Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1924, Page 26

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER 28, 1924_PART 1. A Story of Mystery and Adventure BY VICTOR Copyright, 1924, by MacCLURE. Harper & Brothers. ,{Continued from Yesterday's Star.) It took the Transatlantic Co.'s air- Ships & net 60 hours from New York to X.ondon, but a less heavilr-built machine might do It in 50-0dd. Adding on the difference in time between the two brought the time occupied to bout 60, gross. That is to say, if an <hip with a crulsing speed of about kilometers per hour had wanted to bhe over London just after midnight on the Friday, she would have had to leave her base on the American continent not Jater than midday on the Wednesday. But the chances were that, to escape ob- servation, the departure in actual case had been made in the dark of the early Wednesday morning. The Louisville raid happened on the unday night and Monday morning, and t was likely that the airship had made her base either in the dark of the Mon- day morning or on Monday night. Leav- ing Louisville about 4 after the rad, it would be 6 before she reached any likely base in the Alleghenies, and time the farm folks would be their morning chores. The vessel could Lardly escape being seen in the fight at 6 o'clock. This brought us back to the notion of a base at least 12 hours’ flight from Louisville, and gave addi- tional color to the theory of a base over the Canadian border, probably in some undeveloped district back of Ontario. To berth an airship on the Monday evening and to have her fitted out again for a raid across the Atlantic within $0-0dd hours was something of a feat. thes There was the unloading of the Louis- vile haul, the refilling of the ballonets with gas, the retuning of the engines eral tightening up and over- vayage. If the raiders were using only dirigible she was a wonder of ef- ficiency. Tt ¥ that ir opera- was quite within bey had two machines fo; tions, and the three of ing the situation in 3 room were not inclined te idea idly, .when we comsidered the daring which could conceiva and carry out raids on Such a wida radius, and the magnitude of the erganization behind the conceptior. lIndeed, it seemed not too far-tetched an 1d that the organization operated from ases in both the Old World and the| imagining one soli- rio we were serious- | > power of this There seemed to be neither rhyme| tor reason in the operationt. Of| s 1 millions of pounds sterling in gold 1yi n the Bank of England, e raide had abstracted merely would have got with his alliteration if the telephone bell had not rung just then. Smiling at his friend, in spite of the gravity of the situation, Lord Al- meric picked up the receiver. “Yes," he gald into the microphone. “Sir Thomas is here. Scotland Yard for you, Basildon.” “Ah, ‘good!" said Sir Thomas. may have some news!"” “We L Sir Thomas Basildon took the receiver from Lord Almeric, and sat on the desk to talk into the instrument. “Yes, Ferguson—Basildon speaking.” he said. “Eh? Ah! Yes, well, I haif e: pected that. Army and Navy Stores? Aha—that, too. Eh? Just a minute, Ferguson.” He turned to us. “The thing's complete. A petrol sta- tion at Purfleet—the Anglo-American Oil Co—reports a deficiency of 6,000 and the whole establish- ment put to sleep. The Army and Navy Stores in Victoria street. have been . and a Jarge quantity of | money being left liters of petrol Now, Ferguson- He turned to the m and almost immediately B he shouted. “Don’t pyil you chief s leg, Ferguson—it isn't done! Te me again. With their faces blackened? Well, I'm damned !" He burst into a roar of laughter, shaking, shaking, until Lord Almeri and I sprang up in alarm. Soldlers have given way to hysterics in the midst of a great nervous strain before, and I thought the general had an attack. I don't know what Lord Almeric thought, but he evidently considered the laughter a little ill-timed “No, no! I'm ail right, really—I'm not unstrung gasped Sir Thomas. “The raiders did gas the Commons this morning—and every man jack on the treasury bench woke up with his face blackened! Blackened, by George'— with burnt cork ! “What?" cried Lord Almeric. “You aren't serious, Basildon ! “Serious as cholera,” sald Sir Thomas guson has just told me —and he's too solemn to joke on an: subject.” There was no help for it. Lord Almeric tried hard to keep his face straight, but he couldn’t—and pres. ently he and the general were lying back helpless in chalirs, laughing tili tears str. d down thelr faces. I thought it enough. but their ghter got me more than the joke one, so Lord Almeric told us, and all the trouble that had been involved in forcing the three joint stock banks | had not yet been rewarded by the find of a gold; but in each of | banks there had been the same by acid of) orth of bearer mecurities the work | dmen structiveness nseless expenditure fo energy.