Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1925, Page 20

: THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO THE SEVEN SLEEPERS AeThrilling Novel of International Intrigue (Continued froth Yesterday's Star.) I ran down the passage, through the door at the end of it, down the steps and across the little yard to the outer entrance. I remember the man who sat by the door into the street and wondered whether he would be in his place, and if I should be able to deal with him before they caught me. Sure enough he was there, seated in his alcove. “Quick, open the door, Ephesus!” I cried. He got down and unlocked the door, but, as he opened it, pursuers appeared at the other end of the yard and shouted that he was to stop me He paused for a second, bewildered by the noise. I did not wait to argue the matter, but, before he had re- covered himself, I dealt him a heavy blow on the side of the head, which knocked him flat on the stone floor of the passage. The next moment 1 was through | the door and safe in the open street I kan swiftly, turned a couple of cor- ners and was I diately in the steep, narrow and winding streets of the old town. 1 had explored this portion of Gene- | va sufficiently well to realize that it was almost hopeless for a stranger to find his way to the more open parts of the town. T ancient quarter was perfect maze of courts| and alleys, many of them blind, and | the danger of running at hazard in | this labyrinth was brought home to | me by the fact that I had already| been obliged to turn two right angles | and had thus been running for that| short distance in a circle. 1 saw no one to whom I could appeal. The narrow streets were empty; the old houses apparently deserted. I knew that I could not be more that a few hundred yards from the headquarters of the Genevese police, and yet I verily believe that my pursuers could have knocked me on the head with com- plete impunity. I could never have been more than 50 yards ahead of my enemies, and at any moment, if I continued to run aimlessly about, I might find myself driven into a trap. 1 looked hastily around for a refuge. I wanted a moment to collect my wits and think the matter out. I soon perceived a likely shelter. In the basement of one of the houses I saw a black hole yawning almost on a level with the pavement. I dived into it and found it to be the entrance to a small cellar, nearly | filled with potatoes and other market produce. 2 I attained this welcome refuge not a moment too soon, for quick steps were already sounding at the far end of the street. I shrank into a dark corner, panting for breath; and a sec- ond later I could hear my pursuers as they trooped past my hiding place, their feet clattering on the uneven cobbles as they ran. It was the first interval I had yet: had for reflection since my desperate Jump for freedom, and I took a de- cision which may seem odd to those of a more methodical turn of mind 1 suppose the wisest course would have been to run at the first oppor- tunity as directly as possible to the police. It was true that my double was wanted murder and that I should involved in endless difficulties explaining who I was. Butat any rate, my for be By FRANCIS BEEDING (Copyright, 1925, by Little, Brown & Co.) personal safety would have been astured, and my final release & mat- ter at most of several hours. Meanwhile, however, the gang would almost certainly be on the track of Beatrice, with whom I had been seen lunching just before the visit to my grandmother, and I had already a strong feeling that any one with whom I could be connected, even remotely, was in serious and fmmedi- ate danger. My instinet was to get 1 costs to the secretariat of the ue.dn order to warn Beatrice, put Lavelle on his guard and recover the ch was clearly of the highest international importance. It was true that I had not the slightest interest, so far as I knew, in upset- ting the unknown plans of the con- spirators into whose affairs I had so strangely stumbled, but when a man Dhas heen assaulted at sight, uetained at the end of a pistol, threatened with torture and pursued with evi- dent intent to kill he is disposed to regard himself as In a state of enmity with his pu dy felt that it was my duty not only to protect my friends from being molested by these mysterious people, but to pre- vent them, if possible, from recover- ing a certain document which, for some obscure reason, Was necessary to their doubtless malevolent enter- prise. My immediate object, therefore, was to reach the secrotariat of the league but the secretariat of the league, it must be remembered, was on the far side of the lake, and my only way of reaching it lay across the Pont du Mont Blanc or one of the other bridges across the Rhone. Fritz had said that all the bridges were watch- ed by men who were on the alert for Karl, and would soon be warned to be on the alert for me, if the organi- zation directed by Fritz were as effi- clent and as numerous as he had boasted. Moreover, I had yet to reach the bridges. At present I was lost in the old town, without a clue to the laby- rinth and with my enemies drawing the covert and likely to put me up at any moment. I was almost certain to cheang be captured within the next five min- utes if I remained in my present place of refuge, and it was just such a place where I would least like to encounter the Professor and his friends. I must make a move at once. I crept toward the entrance of the hole and looked up and down the street. Sure enough there were no less than four men walking toward each other from opposite ends of