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jof Wales and all that, but he wasn't
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1929.
THIEVES RAID A BERLIN BANK.
THREE DEAD IN AIR CRASH.
HAUL OF MANY....... MILIONS - RA.F, 'PLANE FALLS 500 FEET,
OF MARKS.
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London, Feb. 1. Three members of the Royal Air Berlin, Jan. 30.
London, Jan. 18. Berlin thieves have succeeded were killed in an air crash at Eddington's now theory on
Force pilot and two mechanics | So abstruse is Professor A. S. CHAPTER XV:
in breaking into no less than 175 East-church Aerodrome, Isle of amount of electric charge carried private iron safes, which were all particularly chivalrous,
by an electron that last night he Ashtoreth was not the first
"Well," she said, "I rather like firmly built into the wall of the Sheppey, yesterday morning. person who had told Jack Smythe heret Icast, I think I'm going collar under one of the most im the pilot, was killed instantly, and of clarity.
Flying Officer G. H. C. Ingle, had to use golf balls for the sake he looked like the Prince of Wales. to. Anyhow I'd rather room with portant Berlin branches of the Aircraftsman G. II. Johnson and An American movie producer, meel-her than some dried up old maid, well known bank, the Diskonto Lending Aircraftsman
Professor Eddington was an- Ing him in London, had offered him or one of those big fat women. Gesellschaft.
tho a royal role in the talkies.
There isn't another girl on board The amount of their prize has Howiek died later. Howick had Bouncing his discovery to
Royal Society, at Burlington He was of average height, and not that I've
Ernest Rutherford seen. And I'm not yet been ascertained since the been married less than a month.
The machine, a Fairey, 3 D, be- Houso. Sir slight. With a weary look about glad I have an exciting room-robbery was only discovered late hie wise, young eyes. And an air mate. I'm going down now, to say this evening, yet it is expected longing to the Armament and Gun-presided, and among the audience of sophistication, greatly admired good night to her. And to give that they have made off with many nery School, Eastchurch, got into were many of the most eminent
a apin when banking steeply at a scientists in England. by young girls.
her your compliments."
The professor said :-- height of 500 feet, and nose-dived
KL
Smythe was casually offhand. "Well, don't believe all she tells you," he counselled. "Once more under the bridge, and I'll let you go."
The moon,
The movie producer had con- templated starring him in a film called "Royal Love," in which
a com- prince loses his heart to moner. Smythe, horrified at the notion, was inclined to treat the proposition
sacrilege-an props to the dignity of his the forward deck, was like when they reached Prince. Still, it afforded him con-hide and seek again with the siderable satisfaction. It was an clouds. And the place was dark, offer to gladden the heart of any as though a storm were brewing.
There, in the blackness, Smythe Englishman.
took Ashtoreth in his arms. And forcing her head back, kissed her on the mouth.
Ashtereth was still loking at him with unfeigned admiration.
I've been simply crazy about the Prince," she confessed. When I was quite young, I cut his picture:
like you!"
graven stone.
millions of marks.
The thieves apparently worked from a manhole in a neighbouring to earth. courtyard which during their operations, probably lasting over a week, they kept concealed by covering It with sand and stones,
safes.
remove
Bank's £1,000 Offer.
1
ground.
F. N.
"If the theory is valid it requires
dead beneath the engine, the front stants
Flying Officer Ingle was found that one of the fundamental con- part of which was buried in the amount of charge carried by an of nature, namely, the
electron shall be a little greater than the value which has generally mental determination." been accepted as the best experi-
her wireless reconnaissance work
Last night he had recourse to at about 11.30 a.m., was about to complicated mathematical formula come down when the crash took and equations.
When dealing with the trans- formations of a frame of reference about two electrone, the professor produced two wolf halls, which he placed on the table before him to represent electrons.
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The machine had made a flight bank collar, and with the latest at Eastchurch, and, after completing They bored a passage into the to Leysdown, a few miles east of paratus opened all the private Their haul was so huge, that they did not even take the trouble
place." valuable jewellery, to which they would have had to sell, "Spinning Fairly Fast." but merely went off with the cash. She struggled to free herself, To-day a bank assistant attempt- A description of the accident out of the paper, and stuck it in pitting her strength against his, ed to enter the treasury, but found was given to a Press representa- It was live last night by Albert Lambkin, my mirror. My goodness, it was Then she went taut in his grip, so the iron door jammed.
that it was as though he held only after five hours hard work who was herding sheep near the
No Clear Conception, "And I," declared. Smythe, "have girl of ice. Yet scarcely ice-for that the door was opened and the aerodrome at the time,
"I was standing on the aero- a particular weakness for god-lee will melt. Strel, perhaps. Or robbery discovered.
