a day,” he “I am certatn I shall order eggs at lunch from force of Ilig Bea on House ned out the dropped into Parliament basin at Bat- ke again at ng into the | s to talke us to Lord | in Knightsbridge. think that Milliken was his mind that the Meriln | en in the lockup shed in berthed. Almer would not hear of either Milliken or myself going to an hotel. He insisted that we make 1 house our own. d to refuse, fectually stopped all protest. He led to a le nest of rooms, not sepa- rate fro house, but somehow | an individuality—if one may use the word—of their own. He ned the door of a tidy, mannish ing room. I had a boy at one time, Jimmy," e sald quietly. “He was killed at Messines. These are his rooms—just as they used to be when he lived in| them. Nothing has been touched, though my servants keep them | warmed and aired. There are two hedrooms and a bathroom—through there—and another living room. I e had them made ready for you both. I shall be very, very glad 1f vou and Milllken will oceupy them while you remain in London.” 1 heard a joint in Milliken's hand | crack softly as his fist clenched. My only fear is that I shall be a| host,” Lord Almeric went on. My time will be much ocupied, as you will understand, Jimmy—in fact, 1 must be back In harness at once. | 1 have a conference in the city at 3, and another in Westminster at 6. I| question if T shall be back until late | at night. My people will attend to all | Your wants, and will serve your meals | liere. 1f you should think of going to a theater, I'm certain that Milllken would like the production of ‘Twelfth | * at the Haymarket. Bunter, | butler, will get tickets for you. ow I must go. Pray excuse me. I =hall hope to see you tonight.” Tie went out, leaving us there. Mil- liken and I looked at each other in silence for a space. “I didn't want to stop in his lord- ahip's house, Mr. Boon,” Milltken said | slowly. “But when he asks us to use his dead bov's rooms, he gives | me the one thing I couldn’t refuss. It t mean a lot to him—thi Fou bet you, Milllken. “And T thought lords and such-like bunk! That one,” he nodded to the osed door—*that one makes me see been a fool!” We bathed and changed, and lunch brought to us in another of the s. The butler appeared to see if ere all right, and we let him get s for us. n't you tell me,” I asked him, “where I might find files of the Lon- don daily papers for a week or two Tas In the small library downstairs, sir. \o keep flles of the Times, Morning Tost and Telegraph and of a number of the financial journals. May I show you the room, sir?” “Please.” 1 found that the London press had treated the New York raids in daily ts_that never got c Fut [ don't McCormick Modical College Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Glasses Fitted Eyes Examioed an example I pro-| few minutes | 1 had to come| me 1 have been | rter to one as| Milllken tried | but his lordship ef- column. The Parnassic had the honor of & full column on the first day, and dwindled to half a column on the next, while the Westbury was squeezed Into 12 lines. Louisville was almost crowded out by two pages of parliamentary crisis, and a long mur- er trial. That which had taken all {America by the ears, seemed to mat- | ter little in England. It was, accord- ing to a note in the Times, purely an American concern. We saw nothing of Lord Almerlc until late at night, when we found him waiting for us to arrive from the I!hflk("(' We s=at for an hour or two round the fire in his sitting room, yawning, and drinking some of the best whisky T have ever tasted. It must have been close on 1 o'clock in the morning when we went to bed. | CHAPTER VIIL | A Raid on London—I. bell was ringing insistently. It rang ‘An long p . and just when I would | think it hac opped for good it would begin again, ore turiously than ever. I put my ha | under my ‘pillow for my watch, thea switched on the light over my head. It was half-past 3. The bell still shrilled through the house. Then came the sound of a door ‘| opening, and the bell was stopped by the murmur of a volce. Presently came the shuffing of feet, and some- where nearer at hand another voice took up the murmuring. There w lence again. Firm footsteps now cam masterfully to my door, and a knock. “Yes. Come In!" T eried. The handle turned, and Lord Al- meric entered, wrapped in a dressing ‘Something has happened at the bank,” he said. “Giood Heavens, “You don’t think—-—? “I'm tnclined to think it is—our triends of the Parnassic—or others of the tribe.” “But—but in London! It's tncredible, si “We live in an incredible age, Jim- my. Would vou like to come with me to the city? I'm going there at once.” “Sure. 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