The Syracuse Journal, Volume 18, Number 21, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 24 September 1925 — Page 6

King Tommy By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM Cspyright by Bobbs-MerriU Co.—W. N. U. Service

CHAPTER XVlll—Continued *"A11 Asia Minor la more or less Persian.” said Norbeys, "and. anyway, I don’t want to take anaction against her. I don’t believe 1 could even if « I wanted to, on account of having got married myself before she did. So that’s that; and there’s, no use worrying." k Troyte was talking fast to someone In the foreign office. ••There’ll be the devil of a fuss." said Norheya "If Uncle Ned stirs up all those ambassadors and people. And they won’t like it. Nobody would like It. I say, Uncle Ned!" Troyte, working steadily * through Cable's telegrams, waved an Impatient hand at Norheys. s "It's all very fine." said Norheys to me. "Uncle Ned may say what he likea but they won’t like It No ambassador .would like being pulled out of his bed at this hour of the night and set on to chase a princess up and down the Himalaya mountains, as if she was a goat or a chamois or something of that kind. And what 1 always say is: If nobody wants a thing done, why do it? There are lots of unpleasant things every fe’Wow has to d<» Why chip in with unnecessary ones aad make everyone uncomfortabler “Notify the legations at Sophia," said Troyte Into the telephone, "and Prague and Bukarest. and Warsaw, and Budajiest. and Belgrade—" * “Just listen to him." said Norbeys. •Jolly glad 1 didn’t go Into the diplomatic service. They wanted me to. You remember that. Uncle Bill? But ° I was firm about that. ’Not my line at all.* I said. ’Hate complications and always did.’ ’ Now I see 1 whs shite right. I simply couldn’t stand toeing set on to persecute some poor girl who'd run off with the chauffeur. And I expect that’s what’s happened. Looks like it anyhow. What 1 always s#y is: If a girl wants to marry a chauffeur, let her, and be jolly thankful It’s no worse." ’Cable had edged over to the table st which Troyte was sitting at the talephene. ’Tell them." he said, "to engage (Maces for us Ln the Warsaw express. We must go tomorrow." ”1 suppose we must." said Troyte with a sigh. 1 “Ot coarse we must." said Cable. ‘Heaven knows what muddle there’ll be If we’re not, there. It’s a' complicated business ’and you and 1 are the 4ply ■ two people who understand the whole at It. Tetr them to book two sleeper* for os." “I “ say," said Norheys. 1 say. Unde Ned. are you really going off to thia what-you-call-'em place to see thegsfocess?” Troyte took no notice of thia, so I answered for him. "Uajuusu" 1 said,. "As minister for Balkan affairs. It's bis duty to have tola htSd on the helm wblen the ship is In the rapids." Norheys turned to bls wife, who bad seen Mrttag quietly and eery comfortably where Troyte left her. “Lbay, Vi. old thing, what about it?" She understood him at once, thongh I confess that I did not. t "I should simply love it." she said. *and you promised that we should save a honeymoon." “Hlghto." said Norheys. "I say. Unde Ned, tell him to book four sleepers. will you. Vi and I are going to trot along with you." Troyte very nearly dropped the receiver in his astonishment. 1 was a dttle startled myself. The very last place a man ougbt to take bls wife tor a iioneymoon is into the middle »f a Balkan war. and that. If I could trust Troyte’s Judgment, was just what there was going to be. "You can’t go. wlth us.” said Troyte. •I’m d—d if you do," said Cable. •You ougbt to be pleased to have - •s." said Norheys. “We'd cheer you I sp and all that when you're feeling a bit down and out" "You’ve done mischief enough already." said Cable. “You sha*n*t go tear Lystria if I can stop you." “I don’t suppose you can stop us." i laid Norheya “I say. Unde Ned. do book those sleepers. I promised VI I that she should see the black princess, ! and she wants to. don’t you. VI?" "I should like to see Lystria." she mid. "So there you are, Uncle Ned," said Norheys. "You can’t go back on VI when she comes rushing home all the way from Paris just to tell you that she’d married me. Very few girls would have done that" "I protest strongly—" said Cable. That’s no use," said Norheya. “If Unde Ned won’t book the sleepers for u* we'll have to go without them. I’ve got my passport all right You gave ,% to me yourself. Unde Ned, and Hl manage to slip Viola through somevow. You generally can. you know. ! <f you tip the right man. Besides, i might come in useful. You never enow. That princess has run off with the chauffeur and the Lystrlans may sot want him for a king. It’s a bit twkward for them. A fellow who’s touching his hat to yog ope_day and Norheys. I do not know whether he actually thought that It might still be possible to make Norheys king of LyoCria. If the thing were possible, it would certainly be away out of a nasty situation. Even the Balkan war might be averted. 1 always said. ” said Norheys, that

