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The Secret Of Schwarztalled
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The
SHIPS TO SWIM
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British Naval Experts Study New Device,
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WILL DOUBLE SPEED OF CRAFT
"Yes, hert, that was all. He told me that he tried to go to sleep again' and dream more, but he could not. He had that one dream once and it never came back to him again. But it was a very real dream, and it and be asked questions when he made him feel quite sure that his
Londun. Tuesday, 23rd Jan. at midnight. went down into the village to buy brother had not fallen into the Admiralty experts studying the Wednesday, 7th Feb. at 10 am. cognac. He told of this herr who
Somebody, he was possibilities of a device which its Schwarzbach. Wednesday, 1st Feb. at 10 a.m. slept in his inn and had plenty of certain, must bave killed his brother, inventor, Mr. Joseph Dawe, thinks
money in his pocket and made
In order to steal his money, and hid-will revolutionise "ahipping. mystery of where he was going. He den the body away, and he said that Mr. Dawe is 72 and he claims that said he was afraid for him because he bad come to the Schwarztal to his invention will double the speed of the smugglers, and he asked if find out what had happened. any one had seen him."
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"And no one had?"
"No one."
"There was a search?"
nun."
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me the body."
of any craft fitted with it. ""But how will you find out, herr?" He calls it a "Peri-Fishy Impelled "The Schwarztal is Chassis" and says that it will give I asked him.
It has been searched a ship the same movement, or rather very large. already; and a man might search the effect of it, that a fish makes "Of course; but nothing could be there for years and yet find nothing. while propelling itself through |found. And many smugglers werej
"I know that, Christian," said water. arrested; but nothing could be the Herr Captain. I shall not look It consists of a sèries of zig-zag proved. The smugglers, as the for the body. I shall look for the plates forming cylinders which are herr knows, are generally honest murderer. It is he who will show Atted along the keel of the boat. the They are supposed to act in He merely meant that smugglers, "But if he is not there?" same way as the fens of a fish. on the frontier, stuck, as a rule, to ***Then I shall wait for
Mr. Dawe has offered his inven- smuggling, fearing to become mark-However far a murderer goes from tion to Britain, through the Ad- ed men if they molested tourists: the place of his crime he always miralty, but he wishes it to be put and there, I knew, was true.
comes back to it.'
at the disposal of the League of "But the Herr Captain has never Nations.
Invention is him. How, then, will the He says: "If the Herr Captain know him if he comes?' adopted, I intend to offer it to all **He will know me, Christian, countries through the League of said the Herr Captain; and, at first. Nations. It is possible that in the have to "How should one suspect the being a slow man. I wondered what future the Langue may
If so, my inven- landlord, seeing that it was he who he meant, but afterwards I under-police the seas. had told? Besides, the landlord stood.
tion is at its disposal."-Reuter.
"And so it was a mystery," Chris- tian continued. "They called It the secret of the Schwarztal."
"And the landlord?" I asked. "Did nobody suspect him?"
Been
him.
said he was a very religious man;
"It was because the Herr Captain and when he heard that the herr and his brother were so much alike! could not be found he put up that the murderer would know him. monument to him. It was a littlo He would turn pale, thinking that wooden cross, stuck on a heap of he was a ghost, and then the Herr stones, just where the stone cross Captain would understand,
la standing now. He stuck it up, "And I have my revolver, Chris- and he strewed edelweiss on the tian,' said the Herr Captain, pulling stones; and everybody said that no it out of his pocket and showing it doubt the Herr Densmore had to me.
tumbled over a precipice or fallen│And then, Herr Captain?' - I} Into the Schwarzbach. It might asked him,
easily happen, they said, that a man; ""Then he will beg for mercy, and might fall into the Schwazbach and he will get none, for I shall shoot, that his body might never be him like a dog,'
found."
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