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, :
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. 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
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ADVENTURE
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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
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bv Whittlesey House, Una York
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