"Just you clear off. like n good
nun," said Tommy. "I've had enough
of you for one morning."
His mind was silli full of hla lio-
tel theory, and he was quite deter
mined not to be robbed by any plaus-
ible stranger. He turned an ay ■ nd
w alked across the hall townrd the
row of telephone boxes. Ho had no
Intention of telephoning to any one.
Indeed, he knew no one In Berlin to
«horn be could telephone, nor could
he buve given a number In German
He merely wished to «-sctip« from
Cnsimir.
But Casimir was not an easy mun
to shake off. He followed Tommy.
OfOfíOfA.
BIRMINGHAM
ita
WNU Service.
AN UNKNOWN VISITOR
BTNOPSIS, — In London th*
t«ll«r of the atory ot th* advan-
tur«« of "King Tommy." and
known hereafter aa I nola Bill."
la Informad by Lord Norheys.
Bon of an old friend, that Lord
Troyta. head of the British for-
eign office. Norhaya' uncle, has a
acharna to make him (Norheys)
king of Lystrla. in central Eu
ropa. through marriage to Ca
lypso. daughter of King Wladla-
inwa. deposed monarch of that
country.
A financier. Procopius
Cabla, knows there Is oil tn pro
fusion In Lystrla. and with an
English king on the throne the
output could bo secured for Eng
land.
Norheys. In love with a
•tags dancer. Viola Templa, Is
not enthusiastic over the propo
sition. The patriarch. Menelaus,
highest
ecclesiastical dignitary
In Lystrla. Is heartily In favor of
the restoration of the monarchy,
and Cable has generously financed
the sentiment. Calypso Is mak
ing a living dancing in the "Mas-
cotte.” Berlin cabaret
Norheys
refuses to entertain the Idea of
giving up Viola Temple, to whom
he Is secretly engaged.
"Uncle
Bill's" sister Emily urges him to
secure a passport
from Lord
Troyte
for
a
certain
Janet
Church,
strong-minded
female
who wants to visit Lystrla In
the Interests of a society for
world peace. Janet Church leaves
for Berlin. "Uncle Bill la again
appealed to by hie sister to find
a certain curate mame not given)
who has left his parish in Ireland
for a visit to Berlin, and cannot
bo found. Lord Norheys and Viola
Temple disappear from London.
Procopius Cable receives Infor
mation that Norheys. with the
princess, has left there on his
way to Lystrla. but Norheys ap
pears with the
former Viola
Temple, now his wife. The ques
tion Is, "Who Is the man who has
gone to Lystrla with the Princess
Calypso?"
Casimir
Introduces
himself, and Janet Church, vainly
seeking from the British consu
late a passport to Lystrla. be
comes acquainted with the two
men In the Adlon hotel.
down on the carpet in the corridor,
So took Tommy's worda to be an in
vltatlon to ent«*r the bedroom. Tom
my stood exactly In the middle of
the doorway. Casimir, bowing very
politely, tried to pass him. Tommy
suddenly recollected that all his
money, his piles of German marks.
I lay on the table In the middle of the
room. A horrible explanation of Cas
imir's presence suggested itself. The
man had made no mistake, lie had
not been sent to the wrong meni by
the clerk In the hotel office. He was
a hotel thief, Tommy had heard of
such people.
They are Immensely
daring. Immensely clever, and they
adopt all sorts of ruses, They are
often well dressed. They are always
plausible.
Tommy winked knowingly at Ca»
imlr to show that he understood ttie
situation and cherished no 111 feeling
Then he firmly shut the door in his
visitor's face.
CHAPTER VIII
Alma Rubens
YESON DAN
ZANI'K there was it little brown elf
or gnome mimed Y ohoii I inn And
when you have rend thia story. »co
If you cun toll why he had this imim>
for before he run Mwny one night long
ago his comrades culled him Ju»t Dim.
The brown elves life deeper In the
earth than the goblins. 'They take cure
of the Koodllngs nnd the root« mid. If
they attend to their work, in the spring
up come the tegetnbles mid Dowers
to the top of the ground.
