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The Blyth Standard, 1930-06-12, Page 2SALADA quality will always be the finest you can buy "SALADA" TEA 720 'Fresh from the gardens' The fiesilre of the lloo1oll By A. D. HOWDEN SMITH DEGIN HERB TODAY Lord James, the Crusader. was given the secret to the Treasure of Bucolcon by 21-c Emperor Andrenlcus, The secret has been lost, Lut the present Lord Jamc discovers it. He la murdered by a band of thugs and dies without reveal- 1i.r tt to his successor to the title, Hugh Chesby, Hugh then returns from New Toric to the family estate and begins a sear, The thugs follow. and while all are at the funeral of !high's uncle, the house is ransacked. Nikka iiaranho, a war-t'me friend of Hugh's, and Jack Nash, who tells the story, are Hugh's bosom companions. GO ON WITH THE STOW2 CHAPTER VIII. "What are you going to do with the key to the treasure?" asked Nikko, "You have it in your pocket now, but it is a long journey to Constantinople. Suppose they steal it en route?" Hugh flushed. "I had thought of that," he said, "Er—the fact is—Jack has a cousin —a girl we both know—" "You mean you do," I interrupted sarcastically. "I'm only her cousin. Have you heard front Betty?" "Yes, damn you! She and her fa- ther are at the Pera Palace." My suggestion is that I mail Uncle James' WRIGLE' WRIGLEY'S is good company on any trip. I It's delicious flavor adds zest and enjoyment. The sugar sup- plies pep and energy when the day seems tong. In short it's good and good for you. the ideal food for thebottle-fedbaby because it Lu clean, uniform 'n tisx 'it u , .. mos�e '.Ln s[ed,. artificial food and always ready for istan use when diluted with plain boiled water. It isuscdmoreoften than all other artificial foods combined. TIM' BORDEN CO., LIMITED 140 St. Paul W., Montreal tend Free Baby Book to: 1.0eaaee ISSUE No. 23—'30 translation of the key to her in Col - stantinople, Nobody knows that sI e knows me or has any conneet!on with any of us. She left New York before Uncle James arrived. So it would be perfectly safe in her hands.' "And in the meantime we'd bet commit it to memory," I said. The others agreed to this, and read over the brief transcript of missing half of the instructions u we had the salient directions fixed our minds. We had bags ready all four of us by lunchtime, and ranged with Hawkins to send trun after us to the Pere Palace in bond We had just seated ourselves in car when another machine drew alongside, and A,ontey Hilyer wave greeting. however, and Touton snarled beside me and his steel fingers pressed until my neck was numb. The pain was unbearable. The woman hissed one swift sen- tence to Touton, and rose crouching towards the door, Hugh's voice, tense and passionate, thundered over the dispute: "I don't give a damn for your rules! My friend is missing! I'm going to A hand rattled the knob of the door. Helene ripped off her waist, dropped her skirt to the floor, and tumbled her hair over her shoulders— all in two consecutive movements. As she unlocked the door, she clutched her lingerie about her. Touton reached up one hand, and twitched off the single light; his other hand compress- ed my neck and throat so that I could hardly breathe. Helene, herself, push- ed open the door, "Why the disturbance, messieurs?" sh- questioned silkily in French with the Parisian tang. "In here we have illness. Is it necessary—" One look was enough for them, 1 suppose. It would have fixed me, I know, I heard Hugh's boyish gasp, and Nikka's apology. "It was a mistake, madame. .A friend is missing, We thought—" "Here there are only ourselves," she assured them, holding the door wider. - Hugh cursed bluntly in Anglo- Saxon, and the guard joined his voice in hectic phraseology. I-Ielene slowly tet reclosed the door, we CHAPTER IX. - the For two hours she shot questions at nil tae, attacking the problem front every to conceivable angle. At last she leaned for back a trifle wearily, ar- "We approach Lyons," she said, "I los shall let you go this time, Mr. Nash, principally because if we killed tt the might frighten your friends away, up Touton took front one of their bags d a a length of stout rope, and Hed my legs front ankle to knee. He then un- locked the handcuff. The train was already whistling for the station yards. Helen let Toutou collect their two bags, saw him to the door and then switched off the single light, They went out, the door closed, and I was in darkness. The train stopped. Footsteps sounded in the corridor outside; a hand wrenched at the door; and a guard bundled in, with two people be- hind hien. As he turned on the light his face was a study in consternation. The two people with him bolted pell- mell into the corridor, shrieking with terror. "Thought you were going bo"slay in the County a while, Hugh," he hailed, Without a word, Hugh slipped in his gears and zoomed off on first, scat- tering dogs and pedestrie nk,xight and left. On the channel boat ngain we had the sensation of being:watched. Hilyer, (t asst£, called good -by to its from the dock, We arrived in Calais and drove to a small hotel where we secured roosts for the night, The next