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MY IRON HUNT FOR
THE BIG WEB
CHAPTER SIX.
To pass the agonising while I whited
important cable
By PERCY HOSKINS and LEONARD MOSLEY
STILL IF
what he's done with Annaliese."
where to get a boat"
Fraulein me and I asked her about a radlo mast I could see an tho hin left back of the river.
"You ar locking at the tower of Bratislava radio," she replied. "That is Czechoslovakian lerri- tory over there."
shuven in his code? Unless he INVASION AND WAS LISTED was crying to indicate that his AS WAR CRIMINAL STOP HE River USED to be clean-shaven 15 UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE The inspector
opened and
mouth. as if to police BEEN CAPTURED BY RUS- is ro described in
proteel, and records.
SIANS AND DIED IN PRISON then changed his mind. CAMP STOP WE HAVE Instead, he motioned me to hours FURTHER IDENTIFICATION fellow him and opened the door for that all FOINT HERE STOP KIRCHEN
of his police car. "Get In," he from Stock-
ALIVE
SHOULD saki "I'll drive you down lo holm. I decided to walk over to HAVE STAB WOUND OVER the Danube and show you SHE turned and pointed la the
LEFT SHOULDER BLADE
other direction, "And not WHERE NORWEGIAN GIRL 1 said: "I don't want a boat. many mlies that way is HE MISTREATED KNIFED
Von Grotowahl's estate k 20 Hungarian frontier. You are on BEFORE HE
KILLED
miles away, and I'm in a hurry." the edge of the Iron Curtain, HER STOP GOOD LUCK IN
"Please take my advice and mein Herr. Some of the big YOUR SEARCH
around FOR go by boat," said the inspector. estates
here actually JOHANNSENS MURDERER "The approach to von Grote touch and cross Over the
STOP
ERIKSSON
barder." DEPUTY Wahl's house drom the road is KEEPER
ARCHIVES two miles long, and you would I said: "The estate of Herr be under observation 411 the Fritz von Grotewahl wouldn't The
be
CURTAIN
HIM
A KILLER.........
The
A KILLER strikes down a delegate to the Interpol conference in Vienna. The clues are FACT and FICTION. characters are real and make-believe. Who killed shy Johannsen? And why? What has happened to C.I.D. girl Fraulein Annaliese? A mystery post- card from her says, "I am in trouble
**
Vienna missing, and I know from ex- HUNG
That he doesn't like around all pertence
This fact to be known morning. hoping that there would be a call But Johannsen's other details at don't exactly tally, "Good C.I.D. head- from
make-up." und "clean-shaven," quarters to tell me Stock- he said in his code message, halm had replied to our Von Grotewahl has a beard and
But query.
so far there it looks genuine enough, has been nothing. If the
In
any case,
the man
who
Swedish police can't find dreve dit in the murder car anyone
in their records wore a straggly beard that was obviously Inlse. He would hardly answering to the description have worn a false beard over a Johannsen meribbled down real beard. just before they killed him, we are in a mess.
their delegates.
the
Inspector waited for my way.
one of them, would It kept
"But from the Danube, you froulein?" Vienna's famous Spanish Riding comments, and when
can stop ashore on to the estate **Indeed, yes," sho replied. School, where the horsemen slicnt he cold-
"Now I suppose
you would with a very good chance of not "At one time, before the Com- were giving a special display of like me to bring in Herr von being seen.”
munists look over Hungary, the [] to the Interpol
Grotewahl estate Grotewahl, pull his beard
ran 20 miles ૫૦
Into Hungarian see if it is fole, and order him
territory. But was an amazing display.
ΥΠΕΝ
later he de- zot now. They have annexed The The magnificent
Lippiza
to strip to the waist to see if EN minutes he has a stab wound."
posited me at the ticket office the land, and the estate comos ruslions, ridion without stirrups
of the Danube Steamship Cam- fence and a minefierd right on to an end at a barbed-wirs by Horsemen * dress-coats,
pany. white
breeches, unci two cornered hats, did practically
I ignored tie varensen. "What did von Grotewahl do in the war, inspector?" I asked.
