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Zurich Herald, 1930-07-03, Page 2Ite Treasure. of the Bueoleon By A. D, HOWDEN SMITH SYN °PSIS Hugh Chesbyl on the death of his uncle, becomes Lorct ChesbY, and short4 thereafter discovers the key ts the Trea- sure a the Bueoleen, which was left by the first x,orcl ChesbY, the Crusader. 1•Iugh sets out in quest of the treasure, beth is situated in a house in Constan vaut leJecititNash., and are Watkins, his rani o. They are set upon by a band of desperate criminals led by one Touton, who hope to steal the secret and purloin the trea- sure. Nikita and jack • gain. t, cess to the house where the treasure is hidden and which is occupied by Tokalji, an ally of Toutou's. They are disguised as Gypsies. In ord : to. further their ends they con- sent to join Toltalji's ba,tc of young men. Eara, a beautiful Gypsy girl, is fascin- ated by Nikka. elders: fox look eat Tolcalji's house freak sant$ D of c the water side," she answered prompt- ly. To Passion Plea' "Now tell es some ,more shout the hiding place of the treasure," eel"W "There's eon gusty ?"d and the First Play Performed 1634-- 5,000 People Spell -bound red stone," "It's not hollow, you said?" 'spoke for Three and a Half up King, Hours«Nee; Y "That would indieate.a task of some By Sir Henry Lunn difficulty in prying loose the covering Forty years ago Ivy irie'id W, T. splashed over Nikka', aquiline face bf the treasure chamber," he anti te: se, febrile body. "Surely I have seen that lean fellow at i Bey, Hilm before,"piped Nikka. CHAPTER XIV.—(Cont'd _) After supper the young men moved to the courtyard, where they built a fire of driftwood. A buzz of talk arose. The primitive Gypsy fiddles end gui- tars began to twang softly ' "Kara will dance," they cried. "Let Kara dance for the strangers," .And Dara floated into the circle of firelight like a spirit cf the forest. She still wore only the scanty madder -red skirt and `torn bodice. The cloud of her hair tumbed belnv her waist. Her tiny naked feet barely touched the ground. Slowly she whirled, and the Gypsy fiddles caught her time. A roan with cymbals clashed an accompani- ment. A flute whistled soprano. She increased the tempo; she varied her steps. She was a flower shrinking be- neath the grass. She was a dove pur- sued by a falcon. She was a maiden deserted by her lover. She was a fairy hovering above the world Crash! boomed a knock on the street door. And rap -rap -rap! it was re- peated. Crash"! again. The music stopped. "Heh!" said Tokalji. "Who can it be in such a hurry at this hour?" Crash! The door resounded under the battering of a pistol -butt. Tokalji crossed to the entrance. "Less noise there!" he shouted threateningly. "This is a peaceful house." But his manner changed the moment he opened the wicket. What he said we could not hear, but we saw him quickly turn the lock and throw back a leaf of the door, salaaming low as he stepped aside. Six men burst in, four of thein in European clothes, end Nik- ka and I exchanged a glance of appre- hension as we recognized the broad shoulders of their leader and heard his snarling voice. Touton LaFitte had arrived With him were Hilyer, Serge Vassilievich and Hilmi Bey. The two who brought up the rear, somewhat sulky and fear- ful, were the spies we had seen ';n front of the Pera Palace that morning. "Can I trust nobody to fulfill my -orders?" whined Toutou, striding to- ward the fire. "I tell you to spare no efforts—and I come to find you singing and dancing around a fire!" Tokalji, having refastened the door, followed him across the courtyard. "What could we have done that we have not done?" he retorted. "Was it our fault that you lost track of the two missing ones? As for the English lord and his servant, my two men that I see with you have shadowed them day and night." "And lost them today, as they ad- mit," snarled Touton. "Lost them for a whole day! Who knows what has been accomplished in that time?" "You are right there," agreed To- kalji coolly, "and I have just picked two new nien to take their places. One of them is a Fr in -c I'ke yourself; the other is a Tzigane." "Ha, let lee see that Frank," ex- claimed Toutou. "I know many of the Franks who live with the Tziganes." "Step out, Giorgi Bordu and Jakka," called Tokalji. Nikka sunk his fingers in my arni in a warning grip, and we stepped forth from the group of Tziganes clus- CHAPTER XV. Vassilievich pushed in front of the newcomers, "Is it my imagination," he inquired softly, "or does the stocky one bear a resemblance to the Amerikansky, Nash?" "By jove, I think you're right!" ex- claimed Hilyer, speaking for the first time. "Be ready," hissed Nikka from the corner of his mouth, without shifting his eyes from our enemies. • His right hand was thrust into his waist -sash. "I do not like this business" rasped Touton, pulling a knife from inside his vest. I felt a pressure between Nikka and myself, and Kara's voice whispered: " Run, you fools! To the House of the Married!" Nikka's pistol flashed blue in the firelight. • "Shoot, Jack!" he cried. A ruddy flame jetted from his muz- zle, and the spy Petkr dropped dead. Toutou LaFitte pushed Zlacho in the line of fire before himself, and dived into the encircling shadows and Zlacho crumpled up witIa a broken leg. Tokal- ji, Hilyer, Vassilievicl' and Hilmi