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King Tommy
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CHAPTER X— Continued
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Janet Church was watching about
the central hall looking out tor some
one In whose business she could in
terfere, helpfully of course. Janet
always wants to be helpful. When
she saw Tommy at the desk of the
reception office she walked over and
Joined him. She agreed with the
head clerk that an Auswels was nec
essary, and showed the one which
the Berlin police bad granted to her.
Then she offered to take a look at
Tommy's passport Just to see that It
was In order.
It was. Tommy’s
mouth, hose, eyes and hair were de
scribed In the usual official style.
His photograph, not In the least like
him, was s tu d In the proper place
and duly stamped by the Foreign of
fice. All the visas were there, as
Illegible as usual. But Janet raised
her eyebrows In surprise. Taking
Tommy by the arm she led him sway
from the desk.
“You’d better be careful with that
passport,“ she said. "The German
police know more than you’d think.”
“But It’s all right, Isn’t It?’’
“Oh, It's all right, of course, for
the Rev. T. A. Norreys, an Irish
clergyman.”
"And that's who I am.”
“I don’t see what good you expect
to do by keeping up that pretense
with me,” said Janet.
" I assure you—”
"And I assure you,” said Janet,
"that no ordinary Irish clergyman—
that's what you profess to be. Isn't
tt T—"
"Quite ordinary,” said Tommy, “not
even an archdeacon.”
“No ordinary clergyman. English,
Scotch or Irish, would have Count
Caslmlr calling on him the moment
he arrived In Berlin. Everybody
knows that Caslmlr Is up to his neck
In International plots. What would
he want with an ordinary clergy
man? And If you’re nothing but a
curate, how do you account for the
way you were received at the Mas-
cotte last night? I wus there when
you arrived. The whole staff simply
bowed down to you and you were
given the best table In the room. Ev
erybody turned round and stared at
you when you came In. The head
waltor, who was drunk later on,
served you himself. And that's a
thing head waiters don’t do In the
case of ordinary curates.”
“I know It looks odd,” said Tom
my, “but, all the same, I really am—"
“I hope for your sake,” said Janet,
“that the police will believe you. I
don’t know who you really are, and
It Isn’t my business to find o ut; but
If the police believe that curate story
I shall be surprised. Don't you be
under any mistake about the Berlin
police. They'll know exactly what
happened last night at the Mascotte,
and In all probability they know,
what I don’t, exactly who you are
and what you're doing In Berlin.”
This made Tommy a little uneasy,
but he was not seriously anxious. His
passport was In perfect order. He
had papers In his pocket, a check
book and some letters, which ought
to be enough to establish his Identity.
He took a cab to the police office.
He found his way after some trou
ble, Into a small, grimy, hndly over
heated room. It was filled with shab
by looking people, men and women
of various nationalities who stood In
an Irregular Ill-formed queue. Tom
my took his place behind a smelly
Polish Jew and waited. After about
half an hour he found himself stand
ing opposite a desk nt which a young
man In plain clothes was writing.
This man was smoking a bedraggled
cigarette, which looked as If he had
licked it all over before lighting It.
He was very badly shaved and near
ly as grimy as Ids office. Ills tem
per, like the atmosphere of his room,
was overheated.
He asked Tommy a number of
questions rapidly. Tommy did not
understand a word that was said to
him and shook his head amiably. The
young ‘ man asked his questions
•over again
more
loudly. Tom
my did not understand any better
than before, but he tried the experi
ment of saying "Ja ” In an agreeable
tone to each question. This merely
irritated the young man, so Tommy,
who wns beginning to learn a little
German, said, “Ja , bltte seboen.”
Even this appeared to be unsatisfac
tory, and the young man wns getting
seriously annoyed.
Tommy tried
“neln." and then, aiming at polite
ness, “nein. danke." The young man
repeated his questions In a very loud
and threatening tone.
Tommy, still confident that every
thing must go well In the end, got
out his passport and handed It across
the table. It contained all the Infor
mation which even the most Inquisi
tive policeman could desire, his name,
his profession, the date and place of
his birth were all there. His height
was stated, and the color of his eyes
and the shape of his mouth and a
large number of other things. It cer
tainly seemed as If every possible
question was answered.
