Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-02

tfen with a dog whip. Then they
| >iIled him with stones, there in the
| walled yard"
At this point in the tragedy, the
eagerly awaited and ardently desired
| shivers passed up and down the
"o-oh! Did they kill him dead
Yes. dear"
was he a martyr"
| In a way he was a martyr to his
| duty, suppose. At least L gather so
from his diary and from what he
once told me Of his life"
And then what happened? Tell
"A Greek steamer took us and our
| uagggage to TrebiZond."
And what then?"
| And then, & year later the terri
BILE massacre at GU" Trebizond mis-
| sion occurred"
That was what the child was wait
ing for.
Il know" she interrupted eagerly.
THE wicked Turks and the cruel
L<urds did come galloping and shout
ing 'Allah!' And all the poor, con-
verified people became martyrs And
| God loves martyrs, doesn't He?'
Ana then they did kill all the poor
little Christian children" exclaimed
the child excitedly. And they did
then the'kind sailors with the Amer
| lcan flag took you and mamma and
me to a ship and saved us by the
grace of our Lord Jesus"
| Yes, dear"
| Tell me!
No; you walk on two crutch-
| eg and you cannot be q missionary
any more because YOU. are, sick all
the time. Tell; me. daddyI,
| Yes. And that is all, Rue"
"Oh, no. Please! Tell me! :.
AnG then, don't YOU remember how
the brave British Sailors and our
| brave American sailors pointed their
cannon at the I-ronclads, and they
said, DO rot shoot or we shall shoot
| you to pieces And then the brave
| American sailors went on shore and
brought back some poor little wound
ed converted children, and your bag
gage and the magic box of Herr
| Wilner!"
Yes, dear. And now that is
enough tonight
oh, daddy, you must first read in
The diary which Herr Wilmer made
Bring me the book, Rue"
With an interest forever new, the
| Carew family prepared to listen to
the words written by strange man
|
after he had made the last entry
in the booll-before even the ink was
entirely dry on the pages.
The child, sitting cross-legged on
the floor, c-asped her little hands
tightly; her mother laid aside her
sowing, folded it. and placed it in
her lap; her father searched through
| the pencillcd translation which he
had written IN between the lines
| of German script, found where he
had left off the time before. then
! continued the diary 4Acrr Conrad
| Wilmer, deceased:
March 3. My original, plans have
been sent to the Yildi2 Palace. Ely
| duplicates are to 20 to Berlin when
a messenger from our Embassy a.
am sorry he knows it. But nobody
except myself is aware that l have
A third set of plans carefully hidden.
Marcn /. All day with Murad 5
men setting wire entanglements
under water; two Turkish destroyers
and cavalry patrols on the heights to
warn away the curious.
March s. Forts Alamout and Shah
Abhas arc being reconstructed from
the new plans. Wired areas under
water and along the coves and shoals
unusually polite and eftusive, con-
versing with me in German and
French. A spidery man and very
dangerous.
March Z. a strange and tragic af,
fair last night The heat being Sc
we're. 1 left my tent about midnight
and went down to the dock Whero
my little sailboat lay, with the OBJ
jeet OF cooling myself on the water
There was hot land breeze; [ sailed
out into the bay and cruiSed north
along the coves which 1 have wired
AS l rounded a little rocky point
was surprised to see in the moon
light, very near, steam yacht al
anchor, carrying no lights. The
longer l looked at her the more GER
tain l became that | was gazing al
the Imperial yacht, had no idea
what the yacht might be doing here
I ran my sailboat close under tbs
overhanging rocks and anchored
Then I saw a small boat in the
moonlight pulling from the yacht to
had aIrea ly been thoroughly stakeC
and the bottom closely covered WITH
barbed wire as far as the edge Of tbs
| deep channel which curves in here
like a scimitar.
1t must have been that the people
in the boat mfscalculated the loca
: ton of the channel, for they were
we'll over the sunken barbed wire
when they lifted and threw over
board what they had come there, t;
|
splashcd.
watched the boat pull back t,
the Imperial yacht. A little late
the yacht weighed anchor and steamed
nor Inward, burning 10 lights. Only
the red reflection tinGing the smok'
from her stacks was visible.
watched her until she was lost II
the moonlight, thinking all the Wl1il
CT those weighted sacks SO oftei
dropped overheard along the Bosporu
and off Sercglio Point from tina
same Imperial yacht.
When the steamer had disappeared
/ got out my sweeps and roWed 70
the place where the dark objects ha'
| been dropped overheard. l knew
! that they must be resting someWher
4 on the closely criss-crossed mesh o
| wires just below the surface of tn
water; but | probed for an hour be
1 fore l located anything. Anothe
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