Bui If these gnome* all luul done ua
Tenon Bun did. run away to look for
something on the top of the earth, very
soon there would be nothing nt nil but
brown Boll, for even the grass roots
tonight," he said. "Please!"
The word “Please" wua evidently
In constant use In Casimir's langunge.
His repetition of It in English gave
a curious effect of extreme puliteuess
to his convorautlon.
Tommy had heard of the Mas. otte
My nephew, Emily's eblest boy. was
In Berlin for some lime aa a subor
dinate member of the Inter allied mis
slou of control. He knew all there
was to know about the night life of
the city. It Is
u supper place.
“<1—d expensive." but the dancing
was "top hole.“ It was not the sort
of »lancing which the censors of the
London county council would ap
prove, but It was “top hole” nnd “not
too, you know, only rather more so
than you'd see at home.“
•'Please, you will visit the
Casimir nodded und smiled In
very confidential manner, as If he and
Tommy shared a Mcret which no one
else In the world knew anything
about. Tommy revised hl» opinion of
the man. He was not a hotel thief.
He was a tout. engug«*d In set'urlng
customers for the Mascotte sup|H*r
room. Tommy had heard of such
|»«ople. He had no Intention of put
ting himself Into the hands of one
of them.
"She will be there, naturally," said
Casimir, “and"—another quotation.
this time disagreeably suggestiv« to
Tommy's mind—
Charming Alma Rubans, of "movie"
fame, is a native of San Francisco.
She ie 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighs 130
pounds and has black hair and dark
eyes. She has been seen In leade In
numeroue prominent productlone.
th* Goblins Dancing
Capering About.
and
Yesón Dim squatted on the ground
under il bush uud. holding a foot In
euch tiny hand, he watched the gob-
Hus at llietr play.
"It Is more fun being liero tintit
limier the ground where we gnomes
“I wonder
If they would let me Join them In their
•purls If 1 stay above ground until
tomorrow night. I wish
cnp. Nobody ever would nolle»* this
dull looking bro» n salt I am wearing."
Just then it occurred to him lliut he
ut I lu» flowers
• ml tegetablra nnd Ilie meadows. "It
will tuke m» n long time to do all
that." thought Yenon Dun. "Now how
cun I go buck tonight!"
"Bealdea, 1 want to timi out where
the goblins get their red cups, and I
cmi't do everything In one night."
"Conni with me," whlsimred Frisky
Breese. w Im had lingered a minute
beside Yesón Dun and henni the wish;
"I know a lot of things that no one else
know a.“
"Im you know when* the goblins get
their red eupaT' inquired tesón ban.
Frisky Breeze fluttered the leaves on
the bushes mid replied, ”1 can find out
■mything. Come ulong und let us
frolic."
Taking Yesón bun by the hand
Frisky »curried away, brualdng the
the goblins' bends so that they
ulnioat lost their caps.
"You •aid you i mild find out any-
tWng, but it seems to me you
to go," sold Yesón
"1 nm tired, lind besides I must go
to the garden und look nbuut. I
to go back uud report to thu Chief
gnome."
"oh, dear, what shall I do,"
Yesón. "I enn see the daylight run
niug along th» sky, nnd I hum not
done my work and I can't get home.''
Yeaon Dun curled himself up und
went to sleep, but when Im uw<>kn
he found Frisky Breese hud gone He
was quite alone on the mountainside,
it was growing dark nnd now he could
not get back to bls home.
If he had minded hla own affairs.
