Daily British Whig (1850), 23 Feb 1918, p. 15

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Make Cheap Lotion 2 ee ee | about, | news"-- | Burope gone mad." | dling the combination of a small safe | got in the wall by the fireplace, and | his chatter seemed only incidental tc | the absorbing work he bad at band. | | "flow will the madness end. Captain | Woodhouse? rs Inside the "Lines = EAPL DERE. BIGGERS and ROBERT WELLS RITCHI Copyright "Report for signal duty?" the other echoed coldly. "How did you know I was to report for signal duty here?" "In the press a few weeks ago," the hotel Keeper hastily explained, "your transfer from the Nile country was announced. + We poor people here in Gibraltar, we have so little to think even such small details of "Ah, yes." Quite so." Woodhouse tapped back a yawn. "Your journey here from your sta- tica on the 'Nile--it was without inci. dent?' Almer eyed bis guest closely. The latter permitted his eyes to rest | {on Almer's for a minute before re- plying. "Quite" Woodhouse threw his cig- , arette in the fireplace and started for | the stairs. "Al, most unusual--such a long jour- ney without incident of any kind In thi time of universal war, with all Almer was twid- What will be the boupd- ary lines of Europe's nations in, say, 19327" Almer rose as he said this and turn- ed to look squarely into the other's face. "Ju 1932--1 wonder," he mused, and into his speech unconsciously appear- | od that throaty intonation of the Teu- tonic tongue wDon't gb yet. Captain Woodhouse. Before you retire 1 want you to sam- ple some of this prandy." He brought out of the safe a short squat bottle and glegses. "See: 1 keep it in the safe, sosprecious it is. Drink with me, captain, to the monare h you have come to Gibraltar to serve--to his majesty King George V! Almer lifted bis glass, but His hand did vot go up. "I see you do not G4r'"k to that toast, i captain." The juice of two fresh lemons strained into. a bottle three ounces of orchard white makes a whole quarter pint of the most re-! markable lemon skin beautifier at about the cost one must pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold creams, Care should be taken to strain the lemon juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lo- tion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice ts used to bleach and remove such | blemishes as freckles, sallowness and tan, and is the ideal skin softenep, smoothener and beautifier, Just try it! Make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon | Jotion and massage it daily into the face, neck, arms and hands. It should naturally help to whiten, sof- ten, freshen and bring out the hid- den roses and, beauty of any skin, 1t is wonderful for rough, red hands. | Your druggist will sell three oun- ces of orchard white at little cost, and any grocer will supply the lem- ons. RY Fresh Haddock and Cod, Whiting, Tom Codes, | Smelts, Oysters. Dominion Fish Co. dh hahaa Ad A ail hada bh Pure Blood You can keep your blood in on have a clear keygen by tafing Go to the UNIQUE GROCERY containing | #"No-I was thinking of 1032." "807" Quick as a flash Aimer caught Phen perhaps I bad better say drink to the greatest monarch in Europe." "po the greatest monarch in Eu- rope!" Woodhouse lifted his glass aud dral it Almer leaned suddenly across the table and spoke tensely, "Yon have something maybe---1 would like to sce --gome little relic of Alexandria, let us say." Woodhouse swept a quick glance around, then reached for the pin in his tie. ' vA gearab: that's all." In the space of a breath Almer had geen what lay tn-the back of the stone beetle. He gripped Woodhouse's hand fervently. "Yes, yes--1002! fold They have me of your coming. A cablegram from Koch only this afternoon sald you would be oncthe Princess Mary. The other, the real Woodhouse--there will be no siips--he will not" "He is as good as a dead man for | many months." Woodhouse interrupt- od. "Not a chance of a mistake." He siipped easily into German. "Every. thing depends on us now, Heir Al mer." - "Perhaps the fate of our father. land," Almer replied, cleaving to Eng- lish. Woodhouse stepped suddenly away from the side of the table, against which he had been leaning, and his right hand jerked back to a concealed holster on his hip. His eyes were hot with suspicion. "You do not answer in German-- why not? Answer me in German or byte "Ach! What need to become excit- ed?" Almer drew back hastily, and his tongue speedily switched to German. "German is dangerous here on the Rock, captain. Only yesterday they shot a man against a wall because ho spoke German too well. Do you wop- der I try to forget our mative tongue?" Woodhouse was mollified. and he smiled apologetically. Almer forgave Bim out of admiration for his discre- "No need to suspect me, Almer. They will tell you in Berlin how for twenty years 1 have served the Wile *From Room D every mine in the har- bor can be explpded" Woodhouse met'his gaze stead- | fly and without betraying the slightest | | emotion. Wood. | house appdared wrapped in thought. | | you und me, 1945 Sy the Bobhs-Merrill belmstrasse. But never before such an opportunity--such an opportunity. Stupendous!" Woodhouse nodded en. thusiastic affirmation. "But to busi ness, 1932. This Captain Woodhouse some seven years ago was stationed bere on the Rock for just three months." "So I know." "You, as Woodhouse, will be expect | ed to have some knowledge of the sig | nal tower, to