New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1922, Page 5

CHAPTER 1. Avoiding Danger—By Request Through the, suave, warm radlance of that afternoon of spring in Eng- land a gentleman of modest and eommonly amlable deportment bore & rueful countenance down Piccadilly and into Halfmoon street, where presently he introduced it to one whom he found awaiting him in his lodgings, much at ease in his easlest chalr, making free with his whiskey and tobacco, and reading a slender brown voluma selected from his shelves, | This degage person was patently an Englishman. The other was as un- mistakably of Gallic pattern, “though he dressed and carried himself in a thoroughly Anglo-Saxon fashion. The Englishman dropped his book to the floor beside the chair, uprose and extended a tordial hand, ex- claiming: “H'are ye, Monsieur Duchemin ?" “Well, for the matter of that: are you, Mister Wertheimer?" Their hands fell apart, and Mon- sieur Duchemin proceeded to do away his hat and stick and chamois gloves. “Pretty way you've got of making your friends walt on your pleasure. Here I've wasted upward of two hours of His Majesty's time . o . “How was I to krow you'd have the cheek to force your way in here in my absence and help yourself to my few poor consolations?” Duche- min retorted, helping himself to them in turn. “But then one never does know what fresh indignity or danger Fate has in store . & “There are some things one knows very definitely. You aren't forget- ting you have given that Smolny lot reason for holding your athema?” EEAhiE me, I can take care of myself, thank you." “Man!"” the eolemnly — ‘“‘you're You're nearly forty—next second childhood.” “I know; and so long as I feel my years, even you impunity.” But Werthimer would not hear him. “Odd,” he mused, "I never thought of it before, that you were growing old. You're just doddering —and I thought you were simply tired out and needed a holiday.” “Perhaps I am and do,” said Duchemin patiently “One feels one has earned a holiday, if ever anybody did in your blessed Secret Service." How Englishman superannuated. door to name an- | [ Duchemin growled—"as for ohance he had left it there on pur- declared | can abuse me with | making of lace, for drunkenness, for freedom of language, and for wun- paralleled political dissension,” was Stevenson's point of departure on his “Travels with a Donkey." Monsieur Duchein made it his as well, The weather was fine, his heart high, he was happy to be out of har- ness and again his own man, Constant exercise tuned up muscles gone slack and soft with easy living, A keen sun darkened his face and hands, brushed up in his cheeks a warmer glow than they had shown in many a year, and faded out the heavier lines with which Time had | marked his countenance, [ Moreover, because this was France, Wwhere one may affect a whisker with- out losing face, he neglected his razors; and though this was not his| first thought, a fair disguise it proved, Rain at length interned the trav- eler for three days in a little place called Meyruels, long leagues remote | from rallroads and the world they, stitch together, | Here (sald Duchemin) nothing can | disturb me; and it {s high time for me to be considering what I am to| make of the remainder of my days. | Too many of them have been wasted, | too great a portion of my span has | been sacrificed to vanities. | Yet a little while and one must bid adieu to that Youth which one| has so heedlessly squandered, a lnst! adleu to Youth with its days of high | adventure, its carefree heart, its sus- ceptibility to the infinite seductions of Romance. And for all this mood of premature resignation to the bourgeols virtues }fi\l(‘hemln was glad enough when his fourth day in Meyrueis dawned fair, and by elght was up and away, pur- | posing a day's tramp to Montpelller- le-Vieux (concerning which one heard curfous tales). Long after noon, sheer fool's luck led him to a hamiet whose mean au- berge served him bread and cheese with a wine singularly thin and acid. The one able-hodied man in evi- dence, a husking, surly animal, on learning that Duchemin wished to visit Montpellier-le-Vieux, refused | with a growl to have anything to do| with him. S=veral times during the| course of luncheon he caught the fel-; low eyeing him strangely, he thought, from a window of the auberge. In| the end the peasant girl who waited | on him grudgingly consented to put| Lim on his way. He followed her directions, con- tinued his long tramp and in the silver and purple mystery of a per- | tect moonlight night found himself | looking down from a hilitop upon | Montpellier-le-Vieux. Rumor had prepared him to know the place when he saw it, nothing for | its stupendous lunacy. Heaven knows what convulsion or measured process of Nature accomplished this thing. For his part Duchemin was | unable to