Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1925, Page 43

« THE SEVEN SLEEPERS A Thrilling Novel of Internaticnal Intrigue (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) “Do you remember that evening at the Indra? I told you then that the professor wouldn't like it, but you sald, ‘Hang the professor!’ Now, I suppose you've learnt to be afraid of vhim, like everybody else. By this time the taxl had reached the old town and was climbing a tall narrow street which ended in a small square with a fountain in the middle. Turning sharp to the right, it pro- ceeded up a narrow and even steeper strest, the name of which I caught sight of as we turned the corner. It was the Rue Etienre Dumont. Our destination was close at hand. Should I even now explain to the girl who I was? I realized that if I did so my chances of seeing my grandmother would be small, and, more than ever, «1 wanted to make the old lady’s ac- quaintance. I malintained an uneasy silence. 5 1 was pondering who Karl might be, and why everyboly was afraid of the professcr, when the taxi wtopped with & jerk opposite a tall, narrow door. My companion was first out, and had dismissed the driver before I had had time to do more than descend my- SBelt, she went stralght up to the door and tapped on it with the handle of her umbrella, one heavy rap and then a series of light ones, with two short, sharp knocks at the end. A small grille slid open in the door's face ut the height of a man from the und, and a pair of eyes surveyed Ephesus,” said the girl hey are not dead, but sleep,” ed the person on the other side. re- lvidently it was some sort of pass- word, for directly afterward the door | and my companion | > to follow her through. I found myself in a dark, narrow passage, some 30 feet in length, run- | ning the whole depth of the house, | which fronted the street. The man who had just opened the door closed | it immediately behind us and turned to resume his seat in a little recess in | the w | We went through the passage,| which gave on a very small court or air shaft, round which the house was | built, and from which five or six| stone steps gave access to another| door. My companion pushed it open. We | entered a hall with several doors on | either side. The girl opened fhe first | on the left and we entered a room. | “Wait here a moment, Karl,” she said. “I will tell them that you've ar- | rived. On that she we alone in the room. I sat down in ited a ughts | The girl who had addressed me as | Karl and who, to put it mildly, had shown herself of so friendly a dispo- | sition toward me, was one more fac- | tor in the mystery in which I had m-‘ | t away, leaving me an arm cigarette to Sthi come Involved since I had set foot in the gray city of Geneva. For the last time 1 wondered whether it was really wise for me to go on with the affair but I found on reflection that my de- cision to do so successfully survived | this eleventh hour. n’t accuse des- tiny of having hur-ied or entrapped | me. I had received warnin enough to have sufficed for an | 1 willfully disreg ation, I must place to the account of my curiosity and my in In brict, I had th corr story sible tience of routine. myself to blame. 1 remember that most my last feeling while w alone in that little room was a devout hope that my grandmother would prove less affectionate than the pheasant feather. You will judge | from this the incurable levity of my | disposition. 1 presently rose from the armchair and began to examine the room In which I found myself. It was oblong in shape and very high for its length, obviously part of a much larger room, for one wall was merely a partition constructed some time previously order to divide up into several pieces a single large room, a ballroom prob- ably, or something of that kind. In its way, it was a beautiful room, white-paneled, and with a long, nar- row window draped with heavy cur- a so hermetically sealed that there were cobwe! un across the fastenings. 1 remembered that Be- atrice had told me at lunch of the Swiss custom, observed by all classes in Geneva, to,lock, bolt and bar the windows on the first of October until the following first of Ma Opposite the window, in the parti- ioned wall, was a second door, pre- sumably leading to another room. The room in which I was waiting was fur- nished partly as an office and partly as a sitting room. Beside the window was a heavy oak desk on which sev- cral cardboard files were lying, in ad- dition to the usual writing materials. \ bookshelf stood in one corner, and I strolled over to examine the books. were mostly on-trade and eco- and among them I noticed “Economic Consequences of and Meneschkowski's “Reign of Antichrist,” that brilliant exposure of the theory of impersonality which s at the root of the bols By FRANCIS BEEDING Copyright, 1023, by Little, Brown & Co.) Then it struck me that I might learn something of the inmates of the house before meeting them in the flesh by examining the contents of the fles lying on the desk. It will be seen that even at this early stage the in- stinct of the detective had already blunted the finer scruples. 1 picked up a file and went rapidly through the contents, but it did not seem to contain anything of great in- terest. I took another, but that, too,, only appeared to contain the records of various transactions with different firms, most of them .foreign, and re- lated to the purchase of all kinds of goods, among which I noticed several large orders for Belfast linen and six separate consignments of unfin- ished cottori goods from Manchester. There were also large orders to Dun lop and Goodrich, chiefly for tires, and for consignments of rubber from the Dutch East Indles. The third file at which I looked seemed to be simi- lar to the other two, but, glancing down the transactions chronicled, I came upon the words “Svenska Kulla- gar Fabriken.” 1 skimmed the relevant correspond- ence rapidly, and found several letters concerning _the purchase of a large quantity of Swedish ball bearings. 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This discovery set me wondering whether I could find any trace of the Swiss aluminum sauc pans, and I searched through the re: of the file and through several others until, finally, I came across a letter directed to Neuhausen, where, I re- membered, the headquarters of the Swiss hardware firm was situated. I was about to examine it, when I heard a movement outside the door in the hall, and, hastily abangoning the files, I moved across the room till I was opposite a large mirror, which was let into the wall above the man- tel shelf and surrounded by delicate eighteenth-century molding. There I made a pretense of adjusting my tie, and, as 1 was engaged upon this operation, I received the shock of my life. While I was gazing into the mirror, replacing the gold pin which held my TRST over thelinewith candy lovers—a con- fection that will thrill your taste. Ask for 7-11 and race away witha 5¢ n-AUERBACH Confecdiod STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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