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STRUGGLES FOR THE RHINE

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fessor, and explain how it was possible for him to be struck under "I'm going to pay a call of Prothose circumstances. Also I am Between these two States was fessor Prothero, Dixon Hawke trying to find out what caused an GREATEST established the Middle Kingdom said quietly. "Perhaps a scientist

Prothero was silent for nearly al Validity 100 days at greatly reduced of Lotharingia, which included the can explain to me bow a man with joblong burn on his wrist.”

Then be lifted the lamp cost allowing of 234 months stay in Lower Rhine, the valleys of the rubber soles can be billed by light-minute

Meuse and the Rhone, and

and peered closely at the detective. Europe. Special concessions to 1st plain of the Po and Central Italy. He watched the tail light of the "This must be looked into." be Split up by the Alps, the Jura car disappear down the hill, and agreed. "Come to my study. It's and other uplands, it had no real then made his way towards the much more comfortable than this

icold hall." As Dixon Hawke drew near he He shuffed to the door and stared out of proportion to its breadth. Special Two Months Round Trip Tickets At Reduced Rates centre, and its length was quite dark bouse on the hill.

It was racially neither wholly saw that the house was one of those up at an electric light meter on the To BOMBAY

French nor wholly German, but ancient piles, half castle, half wall.

manor, which are to be found

The storm blew the fuses," he rather a mixture of both.

Some said. "I can replace them if you'll Its main advantage was that amongst the Welsh hills. through it ran the great highway petty chieftain had built the place. hold the light. We need light! ROUND THE WORLD tickets issued at Special Reduced Rates in from Aix-la-Chapelle to Milan and massive door, studded with iron The house is full of shadows with

times bolts and further protected by ajout it." connection with all the Trans-Pacific & Trans-Atlantic Conference Lines. Rome, which formed.

replaced it with another that he had But the life of the ITALT & COSULICH LINES Agents for the sale of through and when roads were few, a most in-wrought-iron gate. formed the en- He took out the main fuse and

The house was very isolated-in his pocket. independent tickets to North, Central and South American ports via Italy, portant route.

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In 570, it less than two miles away, it was blazed. The professor led the way L/Rusia despatch by train of heavy baggage with liberal free allowance.

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ing to Germany, whose boundary The wind drove the rain with the hall. He sank wearily into a E/Asia July 10 July 12 July 18 July 16 July 18 on very favourable conditions.

| E/Canada July 24 July 26 with France lay

of the uninterrupted force against the old chair. Meuse, and thus a considerable dismansion. The lightning seemed to Mervin dead. I can't believe/Rasia Aug. 7 Aug. 9 Aug. tance west of the Rhine.

play across the gray-slated rootit. He was a son to me. In fact, The storm was getting worse, and I had every intention of leaving Hawke hurried to pull the chain of him my money when I die.” the bell.

"He wrote me that you had been He heard a clanging far away. so kind as to take out an annuity sar-but it was a long time before foot- and insurance policy for him,'

steps answered the ring. Bolts Hawke nodded. "I am well aware The ghost of the Middle King-were withdrawn, and then the door how deeply you taust feel."

The tull figure of Glancing up swiftly, he saw a dom has haunted the rulers of swung inwards. both France and Germany. It has an appeared holding above his troubled look cross the--professor's

head a smoking oil-lamp.

face. The man stood up and began Well, well, Mervin the man to walk the floor with long, nervous began. "You were certainly strides. He stopped suddenly and caught

swung round. fluence was felt in 1870, and again He stopped and held the lamp: What is your name, sir? Your in 1914, and this infuence still close to the bars of the gate which face seems familiar to me." troubles Europe in 1936.

İstill blocked Hawke's entrance. The newspapers appear to con- From the tenth to the fourteenth The detective saw a pale, beardedder me worthy of an occasional centuries the valley of the Middle face. A pair of strange. dark eyes photograph. professor. My name Rhine, with its genial climate and met his own in a quick, suspicious is Hawke.“

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What would have been the effect the subsequent history of Europe if Lotharingia had vived?

beckoned the French eastward across the Rhine; it has urged the Germans westward. Its ja-

I

Iman said

"Dixon Hawke! The detective !!' Prothero's bushy evebrows met in la sudden frown. Hawke saw him nervously opening and closing his powerful hands. He looked serves for the mom at a closed door, took a half-step towards it, turned away 'suddenly.

fertile soil, was the heart of me-glance.

this A stranger!" the diaeval Germany. Across (lowland dotted with towns, and sharply. Well?"

**Professur Prothero?" fields villages set amidst wheat

That is my naine, sir." and pastures, hopgardens and 'or-

"I have some bad news jehards, flowed the majestic Rhine.

VYU Beyond on either side rose steep.

"Bad news? I don't understand. hills, whose terraced vineyards. Vait a moment, my dear sir, and' Outside the storm was working merging above into belts of dark will let you in.. Bad news? Dear up to fresh fury, and vivid Bushes green pine, were broken here and ne, what can it be?**

of lightning played beyond the cur- there by the grim walls of castles: The gate was opened at last, and tained windows. A shutter was which from their frowning crags Hawke entered a stone-flagged hall. banging somewhere in the wind. looked down upon the smiling: The few pieces of ancient furniture "I'd better secure that," the plain.

junly ulded to the coldness of the mar muttered. "Excuse me a mo-

great vaulted chamber: Hawkement, Mr. Hawke.** turned to face the Professor, whoj He hurried from the room, but, The most important part of the was staring at him anxiously. hardly had his footsteps died away valley was that portion in the Your assistant," he said gently, down the stone-flagged hall than

between Speyer, hus met with an accident.

the criminologist was on his feet. lying Worms and Mainz on the Rhine, Morvin? Ab, I can see by your He made for the door at which he and Frankfurt. placed a little to face that it's something terrible. had seen Prothero glancing in that

This et me put down the lamp. The uneasy fashion. the west upon the Main.

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northern region was a meeting-ights am fused by the storm. Ah. It was not locked, and Hawke how my hand trembles. Excuse nodded when he saw a laboratory place of roads.

To the east ways led by the, sir. I am an old man. Mervin had been fitted up in the room be

I was like a son to me."

vond. There were benches bearing Main and Neckar Valleys to the

**He is dead!** Hawke said quiet-racks of chemical retorts and odd Danube, and thence across the

pieces of electrical apparatus.

At Brenner Pass to the head of the

**Dead?**

one end of the mom was a glass- Adriatic Sea. From Strasbourg,:

Professor Prothero let out a most topped table, which had recently!

a westward way through the Lor frightful cry, and would have fallen been cleared. Retorts and bottles raine Gate, between the Vosges if the detective hadn't put out an were on the floor nearby.

and the Ardennes, led to Paris and arm to support him. Slowly be (Continued on Page 11)

its basin; while other routes con-recovered, and his hand closed on tinued north, down the great na- the detective's wrist in a grip. of tural highway of the Rhine to Co-surprising strength.

What killed him?" he demand. logne and Flanders.

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And along these ways, from east ed. "The lightning? There was a and west and south and north, came but which struck near here a short merchants with laden pack-horses, time ago, but surely Mervin could not have been hit by that. He left some bringing goods from Italy the house nearly an hour gone by. and the Mediterranean; others He was going to meet a friend. Motor Vessel travelling to and from the great Are you that friend?""

fairs of France and Flanders: "Yes, professor, and I found poor

Then it was the bolt. I told

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