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Show r THE By oeoroeA. BIRMINGHAM WNU Bsrvlcs. CHAPTER XV Continued Then Janet talked to the police officer In German. He was evidently relieved by the withdrawal of the threatening chauffeur and was quite ready to send for Allen. There was an awkward silence for five minutes. Then Allen appeared and took command of things at once. He began by taking the passports out of the officer's hands and giving them back to Tommy. Then he made a speech. It began mildly. It Increased In speed as It went on. It became domineering and even threatening toward the end. The police officer was visibly uneasy while Allen spoke. Before the speech finished he was completely cowed. Allen had Touched for Tommy's Identity with Colonel Heard and had spoken with an assurance which carried conviction. "I told him," he explained to Tommy, "who you were, and that you were In search for the graves of British soldiers. I said to him that If he Interfered with you in any way I'd ee to it that Germany's bill for reparations was double and that he wouldn't be particularly popular with his own people when that happened and It came out that It was his fault. I said that the way he was behaving looked uncommonly as If he had something In this neighborhood to conceal and that if you found a single British oldler In an unsuitable grave, I'd put fine of a million and a half marks on the city. I couldn't have done It, of course, any more than I could have doubled the reparations, but he didn't know that." Tommy felt deeply thankful that Mrs. Heard had been kind to Allen's sister In her canteen in 1915. He was wrong with the engine. The tall chauffeur understood what the trouble was and set It right in two minutes. Shortly after five o'clock, the car turned off the broad main road on The which It had been traveling. chauffeur, who seemed to know exactly where he was, drove confidently along a number of byroads which were often little better than muddy lanes. At about seven o'clock they entered a thickly wooded district.- - The last glimmerings of daylight faded away among the trees. The car's headlights were switched on and for a while they traveled along a moving patch of white light between two walls of Impenetrable darkness. Soon after eight o'clock they reached a little village. At one end of the street stood an inn with brightly lighted windows. The party was received by a. fat and obsequious Innkeeper, who treated them as guests horn he had been expecting. Wheth er It was Count Caslmlr or the Lys- trian chauffeur who made the ar rangements for the Journey, the thing was well done. An excellent warm supper was ready. On the table were set Jugs of hot Tlsch Weln pleasantly spiced. Tommy, at least, probably the princess, slept soundly In marvel- ously soft feather beds. Perhaps Janet Church slept well, too; but she ought to have lain awake tormented by her conscience. For the third time since she came to Germany she had been false to her temperance princi ples. But hot spiced Tlsch Weln Is Sleeping drink. It may have over powered even Janet's conscience. Next morning the party started ear ly and drove along roads which were even worse than those of the evening before, roads with Tile surfaces. glad that he had not shrunk from discussing Soapy Simpson and Collins, V. A. D who married the and the other members of "the old Allen could not have regiment." spoken as he did unless he had felt that Colonel Heard was a familiar friend of his. "I say," said Allen cheerfully, "what a bird your chauffeur Is. Where did you get him?" "Oh, Just picked him up," said Tom my. "Fancy he's a Pole or a Itussian." "Looks to me like a brigand," said Allen. "The sort of fellow I shouldn't care to be left alone with on a dark night If I had any money In my pockand good luck." et. Well, good-by- , Tommy shook hands with him grate fully and stepped forward toward the car. Then an odd thing happened. The tall chauffeur left his place, opened the door of the tonneau of the car, took Janet Church by the wrist, and. julte gently, pulled her out. For the moment Janet was too much astonished to protest or resist. The man, bowing low, motioned Tommy to en ter the car and take the seat beside the princess. "I thought he was an bird," said Allen, "and he Is. Fancy Ms dragging Mrs. Heard about like that." Janet, furious at being treated with total want of respect, forgot that the man knew no German. She told tolm angrily that she was a represen tatlve of the League for Establishing World Peace Through the Unity of Christian Churches, and that she would sit where she chose In the car. The only effect of this speech was to astonish Allen, who understood It and to make Tommy uncomfortable because he did not. Fortunately Calypso kept her pres ence of mind and quacked out a se ries of orders to the chauffeur. "It's all right," she said, "he's mis taken you for my maid. That's all Jsnet took her seat again sulkily Tommy sat down beside the chauffeur. Allen, really bewildered, waved a feeble farewell. lie found It dlfll rult to believe that any