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f 1 W'.J -v .w. r-ptsff: WV V . . -. J vtssiMfr ILLUtST&ATEDJsr rpi S ROY NORTON Vi'rrr, fM" r SYNOPSIS. "Vanishing Fleets," a story of "what Right have happened." opens in "Wash ington with the L'nited States and Japan m the verRe of war. Guy Ililliur, sec retary of the British emhassy. and Miss Norma Roberts, chief aide of Inventor Roberts, an- introduced as lovers. At the most inopportune moment Japan declares war. JuiKin takes the Philippines. The entire country is in a state of turmoil be ruuse of the government's indifference: Guy Hillier starts for England with se cret message and is compelled to leave Norma Roberts, who with military of ficers also leaves Washington on mys terious expedition for an isolated point on tiie Florida coast. Hawaii is captured by the Japs. All ports are closed. Jap fleet in fast approaching western coast of America. Siego, Japanese spy. discovers Fcoret preparations for war" He follows auto carrying presidential cabinet. He un earths source of great mystery and llees. murmuring: "The gods sa'c Nippon." Fleeing to Pacific coast, Siego is shot down just as journey to get awful news to .Tap'tn seems successful. Qapan an nounces intention to attack seaports. ToUio learns of missing Japanese fleet iind whole world becomes convinced that Fnited States has some powerful war agency. England decides to send a fleet to American waters as a Canadian pro tection against what the British suppose ! :i t rrible submarine flotilla. Hillier is also sent to Canada to attempt to force Us way through American lines with a message to the president in ordr that protection fAr the fleet may be assured. Japan appeals to Britain for aid. British fleet departs, amid misgivings of English. Fleet mysteriously disappears, a sailor picked upon on a raft being the only evi dence of the loss. Powers begin to fear for their safely. Hillier makes a failure of effort to deliver message to the presi dent. War between Great Britain and Germany is threatened. The kaiser dis appears. CHAPTER X. Continued. Tho secret service men had already become convinced that the team be longed within the city, and so, as a forlorn hope rather than in the be lief that any clew would be gained, they employed the gypsy, giving him license to adopt whatever means seemed the most likely to discover and identify the horse. "With Romany cun ning, he immediately secured a seat facing one of the most fashionable parkway drives, where he remained for hour after hour, apparently occu pied in smoking a short black pipe, and presenting no marked difference in appearance from that of a hundred other lpungers. It was on the second day of the trader's watch that he jumped to his feet and excitedly ran after a. passing turnout, until he could attract the at tention of a mounted officer, who had been posted on the driveway for the purpose of assisting him in case his quest should develop anything worth following. The man pointed to the car riage ahead, and in broken German as serted his conviction that it was the one which had been used in the ab duction. The officer, after giving him Jiasty instructions to report to head quarters, galloped down the boulevard in pursuit. Much excitement was caused by the gypsy's story, and a group of the most prominent officials awaited the return of the mounted officer. One hour passed, and still another, before he appeared, and suspense by this time was at high pitch. They began to look -iat the horse trader with considerable suspicion, fearing a canard, and were almost on the point of sending others to search for the missing officer, when the latter appeared, clanking his spurs across the tiled floor of the entryway. He looked sheepishly about him before saying anything, and then addressing the captain, said: "This man is cither mistaken or else the affair promises to be more serious than we at first believed." "Well," said his superior question ingly, "what about the carriage?" The officer leaned over and spoke in a confidential tone. "The carriage was that of the American ambassador!" The captain started back as if par alyzed. He imparted the news in an undertone to his comrades in the room and the excitement grew. They dared go no further in this quest without consulting those of higher authority, nnd gathered into a private chamber, taking the Romany with them, where they waited till they were joined by the supreme head of the secret service department. This latter, in person, questioned both the gypsy and the offi cer who had followed the carriage. All that could be elicited from the horse trader was that he had been accus tomed to observe animals closely all his life, was positive that he could not be mistaken, and finally, in a fit of sullen wrath, he swore that he would stake his life on this having been the animal which passed him on the night of the kaiser's disappearance. He even went further and asserted that the harness of the horses was the same which he had seen on that oc casion. The mounted officer was equally cer tain that the turnout was that belong ing to the embassy, because he had observed it before, and knew the am bassador by sight, and this was the reason why he had made no arresL He said that he had been prepared to do so when he overtook the team, but, identifying the occupant, decided to run no risk of detaining so impor tant a personage, and contented him self with following the carriage tlirouskout its journey and till it was housed. He then dismounted, and by a pretext engaged one of the stable men in conversation, learning thereby that the ambassador had no horses other than these two. He had not deemed it advisable to make any fur ther inquiries for fear cf arouzisg sus picion. The head of the secret service de partment raw that he was facing r. very grave responsibility. He sent messages calling together the most important men in the government, and within an Lour the findings were laid before them. They found them selves in a singularly embarrassing predicament. To take any action which might offend the representative of a natio-i vnicn vas already engaged in triumrhaci war, and of which the whole