The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-15
The Cigar-Case Mystery
 By Edward Lucas White.
SYNOPSIS


 ception to celebrate his twenty first birthday. After the guests had gone Beale goes out into little nearby park to take the air. Hardly is he seated when 8 man comes along and sits down be- side him and makes him a propO- sition whereby Beale is to go to Europe presumably ns corre- spOndent for paper and is to
 bring back some important pa
 pers that mean liberty to an op-
 pressed people.
 Beale accepts and starts for
 New York. On the ferry his at
 tcntion is drawn to a very stun
 ming young woman, whom he
 loses sight Of when he reaches
 New York. He goes to the Fifth
 Avenue Hotel where he finds
 long fat envelope awaiting him.
 Besides money it contains lists of
 necessary purchases. and a let
 ter explaining instructions which
 end: Everything else you will
 need will reach you in good time
 for your steamer. Be careful
 that all your baggage reaches
 the steamer soon enough"
 CHAPTER IT (Continued)
 The Girl
 finished my shopping be- fore sunset of the following day. Af- ter dinner I stopped at the desk.
 Package for you, MT. Weigh" said the clerk.
 The package was tied with stout cord, done up in heavy paper and addressed as the envelope had been. Inside were four packets.
 I began on the largest. It con tained two morocco cigar-cases, simi- lar to that which had been shown me. One was black, with nickel fittings, and had lettering any where. The other was red, its metal parts were goId-plated, and on the ments was my full name and ad- dress stamped in large, plain gold let terS.
 A smaller packet disclosed a red Russia-leather wallet. In it were six stout envelopes One held by let ter of credit. It was for two hun dred pounds sterling.
 A second envelope held my pass port. A third envelope held my pas sage ticket from New York to Naples, on the steamer PrinzeSsin Iole, sailing June 22, stateroom No. 12S, and a similar passage-ticket from South ampton to New York on the steam ship Kronprinzessin Otillie, sailing September 21, stateroom No. 234.
 A fourth envelope contained a rail- way-ticket bearing the name of a well known travellers agency. I ran over the cities: Naples, Rome, Florence Bologna, Milan, Verona, Venice, Vi enna, Budapest by boat, Vienna again by rail. Prague, Dresden, Leipsic, Ser lin, Amsterdam, The Hague, Antwerp Brussels, Cologne, Mainz,> Heidelberg Nuremberg, Munich, Lucerne, Inter laken, Zermatt, Geneva, Paris, Lon don and Southampton.
 In the fifth envelope was a paper giving a list of hotels, one for each stopping place, specified on the rail. way tickets.
 The sixth envelope contained a sec, ond letter without beginning or end It said:
 You must mail your first letter tc the Household Intelligencer within si1 days after you land. You must send them at fewest nine letters, at mos eleven.
 Within the list given on your rail way tickets and hotel guide you may choose which cities shall form tht background of your letters. But eact letter must relate to a different city The interval between two letters mus never be greater than one week.
 Each letter must not be shorter than two thousand words. nor longe than three thousand. At some cit. or other you will receive instruction like these, telling you when and wher' to discharge the first half of you mission.
 Nothing except the descriptive let ters must be mailed to the Intelli gencer. and you must not communi cate with it or its editors or it's pub fishers in any way. Travel at you ease as you like.
 A third packet. fat and chunky, dis gorged a pigskin coin-purse and canvas bag with gold pieces, silve pieces, and even rolls of smaller coins In the purse was a slip of paper bear | ing the words:
 To use at sea.
 l A fourth packet disclosed an iden l tical canvas bag with coin. gold an' | silver pieces and smaller money O nickel and bronze. With them was | second slip of paper, saying: | To use when you first land I could not credit my good forum | I-master of more than twelve hun dred dollars besides my outfit an. tickets, starting on my first sea-voy age, bound on the ideal tour of m | hopeless dreams.
 was deliriOus with inv