The police officer opened the pass
port with a Jsrk o t his hand and al
lowed the ash of his cigarette to fall
on the paper In order to show his dis
dain of everything English. There
was really very little of It he could
read or understand, for ha knew no
English; but he pretended to study
It with a sort of contemptuous atten
tlon.
Suddenly he became really
alert His eye had I# on Tommy's
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By George A. Birmingham my did .not know It till afterward,
Copyright by BobbeMarriUCo.—W. N. U. Servie» but be was In tho presence of ths
Prince von Stelnveldt, head of the
German ministry for the control of
name, which happened to be written aliens.
“You speak not German good,” said
very legibly. He stared at it, looked
at Tommy, and then began searching Von Stelnveldt stiffly.
“I don’t speak It at all,” said Tom
through a pile of documents at the
side of his desk. He came on the one my, “except ‘Ja,’ ‘neln,’ ’heisz wasaer’
he wanted, opened It out beside Tom and ‘bltte schoen,’ I don’t believe I
my’s passport and compared the two. know a single word. It’s a great re
He took the cigarette out of his lief to me to hear you talk English.
mouth and looked at Tommy with a You can't Imagine how I’ve been wor
smile of malicious triumph. He made ried all the morning by people ask
a remark In a tone which was evi ing me questions which I couldn't un
dently meant to be Insulting. Then derstand. If there's anything you
he gave an order to a couple of men really want to know. I’ll be delighted
In uniform who stood at the door of to tell you provided you ask In Eng
the room. The men stepped forward, lish."
“Your name?”
touched Tommy on the arm and mo
“Norreys,” said Tommy, “Rev.
tioned him to follow.
Tommy, puzzled and rather suspi Thomas A. Norreys, M. A. T. 0 . D."
“Ach, so?” ,
cious, followed the constable Into an
“Yes,” said Tommy
pleasantly,
Inner office. There he found him
self In the presence of another police “Just so. I see you've got my pass
officer, evidently a man of superior port there. If you look at It you’ll
rank, for he was smoking a cigar. see my photograph. My nose la of
The constable made a short report normal size, my face oval, my eyes
and handed over Tommy's passport. of a bluish color—"
“So?”
The superior officer stared curiously,
"Exactly so," said Tommy, and
then he, too, began to ask questions,
n large number of questions. Tom then waited.
The German referred to some pa-
my could neither understand nor
answer. All he could do was to point pers which lay before him and then
to his passport. But It was evident took another look at Tommy’s pass
ly In some way unsatisfactory. The oft- port.
“Your name,” he said, “Is Norreys
ener the police officer looked a y It
the more Insistently he repeated nls but It Is here In the passport not al
questions. At last, thoroughly dis together rightly spelled.”
“N-o-r-r-e-y-s,” said Tommy.
satisfied both with Tommy and the
"Here,” said the German, tapping
passport, he rang the office bell
one of his own papers, “I your name
sharply.
Two minutes later Tommy found N-o-r-h-e-y-s spelled find. Not true?”
“Not In the least true,” said Tom
himself under arrest. He was not
actually handcuffed, but It was made my.
“Herr Marquis,” said the German,
quite clear to him that he was un
der the charge of two policemen who “we are of your coming to this coun-
try and of your plan for the resto-
stood one on each side of him.
The police officer laid his cigar ration of the monarchy of Lystrla
and of the so-deep-grlpping plots of
down carefully and took up a tele
your minister of Balkan affairs good
phone receiver which stood on his
desk. Then followed a long conver Informed. The police Auswels per
sation, or rather a series of conver mitting you longer to remain in Ber
sations. Tommy, listening and watch- lin will not ge-granted be.”
“I suppose you know,” sa+A Tom-
my, "that all that rigmarole about
plots and monarchies and marquises
has nothing whatever to do with me,
and my name Is spelled exactly as
It Is sn my passport.”
“The In English so-called bluff do
I most perfectly understand,” said
the German. "Within the borders of
the German state may you no longer
remain.”