chauffeur, even a role, could mistake Ms mas ter's wife for the maid or a secretary typist. letter to Two days later he wrote Collins, at the Monte Carlo chicken farm, and told him that Heard we running a regular rig about Europe with a d d girl, who cer ttlnly wasn't Mrs. Heard, but must be pretty well off because she traveled about In a b!g motor with her own maid. Colonel Heard, a most respect able man, spent months contradicting that story. red-haire- d funny-lookin- g g good-lookin- CHAPTER XVI The chauffeur, who was a Lystrlsn, leoked like brtgtnd and no doubt was far from being completely cl Hied. But he was good driver and competent mechanic. The car thread xl Us way through the traffic of th Brealaa streets smoothly and evenly. Wtten It reached the open country the need Increased to thirty five miles tn hour along a goo road. Once, at about aievaa a. av, something want TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, hla forehead touched the ground. After that be kiaaed the toes of each of her shoes. Calypso received the homage with dignity. Tommy was Invited to alt down on an Inferior throne and was only given one bow. Janet was left to settle ker-se- lf as best she could on a single rug laid flat on the ground. The chauffeur did not bow to her at all, and though her feet stuck out when she sat down, be made no attempt to ktss them. The chauffeur brought luncheon baskets from the car. The meal was excellent. The wine, tliere were two bottles of a red wine new to Tommy, was very good. There were knives, silver forks beautifully polished, fine china plates and napkins. At last came coffee, hot from a large thermos flask. The chauffeur was evidently by no means such a savage as he looked. Tommy enjoyed his luncheon thor oughly, all the more because Calypso talked to him amiably and pleasantly while they were eating It. She waa by that time exceedingly tired of Janet, who had been discussing the plans of the society for establishing world peace ever since they left Bres-laTommy might be she only half believed he was an unscrupulous betrayer of Innocent maidens, like Miss Temple and herself. But even a Is a pleasant change after hours of Janet Church. After luncheon the chauffeur made a long speech to the princess. He spoke earnestly and pointed forward along the road with outstretched hand. "He tells me," said Calypso, "that we are quite near the German frontier post. We'll reach it In another twenty minutes and of course there'll be an examination of our passports." "I hope If 11 be all right," said Tommy. "We passed the man at Breslau, thanks to Allen. I dare say these people won't stop us." "A few yards beyond the German post," said the princess, "we'll come to the Megalian frontier guards. They'll want our passports, too." "Well," said Tommy, "the passports are all right In themselves, properly fixed up with diplomatic visas and all that No one ought to object to them." "Let me look at them," said Janet. Tommy took them from his pocket and Janet examined them carefully. We don't any of us look much like the photos," she said. "You," she looked at Tommy, "ought to have a mustache." A man might shave off his mus tache," said Tqmmy. "Lots of fellows do, quite suddenly, without telling the Foreign office or asking for new passports." "And Miss looks a great many years younger than I am," said Janet, "Let me look," said Calypso. She studied the photographs of the two ladles. "It seems to me," she said at last, "that I'd better be Miss u. . Lo-fhar-lo Gls-borne-." FRm 2 3 l fi A T li L I UJ 1 I BEtJ-L- J BOOT e 5 4 "7" J 8 TV17 75" i4 15 (Copy tor This Department Supplied fey tt American Lglon Niwi tlrvtc.) LI I o u MM 'I Mill t t m I ILL I I - 10 T" 15 yi- ' 17 JAMES F. BARTON IS NATIONAL ADJUTANT 1 ' "But then," said Janet, "I should have to be Mrs. Heard. That is to say," she looked fiercely at Tommy as she spoke, "your wife." said temporarily," "Only quite Calypso. "Well, I won't," said Janet. "One ,of you has got to be," said Tommy,' "and we'd better decide which before we get there. In case we're asked, and very likely we shall be asked." "I can't possibly say I'm his wife," said Calypso to Janet. "Why not?" said Janet. "He's going to mnrry you, isn't hef "He's going to marry Miss Temple, ? Good Shooting said Calypso. "If h "No. I'm not" said Tommy. must and The Stars Stripes never touch the ground. you'd only allow me to explain remembered But Calypso having E. P. Kobertson was taught Miss Temple's pathetic appeal to her, that when he was serving his j was not going to listen to anything nation In olive drab in far-of- f Tommy had to say. France. He remembered it re- - $ "You must." she said to Janet. j$ cently while he was wearing the "No, I fijfcn't," said Janet. 4: blue of a uniformed policeman The Chauffeur Took the Rugs and "One of you will have to," said at Atlanta. Ga. Curtains From the Car and Spread "or else well certainly be Walking his beat, Botertson Them on the Wiry Grass Which Tommy, and be arrested." probably stopped a party of Joy riders. Trall-saw S Grew Beside the Road. "I won't," said Janet doggedly. from their car was an Ids "I promise faithfully," said TomAmerican flag. It was being sharp corners and sudden steep gradi ents. The chauffeur was forced to my, "that I won't take any advantage dragged through the dust and 5 drive cautiously, but he kept up at a of the position." dirt and filth of the street. Calypso, I am sorry to say, giggled. 