The scientists watched closely, Empty brandy bottles and the drome grounds," he said, "minding but even after this demonstration desses."
They laughed together.
He kept his lips on hers, until remains of a good meal showed the sheep when I saw the 'plan some of them confessed their in-lacted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHA "You are beautiful," he told her it seemed that all the breath had with what sense of security the well up in the air-about 2,000ft. ability to follow the intricate cul- BANKING CORPORATION, gravely. "What was it Homer gone from her body. Then, breath-thieves had worked.
I should say. Suddenly it dis-culations and deductions of Pro-chtained on appliation. said-She moves a goddess, anding deeply, he stepped away.
appeared behind a white cloud, fessor Eddington. she looks a queen'?"
and when next I saw it, it was And, quick as lightning, she had "I don't know anything about slapped him neross. the face, He
So abstruse, Indeed, is the theory spinning fairly fast to the ground. Berlin, Jan. 31. Homer, she admitted. "it" I'm took her hand then, and kissed it. A reward of £1,000 has been
"Then, when it had approached that even its propounder admits beginning to like my funny name,
to within "Spitfire!"
a distance of about that he cannot trace it to its full Anid. "Little offered by the Diskonto Gesell-500ft. from the ground, the pilot, limit. he You're the second nice man who Yankee spitfire!".
schaft for the apprehension of the whom I could see by this time thinks it is a lovely name. I al-
He put both hands 01
"Beyond that point I confess I her thieves responsible for the daring fairly distinctly, seemed to regain ave no ways thought it was awfully fool-shoulders, and, holding her from raid on their nafce resterday.
very clear conception," ish myself."
The President and the Vice-seconds. It was almost righted, hardly venture to say
control of his machine for a few said Professor Eddington. "I
(Netherlands Trading Bacioły)) "Oh no!" he said. "It's much him, looked into her face,
"Girls shouldn't be so
what the nicer to have been named for af, hedmonished. "Particu-President of the Berlin police but then it began to spin again to theory means
DANIKES. accompanied by specialists" from the Ministry of the Interior, ex-
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ESTABLISHED 1824 aunt, don't you think or a friend larly American girls who
Yesterday's accident (writes an He explained that the theory amined to-day the extraordinary Aeronautical Correspondent was dealt with the transfer of tonskons Omers.11, Queen's Road, Centra work which the robbers had accom-the second fatal one to R.A.F. identification or
"labels" of elec. Authorised Capital.....Oxliders 150,000,000. plished.
{ AX1.500,004.) Once they had planned machines this year, Pilot Ofleer R. irons-that is, something attri- the passage into the bank treasury. Carrol having been killed in buted by us to the electrons and Paid-up Capital sliders $9,000,000 the criminals bored day after day Irak in January 2. During laat not the transfer of identity of the from one cellar under the pave year, 76 R.A.F. nirmen were killed particles. "Electrons are only ment of the street through the in 50 accidents to R.A.F. machines. dummies put in to help our Inade foundation walls of a house into:
From the reports of yesterday's quate intellects to get some kind the other.
While thousands of innocent accident it appears that the aero-of niciure," he said.
Sir Oliver Lodge, in the discus- Berliners were walking by just a plane was allowed to stall or lose flying speed during a turn. It "that English are chival foot or two over their heads, the then fell into a spin from which ision, said: "It is rather rough on the electron to be called a dummy | blew-about-the bridge. "I'm sime tried aukin to take her in feet in diameter and about three the pilot had no time to extricate thirty years after, it was born.
his arms.
yards long, keeping clear of gas
Flying Officer Ingle held a short It has been losing its identity and little time. "A kias?" he parried: "A little bipes, telephone cables, electric Smythe had put his arm about is? And I have offended you? wires, and waterpipes.
In the service commission in the R.A.F. Position for some her shoulders, as the wind tung Don't tell me that an
or not I don't know, them like puppats along the deck.girl values a kiss so highly!"
American columns of space devoted in to He was gazetted as a Pilot Officer Whether it has got any identity
day's Press to the robbery, then July, 1925, and became a Flying
"WC Officer in March, 1927.
are getting into a Ashtoreih resented the familiarity.
But she wrenched away from his tunnel is everywhere described as
He was the son of Major Hugh curious state of physics and get But it would be prudish, she embrace.
a genuine piece of German techni
of Abbotts Grange, very M. Ingle,
of muddled. Some
the Broadway, Worcestershire. younger men go beyond me alto-
gether."
beautiful moon than a rich old
of the family's, who might leave you Rom money? Most names
don't mean anything at all. People get them out of novels. Or they
get bandied around in a family
Bert of way.
骨
I was cold on deck.
"I left Mademoiselle de Musset
in the smoking room. Wouldn't you like to go in and see her?" suggested Ashtareth, when they had braved again the gule that
ply frozen to death."
