The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1910-11-09 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

CHAPTER XXII.--(Cordinued) But to suy ,unirise ielief when the nxll door ries oappod Dorruund was there. He favoured Toe with one of }lit) driest smiles ea he held out his hand. " You have • rare caper-113 for getting into trouble, Herr Bastable. Surely you knew that revolver practice in the streets of Berlin ix illegal." " You have porno really cheep fellows under rou," I retorted with a grin. "Loot dm* thev accused ma of havigg murdered myself, and now they think I tried to do it again."  He led me off to a room whitc we were gone. "Now tell me all shout it." I told him succinctly what had occurred. Ire accepted my story at once, and together we smiled at the mistake of the others. " But MU had no right to have this thing with you it all," he said, frferring to the pistol. " You tnow the law. We shall have to keep it. and I'm afraid you must be prepared to answer for Ile possession." ' Anyhow, you can see that it hasn't been ired since it wee cleaned. Get that quite tiro% and I don't mind adMitti- -r that I often tarry such a thing for my own protection." " Do you still wish to communicate with sour consul. or to make any funs about the mistake these men mad?" .  " I want to get horns and get to bed. MI tie rest can go hang." "We can manage that, but you'll hear shout the revolver from us in a day or so. tiers are the rest of your things": and on sfterwards we left the place together. 't Have you taken the advice I gave you ret ?" he asked as we walked toward my souse. " What was that ? . .  I shall be At to do oomething desperate. I can,, - this suspense tortures ma It was all I could do to prevest myself from Doing after you just now." "You cannot do anything but wait, dearest. WI. and trust. It will all come right." But although I had spoken so confidently to Althea, I was very far from feeling so ; and as I hurried through the deserted street' I wished the Baron had been at Jerusalem and all his mad-brained scehmes and cause and associates with him before he had come to plunge us all into this unsavoury mess. was, of course, only one piece in the old city where I could go in search of him—the wharf of W. Mischen ; and it was no more than a bare possibility that he or any one elms would be there at that time of night. Moreover, if I did succeed in finding him there it was anything but clear how I could get him away. Already he entertained the graveet suspicions of me and the moment be spoke to any of his infernal emaciates all the fairy tales I had told him w3uld be exposed. He would show the bomb which I had given him; and it needed no gift of prophecy to inderstand the feeling which would be aroused against me. Every man in the crowd would be itching to slit my throat or put a bullet into me. There was just one chance in a million in my favour—that he had set out to biow up the " warship "by himself. But even that would not help me; as I should most certainly be unable to trace his movements. If it had not been for the sham bomb which I bad given him with its compromitia history connecting me closely and certainly with It, I should have given up the quest altogether, and left him to find hi, way back to the house. But I dared not leave that broad trail without at least a desperate effort to efface it. it were discovered and my purchase of it proved, it would taint the whole story I had to tell of my possession of the paper ... had secured from von Felsen. It would all be set down to my connection with these infernal Poles. _