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UNLOCKING By Charles Courtney Charles Covrtniv U th : 'tDorld't highest paid lead Jim- .my Valentin. This is the true ; story of hi many adventure 'Unlocking safes around the earth ';. and under the sea, : ' .h.i. -v. i , . CHAPTER XVni ... TOETURNINa to Bremen, I met : . . Frederick Krupp, president of the (rest Krupp Upbuilding plant t Kiel; Johan George Stein, with whom he had worked out the Steln-Krupp method of tubmarine gold mining; Sir Basil Zaharoff; and several other International financier! who were interested in undersea hunting. Sir Basil in vited several of us to spend a tew days in Biarritsv On the first night Sir Basil gave a dinner party lor me. Around the table was a group of impressive, graying, sometimes paunchy finan ciers of many nationalities Greek, Rumanian, French, Ger man and expensively gowned girls of as many races. Sir Basil (was able to talk to each one of them fluently in his own language. i . My partner, a blond English girl in a scarlet dress, kept shaking . her curls in my face like a feather ' duster as she chattered rapidly in a sort of cooing baby talk. Sir Basil was a good host When he saw that I was more Interested in talking to him than in squiring the blond, he produced a partner for Barbara. - - As the evening wore on, we talked quietly. Sir Basil had a mobile dark face, the olive akin of the Levantine, I guessed, and a way of making every subject he touched upon sound like a colossal adventure. Above the -noise of the orchestra and the shuffle of feet, he talked about treasure hunting in the 17th century, when it was one of the world's major financial businesses for governments as well as pri vate individuals. Gold hunters were licensed by the crown and sailed with a great hullabaloo. ' "In this age when there is more treasure than ever on the coasts of the world's principal seaways,' Sir Basil went on, "and modern engineering has made salvaging much more profitable, it is a busi ness that is looked upon as a cross between piracy and pure specula tion." , e e TN the morning, while his other guests were asleep. Sir Basil and I had breakfast on a terrace overlooking the Mediterranean. Re told me that Prince Oskar of Hohenzollem, who had a palace . at Kiel, wanted me to open a safe which had remained closed since the, death of his father. Prince :Heinrich, In 1918. But before I : 'returned to Bremen he wanted to i ngage me for a salvaging venture Iot next season. In confidence, he told me that a syndicate of which he' was a member had discovered the wreck : of H. M. S. Hampshire, the British : xmiiser that went" down off the j Orkneys in 1016 while . it was ; carrying Lord Kitchener and about 1000 men to some unknown ren j dezvous. It was never acknowl i edged by the Admiralty and was ! known to but few people that the Hampshire was carrying not only ' the war lord but f 2.000,000 of ! gold to Russia to bolster up the i czar's wavering army.. That gold ; was what they were after $10,- 000,000 in bullion of the Bank of England. Already a sand sucker i was at work digging at the eight f feet of sand' that buried part of , the wreck, and the salvaging could ; begin in the spring as soon as the j weather permitted. ' -" j Sir Basil's brown -'eyes grew - darker and brighter as he talked, i and the color flushed-his cheeks. ' He was so persuasive that he fired ! me with excitement.' At first, I ; said that I would make up my; ; mind and let him know, but be-' fore we had finished a second cup ! of coffee, I had promised that I, j would Join, .:;..- ; I I All the way to Bremen, then to' Kiel, my mind was assailed with ' doubts, and, as if to shake my 1 confidence still further, I noticed ; that I was being followed by i secret service men. e ' WHEN I reached Kiel and pre sen ted myself at the palace, j I was taken to a dungeon-like basement where Prince Oskar and -, a group of men were waiting for me, all of them in opera capes, tall hats, and masks, I wondered , why all the drama. Disliking to work with these masked men at - my back, I insisted that we have a city official present and waited until the prince telephoned for a FUNNY BUSINESS p i a IT" r-m-raim i- -tiT-ti miwan m . t"He'8 always mufllng two-minute eggs, so I had a ur ' - ' thai timer rigged upl'L . . , . .. ADVENTURE . COVRIOMT. IMS. NKA MHVIGS, INC. member of the police. . The sate was concealed behind packing cases. After they wore pulled away, I found that the safe was a familiar American make and comparatively easy to open but, out of perversity, I took a long time at it, enjoying the im patience of the masked witni When I pulled back the door, I stepped away and did not sea what was inside. However, Prince Oskar was so pleased that he took from his finger a diamond ring and presented it to me, the ring which I wear today.' He also gave me seven old Gothic keys tram the palace. . .' : " - Returning to Bremen, I talked again with Sir Basil, who would listen to none of my misgivings. He promised that the salvaging equipment would be the best ob tainable and the plana so carefully laid that there was practically no chance of failure. - Two . inter nationally famous divers were working out preliminary details already and would get tn touch with me. The fee was staggering. Having committed myself to join one of the greatest treasure hunts of modern times, I took a North German Lloyd liner tor New York. As Sir Basil said, the thought ot it did undoubtedly quicken the pulse, but my doubts were so lively that I did not teU my wife and daughter. -(Te Be OwilliiauD' . . . i . . ha th book of the name written in collaboration with Thomas U. Johnson, and puMitfced bv Whittlesey House, Una York City.) - . RAG DOLL TWINS - Their chubby- little - cheeks make them look plump all over. Yet, only the head - is in three pieces . . . the body is made of but two. Your useless scraps be come the stylish clothes. Patterns for these, also, are included.- Re member, every little girl "wants twins"! Pattern 7627 contains a transfer pattern of doll and clothes; instructions. . To obtain tma pattern send 11 cents in coin to The Herald and News, Household Arts Dept. Klamath Falls. Do not send this picture, but keep it and the num ber for reference. 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