Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-07-16

sne ln whose business she could Ia
ferfere hespfully OF course. janet
always wants to be helpful. When
me saw Tommy at the desk OF the
reception once she walked over and
ioined him. She agreed with the
aead clerk that an Auswela was nee
sssarys and showed the one which
he Berlin police had granted TO her.
Then she offered to take q look at
Tommy's passport just to see that Il
was IL order. Il was Tommy'a
mouth, nose. eyes and hair were de-
scribed In the usual Official style.
dts photograph. not h the least like
aim, was stuck In the proper place
and duly stamped by the Foreign Of
ice. All the visas were there, as
llegible as usual But Janet raised
her eyebrows IN surprise Taking
Tommy by the arm abe led him away
from the desk.
you'd better be careful with that
passport" she said. 1.-THE German
police know more than you'd think !"
-But it's all right. isn't it7'
.0h, IT'S ali right. OF course FOR
the Rev. T. A. Norreys, an Irish
clergyman
~And that's who / am"
Il don't see what good you expect
90 DO by keeping up that pretense
with me-" said Janet
Il assure you"
"And / assure you" said Janet,
that no ordinary Irish Clergyman
that's what You profess to be. isn't
IT,"
'sQuite ordinary" said Tommy. mot
even an archdeacon.''
'.No ordinary clergyman, English,
Scotch or Irish. would have Count
casimir calling on him the moment
he arrived In Berlin. Everybody
knows that Castmir is up TO his neck
In International plots. What would
he want with an ordinary clergy
mani And IL you're nothing but q
curate how do you account for the
way you were received ct the Mas
rotte last nlght1 / was there when
you arrived The whole STAFF simply
bowed down to you and you were
given the best table in the room. Ev-
erybody turned round and stared at
you when you came in The head
waiter, who was drunk later on,
served you himself And that's
thing head walters don't do in the
case Of ordinary curates."
81 know 1t looks odd, said Tom
olY, but all the same, ! really am"
II hope for your sake said Janet.
that the police win believe you.
don't know who you really are, and
& Isn't my business to md out but
Il the police believe that curate story
( shall be surprised. Don't you be
under any mistake about the Berlin
police. They'll. know exactly what
happened last night at the Maseotte,
and In all probability they know,
what l don't. exactly who You are
and what you're doing IN Berlin"
This made Tommy d little uneasy.
out he was not seriously anxious. His |
passport was In perfect. order. He
had papers in his pocket. a check
book and some letters. which ought /
TO be enough to establish his Identity. /
He took a cab to the police Office.
He found his way after some trou-
bic. into small, grimy, badly over
heated room. II was filled with shah
by looking people, men and women
OF various nationalIties who stood in
an Irregular Informed queue Tom
my took his place behind smelly
Polish Jew and waited After about
half an hour he found himself stand
ing opposite desk at which young
man IN plain clothes was writing.
This man was smoking q bedraggled
cigarette, which looked as II ha had
licked Il all over before lighting It
He was very badly shaved and near
" as grimy as bis Office Hls tenn
per, like the atmosphere Of bis room
was overheated
He asked Tommy q number Of
questions rapidly Tommy did not
q word that was said TO
nlm and shook his head amtably. The
r0nng man asked his questions
sYeF- again more loudly. Tom
~ did not understand any better
han before. but he tried the expert
nent Of saying ~3aT IN an agreeable
one 20 each question. This merely
rritated the young man. 30 Tommy,
Who was beginning TO learn little
herman, said. ia. bitte schoen-v
Even this appeared to be unsafisfac-
Org, and the young man was getting