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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, January 14, 1930 PAGE SEVEN i i ! '1 i i 1 NAOTIR of I BY ROY VIGK HONEY" ERS CHAPTER XXXII. . OoaUM.Blw echoed Allm "IV a good thing that fellow doesn't understand English. That is the patron. By a series of mort gages he probably owns the great er part of tWa outfit. The driver li his paid servant and he lives on the difference." They drove out of the dock gates; Shirley, ignoring the dirt iness of the gharri, looked about her. They were passing through a narrow sidestreet with a view of the main street Ahead of them. "Oh, they aire bases!- exclaim ed Shirley. "And this street here might be a street In Greenwich yillage. "You'll find hits of every place here and of every time." answer ed Alan. "Yean find bits of the history of every country in the world walking about." They turned into the main road narrowly escaping collision with the latest model of a Rolls-Royce driven by a liveried chauffeur. On the other tide of the Rolls-Royce was a team of foar oxen drawing cart laden with beer barrels, In charge of a driver in flowing robes and a dirty red headdress. "Look at those two things!" exclaimed Alas. "There's some three or four thousand years be tween them and neither of them Id out of place here." Presently they seemed to be passing out of the city proper in to a suburban quarter. In a quiet square of comparatively modern stuccoed buildings the gharri stopped. ' This is the Lutetia," said Al an. "I stayed here once before, and as far as I ean remember, it should be good enough." As they walked through the revolving iglass doors he added: ''It's run by a quiet deent Armenian "Xot now boss," said a sleek luan standing in the lounge. Alan turned. "Oh, you've bought the place, liav'e you?" he exclaimed. "I gather you're American." "No. I'm a Bulgarian," ex claimed the man. "But I've had fifteen years experience in New York. Andropoulides, who had the place before me, ia dead. He had a bit too much to say to the po lice." Alan nodded indifferently. Shirley wondered what the man auieint by trouble with the police. Tae hotel seemed comfortable enough at first sight, though the rroprietor was unable to provide it hem with a private sitting-room. They engaged three bedrooms in each of which was a reproduction tot the statue of Liberty and two religieus subjects. I'd better go and see about that luggage bt ours," said Alan vfton they had Inspected their rooms. The lobby here is quite ocent and if I were youl'd stay here. We'll go on a tour of in- si -etion when I get back." In the lobby Shirley endured the conversation of the proprietor tor an hour, at the end of which, ibeing called away, he presented Iiere with a copy of La Vie Paris leu no and of a three-months-old ft New York paper. For another two hours she endured the boredom of total inactivity and then, see ing the Proprietor return, decid ed to go out. She - found another main road turning Into the heart of the city, then, fascinated with the sights and sounds about her, walked on. Presently, a few yards ahead of her a door opened and out of it ran an elderly Jew, crying loudly, the tears streaming down his cheeks. At the same time, behind her, she heard Alan's voice. "Look out! There's going to be trouble." She turned round and as she turned had a fleeting glimpse of three men surrounding the Jew. Then came the hoarse scream of a man in mortal agony. , Alan was urging her to a run. Running towards them was a po liceman, who drew his revolver and fired. Instantly there came an answering report from behind them. The next moment Alan picked her, up in his arms and whisked her to a doorway. The door was locked, but the brickwork on eith er side was just wide enough to shield them from a chance bullet. Alan's arras were about her, crushing her so that she could not breathe. At that moment all fear had left her. "His back is, exposed. He la risking his life for me," ran her thoughts. "Why the detil did you leave that hotel when I told you not to?" he growled at her it seem ed hours later. ''I don't know. I was bored waiting for you. I'm very sorry, Alan. Is it all' over?" "Yes. Don't look behind you. We'd better go back and have some lunch." By the end of the first month Shirley had interviewed a number of minor officials, obtaining from them illusory promises and ac complishing in fact nothing what ever toward obtaining a grant .of military protection. But in other respects the month had not been wasted. She had be come familiar with the city and such of the customs of its inhab itants as concerned herself and her mission. Also she had acquir ed a house. Alan had been against taking a house as soon as she had men tioned it, and had never explain ed his reasons. Finally the bore dom resulting from a lack of pri vacy at the hotel had won him over. They had taken the furnished house of a once prosperous native of apparently modern sympathies, for the house was. well furnished throughout. It was pleasant enough even If judged by Amer ican standards. It had twelve rooms and a garden that sloped down to the tidelesa sea. A house that would have been common place enough in any Long Island bay, but for the fact that house, garden and waterfront were sur rounded by spiked iron palings twelve feet high. Shirley had been puzzled by the palings, thinking them a mistak en form of decoration until Alan explained. "Walt till yon see' an excited mob of a thousand or so Mussul men running amuck you'll be glad enough of the