scat- tered. "Run!" I heard Nikka shout. We pelted for the house on our left, Kara running with us. We gained the door, dropped the bar into place, and the next minute the framework groaned under a weight of bodies. "No shooting," yelled Tokalji. "You fools, you'll have the Frank police in here!" "One hundred Napoleons a head for then," barked Toutou. "Dead or alive." "Come," Kara said, as a crash sounded outside. "They have broken in a window. Follow me." She led us into an adjoinin;- room, where in the thickness of the wall a narrow stairway corkscrewed upward, debouching on the upper floor. She turned to the right and entered one of the rooms. A ladder leaned against the wall below a trap door he the roaf. In a corner stood a bedstead, which she stripped of its clothes, revealing th:, cords that served for springs. "Cut those with youx knife," she said. "When we take to the roofs we will need them to help us down again." Nikka did as she directed, while I shut the door, and piled the few ar- ticles of furniture against it. Tokalji's men were in full cry downstairs. "There is more than enough rope here," said Nikka, coiling it on his arm. "Some of it I ani going to use for you" "What?" Passion dawned in her big eyes. "You camioc go with us, little one. We have no place to take you." "1 tell you I love yot " she answered proudly. "I'm not going to hurt you," pleaded Nikka. "But I must bind you so they will not suspect that you aided us" He bound her gently, hand and foot, without a word, end laid :ler on the floor of the bed. We ascended the lad- der and pushed back the trap-door. "Next house," I panted, and we set off across the room. Ahead was a drop of ten feet on to the adjoining roof. We made it without any difficulty. We shuffled an cautiously until we came to the courtyard, which ran clear from the street front to the old sea-wall. "No choice," grunted Nikka. "Here's a chimney. Knot your rope. It can't be more than twenty-five feet to the ground" He event clown first, and I followed tered in front of the lire There was him, scorching my hands, for the rope at least a chance than we should not was thin and had no knots to check be identified—but it•. value was de- one's descent. Nikka pulled the door monstrated the instant the firelight toward us very slowly, and we peered into the street. Not a figure showed e rgaStead and I were writing a weekly London letter to twenty•English news- papers, Ite lane back 'frons Oberarn- n ergaii that summer Hili oe enthusi- asm for the wonderful power of the Passion Play, which he had just wit- nessed, and with his •blazing enthusi- asm wrote his book, "The Story That This . 1-s d ia. Trausfoxmed the World."T , pinch to make the powers of these Bavarian villagers and their devotion to their high task 'widely known in this country. "We have—or rather, I should say, Betty has—taken precautions to in- stall an board the Curlew an equip- ment of crowbars, 'pickaxes, shovels, chisels and other too ,e—" Betty excused herself and in quarter of an hour returned dressed in a warm sports suit. Have you all got your pistols load- ed?" ed?" she inquire If the spies were still watching the hotel, as I have no doubt they Were, we gave them the slip. We went down- stairs together :.-ad shot into a closed car which was in waiting, Watkins sit- ting beside the chauffeur. Ten minutes later we drew up on the Curlew's dock and went on board. We chugged slowly through the glut of shipping in the Golden Horn, edging away from the Galata shore toward the picturesque bulk of Stamboul. (To be continued-) What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressntaking. Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern When you need new energy, ' when you are hot and mouth is dry—pep up with Wrigley's—it moistens mouth and throat. The increased flow of saliva heeds new strength to the blood, you can do more you feel better. Keep etwal1e with Wrigley's Cl< l}_": .iRl ISSUE No. 26—'30 in the direction of Tokalji's house, We sped out into the street, letting the door slam behind us. We had not gone fifty feet when we were seen by Gyp• sies on the roof of Tokalji's house, and they, with the woman to help them, cried the rest of the pack hot on our trail. The only thing for us to do in the ch'cmnstances was to twist and turn without heed to direction and lose both pursuers and ourselves in the' break- neck purlieus of Stamboul. We suc- ceeded in shaking off the Gypsies fin- ally, but we were hopelessly astray, and it was past. midnight when we gained our cubicle, "So far, Jack, you and Mr. Zaranko seem to •leave had angst of the fun," pronounced my cousin Betty, es we sat at•lunbheon in the King's private site ting room in the I'era .Palace. Nik..a and I had just finished re- lating our adventures of the night be- fore and of our discovery of the treas- ure's Liding place. Now that we had been discovered there was no more use of disguising ourselves, so we had re- turned to our street clothes. ",barn it all," I confessed. "You won't let up, will you? Well, have it your own way What do you want to dog„ I have just returned from witness- ing the. Play for the fourth time, hav- ing been one of the few Englishmen who saw it i - 1900, 1910 and 1922. It may, therefore, be of interest to give some impressions of the presentation of this great drama