"That,” said Tommy, “is a bit
rough ou me. I came over here sim
ply to get rid of a lot of your money
which I happened to have. I don’t
want to say anything Insulting to
Germany or to hurt your feelings In
any way, but you must know that
your money Isn’t very highly thought
of anywhere else In the world. I
don't suppose the most unsophisticat
ed South Sea islander would give you
a coconut for a whole sackful of
marks. If you turn me out of Ger-
many I don't see how I am to get rid
of that money nt all.”
“In Germany.” said Von Stelnveldt.
“for you to remain Is strongly forbid
den.”
Tommy had begun to feel Irritated
with the ridiculously pompous old
man who sat before him. He had
tried to annoy him by speaking of
the worthlessness of German marks.
The Superior Officer Stared Curiously. But the attempt had not been a suc
Then He, Too, Began to Ask Ques cess. He tried again. This time a
tions, a Large Number of Questions. different taunt.
“Very well,” he said, "If you expel
lng carefully, realized that the officer
was repeating his story several times me’ from Germany, I shall go to
over, with long pauses between each Strashurg and make a tour of Al-
telling, during which It seemed to sace and Lorraine. They're not In
Tommy that he was being switched Germany any longer, you know.”
"To cross the frontier,” said Von
off from one listener to another. Tom
my did not understand a word he Stelnveldt, "is without the police
said, but he caught his name occa Ausweis entirely Impossible.”
Tommy thought this over carefully
sionally, very badly pronounced. Aft
er a while he began to recognize the for a minute and then realized the
words “junger Englander.” Tommy, absurdity of the position.
“You say I can't stay In Berlin?”
who was still In quite a friendly
mood, turned to one of the policemen he said.
beside him.
“Anywhere In Germany," said Von
"It's a pity," he said, "that he Stelnveldt, “Is for you strongly for
doesn't try broadcasting. That must bidden.”
be the fifth time he’s told Ills story."
“And at the same time you say 1
After the police officer had talked can’t go."
Into his telephone for half an hour,
“To cross the frontier without the
he gave an order to his two tnen and police Auswels Impossible Is.”
Tommy was led off. They shut him
“So far as I can see," said Torn-
up In a small inner room and left my. “the only thing left for me to do
him there. Tommy began to feel Is to fade away gradually like the
slightly annoyed, but wus not In the Cheshire cat In “Alice in Wonder
least frightened. It was evident that land," and 1 can’t do that. The only
the hotel clerk had been wrong In kind of man I ever heard of who
saying that the police proceedings could do that Is a Mahatma, with an
are merely formal, and Janet Church astral body, and I’m not one. But I
right when she warned him that he dare say you’re simply making what
was likely to have a great deal of you believe to be a Joke. I always
trpuble before he got permission to heard that German Jokes are a bit
stay in Berlin.
difficult to set.”
When Tommy had been Incarcerat
(T O H E C O N T IN U E D .)
ed for about an hour he was taken
out and put in a taxi. His two
M ade L onely Journey
guards went with him. They were
A woman farmer In a lonely part of
perfectly civil, but they never took South Africa, Mrs. Ida Francis, has
their eyes off him for an instant.
Just shown that In luck and endur
The cab stopped opposite an im ance British women settlers are not
mense, floridly decorated doorway. behind the men.
Tommy was led through it, into what
About two months ago a cyclone
seemed to be a public Tifflce. He was devastated her farm, which Ilea be
conducted along a corridor, taken up yond the western fringe of the desolate
an elevator, led along two other cor Kalahail desert; and then came flood«
ridors and finally with Immense cer which destroyed the food and «heller
emony, ushered Into a very hand for her cattle. The only way to save
somely furnished office.
her animals waa to drive them 400
A tall, fierce-looking man. elderly, miles across the desert to her son's
grizzled and most Imperfectly shaved, farm, and this she did, unaided.
sat at a large table covered with pa
She found that many of the water
pers. He was evidently a person of boles In the desert had dried up. and
great Importance and Tommy took sometimes she had to ward off attacks
a good look at him. His short gray by Ilona wltfc her rifle; but she kept
hair stood upright on his head like steadily od. and In the end brought
the bristles of a brash. There were nearly all h«t chargee through safely
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