Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-26
THE MAN WITH THE CLUB FOOT
By VALENTINE WILLIAMS

say the same thing. She seemed very
frightened: she was quite fearful. Some one
evidently had scared her badly"
Monica" T said, "it's quite clear I can't
stay here. My dear girl, II am discovered
In your house there Is no knowing what
trouble may not come upon YOU"
"If there is any risk,p she answered. ITS
a. risk I am ready to take. You have no.
where to go to in Berlin, and If You are
caught outside they might find out where
you had been hiding and then we should be
as badly OFF as before.
"No. you stay right on here, and maybe
in day or two I can get YOU awav' i've
been thinking something out.
Karl has a place near the. Dutch rron-
tier. Schloss Bellevue. It is called close to
Cleres. It's an old place. and has been in
the family for generations. Karl. however.
only uses It as a shooting box we had big
shoots up there every autumn before the
war.
There has been no shooting there for
two years now and the place Is overstocked
with game. The Government has been an
peaing to people with shooting reserves 10
Kill their game and put it on the market
SO had arranged to go up to Bellevue this
month and see the agent about this T
thought II could prevail on Gerry to come
with me, you could accompany him and Won
might get across the Dutch frontier from
there. It's only about fifteen miles away
Gerry. there is no reason why we couldn't
go away in a day two. In the meantime
you'll be quite safe here"
Then went upstairs again to Gerry, who
was in as vile temper as before
At last he came back to his old sore sub
ject. my English accent.
81 guess our good American is too homely
for fine English gentleman like YOU" he
said. but I believe you'll as lief speak as
you were taught before you're through with
this city. An English accent is not healthy
in Berlin at present, Mister Meyer, sir and
you'd best learn to talk like the rest of US
II you want to keep on staying in this
house.
! said she was attending to it,
Il want to know II she's done it. I'm a
helpless cripple and l can't get thing done
Yes, or no?'
This was bad fix. With all the persistence
OF the invalid, the man was harping on his
latest whim.
So lied. The Countess had my papers.
I said.
Instantly he rang the bell and demanded
Monica and had fretted himself into fne
state by the time she appeared.
What's this hear. Monica?" he cried in
his high-ptched, querulous voice. Hasn't
Meyer been registered with the police YETI"
Monica locked appealingly at me.
I'm afraid I'm to blame. SIR" I said
''rhe fact is, my passport is not quite in
order and shall have to take 1t to the
embassy before send It to the police"
Then saw Josef standing by the bed, q
salver in his hand
"Zom letters. sir." he said to Gerry.
Gerry waved the letters aside and burst
into regular screaming fit
don't know how we got out of that room
It was Moaica. with her sweet womanly tact,
who managed 1t. believe the madman
even demanded to see my passport. but Mon
lea scraped me through that trap well.
had left my hat and coat in the entrance
hail downstairs. I put on my coat, then
went to Monica in the morning-room.
There was much she wanted to say-I
could see it in her eyes--but 1 think she
gathered from my face what I was going
to do she said nothing.
At the door I said aloud, for the benefit
Of Josef, who was on the stairs:
VERY good my lady. I will come straight
back from the embassy and then go with
Josef to the police"
The next moment was adrift in Berlin.
(To BE CONTINUED TOMORROW