| trouble to force four ba re was t loot in mportant? night have be 1 l they broke open 'the Street Banks first, were disappointed | of a haul from them. and destroyed | the sec: leen. then | came ¢ igland on to find that re gold hxrcy an thoy could get y with." I'm afraid ra Al-| i that 1t mer! ot ily news h ed in the bank her: on knowledge that nks since the war have kep rve of gold, but have h; g arrangement witlh us. These are not criminals almost | depos- | s also com- joint-stock | n-the “The nary sense” said Sir Thoma on of the radium points to| re that has been exercised | th ds. There ture will probab what is. We may re rd this r demonstration of powe to bring chaos into t world, to upset values—some method of advertising an idea pre ently to be rev : i allowed to express what is intuition on my part, lieve that these raiders value even the | gold they have t They have | marvelous power—mlarvelous! But the vulnerable point in any scheme of attack is Its weak That is In the air in this T cannot helleve that the sch ers can be carried out with a dirigi- ble. We have proved the vulne bility of the airship time and it is on point th, get them. I not concern el solely looking for criminals or cranks on solid earth. 1 11 keep after them In the air, and, by God—get them, too'—if they are on my side of the globe!” “Bully for you, gener help velllng, he spok rce. “I beg your pardon at all,” said he. “The best thing you can do is to get back to America at vour quickest speed, and piteh into the authorities there. If the raiders are operating from Can- ada, until measures are taken to stop them the whole of your wealthy cities round the Great Lakes are at their mercy—Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit—and the coastal cities, also—Boston, Phil- adelphia, Washington. Make the see what you and I see. that if this menace is to be scotched, they will e of the raid-| * 1 couldn’t with such Hed airplanes, fighting airplanes t can climb 5,000 mete nd m Make them understand that this is not any parochial question, or na- tional, but that if is for the world to| face and beat. For me, .I shall strongly represent to our Govern-| ment that the Canadian authorities be asked to go over their territory| with the minutest search they can. And I will put the French police on their guard—and the Germans—the Germans— » He broke off and eyed Lord Almeri¢ queerly. - No, my dear Basildon,” said Lord Almeric. “1 can believe much of them, but that they would leave so many rall- lions of the gold they so badly want be- nd them—no.” A blind? ot-they. They are incapable of the sacrifice.” : “Humph! Perhape you're right—per- haps you're right. Though, by George! they've got the ships—and you never know but what.they have the gas! I'm certain that they haye never stopped their research.” “Think again, Basildon—think again. | Would the matter of p few Americans | or Englishmen asphyxiated deter brother German from using pofson gas if he had conceived the idea of these ¥aids?” ‘They want something -better than their Zeppelins to get across the Atlan- tig, with, Sir Thomas,” said I, “and be- #&ew, Mow about housing them onte they were in Amerfca?” ! “Well, I.relinquish, the idea,” Sir Thomas said. “T shall ‘put the French— and-the Germans—on: the qui, vive. If Londan this week, why not:Paris or Ber- lin the pext?’ . . “Why not?” Lord Almeric agreéd. “Brer-r!- And this damned government to move into action Palr! Think of it, Pluscarden! The solemn idiots sitting all night through to this very morning debating a reduction of -the air- esti- mates—while this. is happening, prac- tically at _the other end of the street! 1 wish to Heaven the raiders had given | you these | 2 C it 1do ald Lord Alme pping his eyes. “The thing's farcical. It couldn’t have been he rafce urely not!” “Must have been rden. Boxe: of radium were left beside the mace addressed to some of our research Instity s. The thing’s conclusive! night have one of the Opposition who woke up first and snatched the opportunity to make the front bench look ridiculous. It is ugh to wreck the government.” fight have been that,” Sir Thomas kied, “and I hope it does wre: We may get the : again, thank Got us hope so, Rasildon Well here is little use in remaining here We can do nothing until the clerks turn up, when we can go through the books. Heaven what a mess!” said Lord Almeric. “I thi and a bath, then the idea. Let us go, ust let Mr. Boon sho " me those . Pluscar- . Sir Thomas sald, “and I'm with Could you drop me at Scotland Yard if I sent my car on? I want to talk to you on the way.” ‘Surely,” said his lordship. “I'll pick you up outside. There was no great crowd in ti streets yet, for It was barely 6 o'clock, but Sir Thomas no sooner appeared than he was surrounded by newspaper men, who wanted a state- ment can't you any statement 5 s protestad. “Yes— you can say I believe it to be work of the Parnassic gang. must be obvious. I shall Issue al statement when I get back give r Tho to Scotland Yard. 1 must treat you all ailke They fell away : from him, but watched him from a distance, and when we had finished looking at the smears of glass and had gone on, I saw them gather round the spot and examine the powder closely. “Glass bombs, 1 agree—probably containing the gas in liquid form," said Sir Thomas. “I wonder what it is? 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