The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-03-25

CTS DdAIOAldhE tue " the
bay. and cavalry patrols on the
heights TO warn away the curious.
March 6.-Forts AlamoUt and
Shah Abbas a;e being recLG-
siructed from the new plans. Wired
areas under water and along the
coves and shoals are being plotted.
Murad Bey II unusually polite and
ELUSIVE, conversinE with me in
German and French. 4 spidery
man and very dangerous.
March "A strange and tragic
affair last night. The heat being
severe. ! left my tent about mid
night and went down to the dock
where my little ssilGoat lay, with
the object Of cooling myself on the
water There vas hot land
breeze: I sailed out into the bay
and cruised north along the coves
which ] have wired. As ] rounded
a little rocky point I was surprised
to see in the moonlight. very near,
a steam yacht at anchor, carrying
no lights. The longer ] looked at
her the more certain l became
that I was gazing at the Imperial
yacht ] had no ides what the
yacht might be doing here: I ran
my sailbost close under the over
hanging rocks and anchored. Then
saw = small boat In the moon
light. pulling fro m the yacht
toward shore. where the cresceat
cove had already been thoroughly
staked and the bottom closely COW
cred with barbed wire as tar as
the edge Of the deep channel which
curves in here like q scimitar.
II must have been that the peo-
pie in the boat miscalculated the
location of the channel. for they
were well over the sunken bRrbed
- wire when they lifted and threw
overheard what they had come
there to get rid of-two dark
bulks that splashsd.
watched the boat pull back 20
the Imperial yacht. 4 little later
the yacht weighed anchor and
steamed northvsrd, burning no
lights. Only the red reflection
tineinE the smoke from her stacks
was visible. watched her until
she vas lost in the moonlight,
thinking all the while Of those
Weighted sacks 90 often dropped
overheard along the Bosporus and
of SeragIio Point from that same
Imperial yacht.
when the steamer had disap-
peared I got out my sweeps ana
royyed for the place where the dark
objects had been dropped everbosT ].
I knew that they must be resting
somewhere on the closely cTiss-
crossed mesh Of wires just below
the surface OF the water: but
probed for an hour before / located
anything. Another hour passed in
trying to hook into the object with
the little three-huked grapuel which
I used as an anchor. got hold Of
something finally; a heavy chest OF
olive wood bound with metal; but
I had to rig a tackle before I could
hoist II aboard
Then / cast out again; and very
soon my grapnel hooked into what
1 expected canvas sack. weight
ed with a round shot. When / got
il aboard. hesitated long while
before opening II. Finally. I made
a long slit in the canvas with my
knife
She was very young-not over
sixteen. think, and she was really
beautiful, even under her wet, dark
hair. She seemed to be a Caucasian
girl-maybe a Georgian. She wore
a small gold cross which hung from
EOAu COEu HEOaDu hCA 4AShC
was another, and tighter. cord
around her neck, too. I cut the silk
bowstrinE and closed and bound her
eyes with my handkerchief before
] rowed out a little farther and low
cred her into the deep channel
which cuts eastward here like the
scimitar Of that true Deliver, Abdul
Hamid-
Then I hoisted sail and beat up
slowly toward my little. dock under
a moon which had become CHASTITY
under the paIIid aura of gathering
storm
"A poor, dead. young lady" inter
rupted the child, clasping her hands
more tightly. Did the Sultan kill
her. daddy"
ut seems so, Ruhannah"
Why
81 don't know. He was q very
cruel and wicked Sultan"
Il don't see why he killed the
beautiful. poor dead lady"
IF you will listen and not inter
rUpt. you shall learn why"
And was the chest that Herr
Wilmer pulled up the very same
chest that is here on the floor beside
me-" insisted the child.
The very same. Now. listen,
Rue. and / shall read a little more
in Herr Winners diary. and then
you must have your bath and be put
TO bed"
please read. daddy"
The Reverend Wilbour Carew
turned the page and quietly contin-
ued:
March 2O.-In my own quarters
at Trebizond again, and rid OF
Murad for a while.
canvas cover and rope handles
concealed the character Of my olive
wood chest. l do not beIeve any
body suspects IL to be anything eX-
cept one Of the various bUxes con
tanning my own personal effects. I
shall open il tonight VITA a ile
and chiseI. If possible.
March 2I-The contents Of The
chest reveal something OF the
tragedy. The box is full OF letters
written in Russian, and full OF
stones which. weigh collectively a
hundred pounds at least There Is
nothing else in the chest except a
broken Ikon and a bronze figure Of
Erik, a Yildiz relic, no doubt, ~
some Kurdish raid into Mongolia.
and probably placed beside the dead
girl by her murderers IN derislon.
am tranElating the letters and ar
ranging them in sequence.
March I'll have translated the
letters The dead girls name was
evidently TatyaRa, one of several