Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1925, Page 27

The Ark of the Covenant A Story of Mystery and Adventure BY VICTOR MacCLURE. ht, 1024, by Hafper & Brothers. \ef's Inventi Each par " trundls cart, rubber the gold. One grou cled the Na- e e Guar- oading the gold party had finish the gondola, | from its tw nto and had v -ations on the Subtr ¥ f the other party had com t< work on the Dyers' | and the 'l When the second haul | of goid a ‘l’-\hul been stowed combined forces on th We appeared to waste no ng, 1 suppose, to inex- | ore our last haul was hip. Meantime, according to prear- ranged plans, envelopes addre. d ir disguised hands were ready for the| securities, and the little task to drop these into the box at m»\ post office. | ratd was lead boxes | Y of radlum all prepared. It was my |l which gave us Informatien of the Parnassic. | We saw the ofl Westbury early and course for further use. We saw the Parfiassic long before attacked her. Indeed, we followed easlly for an hour before we shot ad to lower the red riding lamp 2 stopped her. We had dropped our gas in readiness In her path, and when she hove to we maneuvered it about her. We then swooped dotwn alongside and laid the gondola close by. Our piracy eccupled 40 minutes. It was pltiful to see the ship so helpless, and the sight affacted the among us very strangely, here was no ice In the sea near , or the chlef certainly would have talkken measures to restoré some of the ship's company to consclousness before leaving. We now sped after the Westbary. The only thing remarkable about this the extraordinary trucu- lence—by wireless phone—of her nkee skipper. He seemed to hear e love for the navy of his country, and one would have thought that a warning to heave to was the biggest tanker marked her THE KvENNU STAR the disposition in England and Europe we knew nothing. The long flight to London was made without mishap, and here, in the Bank of England and elsewhere, we created as much trouble for business quarters as we could. To drop bombs all about the Houses of Parliament and nestls on the terrace was the easlest thing we have ever done, for the district round about was little frequented at the moment. We did not even have to take any precau- tions against traffic running amok. This rald was a demonstration ot power, pure and simple, and our leav- ing of the radium beside the mace was definitely done, so that it should be quite realized that it was we who {had put the Commons to sleep. My helper in this explolt was Lord Devonridge, and as he had been told | of the ldea beforenand he was pre- pared. It was he who blackened the faces of the members of the front bench—in revenge, he sald, for tha heavy taxation of his class, .which had driven him from the country, and as a reprisal for the docking of the privileges of the Lords. When 1 turned to find him thus busy with his prepared cork, my first feeling was one of surprised annoy- ance, but there was something so ludicrously unexpected in the busi- nesslike sangfroid with which he set about the task that continued anger was impossible. 1 Imagine, to be candid, that the absurd spectacls af- forded me in one particularly offen- sive politician, from whose obtuse- ness I had frequently suffered while in the air service, had a great deal to do with my complacence over the scheme. To see the pompous fat- head with his face blackened was { complete solace for all the irritation where we arched line for the plateau. a week end in April, rafd, which was by daylfght on ship- ping along the South African routs|of sight above him on our from England, took place on the first Sunday in May. swung It was now apparent to us that we had put a very effective spoke in the | the wheel of mysti- | in was plain, too, now that it was ceom- We determined and give those who chased us Our raids on Europe took place on and our next the plateau, messages ema- Silk=Covered WASHINGTON, D, sow'westerly in |pursued he world's business und hadwe bega stitfred Furope and America into a)she get about from place to place in state of apprehemsion and fled anger, It drastic measures would be taken to run us to earth, definitely known the raids were plished by airship. to demonstrate our powers by da light, every chance to meet us if they could. credible time, while the the Can lantic troubls selves—brought the Atzores, but by the time our most as- siduous pursuer was Atlantic for us we were flying out We We knew from the |and in the wireless messages which we picked up that many aeroplanes were after us, and later, when we had skipped back to nating from one particular plane, the |rary Merlin, showed that we were being Woodward & Lothrop Down Stairs Store raids on the Serra, FRIDAY by the fastest alr machine ever known, We took the trouble of recording messages from this Merlin, and n to note that not only could ralds—which we to relay by now rested for another week, late evening of the middle Saturday of May set out for further African shipping. reached Madeira in tha early hours of Sunday morning, and found a