which yea--wil have ac. | cess." Almer climbed a chair on the | opposite side of the room, threw opeu the face of the old Dutch clock there | and removed from its interior a thin | roll of bine drafting paper fe nut 1t tn Woodhouse's hands. "Here are a few plans of the interior of the signal tower--the best I coulll get. You will study them tonight, but give me your word to burn them before you sleep." "Very good." Woodhouse slipped the | roll into the breast pocket of his coat Almer leaned forward in a gust of ex- | ~itement and, bringing his mouth close | to the other's ear, whispered hoarsely: "England's Mediterranean fleet-- twenty-two dréadnaughts, with cruis- ers and destroyers--nearly a half of Britain's navy, will be here any day, | hurrying back to guard the channel They will anchor in the strait. Our | big moment--it will be here then! Lis- ten! Room D in the signal tower-- that is the room. All the electric { switches are there. From Room D { every mine in the harbor can be ex- | ploded'in ten seconds." { "Yes, but how to get to Room D?" | Woodhouse queried. "Simple. Two doors to Room D, cap- tain; an outer door like any other, an { Inner door of steel protected by a come bination lock like a vault's door, Two men on the Rock have that combina- tion--Major Bishop, chief signal officer, he bas it in his head; the governor gen- eral of the Rock, he has it in his safe." "We can get it-out-of the sale easier than from Mo jor Bishop's head," Wood house put in, with a smile. "Right. We have a friend in the | goveenor's own house, a man with a ! number from the Wilhelmstrasse like At any moment in the fast two months be could have laid a | hand on that combination. But we { thought it better to walt until peces- sity came. When the fleet arrives you | will have that combination. You will go with it to Reom D, and after that" -- | "The deluge." the other finished. J "wYen, our country master of the { sea at Iast and by the work of the Wit helmstrasse, despised. spies who are ke when they're caught, but die heroes' deaths." The hotel pro- prietor checked himself In the midst of his rhapsody and came back fv more practical details: "Rut this atternooh--that man from | Alexandria who called you by nume. That looked bad, very bad. He knows something?' shot dogs % ! Woodhouse, who bad been expecting | the question snd who preferred not to | shure an anxiety be felt himself best fitied to cope with alone, turned tha other's question aside. "Never met him before in my life to my best recollection. My name he pic ed up ox the Princess Mary, of course. 1 won/a pool one day, nnd be may have heard some one mention it. Simply a Fdrunken brawler who didn't know what be 3 Almer seemed anvther point: "Rut the girl who has just feft here --am | to have uo explanation of her?" "What esplination glo you want?" the captain demanded curtly. "Q@he recognized you. Who is she? What is she?" "Merits unfortunate" Woodhouse admitted. "We met a few weeks ago on a train while | was on My Way to Baypt, you know. Chatted together-- oh, vers informally. She is a capable sroung woman from the States--a 'buy- er.' she calls herself. But I don't think we need fear complications from that score: she's bent only on getting home." "Phe situation is dangerous," urged Almer, wagging his head. e, stopping at" the governor's house; any y reference she might make about meet: ing you on a train on the continent when you were supposed to be at Wady Haifa, on the Nile"-- "{ have ber promise she will not men- tion that meeting to anybody." doling" satisfied. but raised mer's eyes invoked heaven fo witness a futile thing: "She seemed rather glad to see you again: 1"-- "Really? Woodhouse's eyes lighted. like a torpedo. "You must make love to that girl, Woodhouse, to keep ber on our side," 17, leaned forward and whispered sig- nificantly: "I'm already doing it," he sald. Xa Ye a -------- : = CHAPTER XI At Government House. 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The proprietor of the San Roc, where Capper took a room, had such an evil eye that his pew guest made a mental note that perbaps he might have to leave his bag behind when he de- camped.- Capper abhorred violence-- to his own person. ' Alone over a glass of thin wine-- the champagne days, alas, had been : too fleeting!--Capper took stock of his situation and conned the developments le hoped to be the instrument for starting. To begin with, finances were wretehedly bad, find that was a cir- cumstance so pear the ordinary for Capper (hat be shuddered as he pulled a gold guinea and a few silver bith from his, pocket and mechanically counted them over! Of the 800 marks Louisa~pretty snake!