accept any possible scien- tific explanation, and will go to his grave believing that some half-witted cyclops created Montpellier-le-Vieux | in an hour of idleness, building him L o 00 International Magatine Company | the eyes of the man whom England preferred to recognize as Andre Duchemin, “But where on earth is one to go?" “Don't ask me,"” the Englishman protested. ““And above all, don't tell me. I don't want you to come to a |sudden end through somebody's es- | tablishing {lllcit ‘intercourse with my | subconscious mind."” He took his leave shortly after THE TWO SLIPPED ROUND A ROCKY SHOULDER. that; and Monsieur Duchemin set- tled down {n the chair which his guest had quitted to grapple with his problem; where under Heaven to 807 He picked up in abstraction the book which Wertheimer had been reading-——and wondered if, by any pose, so strong semed the hint. It was Stevenson’s ‘“Travels With a Donkey."” If—-he assured himself—there were any place in Europe where one might count on being reasonably secure from the solicitous attentions of the grudge-bearing Bolsheviki, it was the Cevennes, those little-known hills of the south of France, well inland from the sea. CHAPTER II A City of Lunacy. “A little place called Le Monastier, in a pleasant highland: valley 15 miles from I.e Puy notable for the | ing the immediate adoption a play eity of titanic monoliths, then wandered away and forgot it alto- gether, To hls mind there was something sinister in the portentious immobili. ty of the place; in its sllence, its want o fexcuse for being, a sense of age- | old evil like an fnarticulate menace When abruptly a man moved from behind a rock some thirty or forty paces ahead, Duchemin stopped short, with jangled nerves and a barely smothered exclamation, nssibly a shape of spectral terror would have | been less startling; in that weird | place and hour humanity geemed more Incongruous than the super- | natural. It was at once apparent man had neither knowledge of nor concern with the stranger. For an Instant he stood with his back to the latter, a stout body fllling out teo well the uniform of a private soldier in the American Expeditionary Forc that most ungainly, inutile, unhecom- | ing costume that ever graced the | form of man. ¢ Then he half turned, bheckoned hastily to one invisible to the ob-| server, and furtively moved on. As| furtively his slgnal was answered h)" a fellow who wore the nondescript| garments of a peasant. And as sud- | denly as they had come into sight,| that the the two slipped round a rocky shoul- der, and the street of monoliths was | empty. | (Continued in Our Next Issue) i | ALLIES MENAGED BY TURKISH SUCCESSES Fate of Grecian Government AlsoQ Hangs in Balance London, Sept. 11.—(By the Asso- clated Press)—Sweeping the Greek | forces from Asia Minor in a whirl- wind campaign lasting only two weeks the Turkish Nationalists under Musta- pha Kemal Pasha have won a great | military victory and at the sametime at least partly nullified the losses to their nation through the world 3 Thus is created a situation full of the gravest possibilities, one demand- of a united policy by Great Britain, France | and Italy—and such a policy is far from existent, according to the view| generally held here. | France and Italy France and Italy are accused tn ! | some quarters of having not only en- | but of hav- arms and couraged the Kemalists, ing supplied them with | munitions although it is now reported | in the same circles that they are be- | coming alarmed at the unexpected | extent of the Turkish successes. 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The press greets with indications of alarm the big claims advanced by the Turkish representatives in Paris and Rome while s alleged | desire to establish a bolshevist-Kemal- ist alliance aimed at control of Con- stantinople and the straits of Dardan- | elles bring renewed demands that the | cussing the abdication of Constantine. neutrality of these be maintained at| Meanwhile Venizelos is visiting at all costs. | St. Moritz, Switzerland with his fami- Another cause of uneasiness here is | 1y but plans to go to Paris within a the effect the Kema victory is! day or two to confer with political and having in India where pray for | personal friends. While he to their success have been sald daily in | discuss the Greek situation his friends the mosques and every advance has | openly declare he is anticipating the been hailed with glee by the Moham- possibility of being recalled to power, medans. The Daily Telegraph's Cal- | cutta corresponent s there were demonstrations, {lluminations and fire- | works there Saturday night when the | Vancouver Island Milk Producers' as- |y news of Smyrna's fall became known. | Sociation has won the highest honors Fate of Greece for butter in competition with all the The fate of the