Instead of trying lo find out noma-
thing which did not concern him. he
would not have been lost nor would
must be cnred for by the brown men
An hour later Tommy stepped from
If we are to have u carpid of green
the elevator into the great central
each y«ar.
hall of the hotel, He had discarded
The goblins, too. have much to do
his clerical stock, He wore a light
with nil this, for uft»*r the gnomes get
blue tie instead, He was still a
TYPHOID FEVER
things martini right below, th«* goblin«
young man. only a little more than
This was going too far. Tommy
have to see that they get through the
twenty-six. not long enough In Holy mount to enjoy himself on hl« holl
top of the ground Mfely. And that,
Orders to have his profession recog day. He had discarded Ills clerical
of course, causes trouble aomeiimva
nizably written on his face. A by collar in order to do so more freely, * x is »me of the commonest of dis
between theM little magic |>eople.
stander. Interested In his appearance, but he had no wish to pursue un- eases, more or fewer eases tiring pre»
But I nm getting uwuy from the
might have guessed him to be a young known ladles Into night clubs. In or- ent almost constantly.
Wherever insufficient attention 1« story »if Y’eson Dan thnt I started to
barrister, or perhaps a clerk In one der to get rid of Casimir finally he
of the higher branches of the civil stepped Into the nearest telephone given lo drnlmige. water supply und tell. He was sent to the top of the
general sanitation, there typhoid fever ground one year to B«>e If things were
service. But no one appeared to be box.
haiklng ns they should.
the least Interested in Tommy’s ap
It was already occupied, and, since Is apt to be prevalent.
Th«* gnome's doorways are the dark
pearance. or to care what he was or i telephone box Is always a very
It most frequently attacks young
what he did.
small thing, he bumped Into a lady adults or those who nre mature, but ro« k», «mailer than those of the gob
“He »ball be named Yeaon Dan from
lins nnd hldilen among the leaves, now on.” said on»1 gnome, no it all the
The large hall was full of people. «ho held the receiver to h«*r ear. She no period of life and neither
Sometlinea they are quite out of night, other« took up the cry, “Yesun Dan,
Hotel porters In red Jackets wheeled was so intent on what sh« was doing Immune to It.
barrows of luggage in and out. Page 'hat she took no notice of Tommy.
Essentially It Is Inflammation of cer- of the eyes of a mortal nt least, be- Yeaon Dan."
boys, as thickly decorated with but He most unwillingly heard what she tain groups of Mintili ghinda In the In- cause the gnomes so seldom UM them.
In vain did ho plead that Frisky
tons as any of their kind anywhere was saying.
Yeson l>un had never been
testine and Its supporting band,
BreeM had taken him from bls work,
in the world, went to and fro wall-
ground
before,
and
when
this
mesentery,
and
of
the
spleen.
The
night
' Then let me tell you, young man,
but It was no use. Yeson Dan must
.ng the numbers of the rooms of the that there’ll be trouble. Lord Ed genu which causes It Is known ns the hr opened the rocky door he stood
be his name, the Chief n-plled. be
guests whom
Sought—guests mund Troyte distinctly promised that bacillus typhosus and It may be Poind blinking for a minute at the sight that
CHAPTER VII—Continued
cause he bad trl»-»l to find out wher«
whom visitors hud come to see or my passport would be ready for me. in the evacuations from the bon el.
met his small bright eyes.
the goblins gof their red hats, a Meret
Goblins were dancing nnd capering
It Uvea In water und grows with
That seemed a small fesult of so for whom telephone calls had been Y’ej? What's that? I've been lo the
which they did not wish known.
made.
Fussy
travelers,
newly
ar
consulate three times and I’m going great rapidity unless It Is destroyed about and the moonlight made the
much conversation, and gave Tommy
And now have you guessed why he
trees and busies shine in their fresh was named
very little fresh Information.
The rived and filled with a sense of their 'gain. The consul Is totally Incom by suitable antiseptics.
Yeson Dim!
own
Importance,
crowded
round
the
green
gowns.
It
gets
Into
water
that
Is
uae<!
for
petent and his clerks are rude. It’s
Caalmir and the Istvan he had read
'lure N»w«pap»r Nymllrat« )
desk of the reception clerk and de-
on the visiting card, though In re
your business. What? Tea. I say washing, drinking or cooking nnd
manded
rooms.
Self-possesse»!
elder-
versed order. Graf he took to te the
it’s your business. You’re the third finally gets back Into the human bo»!y.
ly men, mostly fat and often Jewish.
