AUGUST 14, 1941
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CHAPTER III
SYNOPSIS: On board the Orizaba,
Camila Dean, beautiful American
girl, has made the acquaintance
of Joseph Asad, wealthy Syrian,
and Michael Gay. American
engineer going to the East to establish
a bus line over the desert
from Damascus to Bagdad. She
becomes especially interested in
Ronald Barker, who c o m e s
aboard at Marseilles, because the
night before she has heard three
men whispering outside her window
that he must be put out of
the way before the boat reaches
Alexandria. Camilla meets Barker,
tells him what she has heard
and, to satisfy her curiosity, he
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urns uci mat lie ia m?i rviueiiean
educated at Oxford and now much
interested in the Palestine situation.
There was singing in the bar.
Slim's voice trying to do a sentimental
ballad. Then a kind of half
silence, the swish of water alongside,
the sounds of the ship as she
plodded steadily into the East, the
East that Slim held in such contempt,
the East that Ronald Barker
had made so peculiarly his own.
Then the sound of whispering
voices, men's voices, beyond the
shuffleboard where she could just
see their shadows against one of
the lifeboats.
Without planning, but moving instinctively,
she got into her evening
wrap again and went out into the
corridor. Rallying her courage she
ran along the gangway past Ronald
Barker's cabin and peered out
on deck. The shadows on the lifeboat
were still there, but the voices
were more muffled than before. She
5icpiit.-u inn un aecK ami approacned
the group. They turned their
backs to her, huddled together and
looked out to sea. But their conversation
stopped when she passed
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them, going on to the forward end
of the promenade. When she returned
they had disappeared.
It was not until she went into the
corridor again that she realized the
risk she had taken on the deserted
;deck. And now her foosteps turned
i instinctively aft to the bar where
S 1 i m ' s singing of "Mandalay,"
though hideous, was masculine,
friendly and comforting.
Camilla stood for a long moment
framed in the doorway before Slim
and Michael saw her. Then they
rose apologetically and asked her to
join them. But social conversation
tvas not in her mind. "Slim, I want
I you to go up to the captain with
| me,"' she said in a rush of words
without preamble. "You, too, Michael."
Explaining as hey went, Camilla
led the way up the after companion
ladder to the upper deck and so
forward to the captain's quarters.
Captain Simpson was just taking a
I nightcap with his first officer whose
! watch it was.
! The two men bowed her in with
liter companions and offered a drink,
j But Camilla was already telling
Tier story in brief bioken sentences
j?of the conversation she had overI
heard a few nights before, and of
j the belief that llonald Barker was
not safe aboard the Orizaba without
a guard over his stateroom at
night. From smiling incredulity at
her fears, they found her sincerity
at least compelling.
"You'd better not let Mr. Barker
know. 1 don't want him to think
I'nt meddling in his affairs."
"Well, it's my affair more than
yours now. Miss Dean," Simpson
said. I've got orders from the company
to put Mr. Barker safely ashore
at Alexandria and I'm going to do
it."
Michael and Slim stood rather
sheepishly while Simpson gave the
orders. He had hardly completed
i them when a muffled sound of shots
j and a clatter of broken glass came ,
lrom sonrewnere below.
With the excitement of the group
rushing out of the captain's suite,
there were other sounds, calls front
men of the watch on deck, as Camilla,
between Slim and Michael,
ran down into the A deck saloon
where a few of the passengers in |
various degrees of negligee assent- ]
bled, asking questions.
"Just some drunken idiot having
target practice at one of our i
electric bulbs," Simpson said.
The excitement among the pas
sengers diminished as Camilla went I
with Janet Priestly to talk things j
over. Slim and Michael followed
the captain down the corridor toward
Honald Barker's stateroomHe
met them at the open door where
| some of his neighbors stood inquiring.
"No damage, Mr. Barker?"
the captain asked.
"None at all. Some silly ass out
on deck having target practice.
Woke me up, just the way it did
the rest of you."
"But it's your window that's broken,
Mr. Barker."
Slim glanced out of the window
and examined a piece of window
glass on the carpet. It was a corrugated
glass that would let in light!
but not vision.
?uiuij tiling, ivAr. uarKer, lie
said. "How do you account for the
fact that splinters of the glass have
fallen outboard on the deck, instead
of inside the cabin?"
"So they have! Quite re,..arkable!
You mean that someone must
have fired from the inside of the
stateroom?"
