Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-13
TIKI GREAT CIPHER
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The group of men were seated on
the steps of the Executive Mansion.
II was evening and the great states
man. hunter, explorer and now
chief executive was listening at
tentively to the story of
M. J~ONQUEJLE, greatest of French
detectives.
Jonauelle was telling OF
CHAUVANNES, whom all the world
believed mad and who had died
in Africa leaving the wonderful
diary and the emeralds he had
discovered. -.
"But Chauvannes was not mad"
insisted M. Jonquelle.
Then he told how the explorers
record described the journey into
the Congo with three white men,
worthless but afraid of nothing.
Go on With the Story
CHAPTER II
Chauvannes found that wilder
ness yeined through with these
amps precisely as Stanley found it
when he was following the Ituri IN
his effort to relieve Emin Pasha.
And Chauvannes seems to have had
precisely the same experiences as
stanley, In that the poisoned ar
rows. which the dwarf tribes used,
were always fatal to the natives.
but not to the white men OF the ex-
pedition. At least, the three white
men with Chauvannes, and the ex-
piorer himself, always escaped.
while the persistent destruction of
the other members Of the expedition
continued until only Chauvannes
and the other white men came out
alive.
"The expedition was not large. 1t
was as small as Chauvannes could
get on with. He never intended 1t
to be more than a scouting party, to
Law out the thing he was looking
for. The discovery of the emeralds
was a sort of accident in removing
the portion of an ancient wall that
IN uprooted tree had dislodged."
There was a moments silence.
Then Monsieur Jonquelle went n
.I said awhile ago that the in
credible things set out in the jour
nal did not begin to appear until
about the seventeenth of December,
when they had finally come out. 1t
is true that some indicatory things
are noted in the journal before that
date. Chauvannes could not sleep.
He returns again and again to this
fact. Bromides did no good. He
continues to complain about the
failure of the bromides. He wonders
If the drugs have lost their virtue,
or If they could not have been pure.
He notes that he tested this with
one of the other men and observed
the effect. The bromides were all
right. This fact gave him a good
deal Of concern. He could not sleep.
And the drugs upon which the
medical profession depend in such a
case, failed.
I'VE find this feature in consider
able detail and beginning some time
before December seventeenth while
the expedition was still in the forest
Of the Congo, in its awful march to
the northeast.
"I don't know when It was that
Chauvannes realized what was
ahead of him. but as ! have said, I
think he saw it almost from the
first day of the march north.
81 studied that Journal word by
word and sentence by sentence. /
felt at the time that no one of US
understood 1t, that the thing meant
which ought to appear if
we were able to grasp the proper
of it. I felt before 1t as
/ used to feel before those clever
dispatches, which appeared
their faces to be merely a MARIA
live of a domestic incident, when
they were in fact army orders con-
a definite direction. I was
right, as events proved, that the
government authorities In Paris at
the time considered my notion fan
sStill, as I have said, the strange
digressions in his journal did not
to appear until about the sew
enteenth of December, when they
came out onto the great grass-cov-
cred plateau outlined to the east by
low mountain range, beneath
which lay Lake Albert Nyanza. AS
it happened, they had come out ten
days ahead of the date which they
had determined upon for the arrival
OF the lake boat. It was to receive
the expedition at the same point on
the Nyanza that Stanley met Emin
Pasha.
snow, here was another indica-
tory point. They did not go ahead to
the Nyanza as Stanley had done.
They canped or a grassy slope-it
looked like an English lawn,