Greek government |Provinces of Canada, according to a in the face of defeat also is attracting | récent report of the Dominion gov- attention here. An Athens dispatch tells of a recrudescence of the talk of King Constantine’s second descent from the throne and the return to power of Venize The populari “Still—at your age—I'd be think- ing about rettiring instead of asking for a rest.” Although Duchemin knew very well that he was merely being ragged in that way of deadly seriousness which so often amuses the English, he chose to suggest sourly: “My resignation is at your disposal any time you wish it."” “Accepted,” said Wertheimer airily, “to take effect at once.” To this Duchemin merely grunted, as who should say he didn't consider this turn of conversation desperately amusing. “And to what,” he inquired with the tedious irony of ennui, “is one in- debted for this unexpectted honor on the part of the First Under-Secretary of the British Secret Service? Or whatever your high-sounding official title is « . “Oh!" Wertheimer replied lazily— and knocked out his pipe—"I merely dropped in to say goodbye Duchemin discovered symptoms more animation. “And where, pray, am I going “That's for you to say.” Monsieur Duchemin meditated briefly. “I see,” he announced: “I'm to have a roving commission.” “Worse than that: none at all." Duchemin opened his eyes wide. “Look here: What the devil—!" “Well, if you must know,"” the Englishman interrupted hastily, “my instructions were to give you your walking papers if you refused to re- slgn. So your connection with the 8. 8. is from this hour severed. And if you ain’t out of England within | twenty-four hours, we'll jolly well de- port you. And that's that. | “One perceives one has served Eng- land not wisely but too well.” “Shrewd lad!" Wertheimer laughed “You see, old soul, we admire you no end, and we're determined to save your life. Word has leaked through from Petrograd that your name has been triple ~tarred on the Smolny's Index I itorfus. If you linger here mu nger the verdict will un- doubtedliy Violent death at the hands of some person or persons un- known. So here are passports and a goodish bit of money. If you run through all of it before this blows over, we'll find a way, of course, to get more to you.” | The other nodded, investigating the envelope which his late chief had handed him and the smile faded from THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK ernment whose experts superintended | count of rain. Some of the winners of the tests. Out of a possible 100 |cvents were as follows: points, the Vancouver Island herds| Sixty yard hurdle race, won by Her- scored 98. bert Bennett; 100 yard dash, Harry The lumbering industry Sexton; sack race, Vincent De Stefano; principal source of British Columbia | three-legged race, Harry Sexton and wealth a few years ago. Today agri- | Frank Morris; wheelbarrow race, cultural production almost equals in | Montague and Austin; potato race, value that of the forests. John Parter; high jump, Jones; one mile run (inside the walls), Austin. bbes SPEARMIN LEAVES Gumdrop leaves with arare flavor of cool id spearmint big bag Wherever gcod candy is sold DOINGS OF DUFFS | COME TO COLLECT DAMAGES FROM! YOU FOR PULLING OUT BOME OF MY WIFE'S HAIR VESTERDAY - THIS A VERY SERIOUS MATTER WITH ME ! of the port shouting insults to the | king and demanding Venizelos' return. The Greek newspapers are openly dis- was the - CONVICT WIN Osining, Sept. 11.—John Cancarato, | weighing s, won the fat men's race at Sing Sing prison's an- | nual field day games inside the walls All the inmates, Warden | ’ . Lawes and several attend- | ants attended the prisoners' athletic meet, which was to have been held Labor Day, but was postponed on ac-| g . IS A SKIN DANDRUH DISEASE ‘ iy WILL ERADICATE IT TASK YOUR DRUGGIST BUTTER HONORS Vancouver, B. C.. Sept 11.~The of PALACE—Starting Next Sunday Night RODOLPH VALENTINO in “BLOOD AND SAND” Direct From Record Breaking Run in New York om of the former pre- mier is flaring ain with the dashing of Constantine's military plans and Greek soldiers reaching Piraeus from Smyrna marched through the streets i Supplies. the Vitamins That Build Nerve Power ASK "YOUR DRUGGIST OR-GROCER BY ALLMAN EVERY HAIR IN HER HEAD MEAN DOLLARS AND CENTS TO ME ! | MUST BE PAID! I’M OUT OF WORK AND HER HAIR MEANS EVERY THING To ME! | WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT | MARRIED MY WIFE FOR HER BEAUTIFUL HAIR -1 WORSHIP EVERY HAIRON HER HEAD AND | EXPECT You To PAY FOR MY LOSS - HER HAIR MEANS EVERY THING You'LL HAVE TO CHARGE I'T UP TO A POISONOULS “TONGUE ! IN AS MUCH AS HER HAIR MEANS SO MUCH TO YOU | WILL GIVE YoU BACK ALL THAT | Took! | WON'T GIVE You A CENT, BUT I'LL TELL YOoU WHAT | WILL DO - WAIT A MINUTE! _— OH, You "DID? 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