South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-12
THE GREAT CYPHER
Bc-ln Here To-day.

rrlGt Executive was listening ar
-.H.vey 90 the story ~
So IoNQUHLE. greatest 81 French
detective
f1uqgcle was telling O.
Cvfaf-TANNES. whom an The word
believed mad and who had died
africa leaving the wonderful.
sa-y and tho cmera-ds he had
discovered.
But Cbauvaures was not mad
-rs st-d 81 JonqueIe.
Then ne told now tae explorers
20 ord described the journey Into
ne Congo witch three white men.
worthless but afraid 81 nothing.
GO on With che Story.
CHAPTER III
CHACVANNES found that wilder
ness ve.ued through with these
camps. precisely az Stanley found
So when ne was following the ItuE
In his effort 20 relieve Em.n Pasha.
And Chauvannes seems % have had
precisely the same experiences as
Stanley sn that the poisoned arrows.
which the dwarf tribes used. we're
always fatal 90 the natives. but not
90 the white men az the eXped ton.
least the three white men with
'Chauyarues. and tho explorer him.
SELF always escaped. while the per
members OF the expedition con-
t-Hued until only CnaUvanncs and
the other white men came out alive,
THE expedition was not large. t.
Il
get on width. lie never intended IL
60 be more than a scouting party. 20
lay ont tho thing he was looking
fVr. The discovery of the emcraIds
was O sort OF accident IN removing
the portion OF an ancient wall that
an uprooted tree had d-slodged."
There was q moments silence.
Then Monsieur JonqueIle went on:
II said awhile ago that the in
credible things set out I'm the journal
did not begin to appear until aDour
the seventeenth of December. when
they had finally come out. 70 is true
that some .ndicatory things are
noted in the journal before that
date Chauvannes could not sleep.
lie returns again and again TO this
fact. Bromides did no good. He
continues TO complain about the
failure of the brOmides. He Won
ders If the drugs have lost their v.r-
tue or III they could not have been
pure lie notes that he tested this
with one OF the other men and OBJ
served the effect. Tho bromidts
were alright This fact gave him a
god deal OF concern. He could not
sleep And the drugs upon which
tho medical profession depend ~
such a case, failed
we find this feature. IN consider
able detail and beginning some time
before December seventeenth whIre
' the expedition was still in the forest
Of the Congo. In its awful march 10
the northeast.
'I don't know when it was that
Chauvannes realized what was ahead
OF him. but as I have said. think
nc saw it almost from the first day
OF the march north.
81 studied that journal word by
word and sentence by sentence. I
felt at the time that no one of us
understood it, that the thing meant
something which ought TO appear if
We were able TO grasp Il propc~ con
ception OF IT, felt before Il as I
used 90 feel before those clever Ger
man dispatches. which appeared on
their faces TO be merely a narrative
OF a. domestic incident. when they
were ia fact army brdens contain
ing definite direction. i was
right, as events proved. but the gov
eminent authorities iu Paris at the
time considered my notion rautas-
t..
'Stu. as 7 have said. the strange
digrcssions IN his journal did not
begin 60 appear until about the
seventeenth OF December. when they
came out onto the great grass-cov-
cred plateau outlined 70 the east by
. Tow mountain range beneath
which lay Lake Albert Nyanza. rs
e happened. chey had come out ten
DAYS ahead o. the date which they
had determined upon for tho arrival
oc the lake boat. u was 60 receive
vAe expedition a. the same point on
tho Nyenza that Stanley met Emin
Pasha
Now here vas another indicatory
point. They ala not go ahead to
the Nyau.a as Stanley had done.
They couped on q grassy s,opc-.t
.2'"'a lac ea English lawn.
.-'@~' 'hN-s s-'p--"'tA.n lAe mrs.
aay march 2H- or the forest. Here
.'-es -ii's'-Ilea-
-'i- ',lhAes Aad at inc modern
~ ms l''- an explorer carries
-,' '---'- ~ %" --' -~'H u,'' u the exact
.ec-a'-o2 az this camp with the most
--.'7 cl',--s- -t was chart