Show r IL IL 9 M M y by GEORGE A birmingham copyright by dobbs merrill C W N U service CHAPTER X continued 13 entering germany with a H tr passport nas sport said von shall hou in prison forthwith orth with en yo B closed so do be try 1 not to be quite so BO cock tilro that youre always right sald said say FIN As A it in atter er of fact my y tommy sr port false fale a I 1 you call it in astle dagle particular my face ace Is r nose Is of no normal rinal shape my mouth in more or less lesa round slid admy my open which Is just what the boort hen port wy it if you ilont dont believe and cant bear to look me in the ml which 1 I can understand you ice ce dont care to do after sticking tile me marks in the way you did ith your just juit take it a glance at the photo on the th passport pasi port this apparently struck von stela veldt is as a thing which he ought to do ile he took a long look at the photograph to which indeed hove bore very little resemblance to tommy then instead of comparing it with tommys tommas face ce he be rapidly turned over the pile of papers on the desk in III front of him from among them he be drew out an other ether photograph and looked carefully at it ile he placed both photographs side by side and stared tit at the them then suddenly he looked apat up at tom my of what height are you he asked five foot ten and a halt inches ne ice passport sald tommy forehead broad eyes blue nose normal face oval mouth round when opened its all ia there for the first time during the interview von Stein veldt smiled it wits was a pm smile with more than a suggestion 9 of malice in it but tommy was ailed lad to see a smile of any kind 1 I think said von that there hits has a mistake been ave ive thought so all along said tommy that d d fool count casimir has this time himself a mistake made 1 I dont know that casimir Is more of a fool than any one else said tommy you made the same mistake yourself I 1 dont even now profess to understand what it Is in but you made it so did two of your police officers but I 1 said von Stein veldt the mistake discovered have you cant take much credit for that said tommy have discovered it long ago in fact never have made it it if listened to me and believed what I 1 said qoon said von the d d casimir will the mistake also discover then you can say to him and your lord and to herr cable that another bridegroom for the fair calypso arranged has been he sat up straight in hla his chair pulled his bristly white mn mustache stache and looked so pleased that tommy begun began to think that he must himself be tit the arranged bridegroom the thought of ct calypso being married against her will tommy felt certain it would b be e against her will to this bristly head ed german geman made tommy seriously angry do you mean to tell roe me lie he said that you have the nerve to think of marrying her yourself so gald von her equal in birth I 1 certainly nm am well just listen to me for a minute said tommy youve swindled me with these beastly marka of yours in a way that a third rate money lend er would have boon ashamed of set on naty nasty slimy nolice officers cers to arrest me youve drugged dragged me about berlin in a taxicab youve kept me standing here tor for half an hour with nothing but your face ace to look at very well im not going t to k for compensation though I 1 ought ough to t let get it im not even going to d de inand band an apology though if you hal hail as touch much decent feeling as a hottest apologize without being asked arkep but ill just tell you one thing before I 1 to go i mean to marry Caly pajo myself von Stein veldt was wa genuinely aston aston lahod ned lie he had been brought up tip td re ard royal persons of all kinds land members of aristocracies us as daerl sacred id A pastor he now quite believed that tommy wits was a curate belongs ta t the e of the bourgeoisie la Is burge I 1 alc e h or such a one to marry but she Is a princess he bath call 1 I dont know anything about that ahat laid aid tommy but whether shel ali is a or ot I 1 mean to marry her if s ae e will have ive me and I 1 may say t tha if its a choice between you and rn I 1 expect to have the better chance so herr pastor said vo dofa stein veldt ile he had recovered from his first sur surprise P rise to realure e t trtat at tom IDYs threat was abs absurd u r d N ari princess euid uld possibly marry I a curf cun fite e such a thing would be w worse orse ti 11 a a wave of t bolshevism central R would be chaken to tots t nsf dounda trolls an As von Stein veldt ew was a disreputable e wreck re c k 1 of a king kad calypso was I 1 highly alu n c on yen dional in tier her manner of 0 life I 1 but even they ey could not co contemplate nn an alllice ce with it curate the ivr on oil von flable veldts face became qui tie e clinis ulta ui ls ach 0 nerr herr english pas pastier r he h at t 1 I 1 and even it if she wont marry me ma said bald tommy and I 1 mean to have a pretty good try nt at persuading her I 1 feel pretty certain she wont marry you no girl would goodby good by or perhaps I 1 ought to say ach so herr bridegroom arranged 11 CHAPTER XI it wes was fit at half past ton ten that casimir entered tile the adlon hotel tile he morning after the party tit at the mascotte ile he did not find Toi tommy who by that time had gone off to tile the police office ile ho did find fad janet church whom lie he rather wished to avoid she ut tit once attached herself to and reminded him of hla his promise to arrange for tier her visit to Ly lystila casimir waa quite civil to tier her he Is tho kind of man who to la civil to any woman anywhere and fit at any tinie time ile he had it rt arason litson for treating janet with special politeness ile he believed her to bo tommys tommas or rather Nor heys aunt Certa certainly lilly lio lie said will lie be settled about your journey there will be no dini culty at nil I 1 shall got get you it a passport in talking to janet ho he spoke german and was therefore able to express himself without quoting shakespeare 1 I dont see how you ean can got get me a passport said janet janel the consul here and the passport of officer licer and tho the people nt at the embassy refuse to allow roe me to have one if I 1 travel nt at all it must be without a passport what I 1 expect you to manage for me you shall have an