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Page 6 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THE fURGOTTEN FLEET MYSTERY" py van wycis. maaun CHAPTER X "I have to find that jewelry, it's it's" She looked away. "Oh well, 111 be frank about it. The doctor said mother has a spot on her lung and our dreadful little Bronx apart ment isn't doing it a bit of good." "Very likely not. How did you get your jobs cn these boata7" "A friend of the family had in fluence with the Shipping Board. Th nnlv wav it could be managed was to present Connolly as my father. It's queer simply incred ibleto thing of him lying over there like that." She Juddered a little and fell silent "And that's the whole yarn?" "Yes, so if, as I suspect, you are a confederate of Ehrenkrriet or Kraus, there's nothing I can do about it I I've reached the end of my rope." She looked up suddenly. "Who told you about the jewels?" "I read about them seemed like a good bet," was all Colby said as he got up and commenced to pace thoughtfully back and forth over the cabin's worn green carpet. While an ever .stronger wind rat tled the door and sent cold draughts across the flow, the girl watched Colby's brows rreop closer together. At last he halted in front of her. "Look htre. Now that Connolly's dead you do need help. So do I. How about a partnership?" Geneva Kent eyed him an instant and then shrugged and when she spoke her voice sounded extremely weary- "Let's hear your proposi tion, though of course I realize you can, and 'probably will, take every thing if the jewels are found." "We'll settle the share question later. What I want to know now is who killed Connolly? What about M..t v The girl sent a long plume of smoke whirling across the cabin. "I liave had no reason to distrust Mears." "When did you hire him?" "I didn't; Mears had been on these boats half a year before we came and that's four months ago." The smooth of her forehed ;became wrinkled. '11 have noticed recently, fWivh t.hnt he's been SDendincr a lot of time on the Mount Vernon since the first watchman 'disap peared." "Do you happen to have any pictures 'of either Ehrenbriet or Krans'T" "Yes. vConnolly was thorough. He wrote for some to the Berlin Po lice. I'll get them." While she spoke Geneva Benet crossed to an other desk and, pulling a key from around her neck, unlocked a drawer and then a small steel dispatch box. A moment later the gaunt figurt in gray and the lesser one in brown bent over the desk. "It's a cinch neither of them is the man Connolly shot," Colby pro nounced. "Since you've played fair with me. Sister, let's see if you can make anything of this stuff I took off of the man in the gray suit." From a side pocket he produced a number of objects. Beside a few keys, some change and a jack-knife, lettpre. Krtth bearing UICIC " f - German postmarks and addressed to err Otto W. Vrgl, rianiers Htel, Baltimore." "C.stn vou read it?" the girl in quired." "I can but mine's pretty rusty." .He was studying the first and briefer of the missives. "This one is asking dear Otto to repay a loan; and the other " his eyes briefly flitted over the script and halted suddenly. "Hell, listen to this. " 'Lieber Otto: "This is to tell you that sEitel Kraus is at burttidead. Even to the end he believed the doctors could cure him. 1 was with him the night he diwd. Poor, fellow he had no lungs left at all. When he knew he was going he said, "tell Utto he must share with Maria. Tell him to hecareful, as Hermann' " "Hermann?" Colby's eyebrows lifted in interrogation ' whereat the girl nodded quickly, "Yes, that was Ehrenbrn't's first name.' "Hermann sailed last week." "And that, Sister," Colby grunt ed as he put down the letter, "lifts the veil of ignorance, as Mark Twain said about the schoolmarm's hickory stick." "I must be stunid. but I don t understand," confessed the girl. "It looks this way to me: vogei, whn was killed r.onieht. was Kraus' pal. Kraus was evidently too sick to come on the job himseli. this note also tells us another significant story Vogel had rivals." "That's bad," said Geneva Benet. . - .RAP BOOK "It. is " "Colhv continued to thoughtfully rearrange sundry objects on the deskftefore him. "What Id UKe to knnur inwas Votrel alone? And did Connolly really kill him? You p it mirht have tieen someDoay else. .A greedy confederate or Ehrenbriet maybe." "Maybe the answer is here." She plucked up . the key stamped No 313 "More likely in this." From a leather wallett Colby drew sev eral German and American bank nntea and then a new German pass port duly stamped and viseed. He pulled it out and pouncea upon a inimM nf rhean Daner which flut tered to the floor. On it someone in a very shaky hand had written a single enigmatic sentence: "Das Geheimniss ist 1m Besets der dritten Jungfras nicht weiss, nichts gelb oder rot" "Translated it says: "The secret lies with the third girl, not white, not yellow nor red. " Across the lamp lit desk their eyes met in blank bewilderment. "Oh dear! And I thought it was going to be a real help," the girl sighed. "What do you mane oi it t "The 'secret' he mentions of course may refer to the jewelry but this 'third girr stun doesn't make sense