tempo- mooring place on the that barren pie but she seemed that | pable of extremely prolonged flights. The following week end found us ralding shipping on the North Atlantic, Merlin, we knew, was scouring ries. News of our North At- wireless our- Merlin sweeping of desolation JANUAKRY to the west of the {sland. There we lay snug until the first peep of day when we unhitched to fly northward to Intercept a Unlon-Castla liner. This time we were unaware that the ubiquitous Merlin was close behind us. . We had dropped our gas cloud and swept the ship with it. We had grappled our gondoly to her side. It was a rald of terror, merely, but we broke (nto the strong room as a mat- ter of course. We found little, not enough to justify abstraction, but we were helping ourselves to the ship's stores of food when the message came from aloft, “'Ware planes” o recall the crew was a matter of seconds, and we had the gondola into the ship and cast off before the silver plane dived at us. Eastward, now, we saw the approach of the British plane-carrying crulser. There was something divinely beau- tiful in the swift, brave swoop of that lovely silver shape. She came down at dizzying speed, so that 1t was use- had the force of gravity to bring her. But we opened the gas Jets about the ship, thetic envelope us. It the steady rise of the ship that the plane was bound to miss u were sadly mistaken. The pilot knew | her. his business. Befora we tered the average plane inte her com- ponent parts, and we wers opened fire upon with accurate bursts of shell | g fire both fore and aft of the plane as|airentton to she whizzed under us. comin The Ark of the Covenant stag-|style gered a little, but answered read aft when we gave her more gas. She rose s adily, and now our foes had to | climb. We saw that the Merlin—tor | P we supposed our attacker to be from her speed and her fine design— was somehow cloud. She swung after us into the cloud, but got off a burst of shell fire See Upstairs Store Advertisements on Pages 14 and 15. none the less. less to try our ray upon her, for she|not take us at her present she spun quickly was one in a hundred for knack. making a cloud of anaes-' chine-gun fire emed with another We could not but we|any further, and we put o She slid back on her tall imme to flip over She found she could to experimen realized | diately, s what had happened, he had flattened { controlled and pec in a fashion which would have shat- |scent. a gas cloud about her the sea. ar hovering de- as she lay ou ; opened fir - heavy anti-al counter wi described, immune from our gas|Which R Brilllant Values and Styles of Unusual Appeal—Sale Fashion-Right Spring Frocks| . Silk-and-Wool Hose, °1 Pair Irregulam of ngher Grad? he had ever had in his life. that rasping volce was soon stilled by our gas, and we had little difficulty in helping ourselves to the s excellent aviation spirit. These raids accomplished, we eir- cled w it to the Atlantlc, were ged down in the I walked out of ths gassed aren by back streets and unate | enough to escape obser for when I came round by the park above | the post office I saw a thickish erowd | farther down Broad parently ing to fin b e ng at the low stood one behind t {1 had experienced formerly through his fatuous Ignorance. | The chlef, however, took another view. He considered that our mission had been degraded, and he gave Dev- jo idge wigging which, whila It and | yeld no trace of anger, did not lack AESEneby | point But even the chief was not - proof against the gay, insouciant procession, for the chicf had ) 11 humor of Devonridge, and in the end a ray over the a » upset all elee- I think he forgave the culprlt fu tric 1 The news we had of the effect of | At any rate, the joy of the Engl | our raids was meager, for we plcked | members of the crew was worth any e through our wireless, | jttle lowering of tone we suffered Do created & deep im- | by the explolt n we felt sure i rned by the same round- fortnight after the New York| The raid on the House of Commons bout route, only stopping to put my | rald we descended Loulsville, and | occupied little more time than it takes about roi o P n . o e off with gold|to write of it, and after operations et sl mlicm ¥ikuce 5 Y % B il lon the army and navy stores we Peter Pan S o T R B T e OF SIS Tt S S Sweaters B e e (esiin tne where we replenished our depleted i s wo 18 we galned | A { 4 nod1to the highest we could compass and arn tie e A n idea oil and con rna- put in b wa \ at o ir ralds . eadiness for our descent on Berlin. \ the Amer air police, | g other things we noticed was | 7*® d me, wish » good- | the fact that the business chaos we| The Berlin raid was accomplished Ra\on \ests and Step-ins d not have known that ed to bri about by taking | without mishap, but it was at Paris| 3 | e ) f 1 around the corner of the street es had been lessened by | that we were made fully awlre of | | S $y’ l"hach was a stopped motor try ver the| their speedy return to the proper|the preparations against us. 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