"Sure thing," Slim said. "The impact
of a heavy bullet?it would
take some of the glass with it."
Captain Simpson sat on the bed,
listening and watching. "You'd better
tell the whole story, Mr, Barker,"
he said quietly.
So, omitting Camilla's share in
the adventure, Mr. Barker told what
had happened. He had been warned
of a possible attempt on his life
aboard the Orizaba. He had not believed
in his danger at first, but after
he had turned in he found himself
thinking how easy it would be
for someone on the outside to take
a pot shot at him through the half ,
open French window and get away
before the alarm.
Barker had switched off the ceiling
light, made as good an imitation
as he could of a sleeping figure in
his bed by stuffing coverlid and
underclothing under the blankets,
then turned the bed light in its box
so that it was dim and lay on the 1
lounge hidden from the deck outside.
Perhaps his informant had
been mistaken. He was just getting
drowsy when the silhouette of
a head darkened the window. Then
everything happened very rapidly.
He wasn't sure that the silhouette
meant mischif until he saw the
glint of light on a gun barrel. He
fired quickly, while the silhouette
fired also, aiming at the huddle under
the bedclothes.
Barker went over to the bed and
showed where two bullets had gone
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through the pillow and the neckband
of one of his best shirts,
i " Pretty close that.'' he said.
"Sure thing," Slim gasped. "And
here's where the bullets went
through the head of the bed. That
guy must have been practicing in a
shooting gallery."
"It's all my fault, Mr. Barker,"
1 Simpson went on apologetically.
I 'Knowing about you I might have
suspected something in a ship's com'
pany made up like this one is. But
I'm going through with it with a
fine-tooth comb before we reach
Naples."
It seemed necessary in the morning
for Camilla to get a new slant
on the events of the previous day
so that he thoughts would make!
sense. An important fact seemed to I
emerge. She had been most ear-1
i nestly embraced by a man she had
met only two days before. Another i
important fact was that she seemed 1
.to have liked it.
She took iter coffee in her room
i and after her bath found herself
| with a new point of view which rei
fused to accept Mr. Barker at his
I face value; She was glad when
I there was a clatter at the door and
| Josephine Holloway and Kitty Trim|
ble rushed in. All night they had
I been ready to explode with curiosity,
they said, for the story of Camilla's
part in the affair was all (
' over lite ship, much distorted, mak!
ing her a heroine of sorts. ;
"Well, Toots, you certainly put (
; one over on Asad," Josephine gurg
! led, "and Slim and Michael, to say |
! nothing of all the eligible females oil ,
this ark."
"What I came in to find out." Kit- i
ty Trimble said, "is what you've got ]
that X haven't got. You haven't \
even got the experience of a hand- ;
some grass widow twice removed.
And yet you walk off with the mys- ;
lery mar. under my very eyes, lead |
him out into the moonlight, which <
makes every woman beautiful, so '
he can make love to you; and then,
just to show him how indispensable '
you are to him, you save his life
from a bunch of assassins."
' There's noting to tell except
that he's half American, working '
for the British government?very in- :
teresting and what you'd call a '
good egg."
"But who was it wanted to kill '
him and whv?"
"You'll have to ask him." !
Josie gave a sniff of importance.
"Seems to me you're awfully snooty
about him. You warn the man and j
keep him from being shot and he
doesn't even tell you?" I
"It was none of my business." s
'Or ours, I guess you mean. Oh, *
well?" *
A knock on the door and a stew- t
ard entered. "Captain's compli- (
men Is, Miss Dean, and if it's con- t
venient for you he would like to see c
you in his office at once."
The other girls rose as the stew- 1
ard went out. Camille slipped into 1
her coat and with a wave of her '
hand hurried out toward the gang- '
way to the upper deck. 1
She was surprised to find a nurn- (
ber of people.who almost filled the 1
captain's cabin. Her glance passed s
over them quickly; passengers with <
those faces she was familiar. There 1
were Slim, Michael, Fonald Barker, ;
the Russian?Stephanov, Astad, 1
Torelli and several other men. A
steward, a member of the crew ap- 1
parently just off duty, came in and 1
stood near the desk where Simpson
sat with the pusrr, Mr. Disston. 4
"Captain Simpson asked you up
here," Barker whispered, "on the *
chance that you might recognize I
some of these men or their voices.
