Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1925, Page 37

AeThrilling Novel of International Intrigue (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) that 1e into my of theso socie- It seemed not unlike the document which hands concernec ties, and if this were the case I had ‘become unwittingly involved in prep- arations for another putsch, whether I did not had monarchist or communist know. “Moreover,” T pointed out, “they seem to have the money for this par- ticular show.” In proof of which I told him of the astonishing purchase of aluminum and ball bearings which had recently been made by Schreck- to mention the evidence the files kept at the Dumont of other exten- 1sactlons really striking ele in the problem,” said Lavelle. document, as I have sald; is signed ven richest men in Germany. one glves it an unusual sig- Etienne unlocked a d document, and sp in front of us. All the time he spite of my keen in was saying, 1 was Beatrice. I enchant bent over sheet of alized tha her, near to me scious of a grow of the myste had so stran wer, produced the ad it on his desk was speaking, in st in what he acutely aware of a man suddenly three of us look at the before us, I to T must s rious fests before I can modern ciphefs, ber ciphe Did you ! in the Rue Dumon might serve the purpose?” V't think so,” I replied, hesitat- ingly, trying to concentrate my thoughts. “Try Ephesus,” suggested Beatrice “It was vour grandmother's password and it was the word used by the little let's try it,” said Lavelle. 1 sheet of paper and drew on it, which he subdivided into a series of small squares, put- ting each letter of the word Ephesus HJ then made a s s similar to those on the doc He worked rapldly, whistling eatl he did so, which emembered him to 's, while Beat- atched him in silence. exclaimed Lavelle at 1 exclted tone of volce. right, Miss H Ephesus ode word. He took the document and copied the first three groups of figures into the large square which he had pre- viously drawn on the paper. Then he wrote down the letters of the alpha- bet beside the figures in a certain or- and automatically form Siebenschlaf d forws n bent down to resume his work At that moment, however, the tele- 1 rang. “Answer it, will you went to the telephone and up the receiver. Yes,” she said, “M. Lavelle's secre- v speaking. Ce : anded the receiver to,Lavelle, as she did so, “the secretary general.’ L e put the recei it's Lavelle her: mediately? Very good. I'll come at once.” Ho replaced the receiver “Sorry, old man,” he sald, ruefully, r to his ear < Im down = \§\ S MORE THAN By FRANCIS BEEDING (Copyright, 1935, by Little, Browa & Os.) “the secretary general wants to see me at once. I must go down, but I don't suppose I shall be long. You'd better wait for me here, and I'm sure,” he added, with a smile, “that Miss Harvel will be able to entertain you.” The assumption of Lavelle that Beatrice and 1 enjoyed some kind of special understanding put a sensible constraint between us. At least I know that for a moment I was clearly out of countenance myself, though I suspect Beatrice was more amused at my momentary awkwardness than conscious of her own. Anyhow, it was she who came to our rescue. “Well, Tom,” she said, “sate at last.” “I dow't feel particularly safe” I replicd. “I'm pretty sure that Uncle Fritz walting for me ‘round the ser, and that there will be precious peace for any of us while we continue to have that wretched docu- ment in our possession. That's why I was so keen to get here this after- noon. I felt it was essential to put you on your guard.” Beatrice looked dublously at the sheet of paper, spread on the table as Lavelle had left it a moment ago. “I wish we were rid of it, Tom," she sald. “If,” I replied, “we are right in sus- pecting that it has to do with a Ger- man conspiracy, I'm inclined to think that the best place for it is at the Quaf d'Orsay. In fact, I'm Inclined to offer my services as courler. Isn't there a fast train to Paris this eve- 0 o'clock.” uld I get a sleeper?” “Easily. There's always a spare compariment at this time of the year. But'—she hesltated a moment— ¥y it rather a risk, Tom?" “I should have thought with a false beard and a revolver and a wagon-lit THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, locked on the inside and the French frontier within 40 minutes' run of Geneva it was a fairly safe proposi- ton.” “And T should have thought that the orecourt of the secretariat of the League of Nations in & neutral city was a fairly safe proposition. But they tried to kill you on the doorstep, all the same. Thank hewven that, for a moment, at any rate, you're ot of reach! We're extraterritorial, you know.” “What on earth does that mean?’ I asked. “We have diplomatic privileges.” “Beatrice dear, don't be so terribly technical.” “In plain terms, you {gnoramus, the offices of the league are like an em- bassy or a legation Nobody can touch you here—not even the Genevese po- Hee.” “T see” T sald, ‘I've taken sanc- tuary, as they sald in the good old days. I'm holding on to the horns of the altar.” She nodded. “It was a stroke of genius to make for the secretariat,” she sald. “It was an inspiration,” I exclaimed, wi‘tfh an ardor that surprised even my- self. I was seelng Beatrice at that mo- ment in a light that made me oblly- fous to any advantages or disadvan- tages that might lle in being extra- territorlal, or whatever the term might be; my exclamation, in fact had an unavoldably personal significance that was by no means lost on my companion She looked at me a moment and then, her eyes dropping suddenly, she suggested a clothes-brush, and disappeared, before I could protest, in search of it. She came back in a moment and started to brush me down. I sub- mitted In silence, and her perform- ance of this small office gave to our relationship at that moment of res pite from fantastic adventure & sense of the famifliar, I- had almost said of the domestic, which remained with me all through the nightmare incldents of the succeeding days. 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WASHINGTON BRANCH cduld, my crumpled collar. I can shut my eyes to this day and recall the light mavements of her hands as she tried to make me presentable. “Heavens, what a bruise!” she cried, as she saw more closely the marks left upon me by Karl von Em- merfch. “It was not one of your lucky days when you lost your lug- gage and came to Geneva.” I took quickly the hands that had Just fallen from my collar. “It was the luckiest day of my life,” D. C., THURSDAY pens. It was today I came to my senses and realized that I hadn't seen you for ages.” “So that's why you arrived in Ge- neva, Tom—two days late.” “Two years late,” I corrected. 1 drew her towards me, but she held away. “Beatrice,” I pleaded. “ft’s the real thing. I bless the day that I came and found you again.” “Not now, Tom,” she whisperel. The door opened and Lavelle came APRIL 9, 1925. “Preston,” he sald, “I'm afrald you'll have to run.for it.” “But, my dear chap,” I protested, “I've just this minute been told that I've taken sanctuary and can't be touched.” “That's what the secretary general wanted to see me about. The Geneva police have called with a warrant for your arrest. They want you for that murder in Zurich. Either you must run or be lald by the heels while the authoritles discover that you're not only to assure the secretary general that I'm your old frlend, Thomas Preston, and hell send the police about their business.” “It won't do, I'm afraid. They've already told the secretary general that, 1f questioned, you will claim to be Mr. Thomas Preston, ard that you carry a British passport, but that this is merely & masquerade which you are quite likely to support with i ALHAMBRA IN PERIL. Citadel Erected by Mooorish Kings Threatened by Water. 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