Possibly It Is carried^»y th»* nlr and
German for count.
secretary, you say. That makes no
lounged In deep chairs with cigars difference. It’s your business to see may be taken In by the nose or mouth ■
“Tell him,” he said, "that there's
in their mouths and surveyed the
nnd It Is very frequently Introduce») 1
about that passport.
a mistake. He can’t possibly want
Dy MILDRED MARSHALL
“What on earth are you doing there by milk or other f»M>d. soil,! or liquid, i
to see me. Ask him who he does scene through half-close»! eyes. Amer
which may have been contaminat» .1
want, and then get him to go down ican tourists eddied round the news ind who are you?"
Pacts
about your nama, Us history;
meaning, whanca It was darivMi, sig-
again and find the number of his paper stalls In t^e corner of the hall
Janet Church turned at last to by It.
By H. I R V I N Q K I N Q
lUAcAnva.
ycur lucky day. lucky (ewg
and
clamored
for
the
New
Y'ork
Her
Typhoid carriers are people who
friend's room.”
Tommy, who had bumped Into her
ald. It was in their eyes a sign of again. Sho was fully dressed this carry the genus about with them, per
Janet started again. So did Cas-
the well nigh inconceivable stupidity time and the light In the telephone haps for years, nnd do not themselves
imlr. This time they talked for a
THE COWS IN THE CORN
LUELLA
and incompetence of all European box was dim. But he recognized her seem to be Injured by them, but by
quarter of an hour, fast and emphat-
peoples that the supply of New York at once as the lady who had stood infecting materials, particularly food
1« ally. There Is nothing In the
Heralds was Insufficient to meet their talking German In the corridor. He With which they come In contact, they gtnpWICE within the last eighteen
world so irritating as hearing two
-*■ months," writes u contributor to
demands. The desk of a harassed also realize»! that she was In an ex may transmit the »llsenso to any num
tlon of I. oii I m und Kiln, nor yet
people talk to each other in an un-
woman who sold concert ami theater ceedingly had temper. Casimir, with ber of people who happen to be sensi one of the popular weeklies, "th»* su Lulu and Kiln, ns nuuiy people sup
known language when you know they
perstitious members of my family have pose, It Ima ■ distinct history of its
tickets was besieged by ladles who his suggestion of strange lady-loves tive to It.
arv talking about your affairs. Tom
been thrown Into alarm by nais break own. It appears early In Welsh gene
did not know exactly what they «ant at the Mascotte, was bad enough.
When these germs reach the Intes
my Is the best tempered of men, but
ed but hoped to secure seats at some Janet Chun-h, thirsting for the blood tine of those who nre sensitive, Ihey ing Into the garden Tills for genera alogies where It is H|M-lled Liew,
wen he began to feel impatient.
tions has been considered nn infallible
agreeable entertainment by asking of the third secretary, was worse.
The first Liew was the king ot tha
attack the glands which were men
"He says.” said Janet, turning to questions In bad German,
A boy. Tommy left the telephone box hur tloned ns the essential sent i f the dis sign of death to nn Inhabitant of the Orkneys who marrle»! King Arthur's
Tommy at last, "that he's sure your rather older than the pages,
house but so far there have been no sister and was the father of Gwalch-
stood at riedly.
name is Norheys.”
ease nnd, during the subsequent t -n deaths.”
the swinging glass door nnd
mill. From this name win formed the
Casimir was waiting for him out days to three weeks, the disease Is In-
"Is that all he said?"
round on Its pivot with
TOUS side.
"The Murder of the Bull." It took masculine Llewelyn of rumnnce. An
cnbatlng or developing.
"That's all," said JaneL
pushes. He drove it faster and fast
place whin th» threshing was nearly ol her Llewelyn camo over to Ireland
"Please." he said, “I have engaged
“Well, then, all I can say is that
The pntlent may f/*el rather ml r-
er as more and more people passed a table for you at the Mascotte. It
over In Attica. Barley ami wheat were with lUchard Strongbow.