.
travel
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alone. They're bound to get trouble,"
Ashtoreth was trembling with cold fury.
"Oh," she cried, "I bate you!; You-you cad!"
"Love,
"he told her solemnly, that has eyes to see
Sées now only Ashtoreth,
Ashtoreth alone.
Ashtoreth, and a few stars.""
"And they say," she scorned,
1
rous !"
thieves ferreted out a tunnel three
thought, to ask him to take it "Everybody pets in Amerien,"cal work, especially since supporia away. Probably he had not given he reminded her.
had to be constructed to prevent
it a thought, except to protect her. "I don't?" she told him, whed-the whole pavement from giving teeth of a blizzard. Still, she ing furiously. "And don't you way.
jever speak to me again."
No man was ever amorni in the
it.
very
The police have already organiв- Sir Ernest Rutherford: "It ia The only way the value of the ed raids in Berlin's underworld, very much in the air and very
wanted to escape his earelem em- She left him, and ran ahead atolen properly can be estimated is and to-night they declared that coretical, but we shall hope there
'brace.
""Oh, don't go in," he begged. "It's glorious out here. Besides,
down the deck.
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I know a little sheltered nook, if i in a moment
was in she you'd like to get out of the wind"her stateroom. Mademoiselle de But Ashtoreth thought she had Mussett opened the door when she better go in.
"I'm afraid
Mademoiselle will have gone down," ale said. " might wake her up if I stayed out any longer."
¡knockert.
For a moment Ashtoreth won- dered what she was wearing. A short chiffon skirt edged with ince. And over it a sleeveless blouse of sheerest loveliness. The skirt bed very early," he told her. "Be-as planted from a fitted waist sides she probably has a man in hand, and the blouse, enuight at the waist with a girdle of shirred tow by this time."
Smythe laughed shortly, "Mademoiselle doesn't
to go
"She told me she was on the satin. Except for its utter trans- stage," Ashtoreth said. "What parency, it was like a little dress. does she do-do you kłuw?"
Mademoiselle pirouetted like a Smythe, was putting at his pipe. ballet dancer, and her full skirt | "Yes,"
he replied, his teeth gripping the stem. "I know. Misa Swirled about her.
Ashe, I think if I were you, d "You look at my nightgown?" usk the purser if he couldn't fix she asked. "It is adorable, ch? me up with another stateroom." Soon they will be the vogue-the Ashtoreth felt suddenly nervous.little gowns that have petticoats Sometimes slie experienced a com- and blouses. I have. twelve of pletely empty feeling in her them-the, first ones ever made." stomach. She associated it al! She was rummaging through ways with a presentiment of diu-1her bags..
aster. Now she felt that Made- "You like them, eh? Eh bien! moiselle was a dangerous person, will give you some. Half for and that Smythe was trying to you, and half for me," warn her against the woman.
She tossed her things about.
But, accompanying the empti-Soft and light as baby clouds. ness, was a delicious little feeling: "Ah, here they are! White, of excitement. Maybe Mademoi- Mademoiselle. And black. And gelle was one
colour of those adventur- now any
you choose. essoa, one 'reads about One of Yellow? Orchid? Pink like IL those delightfully unmmoral, crea-rose?"
turcs of whom de Maupassant Ashtoreth was dumbfounded, wrote. Ashtoreth had read de "But Mademoiselle!" she stam- Maupassant when she was in highered: "--you're awfully kind. school. A girl whose mother ran But I can't do that. You're too a circulating library had brought generous. Indeed you
are: Y
a complete edition school, and can't Lako them truly. But the entire senior class had read it thank you thank you so much!" surrepitiously. Perhaps Mademoi- The Frenchwoman's quick glance selle was a demi-mondaine!
.
"Tell me about her!" she com- manded.
"Oh, there's nothing to tell," Smythe disminued the subject quickly.
"They're all alike. It's in the blood."
"Who are all alike?" asked Ashtoreth. "Frenchwomen?” Smythe stopped short. -
had darted about the room.
"Touf!" she cried, and raising the cover of Ashtoreth's hat box, dropped her lovely nightgowns in.
She ant on the edge of hor berth, and rubbed grent quantities of cold cream on her face, dipping her fingers in an enormous onyx jar, Į
"Monsieur Jack Smythe," sho remarked idly. "likes American girin."
"DeMusset's not French," he Her fingers caressed her checks,
said. "Not pure French, you with little upward molens,8
know. They're mostly hybrids down here. Mongrels. And the women are dangerous."
though she were inscribing circles.
"He is a bad mah, she added. Her voice was soft and lazy.. "A bad man," ske repented. And began, leisurely, to wipe away Mr. the cream.
Ashtoreth decided that Smythe might look like the Princel
(To Be Continued.)
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