we've drawn a dud," pronounced the ex-soldier. "Where would you find a gal lite tnat out side of Harlem'? Besides " he paused and a gleam sprang into his eyes that faded as quickly as it appeared, "it's probably a cypher of some kind and 1 haven't got time to waste n 5t, there's some work to be done on the Mount Vernon." There was also a faraway look on Geneva Bunetf's face as she murmured very softly to herself: 'Neither white nor yellow nor red' "You do think it means some thing," she accused. "I don't," said he repocketing the miscellany, "But I've just had an idea and Pm going back to the Mount Vernon to see if I rri right. ' I m coming with you He hesitated a lontr second then smiled mirthlessly. "Okay, Sister," said he. "I'd just as soon keep and eye on you." When Donald Uolby and Geneva Benet quitted the moon-eilvered MrmttrfiTln it was not hv the ran? plank 'they had previously tra versed, but by walking over one and stoaidv'hTir themselves bv another of the ponderous chains securing the rusting Dow oi one Dattered ocean crevhniinrl tn the sun-blistered stern of the next. It had amazed him to see how easily this remark able girl accomplished the danger- oim fcsrt. ' Pantinc anrl wininc t.inv flak-pa of ntst from their faces, the two nanRnrl. nam atuned for the. slieht- nat annnd ahnve the, rarniRnp1 coin scroll work on the Mount Vernon's stern where a tiny deck afforded a By RJ. SCOTT of IHPIA f , f sp nift k I iS-fUERZ IK AK It -fXKtH . HIAri directly above that porthole from which the reflected light seemed to issue. 'Keep your eyes skinned," Colby commanded and, grimly intent, swung over the rail to lower him self to arm's length, witn tne ease of a trained gymnast, and thus obtain a view of a porthole but jjJiBtiA M R1DIH 10IHiUR. convenient landing place. In the old days it must have been assigned to the use of third-class passengers. .. . - . i i While they rested COlby ponaerea his next move, no easy task since during the last half hour so much vital and bewildering information had come to light a fortune! Guess would do no harm, but a wrong guess he'd rather not dwell on 'that. Two hundred and fifty thous and dnllars. That, was more monev than he'd seen in well, a long, long time. What, had Kraus. dvinir 'wav over there in Germany' meant by the 'third maiden not red. not yellow. nor white?" That fugitive gleam in Geneva Benet's eye had not escaped him. The enigmatic sentence had meant something to her. If she knew, he intended to be on ' hand when she revealed said knowledge. A quarter of a million! Apparently Vogel had been busy wnen tne Dark Angel had forever put a period to his labors; the chisel and the jimmy left little room lor doubt Rut Voxel's initial delay in seizing the treasure wag puzzling until Golby reasoned tnat tne gun man must have received the slip written in that jerky handwriting when already in America. Yes, Vogel also had been trying to in tercent Kraus ambicuous screed. "What are we going to ao7" The 99 19 , t you dorit know how far your tires will go... they will go a lot farther than you think... nr'a lino ware so close to his ear that their soft warmth brushed it and he felt an inexplicable wave oi hot color surge into his face. Lucky it was dark. "T think mavbe we'd better go 1 . i .i 1 j. i. on," he muttered, "ougnt iu gei. some kind of a line on this other crowd." "What ahont Mears? Are you go in tn trust, him?" The Dale oval nf thp lovplv features was now dis- tractingly close it seemed almost lustrous seen as it now was in a stray moonbeam. "I think so, but never mind him nniv ' rpnlipH the scarred individu al in the ragged tunic, who also wanted to make sure that oeneva Rpnpt. and Mears had small oppor for a nrivate conference. She had been very convincing and annealincr back there on the Monti- cello but still they went forward in complete silence and were about amidshio when her hand closed con vulsively on his arm. "Look!" She breathed excitedly, pointing to the high sided Amerika. Do you see that?" Colby nodded. There was no Hnnht that, ravs of licht were beinsr very faintly reflected on the flank ing gray paint of the liner just beyond. Crossing to port side the turn ailpnt.lv made their wav for ward until they found themselves THURSDAY, AUGUST l; 7 Haywood Men Enlist In Navy r.i:-t j. . Carolina during the mj ? Ui lue Asneviue retruitisTJ announced yesterday - (Thief Ro.l,n-.,;ii, , I that the following' were among those acwmJT H AsheviUe office last monrt. 'Gerald riuui , ... Seith Crawford Wood f gT I Guston King, ton of Will x 3 King, of Canton- pStH were greater than ever ?Ji Haywood definite, H UUUtiil - tr" -i ,v- j TOMiiVI inefficiently shrouded by a ff nU1 f .. It was a stronsr Yent' Chief W. 5. BasvJSM , 7 , . . -.I- v Of the Ahvill. yellow lignt Dealing inruugu uu a dozen little holes in tne canvas which had attracted the Benet girl's attention. To his deep dis appointment he could see nothing, though a steady tapping noise ana the sound of muffled voices spurr ed his anxious curiosity. "What was it? What's going on?"" Her cold little hand caught at his arm the instant he swung back np on deck. "Couldn't tell. They're doing some kind of work. I don't under stand it" ' . She fixed on him eyes great with excitement. "Why should tn all this work on D deck? The sage said" She fell abruptly silent and Colby grinned to himself . A notable slip! Barely in time she had clung to her secret. It occurred to him that to more firmly win her confidence might be the shortest road to tne goal. (To be Continued) The movie actress who moons doesn't become a star. King, of Canton; paul JohT5 son son of John Wesk, ciJ u; naney M anion TJ inn nf Jntann n - wv yu uirnn Tgu ton: Zan r,rp- Pn l..', 4 they do lTwrythey Hall, of Caw 'he mes- ?.ePh Pnt4 Kk m of 4 abruptly .