vorld stood in terror and appre hension, Tvas something to be avoided. yw KHJWray jww iynwiwf Even to suggest to the ambassador of the United States that he was sus pected of having abducted the kaiser, an act of lese majesty in itself, was something which might arouse that man to appeal to his home government and topple Germany itself into an im broglio which could end only in de feat The attitude of America, up to the moment when communication ceased, had been friendly. Therefore, there seemed no logical reason for her taking any such unheard of action as that of interference with the per son of his majesty. The consensus of opinion was that the situation was too delicate to admit of any ordinary methods, and that there was only one thing to do keep the embassy under constant surveillance until by secret service methods they might learn what if any connection the ambassa dor or those about him had with the disappearance. The gypsy received the promised re ward, and from that hour on the American embassy was unceasingly watched day and night from without and within. CHAPTER XI. A King Is Lost. Wearied by hours of suspense, days of anxiety and nights of alarm, the king of England sought relaxation. A period of disaster had reached its cul- With a Salute, His Equerry mination where nothing much worse might be predicted. Germany had other occupations than those of aggres sion, and was now distraught in its effort to find the missing ruler, from whom no word had been received and of whom no information had been ob tained. The American dread had been somnolent for days, and the first grief for the loss of the great British fleet had lost its poignancy and was be coming only a bitter recollection to be calmly discussed and speculated upon. After weeks of storm and stress there had come a lull in which England waited for winds more kind. London had lived so long in misery that it had become callous, hardened, and enveloped in an air of gloom, con ditions resembling those of that period of terror which overspread it in the great plague, but which led men by work and pretense of gayety to seek forgetfulness. Once more the music halls opened, the theaters made their announcements, signs appeared on the boardings and old habits began in a sort of half-hearted way to resume their sway. In this epoch of abnormality the at mosphere joined and sent upon the huge city a June fog, which settled down in the night, adding its black ness to that of the hour. And through it in quest of relaxation rode Eng land's king. On leaving the palace he had no definite plan or destination; bnt the glare of the theaters lured and beckoned insistently to their wealth of light and entertainment, and he yielded. His coming was unheralded, and at tention was attracted to the presence only when the manager, following time-established custom, which for bade the turning of one's back upon a king, preceded him with steady bows to the royal box and took his place beside the equerry while the visitor entered. The hippodrome was to be honored. Within the box the royal guest seated himself behind the par iia!ly drawn curtains, where he could lock out upon the bizarre performance and feel -himself near a throng of per coss. There was some satisfaction al lest in mers proximity to companion ship. With languid interest and ha'f ab- Milt 1A, 'MY4 : WKaBk sorption he glanced over the program, paying but small attention to what it contained. A herd of performing ele phants galloped clumsily round in the ring below, obeying the shrill, nervous shouts of a woman clad in red tights, and then sedately marched out through an aperture by the side of the stage when the act was ended. A man clad in an ill-fitting dress suit, ev idently the heritage from some prede cessor, came to the front of the stage and began an ornate, rambling, and ungrammatical speech, announcing some wonderful exhibition which was about to take place. The monarch, suddenly aware of the voice, caught only the last words declaring it to be the "great event of the evening," and leaned back in his cushioned chair, his mind again reverting to the vicissi tudes of government. His reverie was disturbed by a con versation taking place at the door ot his box. "The gentleman was very insistent that it should be delivered at once, otherwise I should not have brought it," he heard the manager otJ the theater say apologetically. "Is there no place in the world where I can remain undisturbed?" the king muttered wearily, and then called aloud: "Send that note in, whatever it may be." With a salute his equerry handed him the message, which he, idly held in his hand for a few moments before opening it, looking half abstractedly out of his hox to where a man was being hoisted aloft and through an opening in the arched roof bove. More or less indifferently he tore open the envelope and withdrew a card, at which he stared with a puzzled frown, as if doubting his senses. Surely this could be no jest. Upon it was scrawled: "Admiral Robert Bevins of the United States navy desires a brief audience with his majesty upon mat ters which can be discussed in per son only. If permissible, may he en- Handed Him the Message. joy the seclusion of box?" his majesty's Through the king's mind passed a succession of questions. What could this mean? Would anyone dare per petrate a joke of this character, and if so who would have the temerity? Was it not an absurdity that Admiral Bevins should be here this night in a London theater when his country was at war and had practically thrown the gauntlet into the lists of the civilized world? It was impossible! But he would send for this individual who by his paltry ruse would infringe upon the privacy of a king and see for him self what sort of fool he was. "Show him in!" he said to the equer ry, and then expectantly watched the door, wondering whether he was to face an adventurer or an imbecile. Be tween the king and the officer whose name appeared on the card was an intimacy of more than 30 years' - - l..ftm.lj-atm.t.........m. M,,,,rriVrvinrrinnAanjijMVinAf HE JUST IMAGINED IT Sick Patient Didn't Feel Pain of Op eration, tut Thought So. A German surgeon in the Franco