New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1922, Page 5

» by Mervriie DavissoN PosT _© 19099 _ NEA Service, Inc THE GREAT OYPHER Begin Here Today The group of men were seated on the steps of the Executive Mansion, It was evening and the great states. man, hunter, explorer and now Chief Executive was listening attentively to the story of M. JONQUELLE, greatest of I'rench detectives Jonquelle was telllng of CHAUVANNES, whom all the world belleved mad and who had dled in Africa leaving the wonderful diary and the emeralds he had discovered. “But Chauvannes was not mad,” in- Alsted M. Jonquelle, Then he told how the explorer's record described the journey into the Congo with three white men, worth- less but afraid of nothing. Go on With the Story. CHAPTER II. Chauvannes found that wilderness veined through with these camps, pre- cisely as Stanley found it when he was following the Ituri in his effort to re- lieve Emin Pasha, And Chauvannes seems to have had precisely the same experiences as Stanley, in °that the poisoned arrows, which the dwart tribes used were always fatal to the natives, but not to the white men of the expedition. At least, the three white men with Chauvannes and the explorer himself, always escaped, while the persistent destruction of the other members of the expedition con- tinued until only Chauvannes and the other white men came out alive. ““The expedition was not large. It was as small as Chauvannes eould get on with. He never intended it to be more than a scouting party, to lay out the thing he was looking for. The discovery of the emeralds was a sort of accident in removing the portion of an ancient wall that an uprooted tree has’ dislodged.” There was a‘ moment's silence Then Monsieur Jonquelle went on: “I said awhile ago that the in- credible things set out in the journal did not begin to appear until about the seventeenth of Decelaber, when they had finally come out. It is true that some indicatory things are noted in the journal before that, date. Chauvannes could not sleep. He re- turns again and again' to this fact. bromides. He wonders if the drugs to complain about the failure of the bromides . He wonders if the drugs have lost their virtue, or if they could not have been pure. He notes that he tested this with one of the other men .and observed the effect. The bromides were all right. This fact gave him a good deal of concern. He could not sleep. And the drugs upon which the medical profession de- pend in such a case failed. “We find this feature in consider- abledetail and beginning some time |’ before December seventeenth while thé! expedition was still in the forest of the Congo, in- its awful march to theé' northeast. “I don’'t know when it was that Chauvannes' realized what was ahead of him, but as I have said, I think hesaw it ‘almost from the first day of the march north. #1 studied that journal word by word and sentence by sentence. I felt at the time that no one of us un- derstood it that, the thing meant something which ought to appear if we were able to grasp a proper con- ception of it. I felt before it as I * used to fel before those clever Ger- man dispatches, which appeared on their faces to be merely a narrative of a domestic incident, when they were in fact army orders containing a défi- nite direction I was right, as events proved, but the government authori- ties in Paris at the time considered my notion fantastic. “Still, as I have said ' the strange digressions in his journal did not be- gin to appear until about the seven- teenth of December, when they came out onto the great grass-covered pla- teau outlined to the east by a low mountain range, beneath which lay Lake Nyanza. As it happened, they had come out ten days ahcad of the date which they had determined upon for the arrival of the lake boat. It was to recéive the expedition at the same point on the Nyanza that Stan- ley met Emin Pasha. “Now, here was another indicatory point. They did not go ahead to the Nyanza as Stanley had done. They camped on a grassy slope—it looked like an English lawn, Chauvannes said—within the first day’'s march out of the forest. Here they remained. “Chauvannes had all the modern implements that an explorer carrieis with him, and he laid down the exact Jocation of this camp with the most painstaking accuracy. It was chart- ed insthe journal in half a dozen dif- ferent forms and checked in every va- riety of way. He seemed to have spent a lot of time at this. He was determined that the exact spot of this NIORS~ e g—-lbfi' he regu- ..I‘ ‘oui '“u-':f o ingredien fln:nndy coated. For ehildren .and -adults. camp should be definitely located for all time and beyond any possibility of error. And he did not fall, The exact