HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1930-06-19, Page 2The I'rasure of the Ellcoleoil
By A. D. HOWDEN SMITH
BEGIN HERD TODAY
Lord James; the Crusader, woo given
'.
rho secret to [ho Treasure of l3ucoleon
by 11'i Emperor Ancb•onieus, Tho secret
has Leet! lost, Int tho present Lord
Jani, discovers it. Ho is murdered by
a ballet of thugs and dies without reveal.
11.c it to his successor to the title, ll'ugh
Chesby. Hugh then returns from New
York to the family estate and begins a
sear, ', 'Tho thugs follow, mid while all
aro at the funeral of ITugh's uncle, the
house \s ransacked. Niklca larank°, a
war -true friend of Hugh's, and Jack
Nash, ttbo tells rho story, aro Hugh's
bosom companions.
GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER 11.—(Cont'd.)
'And Watty and I?" questioned
Hugh.
"You go to the Pcra Palace Hotel.
Meet this Miss Kit g and her father,
but don't let anybody suspect that you
expectedto meet thein. Remember
You will be watched all the time. Yoor
rooms and your baggage will be
searched. I think they will investi-
gate the Kings, Inc. You .rust have
Miss King hide the copy of the In-
structions you sent her. Let her place
it in an envelope, addressed to herself,
Poste rests» ter She can go to the
Post Office and collect it whenever we
need it.
"But how are we going to get in
touch with you?" asked Hugh.
"Leave that to us," replied Nikka,
with his quiet grin. "Make it a cus-
tom to lounge in front of the Pera
Palace every morning after breakfast
for half an hour; and keep a watch
out for Gypsies. Some morning two
especially disreputable fellows will
conte by, anti one of them will contrive
to get a word with you. Follow then,"
"That's a corking plan," Hugh ap-
proved warmly. "Weil, lads, we'll be
in Marseilles early in the morning."
If we were followed in Marseilles
'we didn't know it, We only left the
railroad station to get a breakfast and
dispatch a telegram from Nikko to his
uncle—or, rather, to an address in
Beres which acted as a clearing house
for the operations of this particular
Gypsy band. Then we took the train
for Milan, and stooped off over -night
to secure sone sleep.
At Piraeus we had a choice of sev-
eral steamers sailing for Constanti-
nople, Nikka pitched upon a French
boat that lay across the wharf from a
Greek liner plying to Salonika and the
Greek islands of the Aegean. The
Frenchman was sailing at dawn the
next morning; the Salonika boat was
due to cast off several hours later.
We booked two cabins on the
Frenchman and hired a clerk at the
British consulate to reserve a cabin
and passage for two on the Salonika
boat.
Our cabins were next to each other,
and we played poker until long past
Midnight. Then Nikka and I said
good -by to Hugh and Watty, and
sneaked out into the companionway.
The quartermaster on guard at the
gangway we handed a Napoleon, tell-
ing him we were obliged to land in
order to dispose of some forgotten
business. The watchman on the pier
was conciliated n the sane way. And
finally, the deckguard of the Greek
liner, once his fingers were greased
and our tickets shown to him, offered
no objection to escorting us to aur
cabin,
At dawn we were awakened by the
whistling of the Frenchman as he
backed out from the pier, and from a
porthole we watched 1 im disappear in
the mist of the harbor. At noon the
Epaminondas likewise cast off,
CHAPTER X.
WE MEET NIKKA'S UNCLE
At Salonika we entered a Europe
which was new to me, if an old story
to Nikka, a Europe which was blended
with the life and color and form of the
Orient. At the railroad station we
fought for places in a first-class com-
partment, which had room for six
and must accommodate eight. The
train lunged out of the station, shak-
ing off superfluous passengers as it
jolted over the switch on to the amain
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line and in the full tide of hours
crawled over a mountain -ridge a
entered the town of Sores,
Nikko commandeered a nacre in t
station square.
"Do you know the house of Kest
bidjan the stoney -lender?" he ask
the driver in Greek that sounded No
than ,nasseble w me. `Very well, the
drive us there,"
"Who is Kostabidjan?" I inquired
as the driver whipped up bis small
horses.
"He is the agent of the tribe,"
replied shortly, "It was through hi
I sent word to my uncle,"
A wicket opened, and a dark, b
whiskered face was revealed, Nikk
ejaculated a single sentence in 1h
Gypsy dialect that Toutou's gat
sometimes use, and the gate sveun
ajar.
