Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-01-18
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your papers, Captaln-Lne papers
of transfer from Wady Halfa to Glib
raltar. Money, too. I suppose we'll
have to take that, also, to make ap'
%pearances ,perfect-robbery following
assault on the wharves." .r r.
Woodhouse pocketed the military
papers in the wallet and laid it down,
the money untouched. The two white
aids Of Doctor Koch, who were stand.
ing by the folding doors, eyed the
leather fold hungrily. Koch, mean
while, had stripped off the Jacket from
the Eng1ishman and was rolling up the
right sleeve Of his shirt. That done.
he brought down from the top of the
| glass instrument case a wooden rack
containing several test tubes, stopplei
with cotton. One glass tube he lifted
out Of the rack and squinted at it's
clouded contents against the light.
"A very handy little thing-very
handy" Koch was talking to himself
as much az to Woodhouse. "a sweet
little product of the Nam Nam coun-
try down in Belgian Kongo. Natives
think no more of it than they would
| of a water fy's bite; but the white
man is"
"a virus Of some kind?" the other
guessed.
l"Of my W isolation" Doctor Koch
answered loudly. He scraped the skin
on the victims arm until the blood
came, then dipped an ivory spatula
into the tube of murky gelatine and
transferred what it brought up to the
raw place in the flesh ,4> &gf, .t.,
t'The action is very quick, and may
be violent" he continued. Our friend
here won't recover consciousness for
three days, and he will be unable to
stand on his feet for two weeks, at
least-dizziness. intermittent fever.
clouded memory; he'll be pretty SICK"
But not too sick to communicate
with others Woodhouse suggested.
l"Surely-" r.
Maybe not too sick, but unable to
communicate with Others" Doctor
Koch interrupted, with a booming
laugh. "This time tomorrow night u
friend will be well out on the Libyan
desert, with some ungentle Bedouins.
for company. He's bound for Fezzan
and it will be a long way home with
out money. Who knows? Maybe
three months"
Very deftly Koch bound up the
abrasion on the Englishmans arm
with gauze, explaining as he worked
that the mans desert guardians would
have instructions to remove the ban
dages before he recovered his facul-
ties. There would be nothing to tell
the luckless prisoner more than that
he had been kidnapped, robbed and car
ried away by tribesmen-a not uncom-
mon occurrence in lower Egypt. Koch
completed his work by directing his
aids to strip off the rest Of the uncon-
scious mans uniform and clothe him
in a ]nondescript civilian garb that
Caesar brought into the consultation
room from the mysterious upper re-
gions of the house.
Exit Captain Woodhonse Of the sig
nal service" the smiling doctor ex-
claimed when the last button of the
misft packet had been tipped into its
~buttonhole, land enter Captain Wood
house of the Wilhelmstrasse." Turn
ing, he bowed humorously to the lean
faced man beside him. He nodded
his head at Caesar; the latter dived
into a cupboard at the far end of the
room and brought out a squat flask
and glasses, which he passed oun
When the liquor had been poured,
Doctor Koch lifted his glass and
! sauinted through it with the air Of a
gentle satyr.
Gentlemen. we drink to what will
| happen soon on the Rock Of Gibral-
tart" All downed the toast gravely.
Then the master of the house jerked
his head toward the unconscious man
on the operating chair. Caesar and
the two white men lifted the limp body
and started with it to the door, Doc
tor Koch preceding them to open
doors. The muffled chug-chugging Of
the auto at the gate sounded almost
at ono
The doctor and Number Nineteen
Thirty-two remained together in the
consultation room for a few minutes,
going over, in final review, the plans
that the latter was to put into exeCu-