Running
A Gantlet
By WILLARD BLAKEMAN
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A num ber of B ritishers were recent
ly talking about the question of Eng
land's m aintaining a suprem acy over
the Suez canal when one of them said:
“They m ay l>e able to take it away
from us by force of arms, but they
can’t do it by process of law .”
“How so?"*asked one of the party.
“1 was a m em ber of the B ritish em
bassy a t Berlin when the am bassador
received a cipher telegram from Lon
don saying th a t a big block of stock of
the Suez canal had been offered for
sale a t Cairo. lie w as directed to send
some one there to m ake the purchase
nt any .price. He called me into his
private otliee. showed me the dispatch
and told me to leave a t once to do the
Job. He said fu rth er th a t every large
power would be glad to control the
canal In this way, and if it were
known to the others there would be a
race as to who would got there first to
m ake the purchase. The Germ ans
would be surely a fte r it. If it were
known th a t I w as going to Cairo 1
m ight l>e waylaid by the Germ an se
cret service. I considered this highly
probable, and instead of 'caving Berlin
In my own proper person I j»lo!e out
a fte r dark.
“The route I chose was by rail to
Genoa, tbeuce by sen to Cairo. On the
train in Ihe sam e com partm ent with
me w as a lady who from her cast of
features, her dark eyes and hair I set
down as being Turkish. She was
certainly of an oriental type and a
very beautiful woman. It is quite a
Journey from Berlin to Genoa, and the
lady and 1 were in th e same compart
merit together for a long while. Smok
ing was not allowed in (he compart
m ent. but when nt a certain tim e all
had left it but she and I she took out
a bos of cigarettes and asked me in
F rench--the medium betw een different
nationalities on the continent—if 1 ob
jected to her smoking. I said no, and
she offered me the box. I declined the
offer, w hereupon she took o u t' one.
lighted it and bcgnn to smoke.
“ My suspicions w ere aroused by see
ing her every few m om ents npply her
handkerchief to her m outh and nose, I
fancying th a t she did so to inhale
som ething on it th a t would counteract
a n t effect. My suspicions were con
firmed by n peculiar odor in the smoke
and a languor stealing over me. I nt
tem pted to lower a window beside me.
b u t w as already so beuurabed th a t I
couldn't get it down. I had just
enough com m and of my forces to
sm ash th e glass w ith my fist. The
fresh a ir revived me, and when I tu rn
ed again to the T urkish lady she, in
well affected surprise, said:
“ ‘M onsieur is sensitive to tobacco
smoke?'
“ 'Very,' I replied.
“I w as satisfied th a t she bad been
sent to delay me. and since by my m an
ner I indicated tliot I was on my
guard she made no fu rth er attem pt to
in terfere w ith me W hen we left the
train a t the border to take another I
kept my eye on her an d saw her head
ing for a telegraph office. I did not
doubt th a t she would send a message
to announce her failure, and some one
else who stood ready would take up
her work w here she had left off.
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“T he first night out from Genoa I was
w alking the deck, taking my usual
smoke before turning in. It was quite
late, and there w ere but a few j»ersons
still up.' I was n ear the stern of the
vessel when a gentlem an came from
the taffrail and as he reached me stop-
, t d and said in French with an Italian
accent:
“ The phosphorous illum ination in
the wake of the ship Is very beaullful.*
“W ithout forethought 1 w ent the few
yards between me and the taffrail and
was looking over when the man who
had followed me seized me and lifted
me to throw me over. Luckily for me
I had been an ath lete a t home, being
fond of cricket, rowing and especially
wrestling. My m an was very strong,
but I w ithstood bis efforts.
“The next m orning”—
“Hold on. W hat did you do w ith the
other fellow?” asked one of the lis
teners.
"W hen I tell a story," replied the
narrator, "I tell the story as I wish
to tell it, and I don't feel obliged to
answ er questions.”
“Oh, go on!”
“The next m orning and all the rest
of the tim e th a t 1 w as-on the ship I
kept my room. I had become satisfied
th at some power—mind you, I don't
say it was G erm an- bad let loose its
bloodhounds to tear me to pieces if
necessary to keep me from Cairo, and
I didn’t care to give any more of them
an opportunity.
“I reached Cairo at night and, going
to a hotel, went, to bed th an k fu l th at l
was not tossed about a corpse in Medi
terranean w aters. I would have en
joyed a good sleep had I not feared
some spy w ith m urderous intent was
under my bed. As it was. I m erely
dozed and the next m orning a fte r
breakfast w ent out to get a convey
ance to take me to my destination. A
Jehu drove up, but before com m itting
m yself to his care I scrutinized him.
In a tw inkling I saw th a t he w ore a
wig and a false beard.
“ ‘T hanks, no,' I said to him. ‘I ’ve
met several of your friends already
and have no desire to hobnob w ith any
of you.’
“I w alked to the place I wished to
go, and before I left it the B ritish gov
ernm ent owned th a t block of stock
When I m ade the retu rn Journey 1
slept all the way. No one w as Inter
ested In me."
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