Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1925, Page 20

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, FTEBRUARY 2, 1925. ———————————l_—.—_._._____—_;__.___—_—z____—_________“ A Story of Mystery and Adventure BRY VICTOR Conyright, 1924, by MacCLURE. Barper & Brothers | y's Star)* [ nhat followed no an- thecoming from the Pres- esident ved from the news broadeast by the | had received the | ultimatum w e Merlin aid, | geri fagher | ¢ ified the | eal pur with so e reminded of the as demanded on sensational | look at the men zled the best brajns us is a as it | ets, was | however, no me. He was reported | s to have taken up | | ~ appallir h a raid.—this too | aggado difficult to sident’s att ial interview Lis very sl eemed to assent to the ted to him kn epor @ report of the M. T The werk and no direct reply ew. from a question rted from the British that the Presi- any invitation demanded eet | question ran, “of the appaling con- dition of busincss in the country, as a result of the continued ralds of the go-called League of the Covenant would the secrotary of foreign help to allay the nat the nation by indica of the government tow ference demanded by the league? “The secretary of foreign affairs “The government is without official information regarding any uch a conference.’ Honorable member: ‘The hon- gentleman has doubtless seen secretary (shortly): o honorable member: ‘In view situation, where tiy invulnerable league leniably high ideals’ (cries ") ‘demanded a conference the would the governm not discard red tape for once way, and take steps to make conference an accomplished (Opposition cheers.) powers, that fact? (with considerable norable member of words < to him that “invulnerabl “high” of “ideals” “The hon- | ora ember is mistaken in believ 5 er of those nations e d by melodramatic Por to unheard- to a gang of crimir cheers.) From came various the e suggesting . that ents were opposed o of conferring with the The raids had touched the jons in their most tender spots pockets—and resentment was | The official slogan everyv-| red to be: No negotiations we did the determina-| pose of the that the cavern were amaz and stubborness of the particular ral. As t date fixed for n approached deepened. We k renc govern power to the very end, ev voived the worl of us doubted There was a leader which put out all doubt of his abi fulfill his task to the la i Lhave given, T am afraid, but a poor | description ¢ ndeed, it i uction. None | demand | | :um felon, bu when I try to tell of the power that emanated from that frail little man. But in the last days in the cavern, when the world seemed to hold him as naught, while the men round him went about with the shadow of death upon them, quietly doing their tasks| Wwith no diminution of energy or ef- ficiency, the magnetism of the master seemed to heighten. He held the men to him, though it seemed he had only death, swift death to offer them— since the world by failing to estimate the real value of his promise was sweeping to its doom. Tb say that all the men composing the League of the Covenant accepted the situation nonchalantly erate, but that none of them to his chief onridge, de ity, just as in| vs I have seen others of his | kind develop that alr when on the point of going over ¢ho top. That the normal gayety of mieh would return in the case of Devonriige and others when once the “zero” hour was past, was certain as that the raid on| Washington was inevituble. But until | the actual moment arrived when the fate of the world and of the league would be decided, anything but real | seriousness would have rung false 1 felt, myself, something like an in- | ocent man in the condemned cell of | I had feelings to spar a deep ac ion and conduct of the ed me. 1 thought that such excellent| act as a leaven tol experiencing fellows could not [ You'll love would be N humanity in general, for they made one proud of one's kind. The two or three days before the 16th of September were dovoted to conditioning both ships, for the two were to act simultaneously From a wmall ca b raids since March—minus that left in nque de France—was brought ovn and loaded Into the ships. Every and spirit tank was filled to it st capacity, and every instru- me nl thoroughly tested uch of the ducks and chickens as survived in the cavern were given their freedom, and the personal stores of the men o aded Into the s 8. the toucan helonging to Smith- quacious mariner, was given a perch aboard one of the ves- sels The plateau of n system v wuated by the he Red Scar and its being completely ague of the Cove- fd bope for no re- uld make a return av unnecessa We learned now that the reservolr the exercise of its more ruthiess pow- ers. Milliken and I were not excluded from the final meeting of the 15th. We were treated as members of the ([ league, for, indeed, our sympathies all with its purpose. Thus it Saing fhat wh neardiths maxter etk to his followers. “Gentlemen,” he said in that level, clear voice of his, “before 1 do any- thing clse, I have to thank vou. I have to thank you for a devotion to the cause I have offered you, davotion such as has never been paralleled in history But, gentilemen—my com- rades—TI am persuaded that cur cause is worthy of even such devotion as yours, g ~(Continued in Tomorro e Mrs. Edith Macy Dies. YORK, February 2 Carpenter Macy, wife of V. erit Macy, capitalist and philan- thropist, died yesterday in Fort Se ol of aithon gas was almost exhausted, | . which meant that the Ark of the Covenant would soon be without its marvelous lift, by which it had con- trived to avuid bloodshed in its operatio that future In- vulnerability could only come from ns, and its McCormick Medical Glasses Fitted College Eyes Exumined Graduate Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone Main 721 409410 McLuchien Bldg 10th and G Bts. 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