Prussian war had occasion to lance an abscess for a poor fellow, and, as the sore was obstinate, it became neces sary to use the knife twice. The oper ation was not a very rainful one, but the patient declared that it had nearly killed him, and when a third resort to the lancet was proposed, he protested that he could never go through the operation alive. The surgeon promised to make it easy for him and, calling up a few of the loungers, ordered one of them to hold his hands close over the patient's eyes, and two others to grasp his hands firmly. "This arrangement," explained the doctor, "is said to prevent pain in such an operation. Now, lie perfectly quiet, and when I say 'Xow!' prepare yourself." standing. The name alone had sunt cleat weight to preclude the cart re fusal of such an extraordinary request. If this was the friend of his younger days, nothing but an errand of the utmost importance could have induced him to seek an audience under such circumstances, and, von the contrary, if his visitor proved to be a nonentity or crank, the guard would give protec tion and summary punishment. , The door of the cabinet slid bac'--and a grim, scarred, weather-beat man stood surrounded by the royal body guard. In utter astonishmeJ that it should be the admiral slandC before him, the sovereign rose trot his seat and took a step forward. They stood for a moment, the king and the admiral, and then slowly Ugrasped each other's hand, casting the restrain of situation and the difference of position completely aside. "Bevins," the monarch said, "for God's sake what brings you here in a time like this? Is there no limit to your daring, and nothing at which your country will hesitate? Do you come as a friend or as an American?" 'Both," answered the officer, stand ing squarely on his feet and looking steadily into the gray eyes, which per sistently scrutinized him as if seeking to read the cause of his visit. There came another instant's pause, and the king with a gesture invited him to be seated. The guard dis creetly withdrew and closed the door of the cabinet. Bevins continued: "I must apologize for intruding upon you; but I have journeyed a long way to deliver a mes sage which permits of no delay." "In an official capacity then?" queried tho monarch dryly. "Yes, official and friendly. I was chosen for this mission not only be cause of our known friendship, but for the reason that I could explain cer tain events to you better than any man living." The king nearly forgot the distrust which he had felt first, and almost yielded to the impulse to drop all cere mony and ask his guest for an expla nation then and there. He half rose and grasped the arms of his chair. His lips opened to interrogate, and then, his life's training and restraint re suming their hold, his tongue gave a dry click, and he again assumed a pos ture of repose. It was difficult to as sume an air of complacence when every instinct of king and man called out to him tjo ask impetuously the one before him for the unraveling of the skein of events and the story of the fate of the British fleet. He veiled his curiosity, his emotion and his excite ment behind a mask of polite reserve. But what was coming next? His vis itor, who had hesitated, now went on. "This is no time nor place for me to say what I have to; but as an emis sary of my government I am asked to induce you, your prime minister and the first lord of the admiralty to grant me a private audience." The king, impatient, curious and anxious, was yet relieved by what he heard. There was nothing very un usual in a request for a private audi ence under such circumstances, and he had hope that from it tl come elucidation of all which ne most wished to know. The morrow then would at least bring some ease of mind and some relief from uncertain ty. Before he could reply the voice re sumed: "The audience must be granted to night." "To-night, to-night!" The sovereign forgot his aplomb, leaned his body to ward his companion, and thrust his chin forward. There had been some thing in the use of the word "must" and the astonishing declaration that the interview should be conceded at once that aroused a little spark of re sentment. And yet he was filled with a curiosity akin to anger. The admiral was quick to read his nryal host's annoyance, and hastened to conciliate. "Your majesty, as your friend I ask you net to misconstrue anything I may say. I am asking as a favor that I be allowed my own time and way yes, that I even may be per mitted to suggest the conditions of the meeting. Believe me, it is for the best." The king was motionless and speech less for what seemed a long time. From his viewpoint of head of a na tion and bound to maintain its dig nity, and a man with a man's anxie ties and anxious to learn from a friend's lips the story of the last month's secrets and disasters, he was considering what was best to do. In an oddly repressed tone he an swered with another tentative ques tion. "As a friend I received you in my box, and now on this same basis I ask you if this communication of yours is so important and urgent that it cannot take its due course accord ing to official custom?" "Beyond official ways, your majesty, imperative and urgent," was the re sponse; "otherwise I should not havo chosen this unusual method of ap proaching you, nor asL'-ed for such an unusual audience in such haste and at such an unseemly hour." (TO BE CONTINUED.) The surgeon at once began quietly with his work, and in a short time had -completed the operation without the least trouble, the patient lying as quiet as though In sleep. When all was done the surgeon laid aside the knife and said, "Xow!" Such a roar came from tho lips of the sick man as seldom is heard from anv hu-! man being. He struggled to free him self, yelling: "Oh, doctor, you're kill ing me!" Shouts of laughter soon drowned his crie.3 and he was told that the opera tion had been all over before the sig nal was given. It was a good joke, but it is doubtful if the poor fellow could e-er be made to believe that he did net feel actual pain after that fatal "Xow!" Tit-Bits. Good Medicine. 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