Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05
SIXTEENTH INSTALLMENT.

n YEW YORK suffers from insom-
N MIA. At an hour when even the
gayer capitals of Europe would
4 have begun to blink themselves
into sleep, a certain street be-
tween Broadway and Sixth avenue still
displayed every evidence of liveliness. A
car turned into this street and pulled
up before the door of small and I'M
| pretentious restaurant. The establish
ment was apparently closed, and there
was nothing interesting about the APP
| pearance OF the place except its name,
exhibited upon sign protruding above
| the door. without rhyme or reason,
since this was a chop shop, the sign
, read THE Blue Barber"
A chauffeur pressed bell beside the
| door. Almost Immediately the door was
opened. A man alighted from the car
J and hurried in. The door closed. The
| car moved of in the direction OF Sixth
avenue.
AS the street door closed, cut of dark
ness:
III. O." said a musical voice. ANY
thing to report?"
! NO"
The reply was spoken gutturally.
stand by"
| The speaker pressed button and
| faint sound indicated that a panel door
had opened. He entered. The panel
|
He mounted flight of stairs and
came to landing, apparently consisting
of the stairhead, window, shaded. and
two blank walls. His foot pressed upon
a square of geometrically patterned car
! pet and one of the walls slid back, prov
ing to be the door of an elevator. Into
this the man stepped and the elevator
assembled. 1t stopped at the sixth floor
and the man stepped out into a barely
/ furnished SITTING A In
this apartment was the door of another
elevator. But the visitor did not delay
! here. He crossed to the door and went
out. He traversed a long corridor. many
apartments opening upon it. Coming to
the end, he descended three flights of
marble steps and admitted himself to
an Office. Then came the sound of a
panel door opening and closing; and
this strange bat moving in the
night of the city was once more in a
small elevator. ascending. Eight floors
we're passed. At the ninth the car STOP
ped.
He was again in a corridor that
terminated in flight of stairs. He
mounted four floors. Windows lighted
the landings and the torch became ex-
tinguished again. Yet another door
was opened and closed and an extern
sive range Of offices traversed. The man
moved confidently and almost silently
Wraith-like he passed from building
to building, but ever mounting higher
Finally, he came out into the Strangest
room in New York City.
The walls we're black and gold. and
the ceiling was a high dome of dull
gold 1t was lighted by four lamps
in black tripods, and except for q
long narrow table set in the center OF
the western wall was very bare ir
appearance. The man seated himself
at this table, glancing at a number oi
notes which lay there. He did not re-
move his hat. but a standard lamp or
the table threw his face into startling
relief against the blackness of the back
| ground.
And the face so revealed was strangely
like that of Napoleon.
For moment this impression pre-
vailed, then came complete darkness
until a point Of red light suddenly
broke it.
H. O." said sing-song voice.
The man replied:
Report of Zone officer 2 A."
mo report to hand"
Report of H. Q. patrol covering"
ITO hand" replied the sing-song
voice. Patrol reports that Zone officer
! 2 A escaped from the custody of Nee
w. Regain at 3:48 am. 1t is believed
, that her escape was effected by DR.
Stopford, who left the Page Sutton home
! at the same time. H. @. patrol detailed
three firing groups. Timed am Re-
! port ends
Report of group masters detailed,
came the musical tones.
: "Only one report to hand" was the
/ answer. Group master 3, sector A
reports Zone officer 2 A located at road.
house Is miles from home of Page
, Sutton, accompanied by DR.. Stopford
Group master standing by. Awaits in
!; structions. This by x radio. Timec
421. Report ends"
Five minues passed in cilence, ther
b came crisp orders.
! Instruct divisional chief A to dis
! patch three more firing groups to hole
all approaches to the road-house. Zone
officer A to be put in charge. He il
to endeavor at once to get in touch
with Zone officer 2 A. File, quartel
. hourly reports. Move. Stand by fol
another oredr"
Report of Zone officer A GOVERNS
the Page Sutton home" the musica
voice resumed.
Report to hand Ned w. Regain lef
= in his car headed for the city at 4:0s
, am. Group master covering. Comdr
r Drake Roscoe has not left. Operation
J. structions. Report ends"
( Report of divisional chief B.
|; Immediately came the reply:
; Report to hand. All A units have
S been withdrawn, although every roat
is patrolled by police. Report ends
E Instruct divisional chief b. CAME
. tine order. Ito assemble all A units II
> sector 3 B and to take personal charge
, At the earliest moment he will ha1lc
! them over to divisional chief A. He vii
j: then stand by for instructions to in.
! tercept Comdr. Drake Roscoe in the
event of his leaving the Page Sutton
! home. Directly contact is established
; with Zone officer 2 A, put her in touch
!; with me. If DR.. Stopford endeavors t.
!. ing those employed under schedules
. and IL, all units in all divisions arr
: to stand by. This is general emer'
gency order. Move
The red light went out ....
1.-THE reason am so completely in thu
: power of Head Centre" said MADAME
Czerna to DR.. Stopford. sis that m!
. husband, who died, was sentenced for {
crime which he never committed. Three
months after our marriage he was sen
to Devils Island. / succeeded ate
two years of trying in getting thu
French authorities to consent to al
| low me to go out to Cayenne. This, b!
their law, made me a convict, too, anC
| after the death of my husband 1 wa
forbidden to return: I was expected
| to remain in French Guiana"
: "But," said Stopford, this is stag
germ inhumanity."
"It is" she confessed, greater thar
you know But 1t is the law of thu
: penal settlement. I should perhaps
): have remained in that awful place al
!. my life, had It not been for the helI
]. Of the man we know as Head Centre