Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1925, Page 37

THE SEVEN SLEEPERS A Thrilling Novel of International Intrigue (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) Some hours later the tediou ney was drawing to its clo I had lost my traveling companions at t Swiss frontier, and the train was now running down the Rhone Valley in the darkness. It would soon be at Lausanne, where T had to change for Geneva. I remember that my mind, roused, 1 suppose, by the conversation over lunch, dwelt vaguely on the European situation. 1 am a very ordinary sort of fellow and have no special knowl- edge of what is styled foreign pol- itics. I read the newspapers pretty regularly at my club, and occasions ¥ chat for half an hour over a gla of sherry with old Thompson, Whose special folble it is to carry about some new and sensational rumor of another Paris, Berlin or oscow. st own, astonished at the utter and entire surrender of Germany, but there scemed to be no doubt whatever as to the facts. I glanced at the newspapers which were attered about the carriage. All the news agencies agreed. Germany had capitulated and was advertising the ot broadcast. By this time T had reached Lau- sanne, where I had &n hour to wait. I \ bought a Swiss paper, and the news contained confirmed and amplified o earlie e paper gave o text & Germ sted in nan cit diately I was, I in the Ruhr. The war had been German people by-a bad | at did not free them from responsibili They must pay just reparations to the full. Only in that way could they hope to re-establish the prosperity of their count Let every man put his shoulder to the wheel, and by united effort pay the former enemies of Germany, and thus insure peaceful relations in the fu- ture. I thought that T was to be alone in my carriage between Lausanne and Geneva, but, as the train was mov- ing, another traveler scrambled up the steps, and, tripping over the top one, fell flat on his face in the cor- ridor, where 1 happened to be stand- ing, casting at my feet a small dis- patch case, which burst open and scattered {ts contents over the floor. With ma apologies, he picked imself up, and 1 saw that he was a short, dark man between 35 30 and 30. He was of the southern French type, with the brownest eves I have ever seen, eager and sanguine of expres sion, the obvious countryman of Tar- tarin and D'Artagnan. I helped him to collect his belong- (ngs, which he packed roughly into the gispatch case. He was profuse his gratitude, and explained that he had mistaken the time of the train. As he was somewhat dusty about v the knees as a result of his accident, ! offered him the loan of a clothes- brush from my own suit case, which accepted and retired to make him- self presentable, carrying his dispatch case with him. When he realized that the door of the coach was probably still open, and I went out to close it On returning to my compartment I trod on something hard, which felt like a coin. I stooped down and picked up what proved instead to be & small, round disc, made of copper, with a hole in it for threading upon a chain or key ring. Stamped on one side of it were the letters “R. F.,” and on the other side number “17 I was still examining this when the traveler returned and handed me back my brush, with renewed thanks. As e did so he notlced what I was hold- ing_in my hand “Pardon, monsieur,” he said, think you have found something which belongs to me T assented and handed it to him. He | - looked at it sharply in_his walstooat pocket. We talked together for the hour which the train took to reach Geneva. I discover'ed him to be an extraor- dinarily pleasant and interesting com- panion. He was a French officer who had served rizht through the war and been wounded at Verdun, and, when he discovered that I, too, had seen service on the western front, we soon found enough to talk about. After exchanging various war eminiscences, 1 remembered the rews in the paper and congratulated him on the triumph of the French policy. or a moment his eyes erest, and from a man of nd origin one expected at once a stream of vivid comment and ex- clamation. To my surprise, however, he did not very readily respond. He was clearly about to do so, and then suddenly appeared to pull himself up, almost as though some one had tap- ped him on the shoulder and told him to be careful. ‘It is a complete succ then put it lit with his type " 1 ven- jour- | had gone I| “but T By FRANCIS BEEDING (Copyright, 1823, by Little, Brown & Co.) “Germany is on her knees.” | turea. looked at me queerly for a mo- He | ment “Vous croyez?” he said | There was a world of Gallic skepti- jcism in that brief remark and in the tone in which it was uttered. I would have liked to discuss the position with him frankly and at large, but