- "lcn0'8, oi WsynenflJ I r lOT HuUliAxi.ll ii 1 viae will in. in Waynesville on August t 19 at the court house. He iH be in Canton on August 20 it Citv hall, for th n,,,n.. . viewing the friends and relit f4 rhaa . c vx mv oc uuji a. Any young men who wish to tho tklnnir fin.. t . iy wno are now serving navy can discuss enlistment J vmv. i me men. IN THE INFANTRY they say TOP KICK for first sergeant SlEAP 8UCKCT for new steel helmet CMOW 0 for their food CAMEL for their favorite cigarette The favorite cigarette wich men in the Army. Ntvy, Marine, and Coast Guard i Camel. ( Based on actual lales records in Post Exchanges and Canteens.) ft" It t m ' . ymmmmm 7T ' I' BLEND ?f VT GIVE ME VJ ' r m I 1 CAMELS FOR N I i'V?rJ .Wf ANDNOUTH EXTRA MILP .. The smoke of slow-bum T AND THEY'VE GOT . - , J WEZZtJ CAMEL contains LESS NICOTINE . L.a J A vkr laifMsa1tinKMflBIMIaaJBrbMi of them according to independent dentine tests oftbtsmohtiUL 66ri r ?! yoiill be amazed at the extra mileage your Esso Dealer will soon be able to help you get. The odds are not just figures we have pulled out of a hat. They are the result of testa made with a neie method to increcue tir mileag. among customers at a number of Esso Dealer stations. 16 out of every 17 car owners were astonished at the mileage made possible. Because the preservation of tires is so vital to the coun try in the present emerger zy, we are making every effort to introduce this new service at Esso Dealer sta tions with the utmost spec - It requires both equip ment and training and we arr supplying both as rapidly as possible. As soon as these . e available your own Esso Dealer will be able to helpfou get the greatest possible mileage from your own tires short of retreading. Fur ther announcement will be made in newspapers shortly. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY j '.' "What's it good for?' "Guns, tanks, and maybe part of a 3 3ju isig3g3 Me Wai :jL In the barnyards and gullies of farms and in the basements and attics of homes is a lot of Junk which is doing no good where it is, but which is needed at once to help smash the Japs and Nazis, Scrap iron and steel, for example. Even in peacetime, scrap provided about 50 of the raw material for steel. It may be rusty, bid "scrap" to you, but it is actually refined steel with most impurities removed, and can be quickly melted with new metal in the form of pig iron to produce highest quality steel for our war machines. The production of steel has gone up, up, UP, until today America is turning out as much steel as all the rest of the world combinedBut unless at least 6,000,000 additional tons of scrap steel is uncovered promptly, the1 full rate of production cannot be attained or increased; the necessary tanks, guns and ships cannot be produced. The rubber situation is also critical. In spite of the recent rubber drive, there is a continuing need for large quantities of scrap rubber. Also for other waste materials and metals like brass, copper, zinc, lead and tin. The Junk which you collect is bought by industry from scrap dealers at estab lished, government-controlled prices. Will you help? First collect all of your waste ma terial and pile it up. Then sell it to a Junk dealer, give it to a charity, take it yourself to the nearest collection point, or get in touch with your Local Salvage Committee. If you live on a farm, consult your County War Board or your farm imple ment dealer. Throw YOUR scrap into the fight! caro saves wear ' Otft. MU. Ban I TWs message approved by Conservation Drvuion W A R PR ODUCTION BOA R D , Jhh otfvarfMnianf paid for by th American WusfrMt Safvoo CwmiAm (representing and with funds provided by groups of hading industrial concamsL Haywood Salvage Committee PHONE 167, WAYNESVILLE " Hwmrd Claap, county chairman; D. j. Nolard, Mrs. Carl MUdtord, T. C. Davis, Jack Maassr, W. Curtis Rum. Frd Ferguson, DanM Underwood, Horace 6. HamiMtt, Hurley Wright, W. J. Campbell, Jack Cabe, L. T. Ruaaoll. JUNK MAKES 1 FIGHTING WEAPONS 0 One old d'5C will providf scrap steel heeded for 210 light carbines, . One old plow one hundred 75 mm. '"' piercing '-- One useless old tire provides as much rubber as is used in 12 gas masks. One old shovel w.ll he make 4 hand grenades. m MATERIALS NEEDED Scrap Iron and steel. Other metals of all kinds. Old rubber. Rags, Manila rope, but Jap HP Waste Cooking FaU--S, pound or more, strain V'to seD to your meat dealer. ff'ES NEEDED ONLY l' CERTAlNj-0; Waste paper and ti cw-JW!,n,j" nE-" areas, as emwuncl-d lncs"v " ' i
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