Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1925, Page 21

he Ark of the Covenant A Story of Mystery and Adventure BY VICTOR MacCLURE. Copyright, 1924, by ~ Thetford was working at the and Dan was helping him, both d with excitement and curiously * with thelr fair hair and their 1errier-like eagerness. hief finished his explanation, scientists stood back, nod- > each other gravely. you ready, gentlemen?” asked t moment, Terrence.,” said Boddy. “We haven't an electro- pe here, and a flourescent screen ild be of little use in this light v. what might one use to detect ¢se subsidiary rays? Ah off and walked over tc voung foreign military ¢ stood in a gorgeously tasseled se me, sir,” said the professor but that tassel on your lan- i, sash—whateve u call to be sil think it is,” said the e professor very astonished took much ont a pock blacker by to- e to have it, pleass,” he said and held out’ the knife. but—it will ruin it blurted It won't hurt Iy want to se e subsidiary reatest nonch: ipped the long tassel s shoulder knot xcellent!” breathed g0 ahead, Ter- the tassel Dy tobacco pouch It won't Boddy,” the pre- said will don’t really on mizght have been comic amused accept- nee | with | Harper & Brothers. 5 “The power of the league is not yet proved.” “Nonsense!" sald Rutherglen brus- quely. “Think of that ray on a bat- tleship!” “You shall have ample proof, gen- tlemen,” said the chief softly. Once more he held up his hand and waved it to the airship. The Ark of the Covenant came lower, and the zondola came down from it. “May I trouble you all to come back to the ship?” asked the chief. “What's up, Danny?’ 1 whispered. “What is the chief going to do?" Nothing,” said Dan. “Mathemati- cal details.” He gripped my arm and shepherded me with the rest into the gondola. Once aboard the ship, the scientists trooped into the chief cabin and dis- posed themselves about the place. “Gentlemen,” said the chief, “I keep back nothing but the nature of the cathode producing the rays and cer- | tain details the secrecy of which 1 must preserve. 1 ask you, Sir Wal- ter, and the rest of you, to examine these papers.” No word was spoken in 'the bin for the next hour. Sir Walter sat at the table, and when he had finished with one paper he handed it on and took another from the chief. N v and again some man would sigh or |grunt over a point gasped, but these slips of paper, apparently torn from a child’s writing book, riveted th last 1 r held oniy o eet. Sir Walter disposed of e preceding one and held out his 1 he handsome old Englishman took one glance at it, frowned deeply, then |figured a little on a scrap of er | by his side. Red suffused his face‘as up and held out his big he stood | white hand to the chief. ‘es, by gad, Torrance.” he half “Yes! It makes the brain passed from hand to hand until at last it came to Stein- | metz and the Jap. When they looked up Rutherglen spoke | “Gentlemen.” he sai game is up! The League of the Cov 1ant has won! David Torrance, 1 con- quietly, “the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Down TO BUSINESS SCHEMeEs . we're PLAY. GOLF witH A we'Re ANY Com? JEFE, we GoTTA kNUCKLE FORGET THESE GET-RicH - Quick TODAY AND (F we coutd BLUEE HIM INTY THINKING N OF MEANS WE'D BE ITTING PRETTY! I'M BRoke! 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And when the last para- { Braph of the scheme of disarmament ihad been agreed to. he set out fur- | ther poin ncerning the league of | the covenar | One of the ships of the leag! | with all her instruments intact, w | to be handed over to an international | board, and she was to be used only for enforcing on recalcitrant nations |the rulings of the New League of | Nations for Peace. She was to be permanently berthed in Washington In the hands of an international science board, presided over by Dan mont, as nominee of the league of the covenant, the discoveries of the chief were to be made public under | sufficient guarantees that the power they embodied could not be misused. | The members of the league were to be immune from any prosecution on alrship were to be retalned by new league for peace. The. whole cost of the campaign of the league of the covenant was to be made good. The gold taken on the various ralds would be returned for distribution to the several govern- ments. Lord Almerlc and my father agreed to work out the financial de- talls involved. In vain, when the signing of the treaty became Imminent, did some of the delegates protest that they were not plenipotentiaries. Seton grimly told them that they still had a day or two to obtain full powers from their governments. If not He shrugged his big shoulders. On the evening of the third day the chief opened his eyes. Seton had just come back from the conference. Kirsteen, Dan and I were already in the cabin. “This is the third day steen?” he inquired. unconscious three days? “Yes, father.” “Is Seton here?" Seton stepped out from behind the cot “Here 1 am, Master.” “How goes the battle, isn't it, Kir- have been the Tomorrow said the chief. “To- morrow I shall be abraad again. I must rest. I will sign at noon to- morrow. Good night, Kirsteen." He fell asleep. It seemed Impossi- ble that he would recover enough to sign the treaty on the morrow, but when noon came the chief of the league was back at his old seat in the conference. He was the last man to sign The treaty that abolished war on this earth was an accomplished fact! The master rose slowly to his feet. As he began to speak, a deep hush fell on the assembly. He spoke for half an hour, and when he had done, men around him were openly crying. Hun and Frank, Russ and Finn, Scan and Latin, Saxon, Goth, Oriental— men of every shade of skin from jet to ivory—he moved them to the depths of their souls. Yet, he only spoke to them of man's ceaseless struggle for existence since the beglnning of time, of man's hope for the future. His one hand never moved through all his speech from its resting place on Seton’s shoulder. His voice never held a trace of emo- tion, nor did It ever soar or deepen for rhetorical effect. He only spoke right on, simply, directly, levelly, “Gentlemen, he finished gently, “I congratulate you! Still' the hush held the assembly. Near the White House a clock chimed the half-hour. The chief tapped Seton on the shoulder, and the two went out of the conference hall side by side. quite Seton came for me at 6 o'clock. He was terribly grave. “The chlef wants you and Milliken to come with us to the plateau,” he sald directly. “To the plateau!” I exclaimed. “Yes. We are to go in the Ark of the Covenant I, 10 of us, includin Dan Lamont.: We are to leave the chief there.” I stared at him. “Don’t you see, man? The chief is dying—his will 1s giving out. He ays he can only hold out another day—" “Good God!" steen?” I cried. “And Kir- (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) 4 flavor of your dentifrice. You will V. like the change—no drugs, no risk. Dr: ccentricity | ratulgte you as a scientist on the|the score of the operations of the t from most marvelous single-handed piece |league. They were to be compensated of research that the world has ever |for their three years' exilé and for seen, and as a man on the greatest|their work, sufficient capital sbeing | given each man to secure hin: an in- discovery that has ever helped ma Kind to raise itself from the mire!” |come for life. Such members as de- He turned to the gathering. |sited to keep their positions on the “Gentlemen, we must be unanimou N = pressing our view to the confer- | Are we agreed?” s inevidable,” grunted Stein- »avid Dorrance. I salute you! )l children combared with | with us to the con- | o e Sir Walter asked | Anti-Kamnia Tablets promote T nter was aimost ment. 20 "% | sleepand give quick relief from no. Lamont and | nervousness. 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