Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1925, Page 36

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY MA.ROH 26,. 1925 T was introduced as a brother bag- man, and was soon listdning to an The Seven Sleepers et S o e e ditions in Europe. A Thrilling Novel of International Intrigue Our new companon, it segmed, was & Swede, and the pair talked engag- By FRANCIS BEEDING ; ingly of supply and demand, of the g e e R W5 exchange and of transport. Inevita- p (Copyright, ¥ Little, Brown & Co. bly their conversation went around to the “good old days,’* more particu- CHAPTER I ins larly as the Swede was a traveler for rew wcquainta the Svenska Kullagar Fabriken. I ERinse My Laggs s sould pessibly req 300,090 sauce- (had heard u good deal about this It all started with the loss o¢ my | )Ans, but it is concefvable that jt|[firm during the war from®a friend Seaias night require lurge quantities of |of minc in the ministry of blockade. 2 = Jduminum. It takes one back to the|It was at that time the lapgest man- 5 [ ] I was returning home to England i old days." ufactory of ball bearings in the ® from a trip to the Tuscan towns by | * “The good old days?” I echoed, in|world, and the desperate need of our way of the Riviera, and I had regi tone uf one who seeks an ex-|government for this esseytial com- tered my trunk to Genoa. On arri planation modity had virtually dictated our ing at tkat city, however, I dlsco “During the war,” he e ined, |Swedish policy. d, after much difficult inquiry, In | ., go1d thousands of tons of alimi-| Then suddenly 1 pricked up my the course of which I was assured |,um 1o the German Government. I'mjears. Certainly it wa¥ a mo that Italy, thanks to Slgnor Mussolind. | \jhert Golay (Golay fls)"—he bowed |extraordinary vu’lnrldrnre‘ |huuxh":e:: was a great and glorlous country |, e ceremoniously—“of Ufholtz & ordinary than it seemed, per- which would shortly be undisputed |gop,y of Neuhausen.” Purope is small and the routes mistress of the Mediterranean and the | "y jpew the firm well by repute Switzerland are limited, That! m cie Surope, th . ! ! my effects had been dinpmtcred v |(now that I was a tinker) as they |to Neuhausen. should encounter our | Geneva. Tt was polnted out. for 1% |nad been my encmies in war (when 1|Swedish friend, who was going to tween “Genova” and * vrar was |78 @ soldier)? But for Ufholtz & | Basel, \\l:‘;'u-vl s0 very singular, nor e Golay there would have been precious | fndeed they hould both have b At - little aluminum for the friendl¥ Zép- [done an cxcellent stroke of businoss Fortunately Twas in no great need |poiins! 1 logked with nteres i | With one and the sume gentleman, O Yiie aacorery of Ty loss. | GOIGY O1s. Hete was ithe meutral|Who;was conduoting lils operations in lighted with the discovery Of N demea, | (rader incarnate. For him the war |Switzerland. Anyhow, there it was. A O Bentrion, | CeemeS Istood simply for t Jod old days.” |The Swede was also celabrating a N eI e e T iad met in [ANd apparently, o far as he ivas|partial return to the “good old days.” | . | Busel and he was going ‘to meet him She }:\'i?l"hen:n ‘1].:: ||::‘f‘:;r:{ e ree hundred thousand sauce- | agaln in Geneva—a gentieman who stut- | ¥ S0 T nad not oen her during All/that {Panst I fpeated sottls | tered und was as bald as an egg. And| . - i Y, ot seen hor durin ol Gt | P v JUnt o monine ua” suid e Tad reesledan oraetrom thin per t ictorial Keview Compan time. 1 had parted with her i the | Goay " fls “We are sending them|son for ball bearings that recalled the S it Tae & ihin Meet |via Basel to Hanover as fast as we | most prosperous days of blood and iron newly demobilized. as [ then was NOllcan turn them out. Two-thirds of | Moreover, he had been offered two-thirds T e aition to Tay his name |(he: puzchase yrice was paid in ad;|of the purshise pricesin Sdvance shd '"d absence of fortune at her feet e no haggling at the fig- @ big premium for immediate delivery. During the last few day s s ) |, “This tall, thin gentleman,” I asked, M 5 e oo T e “And you suspect the German goy- | “what does he call himself?” 