The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, January 14, 1930
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HONEY"
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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
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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.
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