I’d no objection to being a king, so long as 1 didn’t have to marry that princess. Well, that part of the program Is off now. But if the Lystrians don’t care for .the chauffeur, why not pop me and Viola on to a couple of thrones? Not that we want to hoof out the princess. We don’t. Only Just if she happens to have done herself in by skipping off with the chauffeur. And that’s the sort of thing it takes a girl a long time to get over — specially If she happens to be a prin,cesa—why. In that case what I say Is: Why not us?" Cable Is an adventurer with no sense of responsibility and little regard for convention. He may have seriously contemplated financing another revolution In Lystria and setting up Norheys as a king at the end of It. But Troyte is a serious statesman. He corid not possibly have regarded NOrheys’ plan as worthy of consideration. Nevertheless, he agreed to take the young couple to Lystria. It was Viola who persuaded Itim. She left her seat, went over to him in the prettiest possible manner, put one arm round bls neck and* set her cheek quite close to his. "Do take us," she said. "We want to go most awfully, and I ought to have a honeymoon. oughtn’t I?" Troyte picked up the telephone receiver ngain. "Hullo ’’’ he said. “Yes, Foreign office. Lord Edmund Troyte speaking again. Diu I say two sleepers on the Warsaw express? Well, four will be wanted. Engage four." "Say five,” 1 said, *Td rather like to go. too." Troyte took no notice of me. He laid down the receiver, crossed the room holding Viola’s hand, and sat down. “Why on earth do you want to go?" said Cable. “Well." I said, “I’m thinking of applying for shares In the oil company of yours, so. of course. I’d like to loo«c into things for myself. And Lord Norheys la my godson, so If you're going 1 31 /1 \w 1 < // _ * “Do Taka Us," She Said. “We Want to Go Most Awfullv, and I Ought to Have a Honeymoon, Oughtn’t I?" to make him a king, I ought to be there to help to cfown him. Godparents have duties as well as rights. And, besides. I want to 'find out who that princess has run away with. I believe myself that my sister Emily’s curate has got her. and that Janet Church has gone along with them to be bridesmaid." I picked up the telephone receiver, and asked for the Foreign office. Cable growled. Troyte lit a cigarette and poured himself out a glass of brandy. Norheys clapped me on the back. "Good old Uncle BUI Fhe said. 1 always knew you were a sport. TeU us all about that curate, won’t you?" “That the Foreign office?" I shouted down the telephone. “Yea. Tm speaking for Lord Edmund Troyte. Please engage five sleepers in the Warsaw express tomorrow instead of four, if they haven't that number vacant tell them :•» put on another coach. Yes. A whole coach. Never mind about the expense Mr. Cable wUi settle that whatever it la." CHAPTER XIX I did not enjoy the first part of the journey to Lystria, for I was left almost entirely alone That Is always disagreeable to me for I am a man of sociable disposition with a very strongly formed habit of conversation. I could not blame Norheys and hla wife for deserting us They were on. a honeymoon and It was natural enough that they should shut them-

Wampum Accepted as Currency by Indians

mint Bl UB- ' ' 7 . , ;~ ■ ,' , ' W " mint they introduced methode of high finance with rorpriatag effects upon the native currency. Labor-saving machinery was open* tod by water power for turninc out wampum wholesale. It was freely accepted by the Indiana throughout the country, who refused to qm the emm*