"Good luck,"
The Inspector shrugged. "Lake don't
when
kept in the middle of a crowd of trippers as we disembarked, and moved along with them up the road towards the village of Donaudort.
he said. "And the frontier itself,"
It was late afternoon think we are neglecting every trick you could think us a great many of us, he was in all the clues you have given u we reached our destination. I They high-stepped, pirouetted, the German Army-for you will We too are concerned about danced sideways and back-
remember that Hitler annexed Fraulein Wittee, and are work- wards, and finally jumped into Austria and made her part of Ing hard to find her. the wir and came
down on the Reich. We had no option." bold him. "Forgive me for
lusing exactly the same spot.
my temper yesterday. Then they all lined up, went
And it von Grotewahl does turn down on their knocs. and acknowledged our applause,
"I was
KNOW, I know," I replied, out to be the man you're look-
inspector trad As I sat there and watched
he in the Nor. for. I promise to leave you THEN, as the
advised me, I alive to be charged with behind where a small path led mough
Ungered the final gallop. I fell a touch wegian campaign?**
murder. on my mm. There was the in- "No," he said. "But he did
the woods Into
and moved aboard I went spector from
the swiftly poilce head fight in Russia, and there is one
Danube steamer Johann Strauss shrubbery.
into the cover of the Like this dead quarters, gesturing me to come coincidence, outside with him.
Nazi, Kirchen, he was captured
A hundred yards down I by the Russians and imprison-
came to a fence, and climbed ed. But he came back."
I said: "That's all warst to know," and started for the door.
"What are you going to now,
the Mr Packson?" spector asked.
When we got there he handed me a piece of paper. It was the cable from Stockholm.
*
* #TRANSLATE I please," I said, for it was in German,
**TRANSI
Thon
and set out on my journey.
I had been looking
Forward
to trip down the river, but
not under these circumstances, over it, I was inside the Grote- 1 tried to
do
10-
my destination, and got out my
act like a rubber wahl estate, Now to find the necking tourist until I reached house and Grotowahl himself.
Suddenly, there was a grow! and the sound of whistling through
map to track our journey. No behind me
could have guessed that I something
Ur would he? "Joe Packson." I said to my. He took it back, studied it for a "I'm going to do something
was going on a trip which might the air. I turned just in time you, as a police official bere. It is all very well for me to self, "why on earth didn't you moment, and then sald:
mean life or death for Fraulein to be hit in the chest and face think of it before? LI you "ONLY CRIMINAL AN- cart do. I'm going to see Von
by an enormous police dog. As Insist that von Grotewohl is the wunted to convince someone SWERING YOUR DESCRIP- Grotewahl and I'm going to Annalicae,
I went down and felt its teeth man I suspect, but when you that
The sun poured down on the you were clean-shaven TION IN OUR RECORDS IS tear that shirt off his back and
sinking into my arm, I was we ont to trap a murdered when you actually have a beard, IN OUR SECTION RESERVED see it he has a stab wound over grey-blue waters of this lovely aware there was a man standis
river. The islands were crowd- mure muspicion is not enough. how would you do it? By wear- FOR THOSE BELIEVED DEAD his left shoulder,
over me with a gun in his hand. Von Grotewnt! Busweri to ing a false
beard that looks STOP DESCRIPTION TALLIES "And if I do find it, what I'm ed with picnickers and
He was grinning Johannsen's description
WITH in one false over your own beard!"
WALTER KIRCHEN going to do
The bathers. After we had been next won't important detail. He has the But in that case, why had EXNAZI SS COLONEL- WHO pretty.
But it should get the sailing for about an hour and a TOMORROW: THE SIGN OF little Anger of his right hand Johannsen written down "cican-
THE FLAMING DRAGON TOOK PART IN NORWAY information out of him as to hilf, a stewardess came over to
F
風
MRS DAVISON BEATS HER FEAR OF LONELINESS BY
Sailing The Atlantic Alone
work---wes
Lear.