I don't wonder the Germans lost the
able, but may be able to keep about
In and out. His hope was that some Is catalogued—no. registered, no. I
laid upon the bronze altar of Zeus on
History does not .. ..... ri! wi. n nnd
war. If it takes them half an hour
time In the course of the morning he remember, you say booked, for the ami frequently promises himself he the Acropolis mid oxen were driven w here the feminine Luella was formed.
to say ‘What’s your name?’ they can’t would succeed in hitting
will be all right tomorrow.
a slowly Graf von Norheys, please.”
around the altar. The ox which np- It seems merely tn have sprung np In
expect to get on at war or anything moving passer with the
But now his teinpernture begin« to
following
“I don't exactly know what a Graf mount up, he has a »bill, nnd e <*ry proached the nltnr nnd ate the wheat England when the need arose for n
else. It must be an utterly rotten wing of the door. Those
who en- is," sa!»l Tommy, “but whatever It is,
and barley was selected for the sacri feminine counterpart to the popular
language.”
day during the following week hfs tem
tered and left the hotel approached
fice. An ax nnd knife, wet with water Llewelyn, who rapidly became Lionel
Janet, who hated all Germans with the whirling door very much in the I'm not one."
perature rises steadily.
brought
by'mnldens called '‘water car under the rnnglc touch of romance and
"Please?
”
said
Casimir.
"Ah,
I
see.
a passionate intensity during the spirit of medieval sportsmen
After this It may drop n little,
who If It were possible—in France, yes,
riers." were handy. With the ax one poetry. Luella Ims had mu»*h more
war, has been developing <i strong af- rode at the quintain.
mounting up agnln toward the cluse of
M. Ie itarquis. There Is no difficul
btlf"her killed the ox and another vogue In this country than In her na
faction for them since th peace was
the second week.
All this delighted Tommy. Il had
lurcher cut its throat with n knife. tive Wales. It Is considered rather
signed. She cannot boar, now, to hitherto led a quiet and uneventful ty. But here. Excellenz perhaps. Or
Then It begins to go down very
hear a word said again-1 them and life, seldom disturbed by anything Prinz. Otherwise there is only Graf. gradually nnd In two weeks more Ims Then both the butchers fled. But they (inn Int nnd old fashioned nowadays.
and th»* water carriers were appre- but it Is still In common usage
has transferred her ¿Dike í to the more exciting than a Sunday school It will not be understood If I cata reached normal again.
honded and brought to trial for their
The ruby Is Luella's tulisin nnlc
French. When Tommy insulted the treat, He watched the moving fig- logue the table for Herr Marquis. As
During all this period inflammatory Ilves for having "murdered the ox.” stone.
your
poet
Shakespeare
says,
‘
As
you
It will keep her strong and
German language she t med away ures, gazed at the strange faces, lls-
changes In the glands are progressing
Each participant In the "murder" blam ' healthy and «in bring her material
and stalked down the । orrldor to tened to a babel of different lan like It.”'
the spleen gets very large and soft
ing the other It was finally decided wealth. Friday Is her lucky day and
ward the bath.
guages, and felt that tilla was cxact-
thnt the nx and the knlf»> were the 0 her lu cky number.
Casimir has an amazing facility in ly what he had come to Berlin to en-
break nnd sores or ulcers are formed.
And He Never Came Back
gtilltv parties nnd they were "executed"
quotation.
Joy. For some time lie was content
Poor ami snd, a tlred-hxiklng Indi from which, when formed. dec«
by being cast Into the sea.
“‘And the Imperial votaress passed simply to stand watching and listen vidual entered the shanty where the posed and putrid materials pro«..... I.
This Is the ritual ns Frazer gives It
on,'” he said, "Tn maiden medita- ing. Then he began to wonder what workmen were eating their dinners.
nnd
he considers the "murdered" ox nn
tlon, fancy free.' Pie; s<
less of It Is usually absorbed and
he had better do n<*xt. He had the He was carrying a red tin can.
embodiment of the corn spirit. It la
Casimir's English ne» ¿nt was by whole day before him. His breast
'll . eernrades,” h»f sighed, holding
easy to see thnt the "execution" of the
no means perfect. Tommy, though pocket was stuffed with money. He out n hand by way of salutation. body.
nx nnd knife Instead of one of the
On the surface of the abdomen there •layers of the ox Is a change Introduce»)
he ought to have re< -alze1 Shake had a great city to explore.