selves up together in their own com pa rtment. I did not see them, except at meals In the restaurant car. Troytt and Cable ignored me. Cable resentet my being with the party at all anc kept Troyte to himself in a not het compartment on pretense of talklni business. They could not talk bus! ness in any useful way because thej did not know what had happened ir Lystria. Ail they could do was to specu late, and I might have been useful tc them there. In fact, my guess about Emily's curate was the only good guess any of them made. Casimir, Count Istvan, who live* somewhere in that neighborhood, got into the train at Charlottenberg sta tlon. just outside Berlin. King Wladls laws joined us at the Friedrichstrasse station farther on. There is not enough room for four people to b« comfortrble In a wagon-lit's compartment, so Cable, who does not cars what be spends, engaged an ordinary first-class compartment farther down the train. There the four, Troyte. Cable, Casimir and the king, settled down. 1 was not invited to join th< party. !. Neither the king nor Casimir could cross the frontier Into Megalia. but they were willing to go as far as Breslau and tell all they knew about what had happened. Unfortunately, they did not know very much. Casimir explained that be had all along believed Tommy to be the Lord Norheya He had regarded the "Reverend Thomas A. Norreys’" passport as a clever trick intended to deceive Von Stein veldt and the Germans while conveying to him the news that Lord Norheys had arrived in Berlin. That would have been an ingenious plan, much more ingenious than anything Troyte or Cable had thought of It did make Casimir certain that Lord Norheys had arrived. It would, ap patently, nave deceived Von Stein veldt and his police if their suspicions had not been awakened by what happened in the Mascotte the night aftet Tommy’s arrival. Von Steinveldl heard all about that from one of hh spy waiters. The king also believed that Tommy was Lord Norheys; but he understood the passport differently. His view was that Norheys pretended to be a curate in order to clear himself of ths charge of being entangled with Mist ,Temple. Here he expressed the greatest desire to see Viola, and It wat with the utmost difficulty that Troyts kept him from wandering along ths train to look for Norheys’ compartment. He said that he bad particularly -dm I red the way in which Lord Norheys had kept up his pretense even acting the part of a curate whet there was no real need for it. Then came the question of who Rev Thomas A. Norreys really was. Ths king did not know. Nor did Casimir Casimir could tell exactly what wat on the passport, and the king repeatec ail that Tommy had said about himself. But that got them no further They had to send for me. Cable was unwilling to do so; but Troyte insisted. Cable remembered that I had salt something about a curate. When I heard the story told by ths king and Casimir. I saw at once that my guess was very likely to be right. | “My sister Emily lost a curate early last week." 1 said. "He was last heard of at the Adion hotel in Berlin, where be stayed two nights and thet disappeared. The dates—” We discussed the dates and they fitted in with each other very welL I could not help looking at Cable with an expression of satisfaction. The man had been abominably rude to me since ,we left London and had snubbed me pitilessly. I did not actually say "I told you so." But I looked as if I , thought IL "Anyhow," said Cable, "no curate would dare to marry the princess." Like many successful business men. Cable underestimates the courage and ability of the clergy. In all proba btlity he never speaks to a clergyman at all ano only sees one once In two years or so clad In a surplice, at some wedding or funeral which he’s obliged to attend. A curate tn a surplicv looks innocent and mild, not at all the kind of a man who would seise a vacant European throne. The same curate on the golf links is a very different person. Besides. Tommy was an exceptional curate. 1 told them what Emily and Canon Pyke bad said about him. (TO BB CONTXNUBD.) —O ■ Facts About Compute The angle between tb<.tn»e north and the magnetic north is called the ’’magnetic variation," and bss to bo allowed for In navigation. Thus, when rhe song say “True as the compass to the star." It is talking nonsense because. although the star Is fixed, tbs compass is not. Nevertheless, its variations are well known, no that tbs compass remains the seaman's mom valuable possession.

terfelt wampum, however cleverly Imitated with glass or composition. Ons of the proprietors of the old wampum mint claimed that the first John Jacob Astor laid the foundation of his great fortune by buying this wampum and exchanging it with the Indians fat furs. BinFe Color Vttrioo Canaries were first brought to Barope in the early part of the Sixteenth century. In its wild state ths canary is green, sr greenish yellow tinged with brown. The wild birds have louder and dearer notes than the tains wtottos. •

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Course of Schuykill River Shifted Half a Mile —————— — ■■lljilllM...!— ■*———■—Ml. .111.11. , — IMb "I- .< . ' ... bi..~• I a L k I The setting off of 1.700 pounds of dynamite completed the great engineering project of moving the Schuylkill river a distance of a half a mile at Port Clinton. Pa. The new road for which the course of the river was shifted represents an expenditure of s.*>oo,ooo and eliminates a “U” curve and two obsolete bridges. Photo shows the new channel of the river at the left and the old one at the right.

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“Miss America” Gets This Trophy | Jr I •Ax S J. < i '■ -CfF' VV / I \V f 1 Ml/ . . /Ik I if * \ / i A V-l ■ v >\\ \ ■ * ’ ’ \ -W 1 1 - ■ I \ .. 1 T , iiriTiiu z- I Miss Helene Sardeau, Belgian sculptress, is shown in her New York studio working on the American Venus trophy model The finished figure, two feet high, of bronze, to to go to the winner of the Atlantic City beauty pageant on September 10. °

Chicago to Have Big “Acropolis”

nn Engineer’s drawing of the proposed Acropolis building for Chicago. The structure will be SO stories, bounded by Michigan boulevard. Roosevelt road. Eleventh street and Wabash avenue, occupying a square block. The project will coat $40,000,000. Work is expected to start next spring. The first 21 stories wfl] be devoted to offices and exhibit rooms. Above that is a hotel.

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