Fear
of
Winds deserted her.
atically at one mp.h.," she wrote
Swearwords begin
IRST woman to sail and around the saltings" to be Atlantle under mail-the Trade "Have rationed drinking to
alone across the Atlan- able to afford her,
She was one pint per day, and can think And her frat reward as nearly seven weeks at sea before of little else but when I can tic. It is n resounding Eddystone slid out of sight for she got a really helpful wind, have the next drinic title but that "nione" all the years of hope and hard "Advancing on America moles- gives it a creepy touch,
How many of us know what paralysing kind that interrupted as Felicity Arm dawdled in the plentifully sprinkled into
log. it is like to be really alone? And her every movement with panic doldrums,
questioning. Fear of loneliness. Flying-fish for moakfast and Davison thought she did.
"One runs out of things Ste fear of the sea, fear of her own the reciprocal gesture of feeding had been a solo pilot many navigational. Inoptitude ("Cross- a trigger fish her elgaretto sluts think about." times, farmod in п Temoto in it
day offer "Am getting increasingly more island off Scotland, but since
ocean
the
the death of her husband in done noi-
day
to be
the
to
were nervous and restless each day." no compon- The cigarettes give out and
1045 during a similar attempt hing for my By ANNE SHARPLEY ation for Mra Davison takes to smul. The
to crony the Atintie, with? her, arithmetic
Ca pas later)-
she had known an isolation she was to that seemed to cut her off from othels
completely. "People and fear of fear. why, I can take them or İcave In six days, Felicity Ann. them," she thought, She was half-ßlied with water, was being
towed into a French port.
wrong.
Bullied
-ax
her
water run horlos taico to looking at ning out, long arid steadily, rolling over on D burden their backs and fixing her with
I
The answer
of barnácica that hampered a small cold eye, Troubled with Felicity Ann's attempta at lumbago, sore eyes and sea boils, speed, sudden equalis, a tidal "I don't think I can take rauch wave and the unending lonel moro, ale wrote, mess of the voyage. At least, it In her book, "My Ship is so seems, there was plenty to do. Sixty-five days of being Small" published last week, Mra Mr Davison's los talces on a bullied, beaten and becalmed by Davison describes the successivo, desperate unevamanice chatti- Even when she is within eight the Atlante with no other hopsto. North Spain,
then ness round about how fourth, miles
of the Barbados a per- creature aboard her tiny cramp Gibraltar; on to: Casablanca, and nets about molding bags wrinkle, again and she does not inco week from Las Palmus—and sho' verso "wind drives her out to sen ing yacht had her wishing for "a at last Las Palmas in the Cendry Baggywrinkle I am indebted to land for five more dys rabbit to stroke. something Isles, with more psuringly olive on board...
than a thou- her for the word is beragihs of Thom a strange thing happen- sailing the sand, miles of opin Atlantic' hairy padding made from old ed. There she was at anchor in Atlantic alone? To find the facing her. Merely getting to, rope and wrapped around the Prince Rupert Bay in the island
icey of living."
Los Palmas had involved so
rigging to prevent the sail from of Dominica, Brilsh West Iradier. and had had a mere handful of end increased her horror of her wrinkle, she wrote between
She was not a yachtswoman many mishops, so much fatigue wing war where it touches. But she had no desire to go
**When in doubt malon baggy) ashore. "iling Icesoria” before she own navigating to such an
"It- vande - estough that it was, struck out from Plymouth in extent that some kind soul patce, cooking meals
clearing there, warm and pulsating, wolld Felicity Ann, her 2314. ploop, should certainly have dumped didn't feel like eating and doing
abe and
Keel, and belonging to Felicity, Ana represented, Mr Davison and Felicity Ann all sorts of wirenuous and inex She had beaten her foar
of things to the mRENJA loneliness. Apa
Her reason for
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