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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-06-26, Page 2The Treasuro of the 1.u0o10011 By A. D. HOWDEN SMITH 1 ""If you breathe it to a ;soul, I will 1 out out your heart with my own knife, I, Beran Tokalji," replied the Gypsy chief by way of preface. "They have the secret to a treasure." I "What?" exclaimed Nikka, with great pretense ofastonishment. "Here in .Stamboul?" "Close by, my lad, close by, They h-ew its location, but if we are smart we should be able to take it from them as soon as they reveal their knowl- r edge. It is for us to find out their Giorgi Bordu. I secret or wring it Pram them, by tor- do not want thele sneaking around ture, if necessary." here. They are after something that "This is 'a job worth doing," cried I want myself." Nikka, jumping up. "Jakka and I He then motioned to the girl to show will be dilligent." us our room, Nikka and I pouched "Very well," Tokalji assured, "It our shares of the loot we had brought will help you to await the return of in and followed the gypsy girl across the two 1' have out watching these the courtyard to the building which Pranks in Tera. You shall eat heart - fronted it on the left and was extended ily, and this evening Kara will dance by the brick addition I have spoken of in the courtyard." to shut in partially the rear of the He stepped aside, and waved us per- court. mission to go; and we walked through "Here or above, whichever you say," the courtyard to thecrumbling wall she announced to us.. "These are the which rimrned the Bosphorus at one point, its base a rubble -heap, its bat - quarters of the ,young men." Nikka realized that if we set upa tlements in fragments, its platform ct rem overgrown with weeds. "It would: not be difficult to climb up here"' I said idly, • pointing to the gaps between the stones, and the slop- ing piles of bowlders. We strolled over to the young men's quarters, and while I wrapned myself in a gloomy atms- phere, Nikka swapped anecdotes of crilne with the others who drifted in and out. (To be continued.) BEGIN HERE TODAY attacked those two, While at the Crusades the original Lord Jaynes Chesby gained possession of the secret to the Treasure of the Bucoleon, and left to his descendants documents concerning same. A desper- ate pail of bandits, in ar. effort to steal the key to the treasure, murder Hue. Clesby's uncle .and the title des- cends. to Hugh. The bandits, of wheel an Italian, Touton, is head shadow Hugh and his friends on their way to Constantinople, and on the train going through France trap Jack Nash, a friend of Hugh's and the narrator of this story, and endeavor to gain in formation from him. Jack escapes. While Hugh and Watkins lead their shadowers astray, Jack Nash and away and go to Sens, Turkey, where Nikka meets his uncle, Wasso Mikali, who disguises them as Gypsies• With six others of Wasso's tribe theypr to Constantinople. Nikka and Jack carry out a fake robbery of Watkins before the house of Tokalji, an ally of Toutou's. Tokalji occupies the house where the treasure is buried, and when Nikka and Jack plead for entrance after the fake robbery, he admits them. GO ON WITH THE STORY Gypsy friend, Nikka Zaranko steal different standard of condu f that observed by our brother bachelors we would prejudice our position inthis strange community. "What .is good enough for them is good enough for us," he decided. "But. where do you live, maiden?" Her face glowed' rosily with satis- faction at this first evidence of his interest in herself. • "Across the court," she answered. "Come and you shall see." We descended the stairs into the hie. hall on the ground -floor, and crossed the courtyard to the building opposite on the right of the entrance and through a door. "These are the quarters of the mar- ried people," explained Kara. "And you?" asked Nikka. "Oh, I.live where I choose, but most of all I like nay garden." "Your garden? Where is there garden?" "I will show you, Giorgi Bordu." Kara crossed the room and opened another door. This led to a pillared portico, and I gasped in wonder at the sheer loveliness of this morsel of im- perial Byzantium, buried in the frowsy lanes of Stamboul. It was exactly as the first Hugh had described it in the missing half of the Instructions which we had found. I dug my fingers into Nikka's arias. "Yes, yes," he said quietly in Eng- lish. •"I see it, too. But do not let yourself seen excited." Involuntarily I repeated to myself the • concluding sentences of the In- structions which we had all memor- ized: "From the