The individual with the whiskers,
dried-up, elderly man, quickly faste
ed the gate again, with a sidewise to
at Nikka, half respect, half fear. A
the dour, the stood aside and usher
us into a parlor furnished in tl
:tench style, A stout, smooth -facet
elderly man rose from a desk as t
entered. He started to saloon
thought better of it, and offered hi
hand, which Nikko grasped perfuse
torily. Then he commenced to spea
in the Tzigane dialect, and Nikka cu
him off,
"Speak French," said Nikka curtly
"I 'have no secrets from my friend
Mr. Nash." And to ane, "This is Mon
sieur Kostabidjian,"
Kostabidjian bowed tome.
"The telegram was forwarded e
once to the Chief," he answered, "'Bu
Wasso Mikali sent back word yester
day that he would be delayed in wait
ing upon you :n consequence of
caravan of cartridges which the ban
are running into Albania. It is a
affair which has attracted his atten
tion for the last month, and Ise dare
not trust the work to another,"
"Good," said Nikko. "When wil
he be here?"
"Ile spoke of tomorrow—"
"Then serve us food, and lead us t
a room where we may rest,"
When we reached our room Nikko
soon dozed off. For a while I watche
the afternoon sunlight outside the win
down, then the weariness of our travels
vercame me, and I, too, slept, , . I
woke abruptly, feeling a light blazing
in my eyes. lily first thought was of
Milieu and Helene de Cespedes, and
I dived under the pillow for my auto-
matic and sat up at the same time.
A man was standing in the doorway
of the room, with n kerosene lamp in
his hand, a tall man, with the proud
face of an eagle Wisps of silver -
vitae hair escaped fresh the varicolor-
d turban that wrapped his brows, but
le held himself with the erect poise
f youth.
As I prodded Nikka awake, he dos -
d the door behind him and set the
amp on a table, calmly ignoring my
istol. Nikka, rubbing the sleep from
is eyes, took one look at the appari-
ion and jumped frons the bed.
"Wasso!" he dried.
The stranger raised fingers to lips
nd breast in a graceful salaam, and
eplied in the Gypsy patois, a cadenced
musical speech when used by those
o whom it was a mother -tongue.
ikka grasped his hand, and exchang-
d a rapid-fire of question and answer,
hen called to ane:
"This is my uncle. He arrived
ooner than he expected, He guessed
y need was great, and traveled with-
ut respite. Coma and meet him,"
Wasso Mikali rendered me a salaam
nd a handshake.
Nikka explained to him the circum-
tances of our trip to Constantinople,
nd the old mans' eyes glistened at
ho mention of the treasure. He in-
errupted with a liquid flow of poly-
yllables.
"He says," Nikka interpreted, when
e •had finished, "'that he has heard
bout it,"
"Will he help us?" I asked eagerly,
Nikka gave me an odd look,
"His tribe are mineMy wish is1
sir wish. How can they refuse?"
CHAPTER XI.
01IE ROAD '1'0 CONSTANTINOPLE,
Wasso Mikali was a very wise mal,
'e 3uestioned Nikka closely concern -
1g our situation, and this was his
rdlct:
"When you fight with thieves you
ust use thieves' tricks. You did
ght to cone to me. Now I will se -
ire fitting garments for you, 01,y sis-
is son, and for your Amerikansky�
lend, Jalcka. For him els° I will
'civ a dye of walnut bark and chest-
ut leaves that will make him as dark
our people, so that men will not
ant' st.ai'e at him 00 1110 roam,
"After that I think we had best go
vay from this place as soon 00 pos-
ble. First, two must go across the
hodopes to the place where the tribe
ve hidden some ;Horses we got from
Roumanian boyar. We will collect,
e horses, together with some of my
ung men who can handle a knife,
d go on to Constantinople."
'"But it was not 111y thought that
u should abandon the affairs of the
ibe, and cone and fight with nme, "
moastrated Nikka,
"Are you not the son of my sister?"'
rejoined the old Gypsy, "If you had
not elected to go to Buda with your
violin would you not be chief of the
band?• Do'I not stand in your place?
Well, then, light of my eyes, we will
do for you all that we may."
"Its ell right," I admitted with due
humility. "And I was all wrong but
1 didn't know the Middle Ages wecu
still with us!'
Nikka laughingly repeated my re-
mark, and his uncle's twinkling Ayes
and mocking smile conveyed his retort
10 before it was translated:
tri 1 "Say to my young friend Jakka that
if a tribe cannot stand by their own
he then these days are worse than the
old tines."
0.1 He left us, and Nikka and I secured
ed another hour's sleep. When he re -
re turned ho as accompanied by a young -
or edition of himself, who carried two
bundles which were disclosed as coo•
plete suits of Tzigano' dress, He, him-
self, carried 0 pct of warm, brown
liquid, and he proceeded to apply the
he stain to 010 with a small paintbrush,
nn air, mustache, face and body were
darkenea to a mellow brown, The stuff
e- dried quickly, and I was soon able to
a pull on the striuhge garments, which
o Nikka showed me how to adjust and
fasten.
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