palings then," he had told her. And she had looked from the massive oak aide board to the rest of the furniture and tried to imagine the frenzied Mussulmen. The task of housekeeping she J ad not attempted and a Spanish ewesa looked after the Greek cook and two housemaids, and on the whole made a very good job of it. While she was making her fu tile journeys to the various mu nicipal offices, Alan was actively employed in inspecting and over hauling the local depot of the Ma cedonian Developments. "Thinga teem to be ia a rather better state down here than the report led me to believe," he told her one day. "I shall make a trip ap country this week and inspect the mines and the track that's al ready laid. In the meantime, if you want help with your end of the stick, let me know." Am I being too alow, Alan?" "No. I didn't mean you to take that remark as a criticism." "I really can't tell yet whether I am likely to do any good or not" she said thoughtfully. "I am working my way through a lot of nonentities and sifting them out and It takes time to discover that they are nonentles. Tomor row I'm seeing the Commissioner. Judging by the difficulty of run ning him to earth, he's rather ex clusive. They were sitting over the fire after dinner. It was now the middle of November and a spell of cold weather had set in. Alan was looking through an account book while she was turning the pages of a catalogue. Suddenly she laughed and he looked up. "Feeling a bit nervous?" he asked. "I was thinking how funny It has all turned out, she answer ed. "Too made me think of some thing dangerous and thrilling when you talked of Macedonia. It's all frightfully picturesque, of course, and interesting in its way but I go out every morning in a comfortable hired car, do a bit -of shopping and talk to polite offi cials. And in the evening well, look at us. It may be the influ ence of this dreadful furniture but I feel that we are becoming exactly like an ordinary Ameri can suburban couple." There was a long silence and she thought that he had returned his attention to the account book. But presently he spoke: "Except that we are not' a 'cou ple,' Shirley." "You are very literal," she ob jected lightly. Inexplicably to her, the words had hurt her. Inexplicably, too, there had leaped into her mind that moment when his arms had been about her shielding her from the chance of being hit by a stray bullet in the street. "I suppose the truth is you get frightfully bored with the' eve nings here?" he suggested. "And sigh for the old days?" she supplemented. "You're wrong Alan. I'm not bored here with you. Tom couldn't bore me it yon tried." To her surprise he slammed the notebook and tucked it under his arm. , "I'm most gratified to hear that, Shirley," he rasped back. "But I feel in very special danger of boring you tonight. And as I don't want to spoil my reputation 111 go to bed. Good night." Shirley was amazed. This, she sensed, was no ordinary outburst of bearishness. His voice had bounded definitely angry. For long she sat by herself, puzzling her brain to discover how she had offended him. At breakfast on the following morning he seemed to have for gotten the Incident and she, too, had put it out of her mind by the time the hired car was waiting for her. 'Good luck with the Commis sioner," he said amiably as she left the house. Shirley felt that she was going to have good luck with the Com missioner. Perhaps it was the really Bumptuous offices that gave her that impression. She was shown into an ante-room that might have formed part of a royal suite, where, after some delay, a minor official requested her to sign a caller's book, giving par ticulars of herself. She signed the book as "Mrs. Alan Brennaway," after which the minor official made small conver sation with her for a full hour; then, glancing at the clock, he exclaimed abruptly: "Monsieur Starros awaits your pleasure, madame." , The . Commissioner, a puffy Greek in early middle-age, got up as she entered and then sat down abruptly as if his getting up had been a mistake, a3 indeed it had been. "This is the first time I have had the pleasure of addressing an American lady," he said in fluent French. "Is it possible that I can have the good fortune of be ing, of some service?" "The Commissioner is kind," responded Shirley, and then list ened patiently to a disclaimer on the part of the Commissioner and a panegyric of the riches of Amer ica. (To be continued) flames bare destroyed several buildings and were still raging at 6: IS according to word received here. PICE ID BRIDE i warn BLAZE HITS GIG HARBOR TACOMA, Jan. 13. (AP) Sweeping through the business section of Gig Harbor, near here. ROME, Jan. 13. (AP) The Prince ana Princess of Piedmont after a week of festivities in hon or of their marriage today final ly benefited from a veil of sil ence, as far as newspapers, the public and visiting potentates were concerned. Tired by the continuous round of entertaining and formal func tions, the apparentely postponed departure on their Jong delayed honeymoon because they granted an audience for Monday after noon here in rome. The Quirinial officials were most reticent today on the fu ture plans of the couple, but It was believed they could spend the week end quietly in the Quirinial and not leave before Tuesday. Today's Cross-Word Puzzle By EUGENE SHEU'LU JM I I3 I I M6 I7 I8 I9 ' ffl M . m-r W fcv rpir H27 fee 2? WZ WZZZW1ZZZ Hi ffi2 43 1PW WWSZWZ-WZZ Sd 51 W2 53 w 1 1 1 EH 1Mb HORIZONTAL. 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