day we booked passage for the first train to Mtir- seilles, thinking to evade our enemies by this procedure, as they, would un- doubtedly expect us to go direct by the Orient Express. We ratter prided ourselves on our cleverness as we sat back in a re- served compartment of the. Lyons - Mediterranean Express, and watched he Tour Eiffel fade against the sy. We had moved with considerable cel- erity. First, we had loaded ourselves and baggage it:to waiting taxis in front of the hotel. Then we had driven in these to the•Gas-e de I'Est, dodged iii and out of that whirlpool of life, and re-entered two other taxis, which wo had directed in a reasonless, jaunt trhough the central district of Ptirid. We had lunched at a roadhouse, and returned to the station just in tithe to climb aboard the train, And finally, instead of risking the separation, we had elected to seclude ourselves in a single compartment and sleep as best we could. "What do you say to giving this train a look -over, Jack?" s 'ggested Ilugh. "If there are any familiar faces aboard we ought to be able to spot them. Nikka, you and Watty can ount guard here and protect each other until We come back." Our car was about in the middle of tine train, and at my suggestion, IIugh went forward, while I followed the corridor toward the rear. I ex- amined carefully the few persons standing and talking in the corridors, but I did not see any one who looked et all like any of the members of Toe- tou's gang whom I knew, 1 was. returning and had reached e rear end of our car when I heard scream just behind me and a door 'shed open. I turned involuntarily, woman in black, with a veil flying nand her pale face, ran into the , resitated and then seized my inn th a cr A ere coaide 1,rm. "Oh, Monsieuri My husband! He is so ill,' she cried in French, "He dies at this moment. I pray ycu, have you a flask?" I slipped past her into the compart- ment, flask in hand. One of the elec- trics w.ts on, and by its light I discern- ed tine body of a man huddled face down on the floor in the midst of a liter of baggage and wraps. I dropped the flask on one of the seats, and lean- ed over to hoist the man up. The man was breathing, stertor- ously, long, labored gasps. I started to lift hint --and my wrists were caught in a human vice. So quUly that I coed not follow his lilti emeni> , the melt nett on the Moor had twisted me down beside hon his knee was on my chest, my wind was cut off, a pan of steel hand0uffs fet- tered tic, and as I opened my mouth to scream a cotton gag was thrust into place by the woman I could see now that he was Toutou or Teodoresehi, cleverly disguised. The woman tossed back the veil which had been hanging loosely around her face. I recognized Watkin's pretty lady! She began to search ate. She opened my vest, felt for e money -belt, felt inside my shirt, took my shoes off, examined their parefully by flashlight, and made sure I had nothing in my socks. There was nothing to be found, Use Mtnar•d'o for Rheumatism, A Visit With the Home Folks -1930 Method! "Have you been home for a visit this year yet, Mrs. Aitken?" 11010011 her neighbor as they chatted across the back fence. • 'No! and I'm not going," Mrs. Aitken replied. "That Is, not In the way you are thinking of --the old way." "It's like this," she continued: "Toni and I made a Brod many trips home during the year. Often we wend without telling mother only to find either her or father indisposed. We could not sta a pull it was to leave them to say nothing of the expense and trouble, y and you can imagine what "Conning hack from our last visit we decided that all things considered It would be Inc better for us all If w just had a little chat over the 'phone with Mother or Ir o Father once a week—then during our regular holidays, tante a trip home and pay a real visit. "We all loot[ forward to the chats every weep. They ]seep us in touch with ono another all the time and aro really so much more satisfactory than the hurried visit. "Tom says it is the 1030 method of visiting the home folks." with the Orient Express for Constan- tinople, At Brindisi we can connect with a boat for Piraeus. When we board that boat they will begin to be- lieve that they understand our plans, because at Piraeus one finds frequent sailings for Constantinople- And we shall book passage from Piraeus for Constantinople, as they expect. But after we have gone aboard with our baggage, Jack and I will leave the boat by - stealth." "How are you going to manage all that?" I interrupted. "Jack ant I are going to taee an- other Boat for Salonika and from Sal- onika we shall go by train to Seres in the eastern tip of Greek Macedonia. At Seres—and I don't expect them to be able to trail us there—Jack and I will disappear. We shall cease to ex- ist, There will be two additional members in the band of Wasso Mikali, my mother's brother, and that band, will be travelling to Constantinople At that moment Hugh, attracted 6 with horses from the Dobrudja to g y trade with officers of the Allied de - the rumpus the two startled passer- tachments in the city," (To be continued.) 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