--had given hin in 'the Cafe Riche and the expense money he had geceived from her the following day to cover his expeditior to Alexandria for the Wilhelmstrasse naught but this paltry residue! That second cabin ticket on the Princess Mary had taken the last big bite from his hoard, and here be was in this black and tan town with a quid and little more between himself and the old starved dog life, But--and Capper narrowed his eyes and sagely wagged his bead--there'd be something fat coming. "When lhe got knee to.knee with the governor general of the Rock and tgld him what he, Billy Capper, knew about the identity of Captain Woodhouse, newly transferred to the signal 'service at Gibraltar, why, if there wasn't a cool £50 or a matter of that as honorarium | from a generous government Billy Cap- | per had missed his guess--that's all. The little spy anticipated no difficul- | ty in gaining audience with the gover- nor. Before he had been fifteen min- £3 0 OC OOM 1 3 A Woman Advises Women Tyneside P.O., Ont. "I received vour sample of GIN PILLS and after using them 1 felt so much better thdt I got a box at my druggist's and pow I am the thi oz. "The pain across my back and kidneys has almost entirely gone and 1 am better than I rave Soon for 5 0 ON 0 OB BIR MIEN 1800 0 0 CC CO OC utes | heard the name of the present incum- Crandall | woman should make | _gjr George Crandall, the same who call at home OF | 1.4 peen in command of the forts et | I strength are within | o They are | It takes strength and courage to nurse | on | Jaa who was i | aches.' --Mzs, | , Ont~*'During 'middle | o down in health, I | n I began taking al period in a} t is a splendid | s time of life.' | off Princess Mary be bad the bent of Government Hous tangoon back in "00. knew him, and be made no doubt that | if properly reminded of a certain bit | of work [ Capper bad done back in the Burm city Sir George would re- call him--and with every reason for gratefulness. | peg--Capper would present himself at } Government House and tell about that house on Queen's terrace at Ramieh; ahout the unconscious British officer rison of the Rock under the stolen pame of Woodhouse. Government House, one of the Bae- | deker points of Gibraltar, stands amid | its gardens on a shelf of the Rock about midway between the Alameda 'and the signal tower. perched on the j very spine of the tion's back above it. { 1ts windows look otit on the blue bay nd over to the red roofs of Algeciras] across the water on Spanish territory. Thither on the morning after his ar- rival Captain Woodhouse went to re- | port for duty to Major General Sir George Crandall. goveruor of the Rock. As the captain emerged from the straggling end of Waterport street and strode through the flowered paths of the Alameda he did not happen to i see a figure that dodged behind a chevaux-de-frise of Spanish bayonet | on his aproach, Billy Capper, who bad been pacing the gardens for more than an hour, fear battling with the rr A ant | i ejected | from the Hotel Splendide, took little | an uncommon experience, and, besides, | ley crowd on Waterport street down to | the lower levels of the city by the Line | "Welcome to the Rock, captain. predatory impulse that urged him to Government House, watched Captain Woodhouse pass, and his eyes narrow- ed into a queer twinkle of oblique hu- mor. So Captain Woodhouse had be- gun to play the game--going to report to the governor, eh? The pale sou] of Mr. Capper glowed with a faint flick. er of admiration for this cool bravery far beyond -its own capacity to prac- tice. Capper waited a safe time. then followed, chose a position outside Gov- ernment House from which he could see the main entrance and waited. A tall, thin Bast Indian with a nar- row, ascetic face under his closely wound white turban and wearing a native livery of the same spotless white answered the captain's sum- mons on the heavy knocker. He ac- cepted the visitor's card, showed him | into a dim 'ballway hung with faded arras and coats of chain mail. The In- dian, Jaimibr Khan, gave Captain Woodhouse a start when he returned to say the governor would recgive him in his office. The mau had a tread like a cat's---absolutely noiseless. He mov. ed through the half light of the hall like a white wraitli,. His English was spoken precisely and with a curious mechanical intonation. Jaimihr® Khan threw back heavy double doors and announced, "Cap-tain Wood-house!" He had the doors shut noiselessly almost before the visitor was through them. ' A tall, heavy set man with graying hair and mustache rose from a broad desk at. the right of a large room and advanced with hand outstretched in cordial welcome, "Captain Woodhouse of he signal service? Welcome to the Rock, cap- come." . Woodhouse studied the face of his superior in a swift glance as he shook hands. A broad, "full face it was-- kindly, intelligent, perhaps net so alert as to the set of eyes and mouth as it had been in younger days when the stripes of service were still to be won. General Sir George Crandall gave the impression of a man content to rest on his honors, though scrupu jonsly attentive to the routine of his position, He motioned Me younger .man to draw a chair up to the desk. "In yesterday on the Princess Mary, 1 presume, captain?" 2 "Yes, general, Didn't report to you on arrival because 1 thoyght it would be quite tea time, and 1 didn't want La disturb" : : i "Right!" General Crandall tipped back in his swivel chair aud appraised bis new Officer with satisfaction. "Ev- quiet on the upper Nile? Ger- erything fans not tinkering with the muliah yet to Start insurrection or anything like that?" - "Right as a frivet, sir,* Woodhouse answered promptly. "Of course we're anticipating some such :mave by the enemy---agents working in from Eryth. rea--holy war of a sort. perhaps, but hand." The general stretched & Band across the désk. 3 "Your papers, please, captain. I'll re- celpt your order of transfer and you'll be a member of our garrison forth. with." ha SOR Captain Woodhouse brought a thin sheaf of folded papers from his breast pocket and passed it to his superior. He kept bis eyes steadily on the gen fral's face as be scanned (he. 2 (Continued next Saturday.) 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