center of the Fountain take foux paces west toward the wall of the atrium. Then walk three paces north. Underfoot is a red stone an ell square." The center of the Fountain—where could that be? The pool stretched side- wise to us, as we stood in front of the atrium. Plainly then, it was intended to mean from the center of the pedes- tal on which the lion was perched. I stepped out from the portico, measur- ed with my eye the distance from the pedestal west toward the wall of the atrium, and walked north on the paved walk which rimmed the central grass plot. The flagging' here, while naturally worn by the passage of time, was as even as though le had been aid yester- day. It was composed of blocks of red and brown granite in a checker- board pattern, but they seemed to be only a foot square. It was not until I passed the center of the fountain that I discovered that at regular in- tervals a larger stone was inserted in the design. And sure enough I found a red one about three anda half paces, and I roughly made it, in a northerly line from the point I had calculated as four paces west of the center of the fountain• Kara had no eyes for are one save Nikka, and I, ventured to stamp my sandaled heel on the stone as I trod over it. It gave back no different sound from those on either side of it, but when my.- first disappointment had passed, ,t told myself that this was no more than could have been expected. Had it sounded hollow, surely,' some person in the course of seven centur- ies -would have .noticed it, and whether possessed of knowledge of the treasure or not must have had sufficient enter- prise to attempt to find what it con- cealed. • Nikka and Kara cooa returned and we proceeded back to our quarters. On the way, we met Tokalji who. dismiss- ed Kara and escorted us up the stairs• into a large chamber where he himself slept. CHAPTER XIV. "Sit," he ordered roughly, motion - 1 ing otionling to several stools. "I have some- thing to say." CHAPTER XIII. There were two interesting char- acters close at hand. One was a stal- wart, black -bearded man, with a seam- ed wicked face that wore a habitual scowl. The other was a girl of per- haps eighteen, whose lissome figure set off her ragged dress like a Paquin toil- ette. She was very brown. She regarded me almost with con- tempt, but her eyes fairly devoured. Nikka. "This is the one," she cried, "he ran like that stallion we had from the Arab of Nejd, and you should have seen hint strip the old Frank." But the man only glowered at us, his hand on the hilt of one of the long knives in his waistsash. "Be still, Kara! You jabber like a crow." "A -ed you snarl like a wolf, Old One," she retorted. "I say l saw them" "Somewhat of it. I saw myself," he admitted, "but is {-eat a reason for tak- ing strangers in from the street?" "My comrade and I are new to Stam- boul," stated Nikka. "We have heard of Beran Tokalji in many camps. A great thief, they said, and one who treatec: his people well." "How do you knew that I ale To- kalji?" demanded the bearded man, plainly flattered by Nikka's speech. The. girl thrust heraelf scornfully to the fore. "Gabble, gabble, gabble," she mock- ed. "Are we old wives that we mouth over everything? These men robbed, they fled unseen, they have their loot. Foster father, you are not so keen as you once were. Something was said of a division•" A greedy light dawned in Tokalji'a eyes. "Yes, yes," he insisted, "that is right. So you said, my lad, and if you would have shelter you must pay for it." "So will 1." Nikka flung the money -belt, some loose change and a watch down on the ground, and squatted beside them. The rest of us did the same. The girl seized the belt and emptied the compartments, one by one, "English gold," she exclaimed. "This was worth taking. You are a man of judgment, friend. What is your name?" "I am called Giorgi Bordu, My friend is named Jakka in the Tzigane camps. The name he bore in his own country is burned under a killing." She looked at me more respectfully and began shifting the money into three equal, piles. "Did he have any papers, that Frank?" asked Tokalji abruptly. "All that he hadis there," replied Nikka. 'Humph!" The. Gypsy thought for a moment.- "It was strange that you a What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- - wished With Every Pattern Alertness scores everywhere. Wrigley's creates pep and en. ergy and keeps you alert.' A 5 t package may save you from going to sleep at the wheel of your car. Makes pep ISSUE rain; 2 ,=`1' , • Watch Your Baby! 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