1 spoke r m: ! remarkably for the better. My Uncle [eFnment? |in man, this being ‘a language 1! o “Private fi s don’t do business on |common to the three of us. James, calling me into his ofiice some | 3 o u: . . . thres ~ weeks previously, had an-(that scale or in that manner Herr Schreckermann,” sald the Now, for the fir: 1m h Ty an notipued M. inimeglate intention ‘of| L8] SOYetiment touch Hestden ; Y e B . 2 € nrst time In history, you c get a making me a partner in his business, | Fecosnized i de e R A e 5 rf RIN I E I — ern i b |from us during the war. Funny fel- |ing The war,” said Golay. “I assume pe ecC P us and had wiven me to understand that|TTom U8 during the war. Fupny fe1- [0l e VAT B e th authoritiss patte a patt you can use with- 1 misht remtra myselt as s helr, | Suuiters tiribly, We med fn Basel |at Berlin. out a moment’s fear of making a mistake—without a On the strensth of these Bratiftying |p " o anyement to negotiate the| “I'm not so sure of that,” said the assurances, I was taking a short hol-| 4.4, as soon as it was concluded | Swede. “The German Government is % . 2 A, L it in tne|dnsb end a8 soon ap it was concluded | Snede.. The Cermds Gayernnient Iy ossible chan f cu material i Sumainly o n et aomai gl Sned it [TRMGIE Ve ettt B T D , p chance of cutting your material wrong. Geneva in order to discover hfl“' 1 1 should like to meet that n . 1/to squander abroad. It looks to me ,W,d‘“‘n . II;P ;;xnl“-r:;;: V:;d ‘,‘\ls o d. “I'm by way of selling sauce- |8 though Schreckermann were act-| - The new 2 > a P < R * R L e Vs fon ShIS fnnsiar gravy, Betansal implified ed rial Pattern it e AL bl | I IREE ey |l fon A s eenit g Sinssy « e S SRR v o1 stmaiatin to discover [ At Ustal calt wou i AL =TI RE TR OnE REL R o mion e most to you as you go along. It tells you, right on that my luggage had anticipated me 2 e secret | Anyhow,” said ay, “the money’'s | h i lf h i i and was calling me forward to the BOIBE. e Ve aral I RO Dl ad e’ a fact wh so f s al W[th and s el i seentt 1o e A vhie molas we vi inerupcd S A e Sue nt) the pattern itse, how.to.cut your materi out e e e s ik poed.of ans. internatianal "3 waste—how to lengthen- or shorten each piece to your within half an hour this decision | lunch was : 8 o the Tis: 1,.ru\.pm that might lurk behind these R Ll : princely transactions, " "1 . individual lines—how to match the pieces and put and was rolling toward the SWiss| We left our compartment and found | T frontier. | that the { was only half full, |friends, and, bidding them a brief But let there be no misundersta {My Swiss companion, after a glanc ‘ ood day,” 1 quitted the restaurant v» them toged‘et wily and accutately' ing. The loss of my luggage was the laround the tables, saw some one he [€ar, leaving them to their ball bear- prefext and not the cause of my sud- |knew at the far end, whom we joined |Ings and th uminium saucepans. | D cgcent upon the city of Geneva. lon receiving from him a friendly sign,| (Continued In Tomorrow's Star) 3ut for Beatrice, I might quite we i | . i . Tt oy o o LG There are no superfluous margins on the Pictorial T A Review Pattern to confuse you, or trim off or fold over. i t it was Beatrice who, in the ‘ 2 s = < A | Your material is always in sight while you are cutting E e ' ‘ ' it along the scientifically accurate edge of the pattern. story is under way, to tell you an ining miobe muelt o0 g s % You don’t risk your material by having to cut through paper. mere member of the traveling pub- e. to explain, at any rate, who I a e T e i o =l R , No other pattern in the world offers you all these 3111l resides), and christened Thomas 5 £ & advantag&s. —Thomas Henry Preston. 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