The Washington times., 1918-08-18

Ratu Chibra,, OF Columbia, was
awaiting Harrison Grant
Hennessy and Cavanaugh were
waiting with a dark skinned intel
ligent looking East Indian. He spoke
perfect English as greetings were
exchanged. Grant then turned TO
the business OF the evening, and as
he handed the same lines OF letters
TO Chibru that he had shown to
Dixie earlier in the evening, Hen
messy started the recording phono-
graph as a means of preserving any
aid the Hindu might be able 70 give
In deciphering the strange tumble.
Chibra looked long and earnestly
at the paper which had been placed
before him. After some moments Of
silence, so complete that the din of
the streets nineteen stories below
could be clearly discerned. Grant
broke the trance by asking:
can you mako anything OF it?-'
Refuses to Translate.
Without turning his head the Hindu
answered. Although he spoke in
English his voice had assumed the
chanting tone OF the East Indian
mystic:
'It is my life you ask for, sahib
1t is written that the chosen shall
know that they have been selected.
/ have already had my cali and know
those who have been chosen with me
But it is also written that those who
are selected shall have a jud<a among
them, and shall also act as judge Of
one of the chosen. And IL Is further
written that when one speaks of
those things which concern only tho
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the chosen. his judge shall kill him.
That is all can say"
Nonsense. man" said Grant taking
Chibra by the arm and shaking him.
Wake up. you are in America in the
twentieth century, not in India in the
fourteenth"
you do not know. sahib." answered
the Hindu, drawing himself to a dig
nifty which made Grant look rather
awkward. "On those papers are sa-
cred plans of the chosen. plans with
which ! am not in sympathy. but
plans of which may not speak. As
1 love my life. musr hope you fail
in discovering them, for my Judge al
though be is unknown to me knows
of my presence here tonight as surely
as ! know every move of my charge.
II you are successful In discovering
these plans, my life ceases"
In vain Grant offered him all the
protection the Criminology Club could
offer, and Dixie assured him that any
means which she could be instrument
tai in getting would be Forthcoming.
Chibra remained obdurate, in fact
could not even be induced to look at
the message a second time. Finally
he was permitted 70 depart
X at looks as IL VIC had come TO q
remarked Hennessey.
Far from it," responded Grant eat
least II has been established that they
are messages and that they are Hindu
That forms q working basis, and
copies have been sent to the bureau In
so It is only a matter of
time before we have the -translations
at our disposal There Is no cipher
that cannot be unraveled by the
bureau. But from the ease
with which Chibra recognized their
import don't think that the messages
can be in code. Probably written out
right in some of the rarer Hindu dia-
lects"
A short time later, Grant said: The
fact that those messages are in Hindu
is pretty conclusive evidence that
some plot against America, and using
the same tools from Won Bernstorff
right on down through the whole
choice crew of spies and murdererS-"
isn't .bere a chance. that Il may
be but a noutbreak of tho East In
dian conspiracy which has been going
on at intervals for the past twenty
years." interposed Dixie.
BernstorT Studies OeeuItinm.
at might be, except for some in
formation which Mrs. Blank has
given me-" responded Grant "And by
the way, since you mentioned II. It is
becoming more apparent every day
that Germany has been responsible
for most OF the internal disturbances
in English colonies since late In the
nineties, when the plans for the pres
ent war were frst embarked upon Sc
riously. But this information from
Mrs. Blank, II 10 to the effect that
Won Bernstorff. DR.. Albert, and Bar
oness Verbecht are almost daily at
tendants at the service in q temple or
ganized for the study OF oecultism by |
three Hindus in farmhouse on Long
Island"
He then produced a sheaf Of docu-
ments and handed them to Dixie.
You will notice that most of these |
are old, but there is one dispatch |
which was suppressed by the censors
only last week II was offered by q |