Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-29
CHAPTER Nv.
SYNOPSIS.

and % austin n'f Rogers m % are racing
does not know it. and a side bet Of $40: 900;
the trip 'G from Billy '" Crane Whose sister
Natalie admifes Jin,my; she IS mcen ,,;.h
B BEFORE p the depatH T from New YORK fails
him, but he is ,dropped in Chicago by "a a
cedes him to seattle. Jimmy and Rogers
make their boat Jimamys r fso messa s gee
to to- drug him At Hardin he rresrqes white
woman from an attack evidently DESIGNED
for him. At Viatka he is arrested as spy,
but released and loaned an airpiane by y th !,
Soviet TO make up lost time. 19 {ar hist
and has. Rogers arrested for conspiracy as -
the K9nigsbe as plane ha taxes OH move Is
With amazement. followed instantly
by a thrill of anticipation as he caught
a scent which even the mechanician' S
grease had not devoured, Jimmy
opened the paper and read
IN keep an eye on Rogers. Good
luck
This time the message was not ever
| signed as usual. No need. he reflected.
He understood now that the lady of
the narcissus noir was bent on aiding
him. Would he ever find out who she
was?
Exhausted from his long journey,
however. II was not long before
Jimmy, in spite of his speculations,
dropped off to sleep. For three and a
half hours he rested. during the flight
| to Smolensk, where he was handed
a message from Harvey.
| Chuckling over the latter's terse de
scriptiOn of Rogers arrest and in
carcera ton, Jimmy fell asleep again.
| until he was aroused by the tearing of
1t -
| Kovno. An hour and d half later he
| found himself walking stiffiy across
the field at konigsberg. with two and
a half hours to spare before his train
departed for Berlin.
He was now. he reflected ON the
| homeward stretch. Discriminating in
Berlin at seven the following morn
ing he breakfasted hurriedly and
drove to the flying field. At S o'clock
he was seated in the comfortable
cabin of the Amsterdam plane and
taxing across the field on the first leg
of the flight to the Dutch seaport.
He had dispatched wire TO the
X l.. NJ. offices at Amsterdam order
ing special plane which he was to
charter for the flight to Cherbourg,
| which was the quickest and most eX-
pedious route. In Berlin he had dis
covered that the Faustania. which he
had planned to catch, was due to set
sail from that port late in the after
noon.
BY arriving at Amsterdam at l:l0
in the afternoon and chartering a
plane, Jimmy figured on making an
easy run and the practical end to his
trip. The Faustania was fast-a COM
Portable trip-New York-fame-
Frances.
But Frances. with a world between
them, was fading into q far-off mem
Dry. Nearer at hand was the scent
of black narcissus. cool friendly
wholesome one who evidently cared
enough to stay in Moscow and keep
an eye on Rogers
At Amsterdam. however. where he
alighted he was not instantly pre-
possessed by the pilot who was intro
duced to him by the *. l.. NJ. repre-
sentative who awaited his arrival on
the flying field. Gruger, protested
the representative, was the finest
pilot of the line.
At that. the man looked capable
Jimmy called himself a fool for let
ting his past experiences make him
unduly suspicious. Rogers was safe
in the Moscow Jail: he had had no OPP
portunity TO perform any further UNI
derhand work. SO, with smile
Jimmy gripped his pilots hand. and
said:
'All right. my friend. But We're
going to do some fast trekking foI
Cherbourg-and if you don't get the
speed, | wilii'
He was answered by sullen, un
smiling grunt.
i In the air. however. the American
dismissed the last OF his suspicious
Surly or not, Gruger was most GER
tainly an efficient pilot. 1t did not
take Jimmy long to recognize that
He headed southwest. flying high over
the lowlands of the cleanest and most
Industrious country in the globe
Jimmy watched the windmills of Hol
land flicker past underneath him with
a casual interest.
Village after village came into view