It's pretty hopeless, but he wants 1
you just to sit in and listen while 1
they talk." She nodded and took 1
the chair he offered her.
The captain addressed them all. c
"I invited you here because the
room stewards have reported that I
none of you had turned in before '
half-past one o'clock last night. It t
was after that hour that a murder
was attempted on this ship. Some- 1
one sneaked along A deck, in the
darkness, and fired through the port ?
of Mr. Barker's stateroom. Mr. Bar- 5
Jeer fired at the intruder from the 1
sofa where he was lying, but in the <
dim light his shot went wild." *
Simpson went on, looking sternly
at the faces of his visitors. ' Now, <
the captain of a ship," he contin- 1
ued, "is also chief of police, judge,
jury and public prosecutor. I've
asked you here to testify as to what "
you were doing at that hour. Mr.
Asad, you were on the promenade
deck just before the occurrence.
Will you stand up and tell me if
you heard the shots, where you
weie, ana wnat you aid?"
Joseph Asad smiled cheerfully.
"Gladly. I had come in from a
walk on deck where I passed Miss
Dean and Mr. Barker. I stopped
for a while in the saloon to find a
book and then went down the main
gangway to B deck and stood aft
talking to the chief engineer who |
had just come out of his office to '
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Bobby Riggs, Chicago tennis star,
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of his wife, after he successfully
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Six-Inch Sermon
| ay He?. Robert H. Harper
PETER ENCOURAGES
SUFFERING CHRISTIAN:
Lesson for August 17: I Peter 4:12
19: 5:6-11: Golden Text. I
Peter 4:16
The problem of human sufferinj
is as old as the world is. It was
evidently a purpose of the book o;
Job to teach that suffering is no
always the result of sin, as the an.
eient seemed to believe, but that i
may be used to test a man?tc
prove how strong he is. In the pros?nt
lesson Peter encouraged suffer
ing Christians by telling them :t was
not strange that such and such had
happened unto them but rather natural
that fiery trial had conn
among them?to "prove" them.
In the fellowship of Christ it was
natural that Christians should be
partakers of his suffering. But Petei
amphasized that if they suffered
with Christ they would "at the revelation
of his glory" also rejoice
with "exceeding joy."
It is much better to suffer that
which will end in glory than to suffer
as a murderer or other /.xoi
loer. If the righteous scarcely be
saved, there will surely be nc
diance for the sinner to escape the
jvils attendant upon his wrongdoing
and how heavy indeed will be his
suffering!
In the second passage men are extorted
to humble themselves that
hey may be exalted, to be sober
rnd watchful lest they be taken by
he enemy of their souls.
Somehow, although they may not
mow exactly why, the best in life
seems often to be bought with tears
tnd sacrifice. How greatly should
atffering saints be encouraged when
hey know that in their suffering
hey may share the fellowship of
heir Lord and also share one bright
lay in his eternal glory!
;o below to the engine room. It was
vvhile I was talking to the chiel
hat the shots were fired. Chief
Jimmerman will, of course, verify
bis statement if you wish it. Wc
rould not tell where the shots came
torn, but we went at once to the
;aloon on A deck where a number of
rther passengers were gathered. II
vas there that I heard who had been
ihot at. Aside from this I know
lothing about the affair."
"You have no idea as to who
night have attemuted to mnrdei
vlr. Barker?"
"Not the least idea," Asad finish d.
Captain Simpson made a signal for
ilr. Asad to be seated and called or
vlr. Jose Serrano to testify.
Mr. Surrano was a small man
vith a scrubby brown pointed
jeard, streaked with gray, which
le stroked affectionately.
'Mr. Surrano, you are an Assyriilogist?"
asked Captain Simpson.
"Yes, sir," he said in excellent
Cnglish. "I am on my way east to
nvestigate some new discoveries in
he Tigris-Euphrates valley."
"Did you ever hear of Mr. Barter?"
"In a general way, yes. Mr. Ronild
Barker is very well known in
Cgypt and Palestine. I read his
nonograph on some of the Cairene
liggings. I am very glad to meet
lim in the flesh."
' Can you imagine any reason why
tnybody on this ship should want to
rill him?"
"I cannot."
(Continued Nevt Wcd-i
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jN. C. Youth Day To Be
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Manteo, Aug. 13.?Boys and girls
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participate in the observance of
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and Sunday, August 16-17,
under the sponsorship of the National
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Speakers for the occasion will include
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