25 Robertson's marksmanship ree-or- d good pace. After a while they emerged from the woodland and Tommy saw It was a vulgar thing to do and she in the army Is not known, that they were among the foothills of checked herself Immediately. Janet examination revealed that, but became very angry. Tommy got red a range of mountains. he fired but four shots although desecrators of the the to Stunted trees grew on the hill and stumbled on. stop "I mean, that I won't hold your (lag, his sense of sight and bnl-slopes. Now and then there were hand or or kiss you, .or anything ancc was good; the rear tires glimpses of tall mountains in front. like that." Streams gurgled and splashed over J? of the fleeing automobile were The princess wenf beyond giggling. each neatly bored twice by the stony courses. Houses and cottages She laughed aloud. were few and far between. The catformer doughboy's fire. said to "You Janet je. forget," appear tle which grazed In the open spaces Scotswoman." I am a were stnnll and lean. At rare Inter- "that "I don't see how that can make any vals the cnr slowed down to allow a said Tommy. difference," Restoration Camp peasant to coax a frightened mule to the Scotch law," said "According was a This It. country Janet, "If I say that you're my huspast plainly "Camp Aniericun Legion," new In which motor curs were few. camp for veterans established band, and you say that I am your wife LeShortly after one o'clock the car In the presence of witnesses, then wa through the in.struinrntulity of the was of Wisconsin, di'Durtment trnn out. the chauffeur and got stopped ure married." lake recentlj He said something to the princess and "Is that really the law?" said Ca- dedicated at Tomahawk an audience of 1.500 persons. car. of held open the door the before most It he dreadful for "How lypso. "Since the elose of the war," said "He wants us to get out and have actors and, actresses on the stage with otlii ial. "hundreds of men have Legion lunch," said Calypso. iots of witnesses listening." lots and been discharged from hospitals with "Good," said Tommy. "I feel near"It's Scotch law," said Jsnet from the staff physicians to "But we're not in Scotland," said the advice ly starved. This sort of driving mukes .i , . -- . T" n Bitvlr-one furiously hungry and the Ger- Tommy. I the because average formei not taken BE CONTINUED.) mans, though they have an excellent (TO service man has no money to speno Idea of dinner, simply don't understand breakfast at all. in Ancient Oxford upon a vacation. As a result they went "I always make It a point," said There Is, perhaps, no more Interest- buck to their old Jobs and within a Janet, ""of carrying some malted milk ing pi see In the whole world than Ox- matter of months were back at the lozenges In my pocket." ford, the ancient English university hospital with broken health again That Is the sort of thing I should town. Any one who likes quaint old This big summer caaip at Tomahawk expect af Janet. I have never to my things can agreeably spend weeks lake will provide the needed environ knowledge seen malted milk lozenge. there. Oxford university Is not a sin- tnent for large number of convalescent I have certainly never tasted one. But gle Institution like practically ah veteran a." I have a feeling tbey are Insipid and American schools, but a group of 20 slightly sickening. A Nett Egg separate colleges, ail linked together The chauffeur took the ruga and In a sort of league. The oldest oae, 1 had the money, dearest," bt "If cushions from the car and spread them Ballot, waa founded away hack about bemoaned, "we would be married, bni on the wiry grass which grew upon 1200. Tha buildings of Christ Church I am penniless." the rocks beside the road. He made roller are the largvst and most Im"Don't worn, darling." she cheerec a kind of throne for Calypso, much, posing of the lot. Many of the stone hlra. "I've teen saving all the smal I auppose. as the Israelitlsh captains steps of these old Oxford buildings hara change that slips out of your pocke CHW UIU iUT ll UIC1IIB. beea worn nearly through by the foot-tep- on the sofa every night." The Ameri lllll I Then, when she sat down, he bowed of succeeding generations of star can Legion Weekly. I lefora her three Uaaea. ao low ttat feats and have had ta fee raulacad. .: 45 H5o" 12 13 ID 17 ia 21 23 24 21 27 81 B3 84 39 41 41! 44 4B Bl 5ft 6T 64 60 8 70 Tl 78 1 2 a 4 6 T & 10 . 