the thoroughfare and carefully exemin- ing the houses as they passed. I drew back from the entrance and groped about in the darkness to find another way out. There was a door at the far end, but on examination it proved to be locked. It looked as though 1 had stayed too long in that wretched cellar and that I was to be caught like a rat in a trap. Just at that moment, however, 1 heard a sound of wheels outside and I made my way back to the opening and looked out. A large hay cart was coming down the street. It passed th two men who were methodically searching their way along and v soon abreast of the cellar. Alm simultaneously another vehicle, whicl had been approaching from the oppo. site end, and on a I driver at once entered upon a he argument with the new arrival Looking between the wk of the hay cart I saw that its passage was obstruet ed by an empty hearse drawn by two black horses, which was trying to pro- ceed in the opposite direction, presum- ably on its way back to the mews. The s between them completely I arrow thoroughfare. 1 crawled out of the cel'ar on all foure and crept underneath the hay cart where for the moment 1 Was hidden from view. From there I was able to examine the hearse in detall. It was an ornate affair with a silver gilt roof, its woodwork covered with the ornamental scrolls deas to undertakers. The black cloths which had covered the coffin were lying in tumbled confusion on the floor. Both vehicles were stationary at the mo- ment, but, with much shouting, creaking f harness and grinding of w , the hearse began to move slowly past the rear wheel of the hay cart. I gripped its edge with both hands and succeeded in pulling myself inside, at the risk of being jammed between the two vehicles The driver of the hearse, a man in ru-ty black whose professional solemnity had been somewhat ruffied by his recent en- counter with the hay cart, was fortu- nately too closely preoccupied with his horses to notice my singular behavior. Once in the hearse I crawled beneath G 7 e MOTOR FUELS/ “STANDARD SERVICE STATION “STANDARD" GASOLINE “STANDARD" gaASoliNE D. , MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1925. the cerecloths and arranged them about me as artistically as possible. They were of some heavy material and very vol- uminous, o that 1 could reasonably hope to escape notice under their ample folds. I lay there motlonless while the hearse moved slowly down the street. The excitement under which I labored may be judged from the fact that I did not spare a thought for the grisly na- ture of the conveyance which had so providentially come to my rescue, though I sill remember small detalls such as the faint smell of camphor given off by my somber wrappings. As the hearse turned the corner of the narrow etrect I could not resist 10oking out from under the black cloth. Sure snough, at the corner, stood Fritz and Schreckermann, waiting for the vehicle pass before resuming their search. As I drew back into the hearse and it rumbled slowly past them I noticed with im amusement that my pursuers mis- ok it for a genuine and complete fu- al cortege, and that they removed r hats with the mechanical reverence £ the well bred continental The hearse proceeded through the old town at a pace truly funereal, and from ime to time I looked out to see where ve were going and whether I was being nursued I noted with satisfaction that we were | zoing steadily downhill and apparently king toward the lake. It was not ong, in fact, before we turned into the s basses at the foot of the hill on old town was constructed. were already thronged with Pierrots and other persons in fancy iress beginning their revels in celebra tion of the second day of the F alads I was surprised at the sudden g: ty of the streets. idently on the preceding evening 1 had seen only the fon of the ceremonies. The Genevese took their pleasures early, and the streets were now packed with citizens celebrat- ing the anclent prowess of thelr fore- | fathers. The hearse picked fts way incon- gruously thromgh the nolsy crowd, oumbrously rebuking the levity of the masquerade. I often remember that strange progress, vividly recalling details of which at the time I was only mechan- ically aware. I particularly remen ber how /a Columbine, having thrown a_ serpentine which twired itself about the neck of my lugubrious driver, suddenly realized the nature of the vehicle he was conducting. She stepped back with a startled look and instictively crossed herself, a gesture of which the syndios of the city would have deeply disap- prove The condition of the streets at the foot of the old town gave me an ldea, and, as we rounded a corner, 1 looked about for an opportunity to leave the hearse. It happened just at that moment to be passing one of the chariots (a kind of large, flat tray, mounted on wheels) which Genevese tradesmen use for deliver- ing goods to the houses of their cus- | tomers. I slipped from beneath the | cerecloths, jumped on to the chariot and thence on to the ground. | The streets were so crowded that 1 doubt whether my dramatic ris- | ing from the dead was even noticed. | In any case, I did not give the public any time for comment, but walked | quietly across the road into a little | shop ‘that stood convenlently near at hand. ‘ (Continued in Tomorrow's Star. | | 1In earliest times borax was a rarity almost as precious as gold WHATS YOUR HAIR.-NORMAL-OILY - OR -DRY? I always thought she was g00d-lookmg till I saw her with her hat of.” People don’t meam to be merciless, bt they ARE critical. 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