Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-24

Thesaurus' 1t sounded like prehis-
toric monastery and may Bubastis have
mercy on your soul.
Unmoved even by this invocation Of the
cat goddess, Martin Luther. after stare
OF panied incredulity, walked stifay to the
| fartheSt corner Of the room. and. turning
his back on the curate, signt1ed with ST.
lent and elaborate symbolism that he
washed his hands and feet Of the whole
matter.
And now the Rev. Horatio. mindless Of
{ difficulties and dangers. set about keep
ing his rash promise to return the field
| mouse to its surrounding relatives. First
he tried the door In the vain hope that
| locked 1t. No such luck. The window
was his only means Of exit. Very we'll.
he would exit by the window The
| thought Of failing to keep his word never
Looking out Of the window the kindly
naturalist studied the situation with sci
entif1c mind Three feet below was the
glass roof Of the conservatory. which
point and curved downward like the brink
of. a glass waterfall At its outer edge
there was a drop Of perhaps six feet to
the driveway.
One thing the curate. leaning out. noted
with joy. A little to the right, just where
the conservatory rounded the, corner OF
the house and the supporting girder was
Of a greater width, the wistariaL took an
unexpected turn and spanned the dome or
! glass with network Of ropelike branches
that covered it in some places to the
width Of a foot 1t was as IL the friendly
| tree had miraculousIy gone out OF its
| way to help him. To Merles imagina-
| ton this seemed like sign Of providen-
! tial approval
There still remained the disposition of
| the field mouse, but this offered only a
momentary difficulty. The solution was
found in a bag cleverly improvised from
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| gathered together, dumplingwise. and Sc
| cured by the string OF his eyegiass de-
! tached for the purpose. And, thus en-
veloped, the little creature was safely and
| comfortably suspended (uke princess
| swung in a sedan chair) from the top
| button Of Horatios black coat. This ar
| rangement left the curate's hands free
| for climbing.
Having assured himself that the COM
| bined strength of the branches and the
glass would bear his weight, Horatio pro-
| ceeded with the descent and found this
| perfectly easy: but just as he had reach
ed the .jumping-of place the curate was
! brought to palpitating halt by the
meath him. Parting the wistaria leaves
and peertng downward through the glass
| he saw Anton. the chauffeur. moving
| among the plants from the direction OF
the library.
What's he doing there. I wonder?''
! thought Merle. "What business has An
ton in the conservatory"
| AS he came directly underneath the
spot where Horatio was crouching. the
| chauffeur stood still and looked about
him cautiously. Apparently satisfied that
| he was 'unobserved. he pulled blue and
| white envelope from his pocket, and.
skillfully loosening the flap, took out a
paper which. as he held it scarcely two
J feet below him. Merle could see was a
i cablegram After a glance at the con-
tents. Anton replaced the paper in its en-
| velope and quickly retraced his steps to-
ward the library.
1t all happened SO quickly that, even
| had Merle tried to read the cable. he
could not have done SO. Some figures
! and the word "Gramercy" caught his eye.
Then as he looked away. the humorous
appropriateness Of the term eavesdropper
| to his position on the roof caused him to
| laugh aloud. 1t was fortunate for the
Rev Horatio that Anton was out OF hear
| ing, more fortunate than the gentle Gu
rate dreamed.
CTo be continued tomorrow.)