48 61 58p? jpJO r TTsi 62 W . - ijjM 65 pii74" (Copyright, 7 j. . L""J lilt.) 11 llagonta 14 A golf Instructor (slang) Verbally 15 A beverage made af liquor, flavored A kind of automobile plural 21 A atory and Iced Denoting one delegated to act aa 22 To have rank aobatltnte 24 of thoughts or muslnga That which ta added or Intercalated 2 Full Marched, aa In review An entrance or paaaaire 28 Condition A characteristic 27 IS To dispute A continent 86 An ant 28 That man SO Conducted Virile S3 32 Houses Frequently (poetla) A cavalryman 8fl To keep out 35 A vegetable eertnln animal To cry I'kc 43 To guide Aged Part of the verb "to be" rourae 38 4U Tantalum (symbol) Une circuit around a race ZH A woman 47 The god of love To tally 64 Repasts To set at defiance The catchword ot an aetor'a 62 56 A peak 55 To bear heavily apeech (plural) a 5S distance At great A particle 58 A Roman emperor 87 A preposition A month 2 To desire A beverage 40 A Babylonian diet? 61 Speedy 63 To terminate Mother an attitude To 64 strike branch The distal ancle between A kind of deer (plural) and the axle from which It 65 67 Reverend (abbr.) Asiatic palm lily 69 Common level aprlnca 43 An 48 A highway (abbr.) Caioled RO To consume Loyal Solution will appear In next issue. 53 To thrash (alalia;) Anarchists A achool of seals Solution of Last Week's Puzzle. 00 Traders To brine forth Throush The southwest wtnd fr Up DiSlAlEiXlillVlIr 69 A slara of barbers Unique Not thlch or dense 72 Invites Furnishes Crowds of people moving; In one 74 Most direction painful Vertical. Oblong and curvilinear objects Augmentation, as of price A sour substance 5 Periods of tmi A meadow A dry granulated atarch from laat India A variety of Iron M-A piece of rubber atretched around It an a tooth to keep dry during operation (dentistry) An early ancestor lEtRm ElOU TT5ITI SEgalO' AT A river In Africa A Horizontal. .1 ;. 47 4fc 49T is- , vi EH5"58 (344 57 m 2b r-- ""H 43 ' J 4Z v: 24 . James F. Barton, formerly assistant national adjutant of the American Legion and prior to that for Beveral yearn adjutant of the Iowa department. Is now national adjutant He succeeded Russell Crevlston of Indiana, who retired at the end of July after a connection of six years with the national organization to become field director for the War Mothers' Memorial association at Washington. The new adjutant has been active In the Legion ever since Its formation. He was chosen commander of Fort Dodge post 130, Fort Dodge, Iowa, before the first national convention at Minneapolis in 191D. He became adjutant of the Iowa department in the fall of 1920. Prominent members of the Legion In Iowa say that a large part of the credit for making and keeping the Iowa department one of the best in the Legion belongs to Jim Barton. Ten days after war was declared In 1917, Barton entered the service. In a month he was promoted to captain. He saw service overseas for 14 months. He was discharged at Camp Dodge, Iowa, August 8, 1919. He was a star athlete at the University of Iowa, where he captained the basketball team in his senior year. He took a law course there. Mr. Crevlston, Immediately following his relinquishment of the duties of national adjutant, went to Borne, Italy, as secretary of the American Legion delegation to the Rome congress of FIdac, For that purpose he was granted a special leave of absence from his work as field director with the War Mothers' Memorial association, which is seeking to erect a great memorial in honor of the mothers of the men and women who served in all the wars In which the country has taken part Resolutions of appreciation of Mr. Crevlston's services with the Legion, together with a watch and a past national adjutant's badge as tokens of nersonal esteem, were presented to him on behalf of the national execu tive committee. The resolutions, drawn by a committee composed of Past National Commander Henry ,D. Llndsley Past National Commander Hanford MacNider and Donald Strachan, recited Mr. Crevlston's long und able services to the national organization and the vision and understanding which he brought to his duties. Mr. Grevlston, whose home Is at Ind., helped to plan the Marion, first national convention of the Legion at Minneapolis. He became assistant national adjutant in 1920 and was proin moted to the national adjutancy February, 1924, following the resignation of Lemuel Bolles. He Is a graduate of Indiana university. 19 18 WiJ!5isfll3lLl'lr HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WOR- PUZZLE When the correct letters are placed In the white spnees this puasle will spell words both vertically and horizontally. The Brst letter In each below word Is Indicated by a number, which refera to the definition listed defines a the puzzle. Thus No. 1 under the column headed horlsontal" bla-k square to the word which will fill the white space up to the first which will fill the under "vertical" defines a word right, and a number No one below. letters go In the black next black white aquarea to the words, except proper names. apaccs. All words used are dictionary terma and obsolete forms nre Abbreviations, slnnit. Initials, technical Indicated In the definitions. I URSERY RHYME PUZZLE eg I X Jrrrff uama m 1 . Vi t gJACK be nimble-Jac- k be quick. Jack jumped over the csxdlcshck. One high leap And the deed u done. Faster than laying Jack Robmsctl Find Jack Robinson. Upside down, between nackUe, blouea ami trouaavt |
