The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF DICK ANTHONY OF ARR

Atlantic. He won. and 1t took him
a month to win.
He was three days and three nights
and another day i'm making sight Of
Brest: and he dropped anchor In
water on a lee shore, too tired to do
anything but let out every fathom
of chain he had and fling himself be-
low to sleep.
Nursing his sails strength Dick
bored close hauled into the blackness.
luffing a little and again when the
worst of the wrenching squalls took
hold of him. until a glimpse behind
him over one shoulder told him that
away; they were growing paler in
the first dim efforts of a watery dawn.
Then he hove to. Then. with the
spirit that had brought him out still
running high.. and growing higher as
the promise of foul weather showed
the need of it. he reached for his bag
pipess. should Aud Acquaintance"
sk;rled aloud and louder, where the
gulls had days since ceased to dare.
So il was not a gull that answered
him. as the last notes died away. And
the sea gives back no echo. They
were pipes!
Then, as the gray dawn lifted. he
caught the lilt and skirl and swing
of pipes. Then, he rose on Il
giant comber and could see round
a twice-as-wide horizon. patched
gray lugsail showed. bellied tight and
bearing down on his at terrihc
pace.
In a small French fishing boat, such
as poorer Bretons use, a giant of
man sat perched with what certainly
were pipes across his knees. He sat
with his legs in water. and was steer
ing with evident intent of coming very
close indeed to Dick.
81 found ye by wireless" he said
with a note of pride, as he dropped
into the cockpit later and accepted
Did you desert?" asked Dick: and
those were the first words he had
spoken.
Il did not. bought ma dis
char-r-ge. 1t was vera costly. but I
broke into the hummer pound an
bought it."
''Oh,"
air of triumph.
VERY we'll. Andry. Man the pump"
So the two men went on FROM Brest.
where one had started out alone. and
through all that followed there was
never any more compact than that be-
tween them-three words of agreement
and an order-''Man the pump" They
were enough.
.
Cairene society is cosmopolitan. but
Princess Olga Karageorgovich was out
of place.
II she was more than two and twen-
ty. then the extra years were as art
fully concealed as were her motives.
She had all junior ofIicialdom enthrall-
cd ran I'm hxy he art
that glowsd behind her eyes-attendant
on her. The seniors (and their wives) all
voted her a nuisance.
The princess posed as a student OF
institutions. And after Dick let go
his anchor in the harbor of Alexan-
dria and came OH to Cairo by express.
she grew interested in purely British
things. asking a brand-new line of
questions. Ofiicialdom had hopes for
a while that she even meant to visit
Scotland.
The sunshine of Dicks character
had strengthened. now that he had O
companion of kinds.
The Bay of Riscay had treated them
according to tradition. Turn about.
they had to nurse the little ship day
and night night and day. ceaselessly.
When Andry was Respondent. out
would come Dicks bagpipes. and a
swaggering refrain would answer back
the storm. putting new fight in both
of them. But after that there fof-
lowed blue, sweet-sai1ing months in
which they waddled leisurely along the
coast of Africa, oblivious of time and
unannoyed by the flag of England.
For few days Cairo swallowed
Dick. Officialdom. for his fathers sake.
put him up at the swellest clubs and
entertained him. Sharp-eared. wide
eyed officialdom in sweat-wet suits ex-
tractcd facts from him and sympathized
in a manner all its own.
1t was on a club veranda that Prin-
cess Karageorgovich heard Richard
say things which convinced her-which
made her send a cablegram or two in
code.
She was not supposed to hear She
admiring chatter of 4 little group of
worskippers. Dick. never lady's
man. even when the lady had soft
eyes and was twenty-five, would have
WINGED at the thought of sharing
secrets with nor. The hot. tired-eyed
Proconsul in starched white drill drew
Dick aside to where both thought
themselves out of earshot. He was
in quest of new. strong nerves-of un-
mosquito bitten energy-of youth, and
young idealism. and clean pridc-to
feed the government machinery at SO
per cent of market price
You must be reasonable. my boy"
II was clear that Dick had told him
many things. You must take what
you can get. Because you failed for
the Indian Civil and couldn't make
the regular army for some reason or
other is no reason why you shouldn't
be p huge success with us. We want
good mon. Go home and get nomi-
nated-rll give you letter that will
turn the trick"
81 wouldn't go home II they'd give
me Egypt" answered Dick.
lie raised his hat and stalked away.
walking like a king and not at all
aware of 1t; he seemed to himself
more like a little. unimportant man
who had said a lot too much. He
reached his hotel and a new decision
simultaneously.
He found Andry on the bedroom
floor crouched over the beryl-hilted
sword. cleaning it. and he watched
him for a while. half amused. half
wondering.
Pack up" said Dick. after watch
ing a little while. I'VE take the even
ing train for Alexandria"
Nothing loath, Andry obeyed.
But if Dick imagined that he was
drawing back from a trap and that a
quick retreat from Cairo would see
him free of the world again, he mis-
took the signs or else he failed to
sec them.
who was the young man with the
royal stride:" asked the Princess Olga
L not more than two