on this occasion. In the fust place, it is important to emphasize the change that has taken place in the conditions under which the spectator; pass the seven and a half hours which the Play occupies. The theatre has been rebuilt. The seats are very comfortable, and, ex- cepting for a few 5s. and 10s. seats in the very front, all are now under cover though the people of Oberammergau have wisely preserved the open front of the theatre through which one looks upc r the mountain which, when I was there, still carried the remains of the winter's snow. The new theatre, which has cost a million and a half marks, is a triumph of good taste and excellent architecture; its acoustic properties are admire,.i.; and the players can .e '-.ard and seen by every Member of the audience in every part of the vast building, which will seat 5,400. The Christus of 1870,:80 and '90 was Josef Mayr, a great genius, and none who saw and heard him will ever for- get what a remarkable man • he was. When I first saw him he was the Chor- agus, who gave the Epilogue and led the choir. His place in that capacity has this year been taken by Anton Lang, who also has the remarkable privilege, of taking the part of the Christus for three successive Passion Plays, 1900, 1910 and 1922. He also is a great persrality, and like Josef Mayer now speaks the Epillgue and acts as Choragus. Of all thos, actors in the first plays that I saw the man who was out- standingly a genius from the historic point of view was Hans Zwink, who now takes only a minor part in the Play. Anyone who was at those ear- lier plays and hears the name of Zwick mentioned will at glace respond because of his recollection-. of the ability of that player. Ths ;,arts of Mary, the Mother of our Lorci, and Mary Maglalent are admirably filled respectively by Anni Rutz and Johan- na Preisinter. Guido Mayr, who took the part of the betrayer, was an excel- lent actor, and had he not been pre- ceded by Hans wink he•would have been in the front rank. Melchior Breitsaanter made a most effective Pilate. The highest tribute to t'.c. skill and devotion of the players is to be found M the fact that 5,000 people sat 31;a hours in the morning and 3li;_ hours in the afternoon, scarcely stirring in their places, and showed a rapt atten- tion—surely the highest tribute which the .players could have desired. During my visit to this first public performance of 1930 I heard a good deal about the burden the peasants had to carry. They had incurred a liability of a million and a hall marks for their theatre and half a million marks for the extension and improve- ment of the roads, rendered necessary by the immense increase in motor traffic. An influential man who knows the villagers intimately told me that he assessed their own private mort- gages, resulting in large measure from the tremendous losses of the inflation period during which the Play of 1922 took place, at the large sum of a fur- ther two million marks, making a total indebtedness of the v::'a ;o col- lectively and of the people individual- ly amounting to something like four million marks, or 4200,000 If the villag3 is to sucec d in pay- ing this sum, the current o :Menses and the small payment to the respective You'll like the unusualness of this saucy little sports flock of tub silk. It is eggshell ground printed in tones of orangey-red. The scalloped collar, cuffs, pockets and belt are of plain crepe in eggshell shade. 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Rub well, with salt and cut into small squares. one small actors to compensate them for their head of lettuce—washed well and loss of time, out of the receipts of the swung dry in a salad basket—also cut play, they will not have much over, up, a suggestion of onion, and two and anything that remains will be de- ment leaves chopped very fine. Mix voted to public ends. A certain all together in a bowl, and add a little amount has been said about the vil- cold boiled potato. Pour over this one 95 pounfs I in C v•na �. in fv crha asealone week FP TEA 'Fresh fr m the Gardens' danger with a great influx of rich peo- ple from America and Europe that the simplicity of these villagers should be damaged, and even destroyed, but those who witnessed the Play on Sun- day, May 11, will agree with me al- most unanimously that there was a devotion which could only be shown by those whose simplicity was as yet untouched. Much is to be hoped that nothing will occur to prevent the vil- lagers clearing themselves and the vil- lage of Oberammergau from their op- pressive debt. The first Play was per- formed in the year 1634, and there is a possibility that a centenary Play may be acted in 1934, but the general belief is that the next Play will take place in 1940. American Men Like Fashion's Latest Beau Brummels Must Strive for Effective Harmony "Some of the most popular ensemb- les being ordered for summer are: Green cashmere jacket with pastel tinted green flannel trousers; c:tpri blue jacket with astel tinted blue flan- nel trousers; • cinnamon . brown cash- mere jacket with pastel tinted tan flan- nel trousers. .One of the outstanding features for seashore wear is a double- breasted canary -colored lounge suit," according to the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America. 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