The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-09
Next Week-"THE YELLOW DWARF
copyrisht. 1871 by tho ccure Newspaper Syndicate

T,HE party. myself included. stared
about the place, a, he went on to
. explain.
I'VE have four large windows here
as you see the Burton room occupies
the end OF a wing; there is only one
door; il communicates with the, next
room. which in turn opens into the
main building by another door on the
landing. We are on the first floor
these two east windows afford a view
Of the lawn before the main entrance
these two west ones face Orpingtor
| SQUARE: all are heavily barred as you
Zee. During the day there is mar
always on duty IN these two rooms
! A, night that communicating door u
locked. Short Of erecting ladder II
full view either OF the square or Of
Great Orchsrd street, filing through
four iron bars and breaking the win
dow and the case. I fail 10 sec how
anybody can get at the slipper here.
$50 I venture to predict finishes
the celebrated Orientalist, that tn
slipper Of the Prophet will rest her'
undislurbed"
He linked his arm into that Of I
brother scholar and the little groui
straggled away, Moystyn accompanying
them TO the main entrance.
The real danger begins, ! sue
| sested to inspector Bristol. when TIN
general public is admitted--after to-
day, is il not'"
"Yes Al todsy's people arc espe
ciaily invited, or are using special in
vitation cards" he replied. The peo
pie who receive them often give thei'
tickets away to those who will be likel!
really to appreciate the opportunity.
J looked around for the tall Orien
tai. He seemed to have vanished, an,
for some reason I hesitated to speal
OF him 20 Bristol for my gaic fell upo'
an excessively thin, keen-faced man
whose curiously wide open eyes me
mine smilingly; whose gray suit be
spoke the U, S. A., whose felt hat va
unmistakably of Boston. Al the heist
OF the season such visitors are no
F. rare, but this ono had an odd person
, ality aud moreover his keen gaze wa
: raking the place from ceiling to iiool
, To the best Of my recollection. ] M
never set eyes upon the man prior
that moment and since he was so pal
pably an American had no reason ia
, assuming him TO be associated wit
the hashishin. But ! remembered--ir IN
deed | could never forRe,--how, IN III
] recent past, | had met with an appai
eut associate\ OF the Moslems as evI
IDENTIFY European as this curiously ale'
visitor was American.
II was upon the eve OF the deatW {
, Professor Dteping that she had fir,
|. intruded her fascinating perscnali'
into my tangled affairs. Patiently, sf
had then been seeking the holy slippt
and BY craft had endeavored to ben
mdn 10 her will, Then eneountert
Her again. meeting the glance Of h
unfoyestiul violst eyes outside Strau
h0(el. The encounter had presaged
farther attempt upon the slipper. Ce
tainiy she acted on behalf OF svnfeot
interested In II md since neither Bri
Cnk nor could conceive Of anyos
|SsetMg the possession. the blood -stains
thing excepl the mysterious leader
~ hsshiskln--Hassan Of Aleppo-,
esvaluse of that awful, fanatic beir
I Nod written her down.
Why. thea. II the mysterious caste,
oNepeoyed Z European girl. should
not also employ an american maj
III h miSht gelI te that the relic, In c,