location of that camp is as cer- taln as any boundary monument on our Belglan frontier, It can be located today within the error of halt a meter, He had plenty of time for this, because Mhe remained in this camp with Leturc while the other men went on to the Nyanza, ““The route to the lake could not be laid out to the eye. It was directly below a marked rocky promontory of the skyline, But the men with Chau- vannes thought it better to be certain of the way out, and as they had to put In the time until the boat arrived, it seemed advisable to go over the route. The American beachcomber CHAUVANNES NoT SLEEP. COouLD Dix and the Finn set out for the Al- bert, Leturc remaining in the camp with Chauvannes. “It was here alone with Leturc that Chauvannes finished the journal, which I finally decoded, as one might say, at the Service de la Surete in Paris. L “I have said that the only thing| indicating Chauvannes’ condition be- fore .the seventeenth of December, when they came out on the old ele- phant-track into this heavenly coun- try below the Albert, was the fact that he could not sleep and that the bromides had failed him. But this was not precisely all. The journal began to indicate a state of mind in Chauvannes that he apparently hesi- tated a long time to record, the im- pression that they were approaching some sort of creature of which they had very little, if any, dependable in- formation. “At first Chauvannes put this down as an illusion arising from- the de- pression of insomnia. = But he began to speak of.it later as a sort of definite premonition to be reckoned with. “Of course, when the journal first came into our ‘possession, we took this, and the incredible things that followed, to be merely the illusions of a man whose nervous system had broken down. This was a profound error, - Every statement following in the journal was, as it proved, of the most definite importance. One: got here at this point in the journal a pretty clear conception of the con- dition of Chauvannes at the time. “The three with him, whose care, devotion and untiring solicitude, as I have said, the persistent note of this latter part of Chauvannes’ journal were now very much concerned about him. They seemd to understand the If You Need a Medicine You Should Have the Best | £ of the knlv They appeared to realize, that a homicidal selzure might develop from such a mental condition, and they seemed to fear that it might take the course of a suleldal mania, They were wholly without fear for themselves, as Chauvannes' journal repeats over and over again, “It is here, now, at this point, that the v‘:ola Journal of Chauvannes' be- Eins be taken up with the extra- ordinary things that he observed, The impression of some strange crea- ture close on the camp, in the neigh- borhood, became on obsession, It was on the first night In the new camp after they had emerged from the forest that Chauvannes had a sensation, as he puts it of something delicately feellng over his face. It seemed to be a very slight, moving touch, as of the tip of a feather, but it was clearly distinguishable, The man put up his hand and made a swift gesture in the darkness about him, but there was absolutely nothing that he could touch, He says that this thing happened more than once in the night, and each time, although he put out his hand instantly, it came in contact with no physical eévidences of any creature about him, "The thing occurred again the next night. On this occasion Chauvannes distinctly felt that swift, lingering touch pass over his face; and again, instantly, he clutched about him in the dark, beating the whole place with his arms In a desperate effort to come into some physical contact with the creature. But it was wholly to no purpose. He touched nothing. There was no sound anywhere, and the men sleeping about him in the tent were not disturbed. He says that on the following morning he mentioned this thing again, but the three men with him had no experience of it whatever. “If these creatures, of which Chauvannes had the strange pre- monitory sense ,had finally appeared, they seemed to be directing their at- tentions exclusively to him, At any rate, the men denied having been dis- turbed by anything. They had seen nothing, felt nothing. But they were disturbed about Chauvannes. of in installment will appear (The concluding “The Great Cipher” our next issue.) Jmporting Turkeys. Toronto, Dec. 12.—Hungarians tur- keys: for the Christmas trade are be- ing imported into Canada for the first time in the Dominion’s history. A local dealer said today that 100,000 pounds had just been distributed for wholesale trade at prices lower than Canadian grown birds. 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