"Look at this tin cf powder I picked
T fore leaving home he ha»l read up this mori Ing. I guess I’ll blow my Is usually a rash of small red spots, Into th» ritual when human sacrifice
speare’s compliment to Queen Eliza
beth, seemed to have th ught that the up Baedeker's Guide to Berlin, an old self up with It and so end my troubles t io bow*- - become distended with gns. was replaced by substitution.
The
count was still taikina German. He copy borrowed from my sister Em here nml now."
perhaps to an enormous < .t n'
whole history of mythology is filled
darted into his room "nd picked up ily. He knew that there was a street
The patient suffers from loss of an-
"Cut thnt sort of talk nnd clear out,"
Now when
with parallel cases.
pefltc, heart weakness, rapid pulse nml
his phrase book. He distinctly re called Unter den Linden which he ordered the foreman.
>i cow breaks into the garden nml
membered that he hud somewhere ought to see, a park called the Tier
But the man addressed pnld no at frequently with great disturbance of eats the crops It Is the ox eating the
seen the sentence “Please go away." Gartsn, an avenue called the Sieges tention. He cast one glance around the brain.
crops represented by the grain on
That was, as I hce said, a very good Allee, several churches and museums. the shanty, then walked deliberately
The diagnosis is often made by sub the altar of Zeus on the Acropolis.
phrase book. "Please go away*
There
were
theaters,
picture
galler
to the stove, opened the door und jecting n drop of the I lood to a test The cow Is not killed, ft Is true, but It
Is
• thing which the traveler In a for- ies atfll restaurants, all duly named thrust the can Inside.
known as Widal’s test.
Is drh»n out nnd not before It has
elgn land constantly wants to say to and the nature Indicated by the
Vaccination with -i suitable vaccino elected Itself the animal fit for murder
A shriek of dismay followed this ac
beggars, extortionate cabmen, guides, worthy Baedeker. At the moment tion nnd a moment later the place wns furnishes an exec! -nf moans of pro
ing. Then, with weary wings faintly
touts, and officii s who want to look he felt more attract»»! toward a res empty.
faction from the disease, nml ís prnc- fluttering down the dim ages, conics
at passports, fl mmy grabbed the taurant.
His breakfast had been
Ten minutes Inter, when the run- fleet) ns a routine measure.
the tradition of what used to happen
book, turned ov r the pages quickly, very light, and though it was only aways returned, they found the enn re
Protection by vaccination la»ls three nftor the "murder of the ox" upon the
•nd came to the
ntence he wanted. ten o'clock, be felt hungry. He won posing peacefully on the fire. The years and Is therefore of the greatest
Acropolis a vii tlm must he furnished
Unfortunately, the next sentence In dered whether it would be possible to tired-looking Individual had gone. So value to all who may bi* exposed
to In expiation u death must follow. And
the book was ‘‘Please sit down.’’ demand lumdieon in a Berlin restau- had their dinners and other of their this disease by out-of-door life.
so you have your popular superstition
Tommy, running his eyes hurriedly rant at that hour without exciting possessions.
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of today.
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from the English to the German col the derision of the waiters,
I© by McClur»»
Syndic«!»».)
He
felt
a
light
touch
on
his arm
Don't you believe thnt It's bnrd to
umn, picked up the wrong phrase.
It la 150 years since the first bottle
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and looked round. Count Casimir glass factory In Amerita was estab- be poor, It's the easiest thing In the
“Bitte setzen sie slch,” he said.
Did the snme girl over win n danc
world.
Iksiieil at Glxshburo. N. J.
Casimir could not VAT* wall «da iiuod beside bim.
ing prize and u cooking contest!
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CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
What’s in a Name?"
mm
I