already the train was slowing down. As I got up to collect my things, the Frenchman turned to me and said quickl ‘I must thank you particularly for having found my identification disc. It is an old war souvenir, which I should be very sorry to lose.” I said something polite to him in reply and hoped that we should en- lcounter in Geneva. He answered me cordlally enough, but sald nothing of a further meeting, which, for a man of his obvious enthusiastic tem- per, seemed to me a little odd. I re- { membered then that he had not given me the slightest hint of his occupa- tlon, though I had been almost ex- cessively communicative in regard to myself. Had I had the least strange circumstances in which we were to meet again, I should have wondered less at his' reserve. CHAPTER IL I Am Two Days Late. 1 left the train and found myself on the platform of an ill-lighted station, idea of the Untouched byhands, the original fine table delicacy protected by heavy tinfoil Never sold in bulk. Phila delphia” Cream Cheese A Phemx CHEESE A Ve%euble Relief For Constipation Nature’s Remedy (WR Tab- lets) a vegetable laxative with a pleasant, nearto- nature action. 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There I was recelved by & mag- nificent functionary with a _gold- braided cap, who told me that I must wait until the Is had been re- moved ‘rom the train. “But ndt 1A here,” he added, seeing that I was about to sit down on the only vacant chair; “this is the office of the stationmasier’—from which I inferred that, even in a democratic country, lese majeste may be commit- ted unintentionally. I accordingly betook myself to the platform again, where 1 presently found an enormous blue-smocked o Y 8 STAR, porter, to whom I explained my dif- ficulties. I found it hard to convince him that any one could have sent a trunk to Geneva instead of Genoa. But at length we went together to the douane, only to discover it was locked. I inquired where the douanier might be, but was told that I could not see him that night. “If you come tomorrow morning, perhaps you will be able to get it,” said the porter hopefully. Clearly the Swiss were a patient race I remembered the golden rule for travelers abroad, which is never to argue with anybody in a uniform, and I told the man to get me a taxi. A thin, sharp rain, almost a mist, was falling as I laft the station, and the air was very cold. 1 was wonder- ing where to stay when I remem- bered that Beatrice, with whom I had kept up a regular correspond- ence, had put up for some time at the Pension de la Reine, on the Quai du Mont Blanc, where I had address- 7500 5ee WASHINGTON, D. ¢, ed letters to her. This seemed as good & place as any other, and would probably be not too expensive. The drive there was short. We went down a broad street with cafes and shops on either side, turned off abruptly into a quiet square backed by tall, thin houses and pulled up under an arch. I took my room for a week. It was on the third floor, looking out over the square, in the middle of which was a dreary garden, the last leaves of the almost bare trees drip- ping with fcy molsturs, and a rusty fountain adding to the general damp- ness in the center. I had arrived too late for dinner, but they gave me some excellent ramequins and a rather tough steak, which I washed down with a bottle of thin Swiss wine. It was a meal that struck at once the prevalling note of the city—adequate but un- inspired. It was my first visit to the place, but I knew it well from hearsay—a FRIDAY, MARCH o7 95 27, 1925. city of sples and refugees and inter- national organizations, where the more ancient traditions survived pre- cariously in the snobbisme of its older families, entirely without distinction for the foreign visitor. I knew f{t best from the letters of my old friend Dick Bralthwaite of the British se- cret service, who had been stationed the during the war, when Geneva had swarmed with agents of every nationality, who made of it a city of fantastic adventure. Come to think of it, Geneva has al- ways been a nest of unsavory con- spiracy. Here Elizabeth of Bokemlia was murdered by a witless anarchist of 20. Here Lenin lived for six years, hatching his great enterprise, and it was interesting to reflect that the town which had once resounded to Knox and Farel should have been the incubator of another and even more sinister revolution. Here, too, it was sald, Signor Mussolini had made his Ized that the black shirt became him better than the red. Tonight, it seemed, Geneva was en fete, and was even now completing the first of a three-day festival in honor of the annual carnival of the Escalade, held in commemoration of the attempt of the Duke of Savoy to capture the town in 1602. 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