excellent passport said casimir u R british passport which no one will question you cant get tue me that thai said janet its impossible casimir sniffed smiled indulgently they were sitting together near the door of the hall A lady middle aged f no said 1 I shall steal I 1 it t very heryy neatly dress dressed edt unmistakably E angush n h passed ed them going toward abe ing in g door what said casimir Is miss liles of als baine borne miss may gisborne Gl she Is the e sec secretary tary of colonel heard who w I 1 the it head d of the british graves registration commission janet looked without particular in j f e rel 8 I 1 t a nt t 1188 may alay gisborne Gl in seeking for british graves said casimir colonel heard Je urd who IS s sometimes accompanied by his wife goes through various parts of germany and beyond germany into all the countries of eastern europe miss gisborne Gl often goes with him in order I 1 suppose to register the graves which are found colonel heard has baa a diplomatic passport so has miss gisborne Gl I 1 propose that you should use miss Gis bornes passport I 1 do not suppose that janet church has any particular ular scruples about abou t traveling with a false pass passport port for the sake of a noble excuse and what could be nobler than world peace she would willingly do far worse things than that but she wits was startled at the coot cool way in which casimir assumed that miss Gis bornes passport would be at her disposal but the she ant in tile the least likely to lend it to we me said janet no said casimir 11 1 I shall steal it even janet a little at that the word steal used in that way nasty sound bound and I 1 suppose hits has a R very as a worker in the cause of christian unity janot janet felt herself more or less committed to the ten commandments steal I 1 said janet but I 1 agree even shakespeare said Casimi rg is occasionally wrong you yon recollect 11 lie he gave hla his quotation in english who steals my purse ate steals als trash something nothing twig mine itis his and has been slave to thousands but he that flochos filch from roe me my good name robe roba me of that which not enriches him biro and maltes makes me poor indeed there shakespeare was waa rah ml taken if I 1 took the purse pur of ef ula ml gisborne Gl I 1 should make her poorer but if I 1 take tier name that to to say buy the passport of the gracious fraul fr aulDin eln I 1 do her no harm for she gets another one at once another pa passport port you understand not another name whereas I 1 make you rich in what you want with the passport of miss gisborne you can travel anywhere I 1 do not know whether that line of reasoning quieted janeas scruples or whether the joy of being able to go to ly lystila 8 tria smothered the cries of her conscience she ceased to object to the stealing of the passport and bo came exceedingly curious to know how it was to bo be done that said casimir la Is easy the english ln glish seldom luck lock up tip anything in england I 1 suppose it Is not necessary to lock things up tip no doubt all the english are so BO rich that they do not want to take what is nut theirs why should they when they have all they want so bo here in berlin colonel heard does docs not lock up ills own passport or miss bornes it if sometimes by chance lie he does lock them up lie ho always leaves the key in the pocket of the ho trousers he wore the th day before for the english are a truly great nation and the english gentleman la Is so noble he suspects no one ue he would not himself steal abeal anything ever therefore lie he leaves his keys in the pockets of hla his yester yesterdays daysi trousers all the same said janet hell lock the door of his hill bedroom we W all do that that said casimir Is nothing then lie he went on to explain to janet how the theft wits was to be effected and the explanation left her gasping the countess olga Casi casimira only sister bister was at that time a housemaid in the adlon hotel As it a housemaid she had of course co a master key which opened all the doors on the floor on which she served the room occupied by colonel and mrs heard and that of miss gisborne Gl were under tinder her care she could cluid enter them st at tiny any time she sha chose stay in III them us ua long ion as she ahe chose and not excite the smallest suspicion she was familiar with colonel heards habit of leaving hla his keys key in his trousers pockets the first feeling which this frank confession aroused I 1 in Ja janeta natsi mind was pity for the countess it must be a dreadful thing for a highborn lady no doubt a delicately nurtured lady to be reduced to earning her living as a housemaid in a hotel casimir explained that tier her pity was wasted it Is not for the sake of wages that olga Is a housemaid lie he said she has money enough to live otherwise and if she bhe had not I 1 would give it to her we Lys trian nobles are riot not rich but we would not allow our sisters to earn wages as servants no olga la is a patriot she ts IS a housemaid just as I 1 was a soldier lit in the war vat for the sake make of our beloved land ours for fifteen hundred years now taken from us I 1 fought but it was no use olga collects inform information aaion letters documents telegrams from people who leave their keys about said janet hanpt and if necessary passports said casimir stalling smiling janet Is not I 1 suppose an entirely tin unscrupulous scrupUlouS woman there tiro aro things she would not do though very few for the sake of a cause she had at heart she made no further protest against the theft of miss bornes passport pa but she did not want to go on talking about it she changed the subject by the way she said talking g or of 0 passports that Tha young friend of yours youra who was with you last night in the mascotte your nephew said casimir janet recollected herself my nephew yes I 1 am afraid he ha Is likely to get into trouble with his passport but how said casimir surely in london they gave him hi a correct passport on his passport he Is described na as tile the reverend thomas A Nor reys now hes not that he Is certainly not that said casimir 1 I thought not it was foolish said bald casimir to put that on his passport and quits quite unnecessary if the police suspect anything wrong the police will not see that pass pasa port TO BE BB CONTINUED |